Jim Fetzer - The Raw Deal (4 March 2026) "Fearsome Threesome" edition with Joachim Hagopian and Russ Winter
Aired: 2026-03-05
Duration: 01:56:30


=== Supreme Leader's Assassination Attempt (14:37) ===

[00:00:54]  This is Jim Fetzer, your host on the Raw Deal, right here in Revolution Radio Studio B this fifth day of March 2026, joined by Russ Winter Joachine Agopium for a fearsome, threesome edition.
[00:01:08]  We begin with what Israel may have thought to be a brilliant stroke, but which I believe is going to prove to a bit catastrophic.
[00:01:16]  They took out over 90 Shia clerics who'd gathered together to vote on the Supreme Leader in a single massive strike.
[00:01:24]  They killed them all voting on a new Supreme Leader.
[00:01:30]  And while this may seem like a brilliant stroke from a military point of view, in fact, I believe it's likely to have the effect of unifying the Muslim nations together in support of Iran.
[00:01:44]  This was outrageous.
[00:01:46]  But I'm told by a senior Israeli official that the Israelis just struck the Supreme Council gathering where the Iranians were meeting to choose a new supreme leader.
[00:01:58]  This is a significant development and again speaks to the Israeli intelligence about this war.
[00:02:04]  They just targeted the meeting in Tikhan where what's left of the leadership was gathering to choose a new supreme leader.
[00:02:12]  The Iranians are continuing their attacks against Israel.
[00:02:15]  Right now, we are in the community of B'naibrok.
[00:02:17]  It's a religious community outside of Tel Aviv.
[00:02:21]  Yeah, they're continuing their attacks indeed, but I believe again, as I reiterate, this was a huge mistake, a real blunder.
[00:02:32]  Meanwhile, Iran expands its strikes on the Gulf Energy Infrastructure with more oil hubs in.
[00:02:40]  This is from Zero Hedge.
[00:02:43]  A major fire broke out at Pujab Pohr United Arab Emirates, one of the world's largest oil storage facilities following Iranian drone strike on an oil depot.
[00:02:53]  One day after a mortar, Iranian Drone strike forced Saudi Arabia's largest oil refinery struck.
[00:03:02]  Forced Saudi Arabia's largest oil refinery offline with high-resolution post-strike satellite imagery showing visible damage.
[00:03:13]  Malta Report Susie Morning suggests additional energy infrastructure in two Gulf states has also been targeted by Iranian drone strikes.
[00:03:24]  That's only the beginning.
[00:03:26]  Footage shows moments in Iranian Fatal 2nd.
[00:03:30]  Hypersonic glide missiles struck a fortified Israeli command center.
[00:03:35]  High level of casualties reported.
[00:03:39]  This is yet again another stunning indication of what's going on here, where we have more and more reports.
[00:03:54]  Trump freaked out after who begs for ceasefire.
[00:03:58]  This is a report on the damage being done in Israel.
[00:04:02]  The refrigerator has 750 times more background than it finds.
[00:04:08]  Welcome back.
[00:04:09]  You know, sometimes you turn on the news and you just have to blink a couple of times and check the data.
[00:04:14]  I think we're living through one of those moments right now.
[00:04:18]  What we are witnessing in occupied Palestine is nothing short of a complete unraveling of the narrative we've been sold for decades.
[00:04:25]  The myth of Israel over the last 48 hours.
[00:04:29]  The so-called impregnable skies of Tel Aviv have been torn apart by non-stop explosions as Iranian retaliation has punched through the air defense grid like it was made of paper.
[00:04:43]  The city of Tel Aviv continues to be Iran's prime target, and there have been regular attacks.
[00:04:51]  Iran's revolutionary guards have said that they launched missile strikes on Israel's government in Tel Aviv as we aren't talking about a few stray rockets here.
[00:05:07]  This is a systematic dismantling of the Iron Dome, David's sling, and the Aero system.
[00:05:13]  The vaunted technology that Israel's lobby spent billions of dollars marketing as a sci-fi miracle is failing in real time because it's facing something it wasn't designed for, saturation.
[00:05:24]  You can have the best interceptors in the world, but when Iran launches salvos designed to overwhelm your tracking radars and empty your magazines, math starts to work against you.
[00:05:34]  And that math is looking very juvery ugly for Benjamin Netanyahu tonight.
[00:05:39]  Take a listen and laugh.
[00:05:41]  This is the third day of the Operation Roaring Lion, the operation the Israeli army and the state of Israel set out with our great friends the United States of America and President Trump to thwart existential threats to Israel and great threats to America and the entire world.
[00:06:00]  When I stand here in a place that was bombarded by the terrorists in Tehran against innocent civilians, you see the difference.
[00:06:09]  The tyrants of Tehran target civilians.
[00:06:12]  We target the tyrants of Tehran to protect civilians.
[00:06:15]  I've said for many years that they threaten not only Israel and not only America.
[00:06:20]  They chant death to Israel, death to America.
[00:06:23]  That's their ultimate target.
[00:06:25]  But I said that they would also target those in between, that they would target Europe.
[00:06:29]  They did.
[00:06:30]  And if this regime, this terrorist regime of the kind we've never seen in the world, if they get nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them, ballistic missiles, intercontinental ballistic missiles, they will threaten all of humanity.
[00:06:46]  Yeah, all hypothetical, all non-plus non-starters.
[00:06:52]  Here we have U.S.-Israeli bombardment in Tanzania.
[00:06:57]  As the war continues hot off the press, the American media are suggesting Israel and the United States are prevailing.
[00:07:05]  But the facts on the matter are completely different.
[00:07:08]  Check out this very comprehensive report.
[00:07:13]  In every escalating conflict, there's a moment when the losing side stops managing and starts throwing everything it has.
[00:07:19]  That moment has a name in military doctrine.
[00:07:21]  It is called commitment.
[00:07:23]  Not commitment in the motivational sense, commitment in the irreversible sense.
[00:07:27]  Assets moved are so large, visible, and consequential, the decision cannot be walked back.
[00:07:32]  The question stops being whether to escalate.
[00:07:34]  It becomes how far the escalation goes before something stops it.
[00:07:38]  America reached that moment this morning.
[00:07:40]  B-52 Stratofortress bombers are being prepared for deployment to the Middle East.
[00:07:44]  15 aerial refueling tankers are crossing the Atlantic, pulling fighter jets behind them.
[00:07:48]  FAD and Patriot missile defense batteries stationed in South Korea are being rushed out and redirected to the Gulf.
[00:07:54]  Read those three sentences together because they tell a single story.
[00:07:58]  The B-52 is not a surgical instrument.
[00:08:00]  It is the largest conventional bomb delivery platform in the American arsenal.
[00:08:04]  The B-2 Spirit stealth bomber delivered GBU-57 massive ordnance penetrators, destroying Iran's hardened nuclear facilities.
[00:08:11]  The B-2 is a precision instrument.
[00:08:13]  One aircraft, one target, designed for the strike that ends the thing it hits.
[00:08:17]  The B-52 is what you send when you're not trying to end one target.
[00:08:20]  You are trying to end a campaign.
[00:08:22]  I can't believe the sleep apnea pillow exists.
[00:08:25]  I was literally packing it back into the box.
[00:08:28]  Not 15 aerial refueling tankers crossing the Atlantic means fighter jets that cannot make the transatlantic crossing under their own fuel load are making it anyway.
[00:08:38]  F-15Es, F-16s, potentially F-35s, being dragged across the ocean by tankers that extend their range to reach a theater.
[00:08:46]  When you are moving fighters from the continental United States to the Middle East via Atlantic Tanker Bridge, you are not reinforcing a successful operation.
[00:08:54]  You are backfilling an operation that burned through its initial force posture faster than projected.
[00:08:59]  And then there's the THAD.
[00:09:00]  The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense System stationed in South Korea is not a spare battery kept in a warehouse for flexible redeployment.
[00:09:08]  It was placed there because the North Korean ballistic missile threat to Seoul and U.S. forces is a continuous danger.
[00:09:14]  Moving it out of South Korea and rushing it to the Middle East means one of two things.
[00:09:18]  Either Washington has assessed that the North Korean threat is temporarily manageable at reduced coverage, or Washington has assessed that the threat in the Middle East is so acute, so immediate, so beyond what existing Patriot batteries can handle.
[00:09:30]  That accepting elevated risk in Korea is the less bad option.
[00:09:34]  Both possibilities are alarming.
[00:09:36]  The decision was made in the apparent urgency of a morning rush.
[00:09:39]  It was a choice between two bad ones, made fast, under pressure.
[00:09:42]  Because the interceptor reports are the most operationally consequential piece of information in all of this, interceptors running dangerously low.
[00:09:49]  That phrase, from operational reporting out of the Gulf Theater, makes every other sentence in this escalation comprehensible.
[00:09:55]  It is the answer to the question every analyst watching B-52s, tankers, and Thad batteries move has been asking.
[00:10:02]  If the American defensive architecture in the Gulf was so formidable, if the Patriot systems were so capable, why is the IRGC still striking?
[00:10:10]  Why did Ras Lafen go dark?
[00:10:12]  Why did Ras Tenura burn?
[00:10:13]  Why did Al-Udayd absorb a hit?
[00:10:15]  Because the Patriot battery is only as capable as the number of interceptor missiles loaded into its launcher.
[00:10:21]  Each Patriot PSC-3 interceptor costs approximately $4 million.
[00:10:25]  Each THAD interceptor costs approximately $10 million.
[00:10:29]  Each Iranian ballistic missile that requires interception costs Iran significantly less than that.
[00:10:34]  Iran has had 20 years to build its missile inventory against the specific constraint that American interceptor costs impose.
[00:10:40]  The arithmetic of missile defense economics in a high-tempo exchange always eventually favors the side with the cheaper offensive missile.
[00:10:47]  The interceptors are running low because the exchange rate is what Iran designed it to be.
[00:10:51]  And when the interceptors run low, the Patriot battery is a radar truck and a launcher with empty tubes.
[00:10:57]  It can track.
[00:10:58]  It cannot stop.
[00:10:59]  The IRGC has been watching interceptor expenditure rates since the first salvo and has been pacing its strike tempo against the depletion curve.
[00:11:06]  The Tiad being rushed from South Korea is not a reinforcement.
[00:11:09]  It is an emergency reload.
[00:11:11]  The Gulf's missile defense architecture has been tactically bled by an adversary that understood it would be.
[00:11:16]  Now understand the geography of what is being assembled.
[00:11:19]  The American force posture that existed when the first B-2 took off to strike Iranian nuclear facilities was built around the assumption of a short, decisive campaign.
[00:11:28]  Strike the hardened targets.
[00:11:30]  Eliminate the nuclear program.
[00:11:31]  Absorb an Iranian retaliation wave that the existing Patriot coverage would suppress.
[00:11:35]  Then managed de-escalation from a position of demonstrated military superiority.
[00:11:40]  That is the campaign plan that produced the opening strikes.
[00:11:42]  That is not the campaign that is happening.
[00:11:44]  Iran did not de-escalate after its nuclear facilities were destroyed.
[00:11:48]  Iran's new leadership council made the decision that every American planner's optimistic scenario assumed they would not make.
[00:11:54]  They struck back.
[00:11:55]  Not symbolically, not proportionally.
[00:11:57]  They struck at the infrastructure of the entire Gulf energy system simultaneously.
[00:12:02]  With a coordination and precision that revealed years of target development and operational preparation, Ras Lafan, Ross Tanura, Aloudaid, the mines in Hormuz, the formal closure declaration, the regional oil export interdiction announcement.
[00:12:15]  Every action sequenced, every action escalatory, every action designed to impose costs that accumulate faster than America can absorb them, without committing forces at a scale that changes the political character of the war.
[00:12:27]  America is committing those forces now.
[00:12:29]  The B-52s carry conventional precision munitions.
[00:12:32]  They carry JASM ER cruise missiles with ranges exceeding 500 miles, which means they can strike Iranian targets from positions outside the most lethal envelope of Iran's air defense network.
[00:12:43]  They carry the full range of standoff weapons that allow a 70-year-old airframe to be relevant in a contested modern air environment.
[00:12:49]  What they bring that the B-2 did not is mass.
[00:12:52]  Volume.
[00:12:53]  The ability to put munitions on a large number of targets simultaneously, which is what you need when you are no longer trying to destroy a program.
[00:13:01]  You are trying to suppress a military.
[00:13:03]  That is the operation that is being assembled over the Atlantic this morning.
[00:13:06]  And it raises a question that nobody in the buildings where these decisions are made is willing to state publicly, but that every serious analyst watching the force movements is asking in private, what is the objective?
[00:13:17]  The original objective, destroy Iran's nuclear program, was achieved.
[00:13:21]  The B-2s accomplished it.
[00:13:23]  The hardened facilities at Ford-O-Natans and Isfahan are gone.
[00:13:27]  The centrifuge arrays that were spinning enriched uranium toward weapons-grade concentration are rubble under 30,000 pounds of precision ordnance.
[00:13:34]  The nuclear program, as it existed on the Friday before the strikes, does not exist on the Tuesday after.
[00:13:40]  That objective was achieved.
[00:13:41]  Iran is still fighting.
[00:13:43]  The objective has changed.
[00:13:44]  It must have changed because the force being assembled, B-52s, Atlantic tanker bridges, Thad from Korea, fighter reinforcements, is not a force you build to defend an accomplished mission.
[00:13:55]  It is a force you build to accomplish a new one.
[00:13:58]  And the new mission, if you follow the logic of the assets being moved and the statements being made, is the suppression of Iranian conventional military capability.
[00:14:06]  Do you want to know where to invest $1,000 right now?
[00:14:09]  Goldman Sachs says that Elon Musk's new airbility.
[00:14:13]  The IRGC's missile batteries, its fast attack vessel fleet, its coastal defense infrastructure, its command and control, the physical architecture that is currently enforcing the Hormuz closure and will continue enforcing it until it is destroyed or the war ends on terms Iran can accept.
[00:14:29]  That is not a weekend operation.
[00:14:30]  That is a sustained air campaign against a country of 87 million people with a military that has spent 20 years preparing for exactly this scenario.
[00:14:39]  A military that has dispersed its assets, hardened its command nodes, placed its most valuable capabilities inside civilian and urban infrastructure, specifically because it understands that American rules of engagement create targeting constraints that Iranian dispersal exploits.
[00:14:54]  A military that does not need to win the air campaign.
[00:14:57]  It only needs to survive it long enough for the economic pressure on Gulf states, on European energy markets, and on the American domestic political environment to force a negotiated exit.
[00:15:06]  Iran does not need to defeat the B-52s.
[00:15:08]  It needs to outlast them.
[00:15:10]  And the B-52s, the tankers, the THAD, none of them address the variable that determines whether Iran's strategy succeeds.
[00:15:17]  The variable is not military.
[00:15:18]  The variable is time.
[00:15:20]  How many weeks can Europe absorb $130 oil before Brussels calls Moscow?
[00:15:25]  How many weeks can Gulf states absorb IRGC missile fire against their energy infrastructure before Riyadh and Abu Dhabi?

