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April 2, 2026 - Jim Fetzer
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The Raw Deal (1 April 2026) "Fearsome Threesome" edition with Russ Winter and Joachim Hagopian
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Nuclear Bait and Strait Hormuz 00:15:08
Somebody, not just anybody.
You know, I need someone.
When I was young, so much younger than today, I never needed it.
I didn't see any way.
Now, these days, I've got to be so selfish.
I'm not trying to lie.
I'm opening up the doors.
Help me if you can.
I'm feeling down.
This is Jim Fetzer, your host on the Raw Deal.
This first day of April 2026, joined by Russ Winter and Joaquin Agobian for a fearsome threesome edition.
You'd think it might be April Fools because Trump is.
Claiming Iran has requested a ceasefire, which Iran has denied.
This appears to be a predicate he wants to have in place for a species giving tonight at 9 p.m. Eastern, 8 p.m. Central, during which I believe he will announce victory in the war with Iran, that he's going to withdraw American forces from the Middle East.
He may or may not acknowledge relieving sanctions on Iran and potential reparations.
But the situation is so bleak and serious, let me offer a couple reasons why this is coming to pass.
Russia has now sent six submarines to the Strait of Hormuz.
Chechen troops are assembling aid Iran if it's invaded.
China reportedly is traveling 100,000 troops.
This is about as serious as it gets.
There's now a confirmed presence of Russian nuclear submarines near the Strait of Hormuz.
There's also a confirmed announcement by Chechen forces they will enter Iran to fight the U.S. if an invasion were to take place.
An unconfirmed report China to move 100,000 troops into Iran if the U.S. invades.
Moscow has officially deployed six subs, including two nuclear, near the Strait of Hormuz for a discreet mission to protect Iranian. infrastructure according to reports.
Their primary role is to prevent the U.S. and Israel from freely entering the strait or approaching the Iranian coast.
The deployment sent a strong political message to the West signaling that any major escalation against Iran could directly involve Russia.
The presence of two nuclear armed Saabs also seems to indicate that if Iran were hit with nuclear weapons, another nearby country That attacks Iran would also be nuked, that of course means Israel, and an additional development of enormous consequence.
US bonds are being sold off in a massive global economic shift.
This is also from Hal Turner.
Foreign central banks have drastically reduced their holding of US Treasury bonds held at New York Fed to their lowest levels at 2012.
Primarily central banks, but also governments and international organizations have decreased their holdings at the Fed of New York by $82 billion since February 25.
It's going to accelerate.
As a war in Iran overturns decades of stability, central banks across the planet are making a move of desperation, dumping U.S. Treasury bombs at rates not seen since 2012.
This marks an historic shift that threatens the dollar's supremacy and sends shockwaves from the U.S. all the way to Turkey.
I think it's far more consequential than that.
Joaquin, give us your thoughts, my friend.
Well, I think we're going to see Trump come on TV in a few hours.
And yes, I agree.
He's going to announce victory, and that will be his face saving device to get the hell out.
My understanding is all these troops that they are saying are basically in the Gulf and ready to go.
No, they found out that they haven't left.
In fact, a lot of the military groups.
Never even received orders yet.
So I think it's all bluff.
I think he was trying to bait Iran into some kind of agreement settlement.
And obviously, it didn't go anywhere.
They hold all the cards, Iran does, and they're not ready to let go or concede anything.
So idiots are going to be totally humiliated by the outcome because.
Nothing that he is demanding will be, you know, manifest.
And pretty much, I believe the six points that Iran has been demanding all along will be what settles it.
I pray to God there's no major war here for the sake of everybody on the earth.
Yeah, it's colossally humiliating.
This must be the most difficult thing Trump has ever done in his life.
But assuming we're correct in our inference, he's doing the right thing to avoid making a very bad situation much, much worse.
Russ, your thoughts.
Well, he has no allies, particularly on a ground campaign or some kind of a military action to open up the straits.
Israel has announced they're not providing any ground troops.
I mean, they don't really have any, they're so incompetent.
Europe has cut him down carte blanche.
Poland, I noticed, they've made a request to Poland to send down a triad, that they had triad missile air defense that they had.
Poland said, no, no, we're not going to do that.
