Jim Fetzer - Truth vs. NEW$ Inc, Part 1 (29 March 2025) with Don Grahn, Joachim Hagopian, and Brian Davidson
Aired: 2026-03-30
Duration: 59:30


=== Maps Show Shallow Waters (05:22) ===

[00:00:00]  Folks to a show called Truth versus News Incorporated, and this is Palm Sunday.
[00:00:07]  Wow, Palm Sunday 29th of March.
[00:00:11]  And I've got my Palm shirt on here.
[00:00:15]  And so trying to look apart.
[00:00:17]  And also, we got the greatest show on news telecast.
[00:00:22]  I think the most accurate show you're going to find.
[00:00:25]  And you've got a white shirt, widely posted everywhere.
[00:00:28]  We have a guy named Jim Fetzer, who I'm very proud to show.
[00:00:33]  And he's got a book called JFK and Nobody Who How and Why?
[00:00:40]  And American Nukes on 9-11 and Nobody Died at Sandy Hook.
[00:00:46]  Oh, I'm bothering it.
[00:00:48]  And nobody died at Boston either.
[00:00:51]  And I suppose we didn't go to the moon.
[00:00:53]  These kind of kind of books are really shake their foundation as to what's really happening in the world.
[00:01:00]  And that's what we're doing here at Truth versus Ruth.
[00:01:02]  And we also have Joachim Hagopian.
[00:01:05]  He is a very advanced, very, very good.
[00:01:11]  Well, he's a very good author of heavy articles about certain people like Epstein and others that shake the world as true.
[00:01:21]  He's written many volumes.
[00:01:24]  And we have Brian Davidson out of Texas, a private investigator who seeks the truth and finds it and reports it very well.
[00:01:34]  And so, Jim, I guess today, let's just start off a little thing like Iran hammers Israel U.S. bases and Iran strikes Northern Command headquarters.
[00:01:44]  And they're trying to visit the U.S., all the global U.S. bases are all uninhabitable.
[00:01:53]  What a way to start the world or start the show.
[00:01:57]  I know, Don.
[00:01:58]  You're absolutely right.
[00:02:00]  Let me yeah, yeah.
[00:02:04]  So we got a lot of stories to cover today, and they are, as you suggest, on the heavy side.
[00:02:13]  Here's a report about the latest bombing in relation to the war.
[00:02:19]  You can just see how far-fetched I think we won't predict.
[00:02:24]  Again, we're saying we're not going to predict.
[00:02:26]  The war can always escalate.
[00:02:28]  Armies can always do dumb things.
[00:02:30]  The U.S. is, of course, has a long history of doing dumb things and losing.
[00:02:36]  So we'll see how this goes.
[00:02:38]  But I just wanted to show you that map off the top.
[00:02:42]  Let's look at number two because this is CENTCOM's map.
[00:02:45]  They use the Central Command, the U.S. body in charge of operations in the Middle East.
[00:02:52]  This is the map that they show, which makes it all look a little clearer and maybe a little easier to digest.
[00:03:00]  But again, you can see the tiny area.
[00:03:04]  It's Iranian coastal waters all through there.
[00:03:08]  Virtually, it's only a small sliver of it that is not Iranian coastal waters.
[00:03:14]  So Iran has sovereignty over this area and they have for 4,000 years or so.
[00:03:21]  So that's the Strait of Hormuz seen from CENTCOM.
[00:03:27]  Let's take a look at this map from the New York Times because we get a little different angle of it here.
[00:03:32]  And again, you can see the neighboring countries.
[00:03:34]  You can also see if we start from the left and go up, you see the UAE, you see Qatar, you see Bahrain, too small to even have its name written on its island.
[00:03:45]  These are very vulnerable places that we know we've watched for the last 27 days of war.
[00:03:51]  They're extremely vulnerable.
[00:03:52]  They're very close.
[00:03:53]  Look it up.
[00:03:54]  If we continue up to the top, you can see Kuwait.
[00:03:57]  Kuwait has been hammered during this war.
[00:04:00]  U.S. bases in Kuwait were a major artery, a major node for United States expeditionary planning for the entire last 40 years, right?
[00:04:11]  Since Desert Storm, they've built up significant bases in Kuwait, and those are all being hammered.
[00:04:18]  They're all being evacuated.
[00:04:20]  The troops are not on those bases by and large because it's too dangerous because they're getting pummeled every day.
[00:04:27]  And you can see this map shows the shallow waters.
[00:04:30]  And that's what I was saying about the previous map: that it didn't, the CENTCOM map doesn't show you the shallow waters.
[00:04:36]  It doesn't show you how skinny the strait actually is because of those shallow waters and territorial waters.
[00:04:45]  So I think that's a good map.
[00:04:46]  You can see the gradation of the land that gives overwatch for everything that Iran does militarily in that strait.
[00:04:56]  So.
[00:04:57]  And of course, we're going to have an half-hurt to take the island.
[00:05:02]  Here we have Iran striking.
[00:05:06]  The economic dimension of what is happening is where this conflict reaches the daily lives of people who have never heard of Dado Base and cannot locate Safay on a map.
[00:05:15]  And it requires the same analytical precision as the weapons assessment because the numbers are not abstractions.

