The Raw Deal (23 March 2026) with co-host Joe Olson
Jim Fetzer and Joe Olson analyze President Trump's "unhinged" ultimatum to Iran regarding the Strait of Hormuz, arguing that U.S. unreliability accelerates Gulf states' pivot toward Russia, China, and Tehran, potentially ending petrodollar dominance. They critique failed diplomatic efforts amidst conspiracy theories about 9/11 glacial till, Boston Marathon false flags, and manipulated Epstein files, while debating Newt Gingrich's lunatic canal proposal and the strategic collapse of American military bases in Qatar and Bahrain due to perceived Israeli aggression and U.S. political failures. [Automatically generated summary]
Well, this is Jim Fetzer, your host on the raw deal, right here on Revolution Radio, Studio B, joined by co-host Joel Olson.
We begin with Trump's threat giving Iran a 48-hour ultimatum, which I dare say has expired.
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We have breaking news tonight.
I don't normally come to you on a Sunday night, but this death or a Saturday night, but this definitely warrants it.
President Trump, just about two hours ago, announced an ultimatum to Iran.
Let me just pull this up to you.
This is on Truth Social here.
And listen, I'll just tell you right off the top, this is about as unhinged as it gets.
And this should alarm everyone.
This is what President Trump said about three hours ago now.
Actually, this is at 7.44 p.m. specific Eastern Standard Time when this was released.
And that's important.
President Trump writes, if Iran doesn't fully open without threat the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours from this exact point in time, the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various power plants, starting with the biggest one first.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
That weird way he ends all that.
Now, that is the reason why this is unhinged and should alarm every American, especially those who are supporting President Trump.
Already, as I've told you with a lot of clarity and detail, this was a war of choice that should never have been started, that had a golden bowl offering of a diplomatic solution before he gave the order that would have given him an enormous victory.
But instead of taking that, he took a course of action which has now resulted in the deaths of at least 13 Americans, 200 at least wounded.
Probably thousands of Iranians have been killed.
Who knows how many in Israel have been killed as a result of this war that started and others throughout the Middle East, all because he did not want to take a golden diplomatic victory.
We can only speculate why he decided to choose the war.
Whether it was to do something that Benjamin Etanyahu said, who can say?
But now then we see that that was an irrational decision and an unwise decision.
But now then here, he's threatening to open the Strait of Hormuz.
Let me show you why I say this by itself is unhinged.
Just barely an hour before he wrote this, he wrote this text here.
He says, the United States has blown Iran off the map.
And yet their lightweight analyst, they being the New York Times, David Sanger, says that I haven't met my own goals.
Yes, I have, and weeks ahead of schedule.
Their leadership is gone.
Their Navy and Air Force are dead.
They have absolutely no defense and they want to make a deal.
I don't.
We are weeks ahead of schedule.
Just like their incompetent election coverage of me, the failing New York Times always gets it wrong.
So number one, just on the surface of it, just as that stands right there, this is irrational.
What are you talking about that you have blown Iran off the map?
You have blown up a lot of things in a lot of buildings and killed a number of people, but they're hardly blown off the map as they continue to graphically demonstrate with their missile strikes and drone strikes throughout the Middle East, especially in Israel tonight.
More on that in just a second.
Well, just to confirm how irrational it is, meanwhile, the slain Larajani threat, namely that the entire Middle East will go dark.
Donald Trump's reckless power plant gamble against Iran now threatens to unleash chaos far beyond its borders.
In a dramatic ultimatum over the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. president has essentially told Iran to open the waterway on Washington's terms or face an all-out assault on its grid.
The warning once issued by slain Iranian security chief Ali Larajani now seems to be coming back to haunt Donald Trump.
Ali Larajani had chillingly cautioned that if Washington dared attack Iran's power grid, the entire region would go dark in minutes.
Despite Trump's bluster and talk of obliteration, it is Tehran that appears to hold the real switch.
Donald Trump has now openly threatened to obliterate Iran's power plants in response to Tehran's closure of the Strait of Hormuz, escalating the conflict from a naval standoff into a direct war on the country's civilian infrastructure.
On March 21st, the U.S. president issued a stark 48-hour deadline, demanding that Iran fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face devastating strikes, effectively turning one of the world's key energy arteries into a ticking time bomb.
This hard pivot to direct threats against Iran came after Trump first tried to shift responsibility onto nations who use the Strait of Hormuz, telling them to police and guard the route themselves while Washington pretended it did not need it.
Even before this ultimatum, Trump had already floated the idea of outright destroying Iran's power grid, hinting that the U.S. could target the country's electrical lifelines in a move that would amount to economic and humanitarian warfare.
Boasting to reporters, Trump claimed the U.S. military could take apart Iran's entire electric capacity within just one hour, suggesting a strike so severe it would cripple the country for decades and push the entire region toward catastrophe.
Trump said, and I quote, If Iran doesn't fully open, without threat, the Strait of Hormuz, within 48 hours from this exact point in time, the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various power plants, starting with the biggest one first.
And what's stunning about that is their biggest one is a nuclear power plant.
Meanwhile, we have Iran sending a message in response to Trump.
In a tightly structured 12-minute address, Ayatollah Iman Syed Motoya Khomeini, this is the son of the former Ayatollah.
Move from familiar rhetoric into something far more consequential.
The Oblina followed the expected script, revisiting decades of U.S. war-mongering rhetoric, sanctions, assassinations, regional conflicts.
But midway through, the tone shifted from retrospective to strategic.
Sayed Khamenei outlined three concrete demands, each with a divine timeline.
A rapid U.S. military withdrawal from the Middle East, a full rollback of sanctions within 60 days, and long-term financial compensation for economic damage.
Then came the Iranian ultimate failed to comply, and Iran escalates economically, militarily, and potentially nuclear, not hypothetically, but operationally, closing the Strait of Hormuz, formalizing defense ties with Russia and China, and moving from ambiguity to declared nuclear deterrence.
The timing of the external reaction with justice telling without within hours, both Beijing and Moscow issued statements aligning carefully but unmistakably with Tehran's framing.
This definitely looks coordinated.
Trump now, somehow coming to his senses, has ordered a halt all strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure as end to conflict.
President Donald Trump said Monday, that's today.
He put plans to attack Iran's energy infrastructure on hold amid productive conversations, which, by the way, Iran denies are taking place.
I am pleased to report the United States of America and the country of Iran have over the last two days very good and productive conversations regarding a complete and total resolution of our hostilities in the Middle East.
He posted in an all caps a message on Truth Social.
Based on the tenor and tone of these in-depth, detailed and constructive conversations, which will continue throughout the week, I've instructed the Department of War to postpone any and all military strikes against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure for a five-day period.
Trump added, the delay in attacking energy facilities was subject to the success of the ongoing meetings and discussions, as noted in the Times of Israel.
Trump said Monday, today, major points of agreement have been reached in talks that began Sunday at Iran's request.
Joe, I got to ask for your thoughts about all of the above.
This is a rather fascinating development.
What do you make of it?
Yeah, that was a pretty funny backdown.
At the very end of 48 hours, he said, well, I'll give you another five days because the productive conversations when there are absolutely no productive conversations, those are all occurring inside this schizophrenic brain of his.
The man is just absolutely deranged.
But I did want to mention one additional thing.
There's a group that operates out of Washington, D.C. called Truth Action Project, TAP, and they were formed shortly after 9-11.
And they've been having weekly meetings forever.
And they're the ones that sponsored the 24th ceremony in Washington, D.C., where they had a three-day lineup and they end up postponing the first day because of Charlie Kirk.
Anyhow, last Tuesday, they had a Canadian journalist named Craig McKee, and he was talking about the Pentagon.
And I can't believe here's a group that's been around for that long, and they're still arguing whether there were planes or no planes, and whether there was directed energy weapons or no energy weapons.
Absolute 100% crap.
So I've been threatening to do some more research on the foundations for the Twin Towers.
And guess what?
They had 104 concrete piles around each one of those towers, and the depths varied from 197 to 374.
Likely the traditional structural engineering, the uniform Geology underneath those buildings of being bedrock.
The deeper ones, the 374, are on the perimeter where your perimeter loads from wind would be more prevalent, and the 197s are around the center where the corridor is.
But bottom line is, there's no way you drilled through a 150-foot-deep glacial till full of silt and rock and just said, Oh, well, we'll pretend that's not here.
That absolutely did not happen.
So, the bullshit story about after they dug all the stuff out of the building, they found a glacial till, that's absolutely 100% wrong that it was a glacially caused melt in that rock.
Absolute 100% disinformation bullshit.
I can't wait till we get a better forum to be able to explain this stuff, but we're way overdue.
25 years.
And every one of these wars in the Middle East is all hinged off of what happened at 9-11.
Yeah, absolutely true.
