Truth vs. NEW$ Inc, Part 1 (9 Febuary 2025) with Don Grahn, Joachim Hagopian, and Brian Davidson
On February 9, 2025, Truth vs. NEW$ Inc hosts Don Grahn, Joachim Hagopian, and Brian Davidson dissect China’s $680B U.S. Treasury dump—accelerating dollar collapse—while warning of a looming U.S.-led war against Iran pushed by Israel, including Netanyahu, to enforce regime change amid START Treaty expiration (Feb 5, 2026). Allegations tie Epstein’s pro-Israel network (Barak, Kushner) to Mossad blackmail and geopolitical destabilization, framing the conflict as a distraction. With Iran’s allies watching and no arms control safeguards, the episode suggests a high-stakes, miscalculated escalation could trigger global economic and military chaos by early 2026. [Automatically generated summary]
And welcome, folks, the truth versus news incorporated here on February the 9th of 2000 and where is it?
Anyway, 26.
And this is Valentine's Week, you know, all kinds of things are supposed to be happening.
And they say that it's not a lovely time, though.
But, you know, it looks like we've got a real tense time full of news.
You're going to want to watch this entire show.
And we have presenting it with a good, excellent leader, on the matter of tonight, let's say Jim Special, who's written books like JFK, The How Why and What and Where, American Oops on 9-11, and Nobody Died on Sandy Hook, and Nobody Died in Boston either.
All these books are things you should have in your library.
But he's just fantastic, going strong at 85 years old.
And he's a gem of a gentleman.
And we also have Joachim Hagopian all the way over here from Delhi.
And he's got an international perspective on what's really happening in this country of ours.
And I don't think it's all so good.
And then we've got Brian Davidson, a public investigator out of Texas, who is a shining star as far as getting the facts out on what's really going on.
So Jim, I see that the first story sounds like it's a pretty heavy story saying that China is liquidating every dollar in banks, that the money situation might be really tense.
And I think we all depend upon something like money.
Is it in jeopardy these days?
Well, Don, you got it right.
How Turner, who's on top of so many of these issues, has blown the whistle.
China is dumping the dollar.
We're liquidating every dollar in our banks.
This is really serious stuff.
Fed chairman making emergency meeting.
President Xi Ji, being at China, most of social media at 1 a.m. this morning, we are liquidating every dollar in banks.
This means they are dumping about 680 billion of U.S. Treasuries.
China just ordered banks to totally cut U.S. Treasury exposure.
This is a dollar exit signal.
The Treasury market is the base layer of everything.
And if confidence in that base layer is weakened, the whole stack is weakened.
This didn't start today.
It's been building for years.
China's U.S. Treasury holdings at November 2013, $1.316 trillion.
Then the end began.
June 2019, Japan passed China as a top foreign holder.
May 22nd, $980 billion, one of the lowest levels since 2010.
November 2025, $682 billion, the lowest since 2008.
Here comes, here comes the connect the dots.
From 1.316 trillion to 6.82 billion is not noise.
It's a plan.
And the plan is simple.
Step back from U.S. debt, step up and draw at home, reduce dollar risk.
And one fact, that one fact explains a lot.
Because when a buyer of this bank steps back, yields jump.
When yields jump, liquidity gets low.
When liquidity gets low, risk gets smoked.
This is not good at all.
So what happens next?
The treasury market needs a new marginal buyer.
Usually, that means higher yields, higher yields do one thing.
They raise the cost of money.
They pull liquidity.
They squeeze risk.
Markets are not pricing the next step now, but they will.
Real or fake.
Some claim it's just a story from a fake account.
So he had AI check.
Yes, reasonary part from Bluebook and Harders confirm.
I was regular by banks on Feb 9, 2016 to limit U.S. Treasury holding due to risk holdings.
Data matches.
November 2025 at $682.6 billion down from 2013 to 1.32 trillion.
And here we are now, Joachim, your take.
This is going to have serious repercussions.
Well, we've been aware of what's been going on as far as the U.S. dollar being on its last legs and the pretty much the multipolar world, BRICS, Russia, China, especially China, making moves to eliminate the dollar as international currency.
It's been a long process.
So, you know, I think we have concurred that probably the decisive move for replacing the dollar is this year.
And obviously, China's making all the moves to liquidate every U.S. dollar.
And, you know, I think it's going to go where China's taking the lead in this.
Obviously, the yuan is pretty strong across the world.
And then BRICS has been working on the replacement of the U.S. dollar, maybe coming up with even their own international currency.
So this is just another major sign on the road to the inevitable fall of the U.S. dollar.
It's been so long coming.
And yeah, I mean, we're seeing very tangible movement now rapidly moving toward the dollar loss, which means that, you know, if you hold the U.S. dollar in a bank, it's not going to at some point wait.
You'll wake up and find that it's not worth hardly anything.