So he's just getting no traction whatsoever with anybody.
And it wouldn't surprise me what Joachim said is that the troops aren't even deployed.
So, yeah, it's a total bluff.
Now, the story about the bonds being sold off, actually, that's as of necessity because the Gulf states in particular.
Are not getting any oil revenue in, and they need to have something to, you know, reserves to cover their bacon and to start getting prepared to rebuild the country.
So that's one of the, I mean, that's a pretty practical reason to get rid of U.S. bonds right there without even having to particularly insult the U.S.
I think the whole story with Saudi Arabia is interesting.
We can get into that maybe later, where he called him an ass kisser.
And apparently the Arabs are sort of, they kind of get their revenge later, they're not back in your face right away.
But he just calmly announced that we're going to be buying our weapons from other countries, which I presume would be primarily China.
Isn't it amazing?
What a calamity.
And it was by choice, not necessity.
Meanwhile, Colonel Willowcroft.
I won all the European countries.
What is it now?
Italy, Spain, France, Switzerland.
They've all said, not on our airspace, and you don't do any military action on our turf.
You know, he's being denied right and left by all the quote allies that he completely insulted over this last year.
Yes, yes, yes.
Well, then, and in that insult to injury, he threatens to get out of NATO, to which I mean, the Italian prime minister was kind of joking about.
She says, What are we supposed to do?
Attack McDonald's?
Love it, love it.
Here's Colonel Will Carson.
And Israel's nightmare has just begun.
Find your perfect tax expert, whatever your tax situation might be.
It's bad.
It really is bad.
Iran started out hitting military targets, which was their custom.
That's what they did in the 12 day war back in June, military targets only.
Now, as Arachi so incredibly detailed, with all the targets that Israel and the United States have hit, largely from outside of Iran.
Another lie is that we have air supremacy over Iran.
We do not.
We're launching most of these weapons from outside Iran.
We're launching glide bombs.
We're launching JDAMs.
We're launching missiles and such.
We aren't flying over Iran because we do not have air supremacy over Iran.
So, what they're doing now is matching Israel blow for blow.
They're going after other things.
They started with the oil facilities at Haifa and hit it with the Qur'an Sham missile that almost destroyed the place.
I think what we're looking at right now, if Iran continues this, we're looking at an existential situation for Israel.
Israel is going to be aflame.
It's going to be burning.
All of its people are going to be underground in bomb shelters, unable to come out, unable to move.
And that's a very dangerous situation, in my view.
I think other people are coming around, in my view.
It's a very dangerous situation because Bibi Netanyahu is going to feel like he has to use a nuclear weapon in order to get out of this.
Iran, in short, Is destroying the state of Israel right now, methodically, blow by blow, missile by missile.
Israel has run out of or almost run out of the key missiles to shoot back.
They're trying to husband what they have because they don't know what's coming.
And I can tell them what's coming.
There are still probably 10,000 missiles yet to be fired, maybe more than that.
So Israel is being methodically destroyed.
And we're standing by and watching it.
And so is Netanyahu.
I don't think he's too happy about it.
And one wonders what he does think about it because it is becoming more and more apparent, even to his own people the IDF chief, the mayors whose towns and villages are getting hit, the other people in the structure who understand what's happening to them, even if they only see this little segment of it, because Netanyahu closes down all communications and won't let people talk to each other.
Won't let newspaper people in there, TV people in there.
You can't get into Israel to examine exactly what's happening, but it is so widespread now and so prolific that it's impossible to hide.
Let me get your take on the Houthis because they sounded an alarm a couple of days ago that if the U.S. were to send in troops to try to take Karg Island or basically to try to put these boots on the ground, that they would get involved in this war.
Then they struck Friday, late Friday evening, early Saturday morning.
They did strike and they are now officially a part of this war.
I think that's going to be a huge issue because as you remember, Pete Hegseth.
Boasting notwithstanding, they drove us out of the Red Sea before.
And if you want to look at a global problem, a true global problem, I mean, it's not like the Strait of Hormuz isn't a problem.
3,200, 3,300 ships stuck off the Strait of Hormuz, 30,000 mariners without enough water to drink.