Now, it appears to me Trump has come to his senses because if all the power plants are taken out in the Gulf Coast countries, oil production is dead, six months to a year minimally, the world's going to go into economic collapse.
I think somehow somebody with a bit of sense got through to Trump that this was a really, really bad idea.
And now he's claiming during conversations.
I mean, I would be delirious if that were the case, but from all indications I can tell, Iran is not interested in a ceasefire until the United States accedes to its demands, which you just here heard: withdrawal of all military forces, removal of sanctions on Iran in compensation for the destruction retail about those demands in Iran's position.
Well, if they take out the 85% of desalinated water that is used to support Israel, there will be no Israel.
They take out the power, there will be no Israel.
What we're going to see is within a week's period of time, the largest exodus that, and that was funny that they named the musical exodus over that, out of Israel that could possibly be imagined.
They'll appropriate every cruise ship on the planet and bring them over there because you can't bring water in fast enough.
You're going to be taking the people out.
And once you don't have water, then you have no way of doing fire control.
So the whole system will 100% collapse.
No electricity.
You got no electric pumping stations.
Your fire trucks don't have any diesel fuel, so they can't operate their pumps.
The whole system will collapse, and it will be just like Gaza.
So we will have a Jewish-free Israel, I mean, Jewish-free Palestine in the very near future.
Yeah, I think things are getting very, very serious.
S-400 Radar Threatens Israel00:08:08
Here you have Russia just giving the S-400 to Iran.
This is so telling.
Listen to the explanation here, Joe.
48 hours ago, a convoy of 14 Russian Antonov on-100-124 heavy transport aircraft landed at Isfahan Shahid Babaye airbase in central Iran.
The flights originated from Hamamim Air Base in Syria in Chikolovsky military airfield near Moscow.
They flew a route that avoided NATO airspace entirely, crossing over the Caspian Sea before descending into Iranian territory.
Each aircraft carried components too large and too heavy for any other transport plane on Earth.
The cargo was unmistakable to every intelligence agency watching.
Russia had just delivered the S-400 Triumph air defense system to Iran, the most advanced surface-to-air missile system ever exported by the Russian Federation.
The system that NATO spent two decades trying to prevent from reaching the Middle East.
And with its arrival on Iranian soil, the air war over Iran changed overnight.
Because the S-400 does not just shoot down aircraft, it sees them.
It tracks them.
It follows every movement of every aircraft within a 600-kilometer radius, including aircraft that were designed to be invisible, including the F-35.
Let me tell you exactly what the S-400 is, because understanding this weapon system is understanding why Israel, the United States, and every Western Air Force just lost their most important advantage in this war.
The S-400 Triumph, NATO designation SA-21 Growler, is Russia's premier long-range air defense system.
It was designed to detect, track, and destroy aircraft, cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, and hypersonic targets at ranges of up to 400 kilometers.
That 400 kilometer range is where the system gets its name.
But the range of its missiles is only part of the story.
The real power of the S-400 lies in its radar.
The system uses multiple radar arrays working in coordination.
The 91N6E Big Bird Acquisition Radar can detect airborne targets at ranges exceeding 600 kilometers.
That means an S-400 battery positioned in central Iran can see aircraft taking off from bases in Israel, from aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf, from airfields in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE.
It does not need to wait for those aircraft to approach Iranian airspace.
It sees them the moment they leave the ground.
The 92N6E Gravestone Engagement Radar provides precision tracking at ranges up to 400 kilometers, feeding targeting data to the system's missiles with a level of accuracy that allows interception of targets as small as a cruise missile traveling at treetop altitude.
But here is the capability that has Israeli and American military planners most concerned.
The S-400's radar is specifically designed to detect low-observable aircraft.
Low-observable is the technical term for stealth.
The F-35 Lightning II, the most expensive weapons program in human history at a total program cost exceeding $1.7 trillion, was built around one fundamental promise.
It cannot be seen by enemy radar.
The F-35's radar cross-section is classified, but publicly available estimates suggest it is approximately 0.01 to 0.05 square meters when viewed from the front.
That is roughly the radar signature of a golf ball.
Against older radar systems, the S-300 variants that Iran previously operated, this level of stealth was sufficient.
The F-35 could penetrate Iranian airspace, strike its targets, and leave before Iranian radars could establish a reliable track.
The S-400 changes that equation.
Its radar operates across multiple frequency bands simultaneously, including low-frequency L-band and VHF band radars that are significantly more effective at detecting stealth aircraft.
A stealth aircraft is not truly invisible.
It is optimized to defeat specific radar frequencies, primarily the X-band and S-band frequencies used by most fire control radars, against those frequencies.
The F-35 is nearly undetectable.
Against the lower frequencies employed by the S-400's acquisition radars, the F-35's stealth advantage is significantly reduced.
It does not disappear entirely, but it shrinks from invisible to detectable, from a ghost to a shadow, and a shadow is enough.
Let me give you the specific configuration that Russia delivered, because the details matter.
According to intelligence assessments compiled from satellite imagery, flight tracking data, and regional sources, Russia delivered four complete S-400 battalions to Iran.
Each battalion consists of eight launcher vehicles, each carrying four missile canisters.
That is 32 launchers per battalion, 128 launchers total, with a combined loadout of up to 512 missiles ready to fire.
The missiles themselves come in four variants.
The 48N6E3 with a range of 250 kilometers.
The 40N6E with a range of 400 kilometers, the longest range surface-to-air missile ever deployed operationally, the 9M96E2 medium-range interceptor, and the 9M96E short-range interceptor for close in defense.
This is not a single weapon.
It is a layered air defense network in a box.
It can engage targets at 400 kilometers and still defend itself against aircraft that somehow get within 40 kilometers.
It can track and engage up to 80 targets simultaneously per battalion.
Four battalions means the system can theoretically engage 320 airborne targets at the same time.
Now let me tell you where Iran is positioning these systems because placement determines everything.
According to satellite imagery analyzed by multiple open source intelligence organizations, two battalions are being deployed around Tehran, protecting the capital and the nearby Parchin military complex, which Western intelligence agencies believe is connected to Iran's nuclear program.
One battalion is being deployed near Isfahan, protecting Iran's uranium enrichment facilities at Natans, which are located approximately 70 kilometers to the northeast.
The fourth battalion is being positioned near Busheir, protecting Iran's only operational nuclear power plant and the nearby Karg Island oil export terminal.
Look at those locations on a map, and the strategy becomes immediately clear.
Iran is not using the S-400 to protect its borders.
It is using the S-400 to protect the assets that matter most.
Its nuclear facilities, its capital, its oil export infrastructure.
These are the targets that Israel has been striking with F-35s for the past nine days.
These are the targets that the United States has been hitting with B-2 bombers and cruise missiles.
Iran just put the most advanced air defense system in the world directly between those targets and the aircraft trying to destroy them.
Let me explain what this means for Israeli air operations, because the operational impact is immediate and severe.
Well, before the S-400 arrived, Israeli F-35s operated over Iran with relative impunity.
They faced older S-300 PMU-2 systems that could be jammed, spoofed, or simply avoided by flying at the right altitude and angle.
Israeli electronic warfare capabilities, among the most advanced in the world, could suppress Iranian radars long enough for strike aircraft to complete their missions.
The S-400 is a fundamentally different challenge.
Its radar is designed to resist electronic jamming.
It operates on multiple frequencies simultaneously, so jamming one frequency does not blind the system.
It has dedicated anti-jamming processing that can identify and filter out electronic interference.
Israeli electronic warfare pods, which were effective against the S-300, may not be effective against the S-400.
That is not a certainty.
It is a possibility.
But in military aviation, a possibility that your jamming might not work is enough to change every mission plan, every flight path, every risk calculation.
Here are the numbers that quantify the impact.
Since Operation True Promise 4 began, Israel has conducted an average of 78 airstrikes per day on Iranian territory.
The majority of deep strike missions, those targeting Tehran, Isfahan, and other high-value facilities, have been conducted by F-35I Adir aircraft.
Before the S-400 deployment, Israel lost zero F-35s to Iranian air defenses.
Zero.
The S-300 systems Iran operated could not reliably track them, let alone shoot them down.
Within the first 24 hours of the S-400 becoming operational, Israeli air activity over central Iran dropped by approximately 40%, according to flight tracking analysis.
That is not because Israel chose to reduce operations.
It is because every mission into S-400 coverage zones now carries a risk that did not exist 48 hours ago.
Betrayal and New Capabilities00:03:46
I think this is sensational, Joe.
You know, I had mistakenly presumed that Russia had given Iran the S-400 before this whole war began, but it turns out it's only now that they're getting the S-400, and it's going to make a huge difference.
Your thoughts?
Well, apparently the Iranians have developed STEP prior to that because they've also taken out several F-35s and several F-16s.
So bottom line is they've been able to adapt prior to getting this upgrade from the Russians, and I've also read reports where there's S-500s that are being delivered as well.