And that's also when hyperinflation kicks in and the worst of what will probably be another major depression, economic depression in store for America and the entire world because there's a ripple effect.
Europe's going to go down and America economy is going to go down.
I'm pretty certain of this.
And I'm not the only one out there that's been saying this is the road we're on.
And this is one more very concrete step in that overall direction.
Yeah, I mean, they've been selling off all the bonds for the U.S. dollar around the world.
All of it.
Even our allies are doing it because they know the inevitable is about to happen.
So, yeah, there's no surprise in this.
It's just a sad downfall financially and economically for America.
And of course, it's going to weaken the dollar and cause inflation and all kinds of havoc here in the American financial system.
Brian, your thoughts?
Well, if it's true, and I've been anticipating for years that China would do something like this, it's basically moving toward the nuclear option on the U.S. dollars.
But what we're seeing here is probably some financial moves that are very strategic for them.
They're going to reduce their exposure to the treasuries and dollar-denominated reserves.
And they're basically trying to position themselves to put a lot of pressure on U.S. debt markets.
And so, if you think about it, treasuries require constant foreign demand.
And if China is going to reduce their participation, that's going to result in higher interest rates and weaken confidence in the dollar.
And so using the dollar as a weapon offers a lot of incentive to other nations to try to escape it.
So that's going to tie directly to the sanctions that we put on other regimes and the asset freezes that we continue to do.
And it's also going to put a lot of leverage on the SWIFT system.
So they're creating a precedent here that is going to put a lot of pressure on any BRICS settlement discussions, any bilateral trade agreements that we come up with, and commodity pricing outside the dollar.
So that's going to cause some erosion, and maybe it will fundamentally, in the end, result in hyperinflation.
But I sometimes look at these stories as if they're really designed to make global actors believe the dollar risk is rising.
And if they can make that happen, then they can hedge their bets.
And that's going to be the type of move that could cause guys to short the dollar and make a lot of money.
So I sometimes wonder what's going on under the hood because I don't watch the financial markets as carefully as I should.
But there's a lot of drama here.
And so whether this specific report is true or just propaganda to get somebody to short the market, it is a very real trend that a world that's trying to reduce its dependence on the American dollar should concern just about everybody.
I think that's, let me add, let me add, you know, it's just one more effect, whether it goes either way, as you're saying, whether it's just hype to, you know, move it in that direction or the real thing.
It's a cascading domino effect that's been going on for a long time and now it's accelerating.
Yes.
Yes.
Mr. Netanyahu's Enrichment Demands00:14:05
To the detriment of the American economy.
We have a very fine statement by Colonel McGregor.
I want us to abbreviate.
I don't believe that Trump really wants to engage in this war against Iran.
He talks about this ridiculous let's make a deal nonsense, but I think he would like a negotiated arrangement of some kind.
But he's also well aware that that's extremely unlikely.
First of all, the principal demands from Mr. Netanyahu, which have been repeated by Mr. Trump, are: number one, no nuclear enrichment.
Number two, you've got to reduce your ballistic missile capability, dismantle some of your missiles.
Nothing that could reach Israel is acceptable.
And I think the last part is that Iran has to abandon its allies in the region in the event that anything in the future happens involving Israel.
And I think that's an impossibility.
Now, supposedly the Iranians have said they will talk about the nuclear enrichment matter.
That means that we must have said that we could live with something other than no enrichment.
But again, that was Mr. Netanyahu's position, no enrichment whatsoever under any circumstances.
Now, let's set all of that aside, and we're sending over people that obviously Mr. Netanyahu has complete confidence in, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff.
What we're planning to do militarily is very clear.
This is not remotely related to what you saw in June last year.
This strike is designed not to simply destroy Iran.
It will destroy Iran if given the opportunity.
It's also designed to cause the state itself to disintegrate.
Now, that was always the idea behind what we were doing in Ukraine vis-à-vis Russia.
It's failed there.
We now think that we have an opportunity to do to Iran what we had aimed to do against Russia.
And this strike, if you will, or campaign, it's really a campaign, relies not only on naval and naval missile power, but very heavily on the Air Force.
In fact, I would argue that the principal punch will be delivered by the Air Force, not the Navy.
But everyone is focused on the ships at sea.
That's a useful distraction, but I think you're going to see a bombing campaign on the scale of something that we saw in 1991 that went on for 40 days.
Now, the difference is that we can't sustain anything for more than 10 days to two weeks.
That's the fact.
That means you've got to achieve your aim of causing the state to disintegrate in that interim period, that 10-day period.
There are problems with it, and the problems are also regional.
And when you hear people say this will not just be a war between the United States, Iran, and Israel, this will become a regional conflict, is because the states that surround Iran and Israel and are near Iran and Israel, like Turkey, they're very concerned that this could produce waves of refugees that could pour into their countries, further destabilize their societies and create a truly regional crisis.