=== Rising Costs of War (04:32) ===

[00:05:22]  Before February 28th, Brent crude traded at approximately $72 to $87 per barrel, depending on the session.
[00:05:30]  As of this week, it has been moving between $100 and $110.
[00:05:36]  It spiked near $120 during the first two weeks of the conflict.
[00:05:41]  Dubai crude hit an all-time high above $150.
[00:05:45]  Oman crude settled above $152 per barrel.
[00:05:50]  The International Energy Agency described this as the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market.
[00:05:57]  Gulf oil production has fallen by at least 10 million barrels per day.
[00:06:02]  The IEA released 400 million barrels from strategic reserves, the largest such release in its history.
[00:06:09]  The United States committed 172 million barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
[00:06:15]  Prices have barely flinched.
[00:06:18]  The market is telling you something specific when the largest emergency reserve release in history produces a modest and temporary price correction.
[00:06:27]  It is telling you that the disruption is not a temporary spike.
[00:06:31]  It is a structural shift in the supply architecture that reserves cannot fix.
[00:06:35]  Now apply that backdrop to the specific arithmetic of missile defense in this conflict.
[00:06:41]  A single Iranian ballistic missile costs between $200,000 and $500,000 to manufacture.
[00:06:49]  A single Arrow-3 interceptor costs between $2 and $3 million.
[00:06:54]  A single Thad interceptor costs $12.7 million each.
[00:06:59]  During the 12-day war in June 2025 alone, the United States burned through an estimated 150 Thad rounds at a total cost exceeding $1.9 billion.
[00:07:10]  That consumed approximately 14% of the entire American Thad stockpile in under two weeks.
[00:07:17]  The current conflict has now lasted more than double that duration with 80 attack waves recorded.
[00:07:23]  Estimates put Israel's daily defense expenditure at up to $200 million.
[00:07:28]  Israel's daily defense cost is $200 million.
[00:07:32]  Iran's daily offensive cost, even running multiple waves per day at $500,000 per missile, is a fraction of that figure.
[00:07:41]  The arithmetic of this conflict does not favor the side spending $3 million per interception against a side spending $300,000 per launch.
[00:07:51]  The Israeli Air Force, acknowledging that it is choosing not to intercept certain incoming bomblets to preserve its interceptor stockpile, is not a minor operational note.
[00:08:01]  It is the visible edge of a resource depletion problem that the entire Western Defense Industrial Base is struggling to address.
[00:08:08]  Thad production is limited enough that the Pentagon has announced plans to expand manufacturing capacity.
[00:08:14]  That expansion takes years.
[00:08:16]  The conflict is happening now.
[00:08:18]  The fertilizer dimension of this disruption is the element most coverage has entirely missed, and it will matter in grocery stores and supermarkets across the world many months from now, regardless of when any ceasefire is signed.
[00:08:32]  Qatar is among the world's largest producers of nitrogen-based fertilizers, the chemical compounds that underpin global production of corn, wheat, rice, and soybeans.
[00:08:42]  Qatar Energy has curtailed output following strikes on its facilities.
[00:08:47]  Analysts at the Fertilizer Institute assess that approximately 30% of global ammonia production is now at risk from the disruptions to this conflict.
[00:08:57]  Brazil, which supplies nearly 60% of global soybean exports, depends on fertilizer shipments that transit the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:09:06]  Spring planting decisions in the American Midwest are being made right now against a backdrop of elevated fertilizer prices and disrupted supply chains.
[00:09:15]  The harvest that reaches grocery stores by late summer and into 2027 is being determined by decisions farmers and distributors are making today.
[00:09:26]  The line from a missile hitting Dado base in Safed to the price of bread in Chicago in October is not metaphorical.
[00:09:33]  It is a direct, documentable supply chain consequence.
[00:09:37]  California gasoline cross $5 per gallon during the second week of March.
[00:09:43]  This is not a war contained within a region.
[00:09:46]  It is repricing the global economy in real time, and Wave 80 has not made it cheaper.
[00:09:53]  Yes, yes, yes.