=== War of Attrition (09:16) ===

[00:15:32]  Tell Washington that the American military presence is costing them more than it is protecting?
[00:15:37]  How many weeks can the American public watch fuel prices move toward levels not seen since the 1970s before the domestic political cost of the campaign creates pressure for a deal?
[00:15:47]  The B-52s extend American military capacity in the theater.
[00:15:50]  They do not extend the clock.
[00:15:52]  Watch what happens in Seoul.
[00:15:53]  South Korea just watched its primary missile defense coverage be rushed to another theater.
[00:15:57]  North Korea just watched it too.
[00:15:59]  Kim Jong-un has spent 30 years waiting for a moment when American attention is fully consumed.
[00:16:04]  In another theater, when the peninsula's missile defense architecture has been depleted, when the political cost of North Korean provocation is lowest because Washington is already managing a war in the Middle East and cannot absorb a simultaneous crisis in Northeast Asia, that moment did not exist when THAD was in place.
[00:16:21]  That moment is being created this morning as THAD is loaded onto transport aircraft and redirected to Bahrain.
[00:16:27]  The Korean government knows this.
[00:16:29]  The Japanese government knows this.
[00:16:31]  Both governments are making calls to Washington this morning that will compete for attention with the calls coming from Riyadh and Brussels and Doha, which are themselves competing with the operational demands of a campaign that is consuming interceptors faster than it is ending the war.
[00:16:46]  This is what simultaneous commitments look like when they all come due at once.
[00:16:50]  America built a security architecture premised on the ability to manage one major theater conflict while deterring others.
[00:16:56]  That architecture is being tested against the reality of a single commitment that is draining the interceptor stocks, the fighter availability, and the defensive coverage of every other theater simultaneously.
[00:17:05]  Thad leaving Korea is not an isolated logistics decision.
[00:17:10]  It is the proof of concept for every adversary that has been waiting to see whether the architecture holds under pressure.
[00:17:16]  It is telling them it does not hold indefinitely.
[00:17:19]  The 15 tankers crossing the Atlantic are not a signal of strength.
[00:17:22]  They are a measurement of how much the opening force posture underestimated what this campaign would require.
[00:17:26]  The B-52s being prepared are not a message of resolve.
[00:17:30]  They are the next increment of a commitment that is growing because the alternative, accepting the Hormuz closure, accepting the Gulf infrastructure destruction, accepting the energy price spiral, is politically and economically impossible for an administration that launched this war on the premise of a clean, decisive, bounded strike.
[00:17:48]  The strike was clean.
[00:17:49]  The war is not bounded.
[00:17:51]  And the men who will fly the B-52s, the crews who will operate the FAAD batteries in a Gulf theater that is actively being struck by the force they are being sent to suppress, the fighter pilots crossing the Atlantic behind tankers, all of them are being committed into a campaign whose objective has already changed once and whose duration.
[00:18:08]  Nobody in Washington is prepared to state publicly, because stating it publicly would require answering the question: What is the plan for next winter when Ras Laffan is still dark and Ras Tenura is still offline and the Hormuz closure has been running for weeks and Goldman Sachs is no longer modeling $150 as a base case because the base case has moved past where their models have clean numbers?
[00:18:30]  When Europe needs gas and Russia has it, and the only thing standing between Brussels and Moscow is the continued willingness of European governments to absorb energy prices that their voters are not absorbing quietly.
[00:18:41]  The B-52s do not have that answer loaded in their weapons bays.
[00:18:45]  America is going all in.
[00:18:47]  The question that the force movements this morning cannot answer, the question that the B-52s and the tankers and the FAYAD from Korea do not address, is what all in is supposed to achieve before the clock runs out.
[00:18:58]  Iran does not need to win.
[00:19:00]  It needs to wait.
[00:19:02]  Completely brilliant, in my opinion, Joaquin, your thoughts about all those reports collectively.
[00:19:11]  Yeah.
[00:19:12]  This is definitely the long war that Iran has spent decades preparing.
[00:19:21]  And they're ready.
[00:19:22]  They have such a huge arsenal of missiles and drones that will overpower the very limited bad Patriot systems for air defense.
[00:19:38]  They're already overburdened by the influx of Iran's hardware coming at them non-stop, wave after wave.
[00:19:50]  I don't believe that the Iron Dome is much functional at this point.
[00:19:56]  But the broader war here has been against America and all its military outposts.
[00:20:03]  They're strewn across the wide Middle East in, what, nine or 12 countries.
[00:20:09]  I mean, a whole bunch of countries are affected.
[00:20:12]  And Iran, you know, never, you know, broached this point with America, but it's in for the long war, and America isn't.
[00:20:23]  America is not equipped to handle any kind of long war, much less a war that's like, you know, four or five thousand miles away.
[00:20:32]  It's not going to happen.
[00:20:34]  And unfortunately, America also has not kept up its military technology.
[00:20:43]  We see the naval fleet out there, it's a sitting duck.
[00:20:48]  It's not going to do much.
[00:20:50]  They had to move away into the Indian Ocean just to get outside the firing range of Iran.
[00:20:57]  And Iran can still go after them.
[00:21:00]  They've already damaged some of the naval vessels.
[00:21:03]  You know, Hegseth goes on, he'd make a big deal because apparently the Navy of Osub did get one of the vessels in the Iran Navy, and he's making a big deal.
[00:21:17]  And he's doing all the huff and puff of some punk that's so arrogant.
[00:21:25]  I'd like to just slap him around a little bit because he just thinks the America, well, he's just a reflection of Trump, really, the way Trump carries on about America's invincibility.
[00:21:40]  I mean, you know, it's all being shot to hell now.
[00:21:45]  And this is going to be a war of attrition, obviously.
[00:21:50]  And America has no chance of winning.
[00:21:54]  So, you know, and I look upon the government of America and the government of Israel as terrorist pariahs that are hated by mostly the whole world, other than the vassals of Europe.
[00:22:08]  They're hated because they are the aggressor, the world bully that tries to push every other country that wants to be sovereign around that will not succumb to the demands and the pressures and the threats that America delivers to all the countries.
[00:22:28]  So it's like finally time that the empire fades into the sunset because it was a force for no good.
[00:22:36]  You know, being an American, it's hard for me to say and hard for me to actually prefer another nation to actually defeat America at a military war.
[00:22:49]  But that's exactly what's going to happen.
[00:22:51]  And that's what I want because the only way to stop the aggressors, Israel and America, is for their governments to go down.
[00:22:59]  And they will go down, I believe, in this war.
[00:23:03]  There's no doubt about that.
[00:23:06]  I do agree completely.
[00:23:08]  They're going down hard and Israel is suffering massive damage.
[00:23:12]  Ross, your thoughts?
[00:23:14]  Okay, a few data points to add in all this.
[00:23:17]  There's a lot.
[00:23:17]  It's fog of war.
[00:23:19]  But the B-2s equals gravity bombs.
[00:23:23]  So they've run out of precision missiles and munitions.
[00:23:28]  So the only thing they can do is bring in the B-2s to drop big bombs, not tactical, but strategic bombing using 2,000-pound bombs.
[00:23:40]  And that, to me, equals terror bombings of civilians.
[00:23:45]  And it seems that that's already underway.
[00:23:48]  You can see signs of it in the images coming out of Tehran in particular, where there's probably a little bit more information flow.
[00:23:56]  And I've been trying to get hold of my sources in Iran to find out if this is true.
[00:24:03]  I seem to be having kind of a hard time getting the situation on the ground through their eyes.
[00:24:13]  So that's what this is all about.
[00:24:15]  It's this idea that, sure, they're going to try to reduce the platforms of the Iranians, but how successful can that be?
[00:24:25]  So they're only doing one thing, terror bombings.
[00:24:28]  That's what it means to me.
[00:24:30]  And it works both ways.
[00:24:32]  So let's be fair, because Iran is going to do the same thing to Israel.
[00:24:37]  This is the kind of war that, you know, big brain, I'm calling him neo-caligula, has unleashed.
[00:24:45]  Terror wars on civilians, including Israelis.

=== Dark World, Bright Voices (05:18) ===

[00:24:48]  So that's next.
[00:24:50]  I don't think that the Gulf states want to have anything to do with this.
[00:24:54]  There's kind of a late development this afternoon where the UAE declared that they're not going to allow the U.S. to base there anymore.
[00:25:03]  So that's telling me that they're pretty much surrendering to the Iranians, saying, you know, leave us alone and we'll get the Americans out of here.
[00:25:10]  That's a very important signal from a key country, a key puppet state in the Persian Gulf.
[00:25:17]  And if that starts to spread, Doha, Qatar, all these other countries would basically say, hey, we're done with you.
[00:25:25]  Then that's a major victory right there for the Iranian cause and would really kind of put the United States on their heel.
[00:25:33]  You're absolutely right.
[00:25:34]  And the Gulf Coast countries have no way of defending themselves from Iran.
[00:25:38]  No way whatsoever.
[00:25:41]  They were always vulnerable.
[00:25:43]  Iran is capitalizing and making mincemeat of American forces in the Middle East.
[00:25:49]  We'll be right back with Joaquin Agopin and Ross Winter on this fearsome threesome edition of the Raw Deal.
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=== They're Going to Arm the Kurds (15:26) ===