Let's get into why this is such a horrible war.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, who had been a Trump supporter for six years, 100%, resigned her office in January because of the direction that Trump had been obviously going when he attacked Iran back on June Friday the 13th for the 12-day war.
And so she did a, she's got her own website now where she does a daily about 10-minute long presentation.
On Thursday, the 19th, she did one on who opposes the war.
And behind closed doors, Vance and Tulsi Gabbard are both very opposed to the war, but in public, they're fence walking saying, well, you know, it's up to the president.
It's all the presidents.
Like, I'm sorry, Vance, you've blown any chance you ever had for being the candidate in 28.
And I'm sorry, Tulsi, you've blown your chance to be a candidate in any political election going forward because you're absolutely spineless.
And throwing Joe Ken under the bus is even worse.
And so I watched Marjorie lay it out.
And I got to tell you, I'm not surprised by Vance, but I'm astonished and disappointed in Tulsi.
She was even putting out products, you know, like t-shirts, no war with Iran.
She's been dedicated in opposition to the war.
And now she's basically silent as a clam.
I'm embarrassed about this.
I've been a huge Tulsi supporter.
And this, to me, reeks of betrayal.
I don't know what else to say.
Your thoughts?
Yes, she was Hawaii National Guard from 2003 until 2020, 2020.
And she had several deployments over there in the Middle East.
So she knew what was going on.
She was very much anti-war.
In 2020, she resigned her Hawaiian commission and then joined the U.S. Army Reserves, where she's now a lieutenant colonel.
So she's been in a command situation for a long time.
She's been in charge of all of the intelligence agencies as the NSA director.
And you should have seen her testimony last week in Congress.
It is absolutely pitiful.
She just filibustered every time that somebody tried to pin her down on a yes or no question.
It was like, it's up to the president.
We'll go.
Fine.
Throw the president under the bus.
Well, thank you.
Thank you.
We'll be right back.
We'll be right back after this message.
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IMI Factory Destroyed in Strike00:14:57
Another extremely important development occurs here where Iran has just taken out Israel's IMI factory.
This produces the most important military components to sustain the Israeli offensive.
So listen to this.
It's very telling.
March 14th, 2026, 3.17 a.m. local time.
Residents in Ramat, Hasharan, a wealthy suburb just north of Tel Aviv, woke to a sound they had never heard before.
Not the familiar wail of air raid sirens, not the distant boom of interceptors engaging targets overhead.
This was different.
A sharp, violent crack that rattled windows across the city, followed immediately by a shockwave that set off car alarms for kilometers in every direction.
Then, the explosions, multiple impacts within seconds of each other, massive fireballs, erupting from what locals knew as the restricted industrial zone on the eastern edge of town, the facility that everyone understood was important, but nobody talked about publicly.
Israel Military Industries, IMI, the largest weapons production complex in Israel, and it was burning.
Iran just announced that four FATA-2 hypersonic missiles struck the facility with precision.
The Israeli government has not denied it.
Let me tell you exactly what just happened and why this single strike may have done more damage to Israel's military capability than the last thousand missile attacks combined.
The IMI complex in Ramat Hashran is the industrial backbone of Israel's entire defense apparatus.
This facility produces approximately 30% of all ammunition used by the Israeli defense forces.
It manufactures critical components for the Merkava main battle tank, guidance systems for precision munitions, and propellant for aero-interceptor missiles.
The facility employs over 3,000 workers across multiple production lines running 24 hours per day.
The replacement value, somewhere north of $4 billion, and that is just the physical infrastructure.
The intellectual capital, the specialized workforce, the proprietary manufacturing processes cannot be replaced quickly.
Iran just struck the one target in Israel that directly degrades Israeli military capability, not by destroying weapons already built, but by preventing weapons from being built in the future.
Let me explain what a FATA-2 hypersonic missile actually is.
The FATA-2 is Iran's most advanced ballistic missile.
The name FATA means conqueror in Arabic.
This missile has a range of approximately 1,400 kilometers, more than enough to reach any point in Israel from Iranian territory.
It uses a two-stage solid-fuel propulsion system, meaning it can be launched within minutes with no vulnerable preparation time.
The FATA-2 reaches speeds exceeding Mach 13 during its mid-course phase.
That is over 16,000 kilometers per hour.
The missile crosses the distance from Tehran to Tel Aviv in Aiz approximately 12 minutes.
The final approach phase is where it becomes truly terrifying.
The warhead separates and begins a hypersonic glide.
It is maneuverable, adjusting its trajectory during descent.
It does not follow a predictable ballistic arc, and it impacts at speeds between Mach 8 and Mach 10.
At those velocities, even a near miss from an interceptor may not destroy the incoming warhead.
Iran claims they fired four FATA-2 missiles at the IMI complex.
Satellite thermal imaging.
From commercial providers, confirms at least three major impact sites within the facility perimeter.
That means at minimum, 75% of the missiles reached their targets.
Israel's Aero-3 and David's Sling systems, the ones specifically designed to intercept this class of threat, either did not engage or failed to achieve kills.
Here is why.
The Arrow system was built to counter ballistic missiles following predictable trajectories, calculate the launch point, predict the apex, position the interceptor, and destroy the target during its vulnerable mid-course phase when it is traveling in a straight line at constant velocity.
The FATA-2 does not cooperate with those assumptions.
Its trajectory is not predictable.
Its velocity is too high for intercept geometry to work reliably.
And its terminal phase maneuvering means even if you get close, close is not good enough.
You need a direct hit or near-simultaneous detonation.
The Arrow interceptor costs approximately $3 million per shot.
Reports suggest Israel fired at least six interceptors at the incoming FATA-2 salvo.
That is $18 million in defensive expenditure.
The result?
Three impacts on target.
$18 million spent.
$4 billion in damage sustained.
The mathematics do not favor the defender.
Now, let me walk you through what the IMI facility actually produces, and why losing it matters strategically.
Start with ammunition.
The facility manufactures 100 meter artillery shells, the primary munition for Israel's M109 self-propelled howitzers and tote artillery.
Pieces.
Israel has been firing these shells at rates exceeding 10,000 rounds per month during sustained operations.
IMI produced approximately 40% of Israel's domestic artillery ammunition supply.
That production line is now offline.
Israel will need to rely entirely on imports from the United States and emergency purchases from other suppliers.
But American artillery ammunition is also constrained.
The U.S. has been supplying Ukraine at rates that have depleted American stockpiles significantly.
There is not unlimited surplus available to backfill Israeli losses.
Next, tank components.
IMI manufactures armor packages, fire control systems, and transmission assemblies for the Merkava tank.
Israel operates approximately 2,600 Merkava tanks across all variants.
These vehicles require constant maintenance, part replacement, and upgrades.
Without IMI production, that sustainment pipeline just got choked.
Israel can still operate its existing tank fleet.
But combat losses cannot be replaced.
Damaged vehicles cannot be fully repaired, and planned upgrades to install active protection systems on older Merkava variants will be delayed or canceled.
Then there are the precision munitions.
IMI assembles guidance kits that convert unguided bombs into precision weapons.
The Israeli Air Force has been using these extensively.
Each strike requires multiple precision munitions to ensure target destruction while minimizing collateral damage.
Losing domestic production means Israel becomes entirely dependent on American supply of JDM kits and other guidance packages.
That dependency is a strategic vulnerability because American supply comes with American oversight and potential restrictions.
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Brilliant stuff, in my opinion, Joe, and devastating for the Israeli war effort on both counts.
The S-400 and the hitting of this IMI plant.
Your thoughts about it, Joe.
Yeah, well, they're sending Marine expeditional units over to the area, and I don't think they're there to be able to attack Hormuz or Kirk or any of the other things.
I think they're there to expedite the people that are already stranded.
We have 2,500 U.S. personnel that are in Iraq that are being trying to exfiltrate them out.
And then in the total Mideast, we have over 50,000 U.S. forces.
So we need to get all of those people and all the diplomats and all of the corporate directors that are in those areas out.
And that's what the Marines are going to be doing.
They're not going to be conducting any battle against Iraq because Iraq has already won this.
I mean, Iran has already won this 100%.
But I want to go to one other little thing.
They keep mentioning Iwo Jima and how tough the Marines were.
There is a great website called Tales of American Empire.
They've got about 150 episodes up at this point.
They did one called America Bomb Japan After the Nuclear Bombings.
And in this particular segment, which is about 20 minutes long, they explain that MacArthur was given five different unconditional surrenders by Japan as of January 1st, 1945.
But he didn't want to do that because they wanted to keep the war machine going.
So Iwo Jima was February 19th to March 26th.
America had 26,000 casualties.
Okinawa was April 1st to June 22nd.
There was 50,000 U.S. casualties.
In Okinawa, there's 94,000 Japanese casualties and 150,000 citizens that were killed in Okinawa.