The Israelis don't care about that.
They would welcome that.
They see anything that leads to the destruction of the Muslim states in the region as a good thing.
And the more destroyed and fragmented and divided they are, the better.
The problem is that that could also have an impact on the Europeans.
And that means we could see another wave of people that the Europeans do not want, more non-Europeans.
And again, the Israelis are happy with that because they have no particular use or like for the Europeans either.
So this is something that has nothing to do with the United States of America.
This is Israel first in action.
And Israel first comes before everything else.
Now, something you didn't mention that I just want to bring up that Americans should pay attention to and are really not watching.
And that is that on 5 February, the START Treaty, Strategic Arms Reductions Talks Treaty, that we've lived with for 40 years in one form or another, is going out of business.
In other words, it's extinguished.
The Russians have repeatedly told us they're willing to extend it, and we have simply not answered.
Now, if it in fact ceases to exist, that means there are no constraints on the numbers of warheads or platforms.
Now, the Russians have tended to stay within the original lines of the agreement.
I don't know what we've done.
I can't really speak to it, but I know that the Russians have tried to do that.
But once this treaty is gone, from the vantage point of Moscow, if you listen to Mr. Peskov's remarks, this is a very serious matter.
They view this as reanimating an existential threat to Russia.
Now, going for 40 years with this, which is a long time, this is the first time in 40 years where we will have no arms control arrangement in operation with Russia or previously the Soviet Union.
And many of us think this is potentially very dangerous.
Some people think it could cause another nuclear arms race, which is eminently possible.
It certainly means that the Russians have no obligation to stay within those limitations.
It means they could introduce new technologies, new missile categories, new kinds of warheads, a whole range of things.
So I hope between now and the 5th of February that someone in the administration will wake up and recognize this is very important.
But for the moment, it's Israel first.
This is about America first when you start talking about the strategic arms reduction talks.
And we're sort of ignoring everything other than what we think has to be done to make the world safe for Israel.
And that's really what we're about right now.
That's the purpose behind this entire operation.
Now, we can whether or not you think it'll work.
That's another matter.
Yeah, and I do want to get into both of those, but let's just jump right into that one because we just showed you President Trump saying from the Oval Office, the leader of the Republican Party, the president of the army, you know, the commander-in-chief, this is where I want to go.
And yet, across town from Fox Business News, you had two of his otherwise big supporters saying this.
I'm not the expert.
You're the expert, General King.
But I'm just saying, really?
Make a deal with Iran?
Are we sure about that, sir?
Really?
I totally agree with the implications of everything you just said, Larry.
I think we have a clear historic choice here.
Why is that?
If we negotiate with Iran, and let's assume do we get a good deal?
Even no enrichment, which is the essence of a good nuclear deal.
Therefore, they can't produce a nuclear weapon.
Let's say we even got further than that.
No ballistic missiles or limited ballistic missiles and no support for proxies.
Those two issues I just mentioned likely are not on the table.
Let's assume we even got that far and we have a deal.
What does that do?
That extends the life of this regime indefinitely.
We have a major paradigm shift in the Middle East that has not been achieved since the regime came to power.
That was 45 plus years ago.
They have been destabilizing this region, killing Americans, killing Israelis, and many others in the region.
And we take them off the board finally, and we're able to move forward without this destabilizing barbaric regime.
The opportunities for the future are enormous.
And who will have achieved that?
President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu would have achieved that.
And without Trump's involvement here, this doesn't happen.
I got to believe the president understands this clearly, and he knows it.
He's just not saying all of that, because likely he doesn't want to flag exactly what he's going to do.
But I've got to have some confidence here that he's going to take these guys off the board and move towards a stabilized Middle East.
You know, Doug, I have never, I cannot recall in my adult lifetime, and even looking back in history, you know, prior to that, where you had major figures that were publicly lobbying against any kind of diplomacy.
And you heard him very specifically say there, even if all those three conditions that you said were laid out were achieved, that would be bad.
So the only thing that left, what we should do is to go kill these people, which violates everything.
Number one, it violates the Constitution because we can't go to war unless the Congress declares it or unless we've been attacked.
And you're saying that, well, just because they exist, we should go kill them.
What do you make of that?
Well, he's invoking a number of important assumptions.
And the assumption is that there will be no security or safety for Israel as long as the Iranian state in its current form exists or as long as the Iranian state exists.
I'm sure they'd be delighted if it broke up into separate constituent parts.
So there's no surprise here.
What Americans need to understand, and I think people in the Middle East are beginning to figure out, is this is not the last step in the march to total and complete security, which equates to Israeli Jewish supremacy in the region or Israeli hegemony, however you want to put it.
This is not the last step because once you have successfully destroyed Iran, you will have to turn your attentions to the destruction of Turkey.