[00:30:07]  And now we return you to your host.
[00:30:20]  As though no more proof of Trump's complete ignorance of military strategy and tactics were required, he's now claiming the U.S. Navy may secure the Straits of Hormuz and accompany oil tankers.
[00:30:36]  Folks, I did not anticipate coming back on with another show today.
[00:30:39]  This won't be a long one, but man, is it important?
[00:30:42]  As you can see on that headline right there, U.S. is offering military support and insurance for Middle East oil and gas companies.
[00:30:49]  And for what you may ask, to go through the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:30:54]  And he may offer President Trump.
[00:30:56]  This is just about an hour or so ago that he released on Truth Social an offer that says, hey, you know what?
[00:31:02]  I'm just thinking out loud here.
[00:31:04]  How's about we use the U.S. Navy and we put military escorts to get these ships to go back and forth here?
[00:31:12]  Because basically the stuff has all been frozen in.
[00:31:15]  This is what he said.
[00:31:15]  This is barely an hour ago.
[00:31:17]  He said, effective immediately.
[00:31:19]  I have ordered the United States Department of Finance Corporation to provide at very reasonable price political risk insurance that guarantees for the financial security of all maritime trade, especially energy traveling through the Gulf.
[00:31:32]  He means of Hormuz.
[00:31:33]  This will be available to all shipping lines.
[00:31:35]  If necessary, the United States Navy will begin escorting tankers through the Strait of Hormuz as soon as possible.
[00:31:45]  No matter what, the United States will ensure the free flow of energy to the world.
[00:31:49]  The United States economic and military might is the greatest on earth.
[00:31:53]  More action to come.
[00:31:55]  Thank you for your attention to this matter.
[00:31:57]  Okay, that is the Persian Gulf right there.
[00:32:00]  And that's the amount of combat power we have to engage this war we have with Iran right now.
[00:32:06]  And I just can't even hardly believe what I'm reading here that we're thinking about sending American military naval vessels to escort vehicles through the Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:32:21]  Gary, if you can put that one up, that one picture you have that shows, yeah, that one right there.
[00:32:26]  This just shows you it's a relatively narrow band from that strait.
[00:32:30]  That's the narrowest point there.
[00:32:31]  And of course, you see there's a ran at the top.
[00:32:34]  And so that to the right, that's where that leads out to the Gulf of Oman.
[00:32:37]  And that's where a lot of our ships are at a distance.
[00:32:40]  We're at a distance.
[00:32:41]  And so, as you know, 20% of the world's crude oil every day goes through that with all these oil tankers and a lot of other economic vessels that go through here.
[00:32:50]  Well, since this war started, the Iranian Navy, the IRGC Navy, has basically kept them at bay.
[00:32:56]  It says no one is allowed to go through.
[00:32:58]  And so there is a large number of ships on both sides of that strait that are anchored in the waters, waiting to see what's happened.
[00:33:05]  I think at least four ships have been attacked and blown up by, I think, some by drones, some by direct fire from some of the Iranian naval boats.
[00:33:15]  And so the traffic has come to a standstill.
[00:33:17]  Oil is surprisingly, I'm a little surprised.
[00:33:20]  It has not shot up, but it's a little bit higher.
[00:33:23]  And now then, I think with this comment from the President Trump, I think it actually ticked down a little bit because I guess investors are saying, well, that's a good thing.
[00:33:31]  If he's going to give insurance to these people, that's not going to do any good, folks.
[00:33:35]  Insurance, when you've already had four vessels attacked and you have an order from the Navy has all of these.
[00:33:44]  Russ, go ahead.
[00:33:45]  Give us your thoughts.
[00:33:46]  Yeah, Trump's trolling.
[00:33:48]  He's just, I'm calling, like I said, I'm calling Neo-Caligula.
[00:33:51]  He's just trolling.
[00:33:53]  It's all he's doing.
[00:33:55]  And he's doing it to help his little flying monkey buddies make money in the markets by creating some gyrations in oil.
[00:34:03]  But Russ, it's impossible.
[00:34:05]  It's impossible for them to defeat Iran at the straits of Hormuz.
[00:34:09]  I mean, this is a military catastrophe.
[00:34:12]  It's not even remotely feasible.
[00:34:15]  Not only that, that right afterwards the NAVY I i've got the tweet here, U.S NAVY tells industry officials there's no availability for naval escorts.
[00:34:26]  So apparently, you know, Trump's just throwing.
[00:34:29]  He didn't.
[00:34:29]  He's not consulting with anybody, he's just making up for to trade markets and, it's amazing, he actually has an effect on the market.
[00:34:37]  This just shocks me that he has any credibility with any investment manager around the world.
[00:34:43]  But these guys are just like trained monkeys.
[00:34:45]  That's the problem, the monkeys.
[00:34:47]  That's what the markets have become like.
[00:34:51]  I got an email from Paul.
[00:34:52]  I'll just mention I got an email from Paul.
[00:34:54]  He's kind of, you know, wondering what kind of plays he should be in and I said, I don't know.
[00:34:59]  You know the thing is just Algos and trained monkeys.
[00:35:02]  You really want to do anything at all in this market?
[00:35:05]  Even if the NAVY did offer to actually escort, there'd be no tanker that would be willing to take that risk, because obviously Iran has that zone covered.
[00:35:20]  They got it mined, they.
[00:35:21]  They have all these strategic weapons there aimed right there.
[00:35:26]  There's no way anybody would make it through.
[00:35:29]  So it's just totally ridiculous that yes, this Caligula guy, but proof, the guy's an effing moron.
[00:35:37]  He doesn't understand anything about anything, nothing at all.
[00:35:41]  He doesn't understand the market.
[00:35:43]  He's got military.
[00:35:45]  You know the.
[00:35:45]  The Iranians have a weapon that haven't hasn't even been deployed yet because the distances aren't quite right.
[00:35:51]  It's like it's a ski, a sea skimming missile.
[00:35:54]  It goes right on the surface at super high speeds, 1.4 terminal velocity yeah, with a 200k kilogram warhead, mach 414 uh, those are designers.
[00:36:09]  They're going to use that to take out the link and when the time is right well, they can never get that close, but they can use that against tankers.
[00:36:16]  So that's.
[00:36:17]  I mean, there's no way a tanker is going to want to take this thing on.
[00:36:20]  They'll just be be swimming in oil.
[00:36:23]  I mentioned Hegzeth a little bit earlier.
[00:36:26]  Here's here's what he's saying, we are accelerating, not decelerating.
[00:36:32]  The Iranians are toast and they know it, or soon enough they'll know it.
[00:36:38]  Four days in, We have only just begun.
[00:36:43]  We've already been defeated.
[00:36:45]  We've already lost.
[00:36:46]  I mean, this is insane.
[00:36:49]  Yeah, it's unbelievable.
[00:36:50]  And no country has ever won a war on air power alone.
[00:36:58]  You know, just airstrike after airstrike.
[00:37:01]  You can't win on that alone.
[00:37:04]  You can't.
[00:37:05]  Trump doesn't understand anything.
[00:37:07]  And unfortunately, that guy's the commander in chief.
[00:37:10]  So you got the biggest idiot in the world in charge of this military force that's going down to calamitous defeat.
[00:37:17]  Calamitous defeat.
[00:37:18]  He's doing all the calls in the military.
[00:37:20]  He and Hegsith, and they're not consulting with anybody.
[00:37:23]  They're not getting input from anybody.
[00:37:26]  This proves it right here.
[00:37:27]  This is just trolling.
[00:37:30]  Oh, I love the Navy.
[00:37:31]  I love the Navy saying no availability.
[00:37:36]  Oh, my God.
[00:37:38]  Tremendous.
[00:37:39]  And get this, get this.
[00:37:40]  Talk about grasping after straws.
[00:37:44]  CIA is planning a Bay of Pigs style invasion of Iran using the Kurds.
[00:37:51]  They're going to arm the Kurds.
[00:37:53]  And I think the Bay of Pigs analogy is the right one because it was a complete failure.
[00:37:58]  This is not going to go anywhere.
[00:38:01]  But look at this.
[00:38:02]  The United States Central Intelligence Aid working to arm Kurdish forces with the aim of fomenting a popular uprising in Iran.
[00:38:10]  This is something they had to begin doing years ago.
[00:38:13]  And they're talking about this now.
[00:38:15]  Multiple people familiar with the plan.
[00:38:19]  Toll said the admin of Trump has been in active discussions with Iranian opposition groups and Kurdish leaders in Iraq about providing them with military support.
[00:38:33]  This is just ludicrous.
[00:38:37]  This is actually a good way to bring Turkey into this war on Iran's side.
[00:38:43]  And the Kurds, basically, the United States abandoned the Kurds with Syria.
[00:38:49]  They were left hung out to dry.
[00:38:52]  So I don't see even the Kurds going along with it.
[00:38:57]  Well, it's just an absurd idea, but I love the Bay of Pigs analogy because it was a fiasco.
[00:39:04]  I mean, we were defeated immediately.
[00:39:06]  I mean, that's what would happen here.
[00:39:08]  I mean, this is just so ludicrous.
[00:39:12]  This is so ridiculous.
[00:39:14]  This is so amateur.
[00:39:15]  Well, you know, it's designed to put pressure points on Iran.
[00:39:18]  So they might attempt some version of it, Bay of Pigs, and try to divert some troops in there to deal with the annoyance of it.
[00:39:27]  But then there's Turkey.
[00:39:28]  Turkey does not want an active Kurdish military operating in that part of the world.
[00:39:35]  They're not going to like it.
[00:39:36]  So not even considering Turkey, obviously.
[00:39:39]  They don't.
[00:39:41]  It's like nobody knows the politics of the Middle East at all.
[00:39:46]  Right, right.
[00:39:46]  And remember, Israel was saying Turkey's next after we take out Iran.
[00:39:52]  We're going after Turkey.
[00:39:55]  Which has a massive, they have the strongest military in the Middle East.
[00:39:59]  Turkey does all by itself.
[00:40:01]  And they have nukes.
[00:40:02]  And they're a member of NATO for crying out loud.
[00:40:07]  Just insane.
[00:40:08]  Just insane.
[00:40:14]  Meanwhile, Cocker says Mossad chaos agents captured by Gulf countries.
[00:40:23]  Apparently, they've been trying to plant bombs to be blamed on Iran.
[00:40:28]  Shibidor.
[00:40:29]  Trump has abandoned Saudi Arabia during this war.
[00:40:36]  They should have voted Kamala.
[00:40:37]  They should have voted Kamala.
[00:40:38]  But Israel is actually striking the oil production in Saudi Arabia and trying to blame it on Iran.
[00:40:47]  But a lot of people thought it was Iran, right?
[00:40:51]  Because Iran is hitting the other Arab states in the Gulf that have United States military bases.
[00:40:58]  But they're only hitting the military bases.
[00:41:00]  Yeah, they're very accurate.
[00:41:01]  They're missiles.
[00:41:01]  But I would say our missiles.
[00:41:03]  That's embarrassing.
[00:41:04]  Yeah.
[00:41:05]  And so, well, here's what this is a Saudi political analyst, Suleiman Al-Aqwali on Al Jazeera.
[00:41:15]  Here he says that America has abandoned them.
[00:41:17]  Let's listen.
[00:41:18]  He says U.S. defense center on Israel without Gulf states that located in it are many U.S. military bases.
[00:41:33]  So he's saying U.S. is just focusing on Israel, protecting Israel, not focusing on protecting the Arab states that have U.S. military bases in it.
[00:41:43]  What it's in doubt, I appreciate it.
[00:41:45]  I think there, I mean, there is a sense of disappointment in the Gulf on our ally, our partner.
[00:41:52]  That would be the United States.
[00:41:54]  They're disappointed in our ally, our partner.
[00:41:57]  Yeah, because you know that Israel is their wife, and Saudi Arabia is just their side piece, just like Ukraine.
[00:42:03]  The United States has a lot of side pieces.
[00:42:06]  And as who was it?
[00:42:12]  Why am I blank on his name?
[00:42:17]  No, who was Nixon's Secretary of State?
[00:42:20]  Kissinger said it is dangerous to be America's friend.
[00:42:23]  It's deadly.
[00:42:25]  It's dangerous to be our adversary.
[00:42:26]  It's deadly to be our friend.
[00:42:28]  But he really just came out and said that stuff, huh?
[00:42:30]  He said that.
[00:42:31]  Every time I don't like him, he said a thing where I'm like, well, I got to give that to him.
[00:42:35]  So, this is what's happening.
[00:42:37]  Here we go.
[00:42:39]  We described it accurately.
[00:42:40]  The U.S. partner that focuses on the security of Israel and stability of Israel and the people of Israel without attention on defending the Arab Gulf states that are exposed today to attacks from Iran without U.S. putting efforts to protect us.
[00:43:05]  So, that's what's happening.
[00:43:08]  So, the Gulf states, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, they know that the United States has focused all their military might on protecting Israel, and they don't care what happens to them.
[00:43:24]  Well, maybe Saudis should use their own Shabbos goes.
[00:43:27]  They're called Filipinos.
[00:43:30]  Well, there's no doubt about it that the U.S. is supporting Israel and quit give a crap about these other states.
[00:43:37]  Meanwhile, Mossad agents have been arrested.
[00:43:40]  I'm going to weigh in on that one.
[00:43:42]  I want to weigh in on that.
[00:43:42]  Of course, of course.
[00:43:44]  Go right ahead.
[00:43:45]  Okay, well, the real story is that the problems down to what runs out front off interceptors or Iran's ability to launch missiles.
[00:43:56]  Well, as we enter the fourth day of the war, we can now begin to see which direction.
[00:44:01]  Go ahead, Russ.
[00:44:02]  Go ahead.
[00:44:03]  Iran, the story on all these Gulf puppet states is that Iran has pretty much obtained their objectives.
[00:44:11]  And the real objective was, of course, to intimidate the Gulf states and wake them up out of their stupor, but also to destroy the military infrastructure of the United States.
[00:44:21]  So, I mean, nobody knows for certain in the fog of war how extensive that is, but you got two, I'm just going down a list, two GSC-52B radars in Bahrain destroyed, three radomes in Kuwait, one or two THAD radars in UAE, two THAD radars in Jordan, 1A FPS-132 radar in Qatar,
[00:44:49]  different buildings related to satellite communication infrastructure, different sites around these radomes.
[00:44:57]  So who knows what the damage assessment is?
[00:45:01]  We don't really know.
[00:45:02]  But once Iran is done with all that, there's no reason for them to attack these countries anymore.
[00:45:08]  But they just need to tap these Gulf states on the shoulder and say, you want us to just start wrecking your oil infrastructure and your tourism.
[00:45:18]  And is that what you want?
[00:45:21]  Your airports?
[00:45:22]  Because we can stop.
[00:45:23]  We've got the United States out of the picture.
[00:45:25]  Don't let them back and just declare your neutrality.
[00:45:29]  I think that's already been accomplished.
[00:45:31]  With the Gulf, yeah, but they have to do it.