I mean, this is a colossal global problem right now.
But if you want to talk about a real problem, add the Babamandeb to it.
Because more shipping in terms of variegated products like cotton, soybeans, you name it, goes through the Red Sea and the Suez Canal.
Most of what comes out of the Persian Gulf is in some way connected with oil products or like helium, urea, things like that.
They are very, very sorely needed products, helium, for example, in the making of computer chips and such.
But the Red Sea is one of the major conduits of the world.
And if they get that shut down, then we are looking not at a recession, which it really technically already is two quarters in a row.
Two quarters in a row is a recession, and we've got it now.
We're looking at a depression.
We're looking at a global depression, not just a depression in the Western hemisphere, but across the globe, with the possible exception of Russia, because Russia is getting richer and richer and richer every day with all the oil she's selling and all the people now that are begging her to sell them all.
It's really ironic how all this is played out.
Joaquin, your initial thoughts.
Yeah, I mean, every intervention, aggressive intervention America makes, you can go back, I mean, for years, every single major aggressive intervention backfires.
They never get their objective accomplished militarily, strategically.
In any kind of major aggressive intervention.
What does that say?
Well, it says the American empire is no longer an empire, it's a paper tiger.
And the Gulf states are finding that out very painfully that their security architecture, supplied by the great number one that Trump likes to brag about, didn't protect them.
The Paper Tiger Empire 00:11:00
And it's not protecting Israel.
Yeah, I don't want to see people die.
It's always a horrible thing.
But to see the nation of Israel die, yeah, I'm all for it.
Because they are the terrorist state pariah of the earth, along with America.
No, Sal.
Wilkerson is talking about the systematic demolition of Russia by Iran.
They thought this through so thoroughly.
It is awesome.
Of Israel.
It's awesome.
Russ.
Interesting that in lieu of, in lieu of, is that the right term?
Yeah, in lieu of the speech tonight, Israel, Iran is sending, what is it, Wave 98 to see if they're supposed to be out of missiles.
The biggest wave ever during the daylight to Israel is being hit really hard today.
And it's going to be interesting to see how much they throw at them overnight.
As Trump makes a speech, which is 9 p.m. Eastern Time, so it'd be about four or five in the morning, something like that, in Iran or Israel, something like that, like really the middle of the night.
They're going to really unload on him right during his speech.
And of course, closing the Red Sea access, you know, I mean, there's about Houthis.
Israel has apparently just hit the Houthis massively hard, massively hard.
On the other hand, the Houthis have been subjected to all kinds of carbon bombing by the U.S. and Saudi Arabia in the past and have.
Survived.
They are so noble and courageous.
I am in awe of the Houthis.
Joaquin, your thoughts?
Yeah, they have proven themselves over and over to probably be the most resilient people and nation on earth.
On earth.
On earth.
They've proven it.
Yeah.
I mean, nobody can take them down.
The whole alliance with America and Saudi Arabia and all the Gulf states for 10 years were on them and they couldn't.
Pudge them whatsoever.
And then, of course, more recently, Trump and his air campaign, they couldn't root them out.
You know, they are the most resilient nation proven by their actions on earth.
Yes.
Now, I haven't seen the videos, but a friend has said it's mushroom clouds coming up over Yemen.
I believe the Israelis who have used tactical nukes before are using them here on the Houthis.
That is my belief.
Ross, your thoughts?
Well, there's also fear that probably the Israelis, not necessarily the U.S., will take out their port facilities where they import their food because the Yemenis people are somewhat dependent on food imports.
And that would be a new escalation because then they would have to retaliate and take out the desalination plants.
And I mean, the main targets lately, we maybe get into a little bit later, I could mention one of them is the Tiva Pharmaceutical Factory.
And that's one of Israel's biggest exporters of drugs, particularly generic drugs.
I mean, practically any drug that any of us uses is a Tiva product.
It's enormous.
It has a worldwide impact.
And they took that out.
That's pretty high level escalation.
So it's just ratcheting higher and higher and higher.
And Trump, if he's smart, he was smart, can see the pressure that Israel is under, would try to be making some kind of concessions to the Iranians instead of more bluster.
But that's not what's going to happen.
I mean, He's incapable of it.