=== Bad to Worse for America (15:51) ===

[00:09:54]  The Iranians are doing an absolutely brilliant job.
[00:09:58]  Meanwhile, the New York Times even has admitted that Iran has rendered virtually all U.S. gold bases uninhabitable.
[00:10:09]  New York Times admits, Iran strikes have driven U.S. forces from most of their bases to the Middle East.
[00:10:16]  Many of the 13 military bases in the region used by American troops are all but uninhabitable, with the ones in Kuwait, next door to Iran, suffering perhaps the most damage.
[00:10:29]  Six service members killed at a strike on Port Shuaba destroyed an army tactical ops center.
[00:10:35]  Iranian drones and missiles also targeted Ali Al Sam, an air base, damaged aircraft structures, injuring personnel and patent brewing, damaged maintenance and fuel facilities, and it's only growing worse.
[00:10:49]  Meanwhile, in addition, the New York Times has now admitted a long last plan was to cause an uprising in Iran, which will lead to the toppling of their government.
[00:11:09]  Then all Israel and the United States will have to do at that point is to assassinate a few of the Iranian beloved leaders, and then boom, they can install a Zionist-friendly Iranian government.
[00:11:24]  It's a good example of just exactly how war propaganda works and how the media plays along and how the government is always constantly lying to you.
[00:11:33]  And remember they were telling you about, oh, people are protesting against their oppressive government in Iran, and then Iran, for no reason, just starts slaughtering their protesters.
[00:11:44]  There's such horrible, horrible, horrible people in Iran.
[00:11:48]  We have to free their people.
[00:11:50]  Well, those protests, as I've told you before, were engineered by the United States.
[00:11:55]  They were engineered by the Mossad and the United States.
[00:11:59]  So, what the United States did first was they put these horrible, crippling economic sanctions on Iran, meaning nobody could do business with Iran, which collapsed, and they also collapsed their currency, their dollar.
[00:12:11]  So, their banks started to fail, their currency fell with no, and they couldn't have any kind of an economy.
[00:12:18]  So, people came out to protest.
[00:12:20]  We have to do something about this.
[00:12:22]  And then the Mossad went and gave all they gave the Mossad was the one giving people guns, and they started shooting cops, and they started burning down mosques.
[00:12:37]  And that was all from the Mossad and the United States.
[00:12:41]  So, the United States, so that was all made up.
[00:12:44]  And so, the reason why the Iran government started shooting protesters is because the protesters were infiltrated by the Mossad, given guns, weapons, and satellites to coordinate.
[00:12:56]  And they were burning down the city, burning down police departments, mosques, and they were killing cops.
[00:13:02]  That's why that happened.
[00:13:03]  That never got reported here in the United States, but now the New York Times is going to admit it now that it doesn't matter.
[00:13:11]  Now that it doesn't matter, the New York Times is going to tell you the truth about this.
[00:13:15]  You ready?
[00:13:16]  I think this is absolutely right.
[00:13:19]  There's a broad-based treatment of a whole host of issues, Joachim.
[00:13:23]  Your thoughts.
[00:13:26]  Yeah, the first thing to go is the truth.
[00:13:30]  And they put in the propaganda machine to try and justify pure aggression and evil attacking another country, which is against the international law and everything under the sun.
[00:13:48]  The big bully of the world, U.S. and their sidekick Israel that owns the U.S.
[00:13:56]  Yeah, it's just a dreadful, sinful situation.
[00:14:00]  It's going from bad to worse for America and Israel.
[00:14:05]  The first couple of clips there show that this war cannot last that long because it's a war of attrition, and the U.S. and Israel don't have the ammo, the weapons, the logistics to be able to sustain anything beyond, I would say, probably about two months at the very most.
[00:14:29]  They're just waiting it out.
[00:14:30]  Iran is.
[00:14:32]  And in the meantime, just, you know, pulverizing whatever is left of the U.S. installations in the Middle East.
[00:14:43]  They've had to basically relocate many of the troops.
[00:14:48]  And then they have the audacity to be sending an expeditionary Marine force backed up by the 82nd Airborne Army Force.
[00:14:59]  It's just going to get slaughtered.
[00:15:01]  You know, there's no way they're going to take, I mean, they may even take a couple of those islands that won't do any good.
[00:15:09]  I mean, what's the purpose of occupying an island when you're going to die?
[00:15:14]  Because they got so many weapons built into the system there, into the cliffs, you know, that run on the straits.
[00:15:24]  So, you know, it's just a and I take the broad, you know, way up view of this war has been planned forever.
[00:15:37]  You know, we talk about the Freemasons plotting it way back in 1871 with Albert Pike and Mazzini from Italy.
[00:15:46]  They've been wanting a war, and they called it in 1871 World War III, and it's Islam, Iran, versus Zionists, Israel, U.S.
[00:16:00]  And, you know, it's not going the way it's going the way that the plotters want it.
[00:16:08]  That basically it's going to get removed Israel.
[00:16:16]  I don't know if Israel will survive this.
[00:16:21]  And, you know, we know what the slime balls of Israel do.
[00:16:25]  They cheat.
[00:16:27]  They don't adhere to any kind of rules of war whatsoever.
[00:16:31]  They go after the civilian population and try and wipe out as many women and children, civilians as possible.
[00:16:38]  That's their MO.
[00:16:39]  That's how they operate.
[00:16:41]  Thou shalt do war by deception.
[00:16:43]  Well, that's the state of Israel and the United States.
[00:16:48]  They're the aggressors.
[00:16:49]  They're the bad guys.
[00:16:51]  Let's face it, you know, there's no morality that guides the behavior of the U.S. government or the Israeli government.
[00:16:59]  So they're going to be the big losers on purpose.
[00:17:01]  It's all being staged, folks.
[00:17:03]  It's been plotted a long time ago.
[00:17:06]  And the U.S. and Israel are going to lose this war.
[00:17:11]  And, you know, I expect that it will probably not last more than two months.
[00:17:19]  That's my prognosis.
[00:17:21]  Brian, your thoughts?
[00:17:25]  Well, this one's something I've been thinking about a lot lately.
[00:17:33]  We, as Americans, still seem to be operating off of this Kissinger style Team America, World Police, the world is a zoo, and we must be the zookeeper in order to keep everybody in their cages.
[00:17:45]  We've been operating off that mindset.
[00:17:49]  Well, those straits of Hormuz are still very, very important.
[00:17:52]  And like they said, that guy, Steve Blank, and that droning guy that was the chief analyst, what he's saying is this is having a tremendous economic shock on the American way of life.