=== Colonel's Martyrs: Bloodied Resolve (11:20) ===

[00:45:33]  They're going to be unrelenting, they're going to be unrelenting with Israel.
[00:45:37]  They are going to destroy Israel.
[00:45:40]  Mark my words, Joaquim.
[00:45:42]  They're basically become vassals for Iran now to basically destroy Israel and go against America that betrayed them.
[00:45:51]  So, yeah, they've got every reason now.
[00:45:54]  Or minimally neutral and not be back them up.
[00:46:00]  They're not going to win.
[00:46:02]  It's ridiculous.
[00:46:03]  So, see, this is not only the greatest military catastrophe the United States has ever endured, but the greatest reversal in foreign policy.
[00:46:12]  It's a catastrophe for all of our foreign policy, which has been Israeli-centric.
[00:46:18]  Everything out there was to protect Israel, and it's all coming apart at the seams.
[00:46:23]  Colonel McGregor has been emphatic about this.
[00:46:27]  What we have to worry about is Israel resorting to the Samson option.
[00:46:31]  Yeah.
[00:46:32]  Yeah.
[00:46:33]  The potential for the use of nukes.
[00:46:36]  I agree.
[00:46:37]  Well, the big threat to Iran is, like I said, the B-2s are coming in and they're going to do terror attacks on the civilian population to try to break them.
[00:46:45]  Kind of like World War II type bombing.
[00:46:48]  It's not going to happen.
[00:46:50]  Well, they can do it.
[00:46:51]  They can do it.
[00:46:52]  But what's going to be the effect?
[00:46:54]  Can they break Iran doing that kind of terror stuff before Iran breaks Israel?
[00:47:01]  Because Iran doesn't.
[00:47:03]  Right now, Iran doesn't have to deal with these Gulf states anymore.
[00:47:06]  They're wrapping all that up.
[00:47:08]  You know, they could still go after people are unified.
[00:47:12]  They're unified behind our government.
[00:47:15]  I don't think there's any chance that America is going to be able to do the regime change and get the puppet Pahlavi in there.
[00:47:23]  That's never going to happen.
[00:47:25]  Thanks, Keith.
[00:47:27]  Yeah, it does concern me.
[00:47:30]  I understand that basically Khamenei's sons was the one that was chosen to follow him.
[00:47:38]  But if he got killed in this recent one, you know, they have many people deep, though.
[00:47:48]  Their chain of command has run so deep that I'm not all that concerned that, you know, they're going to be leaderless and all that.
[00:47:57]  America doesn't get it that they prepared for this and they get those decapitation strikes where, yeah, they have to go four, five, six, seven, eight deep for their chain of command.
[00:48:11]  And that's exactly what they're doing.
[00:48:13]  They are martyrs.
[00:48:15]  This is a jihad.
[00:48:16]  They're going to heaven with 72 virgins for crying out loud.
[00:48:20]  This is idiotic.
[00:48:22]  And taking out, you know, we haven't really even addressed the hit on Khomeini, which is ridiculous.
[00:48:29]  That guy was fairly moderate in the greater scheme of things.
[00:48:32]  And now he has been placed by a son who's a razor, you know, hardcore, hardliner.
[00:48:39]  What's that?
[00:48:40]  Is the son alive when they hit just recently?
[00:48:44]  Yes.
[00:48:44]  Okay.
[00:48:45]  They pointed him.
[00:48:45]  He's the new Ayatollah.
[00:48:48]  So he's a hardliner, and his declared objective is to destroy Israel.
[00:48:52]  He's not even apologetic about it.
[00:48:58]  His father was at least a little bit of a diplomat, you know, try to show a little reason.
[00:49:05]  What else do we expect?
[00:49:06]  Why did they take his father out?
[00:49:08]  It makes no sense.
[00:49:09]  It's just more stupidity.
[00:49:10]  What do they expect to happen when they take out all the Shia clerics?
[00:49:14]  They took out like 90 Shia clerics.
[00:49:17]  Do you think that's going to weaken Iranian resolve?
[00:49:20]  Are you kidding me?
[00:49:22]  And putting him in when he's a hardliner, perfect.
[00:49:25]  Very appropriate.
[00:49:26]  Yes, yes, yes.
[00:49:27]  I heard an American commentator saying they thought that was inconsistent with Iran not wanting to have a legacy in a family, but it makes perfect sense under the circumstances.
[00:49:39]  Joaquin, would you agree?
[00:49:42]  Yeah, I do.
[00:49:44]  I think they've been prepared for this war a long time, and they have all the backup they needed, no matter who gets decapitated.
[00:49:53]  Yeah, I think they're in good shape.
[00:49:57]  Oh, they're not going to just give up their ideology and their worldview just because their leaders are being hit by Israelis.
[00:50:07]  Well, they've been preparing for this forever.
[00:50:11]  Here we are.
[00:50:12]  They just turn them into martyrs.
[00:50:13]  The whole country is very much into the whole martyr concept.
[00:50:16]  Yes.
[00:50:17]  You're just creating it.
[00:50:18]  You're creating them.
[00:50:20]  Yes, that's exactly right.
[00:50:22]  They're willing to die for their nation.
[00:50:25]  This is not lying.
[00:50:27]  Neo-Kalingo.
[00:50:30]  It's absolutely in flames.
[00:50:32]  It has been struck by the combined U.S. and Israeli side and causing significant damage.
[00:50:38]  There is also another body blow for Iran that just happened earlier this morning, just a couple of hours ago, in the result of the Ayatollah being assassinated on the first day of this.
[00:50:50]  They were meeting in the holy city of Qom in Iran to elect a new replacement Ayatollah.
[00:50:57]  They had an interim immediately placed in there, and they met with this council.
[00:51:02]  I think it was the Guardian Council or something like that, but were they the guys who were basically meet to select?
[00:51:07]  Well, turns out that the Israeli intelligence got wind of it, and they found out and they flattened the building.
[00:51:14]  So you can see that's where they were in right now.
[00:51:17]  We don't know anything about casualties.
[00:51:18]  We don't know if anybody survived.
[00:51:20]  If everybody died, it's unclear.
[00:51:22]  But this would be another major blow for the Iranian side.
[00:51:28]  And certainly it's going to continue to weaken the governing structures.
[00:51:30]  And I'm sure that's the exact intent on the American slash Israeli side.
[00:51:35]  We're going to see what happens from that.
[00:51:37]  Iran is a big bureaucracy and a lot of components to its government.
[00:51:44]  That's what happened, but I don't know that that's a correct assessment because they've created more martyrs, 90 more martyrs.
[00:51:51]  They've kind of stiffened the resolve of the people.
[00:51:55]  The carpet bombing and bringing in the B-2s is really a big event.
[00:51:59]  And I really need to find out what's going on within Iran because I do have context there.
[00:52:05]  It's a sign of weakness.
[00:52:07]  Here's another factor.
[00:52:08]  Here's another factor.
[00:52:10]  They have all these deep underground bases, you know.
[00:52:15]  So why aren't they meeting?
[00:52:17]  I think these might even be decoys that they're going after and supposedly decapitating because they have all these underground bases that are impenetrable to the Western bombs.
[00:52:29]  Yeah, it is strange.
[00:52:31]  But Russia, you're 100% correct.
[00:52:32]  Colonel Davis was completely wrong to suggest this was good for U.S. and Israel, assuming it to be true.
[00:52:42]  In my opinion, it's a catastrophe.
[00:52:45]  It's going to unify Muslims from every nation, Sunni as well as Shia, in support of Iran.
[00:52:52]  This was a monstrous thing to do.
[00:52:54]  This was pure evil.
[00:52:56]  This was sadistic.
[00:52:58]  Yeah, you know, the Sunni element is really a big question, you know, because they could be coming in big time against the Zionists.
[00:53:06]  You know, they're going to.
[00:53:08]  I think it's going to happen because of this.
[00:53:11]  You can't get the Sunnis behind the Shiites.
[00:53:15]  That's like 85% of the Muslim world are Sunnis.
[00:53:19]  So, I mean, it's like everybody's coming after them then.
[00:53:23]  Well, the Palestinians, I'll remind everybody, are Sunnis.
[00:53:27]  So the Sunni brothers everywhere in the Middle East should be coming to arms now.
[00:53:32]  This is sort of the galvanizing moment for them.
[00:53:35]  You just drive all these bases out of the Middle East, these American plague bases, just move them out.
[00:53:41]  Just try to overrun them.
[00:53:43]  They got too many, they got too many militia and too many troops.
[00:53:46]  And the United States doesn't have the troops on the ground.
[00:53:49]  They just got air power.
[00:53:51]  Supposedly the death toll, you know, they're trying to keep track.
[00:53:54]  Obviously, it's all approximation, but the death toll, 160 of the Americans are over 500, Joaquim.
[00:54:06]  It's probably up to 1,000 by now.
[00:54:08]  There's so many numbers out there.
[00:54:10]  And then there's 1,045 Iranians, supposedly.
[00:54:15]  That was a count, 1,045.
[00:54:19]  And then I was looking for Israel.
[00:54:23]  And I know it's a lot, but you know, all I could find with the latest, and it was like yesterday or today, 10.
[00:54:31]  What a joke.
[00:54:32]  What a joke.
[00:54:33]  Yeah, let's fog a war.
[00:54:36]  These countries probably don't even really know, to be honest.
[00:54:39]  No, no, no.
[00:54:40]  I don't see how they can really be precise.
[00:54:42]  No.
[00:54:43]  They can't.
[00:54:44]  But the numbers are high, I guarantee.
[00:54:48]  Yeah.
[00:54:48]  And Israel is prevailing.
[00:54:51]  Here's more from Colonel Dave.
[00:54:53]  Facilities and its structure.
[00:54:54]  But that can't help but be really hard.
[00:54:57]  If that's true, if the reports are true, that's what was in there.
[00:55:01]  We'll wait and see what kind of an impact that has.
[00:55:04]  But there's also things going on on both sides of this.
[00:55:06]  But to try to figure out where this war is and most importantly, where it's headed, we have back with us today Colonel Douglas McGregor, Defense and Foreign Policy Analyst, former advisor to the Secretary of Defense, and always need to mention a highly decorated combat veteran who understands matters in the Middle East better than nearly anybody.
[00:55:22]  Doug, welcome back to the show, as always.
[00:55:24]  Hey, thanks very much.
[00:55:26]  Well, listen, let's just start right off the bat.
[00:55:28]  I mean, what do you think is the significance of at least the reports that council that was supposed to select a new Ayatollah?
[00:55:37]  So if the first one, where there was allegedly 40 military and other political leaders that got killed along with the Ayatollah, if this one's, according to reports, there were 88 members that were part of this council that could potentially have been killed.
[00:55:50]  What do you think the impact of that might be?
[00:55:52]  Well, to answer that, I think you have to ask the question, what happens when you fire a CEO of any large international corporation?
[00:56:01]  You pick a new CEO.
[00:56:04]  What happened when Field Marshal Rommel was fatally wounded in a car driving through the countryside of Normandy during the invasion of Normandy by U.S. and British forces?
[00:56:15]  Millicent Revolution Radio at FreedomSearch.com.
[00:56:18]  I think there's an obsession on the Israeli side with killing leaders.
[00:56:27]  Was it a conspiracy?
[00:56:30]  Did you know that the police in Boston were broadcasting, this is a drill, this is a drill on bullhorns during the marathon?
[00:56:38]  That the Boston Globe was tweeting that a demonstration bomb would be set off during the marathon for the benefit of bomb squad activities.
[00:56:46]  And that one would be set off in one minute in front of the library, which happened as the Globe had announced.

=== Boston Bombing Revelations (04:36) ===

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[01:00:57]  Russ, here we are at Winter Watch.
[01:01:00]  We've scrolled down to around the web.
[01:01:02]  You have a meme that Israel get you to join JFK Charlie Kirk in relation to the Ayatollah.
[01:01:11]  Your comments, go ahead.
[01:01:13]  Well, let's just go down.
[01:01:15]  These are sort of side stories.
[01:01:17]  I think we've covered quite a bit of the basics.
[01:01:19]  I think we kind of at the last portion of that first hour, we hit it very well, I think.
[01:01:25]  So we can kind of do some sideline tertiary and secondary effects, which I'm kind of covering here.