And we could have avoided all of that if we'd have taken the Nimitz plan.
After Midway, we had complete control of the Central Pacific.
Nimit and MacArthur were invited to the White House.
FDR said, what is your plan for being able to end this war?
And Nimitz said, well, we need to go forward and take over Wake and uh Iwo Jima, and then we'll have airports and be able to strike and control the whole Central Pacific and we'll destroy all their supply lines and we'll have Japan defeated in six months.
And FDR said, Well, what's your plan?
MacArthur says, Oh, we need to start down in New Guinea and island hop all the way up to Japan.
It'll take us three years.
And FDR says, I like it, uh, MacArthur's plan because that's exactly what it is.
It's once you get one of these wars started, you do everything you can to prolong the length of the war and the amount of grift that is gone on by the MIC industrial complex.
Absolutely.
Yeah, but Joe, Joe, with regard to Iran, you can't play that game.
I know it is because the world economy is going to collapse in short order.
So I think Trump, you're suggesting these Marines are there to help get Americans out of the Middle East.
That's what you're suggesting, if I understood you.
Yes, and every general and admiral is always fighting the last World War.
So that's why they had the Maginot Line and battleships to start World War II with, and both of those were ineffective.
And that's why we have aircraft carriers now, because that's what won World War II.
And they projected they'll be able to do that.
They're absolutely floating piñatas.
Absolutely ridiculous.
Well, you know, my very next story is just what you're already talking about.
Desperate Trump sends more troops and Mole's ground invasion of Iran.
He can't do a ground invasion of Iran.
They're waiting for us.
I mean, they got a million men.
We got a few thousand.
It would be a slaughter, Joe.
I mean, this is just insane.
I'm hoping he's going to come to his senses.
Meanwhile, you have who, the World Health Organization, admitting they're preparing for a possible nuclear use on Iran.
And listen, Colonel McGregor in a different interview has just observed that if Israel nukes Iran, he believes Israel itself will be nuked.
That there are a lot of powers with nuclear weapons that aren't going to stand for it.
So I'm hoping that, in fact, Net Yahoo, if he's alive, and I'm not at all convinced that he remains alive, or whoever is in charge will recognize that that's really not a wise thing to do, but there are no guarantees.
Honestly, it's nip and tuck in my judgment as to whether Israel is going to resort to nukes against Iran.
Your thoughts, your thoughts.
Well, the problem with nuclear weapons is that the fallout always drifts to the east because that's the way the prevailing winds are.
So that means it's going to spread fallout all across Pakistan and ultimately.
It's the rotation of the earth, Joe.
It's not a preventive wind.
Yeah, yeah.
And so, you know, Israel might think they're going to get away with this, but when you're radioactive dust is falling down on Pakistan, they've got nuclear weapons and the capability of hitting Israel.
China certainly has the capability.
That's not even going to be necessary because you knock out the water and the power, and there is no more Israel, regardless of whether they got nuclear weapons or not.
Yes.
All good, Joe.
All good stuff.
Meanwhile, Iran sank a U.S. supply ship.
Get this, Joe.
I love this.
Iran sank a U.S. supply ship In the Red Sea, 30,000 interceptors were lost in 20 minutes.
That was on Truthseeker.
They've taken it down because it's so devastating.
30,000 interceptors.
Plus, of course, you know, Rand now had fired at Diego Garcia, which is 4,000 kilometers.
There's been a past belief that Rand's range was limited to 2,000.
No, it's actually double that.
Plus, they have an underwater drone that'll be the nightmare of the U.S. Army.
Here, Winter Watch reporting on it.
Iranian Asdar underwater drone will be the nightmare of the U.S. Navy.
Lithium-powered, it can travel silently at 18 to 25 knots for up to four days.
Adzar going swarming at the search for targets and honing using AI algorithms.
Once the Navy, the U.S. Navy, is close to the Strait of Hormos, they can be released.
And I think he's got it right.
I think Russ has got a riot.
It's going to be a catastrophe.
Here's a video going along with this.
Iran's underwater drone army just caught Washington off guard.
Something unusual is happening in the Persian Gulf, and it didn't begin with missiles or fighter jets.
Iran has revealed a warship that works like a floating drone base, carrying drones and helicopters that can strike without warning.
This single platform can confuse radars, distract patrols, and force even the world's strongest navies to waste time and millions just trying to track it.
When linked with fast attack boats, missile ships, and stealth submarines, it creates a web of threats that's hard to see and even harder to stop.
This isn't just another ship joining the sea.
It's a signal that old naval rules are breaking and unmanned.
Surprise-based warfare is quietly taking control of the oceans.
Yeah, good stuff.
Good stuff, Joe.
I think that's, as described, a nightmare for the U.S. Navy.
I think they're wise enough really not to want to engage with Iran.
False Flag at Barksdale Air00:05:47
But I mean, if Trump is still whacked out and there are now open discussions about Trump being unhinged with these decisions, for example, making that 48-hour demand for Iran, which it's already rebuffed, I think there's got to be something brewing to get the guy out of office, Joe.
How can you allow this to happen?
You got someone.
This may be one of the problems with him having appointed so many loyalists of the cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment.
The vice president, I think, has to take the initiative.
He should take the initiative, but I dare say he won't.
Your thoughts?
Well, they certainly would have a problem getting him impeached.
And then I don't know how you do the 25th Amendment.
I don't remember the exact, it's the cabinet that removes him on the 25th Amendment, correct?
Yeah, well, it's got to be a vote of the cabinet, right?
Right.
I don't know, but bottom line is he's not going to be able to lose too many more battles before the tide is 100% turned against him.
Because this war was 80% disapproval when it started, and it hasn't improved at all.
And nothing he's been doing in the way of his goofy battle plan is going to change the metric on that.
So when you start off and you only have 80% approval, I mean, only have 20% approval, then anything you lose from there is going to be absolutely devastating.
So there's no way that the news media is going to be able to prop him up.
There's no way the amount of censorship that's pro-IDF is going to be able to prop him up.
This man is in absolute free fall, and I think he knows it.
And that's why he's behaving so erratically because he keeps thinking there's some magic button he can push and he'll be able to escape the trap that he's put himself in.
But this is 100% his doing.
He's isolated himself.
He's a semi-literate.
He's a big bully.
And he's trying his best to hide the Epstein files that will expose him for being an even more of a moral deficit than anybody knew presently.
And so bottom line is, yeah, he's grasping at straws.
Listen, this is the oddest of all the stories here.
Very, very, very strange.
I want to know what you make of this.
We have a report that there's been a sophisticated drone attack on Louisiana's Barksdale bomber base.
They have B-52s there and other sophisticated weapons.
This is the strangest damn thing, Joe.
Listen to this.
Barksdale Air Base in Louisiana, Bossier Parish, not far from Shreveport, was attacked by drone swarms during the week of March 9th.
The attack disrupted B-52 aircraft launches in support of Operation Epic Fury against Japan.
It's the first time a U.S. air base was temporarily put out of operation wartime.
Something that ever happened even in World War II.
Each wave forced the Air Force to halt operations and send it personnel to shelters.
Barksdale is a command hub of the U.S. Air Force Global Strike Command.
Not only are B-52s based there, but the base at Bar of America's nuclear triad.
It shelters long-range nuclear cruise missiles such as AGM-86B and will soon house a new long-range standoff cruise missile.
Shelters and stories say for the new missiles are under construction.
Now, listen to this.
The drone wave lasts around four hours each day, an extraordinarily long time for a drone.
It is not known if the drones were fixed wings or quadril copter type, meaning, you know, four props, or how they were powered, liquid fuel or electric.
Each were consisting of 12 to 15 drones.
They flew with their lights on, intentionally making them visible.
Barksdale does not have air defenses, nor does fighter jets that can take down drones.
What the F, Joe?
What in the world?
I haven't heard anything about this before other than this story.
How can you have a drone attack on Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana to not be front page news all over the world?
Your thoughts?
Well, likely they were cruise-type drones with wings instead of having the rotary type because those can't stay airborne for that period of time.
But yeah, this is what happens when you have a fifth column.
And you also have a very active false flag community here in the United States, same ones that pulled off 9-11.
So there was the missile attacks on Diego Garcia, and those are speculated to have been launched, two different missiles launched there by Israeli submarines that were in the Gulf of Amman.
So probably If this is happening, it's probably a false flag by one of our friendlies.
A false flag.
Allies Partner with Iran00:04:02
Damn peculiar is all hell, Joe.
I mean, where in the world does this come from?
You know, I'm just kind of floored by it.
What do we got?
All right.
Meanwhile, Hal Turner op-ed.
Hal Turner seemed to me to be a really smart guy.
Here's what he's saying: the United States just lost the entire Middle East.
The U.S. dollar is done, but nobody's talking about it.
Let me.
While everyone is watching the bombs fall in Iran, something far more dangerous just happened behind closed doors.