[00:18:11]  I mean, if oil has gone from $70 to $80 to $100 to $120 and it has had a supply disruption of 10 million barrels a day, and we had the largest release of reserves in history, and there was a very minimal effect to try to offset that,
[00:18:35]  then basically the largest emergency intervention in history barely moved prices.
[00:18:42]  And that's not a spike.
[00:18:46]  That's a structural break.
[00:18:49]  And so I don't support Israel because they're God's chosen people whatsoever.
[00:18:59]  But on the other hand, I'm not an idiot.
[00:19:02]  That's one of the most important pieces of real estate in the world when it comes to being capable of making sure that that supply is not disrupted because it's so close to those straits.
[00:19:16]  And right now, it looks like Iran is very effectively running a cost asymmetry weapon on during this war.
[00:19:30]  So Iranian missiles cost, what he said was that they cost between 200,000 to a half a million.
[00:19:38]  But our intercepts, the arrow and the thad, go from two to three million, and the thad goes all the way up to 12 million.
[00:19:46]  So it's not a missile war.
[00:19:48]  It's a math problem that the West may not be able to win.
[00:19:54]  And so I guess the question comes down to is can the West sustain defense at higher cost than the offense can continue to sustain the attack.
[00:20:09]  And so energy stability is breaking.
[00:20:14]  Oil volatility is leading to inflation.
[00:20:18]  Transport cost is rising and therefore manufacturing cost is going up.
[00:20:24]  And if we lose control of that pipeline, our ability to be the hegemonic powerhouse in the region is severely retarded under those circumstances.
[00:20:42]  And so, you know, I don't, again, back to this point.
[00:20:48]  I don't support Israel because they're God's chosen people.
[00:20:51]  But in a sense, I kind of hope we can keep control of the real estate so that we can make sure that these pipelines are kept safe and our American way of life continues.
[00:21:05]  On the other hand, maybe it's time for a global shakeup.
[00:21:09]  Time will tell how it's all going to play out, but maybe this Kissinger doctrine that we've been pushing is going to be at risk for the near future, if not the long-term future.
[00:21:26]  I think with high probability, you got it right.
[00:21:30]  Meanwhile, Colonel McGregor says this is the last, our last act in the Mideast, and then we leave forever.
[00:21:41]  Colonel McGregor, never drive off immediately after filling your tank.
[00:21:46]  What happens in those first few minutes is the reason your gas disappears so fast.
[00:21:50]  Inflation is going to make it very hard for the Fed to go back.
[00:21:55]  He seems to be committed to that, regardless of the cost to us, regardless of the cost to the world.
[00:22:00]  The longer this lasts, the worse the picture gets globally.
[00:22:03]  I think the Iranians have decided that rather than live on their knees, they're going to stand up even if it kills them.
[00:22:08]  I think the Iranians have made it very clear that they will not meet Mr. Netanyahu's demands.
[00:22:13]  So we have to understand that the demands President Trump stipulated are not our demands.
[00:22:18]  They're Israel's demands as articulated by Mr. Netanyahu.
[00:22:22]  This is the last act in the American theatrical production in the Middle East.
[00:22:27]  When this ends, we will be finished in the Middle East.
[00:22:29]  There will be no restoration of the status quo ante.
[00:22:33]  We will simply get out and everybody in the Middle East will want us out.
[00:22:37]  Well, everyone, we're very honored to welcome back into the studio Colonel Douglas McGregor, one of the greatest geopolitical insiders that we have today.
[00:22:45]  Colonel, welcome back to the studio.
[00:22:46]  Good to be with you, Cyrus.
[00:22:48]  Well, Colonel, I want to get your thoughts on the situation with Iran right now, because we are entering in to day 11 of this conflict.
[00:22:56]  And what's interesting is, as we saw a tremendous change yesterday in the oil markets, the futures got up to $120.
[00:23:03]  That's when Donald Trump came out and said something to cool down the market, saying that, look, the Iran war is almost going to be over.
[00:23:10]  But then you had Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of War, basically contradict that and say that we're just at the beginning.
[00:23:17]  I think there's a lot of confusion here.
[00:23:18]  And this is why we need to turn to the experts like yourself.
[00:23:21]  Give us a little update on what you're feeling here on day 11 as we're going into this insane conflict.
[00:23:27]  Well, I think the word insane is an accurate descriptive.
[00:23:32]  You know, this thing was not supposed to last for very long, this particular operation.
[00:23:37]  I think that's evident from everything that we've heard and seen.
[00:23:42]  And I'm afraid that the White House has discovered that they miscalculated.
[00:23:46]  They thought that between the decapitation strikes designed to eliminate leaders at all levels in Iran had failed, that they were going to have to do something else.
[00:23:57]  And I think the something else is the question that they need to answer.
[00:24:01]  And the most immediate answer is, well, we started this.
[00:24:05]  Now we need to double down and do more damage.
[00:24:08]  And I look at many of my generation.
[00:24:11]  These are the people that remember Vietnam.
[00:24:13]  And unfortunately, they say, double down.
[00:24:16]  We're not tough enough.
[00:24:17]  We're not ruthless enough.
[00:24:19]  We need to destroy more, kill more.
[00:24:23]  It's not a good prescription for, I think, Iran.
[00:24:26]  It's the size of Western Europe with 93 million people.
[00:24:30]  And they have demonstrated thus far that they prepared pretty well to deal with what was going to happen to them.
[00:24:36]  The only area where I think there is some measure of disappointment, serious disappointment over in Iran is with the overall air and missile defense.
[00:24:44]  They haven't been able to down very many aircraft, but they are shooting down lots of what I would call the terrestrial intelligence surveillance for causes platforms like the Israeli Hermes unmanned system, the drone.
[00:25:00]  The reason it's important that you shoot those things down is that they are sent in to confirm or verify what people are finding on satellite imagery and space-based observation.
[00:25:10]  Before you launch major strikes and commit large quantities of munitions to something, you want to try and make sure what you're shooting at is real and so forth.
[00:25:19]  We spent, I'm told, something like $5.2 billion in the first 24 to 36 hours.
[00:25:25]  And we discovered subsequently that we shot a lot of decoys.
[00:25:30]  We missed things.
[00:25:32]  And one of the things that we were absolutely convinced, and this is another Air Force malady, unfortunately, that if you achieve air superiority or air supremacy over the areas of importance to you, that you're going to win.