=== UN Security Council Meeting (07:21) ===

[01:01:30]  First story: Neo, Neo-Caligula Trump dragging Lockheed and Raytheon CEOs in the White House yelling at them for not trying hard enough.
[01:01:42]  So not producing enough missiles.
[01:01:46]  I mean, this is some ought to have been done years ago, years ago.
[01:01:52]  Yeah, they burned through the missiles like a kid setting off fireworks, as Richard guy says in his post, in his tweet.
[01:01:58]  Now Trump's dragging them into the White House, yelling at them.
[01:02:03]  The U.S. military now admits this Iran strike eight more long-range munitions than you want to read it.
[01:02:14]  Then four years of Ukraine.
[01:02:16]  Meanwhile, Trump tweeting about unlimited supply while Raytheon can barely promise to eventually hit a thousand tomahawks a year.
[01:02:27]  And a Pentagon only budgeted 57 for 2026.
[01:02:32]  Yeah, that infinite arms and all everyone brags about.
[01:02:35]  Let's be real.
[01:02:37]  The U.S. industrial base is a ghost town.
[01:02:41]  Contractors are being threatened for failing to produce miracles in a system that physically can't handle wartime tampo.
[01:02:49]  Congratulations, America.
[01:02:52]  One regional scuffle with Iran just blew up decades of your carefully laid plans.
[01:02:59]  Our show has been talking about this, you know.
[01:03:02]  So this is this is all open source information for anybody to dig up.
[01:03:05]  I've dug it up.
[01:03:06]  We've talked about it in the past.
[01:03:08]  This whole arsenal situation.
[01:03:10]  So any, you know, the few people that actually listen to our show, you know, our shadow band show would have probably picked up on that and would have knowledge of the real situation.
[01:03:21]  For the rest of the Trump tards out there, I guess this is just like a big surprise, including apparently Trump Tart, the King Trump Tard himself, Calingula.
[01:03:32]  Who's an ignoramus?
[01:03:34]  Meanwhile, gas prices in the UK have surged 93, but this is only the beginning.
[01:03:40]  I've seen estimates as high as $10 a gallon shortly, and other estimates as high as $18 a gallon right here in the USA.
[01:03:52]  London keeps following Washington's warrant pause in disasters, and UK households keep paying the bill.
[01:03:58]  The special relationship is costing the British people a fortune where gas prices in the UK have surged 93% since the start of Operation Abbey Cav Hop.
[01:04:10]  Go ahead, Ross.
[01:04:11]  Yeah, scrolling down the pages, I've got some data on data points on Europe.
[01:04:16]  There's the European gas prices, 20% in one day.
[01:04:22]  Thank God the winter is about over.
[01:04:25]  That's the only half-full aspect of this.
[01:04:31]  And there's Russia with all that cheap gas and the European community demanding something be done.
[01:04:39]  I think Europe's going to have to capitulate and open the pipeline with Russia.
[01:04:44]  Joachim, your thoughts?
[01:04:47]  Well, their leadership has not shown any degree of warming any kind of relations with Putin in Russia.
[01:04:58]  They're acting very suicidal, actually.
[01:05:02]  But actually, you know, Putin is so reasonable that he would help Europe if it was asked.
[01:05:11]  But, you know, those EU leaders, they're incredible.
[01:05:17]  Most of the, well, the EU Commission has not even elected.
[01:05:22]  So these people are maniacs.
[01:05:25]  There's so few of them that make any sense whatsoever.
[01:05:28]  They're all just totally hostile to Moscow.
[01:05:33]  Except for this might force the big split that we talked about in the last show with Hunter.
[01:05:37]  They could Serbia split them up.
[01:05:42]  It means survival.
[01:05:43]  So maybe they could come around.
[01:05:45]  Maybe.
[01:05:47]  Here's Katolam of Qatar, supplier of 9% of global aluminum supplies, initiated a control shutdown of aluminum production due to the gas production shutdown.
[01:06:01]  You want to elaborate on this, Ross?
[01:06:03]  Yeah, there's also a lot of sulfuric acid that comes out of that because there's chemicals.
[01:06:08]  That whole area built up a big chemical petrochemical industry.
[01:06:13]  Yeah.
[01:06:13]  Not just oil.
[01:06:15]  It comes out of that area in the world and supplies the world.
[01:06:17]  So they're looking at some major bottlenecks on important products.
[01:06:24]  Yes, yes.
[01:06:27]  That's pretty much it on that.
[01:06:28]  I mean, it's just, you know, Netanyahu has promised everybody that the Iranian government will collapse in hours.
[01:06:36]  All the family dictatorships and the incompetence running American belief.
[01:06:45]  Anyway, some people may not like this.
[01:06:48]  Some people may not like this post.
[01:06:50]  Neil Colligio names his horse a senator.
[01:06:53]  It happened, of course.
[01:06:55]  Historically, he did.
[01:06:58]  This is the equivalent of Colligio making his horse a senator.
[01:07:04]  Adam Schwartz, Belania Trump is chairing a UN Security Council meeting.
[01:07:10]  You're joking.
[01:07:12]  Her English is terrible.
[01:07:14]  What she's been doing in her English the last 25 years.
[01:07:16]  She just does a horrible accent, can't pronounce simple words correctly.
[01:07:22]  Here we go.
[01:07:27]  I feel sorry for 113 meeting of the Security Council.
[01:07:33]  You know her, Opio.
[01:07:34]  She's a good-looking woman, that's for sure.
[01:07:38]  We like her looks.
[01:07:39]  Good afternoon.
[01:07:42]  113 meeting of the security council 130 meeting good afternoon The 10,113 meeting of the Security Council is called to order.
[01:08:08]  Good afternoon.
[01:08:10]  The 10,100 Security Council is called to order.
[01:08:19]  It doesn't go into the whole speech, but she's just a whole bunch of words that she can't even pronounce.
[01:08:24]  They're just basic English.
[01:08:26]  So I just kind of wonder where she's been the last 25 years.
[01:08:30]  No, Melania does not have a college degree.
[01:08:32]  She attended the University of Lujava in Slovenia to study design and architecture, but dropped out after her first year to pursue a modeling career in Milan, Italy.
[01:08:45]  Our website previously claimed she earned a degree.
[01:08:48]  This is debunked and she removed the information.

=== Mom's Incoherent Speech (08:56) ===

[01:08:52]  I mean, that's really.
[01:08:54]  I think she got hooked up with Gilo Brunel, the pedophile fashion, you know, model trainer.
[01:09:05]  She got hooked up with him.
[01:09:06]  He died in a prison back in 2022.
[01:09:11]  Another day in the life of the partner.
[01:09:13]  He recruited Eastern European girls, where she's from.
[01:09:19]  Another day in the life of Neil Caleg Trump.
[01:09:24]  Family's falling U.S. soldiers at the war with Iran or Grieving.
[01:09:27]  Donald is talking about his beautiful ballroom.
[01:09:29]  It is insane how he's doing this.
[01:09:33]  He took a tour of statues in the garden when he was asked about what was going on in RAN earlier on.
[01:09:40]  Take a look at this performance.
[01:09:42]  When that comes down right now, you see a very, very deep hole.
[01:09:47]  But in about a year and a half from now, you're going to see a very, very beautiful building.
[01:09:51]  And there's your entrance to it right there.
[01:09:53]  In fact, it looks so nice, I don't think I'll even, I think I'll save money on the doors because it can't get more beautiful than that.
[01:09:59]  I picked those drapes in my first term.
[01:10:02]  I always like gold, but I think we can save a lot of money.
[01:10:07]  I just saved curtains, but it will be, it'll be spectacular.
[01:10:12]  It'll be the most beautiful ballroom.
[01:10:14]  I believe it's because I built many a ballroom.
[01:10:16]  I believe it's going to be the most beautiful ballroom anywhere in the world.
[01:10:20]  And when you hear all that hammering out there, you know why the first lady is not thrilled exactly.
[01:10:25]  Yeah.
[01:10:26]  She said, will the pile drivers ever stop?
[01:10:28]  You know, they go from six in the morning till 11.30 in the evening.
[01:10:32]  Can you imagine?
[01:10:34]  Here?
[01:10:36]  You know what?
[01:10:36]  To me, that's a beautiful sound.
[01:10:38]  She doesn't like it.
[01:10:39]  I love it.
[01:10:39]  You know what?
[01:10:40]  To me, other than here, because we're donating it, not a penny to the taxpayer.
[01:10:46]  It'll be under budget.
[01:10:48]  He's got a Medal of Honor.
[01:10:50]  He's got a war going on.
[01:10:51]  He's got a Medal of Honor ceremony.
[01:10:54]  And he's talking about curtains and God knows what.
[01:10:57]  I mean, just talking about himself, his big ego.
[01:11:00]  And when he was talking to the press, he was like, you know, having to say, well, yes, American soldiers are going to die.
[01:11:07]  Oh, look at how the curtains look.
[01:11:10]  And I picked those curtains and I like gold.
[01:11:14]  How shabby, how gaudy, how shallow.
[01:11:19]  Yeah, you know, I have to do my diagnosis.
[01:11:25]  You know, my dear mother, God bless her, wonderful woman, great mom, started to act this way kind of at about 82.
[01:11:35]  And she ended up living to be 97, but she just became kind of a strange person, a little bit like Trump here.
[01:11:43]  But the difference is that she wasn't president of the United States.
[01:11:47]  Yeah.
[01:11:48]  So this is not necessarily, this is an aspect of Trump's personality, but it's also his brain's not really functioning right.
[01:11:57]  He's even worse than Biden in a lot of ways because Biden was just kind of feeble and Trump is just weird.
[01:12:06]  It's a super weird guy, he's always has been, but now it's just manifesting itself, and he's a very diminished individual.
[01:12:15]  Well, he's a psychopath, he suffers from narcissistic personality disorder.
[01:12:20]  He takes offense to almost anything said, and he's very vindictive, very petty.
[01:12:26]  He can't read the room.
[01:12:28]  That's what happened to my mom.
[01:12:29]  My mom couldn't read the room either.
[01:12:31]  She got so she couldn't really read the room.
[01:12:33]  And I, you know, maybe I'll be there too someday.
[01:12:35]  So, not really making too much fun of the guy, but you got to get him out of there.
[01:12:42]  You know, you got to, I can't stand this guy.
[01:12:45]  Yeah.
[01:12:45]  Joaquim, I want more of your diagnosis.
[01:12:48]  Tell us more about Trump.
[01:12:51]  Well, you know, he's he's been a, I mean, and he's got a an aunt, no, a niece who is a psychologist, and she wrote all about him.
[01:13:03]  She's written books on this guy, and she's right on because you know, she really says this guy was born from the very beginning to be a psychopath by a psychopathic father.
[01:13:15]  And his psychopathic father tortured the firstborn male who is the father of this niece that writes these books on her him.
[01:13:26]  And he basically trained early on that the her father, the niece's father, ended up dying young of some alcoholism.
[01:13:37]  Basically, uh, he drank himself to death because he was so maltreated by the father.
[01:13:43]  And Trump was groomed to be the psychopath narcissist that he is today, uh, where he has no sense of empathy or capacity.
[01:13:53]  I mean, have you seen him devote any kind of attention of understanding or empathy or compassion for any Epstein victims?
[01:14:03]  No, he's completely a million miles away because all he could think about is protecting himself as a pedophile and all his pedophile VIP friends.
[01:14:14]  That's who he cares about.
[01:14:16]  He does not have any iota of any kind of emotion regarding the victims.
[01:14:23]  You know, I mean, you see it very clearly just with the Epstein file.
[01:14:28]  Now, the next clip down the page is worth looking at.
[01:14:32]  It shows kind of a breakdown of his brain and speech below the same, yeah, same article.
[01:14:43]  The scroll page: last 48 hours of war costs.
[01:14:48]  I'm going to keep going, keep going.
[01:14:50]  His final lobe dementia is kicking in, probably aggravated by a bad exercise for poor sleep and tired.
[01:14:58]  Yikes, Trump has a serious brain glitch.
[01:15:01]  Finally, we honor one more American soldier, a fallen warrior of world of wars and really terror.
[01:15:10]  Tom Brain is shutting off.
[01:15:12]  We get a third term.
[01:15:14]  Don't think he'll make it through this one.
[01:15:16]  Finally, we honor one more American soldier, a fallen warrior of world of wars and really a really terror staff sergeant.
[01:15:29]  Yeah, but yeah, tell us more.
[01:15:31]  It's interesting how he tries to ad-lib his way out of, you know, glitches.
[01:15:37]  Now, we all have glitches.
[01:15:38]  You know, most people get a glitch and you just stop and try to correct, but he just kind of keeps going.
[01:15:43]  You know, he tries to ad-lib his way around these glitches.
[01:15:46]  Tangential thinking, yeah.
[01:15:49]  He's got some kind of scabies or shingles or diabetic reaction.
[01:15:58]  Yeah, something's going on there.
[01:16:00]  All he eats is fast food.
[01:16:04]  Do you think the fast food is caught up with him, Joaquin?
[01:16:07]  You think the fast food?
[01:16:08]  Oh, he's got to be diabetic.
[01:16:10]  He's got to be.
[01:16:12]  He's got all kinds of.
[01:16:16]  What are we looking at?
[01:16:16]  What are we looking at?
[01:16:18]  Something behind the ear is ahead of us.
[01:16:21]  Yeah.
[01:16:23]  Here's one more clip.
[01:16:25]  Yeah.
[01:16:26]  He just gets the hell out of there.
[01:16:55]  I mean, he doesn't hang around.
[01:16:56]  He doesn't shake hands with anybody.
[01:16:57]  He just gets out of there.
[01:17:00]  Well, remember, he actually did shit in his pants during an Oval Office episode.
[01:17:08]  I mean, it literally happened and they scooted the reporters out.
[01:17:11]  I'm wondering if it happened again here.
[01:17:14]  Well, the people that are standing right behind him are like going, oh, man, like they're being gassed out, you know?
[01:17:22]  It's just awful.
[01:17:23]  It's just bad of the United States.
[01:17:27]  It's a combination.
[01:17:28]  It's just a combination of bad health.
[01:17:30]  It's just time to hang it up and maybe try to take better care of himself, take the stress off.
[01:17:36]  He probably has AFib attacks all the time.
[01:17:38]  That's all stress-driven.
[01:17:40]  They got to do a 25th Amendment on this guy.
[01:17:43]  He's just unfit.
[01:17:45]  Very bad, very bad, very bad.