So he just means more escalation, more threats, more escalation.
I believe he will pull the U.S. out of the Middle East and the Houthi Iranians won't need to attack American bases anymore.
They've already won.
But they are going to be unrelenting with Israel.
Right.
Let's turn to dust and rubble until all of Israel is Gaza 2.0.
They are not going to relent.
Because Israel keeps escalating.
They keep hitting the wrong targets, and the United States can't rein them in.
Israel basically is going all broke.
I mean, they could do nuclear, tactical nukes.
They, I believe, will, actually.
I believe they will if they haven't already.
But there you got the Russian subs, including Nuke, Joaquin.
They cannot do it without being Nuke themselves.
And Pakistan, North Korea have made those observations in the past that have.
If Israel nukes Iran, they are going to nuke Israel.
And I believe it.
Well, Henry Kissinger said in 2012, you know, 10 years, Israel's going to be gone.
Well, they're four years overdue.
So who knows?
It could happen.
But Israel keeps going to the edge.
Israel keeps going to the edge.
They may not use nukes, but they keep going to the edge.
Oh, let's wipe out the Yemeni's food supply.
Oh, let's.
And the retaliations are just tit for tat.
Tiva pharmaceutical plant, that's huge.
That phosphate plant down there.
Negev is that's huge.
They still haven't taken out their lights, their electricity yet, but they've demonstrated that they can.
They're working on that, though.
They're working on that.
Just a question of pushing the right button, getting the orders, and kind of depending on who Israel attacks next.
So the war has really gotten out of control.
And Trump really has just not addressed, Neo Caligula just has not addressed the out of control aspect of this war at all.
Neither of any of his officials.
And that's very unfortunate because a lot of people.
All over the Middle East, including maybe Yemenis, certainly Israelis, they're going to die.
Yes, yes.
Yeah.
It'll escalate.
It'll escalate.
America hopefully will not be involved, but certainly the war is not over because Israel is going to go at it.
And of course, Iran will answer.
See, the thing is, everybody's a chicken.
You know, the U.S. is a chicken.
They don't have the troops to do any kind of ground offensive.
The Israelis have already begged out, so they don't have any guts.
There's no guts and glory at all.
It's just all talk and bombing, you know.
Pushing the edge in the bombing of what bombing can achieve.
I have a friend in a better position to know than I who believes that the Navy is calling it off.
They don't want all our ships to be sunk.
They're such sitting docks.
I mean, remember, each carrier, 5,000 complement, 3,500 sailors, 1,500 Marines.
The Iranians don't want to sink them.
They know it would cause an outrage in the United States, though I do not believe Americans would hold it against.
Iran, if they did sink our ships, we launched this attack.
We own it.
We suffered the consequences.
But I think the admirals don't want to see their own navy sunk before they're very young.
You know, look at the accuracy of that attack on Saturday on that AWACS on the tarmac in Saudi Arabia, 700 kilometer hit.
So the Israelis, the Iranians demonstrated right there they have a technical ability to literally just hit the tail and the AWACS radar.
Of that plane and just destroy it.
And then the funny thing is that first it was called a rumor.
And then the Wall Street Journal puts out a story saying it was damaged.
You know, in insurance claims terms, no, it's not damaged, it's totaled.
Yeah, yeah.
America has not caught up with modern warfare.
With their naval fleet sitting ducks, they're not there.
The warfare is conducted with missiles and drones now, and America's not prepared.
I'll tell you who is prepared: China.
If the U.S. thinks we can take on China, we got our head where the sun doesn't shine.
There's no doubt we do have our head where the sun doesn't shine, however.
Here we have one from Ross, actually.
The FF war intensifies all across the front.
I think this is a pretty good diagram.
How much Iran is dug in.
That's a great diagram, Ross.
The war is intensifying with important targets on both sides being wrecked.
This is fast approaching World War II level of destruction.
Iran bombed Israel's Tifa pharmaceutical factories, the largest generic drug manufacturer on Earth.
Chemical leak, secondary explosion, factory burning just as you were telling us, Ross.
Fascinating.
Iran knocked an Israeli power plant in the Negev completely offline.
Iran carried out 27 strikes on the Negev with zero visible air defense activation, not one interception.