=== Battleship Missouri Surrender (03:37) ===

[00:25:46]  Unfortunately, there's not a whole lot of evidence to support that unless you have a force on the ground that can somehow or another exploit it or discount it as not being useful, whatever.
[00:25:58]  So I think we're stuck now.
[00:26:00]  And in a way, I think the evidence for the failure thus far of this strategic air and missile campaign was evident when you heard the Hague Seth was at Raisin Kane joint press conference.
[00:26:16]  Hag Seth makes a lot of statements that don't make a lot of sense, as you point out, that are somewhat contradictory and coherent.
[00:26:22]  But he wants to reassure everybody, we're going to bomb everyone into Kingdom Come.
[00:26:27]  I mean, essentially, that's his message.
[00:26:29]  It hasn't worked very well.
[00:26:30]  Then you go to General Kane, and he's very much like an accountant standing in front of his spreadsheet.
[00:26:37]  Well, we flew 5,000 strikes.
[00:26:40]  We dropped X number of munitions and we hit these many targets and the things are going as planned.
[00:26:47]  Well, you know, I lived to the Vietnam War and I listened to lots of briefings like that over and over and over again, right up until we left for all intents and purposes, about 1972, 73 timeframe.
[00:27:00]  And we said we were flying this many sorties, dropping this many bombs, and of course we lost.
[00:27:06]  So I think you have two different campaigns.
[00:27:09]  You have the U.S. campaign that's designed first to decapitate, that failed, now it's designed to destroy.
[00:27:18]  Destruction means that you hit what you can find that you think is valuable.
[00:27:24]  In other words, if you can find launch sites or you can find a launch platform, you try to hit that.
[00:27:30]  Otherwise, what do you do?
[00:27:31]  You end up bombing things that don't move, buildings, infrastructure, because you can find it.
[00:27:37]  You can identify it, then you can destroy it.
[00:27:39]  On the Iranian side, the Iranian side is we've got to survive.
[00:27:44]  That's the number one thing.
[00:27:45]  If they survive, they win.
[00:27:48]  That's not enough for us.
[00:27:50]  We're the ones that have said we've got to conquer the place in order to win the war.
[00:27:55]  That means unless they show up for a battleship Missouri-style surrender in the Persian Gulf, and I think they're now repainting the battleship Missouri with the USS Trump towing it over through the Pacific and into the Persian Gulf.
[00:28:08]  I'm kidding, of course, so that President Trump can meet them on the battleship and they can surrender to him.
[00:28:14]  Unless you can achieve that, what do you look like?
[00:28:16]  You look foolish.
[00:28:18]  And at the same time, if you look at the missile strikes, they're saying, well, we're firing less missiles.
[00:28:23]  We're also flying fewer sorties.
[00:28:26]  In other words, we've reached that point where, okay, are we having an impact?
[00:28:29]  We're trying to reassess what is the battle damage and what difference does it make.
[00:28:33]  On the Iranian side, they've done enormous damage.
[00:28:37]  27-plus U.S. bases completely destroyed.
[00:28:40]  Virtually all of the long-range radars that are designed to give you early warning of an incoming missile attack in Israel and across the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula, they're all gone.
[00:28:50]  They've been destroyed.
[00:28:52]  And now they're taking things apart.
[00:28:55]  I was just looking at some satellite photography before I came on in Kuwait, looking at the U.S. base there.
[00:29:01]  They obviously have excellent intelligence.
[00:29:03]  They know where the CIA stations are.
[00:29:05]  They know where people are located that actually perform tasks that are of importance.
[00:29:10]  They're systematically dismantling our military capability across the Gulf.
[00:29:16]  Absolutely true, not to mention demolishing Israel, which is being beaten to a pulp.