Now, Turkey, as they call it now, is standing on the sidelines, but they're not stupid.
They understand what's really happening.
They understand what Israel's goals are.
And they've already concluded, I think, that they are inevitably going to come to blows with Israel.
And that's probably going to happen in Syria.
Turkey is better armed in many respects than Iran.
It has a real navy.
It has substantially and probably the best army in NATO from the standpoint of numbers and equipment and so forth.
So the next step is to destroy Turkey.
So let's not delude ourselves what this is about.
What General Keene is saying and what Larry Kudlow are saying and what you're hearing from everybody else that's connected to APAC and to the Israeli lobby in this country is there can be no peace in the Middle East, no safety for Israel or Jews in the Middle East until the Iranian state is utterly and completely destroyed, defanged, neutralized, pacified, eliminated.
In other words, go back to the Morgantau plan for Germany that was eventually rejected and understand that that's what you're talking about in Iran.
It's reduction to irrelevance, breaking it up, turning it into a pastoral community.
The point is that it presents no danger.
Now, the other Arab states in the region know this.
That's why you're seeing Arab states like Jordan for the first time who are denying access to their airspace.
Frankly, it doesn't make any difference.
We'll fly wherever we want to, and there's not a damn thing that the Arab states in the region could do about it.
But I think the leadership in the Arab states in the peninsula is worried.
I mean, all of the leaders in these countries risk being overthrown as a result of what's about to happen because their populations are seething with anger and hatred for Israel and us.
So this is something that has regional and potentially global implications.
And let's look at what that may mean in terms of on the ground.
You mentioned a minute ago about the fact that this would be a campaign.
In that same interview, Jaquin also lobbied for a complete campaign.
But the question is, does the campaign he outlined, is that something that we can do if Iran doesn't just capitulate and actually sustain, like the Houthis did, for example, and they don't go quickly or quietly.
Here's what he said.
To have the offensive punch to really conduct not a strike, but a campaign against Iran, which would likely last not for a couple of days, but actually longer than that.
And that means to take down the civilian military leadership, all these repressive organizations to include the IRGC that have been punishing the people, killing somewhere between 10 to 30,000.
We don't know the exact number, but even the lower number is completely staggering.
40,000 jailed as a result of it.
And also destroy their ballistic missile systems, which they have been managing to recover since June.
And I would imagine, given the indication that you just made, Maria, about activity at the nuclear sites, that they would finish off whatever recovery Iran is doing.
This is a comprehensive plan to actually take Iran off the board.
No president has had this opportunity.
This president does.
Well, now, Doug, I can't help, but remember what happened with the Houthis because we had this overwhelming combat power advantage over them, and yet we could not submit or crush them into submission.
Two Weeks to Miscalculation00:15:20
We couldn't stop other missiles.
They continue to be able to do that.
Iran now has plenty of time and experience from last year to understand how to harden their capacity and to disperse their capabilities.
It doesn't seem to me that they would go quite so easily as what Jack Keene's talking about.
What do you think?
Well, he's confirmed essentially what we discussed before, setting aside his numbers for the people allegedly killed inside Iran.
Those are ridiculous.
I don't know about the numbers of people jailed, but there was a concerted effort by MI6, Mossad, and the CIA working together to overthrow the regime.
It was a substantial effort.
You know, we've talked about that, 40,000 starlight terminals.
The Chinese and the Russians, certainly in their intelligence apparatuses, came to their rescue and helped them eliminate most of those problems.
The regime is now very stable.
And contrary to popular belief, Iranians are not all on their knees praying that we will bomb their country to rid them of the Ayatollah.
That's not the case.
Iranian nationalism is a very powerful force.
It's imparted a great deal of cohesion to the society.
But your question is, is any of this possible?
Can it be done?
I think we have 10 days to two weeks, and that's it.
At that point, I think our strategic arsenal of missiles and conventional munitions that are of an exotic quality, let's put it that way, will have been exhausted.
To go any further would be impossible.
We wouldn't be able to do it.
So I think you're talking about something that can last 10 days to two weeks.
The question is, can the Iranians outlast that?
That's something I don't know.
I can't evaluate it.
I know that they have dispersed most of their missile arsenal.
So you would have to have a lot of munitions for a lot of different targets.
And I know they've dispersed their command and control.
They have a tightly organized command and control structure that can survive the losses of key figures that will be rapidly replaced.
Those people have already been identified.
So I'm skeptical that it can work for the reasons that you cite, because after all, the Houdis were very small in a very small area.
This is an enormous area the size of Western Europe.
And I think 93 million people.
So I'm skeptical.
I would urge the president to reconsider.
And I think he may want to, but I'm not sure he's going to have a choice.
Let me ask you a related question, Doug.