Rafael Advanced Defense Systems site in Beersheba, Iraq.
Israel's premier weapons manufacturer.
The company makes missiles and air defense systems, Iron Dome David swings spike missiles.
Hafa oil refinery struck and shut down.
66% of Israelis fear army collapse.
43% hit economically.
It's going to get worse.
US bases hit simultaneously in Kuwait, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia.
Four countries, one coordinated attack.
Ongoing, not one off.
Iran demonstrates sufficient capacity to carry out with accuracy.
Monday, Iran's Saudi Arabia tarmac recession hit.
There you see the plane.
There you see.
There you see.
That nobody's talking about loudly enough.
They didn't just wound some American soldiers at a certain point.
Good thing you're going to get to the commercial.
They surgically destroyed the plane that gave the U.S. military its eyes.
And America had no good answer for it.
The hit.
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Hezbollah's Asymmetric Commitment 00:15:05
Here's a video of that precision strike in Saudi Arabia.
Here's what Iran did that nobody's talking about loudly enough.
They didn't just wound some American soldiers at a Saudi airbase, they surgically destroyed the plane that gave the U.S. military its eyes.
And America had no good answer for it.
Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia.
Iranian ballistic missiles and drones punch through U.S. air defenses.
More than 10 American soldiers go down, two are critical.
But look at what else is burning on the tarmac.
Tail number 81-0005, an E-3G Sentry AWACS, operated by the 552nd Air Control Wing out of Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.
Images show it split open.
Analysts say it's gone for good.
Two KC-135 aerial tankers, the planes that keep fighter jets flying, were also destroyed.
This wasn't random.
This was a precision hit on America.
Yeah, yeah.
Precision hit indeed.
Russ, you're just doing a super job here with this overview.
Iran announced it'll begin bombing personal homes of U.S. and Israel military commanders up until now.
Iran has shown restraint on revenge for decapitation attacks.
I got to mention something here.
Maybe I should mention this, but I don't know if you guys saw that Lindsey Graham was just walking around alone at Disney World.
Yeah, go ahead and elaborate.
Meaning nobody cares about Lindsay, that he's made himself a pariah.
How does he avoid being assassinated?
Oh, oh, oh, well, yeah.
I take it even he is throwing Trump under the bus.
I think it's absolutely astonishing what's going on here.
Yemen has ended the war.
I'm sure he's got bodyguards, though.
Lindsay.
By himself.
Yemen has entered the war on Iran's side.
Iraq is sending aid to Iran.
Grok does not disagree with my observations.
Here we go.
Absolute humiliation for Israeli intelligence.
An expert report confirms Hezbollah is firing rockets from deep inside Lebanon, completely surprising the military.
They severely underestimated the resistance with missiles now striking strategic sites near Jabrus Salam.
Hezbollah has the upper hand.
Iran can now conserve its hybrid science for the very highest value targets.
It's interesting.
This seems to be.
Go ahead.
I'm making pretty straightforward comments here.
You know, it's the truth.
Yeah.
And then I check with Grok to see what Grok thinks about what I'm saying.
Go ahead and scroll down.
Yeah.
Well, we'll get there.
I want to play this video.
All right.
The Israeli strategy, they're very adamant on diminishing the threat of Hezbollah, on disarming the group.
And part of doing that requires them, according to the Israeli defense minister, to push deeper into southern Lebanon, not just to the south of the Letani River, but also they're talking about areas in the north because they have been saying that a significant number of rockets being fired from Hezbollah are being fired from the north of the Letani River.
They talk about capabilities that the group had that they did not anticipate, that they had been underwhelmed or basically underestimated.
estimating the power of Hezbollah.
But since this battle, since this round of fighting between them had started, we've been hearing more and more officials saying that Hezbollah has hundreds of rockets.
Some of them can reach very far away places.
As we've seen in the beginning of the war, one mid-range missile managed to arrive or to hit areas in Beit Shemesh that's very close to Jerusalem, a place where there's a lot of Israeli strategic assets and military sites.
time it was revealed that it was a satellite station that had been hit.
But this is something that the Israelis have taken very seriously and they've said that they need to push more soldiers and occupy more lands in southern Lebanon in order to achieve that goal.