Reuters confirmed Gulf states are now reassessing their security dependence on Washington and actively considering new regional security arrangements with Iran.
Let that sink in.
The countries America swore to protect are now planning to partner with a country America is currently bombing.
Gulf State realized the U.S. cannot protect their oil, gas, and sovereignty during wartime.
The cost of the Gulf economy is described as staggering.
Saudi Arabia's Gulf Research Center says the U.S. failed to secure a single guarantee for its allies.
They're now accelerating diversification of all security partnerships away from Washington.
The U.S. has had military bases in the Gulf since 1991.
35 years of protection gone.
America's entire Middle East strategy depends on Gulf cooperation.
If the Gulf pivots to Iran, Russia, and China, U.S. dollar dominance in oil is finished.
And once a dollar is no longer the means of buying and selling oil, the dollar itself is finished.
The media is showing you missile strikes and aircraft carriers.
They're not showing you America's closest allies quietly walking out the back door.
Here's how this ends, step by step.
One, Gulf State signed bilateral security deals with China and Russia already in progress.
Two, Saudi Arabia starts accepting the won for oil.
The petrodollar dies.
Three, U.S. military bases in Qatar, Bahrain, UAE are reviewed.
Diplomatic language for eviction.
Four, Iran gets rehabilitated as a regional partner instead of an enemy.
Five, America loses its grip on the most energy-rich region on earth permanently.
You don't reassess security dependence on your protector when you feel safe.
You reassess when your protector just started a war on your doorstep without asking you.
And you only talk to the enemy when you've already decided your protector is a bigger threat.
Trump wanted to project strength.
Instead, he provided to every Gulf nation that he proved to every Gulf nation America's non-reliable partner who will torch the entire region for its own agenda.
And they recognize that agenda is to protect Israel at all costs.
The Gulf isn't diversifying.
They're building an exit plan.
And once that door opens, it cannot be closed.
Prepare accordingly.
America Becomes Unreliable00:03:30
Joe, I think he's got it exactly right.
Your thoughts.
Yeah, well, we've also asset-stripped all of our other allies throughout the world.
We've taken every available missile defense system out of Europe in order to fight a war in Ukraine.
And now we've taken all of the defense systems that are available out of Taiwan, Korea, and Japan so that we could ship those over and fight Iran.
And it's like every bit of this is completely stupid.
We're going to never have control over a whole ever again.
Go ahead, Joe.
Go ahead.
Okay.
And so, what's going to happen is that they're going to start charging and preventing me for us to get any forces out of the Middle East.
That's going to completely be what Metro Company break.
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Moscow's Support for Tehran00:06:58
Well, Joe, there are more stories, but they're all very bad for the U.S. and they're all very good for Iran.
I don't think that Iran is any question as to who has prevailed here.
And get this, get this, Joe, this is so colossally stupid.
I wouldn't have thought even the IDF would do this.
IDF threats the elimination of Russian leaders who wish Israel ill.
Israel's veiled threat to Moscow came just after Russian media warned traffic cameras in Moscow were vulnerable to the same exploits Israel reportedly used to monitor Ayatollah Khamenei's residents before assassinating him.
And of course, Joe, as you well know, the Ayatollah had issued a fat law against Iran acquiring nuclear weapons.
And that was the greatest guarantee that Iran could not pose a nuclear threat to Israel or any other nation.
And the first thing they do is take him out.
That shows the whole thing was horseshit, that it had nothing to do with a phony nuclear program.
It had to do with Israel wanting to eliminate its competitor for influence in the Middle East.
Israel wants to control it all.
Israeli military spokeswoman Anna Yukova has drawn outrage in Moscow after threatening Russian authorities who wish Israel ill could be subject to elimination while suggesting Israel could hack into Russian closed-circuit television cameras to identify and track targets.
Asked by a journalist with Russian radio broadcaster RBC whether Israel had access to Russian traffic cameras, Yuklova declined to answer directly.
Of course, the answer is yes, but warned that Khomeini's elimination shows our capabilities are serious and that no one who wishes us harm will be left aside.
She added, ominously, I hope Moscow does not wish Israel ill right now.
I'd like to believe that.
In response to a post by Russian philosopher Alexander Dugan, who wrote that the IDF spokesman threatened Russian authorities will be killed if they take an anti-Israel position.
Yukova claimed Dugan was spreading fake news, but she declined to clarify her remarks, how her remarks had been incorrectly interpreted.
Joe, this is absurd.
There was nothing incorrect about the interpretation.
They were obviously threatening to assassinate Vladimir Putin or anyone else.
Were they mildly critical of Israel?
It's outrageous.
Your thoughts.
Yeah, well, they're also threatening Tucker Carlson, Owen, I mean, Candace Owens, and they put a million-dollar bounty on Professor Mirande, the Syed, S-E-Y-E-D, M-A-R-A-N-D-I.
He's the professor that is in Tehran, and he's given daily reports about what's going on.
He's a really well-balanced, really well-educated, really articulate spokesman.
But unfortunately, he's not a Zionist, so he's on their hit list.
So that's the way these mobsters operate.
Don't forget, Israel was founded by criminal syndicates, and it's been run by a criminal syndicate ever since.
So this is not a nation that we need to consider calling an ally because they're nobody's ally.
They are 100% Israel over everybody else on the planet.
They are the master race.
And there's nothing that they did that the Nazis didn't do.
And I'm always questioning people is: what part of Nazi can you not see?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
All pretty damn disturbing stuff, Joe.
Really, truly.
But this even for the IDF, I think this was really stupid to threaten Russian leaders.
Here we have then, as though it were a response, Putin tells Tehran, Russia stands by Iran.
And of course, giving them the 400, and that was a barter, Joe.
That wasn't for cash.
The system worth about 2 billion, as was explained there.
But it was done for barter.
They got drones from Iran that they're going to use against Ukraine and other benefits.
Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Iranian leaders and Nora's and said Moscow remained a loyal, friend, and reliable partner to Tehran, the Kremlin said on Saturday.
The extent of Moscow's support for Iran, though, is in dispute.
Some Iranian sources have said they have had little real help from Moscow.
And the biggest crisis for Iran since the U.S.-backed Shah was toppled in the 1979 revolution.
And Iranian President Mossaud Brzenkan on the Iranian New Year, the Kremlin said.
Vladimir Putin wishes the Iranian people overcome the harsh trials with dignity and stress that in this difficult time, Moscow remains a loyal friend and reliable partner of Tehran, the Kremlin said.
Rogers says the U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran have thrust the entire Middle East into an abyss and triggered a major global energy crisis while the Iranian supreme leader, Ayatollah Oli Khomeini, as a cynical murder.
Political report Moscow proposed a quid pro quo to Washington.
The Kremlin would stop sharing intelligence with Iran if Washington stopped supplying Ukraine with intelligence about Russia.
But the U.S. rejected the idea.
The Kremlin, however, has dismissed the report as false.
Joe, your thoughts, my friend.
End of Military Complex00:15:06
Yeah, you know, first casualty of war is truth.
And so bottom line is, yeah, they're spinning as many freaking fairy tales as they can to try to keep this puppet show going, but it ain't working.
There's a guy named Ted Pustel, P-O-S-T-O-L, who's an anti-they's missile defense systems.
Anything below 760 miles per hour, something like that, at the speed of sound, is considered supersonic.
But above Mach, which is Mach 1, anything above Mach 5 is called hypersonic.
It's difficult, near impossible, to intercept anything that's supersonic, but it is virtually impossible to intercept anything that's hypersonic.
They're moving so fast and they create a plasma shield that absorbs and dissipates radar.
So you have no way of radar fixing them.
And you're trying to hit a bullet with another bullet, and there's no capability of doing that.
You'd have to have interceptors that were as fast as the hypersonics.
And then the room for error is just absolutely marginal.
So there's no way of defending yourself.
And they don't need to have a nuclear weapon because the kinetic energy, along with whatever conventional payload they've got, is enough to completely destroy city blocks at a time.
And you can do as much damage with a dozen hypersonic missiles as you can with a tactical nuke.
So why pollute the planet for the next 100 years over a stupid little turf boundary that can be resolved with just using conventional weapons and beating the most evil force on the planet?
Yes, yes, yes.
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Israeli pilots were killed instantly.
The Republican Guard announced the downing of three Israeli F-16 fighter jets.
Iran's Fatah II strike.
Seven Israeli officers killed in one hit.
Footage confirms USF-35 taken out by Iranian Revolutionary Guard air defenses.
USS Ford.
Final farewell to the Red Sea.
The Ford is turning tail and getting the hell out of the area.
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Joining us now is Professor John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago.
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We're honored to always speak to him.
Thank you very much for joining us, sir.
My pleasure to be here.
So, Professor, we haven't been able to speak with you since the outbreak of the conflict.