=== Monitoring the Situation (06:49) ===

[01:17:49]  Bullshit called on 315 down by friendly fire.
[01:17:53]  They were down by friendly fire.
[01:17:56]  Iran took them out at 11:03 March 1st.
[01:18:01]  Okay, but what's worse?
[01:18:02]  Did it Iran take him out, or were they taken down by friendly fire?
[01:18:06]  What's the worst, really?
[01:18:08]  I mean, they're both pretty bad.
[01:18:10]  Yeah, I agree.
[01:18:11]  I agree.
[01:18:12]  They just don't want to give Iran any credit.
[01:18:14]  That's what it is.
[01:18:15]  No, exactly.
[01:18:18]  Read more.
[01:18:19]  315 didn't.
[01:18:20]  Oh, I think everybody's heard that story, so we can move on.
[01:18:24]  All right, fair enough.
[01:18:28]  We'll move forward.
[01:18:30]  But it was definitely worth mentioning.
[01:18:32]  Right.
[01:18:33]  Qatar energy, amounting to 18 to 20% of global liquefied natural gas trading has stopped.
[01:18:41]  The production has stopped due to military attack on Qatar's energy operating facilities in Raslav on Industrial City.
[01:18:51]  In Massid, Industrial City in the state of Qatar, Qatar Energy has ceased production of liquefied natural gas and associated problems.
[01:19:01]  Even if they got these things started back up, there's going to be a big delay.
[01:19:06]  Then you got, sounds like the Yemenis attacked the oil pipeline in Iran.
[01:19:13]  So that's 800,000 barrels of Iranian oil offline, which is 20% of their entire supply.
[01:19:19]  So you got this industrial warfare going with each other, hitting each other's infrastructure.
[01:19:25]  Here it is, a story about it.
[01:19:29]  Only five seconds long.
[01:19:33]  Yep.
[01:19:34]  I want produces 800,000 barrels a day, 20% of Iran's entire oil supply, and U.S. airstrikes have hit it and shut it down.
[01:19:43]  Yeah, they have to be manipulating the oil market to keep it under wraps.
[01:19:47]  It's either that or they're convinced that this war is going to come to an abrupt end.
[01:19:55]  Oh, I think Iran is just plastering them all over the place.
[01:19:59]  They're going to want to sue for a ceasefire, but Iran's not going to let up until Israel is completely destroyed.
[01:20:08]  Here's an example.
[01:20:09]  They learned last June that they got to finish the job this time.
[01:20:13]  Exactly.
[01:20:14]  Exactly.
[01:20:17]  Now, there's a new meme going around that I've kind of adopted.
[01:20:20]  It's called Monitoring the Situation.
[01:20:22]  You know, it shows all these mostly men around the world.
[01:20:25]  You know, they're up at two o'clock in the morning monitoring the situation.
[01:20:29]  That's me.
[01:20:30]  That's what I've been doing is monitoring the situation.
[01:20:34]  Sure, that's our job.
[01:20:36]  That's our job, right?
[01:20:39]  And so there's a story here of it's kind of an exercise more than anything.
[01:20:45]  The USS Arlington is loading non-stop.
[01:20:49]  Yeah, but that may be an amphibious landing vehicle.
[01:20:54]  Yes.
[01:20:55]  And I've been aboard multiple.
[01:20:58]  We're not going to land Marines in Iran.
[01:21:01]  I mean, that's any of it.
[01:21:03]  No, how do they even get them there?
[01:21:05]  They'd have to get them all the way around into the Persian Gulf.
[01:21:07]  You know, they're sending them.
[01:21:09]  I think they're sending him to the Eastern Mediterranean for evacuation duty.
[01:21:15]  Eastern Mediterranean.
[01:21:20]  Well, it's going to take them maybe eight, 10 days to get into the Eastern Med.
[01:21:24]  And by then, they may be evacuating American wounded out of Lebanon and out of Israel.
[01:21:32]  Yeah, I think that's very likely.
[01:21:35]  Very likely.
[01:21:36]  And so I had a conversation with different people on this one.
[01:21:39]  It's just theory.
[01:21:40]  You know, you're kind of gaming things out and trying to figure out what's going on.
[01:21:44]  And you're also kind of...
[01:21:45]  There's no way that they'll do an invasion.
[01:21:47]  No way.
[01:21:48]  No way.
[01:21:48]  No, and you're also trying to gauge the intelligence of the participants in these comments because the people making comments are at least they're engaged and trying to figure out what's going on.
[01:21:58]  But sometimes the processing is a little weird.
[01:22:01]  So that's what this is.
[01:22:02]  I mean, I say, I wager it's done.
[01:22:08]  I make a comment and people start arguing with me.
[01:22:11]  I wager it's a Dunkirk-like emergency evacuations.
[01:22:16]  Unlikely to arrive in time as U.S. bases get overrun.
[01:22:20]  Then I got into an argument about, well, who's going to overrun them?
[01:22:22]  You know, the Sunnis are there.
[01:22:24]  You know, the Iranians are going to overrun all these bases.
[01:22:27]  What about the Sunnis?
[01:22:28]  And I said, the Sunnis are on the Iranian side now.
[01:22:30]  So we had a complete sidebar issue, which is worth having.
[01:22:36]  But apparently, the American cheerleaders just think everything is frozen like in the Iraq war, that the Sunnis are pro-American, anti-Iranian, that conditions haven't changed.
[01:22:49]  Yeah.
[01:22:49]  You got a Grok contribution here?
[01:22:54]  But I went to Drok.
[01:22:56]  Yeah.
[01:22:56]  You go to Grok because Grok actually adds context, gives you the data points.
[01:23:04]  I'm just showing people how to use the system here.
[01:23:06]  Yeah, that's good, Ross.
[01:23:07]  I love what you're doing.
[01:23:09]  I love what you're doing.
[01:23:11]  So Grok basically says, yeah, I mean, because I don't know, I don't know these data points, but Grok says, yeah, 10 days to get there.
[01:23:18]  They use this ship for EVAC.
[01:23:20]  Pretty much confirmed my theory.
[01:23:25]  Yeah, it's got to be an evacuation.
[01:23:27]  And then here's my Winter Watch situation room right there.
[01:23:33]  I love it.
[01:23:34]  Beautiful, beautiful, Russ.
[01:23:37]  There you are, taking it all in with your super high-tech, sophisticated surveillance of every possible area of action.
[01:23:45]  I love it.
[01:23:47]  I love it.
[01:23:51]  Well, Keem, this is just unbelievable.
[01:23:54]  Let's go back to Winter Watch and just have you got a big-time article here we ought to talk about.
[01:24:01]  Well, a lot of the stuff we can still go to.
[01:24:04]  We got more on Winter Watch, but on the round of webs.
[01:24:07]  I've been talking about this all week, so it's chronological.
[01:24:11]  So there's probably no point in going to the beginning because you know people just need to get caught up on their own.
[01:24:17]  And we're doing the current stuff.
[01:24:20]  When we do our stuff today, we're assuming people are trying to stay at least somewhat current on the situation and not take baby steps.
[01:24:28]  So let's go back to news around the web because that takes you over to the additional items.
[01:24:34]  I didn't see any additional, so let's take a look.
[01:24:37]  Well, you got to click it.

=== Back to Winter Watch (04:14) ===

[01:24:39]  There you go.
[01:24:39]  Now go down.
[01:24:41]  Oh, it's sort of a function, interceptors and Gulf states deplete.
[01:24:48]  And yes, yes, we've covered that pretty much.
[01:24:51]  Charlie Kirk show drops all-time low as turning point grifter neocons push war.
[01:25:00]  So his show, The Carli Kirk Show, which is very, very popular, has just fallen completely off the map in terms of listeners.
[01:25:11]  In terms of messy, I mean, I think Charlie Kirk was seeing this coming.
[01:25:19]  You know, I think he had a good read of the room.
[01:25:22]  There's some people that have a good, good instincts for what's going on, a good read of the room, but the successors of Charlie Kirk are clueless.
[01:25:30]  You know, they're just completely buying all the neocon stuff.
[01:25:34]  And people don't, they're all Israeli stooges, Ross.
[01:25:38]  Yeah, they're controlled by Israel.
[01:25:41]  Yeah, that's what it was all about.
[01:25:45]  Yep.
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[01:30:13]  Scott Horror.
[01:30:15]  Let me throw one more thing.
[01:30:17]  Sure.
[01:30:20]  I know.
[01:30:22]  I'm kind of maybe hogging the show up a little too much today.
[01:30:25]  I apologize for that.
[01:30:26]  Not a problem.
[01:30:27]  Not a problem.
[01:30:29]  I don't know if you guys saw this late in the day where Governor Newsom came out and said that he considered, now considers Israel an apartheid state that does not deserve the support of the United States.
[01:30:43]  Newsom, and you've had a couple big senior senators, Murphy and God, what's his name?
[01:30:53]  Mackie or Markey.
[01:30:56]  Senator Markey, is that his name?
[01:30:58]  Yeah.