=== Fierce Response from Pakistan (10:23) ===

[00:29:23]  Here we have the fatal mirage of Kerg Island.
[00:29:28]  Why Zion Don would be well advised to dispense with his island-hopping LARP?
[00:29:35]  I think this is right.
[00:29:38]  As the Iran war settles into its fourth week, and there was a colonel giving an assessment after only 11 days, but it was spot on.
[00:29:47]  In Israeli-American hopes of fostering regime change in Tehran remain ever-elusive, the conversation has shifted to the topic of ground invasion, specifically that of the island of Khard.
[00:30:00]  Located 25 kilometers up to the coast of mainland Iran, the small sunny island, wasn't a third the size of Manhattan, has become the focus of global attention in recent days.
[00:30:13]  The cause lies in Iran's unique geographical characteristics.
[00:30:17]  Iran possessed a coastline of 1,700 kilometers.
[00:30:22]  Most of it is shallow and ill-conducive to the birthing of very large and ultra-large crude carriers that are the lifeblood of ocean-borne oil trade.
[00:30:32]  Khorg Island, with its natural deep waters, stands apart from the rest of Iran's coastal cities in this regard.
[00:30:39]  And at seaport can accommodate up to 10 supertankers at a time.
[00:30:45]  Donald Trump, alas, lacking any military background whatsoever, thinks this is a cherry ripe for the blocking.
[00:30:54]  Iran harmliners, meanwhile, are amping up calls for nuclear weapons.
[00:31:00]  The greatest precaution guard they had against nukes was the Ayatollah Khomeini, whom they immediately eliminated, who'd issued a fatwa that forbade Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
[00:31:13]  Well, the fatwa died with the Ayatollah, their very first hit, and has Unleashed the Hawks.
[00:31:20]  I have no doubt if they don't have nukes already, they will have them in short order.
[00:31:25]  The debate among Iranian hardliners over whether Tehran should seek a nuclear bomb in defiance of an escalating U.S.-Israeli attack is getting louder, more public, and more insistent.
[00:31:37]  Sources in the country say, with the revolutionary guards now dominant, following the killing of veteran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khumanai at the start of the war on Gleb 28, hardline views on Iran's nuclear approach are in the ascendant.
[00:31:56]  Two senior Iranian sources said.
[00:31:59]  While Western countries have long believed Iran wants the bomb, or at least the ability to make one very quickly, it has always denied that, saying Kumenai had banned nuclear arms as forbidden in Islam, inciting membership in the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
[00:32:17]  There was no plan to change Iran's nuclear doctrine yet, and Iran had not decided to seek the bomb, one of the sources said.
[00:32:26]  But serious voices in the establishment were questioning the existing policy and demanding a change.
[00:32:34]  It will come.
[00:32:36]  Meanwhile, Israel, so desperate, upset with Pakistan, because it's been seeking.
[00:32:44]  Israel just conducted one of the most dangerous moves since the beginning of the war of aggression of the United States and Israel against Iran.
[00:32:52]  And this time it was in the form of an attack against the residence place of the Pakistani ambassador and the embassy itself.
[00:33:02]  Why is Israel targeting Pakistan now?
[00:33:05]  Did something instigate this move?
[00:33:08]  What is the response of Pakistan?
[00:33:10]  And where could this lead to?
[00:33:12]  We're going to talk all about this.
[00:33:13]  Let's begin with the report itself.
[00:33:15]  Israel strikes near Pakistani ambassador's residence and embassy in Tehran.
[00:33:21]  This didn't get the coverage that it needed, to be fair.
[00:33:23]  It's because it highlights the recklessness of this country.
[00:33:28]  Now, Pakistan, to remind people, the previous head of the Israeli Mossad, Mair Dagan, once said that his biggest nightmare is Pakistan.
[00:33:40]  Although Israel and Pakistan did not have direct confrontations with each other, Pakistan doesn't recognize Israel.
[00:33:47]  And also, it's a Muslim country with a nuclear weapon.
[00:33:50]  And because of these things, the Israelis are very worried about Pakistan and who holds the power in Pakistan too.
[00:33:56]  They've been warning from the danger of Pakistan for a very long time.
[00:34:02]  And despite multiple moves coming to try and initiate relations between the two countries, these haven't been fruitful.
[00:34:12]  Why are they targeting Pakistan now?
[00:34:15]  Well, Pakistan, according to multiple reports, has been intervening heavily in what's happening and trying to de-escalate.
[00:34:25]  Israel has a hit list, apparently, of multiple figures inside of Iran.
[00:34:30]  And Pakistan recently applied pressure after these heavy assassinations in the first wave with the United States to take several figures from the hit list of Israel.
[00:34:41]  One of them is Abbas Al-Rakshi, and the second one, the spokesperson of the Iranian parliament, Mohammad Bakr Khali Baf.
[00:34:49]  According to this report, Israel reportedly removed Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas al-Ashi and parliament speaker Khali Baff from its elimination target list following a request from Pakistan according to a Pakistani source with knowledge of the discussion.
[00:35:04]  Of course, we didn't hear the source name, but this intervention came in the form of Pakistan lobbying the United States.
[00:35:12]  Of course, they don't talk to Israel.
[00:35:15]  And because the United States has good relations with Pakistan, Israel doesn't like that.
[00:35:22]  They want to feel like they have the upper hand with everything.
[00:35:27]  Now, the Americans could have put a red line for Israel.
[00:35:32]  They could have had limits.
[00:35:34]  They did have these limitations when it comes to the energy sector, for example.
[00:35:39]  Netanyahu confirmed that.
[00:35:41]  Trump confirmed that.
[00:35:42]  So it's not unlikely for the United States to put more red lines with Iran, seeing as they're desperately trying to reach. a de-escalation.
[00:35:52]  Furthermore, Pakistan and Turkey are running what's labeled as a back channel of negotiations where they are passing messages from the American administration to the Iranian side, trying to de-escalate because they don't want things to get out of hand.
[00:36:12]  Now, Israel, of course, seeing this move coming from Pakistan and Turkey, they don't want the prospect of the United States having any sort of de-escalation with Iran following this pressure.
[00:36:28]  What do you do?
[00:36:29]  You go and start targeting the officials or try and intimidate them.
[00:36:34]  Now, despite the fact that this wasn't a direct assassination, this is a clear escalation.
[00:36:42]  And there was a fierce response coming from Pakistan.
[00:36:46]  We're no Qatar.
[00:36:49]  We'll beat the hell out of them.
[00:36:51]  Pakistan warns Israel over the Iran embassy strike.
[00:36:56]  Islamabad issued a stark warning to Israel over the safety of its diplomats, saying any threat to its officials, whether in Iran or elsewhere, would invite a sharp response.
[00:37:09]  Now, who made this actual statement?
[00:37:13]  According to this report, a statement was issued by the government-affiliated Pakistan Strategic Forum said that Israel must remember Pakistan is no Qatar, and we will beat the hell out of them if any harm happens to the diplomats, of course, in Iran or anywhere.
[00:37:30]  I like this guy.
[00:37:32]  He's an Iranian himself, given good reports.
[00:37:36]  Joachim, your thoughts about what you've just heard?
[00:37:41]  Yeah, anytime anybody wants to intervene for peace, oh my God, Israel is so against that, and they will do anything and everything to sabotage that.
[00:37:53]  So yeah, going after the council at there, the embassy of Pakistan in Iran is no surprise.
[00:38:03]  It's pretty much taken for granted that Israel will resort to those kind of tactics.
[00:38:11]  Yeah, they are the ones that are behind every kind of violence in the Middle East.
[00:38:19]  And they've been that way, what, for 80 years now, even before they became a nation, they were massacring the Palestinians.
[00:38:28]  So nothing has changed in all this time.
[00:38:32]  Almost a full century of total hell by Israel, wreaking havoc in the Middle East.
[00:38:40]  I mean, basically, even in Jerusalem, the Muslims got along with the Jews and they got along with the Christians.
[00:38:48]  You know, I mean, there was peace before we threw the Zionist Israel Jewish state in there.
[00:38:56]  It was peace.
[00:38:58]  And ever since, it's been nonstop battles and wars over and over repeated.
[00:39:06]  But this is the biggest war now so far.
[00:39:09]  And it involves, obviously, with the energy component, the entire world.
[00:39:15]  As a matter of fact, it's going to probably, if it goes on too much longer, it will completely shatter the economic collapse as well of the global world.
[00:39:31]  You know, I mean, the prices of the oil, the fertilizer, the crops that are not going to be harvested, the shortfall in the food and energy, gas, oil.