We have been reading quite a bit and looking at some realist scholars.
First, we've seen this piece from Foreign Affairs.
Let's put this up here on the screen.
Curious for your reaction.
He says, how America's war on Iran backfired and Tehran will now set the terms for peace.
Your general reaction, not only to the war as where we are standing now, but how, if any, way, that this actual conflict could come to a close.
I think that starting this war was a colossal mistake.
And it's hard to believe that President Trump did this, not simply because he had promised that he would not start any more wars and certainly not get us into a forever war.
But if you're going to go to war, this is the last war that you want to start.
And the reason is that the Iranians hold most of the cards.
If you think about where we are today and you think more importantly about further marching up the escalation ladder, Iran can do enormous damage to the international economy.
And there's nothing much we can do to prevent that.
So we're in a precarious situation right now.
And I would argue we don't have an exit ramp.
But as we move forward, things only get worse.
We've been talking a lot this morning on the Israeli and U.S. attacks on the South Pars gas field in Iran and then Iranian retaliation both in Saudi and Kuwait and in Qatar.
What do you make of the significance of these developments and this escalation?
I think it's hugely significant.
And I think the fact that President Trump issued this post where he made it clear how angry he was at the Israelis for doing this is evidence of that.
Look, President Trump is doing everything he can to keep oil prices under $100 a barrel.
And that is not easy to do.
And I would note that he has taken sanctions off Russian oil and he has allowed Iran to sell its oil.
It's very important to understand that Iran is selling its oil on world markets.
Iran has been allowed to send oil through the Strait of Hormuz.
And the reason that Trump is allowing this is because he wants all the oil he could possibly get in the world oil markets.
And he's been quite successful, at least, at keeping the price of a barrel down under slightly less than $100.
Well, what happened yesterday when the Israelis hit this natural gas field in Iran, and then the Iranians retaliated first against Qatar, and now apparently they're attacking Saudi Arabian sites as well, is that the price of a barrel of oil is going up.
I saw it was up around $115 this morning.
This is disastrous for the United States and for the world economy.
And if things continue to escalate, which is a real possibility, the economic situation will only get worse.
So what happened yesterday really mattered.
And that, again, is why President Trump made it clear to the Israelis, don't ever do this again.
Professor, what do you think the best and worst case scenarios are at this point?
Start with the best.
The best case is that we work out some sort of negotiated settlement, but I don't see how you can do that.
The fact is that to get Iran to stop the war, you have to make major concessions to the Iranians.
And I find it hard to imagine the United States and Israel making the sort of concessions that are necessary to get Iran to stop.
So I see the war going on.
And the worst case scenario is that you continue to march up the escalation ladder, and the consequences for the international economy are devastating.
And, you know, we were just talking about oil, but it's not only oil.
One-third of the world's fertilizer comes through the Strait of Hormuz.
And it's quite clear that what's happening is that without fertilizer, farmers all around the world, including in the United States, are beginning to have major problems planting and harvesting food.
And what this means for the future is that the price of food is going to go up.
So not only is the price of gas going to go up and the price of oil going to go up, but the price of food is going to go up.
And this is going to create major league inflation, which is going to slow down growth and result in the deaths of many people all around the world.
So the potential for disaster here is just not to be underestimated.
Yeah.
Well, and to your point about the unlikelihood of a negotiated settlement, not only do you have the Iranians that are like, no, you haven't experienced enough pain yet.
So we would demand significant concessions in order to come to the table at this point.
And they don't seem interested in talking right now at all.
You also have the Israelis that want this thing to keep going.
I wanted to get your reaction specifically to the assassination of Ali Larajani.
There's been a lot of speculation that the Israelis are effectively trying to make sure that any potential off-ramps are taken off the table, that anyone who could have been an interlocutor, could have been a negotiator, is assassinated.
So they are no longer available, that you have more hardliners who are in place within the Iranian government.
I wonder if that's your assessment as well.
It certainly looks like that.
I mean, anybody who is moderate inside of the Israeli government is taken out.
The Iranian government.
Excuse me, the Iranian government is taken out.
But I think it's quite clear that more generally, the Israelis have this theory that if they can decapitate the regime, that's a quick way to victory.
And this is a fallacious strategy.
It just doesn't work.
So the idea that they can kill Iranian leaders and that's going to bring the war to an end is not a smart idea.
And again, I think you're right that what the Israelis are trying to do also is take out the moderates and see them replaced by more hardliners, making it more difficult to get a negotiated settlement.
But I would argue, Crystal, that no matter who's in charge in Iran, it's hard to see how you get a deal.
And the reason is that we would have to make major league concessions to the Iranians to put an end to this war.
And that would involve things like ending sanctions or taking at least most of the sanctions off the table, maybe paying reparations, and also just working out a deal where Iran is guaranteed that it won't be attacked in another six months.
You want to remember that there was a war in June where Israel and the United States attacked Iran.
And here we are, not even a year later, and we're back at it.
The arrangement is exactly.
Got it exactly right, Joe.
Not just removing the sanctions and compensation, but pulling all of the American forces out of the Middle East.
I think it's going to happen.
I think Trump realizes he made a colossal blunder getting into this.
He allowed Netanyahu to manipulate him.
If Bibi, in fact, is dead, as I suspect, he doesn't confront that pressure now.
He's actually told Israel not to continue bombing the Iranian oil refineries.
That's extraordinary.
I don't think you would have seen Trump say that if Netanyahu were still alive.
Your thoughts.
Yes.
Well, we're completely disingenuous about everything that Trump's done since day one of his second term.
He put Witkoff, who's absolutely had no political experience and no diplomacy record, and his son-in-law, Jared, both of those are Jabad super Zionists in charge of negotiating peace in Ukraine, which is another Zionist-created war, and with Gaza.
And there was absolutely no way that these guys were going to be able to negotiate in good faith.
Trump had the opportunity on January 21st, 2025, to say, okay, no more funds for Israel until you stop bombing Gaza and no more funds to Ukraine until you sign a peace agreement with Russia.
And he could have ended both those wars in two days, just exactly like he claimed he could.
Instead, he put up this subterfuge of we're having peace talks with everybody and we're going to resolve everything.
And then meanwhile, Israel's planning sneak attacks that they did supposedly without his direction on June Friday the 13th.
And then while negotiations were still planned for that weekend and they were making progress.
And then he turns around and pulls the same stunt in 2026.
I mean, yeah, in 2026, on February 28th, pulling the same exact sneak attack stunt.
So bottom line is Trump has proven himself completely untrustworthy and Israel has proven themselves to be the worst neighbor that anybody on the planet has ever had for the last 79 years.
Oh, yeah.
I think that's an understatement, my friend.
How amazing.
How amazing is that?
I think you got it exactly right.
And let's get into another little aspect of this.
During the 2022 midterms, Biden realized he had a huge problem with inflation.
The United States has a strategic reserve of 700,000 barrels.
He managed to draw that down.
It was full when he started office.
He managed to draw that down to 400,000.
And now Trump is going to claim that he's going to tap into the emergency reserve so that he can limp through this midterms without having a problem.
The problem is the United States uses 20 million barrels of oil per day.
And there's no way that when you take the Russian oil off because of sanctions and you take the Mideast oil off because of this war of choice by the APACs, APAC Fury is what I call it.
And then you end up with a situation where even if you overthrow the government of Venezuela and you start stealing their oil for free, you still don't have enough oil on the market to be able to solve the worldwide crisis that you've created from your stupidity in two endless wars.
It's absolutely insane.
This is the end of the military-industrial complex.
They won't be able to sell F-35s.
Nobody's going to want an aircraft carrier or any type of surface fleet.
We've completely ended the year of gunboat diplomacy because every gunboat is nothing but a floating pinata.
Joe, that's such an important point.
The military-industrial complex has lost big time, huge.
Those are such telling points.
The F-35 is, those are nearly a billion bucks a plane, something like that.
Joe, I mean, it's insane.
We even invested that kind of money in a piece of junk.
But now that the S-400 can track and take them down to hell with that, not to mention all the other lesser aircraft and the carriers are sitting docks, I think you're exactly right.
It's all going to be missiles and drones for the future.
Gunboat Diplomacy Ends00:07:19
More.
Yes, yes.
Well, the B-2 bombers are $2 billion a pop.
We only have 20 of them and two of them self-destructed.
So those things are no good.
One of them crashed at Edwards Air Force Base out in California and the other one crashed in Guam because it was subject to staying overnight in a moist environment and the electronics fried on it.
So these things are nothing but trailer queens.
The F-35 minimum cost is $100 million.
If you want the Marine variant where it's got vertical takeoff with thrust reversers and all that crap, those things are $135 million a pop.
And their amount of flight time, it takes about three or five, I think it's about five hours of ground maintenance for every hour of flight time.
And that ground maintenance is really intensive.
It's extremely expensive.