Whether they will be able to do that is very contentious according to certain military analysts who say that the Hezbollah has the upper hand when it comes to the battles on the ground, can know the lay of the land very well, but they still argue the Israeli defense minister that they have the support of the U.S.
That they have the military technologies, that they have control over the air as well.
So you're seeing this debate being reflected in Israeli media amongst Israeli officials.
But what's clear is that the government shows no intention to backtrack on its plans to push further and deeper into southern Lebanon.
Well, the Israelis verge on total incompetence because they're bringing tanks into Lebanon with no infantry to ensure there are no anti-tank missiles and so forth to confront them.
I mean, it's totally inappropriate.
It's among the most basic elements of tank warfare.
You cannot proceed simply with tanks in the lead because they'll be taken out.
And they're being taken out.
Here we have Grok.
The Post replies to a video report on Hezbollah's rocket strikes on Haifa's oil refinery, claiming Israel underestimated the group's E-block.
Which reached strategic sites near Jerusalem on March 30.
It assumes Hezbollah's battlefield superiority, allowing Iran to reserve hybrid-signed missiles for premium targets, reflecting a narrative of shifting regional power dynamics amid escalating cross-border exchanges.
This aligns with recent reports of intensified Lebanon-Israel clashes, where Hezbollah's arsenal estimated over 150,000 rockets.
Has overwhelmed Israeli defenses, prompting calls for deeper ground incursion by highlighting logistics chains on IDF reserves.
Russ, IDF has been defeated by Hezbollah before, they're being defeated by Hezbollah again.
But if you go on X, you've got all these pro Zionists that just pretending this isn't happening.
And so I go on and I get, I don't know, what did I get?
Like 50 impressions with my tweet.
Nobody reads it.
But Grok comes to my defense, says, Hey, man, you nailed it.
Yeah, this reminds me of the 2006 defeat that Israel had at the hands of Hezbollah.
And everybody was like figuring, oh, Hezbollah's been weakened, you know?
This is all very surprising to a lot of people that Hezbollah has regrouped and come back with a vengeance.
So I love that too.
Yeah, now here's Stanley McChrystal.
Everything after this will be harder.
He's a right, but it really starts in 1953 when the U.S. and British intelligence services overthrew the constitutionally elected prime minister and put back into power the peacock regime of the Shah.
They oppressed the people tremendously through, particularly through Savak, the secret police.
So when the Iranian revolution erupts in 1978, we may be surprised.
The Iranian people are not surprised.
And when they suddenly say death to America, most Americans say, What's your problem?
Why are you angry at us?
And then, of course, we spoke earlier about the Iran Iraq war, which was for eight years, it was this brutal bloodletting.
And so Iran survives this eight year extraordinary experience, twice as long as the First World War.
And it sets a mark upon the Iranian population that we shouldn't forget to this day because the baby boomers are veterans of that experience.
And the clerics get a lot of support from them.
So then, after 2002, when George W. Bush names Iran to the axis of evil, reportedly to their surprise, you start to continue this set of grievances.
So.
I try to remind people whenever we think of what's happening now, if we don't understand that journey to this point, we don't understand the attitudes that are going to drive decisions people make.
So I'm so glad we have dived into this from the Iranian perspective because I think understanding the Iranian perspective really helps us maybe understand how the rest of this war might go.
What kind of staying power, for example, the Iranians might have.
And there have been comparisons, for example, to the lightning quick.
Raid to get Maduro out of Venezuela.
That was there some expectation that you could do something very rapid, very fast, decapitation strike, and really alter the behavior and composition of the regime in a substantial way?
And my perception of that from the beginning was that that was a bit of a vain hope because you have a very different composition of enemy when you're talking about, say, a South American strongman versus an Islamic revolutionary regime.
That the level of commitment that exists within the regime is just something it's.
Theological, sometimes it's apocalyptic.
Uh, when we were in Iraq taking on Shia militias, the level of their commitment was such that, you know, for example, the medics who were treating wounded Shia fighters would sometimes report that the Shia fighters, even gravely wounded, would try to bite them or harm them in some way, even though they were gravely wounded.