=== Global Population Wants Peace (03:06) ===

[00:39:47]  The consequences are just so great.
[00:39:51]  And, you know, we have Israel and the United States to blame, totally.
[00:39:58]  Obviously, there's an existential life and death situation for the country of Iran.
[00:40:06]  And so they got to do what they got to do to eventually win this war through attrition.
[00:40:12]  So, you know, everything is stacked up against.
[00:40:15]  And again, I say the aerial view is that it was predicted a long time ago that it would happen.
[00:40:22]  And the idea is the city of London, which pretty much I say they plot along with their other cronies that are the bloodlines, plot what's going to happen way in advance.
[00:40:36]  And they want World War III.
[00:40:39]  They want a reduction of the population size in this world.
[00:40:44]  They want to be able to control whoever is alive still.
[00:40:49]  And so they know that the population is onto them and their wars against humanity, their war against children, all of it's come out like never before.
[00:41:02]  And they know that the global population is now on to the evil ones that have been in control through the purse strings, the economies and financial infrastructure in this world.
[00:41:15]  And they know that the anger of the people is rising up.
[00:41:19]  And so they want to depopulate.
[00:41:21]  They tried out their little, well, their barometer to see what a pandemic could do.
[00:41:29]  They wanted more deaths than what's already occurred.
[00:41:32]  But, you know, they got all these weapons of mass destruction that they have lined up in their arsenal to depopulate our planet and then gain more control over their survivors on this planet.
[00:41:47]  And of course, replacing those survivors for the most part with their AI and robotics and cyborg nightmares, science fiction, you know, nightmares.
[00:42:01]  So this is the agenda of the ones that have been in control and are still in control.
[00:42:08]  And it's not good for the humankind.
[00:42:12]  So we have to step up as a human race for our own survival.
[00:42:17]  That's what it's coming down to.
[00:42:21]  And we have to remove the power source, which is basically the bloodline families that have been controlling the earth for a long, long time.
[00:42:30]  We have to remove them.
[00:42:32]  And we have to, you know, we cannot continue war.
[00:42:40]  We have to get rid of the people that are behind the war.
[00:42:44]  And, you know, the people have figured it out that they always lie to justify war.
[00:42:50]  And they try and con the people into going along with it.