So bottom line is these things can't operate in theater.
And at any particular time, the ready use of the F-35 fleet is only about 35% because the others are being in restored.
Same thing with our submarine fleet.
Only a third of them can ever be deployed.
Same thing with the aircraft carriers because it takes so much maintenance and retrofitting and restocking every time you bring one to port.
So bottom line is the whole template we had for military supremacy has been completely destroyed by drone technology and electronic warfare.
Yeah, stunning.
Just stunning, Joey.
You're reading so many great points.
Jeez, I'm astonished how bad it is.
It's even worse than I had anticipated.
Even worse.
Let me see.
How do we get back?
There we go.
What have we actually nuked our way around the Hormuz blockage?
Newt Gingrich has suggested we should nuke a new way to, you know, there's that little jutty out there to make the Strait of Hormuz so narrow.
He wants to nuke.
It's like building a new canal, right?
A new Suez Canal.
Responsible statecraft reporting.
What if we actually nuked our way around the Hormuz blockage?
Newt Gingrich thinks we need extreme measures to reopen the Persian Gulf.
It's safe to say the era of frictionless trade is over.
But just imagine the very idea, Joe, how long it would take to nuke a new passageway out of the Persian Gulf.
I mean, this is pretty ludicrous.
And coming from Newt Gingrich, on March 14th, Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House, Foundational Republican thought leader of American neoliberalism, suggested unclogging the Strait of Hormuz by bombing parts of friendly territory.
Presumably the UAE an omen with nukes.
He did this by uncritically sharing a shit post on him.
Less than a month into the large ran by thinking it's safe to say that you're a frictionless global trade.
The foundation of the international ruin-based order is over.
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This is just a lunatic idea from Newt Gingrich.
Fake Ceasefire Looms Ahead00:15:05
For decades, The bedrock assumption of the global economy has been that the U.S. Navy will keep shipping lanes open.
Buran has turned out to be adept at asymmetrical warfare, signed bilateral agreements with non-aligned countries to negotiate safe passage.
And the four, I think, right now are Russia, China, India, and Pakistan to pass through the strait.
Within weeks, we could see European and Asian perception shift from Iranian blockade to American blockade.
If that happens, it would invert the whole, the value proposition of U.S. security umbrella worldwide, understood in this slide.
A proposal to carve a new Panama Canal through the Omani Desert using nuclear weapons is a rational, if outlandish, and impractical one for an empire in retreat.
That's weighing its options.
It would be American Capital final desperate move, a world-changing attempt at rerouting geography to create new blows for capital while simultaneously demonstrating America's raw military power.
But Dr. Strangelov's canal wouldn't actually save the old economic order.
More likely, it would serve as a radioactive monument to its violent end.
Rather than preserving American hegemony in the Middle East, an act disgrave would virtually guarantee the end of globalism, hastening the emergence of the spheres of influence that are already beginning to take shape.
Joe, your thoughts, my friend.
Yeah, well, read my lips.
Dirtbag Big Bush lost the election to Slick Willie in 1992.
And it didn't take two years for the electorate to vote against Willie, Slick Willie, because he was a minority president.
We had Perot running in those races, and that meant that Slick Willie only had 41% of the popular vote when he was, quote, elected as president.
And so by midterm, he'd already pissed enough people off.
Newt was Speaker of the House, and so he formulated this contract with America where he's going to have 10 points.
And they managed to sweep the House and the Senate so they had control of both houses.
And he only managed to pass one of his points.
But getting back to the nuclear ports, this is not a new idea.
This was proposed under Operation Plowshare.
There was going to be a new port built and is called Project Chariot.
And it was on Cape Thompson in 1958 in Alaska.
And they managed to convince the native tribes in UPAC to vacate their traditional homeland and let us do a test explosion in order to prove that we'd be able to build a channel and a port with a turning basin at Point Hope in Alaska.
Well, after they did the first bomb, they realized that the radiation was going to be there for a really long period of time.
And so they abandoned it because at the same time, they were doing open-air tests in Nevada and the downwinders in Nevada were starting to have problems with the nuclear radiation.
So bottom line is all of this nuclear crap started caving in.
Eisenhower was one of the worst presidents in the world.
There again, Tales of the American Empire.
And also, there's a great article at Vet Conference today about the nuclear nightmare of Eisenhower.
2,500 tests of nuclear weapons, including the Bikini Island, and we completely destroyed Johnson Island.
We did dozens of tests there.
So, bottom line is all this stuff is just military madness run rampant on the planet.
And I don't know what we do to stop it, but I think that Iran, Russia, and China are going to do a real big bump in the road for these folks.
Well, here's a nice piece by Kevin Barrett in his newsletter.
They underestimated Iran, not just militarily, but also morally and spiritually.
I think he's got it right.
Will Trump send thousands of U.S. troops to a watery grave just for fun?
This is pretty good stuff here.
Will Trump send Marines to a watery grave off or a move just for fun?
Will he declare victory and withdraw?
Will he attack more energy infrastructure and watch Iran do the same to U.S. allies and Israel?
More ship sinkings and infrastructure annihilation might be fun for Trump, but for the region and the world, not so much.
Trump may be having fun or pretending to, but every five minutes he contradicts himself.
The commander-in-chief of the Epstein Empire doesn't want to have the, doesn't seem to have the faintest idea what he's doing.
Why is Trump so confused?
Is it senile dementia?
His druly narcissism is getting more and more blatant.
Some health experts argue that the orange rapist is in severe decline and may have only two to four months to live in any case.
Past time to invoke the 25th Amendment.
Or maybe it's his advisors who are demented.
Trump claims that Kushner, Witkoff, and Higson assured him that regime changing in Iran would be a cakewalk.
Are those three stooges deranged or just dumb?
One thing we know for sure is that all three have only superficial knowledge of Iran and its region.
Did any non-idiots, people who know something about military affairs, West Asia in general, and Iran in particular, expect Iran to fold?
Were any actual experts surprised by Iran's highly efficient campaign of self-defense?
They're sure starting to sound surprised.
The mainstream media and its credentialed specialists have been saying that Iran is on its last legs now since the war started on Web 28.
Lipsticking the proverbial pig is their job.
But as the reprisals and counter-reprisals drag on with no end inside and the global economies start to implode, the chattering class has been admitting, sometime tacitly, sometimes directly, that somebody somewhere seems to have underestimated the Islamic Republic of Iran.
How could experts be so wrong?
The likely outcome of this war was not exactly rocket science.
I am neither an Iran expert.
I don't speak Farsi nor a military expert, but I've been accurately predicting the all-too-predictable course of this kind of war since around 2003.
I learned how Colonel Paul Van Briber led Iran to a stunning victory over the U.S. in the 2002 Millennium Challenge War Game exercises.
Since then, the more I've learned about Iran, the more I realized that actual Iranians would outperform Ben Ripper if it came to that.
Though I am no Iranian expert, neither am I ignorant.
I've been interested in the Islamic Republic since the 1979 revolution.
As a left-leaning anarchist college kid, disgusted with the America that had allowed Kennedy's killers to take over the country unchallenged, I found Khamani's project intriguing.
When I converted to Islam, Tendett's Braqan, Malaki, Sufi, meaning the variant, in 1993, I became even more sympathetic to Iran's attempt to implement Islamic values in the political sphere.
In December 2003, I studied 9-11, concluded that the attack on New York and Washington had been a neocon coup d'écat, and realized that Iran, the biggest obstacle to Zionist regional hegemony, was on the chopping block.
I revisited my earlier interest in the Iranian revolution and grew ever more sympathetic to its policies and objectives.
After a few years combining teaching with 9-11 info activism, I was driven out of the academy as the 9-11 true professor on Fox News, which left me with nothing better to do than read, speak, and write about the Zion American war on the Middle East.
As a notable American dissident, I was invited to a conference in Iran in 2013, then invited at least once every year until 2019, when the FBI told me I'd be arrested if I attended the next conference.
In 2014, by the way, Kevin and I traveled together to the international conference he's talking about.
I got to know some of Iran's leading intellectuals, including the late, great Nader Talibata, the scholar of Iranian Shia political theory, Blake Archer Williams, and professors including Ford Azadi and Mohammed Mirandi.
I also connected with other brilliant English-speaking Iranian based outside the country, including the leftist broadcaster and author Ramin Bazari.
Thanks to those contacts, I learned what the smartest, best informed Iranians thought about the ever-looming Israeli-driven U.S. war in Iran.
I compared those viewpoints to those of the best qualified American experts, including my podcast guests, Flynn and Hillary Leverett and Gary Sick.
And of course, I looked at what the neocons advocating war with Iran were saying.
The upshot?
The neocons were blowing smoke.
The U.S. would get thrashed if any American president were stupid enough to listen to neocons rather than experts.