That was looking at the question: can Iran endure for 10 days to continue fighting beyond that and exhaust our initial supply?
But if they are as convinced as you are that the whole operation is designed to destroy the Iranian regime, then they have literally no motivation to withhold anything and to constrain their responses.
And in fact, they have an advantage or a reason to start really hitting us and Iran, Israel hard after that.
So the question to you is: what do you think, given if you were the Iranian leadership, if you started receiving this, I mean, like from the beginning, what would be your reaction to the United States forces in the region?
Well, I would launch, let's put it this way: if I were Iranian, I would launch the mother of all strikes and I would target Israel and all of our bases.
Those would be my priorities.
I would watch carefully to do everything I can to maintain an effective air and missile defense.
I would treat the ships at sea as potential targets, but they would not be my priority.
As I think I've said before, hitting moving vessels at sea is tougher than many people think.
But I think we also don't know exactly what Iran's capabilities are.
Could they strike our base on Diego Garcia now?
I've talked to some people who think they can.
That's something that was impossible the last time around.
If that's possible, that could have a huge strategic impact.
So the bottom line is: yes, Dan, I think they'll hit all of our bases, but I think Israel will be the principal recipient of everything that they can throw at Israel.
And remember, numbers of these ships are there as part of air and missile defense.
And the Air Force will also have a role in that.
So a lot of what we're doing is going to be connected to the defense of tiny Israel from these massive strikes that are probably going to come in from Iran.
I dare say this guy is the best by far, in my judgment.
This was such a comprehensive analysis.
I wanted to share it at length.
And I think Iran can definitely endure beyond 10 days of 14.
And just, I liked his advice.
I think it was militarily sound, all out the mother of all strikes.
Joaquin, your thoughts.
Yeah, McGregor is the best as far as the geopolitical military analyst.
He's got it down like nobody else.
And I'm proud to have gone to West Point with him.
As far as the other ones, like General Jack Keene and Petraeus and the rest of those war hawk morons that are always war, war, war, these guys are maniacs and nobody should listen to these bastards.
Because they, you know, if everybody, if all these countries followed what these old generals say, there wouldn't be a world left.
You know, that's where it would flash and be gone.
So, you know, yeah, I mean, you know, McGregor, you know, he knows how to go with the viewpoints of all the countries involved.
And so, you know, the point that, you know, it has to be a short two-week period, the envelope that America can drive some kind of damage to Iran.
I don't believe that that two-week period, Iran's going to be, you know, bombed out and unable to retaliate.
Throughout that whole period, they're going to flood Israel with their missile program, which is very comprehensive and high in numbers.
They've been basically aware of this inevitability.
We're talking about the inevitability of the dollar and the inevitability of World War III with Iran.
You know, these factors have been there for a long time.
And Iran is smart.
They're also advanced technologically and militarily.
And they have the arsenal to get the job done beyond the two-week period that America is limited to do.
So, and Israel obviously is too.
Their golden dome, you know, will not even be existing.
It wasn't existing in the two-week period in June last, you know.
So, yeah, this spells World War III.
I don't think Russia and China are going to sit by idly and watch.
You know, so it doesn't look good for quote the home team of the U.S. if and it also all of this only says who runs the world.
Well, the founders of Israel, City of London, I think, have a whole lot of say in this.
And they're always for war, war, war.
The Rothschilds have been backing every conflict in every side in every war for 200.
King, continue with your thoughts.
I don't know where I was.
Well, we were talking about Colonel McGregor giving the masterful overview and how people like King really are below contempt.
Yeah, well, King and unfortunately, Trump are completely owned.
And the people in Washington are all completely owned, and his administration completely owned by Israel.
And so this is the result.
They do what they're told.
And obviously, City of London founders, the Rothschilds, control Israel and they control the world because of the financial empire they've built up over the last couple hundred years, backing every side to every war that they actually, you know, drum up and make a lot of money from war.
And so here we go.
And they want to depopulate our planet with a big third world war, just like the Freemasons talked about 150-something years ago.
Yeah, that's what we're seeing this, you know, in real time materializing.
And, you know, if only McGregor was in there to have the weight of what he says, the wisdom of what he says, because he gets behind every single group, every single player, and gives a very real assessment of what they're about.
And McGregor is one of these guys.
He was actually a general, but he only went as far as the official rank of colonel because he doesn't play the game and he's an honest guy, unlike so many that actually attained three stark war star generals, which I knew a couple of were roommates of mine, basically.
So anyway, yeah, You know, he basically brings McGregor brings in every nation's point of view, and he makes the point that Turkey is not going to sit on the sidelines.
And they have the biggest military outside of America in NATO.
So they have a major stake with what's going on in Syria.
And so, of course, does Israel.
And Israel, the Greater Israel Project, they're taking over.
They've already got their, you know, hired assassin terrorists in there in power in Syria.