That was the level of commitment.
So we hear a lot about that the Iranian people are ready to rise up.
That they're ready to overthrow this government.
But at the same time, we have seen extreme levels of commitment, even to the point of a million plus casualties.
How are you judging sort of the state of the Iranian opposition at this moment?
Is it brittle?
Is it fragile?
Or are you seeing that 47 year long commitment continuing?
Yeah.
I really want to go two lines on this.
The first is that question.
I don't know because the Iranian opposition is not really evident.
We saw in 2009 they came in the streets and they were sort of beaten back into submission.
And then reportedly thousands of Iranians protesting were killed by the regime in recent months.
But I couldn't name the opposition leader.
I couldn't tell you the liberation front of Iran.
And I know that.
The Shah's son is going around, but I don't think he's a legitimate alternative.
I think that we can't gauge the actual strength of the desire of Iranian people to change.
And of course, a war will often cause people to coalesce around their government, to coalesce around.
In your really well written article today, you said something I really believe in.
You said, I'm an American, I want our side to win.
I feel the same way, even though I disagree.
With many of the things my government's doing, I'm unequivocal on this side.
And that may be the case.
The other thing I want to talk about, though, is because you brought up the Maduro raid, there are three great seductions that happen to American administrations and to military.
The first is the idea of covert action.
And a new president comes in and he's told by the intelligence community, we can create this great effect and it will be covert.
No one will ever know who did it, and it'll just be a good outcome.
And in my experience, it never stays covert and it rarely works.
But it's seductive because it seems like an easy approach to a naughty problem.
The second seduction is, which I lived as a part of, is the surgical special operations raid.
And that is probably epitomized by the Maduro raid.
And I would argue that we demonstrated extraordinary competence that night, but not much changed.
I don't think that we actually demonstrated the ability to change the facts on the ground to any extent, which gets to the third great seduction, and that's air power.
And, you know, we all love air power.
In World War II, we went into the war with the Duhay theories that, Air power, the bomber will always get through and therefore air power will be dominant.
And it was certainly very, very contributory, but it was never dominant.
When we got into Vietnam, which was the classic case, and we developed a strategy that said for North Vietnam, we will have a rheostat and an escalation strategy and we will raise the pressure on them until we hit the point at which they're willing to quit.
It's not worth it anymore.
What we didn't perceive is like.
The Shia wounded that your medics ran into.
There was no point for North Vietnam.
They were asymmetrically committed to the outcome.
And so we've entered Iraq in 2003 with shock and awe, and then we spent a decade there fighting after it.
I think that we fell for the seduction that if we bomb key targets, that we will produce the outcome we want.
But the outcome's in the minds of the people.
And unless you're going to kill all the people, you may not affect that outcome.
So we may be at a point, you used the word in your article, quagmire, but we may be at a point where.
We've run into a country that has an extraordinary capacity to be bombed.
Right.
General, let me make the case to you that.
Let me just say whatever doubts I may have had about McChrystal, here he was crystal clear.
Killing Civilians Creates Quagmires 00:04:44
I'm very impressed with his commentary there.
Joaquin, your thoughts.
Yeah.
Well, you know, the United States.
Has been the aggressor for a long, long, long, long time.
You know, there might have been goodwill at various junctures in U.S. history, but for the most part, the United States has been, since 1776, the most warring nation on earth by far.
No other nation comes close.
We have been the country that has, you know, up to a thousand military installations all across the world.
I think it's down to like 750 or something like that.
And I hope it keeps going down because I'll tell you.
America has no business getting into the affairs and the sovereign rights of other nations, period.
They don't have that right.
Yet they've basically taken it as an absolute right that America has because we're number one.
Therefore, it entitles them to go in and do regime change after regime change, invasion after invasion.
And it's just the history of this.
And everything that they touched in the last, what, since World War II, I would say, killing and killing and killing, it's not then in America's interest.
Every time they lose the war, and it does not benefit America, it keeps hurting America.
So they don't learn their lesson.
And I maintain that it's not miscalculation, it's not CIA Director David Barney saying, Oh, yeah, it's going to be over in four days.
And then convincing Netanyahu and the United States and Trump.
No, it's not.