=== Preserving the Dollar System (15:23) ===

[00:42:53]  It's not working, though.
[00:42:55]  The people of this earth are tired of war and they want finally to be done with it.
[00:43:02]  And the only way to be done with it is to go to the source.
[00:43:06]  And those are the controllers that pretty much plot all the major events that ever happen on this earth, whether it's the economy up and down and the flow of goods and the disruption of the supply chain.
[00:43:22]  All of it is controlled by an elite group that's a very small minority.
[00:43:28]  We outnumber them a million to one.
[00:43:30]  And we have to, for our own survival as a species, remove them from the power base on this earth.
[00:43:39]  Brian, your thoughts?
[00:43:43]  Well, McGregor, let's start out with him.
[00:43:49]  I mean, his argument is that this is the war that we can't win, but we also can't afford to lose it.
[00:43:57]  It was supposed to be short, it failed, and now we escalate.
[00:44:04]  So it's turned into a trap.
[00:44:12]  This war has failed, but the system isn't stopping.
[00:44:17]  It's escalating, which is why we're talking about Pakistan and many others.
[00:44:22]  And you have to really think in terms of what is the definition of winning.
[00:44:28]  I mean, the U.S. definition of winning is total submission, which is why we just keep dropping bombs.
[00:44:35]  But Iran's definition of victory is don't collapse.
[00:44:40]  And that mismatch makes conditions for an endless war.
[00:44:49]  We're basically saying we need them to surrender to win, and they just need to survive to win.
[00:44:56]  And that's not a war.
[00:44:58]  That's a trap.
[00:44:59]  And I think we've been caught in it at this point in time.
[00:45:04]  According to McGregor, we spent something like 5.2 billion in the first 36 hours hitting decoys and targets.
[00:45:14]  That sounds like a trap.
[00:45:18]  We're spending billions to destroy targets that don't even matter.
[00:45:22]  And is that because we don't have the intelligence to figure it out, or because we just simply don't have ground troops?
[00:45:30]  And what I'm hearing is that a lot of military members right now are doing everything they can to get out of here.
[00:45:37]  So we've got a very serious morale problem that apparently is developing.
[00:45:44]  And then we had the UN Review article.
[00:45:48]  And what they're fundamentally saying very long-windedly was that that island handles 90% of Iran's oil exports.
[00:46:00]  That's 2 million barrels a day.
[00:46:03]  And that is a critical slice of the pie for global energy.
[00:46:08]  So that island is not just a target, it's a global economic trigger.
[00:46:16]  And right now, Iran controls the choke point.
[00:46:22]  They can drop mines, they can strike tankers, and they can basically deny access, not to mention the insurance companies that by default deny access because it becomes so dangerous.
[00:46:35]  So there's no viable naval or air solution to reopen Hormuz.
[00:46:43]  So if Hormuz is closed, the global economy doesn't slow down, it breaks.
[00:46:52]  And that makes for a situation where this war could turn into literal starvation for people within weeks or even months, not to mention the oil shock.
[00:47:08]  And so, you know, we failed, so escalate.
[00:47:14]  But escalate equals economic collapse, possibly.
[00:47:21]  So it might be that the only way to win the war may be to collapse the system and rebuild under a global new world order.
[00:47:35]  And so this is why you see this new jockeying toward Pakistan, because if the system goes down, Pakistan has nuclear weapons.
[00:47:44]  They have more nuclear weapons than France and Britain combined.
[00:47:49]  But they've largely been thought of as American puppets for years.
[00:47:55]  So why is Israel, our partner in the Middle East, poking the bear?
[00:48:03]  That's very, very serious business.
[00:48:04]  I guess they just assume that anybody who has a weapon must therefore be dangerous.
[00:48:11]  And so we must disarm them and we must do it quickly.
[00:48:15]  So this is very bad.
[00:48:19]  This is very bad.
[00:48:20]  We need a realignment that goes away from Israel as a nation state or a base in the Middle East toward Israel could go to hell for all we care.
[00:48:32]  We just need the real estate and we need to control that real estate.
[00:48:35]  We need it fast.
[00:48:37]  So, you know, I don't know how it's all going to play out, but I would actually go into the yellow warning zone in terms of if these things are true, we've severely miscalculated that we could be looking at the architecture and the mapping system for the new world order playing out right before our eyes.
[00:49:03]  Well, the extent to which there's a new world order has already been set because the Gulf State nations recognize now America cannot protect them from Iran, that the only nation who can protect them from Iran is Iran.
[00:49:17]  So they're abandoning the petrodollar.
[00:49:20]  They're selling oil in other than United States dollars, which was the basis for the stability and value of the dollar in international oil transactions.
[00:49:30]  That is gone.
[00:49:31]  It is gone forever.
[00:49:34]  And if the United States does not now withdraw from the Middle East wholeheartedly and accede to Iran's demands, the threat of a worldwide collapse based on the loss of 20% of the world's oil and 30% of the fertilizer and other essential elements,
[00:49:55]  that's the mighty club that Iran wields that I think is going to force of necessity a resolution favorable to Iran, unfavorable to the United States.
[00:50:06]  And it's got to happen soon, or precisely as you are suggesting.
[00:50:13]  Yeah, but Jim, this is not a war that's about oil.
[00:50:17]  This is a war that's about preserving the dollar system that happens to be tied to oil.
[00:50:24]  So if Hormuz remains unstable, then globalization gets redefined.
[00:50:34]  So it's the oil.
[00:50:36]  Look, we've got reserves.
[00:50:38]  We can make more oil there.
[00:50:39]  We'll be okay for a while.
[00:50:41]  But if the dollar goes down, kaboom.
[00:50:47]  Brian, I'm predicting precisely that outcome, that the petrodollar is lost forever.
[00:50:55]  It was a brilliant gambit.
[00:50:57]  Nixon took us off the oil, the gold standard.
[00:51:00]  Kissinger had this brilliant idea for the petrodollar.
[00:51:05]  It has lost its luster and we brought it on ourselves.
[00:51:10]  We could have continued to maintain the illusion that we were the powerful military that could protect the Gulf if it were never tested.
[00:51:19]  But we decided to join with Israel in attacking Iran, which had been anticipating this outcome for 30 years.
[00:51:28]  You got 30 years of one of the most vibrant civilizations ever manifest on earth for over 2,500 years.
[00:51:36]  Stupendous scientists, intellectuals, students of the military, a nation founded on courage.
[00:51:45]  The stories of small groups of Persians fighting valiantly against massive hordes of other armies and dying in glory are legion.
[00:51:56]  That is the stuff of what Iran is made.
[00:51:59]  And because we had a man as president who is an intellectual nitwit, bereft of any knowledge, he possesses no understanding of military, no understanding of history, have no idea what Iran represented and was a puppet of Bibi Nanyatu.
[00:52:16]  We have found ourselves in a situation where the United States is going down for Israel.
[00:52:23]  And let there be no doubt about it.
[00:52:25]  We have destroyed ourselves on the altar of the chosen people.
[00:52:33]  And I just remind everyone: I always understand in God's eyes, we are all chosen people, not some special segment supposed to be entitled to rule the world, to which all other nations are to give their treasury.
[00:52:48]  And I say, not only are we done, Israel is done as well.
[00:52:52]  The big victors here are Russia, Iran, and China.
[00:52:57]  And frankly, the world is going to be better off as a consequence.
[00:53:02]  It will be a new world order.
[00:53:04]  Hopefully, we can evade the digital currency, the mass depopulation that has been otherwise envisioned and be able to move forward as a world population where America has lost its place of privilege forever.
[00:53:24]  Don, take us out.
[00:53:32]  You're muted, my friend.
[00:53:33]  You are muted, my friend.
[00:53:36]  Yeah, I'm muted.
[00:53:37]  I'm muted because we still have four minutes to go if you want.
[00:53:40]  Well, then, let me get follow-up thoughts by Joachim and Brian.
[00:53:47]  Joachim.
[00:53:49]  Yeah, I think World War III is the great reset.
[00:53:53]  Like King Charles and our WEF friend, Klaus Schwab want.
[00:54:01]  That's what this is.
[00:54:02]  It's a readjustment.
[00:54:03]  They knew that their economic structure on this earth was not able to sustain mega-crises.
[00:54:14]  And so this is their adjustment.
[00:54:16]  They're going to depopulate the earth and they're going to bring in their whole techno neo-feudalism on the remaining survivors on this earth.
[00:54:29]  That is the agenda by the ones pulling all the strings.
[00:54:33]  So, you know, like I say, unless we resist Their agenda, their new world order is in the making as we speak, and it ain't looking very good for the home team that wants to stay alive unless we resist and actively oppose the offenders of every principle that is good.
[00:55:00]  So, yeah.
[00:55:02]  Brian, your further thoughts?
[00:55:06]  Yeah, let me try to say this as clearly as I can.
[00:55:10]  This isn't about whether the American way of life survives the decisions being made right now.
[00:55:18]  This is extremely dangerous.
[00:55:21]  It was supposed to be a short, controlled operation, decapitate leadership, demonstrate dominance, move on, whatever.
[00:55:28]  That didn't happen.
[00:55:30]  And Washington's instincts are always to just double down with more strikes and more escalation.
[00:55:36]  But the problem nobody really wants to say out loud is again, Iran doesn't have to defeat the United States to win.
[00:55:43]  They just have to survive.
[00:55:45]  And in surviving, they can do something far more dangerous than winning on a battlefield.
[00:55:51]  They can disrupt the system that Americans depend on every day.
[00:55:55]  You start hitting oil infrastructure, you threaten the Straits of Hormuz, and suddenly this isn't a regional war anymore.
[00:56:01]  It's a global economic shock.
[00:56:04]  So this is bad foreign policy, and this is our life.
[00:56:09]  And it ought to concern every American that's paying attention to what's going on.
[00:56:16]  This position that we're in is the fastest way to destabilize the system that props up our standard of living.
[00:56:26]  Cheap energy, stable markets, reliable trade routes.
[00:56:30]  That's all invisible infrastructure that makes the dollar valuable.
[00:56:34]  And we're gambling with all of it.
[00:56:36]  For what?
[00:56:38]  A war that may not be winnable the way it's currently being defined?
[00:56:43]  A conflict where escalation creates more problems than it solves in a situation where people, the people making the decisions, aren't going to bear the cost, but the American people are.
[00:56:56]  I mean, look at this.
[00:56:57]  Higher prices, economic instability, long-term conflict.
[00:57:02]  The question is, should we go to war?
[00:57:05]  The question is, why are we willing to risk the stability of our own country for an outcome that we don't even control?
[00:57:14]  So I think Washington better come up with some answers and fast.
[00:57:18]  Otherwise, this thing's going to get out of control.
[00:57:20]  And you're not going to hear that from a talking head on NBC or CNN.
[00:57:24]  That's just the way it is.
[00:57:26]  Brian, it's already out of control.
[00:57:29]  The war is already lost.
[00:57:31]  And it was obvious to every serious military analyst, we were anticipating just this outcome before the shots had been fired.
[00:57:40]  Iran had all the inherent advantages.
[00:57:43]  We didn't know how thoroughly they had prepared with what a variety of missiles.
[00:57:48]  But anyone looking at the terrain would understand the Chinese professor immediately right off the bat talked about Iran being on these mountains overlooking the plain and that the Gulf states had oil refineries, they had desalinization plants, and they had American bases, none of which they were able to defend.
[00:58:09]  None.
[00:58:10]  So the whole thing was just a myth.
[00:58:13]  It was just an idea of American superiority.

=== History Records Our Blame (01:12) ===

[00:58:17]  And that idea has been shown to have been completely wrong.
[00:58:23]  And we're now exposed.
[00:58:24]  And I'm sorry, the world is changing.
[00:58:26]  And there's really nothing we can do about it, sad to say.
[00:58:30]  I only hope we're able to survive as a lesser nation among other nations.
[00:58:36]  We enjoyed a position of privilege for far too long that we did not deserve.
[00:58:41]  I believe history will record that we brought this on ourselves.
[00:58:46]  We earned it.
[00:58:48]  And here we are.
[00:58:49]  Don, take us out.
[00:58:52]  Here we are here on Palm Sunday, 2026.
[00:58:58]  Oh, wow.
[00:59:00]  I think this show is the heaviest show we've ever done.
[00:59:03]  I think you're going to want to save this one and watch it at least twice to get everything, if you can digest it all, or if you want to.
[00:59:11]  But this is it here.
[00:59:13]  So record this, of course, and send it on to the internet, whatever you can do.
[00:59:21]  This has got to get out to the world.
[00:59:23]  And I thank you so much for watching and carrying and doing all you can there.
[00:59:27]  So thank you much.
[00:59:29]  Bye-bye.