You know, and they know that Iran, Iran, if they were just left alone, they would not be a threat.
They haven't invaded a country in over 200 years.
They're not the aggressor.
The United States and Israel are always, always the aggressor.
And they do it by false flags.
And it's going to happen.
It's inevitable.
Trump, first of all, he's sexually blackmailed by pedophilia.
He does what he's told.
And they are forcing World War III.
They know a lot of people are upset about the Epstein files and what it implicates.
And they have to get rid of that as the forefront because for the last couple of weeks now, we've been fixated.
Well, we'll say nine days, anyway, 12, 10 days.
We've been fixated, or I have, and a lot of other people have been fixated on the implications of what the Epstein files are saying.
And we'll get into that, I'm sure, later.
But yeah, there's an urgency on the part of Israel.
And they know that they don't have much window for making the strikes and taking out the Iran government.
And so here we go again with another effort.
And it's going to be a bombing campaign.
But if the Houdis could, you know, neutralize the campaign bombing campaign of U.S., obviously, so will Iran.
So, yeah, there you have it.
Yes.
And, Brian, your thoughts, please.
Oh, okay.
You know, he mentioned the START treaties expiring, and that's kind of a big deal.
Let me preface this all with this: it is a really bad time for Trump to be starting a war that appears to be a war fought for Israel's security with the budgets that we have and with the Epstein files having come out right now.
For about 40 years, the United States we started out with the Soviet Union and later Russia, and we lived under a framework called the START treaties, strategic arms reduction agreements.
They weren't about friendship or trust, they were about limits and verification, basically hard caps on one another on nuclear warheads and delivery systems.
And theoretically, there were inspections on each side, so everybody knew what the other one could do.
And the point of START was simple: it was to prevent worst-case assumptions during crisis.
When you know the boundaries, you're less likely to panic or react blindly.
So now those frameworks are about to expire, and there's no replacement.
And that matters because the guardrails that they once held in place are gone, and nuclear powers are starting to plan against unknown ceilings.
And that increases a lot of instability in a really bad time.
So, why does this connect directly to Iran?
Well, if you're escalating towards a regional war, while the global arms control architecture is collapsing, you're just stacking risks.
Iran isn't operating in total isolation.
It's operating in a world where Russia, China, and others are watching how force is used, what norms exist, and which constraints are going to be ignored.
So the danger, obviously, is miscalculation.
Iran is not Iraq in 2003, and it's not the Houdis.
It's a large, nationalized state with large-scale military capabilities.
It's got a lot of regional reach and a lot of real powerful incentives to escalate if it believes that its survival is at stake.
And what is this all about?
Regime change?
Iran's Red Line Diplomacy00:03:28
Okay.
Well, history shows that wars don't start because leaders want catastrophe.
They start because someone underestimates the other side while overestimating their own control.
So I'm saying this is a very dangerous time because when arms control disappears, escalation normalizes and miscalculation becomes a really big weapon in this situation.
And as we know, America doesn't do a very good job when it comes to diplomacy and calculations.
So this is really a dangerous situation.
Oh, I think you're absolutely right.
Extremely dangerous.
Meanwhile, we've actually there are many who don't want the U.S. to be dragged into another war.
We cannot allow the United States to be dragged into another bloody, endless conflict on behalf of a criminal ethnostate.
We cannot allow it to happen.
And of course, every accusation is a confession when it comes to Israel.
It is an open secret that Israel has secret nuclear weapons and have had them for decades, and yet they are unsupervised.
We cannot allow the United States to be dragged into another bloody, endless.
Yeah, he's got the right idea for sure.
Meanwhile, Iran and U.S. negotiations restarted and then collapsed.
Negotiation between Iran and the U.S. concluded in mascot Oman, with both sides agreeing to continue the dialogue, even as Washington escalated pressure within hours by imposing new oil-related sanctions.
The talks marked the first formal diplomatic engagement between Tehran and Washington since negotiating were suspended last summer on a brief but intense regional conflict.
And they took place among heightened military tension, political mistrust, and sharply divided reactions inside Iran.
Iran says it's right to enrich uranium is a red line in talks with the United States.
It ain't going to happen.
Talks with the U.S. would not succeed without recognition of Iran's right to enrich uranium, the foreign ministry said, speaking after indirect negotiation took place at Oman's capital.
Foreign Minister Abbas Arguchi said the issue would be a red line in further talks.
Moving forward, Tucker and Sink on criticizing Israel.
I mean, it's absurd.
There's 31 states, I believe, that have passed laws saying you're not allowed to boycott or divest or sanction Israel.
And if you're an American company that does that, we're going to take away your contracts from the state governments.
Will be punished severely financially, your family, your business, etc., if you dare to disagree with Israel.
What the kind of law is that?
Is there any law in the United States that you've heard of that says if you criticize the U.S. government, our Constitution, Destructor Flight?