Since 2015, I've been worrying that Trump might be that stupid, or more precisely, that Trump is a loftline kosher nostra asset selected as a prospective president due to his hostility to Iran and a potential willingness to risk World War III by attacking Iran for Israel.
When Trump lured General Soleimani to Baghdad under cover of fake peace negotiations and murdered him in January of 2020, I was one of the few pointing out that Iran held escalation dominance over the U.S. and could have responded far more forcefully.
In other words, Trump reckless move had risked World War III and only Iranian restraint had limited the damage.
Then again, last June, Trump and his zoner Net Yahoo risked World War III by bombing Iran.
And once again, they launched a dastardly surprise attack under cover of fake peace negotiations.
Iran responded more forcefully this time, but Chill showed remarkable restraint by accepting a ceasefire after 12 days.
Joe, they're not going to do it again.
They're not going to be played.
They're going to be suckered into another phony ceasefire.
They're going to continue until all of Israel looks just like Gaza.
Your thoughts?
Yeah.
Well, Donnie had an opportunity to end three wars in 2017.
That was being Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria.
Instead, he gave $60 million in 2017 to Ziolinsky so he could buy some javelins and blow up Russian tanks and helicopters.
And then in 2020, he gave $400 million to Ziolinsky so he could continue fighting the war under FJB.
So we had that little problem.
Also, his Secretary of State and earlier, his CIA director was interviewed, and he said that, quote, Russians have killed thousands of ISIS, parentheses, CIA, on parentheses, terrorists in Syria.
We've killed hundreds of Russians in Syria.
So if the problem was having ISIS in Syria and the Russians were invited in by Assad to kill the, why in the hell did we do that?
And so now the Ziolinskis have figured out that they're losing the propaganda war.
So they've turned loose all their attack dogs that are 100% promoted by the algorithms.
And that would be Looney Laura Loomer, Benie Boy Shapiro, and Bloviator Levon, Mark Levon.
And in addition to that, we also have Larry Ellison, who is the owner of TikTok now that they stole from the Chinese.
CNN and CBS, along with his Oracle company, they're doing the best they can to propagandize us.
And they're not being able to accomplish it completely.
So now Trump is directing his FCC director, Brendan Carr, to censor the media that's not reporting his side of the story.
So bottom line is we've got Netanyahu completely running all of the media in the whole Western world.
It's absolutely crazy.
Joe, you're completely right.
It's unbelievable what's going on here.
Absolutely unbelievable.
I love Kevin's peace.
Really wonderful.
Why Trump was so intent on going to war?
Is this why?
With Iran, not good stuff.
True seeker.
Media Censorship Under Trump00:11:06
Trump on Jeffrey Epstein.
Terrific guides.
Even say he likes beautiful women as much as many of them are on the younger side.
Terrible.
Here we go.
My God.
Even more documents relating to Trump and child rape have been discovered.
Here's a little Epstein files update.
As you will recall, the MAGA Department of Justice kept a ton of material to itself and went a little crazy with the crossouts.
But some good investigators figured out that really important documents were missing, including three of four what are called 302s, investigative reports from FBI agents, which just happened to be three that mentioned allegations against President Trump for having sexually assaulted a girl who was then around 14.
So how did that fall out?
Well, we started asking questions about the missing documents, and the next thing you know, they did release what we call the 302s.
There are still more than 30 pages of investigators' notes that they haven't released.
So they're still holding back stuff that the Epstein disclosure law requires them to release.
So to look into all of this, I've just sent the department a letter demanding that they keep all of their internal documents, no document destruction, on their decision-making about why, of all the documents in all the world, just those three 302s got held back.
What made anybody think they were duplicative of any other documents, which was their supposed reason?
And once we get a good look at what they said to each other about holding them back, the documents back, then we can have a good chance to do some real oversight into the mischief at MAGA DOJ about the Epstein files.
Joe, your thoughts?
Yeah, well, surprisingly enough, starting with September 1st, 2001 until September 1st, 2002, there's no Epstein files because I guess that they were talking about some of the stuff that was going on.
We had the passing of Robert the Moll Mueller over the weekend, and he's the guy that was sworn in as director of the FBI on September 4th, 2001, and he did absolutely nothing.
The FBI had arrested Zakaris Masari, who was the hijacker number 20 in Minneapolis on August 16th, 2001, which was like almost a month, four weeks prior to the event in New York City.
And they were ordered by headquarters not to interrogate that prisoner and not to open his laptop.
And so bottom line is: could the FBI have prevented 9-11?
Oh, I'm certainly sure.
Could Mueller have found out who did 9-11 along with who did the anthrax attacks that happened later in September of 2001?
Absolutely sure.
But he was 100% a state cover-up boy the whole entire career.
So that guy is just an absolute slime ball.
I hope there's a hot spot in hell for him.
Yeah, just it's all so bad.
Joe, totally embarrassing.
Just awful.
Meanwhile, here's a suspicious assassination attempt that made Rand Trump fear of Rand with Max Blumenthal.
I love Max.
That is so damn good.
And, of course, that fear of assassination, as you point out, is well-founded.
He was nearly killed in Butler, Pennsylvania in July of 2024.
And then two months later, there was another attempt, a potential assassin arrested who was hiding in the shrubbery outside of Mar-a-Lago in West Palm Beach.
So Trump was already primed for this since there had been two close calls.
You're right, the FBI manufactured a series of assassination plots, successfully convincing Trump that Iran was hunting him on U.S. soil with highly sophisticated teams of hitmen.
Can you give us the details and I guess begin by talking about Asif Mershant?
Yeah, and so anyone who watched your intro will hear you quote Donald Trump stating, I got him before he got me, referring to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
It's not really in Iran's doctrine to assassinate a foreign leader and risk war.
They would easily get the U.S. to, it would easily trigger the U.S. to attack them.
But this is what Trump believes.
So why does he believe it?
Who convinced him?
And what do we know?
Well, the first thing to know is that, as you said, Donald Trump's fears of assassination are well-founded.
And the main assassination attempt, which nearly claimed Donald Trump's life in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13th, 2024, is not well understood and still shrouded in mystery.
And it's especially not well understood by people on the left because, you know, what do they care?
You know, the right is much more invested in this and trying to get to the truth.
And right-wing members of Congress, Republican members of Congress, have gone as far as going down, going to Butler to try to get to the bottom of it.
One of them, Clay Higgins, went to Butler, I think, two weeks after the assassination attempt, and he found that the body of Thomas Matthew Crooks, the would-be assassin who missed Trump, supposedly sliced his ear, missed his head by like an inch, his body had been destroyed.
It had actually been returned to his family.
There was no toxicology report that he could access.
We later learned the toxicology report was faulty.
But there are so many instances of obstruction around Crooks.
Christopher Wray, the FBI director at the time, said that Crooks had no social media history and was just this kind of mysterious lone wolf.
It turned out he had an extensive social media history.
On YouTube, for example, he was a prolific commenter declaring his intention to wage civil war inside the, ignite a civil war by killing political leaders in the U.S.
He explicitly called for the assassination of Ilhan Omar in one comment on YouTube.
Other YouTube users were flagging his comments, but nothing ever happened to him that we know of.
So there are real questions within what once was Donald Trump's support base, which is now kind of like collapsing, about whether Thomas Matthew Crooks himself had been recruited by the FBI at some point, and that Trump's assassination was a manufactured plot gone wrong.
And it's going to get even eerier when we start to understand the details of this figure, Asif Mershant, you pronounce his name Merchant.
I mean, that might be how it's pronounced.
I think it's Mershant.
It's spelled Merchant.
He's from Pakistan and he entered the United States through Houston to visit family.
He had an Iranian wife and he had met in Iran on a pilgrimage in Karbala.
And this wound him up on a terrorist watch list, a DHS watch list when he entered the George H.W. Bush Airport in Houston.
I think it's Joe.
Let me just add this looks like, to me, a classic Mossadop to make Trump anti-Iran by taking information to suggest to induce in him the idea that the Iranians were out to assassinate him.
I don't think there was any remote, even remote idea of assassinating Trump.
Your thoughts?
Yeah, well, he had traders completely inside his first term.
He had Christopher Ray, the appointed FBI, and then he also had Bill Barth appointed as the attorney general.
So both of those guys sabotaged him.
So he's been stabbed in the back by everybody that he thought was an ally.
And it's turning out that Nadiyahu is not the kind of ally that anybody in the world would want to have.
So, you know, I feel sorry for the guy in one sense, but the other one is that his arrogance is what brought him into this position.
And I have no sympathy for that because he is one of the most arrogant human beings to ever walk the planet.
And unfortunately for America, we're getting the defeat that we deserve for having a corrupt political system.
I'm forced to agree, even though I proudly served my nation as a Marine Corps officer from 1962 to 66, I'm completely disillusioned with the foreign policy under Trump, especially after he campaigned as a peace guy who's going to end these wars, not initiate new ones.
Joe, excellent comments today.
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