=== Governor Newsom's Controversial Stance (15:37) ===

[01:30:59]  Making similar type of statements.
[01:31:01]  So these guys are basically going anti-war.
[01:31:05]  That's effing wonderful.
[01:31:06]  That's just effing wonderful.
[01:31:09]  Right.
[01:31:09]  It is.
[01:31:10]  It means a major shift in American politics.
[01:31:12]  And so you've got some people that are reading the room, you know, looking at what's going on and just not fully ignoring the will of the people.
[01:31:20]  Newsome is nothing but an opportunist.
[01:31:23]  CCCUS is mucked up here in the Middle East, so he wants to be the alternative to Trump, who's pro-war now.
[01:31:29]  He's going to be the peace guy.
[01:31:31]  Exactly.
[01:31:32]  Yeah, the McCarthy of our era.
[01:31:36]  Your thoughts?
[01:31:38]  What's that?
[01:31:39]  Well, I just finished an article just before the program.
[01:31:43]  Yeah.
[01:31:43]  And it's called Exposing Trump Regime's Greater Israel Project War Defeat Against Iran.
[01:31:52]  Yes.
[01:31:53]  I've got it.
[01:31:53]  I've got it here, Rockham.
[01:31:55]  It's in the making.
[01:31:56]  Yes, it's in the making.
[01:31:59]  But, you know, it gets into, first of all, I don't know whether I'm on or not.
[01:32:07]  Okay.
[01:32:07]  I'm on.
[01:32:08]  Okay.
[01:32:10]  It gets into the fact that Trump was doing more negotiation while he actually three hours later, five hours later, whatever, after the Oman, he's the foreign minister and he's the basically the mediator between the U.S. and, of course, Iran.
[01:32:38]  And no sooner does he come out and say, yeah, we made a deal.
[01:32:44]  You know, it looks like it's got a go, you know, you know, peace, you know.
[01:32:49]  And within what, five hours, because it was Saturday morning that they sent the planes out to start bombing.
[01:32:57]  But Joachim, that's that's because Bibi couldn't allow there to be a deal that would take away all of his rationale for attacking Iran.
[01:33:04]  So he had to go ahead and disrupt it and then drag.
[01:33:08]  You got Rarco Rubio saying the U.S. was dragged into this war by Israel going ahead with the empty strike.
[01:33:16]  Yeah, he blurted out the truth for a change.
[01:33:21]  Yeah, it's kind of like the, he sort of said the devil made us do it.
[01:33:26]  Yeah, I mean, so from the whole get-go, everybody knows, okay, you know, Petto's, you know, Trump is a pedophile.
[01:33:34]  He's been sexually blackmailed by Israel forever.
[01:33:38]  And so he has to do what he's told by Bibi, you know, and City of London, Rothschild.
[01:33:44]  They own this guy.
[01:33:45]  They bail him out of bankruptcy a couple of times.
[01:33:48]  So he's totally part of the deep state.
[01:33:52]  And yeah, he's betrayed all the MAGA people and all this.
[01:33:56]  But yeah, he has to do what he's told.
[01:33:58]  So he's got to make war with Iran, you know, even though it's suicide for America and the West.
[01:34:07]  Yeah, I think that's exactly right.
[01:34:10]  But Bibi had to act then because otherwise, once a peace deal, there's no longer any rationale whatsoever.
[01:34:19]  I mean, there never really was, but he was maintaining, you know, what he thought was plausible, insisting about the nuclear threat, which was non-existent and the ballistic missile threat, which was very real.
[01:34:32]  Well, once they said they were on the eve of a breakthrough, he had to attack then or it would be lost forever.
[01:34:39]  Lost forever.
[01:34:41]  And that's why it's the White House again.
[01:34:44]  You know, he had to nix that deal.
[01:34:48]  There's a story that there's a story that the CIA, two weeks before the war, told Big Brain that killing Khomeini might make things worse.
[01:34:58]  And he did it anyway.
[01:35:00]  So there you go.
[01:35:01]  He's not, it's like the system in play is not being used.
[01:35:05]  It's not the normal channels of Bison can say top general, the top general came, you know, right boss.
[01:35:16]  He came out and said, not a good idea.
[01:35:19]  But they did.
[01:35:20]  Joaquin, he did that.
[01:35:21]  He did that in the Oval Office in front of Marco Rubio, JD Vance, and Jared Kushner.
[01:35:27]  He told them we're not prepared to do this war.
[01:35:30]  And Trump ignored him.
[01:35:31]  He dismissed it.
[01:35:33]  Yeah.
[01:35:34]  Then the other classic before the war is Rubio says that, quote, Iranian missiles threaten U.S. military bases around Iran.
[01:35:44]  Yeah, right, right.
[01:35:46]  You know, Iran is a trap.
[01:35:48]  It's like Iran, the poor saps of Iran just dropped their country right in the middle of U.S. military.
[01:35:54]  Right, right, right.
[01:35:56]  Yes, they're probably all of forces to attack Iran over all these years, but look how it's backfiring spectacularly.
[01:36:05]  Greatest catastrophe in American military history taking place right now before our very eyes.
[01:36:12]  Our very eyes.
[01:36:13]  Joachim.
[01:36:14]  Yeah, I agree.
[01:36:16]  I agree.
[01:36:17]  Yeah, it's probably the worst catastrophe we'll ever see.
[01:36:21]  And it ain't over yet.
[01:36:23]  And it's more to come.
[01:36:29]  Call in 30 minutes.
[01:36:30]  I'm on here.
[01:36:32]  Yeah, it's just unbelievable.
[01:36:34]  Just unbelievable.
[01:36:37]  Here we have, let's see.
[01:36:39]  U.S. commanders are pushing end times ideology to rally the troops.
[01:36:45]  That's going to work.
[01:36:46]  Turning now to the Gulf situation, which we just talked about with Dr. Trita Parsi, the entire region in flame and also deeply afraid of what it means if they run out of interceptors.
[01:36:57]  We did want to start, though, with this extraordinary accusation by Tucker Carlson reporting that there were Mossad plots and agents arrested by two different Gulf countries trying to foment terror and chaos in these countries.
[01:37:11]  Let's take a listen.
[01:37:12]  It really, really hurts these countries.
[01:37:13]  And Israel wanted to hurt these countries.
[01:37:15]  That's the point.
[01:37:16]  Wanted to hurt these countries.
[01:37:18]  Wanted to sow chaos and disorder because they are rivals of Israel.
[01:37:22]  So it was probably not, it hasn't been reported, but it's a fact that last night in Qatar and Saudi Arabia, authorities arrested Mossad agents planning on committing bombings in those countries.
[01:37:34]  Now, that's weird.
[01:37:36]  It doesn't make any sense.
[01:37:38]  Why would the Israelis be committing bombings in two Gulf countries, which are also being attacked by Iran?
[01:37:47]  Aren't they on the same side?
[01:37:49]  No.
[01:37:50]  No.
[01:37:52]  Israel wants to hurt Iran and Qatar and UAE and Saudi and Bahrain and Oman and Kuwait.
[01:38:00]  Extraordinary claim there by Tucker Carlson, and obviously highlighting the bigger strategic picture that we kicked off our entire show is this is Israel's war.
[01:38:08]  There's really not a whole lot in here for the United States.
[01:38:11]  We've depleted our interceptor stockpile.
[01:38:13]  We've now made a mockery of all of these Gulf countries.
[01:38:15]  Do you know how many billions of dollars these Gulf countries have spent on U.S.?
[01:38:18]  I mean, it's probably hundreds of billions if you total all of it together.
[01:38:22]  Where they're like, look, we buy all your weapons.
[01:38:24]  You get to keep our bases here to support the war in Iraq.
[01:38:28]  We get to have a literal monarchy and it's all cool.
[01:38:32]  And we have a ton of oil and you buy it.
[01:38:33]  That's it.
[01:38:34]  So it's security in exchange for monarchy.
[01:38:37]  Everybody's kind of done a handshake deal around that.
[01:38:39]  That's all being blown up.
[01:38:40]  Their entire vision before the world.
[01:38:43]  Let's go ahead and put some of this VO that we have up here on the screen.
[01:38:47]  In each of these cases, we're showing you the region is literally in flames.
[01:38:52]  So you've got Tel Aviv in the middle of last night.
[01:38:54]  This is all just from last night.
[01:38:55]  You've got missiles that are flying around the screen.
[01:38:58]  You can see some of the interceptors that come, but multiple interceptors that they're having to fire.
[01:39:03]  This one was in Doha, Qatar.
[01:39:05]  I mean, this is genuinely shocking.
[01:39:06]  Like, it's crazy.
[01:39:07]  Look at the amount of interceptors and all that that are being fired up into the sky to intercept either drones or missiles that are coming in towards them.
[01:39:16]  These people have never seen anything like this.
[01:39:19]  This was video, which was actually on the border of Saudi Arabia and of Bahrain, where as riots continue to break out in Bahrain, which has a large Shia population, which you can see in front of you, Saudi Arabia is having to dispatch some security forces potentially to try and crush those riots, just like they did in the middle of the Arab Spring.
[01:39:39]  So your foundation of their society is now in question.
[01:39:42]  From Bahrain, which is the home of the Fifth Fleet, tens of thousands of Americans.
[01:39:46]  Kuwait, of course, their long security relationship with the U.S. Iraq this morning, which somewhat allegedly was our protectorate or kind of was whenever we invaded and occupied it for, I don't know, like 20 years, just had to shut down their largest oil field.
[01:40:01]  Saudi Arabia this morning, the U.S. embassy in Saudi Arabia issuing an explicit notice that they have incoming missile and UAV attacks on Dharan.
[01:40:11]  If you don't know what Dharan is, the home of the Saudi Aramco compound and of the largest oil facility in the world.
[01:40:18]  In addition, we had the Saudi embassy, which was, or the U.S. embassy in Riyadh, was hit by a drone yesterday, and apparently the roof was caved in.
[01:40:27]  Three different drone attacks that hit the U.S.
[01:40:29]  I mean, do you know how insane a single attack on a U.S. embassy is an international story?
[01:40:35]  The U.S. Embassy in Riyadh has now been hit.
[01:40:37]  The U.S. embassy in Baghdad was basically under siege for two days straight.
[01:40:41]  You've got now confirmed reports.
[01:40:43]  We were careful.
[01:40:44]  We talked about this yesterday.
[01:40:45]  The United States military is now confirming by our Reuters that Marines fired on people in Pakistan.
[01:40:51]  Sure, that's going to go over well.
[01:40:52]  That's going to go over real well in Pakistan, isn't it?
[01:40:55]  Pakistani protesters killed by American Marines in the middle of a consulate in a massive protest where people are shooting at each other.
[01:41:02]  This is full-blown chaos all over the entire world.
[01:41:06]  And then bigger, what really belies all of this is this story.
[01:41:09]  Let's put B3 up here on the screen.
[01:41:12]  The UAE and Qatar are urging allies to help or urge allies to help Trump find an off-ramp and largely interceptor stocks.
[01:41:19]  Front page of the Wall Street Journal literally this morning is about the number of interceptors that these countries are firing.
[01:41:25]  They're four, I mean, just think about the math here.
[01:41:27]  $4 million Patriot against a $20,000 drone.
[01:41:31]  They say that they might be done in a matter of a week, perhaps days.
[01:41:35]  And then what the hell is going to happen to the Burj Khalifa or the Queen Elizabeth Hotel or in Doha?
[01:41:42]  I mean, the Ritz Karl, all of these famous hotels.
[01:41:45]  What did Professor Zhang say yesterday?
[01:41:47]  Water desalination plants, the dams, which are all over the country for water supply.
[01:41:53]  What about Qatar LNG is already done?
[01:41:55]  Qatar LNG announced this morning they're shutting down all downstream production, not just LNG production of everything is happening.
[01:42:02]  The Iraq oil field is down.
[01:42:03]  The Saudi Aramco is basically notifying its suppliers that they're going to have to pick up from somewhere else to avoid the straits of the disruption across the Gulf.
[01:42:11]  It will take them years to recover from this, you know, structurally, militarily.
[01:42:15]  Absolutely.
[01:42:16]  What are they going to do?
[01:42:16]  And then brand-wise, oh my God, you've got probably a million plus, maybe two million Americans who are now stranded all across the entire Gulf.
[01:42:25]  I mean, these are like very rich people, like oil.
[01:42:28]  I used to live there.
[01:42:28]  I'm telling you.
[01:42:29]  Like when in my, I went to the American School of Doha.
[01:42:32]  Every other kid is like, oh, my dad works at Exxon or whatever.
[01:42:35]  Imagine you've been living there for a decade.
[01:42:37]  You're drinking margaritas at the Intercontinental Hotel.
[01:42:40]  And the next day, you are literally trying to get the hell out of the country, but you can't.
[01:42:45]  You literally can't.
[01:42:46]  All the people who go and vacation there, you know, again, very high-end luxury.
[01:42:50]  Like, do you think that they're going to be rushing back for their Dubai vacation after seeing luxury hotels going up in flame?
[01:42:57]  And this is what their whole economy and image is built around.
[01:43:01]  So that's why it's so long-term devastating to them.
[01:43:04]  To your point, Sagar, about that Wall Street Journal front page article on the interceptors math, which again, Marco Rubio himself came out and was talking about quite openly yesterday.
[01:43:13]  Now, Donald Trump put on a truth social post saying that we could do war forever and it wouldn't be a problem.
[01:43:17]  I'll ask you to, you know, which version you'd believe.
[01:43:20]  But in any case, they quote this expert who says, the intensity of interceptor usage that we have seen over the last couple of days cannot be maintained for more than another week, a week, probably a couple of days at most.
[01:43:35]  And then they will feel the pain of interceptor shortage.
[01:43:38]  That is from Fabian Hoffman, a missile expert at the University of Oslo.
[01:43:43]  So that's where we're at.
[01:43:45]  And the Iranians, number one, they have an asymmetric interest in this fight.
[01:43:51]  So of course they're outmatched by the amount of firepower that we have and Israel and all of our allies, all the weapons we've sold them over the years, blah, blah, blah.
[01:43:57]  But they have one thing going for them, which is that it's truly an existential struggle.
[01:44:02]  This means so much more to them.
[01:44:04]  I mean, how much do you care about this?
[01:44:07]  You just probably want us to end this war, right?
[01:44:09]  They know that this is truly, truly existential for them.
[01:44:15]  We couldn't defeat the freaking Hoofies, right?
[01:44:17]  Armed with much cruder arms and much lower level of supply because ultimately at the end of the day, we didn't care enough to be able to, you know, when they saw the fight as more important.
[01:44:27]  We spent 20 years in Afghanistan with all of our weaponry and a ground invasion.
[01:44:32]  And at the end of those 20 years, when we left, guess who came back into power?
[01:44:35]  The Taliban.
[01:44:36]  Why?
[01:44:37]  Because they cared much more than we did.
[01:44:39]  I mean, that's what really has screwed us.
[01:44:42]  That is the lesson that should have been learned over all these many years.
[01:44:47]  When you are attacking people's lives, when you're attacking a government, when you're threatening its existence, they will fight to the death.
[01:44:55]  And the American people are not bought in for this at all.
[01:44:58]  They are not willing to accept any of this pain.
[01:45:01]  Like the six service members who have already been killed in action is six too many.
[01:45:06]  No one, virtually no one outside of this small area and some people in the Iranian diaspora here are really excited and enthused and motivated to suffer in any sort of way for this.
[01:45:19]  And yet we can already see, I mean, Dr. Parsis said it, it is already spiraled out of control.
[01:45:24]  And to go back to Israel's motivation here with allegedly sending Mossad agents in to commit terror attacks, which is not confirmed, but I certainly don't put it past them.
[01:45:34]  The logic of that is that not only do they have an interest in just sowing chaos everywhere.
[01:45:39]  We're going to talk to Scott Horton about how they're now openly advertising like, yeah, Turkey's next, you know, after Iran, next threat is Turkey.
[01:45:45]  But also they want to, they want to create these false flag attacks so that the Gulf states are fully bought into the war too, that they also want to fully engage.
[01:45:56]  So that's what Israel is constantly pushing for us and for all of the GCC to be fully in to this war.
[01:46:03]  That is what serves their interest.
[01:46:04]  And so that is what they're trying to foment.
[01:46:06]  Right.
[01:46:06]  Put C4 up there on the screen just to highlight, again, the problem and why this has really diminished to the United States.
[01:46:12]  This is from the Middle East eye.
[01:46:13]  U.S. is stonewalling requests by Gulf states to replenish interceptors.
[01:46:17]  One Gulf state sought reassurances on U.S. commitment to air defense when discussing access to its bases.
[01:46:23]  Again, by the way, Qatar and the UAE highly dispute that original Bloomberg report.
[01:46:28]  They're like, we're fine.
[01:46:29]  We have plenty of interceptors.
[01:46:31]  Apparently, that's the new line.
[01:46:32]  Donald Trump actually put out a truth social in the middle of the night.