I don't think there's any penalty ever for attacking the United States, and I'm not saying there should be, of course.
But then, how can there be penalties for disagreeing with a foreign country?
Second.
You're critical of Benjamin Netanyahu.
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You get punished by the U.S. government?
That's insane.
But that's the state of play.
I don't think it's an exaggeration, is it?
Yeah, no, it's not.
I mean, it's just, it is insane.
It is insane.
Completely un-American.
Meanwhile, Max Blumenthal, here's a very thoughtful guy.
Love him.
Not necessarily partisan.
And they often collude together in ways we never would have expected, like Jeffrey Epstein proposing sharing of a hot dog between Steve Bannon and Noam Chomsky.
But they're united by certain things.
They are morally depraved, as evidenced by Bill Gates's apparent revelation, which he's now denying, that he received STDs from various Russian girls the same year that his Bill and Melinda Gates Health Foundation launched a $100,000 condom challenge.
While many of us who analyzed these files and this whole scandal are called conspiracy theorists, a key takeaway for me is what the late dissident political scientist Michael Parenti tried to emphasize in his famous talk Conspiracy and Class Power, which is that the system that controls us, capitalism, is fundamentally at its base a conspiracy among elites.
And the third takeaway is who are those elites?
Well, this is a transatlantic elite network in which Jeffrey Epstein found himself at the center, made connections with various intelligence-linked figures.
He may have been kind of a con man, somehow became a billionaire.
But in an exchange with Steve Bannon, where Bannon declares in 2018, Bannon said, all roads lead through Beijing.
Jeffrey Epstein countered all roads run through Tel Aviv.
And that is emphasized in these emails as Epstein talks about sitting by the pool with Ron Lauder, one of the closest pro-Israel billionaires to both Netanyahu and now Donald Trump sitting by the pool with him and Leon Black,
or hanging out with his good friend Les Wexner, making deals on behalf of Ehud Barak, tipping him about a rising company founded by Peter Thiel called Palantir, which now forms the real basis of the American deep state, as well as Andreessen Horowitz, a firm that Epstein had heard about early on, which now effectively controls TikTok and is also at the center of the American deep state.
There is a clear pro-Israel or Israeli flavor to Epstein's network.
Without any doubt, I mean, putting it pretty mildly.
Meanwhile, FBI documents equate Epstein and Mossad.
This is actually quite a good intro from press TV.
I'm going to share here.
Welcome, everyone.
Now, more than 3 million pages of record by the USDOJ in a high-profile sex trafficking case have shed light on dozens of powerful figures, allegedly connected to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, exposing links to political leaders, loyal diplomats, and corporate elites across multiple continents, and their legal escapades with underage girls.
U.S. President Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Tesla, Elon Musk, UK Prince Andrew, UK Ambassador to the U.S., Peter Mendelsohn, Francis Emmanuel Macron, officials from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Turkey, Slovakia, throughout West Asia.
But a peculiar number of files lead straight to Tel Aviv.
Former Israeli PM Ehud Barak is shown to have stayed in Epstein New York apartment on multiple occasions.
It's this ultra-intimate relationship with money transfers involving the two of them driving speculation that'll be the focus of the program tonight.
But first, here's a quick report.
This is not only a story of a pedophile sex trafficker and a predator.
It's also a story about blackmail, power, and foreign influence.
The explosive new FBI memo alleges not only Jeffrey Epstein worked with Mossad, but U.S. President Donald Trump was even compromised by Israel with Jared Kushner, described as a real brains behind the operation.
The claims are fueling a firestorm.
The memo links Epstein directly to former Israeli PM Ehud Barak, a former milliental chief who visited Epstein's home dozens of times.
His revelation come as pressure builds from Epstein survivors and U.S. critics, including Dr. Carlson, who openly questions if Epstein was running a Mossad blackmail op.
Here's a Tucker quote.
And moreover, it's extremely obvious to anyone who watches that this guy had direct connection to a foreign government.
Now, no one's allowed to say that that foreign government is Israel because we have been cowed.
And we have Joaquin Hagobin's latest Epstein files from the government rag.
Epstein file release the Rhodes Trump wall of obstruction.
The latest critique of how the Trump and Justice Department, after over a year in power, has so grossly failed the Epstein victims with names not protected, yet in contrast ensured that every single Epstein child rapist's name is blacked out and protected, speaks volumes on what the federal government's real agenda is, protecting the guilty,
because they always retain their power over time.
Nothing has changed in this morally decayed injustice system that never delivers justice for the thousands of sex abuse victims.
This is historically always how rape, torture, and murder of child victims has been twistedly mishandled worldwide.
The facts is sadly the one ugly constant, CNN, like every SM news outlet, stresses a Trump administration disclaimer.
There's no public evidence that any of the allegations against Trump contained in the new document were deemed credible by the FBI.
And the Justice Department said Friday, the allegation against Trump in the documents were false because the entire Epstein-Maxwell blackmail scheme was a Zionist Israeli Mossad higher pay grade op from the get-go.
The FBI's consistent role throughout has always been to deflect, defuse, and bottom line, never follow through on any actual investigation involving victim allegations of sexual misconduct if the alleged perpetrators are high-profile figures.
Joachim, your thoughts.
Yeah, well, there's that expression.
You know, pay attention to who you cannot criticize.
And you can criticize all you want about every aspect of America and American life and Americans and the American government, but dare criticize anything about Israel or the Jews or the Israeli government or the genocide,
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you know, on and on and on and on, you know, boycotting Israel, you know, all the laws, laws, laws in place.
You're violating the law.
You're an anti-Semite and you're violating the anti-Semitism law or you're violating the, you know, boycott Israel law.
You know, you're violating blah, you know, for defending Israel's right to exist and right to wreak havoc on the entire world, dragging us probably into World War III in the next breath or two or a couple of days.
On and on and on, you know, I'm so sick of it.
Yeah, they control the world.
They control all the major governments, particularly in the West, completely, the United States.
And so, yeah, we're seeing the result of that power.
And it comes from, again, City of London.
And, of course, they are making all kinds of agreements and deals with the big tech corporations like Palantir and Peter Thiel.
They're all on the same page with World War III against Iran and Russia and China.
So, yeah, it's just endless, endless.
And, you know, obviously, Max Blumenthal, you know, if we talk about McGregor, well, Max Blumenthal, as far as a geopolitical analyst, he also is among the best.
Everything the guy utters, I agree totally with, because he has a really grounded assessment of, again, all the players involved.
And he really, you know, he's never held back on Israel, even though he's a Jew, obviously.
You know, so, and then, you know, we turn to the Epstein file, which is also Jew and Israel related.
You know, Epstein was a Jew.
Maxwell was a Jew is a Jew.
And they had a little thing called the blackmail operation for the Mossad in Israel.
You know, and of course, you know, Mossad shares everything with the CIA and MI6 from Britain.
So yeah, it's a, you know, they call it the Anglo-American Zio Empire.
And that's what it is.
So yeah, the Epstein file.
They're not going to go away.
Oh, you can hold back another 3 million files, Not letting anybody see it because it's buried, but it ain't going to stop people from reacting and knowing that Trump is a pedophile, doesn't desert the whole office.
He's completely blackmailed and is forced into doing anything that Israel, City of London, Rothschilds, Netanyahu orders him to do.
So you can definitely expect there's going to be an attack on Iran because he's been ordered from high above the higher pay grade again, Israel, and he's going to do it.
We know this.
We've been saying it for a long time now.
You know, and what better way?
You know, Jim and I have both agreed that this whole plan to attack Iran was planned quite a while ago, like about a month ago.
And because of the assessment of Iran's, you know, capabilities, they fought twice and they weren't quite ready because they weren't prepared to lose, I mean, what, 50,000 or so American lives in stationed in all these military posts in the Middle East.
Well, they're all targets and is and Iran's going to strike them as well as Israel.
They will strike Israel and they will strike all American targets in the Middle East.
So, and because we talked about it, you know, the U.S. has about a two weeks and, you know, Israel has about a two-day golden dome that might be able to help them.
Two days, but America can go for two weeks.
Well, Iran can exceed both those, and they will.
They already showed it last June in that 12-day war.
So we're looking at, you know, a horrible thing.
So, yeah, turning back to the what better way to end all talk about the Epstein files than start World War III Armageddon.
What better way?
You know, that'll do it.
And like we mentioned, you know, it was planned a little while ago, but they had to back off because they weren't quite ready.
Well, they're looking at it.
I mean, the way Bibi Netanyahu looks at it, hey, we only got a very narrow window now, and it's now or never.
That's the way he's looking.
He's coming to Washington again to basically dictate to Trump.
It's now or never.
And so, yeah.
And of course, Trump, who's taking all the heat for being a pedophile in the Epstein files, and everybody's talk, yeah, okay, that sounds good to me, you know.
And, you know, he's going to declare war against Iran without the congressional approval, which is a violation of the Constitution.
You know, but that's what's headed because wag the dog, misdirection.
Yeah, we can't be talking about Epstein forever.
So bring in World War III Armageddon, you know.
So that's where we're rapidly heading now.
Absolutely right.
There's much more to say, but Brian, where I'll say it right after this break.
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Don't take us out.
Oh, boy.
Jim, everybody, you guys took us out.
What a heavy hour we had here.
I mean, you got to share this with the folks.
And truth versus news.
Oh, well, it's something here on February the 9th, 2026.
And come on back for the second hour if you can handle it.