=== U.S. Defense Crisis (09:53) ===

[01:46:36]  Let me read it to you because this is actually one of the most unhinged dangerous things that he has said.
[01:46:40]  Maybe we'll add this in post.
[01:46:42]  The United States munition stockpiles have at the medium and upper grade never been higher or better.
[01:46:47]  Not true.
[01:46:47]  As we stated to me today, we have virtually unlimited supply of these weapons.
[01:46:51]  Not true.
[01:46:51]  Wars can be fought forever, very successfully.
[01:46:54]  Yes, but not with interceptors.
[01:46:56]  Maybe with dummy bombs, J-Dams, and some bullets.
[01:46:58]  But in that scenario, you're going to be taking a shitpot of casualties.
[01:47:02]  Wars can be fought forever using just these supplies.
[01:47:06]  At the highest end, we have good supply, but we are not where we want to be.
[01:47:10]  Much additional high-grade weaponry is stored for us in outlying countries.
[01:47:13]  That's the most dangerous part.
[01:47:15]  Why?
[01:47:15]  Because it means we have to go all in.
[01:47:17]  We don't have that many of these interceptors.
[01:47:19]  If we want to go all in, say goodbye to Taiwan.
[01:47:23]  Say goodbye to Ukraine if you care about those places.
[01:47:25]  Say goodbye to any place in the world, which may matter more than this tiny little country the size of New Jersey, which literally produces nothing called Israel.
[01:47:34]  And we are done.
[01:47:35]  That's it.
[01:47:36]  It's this guy burning some men from South Korea.
[01:47:39]  They got a stash in South Korea and they're throwing them under the bus.
[01:47:44]  That's really good for American foreign policy.
[01:47:47]  This guy is the whole umbrella of American protection around the world is just totally collapsing in real time.
[01:47:54]  Yes.
[01:47:55]  Look at how much truth.
[01:47:57]  Look at how much truth was coming out.
[01:47:58]  This is a mainstream broadcast.
[01:48:01]  And look at that.
[01:48:02]  It's devastating.
[01:48:03]  Everything they said was true.
[01:48:05]  100% accurate, Joaquim.
[01:48:08]  Yep.
[01:48:09]  What network is this?
[01:48:11]  What is it?
[01:48:13]  Ah, I'm not quick.
[01:48:15]  I think it's kind of like an independent stream.
[01:48:18]  I follow him.
[01:48:19]  But I'm going to have to start.
[01:48:20]  He's very good.
[01:48:22]  He loves his shit.
[01:48:23]  Definitely.
[01:48:24]  Yeah.
[01:48:25]  And they weren't mincing any words.
[01:48:27]  They weren't mincing any words.
[01:48:30]  Shitpot full of trouble.
[01:48:32]  Bah, bah, bah.
[01:48:33]  They were nailing it.
[01:48:34]  That's pretty refreshing.
[01:48:35]  Pretty refreshing to see the truth.
[01:48:37]  Oh, God.
[01:48:38]  Yes.
[01:48:38]  I was ecstatic.
[01:48:40]  Ecstatic.
[01:48:42]  And they didn't even get into the commanders using end time stories to motivate American troops.
[01:48:48]  And how lunatic is that?
[01:48:50]  How lunatic is that?
[01:48:53]  America, the empire.
[01:48:55]  I foresee, you know, the problem with the aircraft carrier and the shitty toilets overflowing and all that.
[01:49:03]  There's going to be a big morale problem throughout all the military services now.
[01:49:09]  Oh, yeah.
[01:49:10]  They're going on the other side, too.
[01:49:13]  Just like the whole world's basically turning against Israel and America and Europe.
[01:49:20]  Joaquim, that General Ford, that was sabotage.
[01:49:24]  That was sailors stuffing their undershirts into the toilets.
[01:49:28]  That was all deliberate because they didn't want to die for Israel.
[01:49:31]  And what the hell has happened to Abraham Lincoln?
[01:49:33]  It's just kind of disappeared off the screen.
[01:49:36]  They pulled it way back, Ross.
[01:49:38]  Were they in India?
[01:49:42]  I think it'll be sunk before this is all said and done.
[01:49:46]  Really do.
[01:49:48]  We could yeah, but you are with?
[01:49:50]  We are witnessing the collapse of the American empire in real time, in days, in days.
[01:49:57]  The entire American empire is collapsing before our very eyes.
[01:50:02]  Stunning, absolutely stunning, wow.
[01:50:07]  So the only thing that could kind of disrupt this is to all of a sudden bribe somebody in Iran to make peace, and that's what i'm worried about.
[01:50:17]  Not a chance, not a chance.
[01:50:21]  Well here, the economy is gonna tank, the economy is gonna tank and people are gonna be hurting so bad.
[01:50:30]  U.s economy, yes, going right down the toilet.
[01:50:34]  Western economy right down the toilet.
[01:50:39]  Yeah, Trump is toast.
[01:50:41]  Stick a fork in him.
[01:50:43]  He's done and he brought it on himself.
[01:50:47]  He brought it on himself.
[01:50:49]  This is all manipulation through net, Yahoo and all that.
[01:50:53]  This is.
[01:50:54]  This is the greatest calamity in American military history.
[01:50:58]  At least he's got golden curtains to talk about and that's, yeah, the gold curtains.
[01:51:03]  Tell us how he really likes gold.
[01:51:07]  Just a catastrophe.
[01:51:11]  Let's get a little more.
[01:51:12]  I like this guy.
[01:51:13]  He is over in terms of U.s geopolitical projections there.
[01:51:17]  Aren't they already talking about pulling a Fad battery from uh yeah, from South Korea?
[01:51:20]  South Korean state media right now?
[01:51:22]  Yeah look, anyone want to tell me what trading partner, South Korea, is compared to Israel in terms of its rank.
[01:51:27]  South Korea is one of the most developed economies in the entire world uh, one of the most important trading partners.
[01:51:33]  Ever heard of this little brand called Samsung or any of these other places, or you know?
[01:51:37]  Oh my god, I mean it could go on forever of its importance.
[01:51:39]  Not that anybody in the U.s apparently even gives a shit.
[01:51:42]  But yeah, Fad battery out of that against let's compare threats.
[01:51:47]  One state has one of the world's largest standing armies, a literal nuclear tipped icbm, capable of hitting the United States, and frequently launches missiles against South Korea and Japan, two top trading partners which are vitally important to the security of the Us.
[01:52:03]  That's called North Korea.
[01:52:04]  The other one is called Iran.
[01:52:05]  It has short range and medium range ballistic missiles.
[01:52:08]  It doesn't have a nuclear weapons program and Can't hit the United States.
[01:52:11]  And if we'd done a deal with them, pretty much wouldn't have met.
[01:52:14]  Which do you think is more important to defend against?
[01:52:16]  And has never started a war.
[01:52:18]  And has never started a war, or at least directly against the United States.
[01:52:21]  So, which do you think would you say is more important to defend?
[01:52:26]  But we're going to strip it from there.
[01:52:27]  That's just one example.
[01:52:29]  It's over.
[01:52:30]  I mean, let me read you my interceptor math because people really do not appreciate how dire all of this is.
[01:52:37]  I have the direct numbers.
[01:52:38]  These are from CSIS.
[01:52:39]  In the 12-day war, the U.S. fired 150 Thad interceptors to protect Israel.
[01:52:44]  That was 25% of the whole U.S. stockpile.
[01:52:46]  In the last 48 hours, we have fired, we don't really know probably, you know, several dozen at the very least.
[01:52:53]  In 2025, how many new interceptors do you think that we got?
[01:52:58]  My 73-year-old neighbor just cleared eight inches of snow in her pajamas with this weird piece of crap.
[01:53:03]  Well, they're trying to save the FAD for the 12 months.
[01:53:10]  It's not going to matter, Brussels.
[01:53:12]  It's too late.
[01:53:13]  The Thad can't stop the hypersonics.
[01:53:17]  There's no system that can stop the hypersonics.
[01:53:20]  10 times in the last two years.
[01:53:23]  So we've fired more than what?
[01:53:25]  Triple or sorry, quintiple in a second.
[01:53:33]  I said, Iran has not even fired off hardly any of their hypersonic because they don't need them yet.
[01:53:41]  Right.
[01:53:42]  They don't need them yet.
[01:53:44]  Best estimate they have.
[01:53:47]  Just keep the aircraft areas out of range and use them to specialize targets if they need them.
[01:53:53]  And just use the Santa is really an effective missile.
[01:53:57]  And they kind of penetrate.
[01:53:58]  Yes, it is.
[01:53:59]  Absolutely wonderful.
[01:54:00]  In 12 days, and we've acquired in a two-year period.
[01:54:03]  It's over.
[01:54:04]  They can't manufacture these things.
[01:54:05]  It costs millions of dollars.
[01:54:07]  The defense supply chain is screwed.
[01:54:08]  And for all the $2 trillion that we spend on this, you know, it's funny.
[01:54:12]  I was listening to the CSIS expert.
[01:54:13]  They go, the NPR person is like, but where does all the money go?
[01:54:16]  And he's like, well, most of the money is on TRICARE, which is like welfare for all of these services and healthcare programs and subsidies.
[01:54:23]  It doesn't actually go to a lot of the critical weapon systems, despite the fact that people have been warning about this for years.
[01:54:29]  By Trump's own admission, the Patriot missile battery, they say in there, the UAE and the Qatar, they were like, can we get more Patriots?
[01:54:36]  And they're like, oh, we gave them all to Ukraine.
[01:54:37]  Sorry.
[01:54:37]  They're all gone.
[01:54:38]  We literally gave them all away.
[01:54:40]  The Europeans, they can't give you anything.
[01:54:41]  They shipped it all already for the Eastern Donbass region.
[01:54:45]  This is bad.
[01:54:46]  And they're like, they're messing us up with those drones, too.
[01:54:49]  And I mean, that was one of the things Professor Zhang said yesterday: our military really was built for the Cold War.
[01:54:54]  He's right.
[01:54:54]  It was built for flexing.
[01:54:56]  It was built for performance of power.
[01:54:58]  And it really has not been, you know, reimagined for modern warfare.
[01:55:04]  And so, look, the Iranians learned from the 12-day wars, okay, we're going to shoot off our lower tech missiles and use these drones that can evade.
[01:55:14]  Some of them will evade your interceptors.
[01:55:17]  And we're going to bet that we can outlast you.
[01:55:20]  Now, let me tell you the other side.
[01:55:21]  The other side of that is that the U.S., look, they're bombing the hell out of Tehran right now.
[01:55:26]  Their goal is to destroy all of the missiles, destroy all of the missile launchers so that Iran can never make it to that point.
[01:55:33]  Iran is not capable of outlasting because their capabilities have been so severely degraded and destroyed.
[01:55:40]  And that is certainly a possibility.
[01:55:41]  That is the bet that they're making.
[01:55:43]  But look, already, already, what Iran has been able to do by saying, basically, fuck it.
[01:55:49]  We're throwing everything against the wall.
[01:55:52]  We are putting all our chips on the table.
[01:55:53]  We are all in the economic damage, the brand damage in the Gulf, the chaos, the attacks on the U.S. enemies.
[01:56:04]  Gentlemen, you are superb today, as usual.
[01:56:07]  I love it.
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