It is the City of London controllers that want to depopulate the earth and they use the U.S. as their weapon to depopulate the earth through nonstop war.
Russ.
On a psychological front, which McChrystal was addressing there, let's take note of the fact that Jared told Neo Caligula, Trump, that the country would rally around him just like they did George W. Bush in the Iraq War.
That his popularity would soar.
So, if you talk about a miscalculation, that's about as far from it.
You mean the American people rallying around Trump, right?
Yeah, that's what Jared told Neil Caligula.
But all you have to do is look back to last June.
Look what happened.
It only lasted 10 days because they got their ass kicked.
America did not do anything.
They came in at the end and bombed the nuclear site, but they couldn't get to them.
They're underground.
So it was a total waste on Israel's part.
Oh, and suddenly a few months later, you're going to go in there in four days and wipe them out?
Shut up.
That's a bad miscalculation.
They failed to rally the public behind the war.
Yeah, they failed to rally the public behind the war.
I mean, bad miscalculation.
And secondly, the military, at least in Iran, as North Vietnam and the Viet Cong in large measure, We're underground.
And so they get kind of insulated from this bombing.
Sure, it could probably have some effect, but they're pretty dug in.
Now, that forces the US and Israel in particular to start going after soft targets like hospitals and universities and playing that kind of shit.
Oil infrastructure.
That's all Israel goes for is the civilian targets.
Yeah, because they can't take out these big granite mountain fortifications.
No.
They miscalculated that too.
So that's all I got to say about McChrystal.
I just want to reiterate.
I think I played this again last week, but Ted Postel of MIT has affirmed that Iran already has nuclear capability, that their weaponry is.
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Hold up, hold news.
Iran Already Has Nuclear Capability 00:04:58
Under doubt, is under threat.
Then it would be justified, according to this edict, to use nuclear weapons.
So they are in a position.
If they have this equipment and they do have it.
So let me just, is that, shall I just take a minute or two and then I'll tell you what they can do, what the consequences of this would be?
That's important as well.
All right.
So why should anyone understand that this, that the Iranians almost certainly have the ability to build nuclear weapons?
This is because they have this 60% enriched.
Uranium hexafluoride.
I'll show you what uranium hexafluoride is in these canisters.
So here's a canister of uranium hexafluoride.
It's got about 50 kilograms of uranium hexafluoride in it.
It's very rugged, it's maybe a meter in length, so it's not big.
Weighs the total weight is about 100, is about 50 kilograms, 100 pounds.
And it's got 25, 30 kilograms of uranium hexafluoride in it.
That's enough to give you a nuclear weapon when you take the uranium hexafluoride and you convert it to uranium metal.
All right, so how do we do that?
Well, just to show you how large these containers are, here's 10 atomic bombs worth of uranium, 60% enriched uranium hexafluoride.
That's about not quite 400 kilograms.
They have 408 kilograms, so really they have 11.
If you do a more careful arithmetic, they can make 11 atomic bombs with this material.
Okay, this is for 90% enriched.
These containers.
Has 60% enriched, so you want to convert the 60% enriched uranium hexafluoride to 90%.
Well, what you do is the reason it's uranium hexafluoride, which is a chemical substance, is because it's kind of crystal.
The uranium hexafluoride is kind of a crystal.
If this glass container contained a very small crystal, you know, a small amount of uranium hexafluoride, only that, And its temperature was maybe 100 degrees Fahrenheit, you know, 40 degrees Celsius, 50 degrees Celsius.
That you would not see the crystal there.
You would only see a clear container because it would be a gas.
Uranium hexafluoride would be a dilute gas, a very thin gas.
And the reason you want it as a thin gas is you're going to put it into these what are called centrifuges.
We're not going to worry about.
Exactly how these centrifuges work.
All we need to know is that the Iranians have these centrifuges and they know how to use them.
That's all we need to know right now.
And they have cascades of these.
This is a particular cascade.
We know this is a particular cascade of 174 centrifuges where the enriched uranium is put out, which could be 90% enriched.
Now, You would need a few weeks of time with one of these cascades to enrich the 60% gaseous uranium hexafluoride to 90% enriched uranium.
But it's still uranium hexafluoride.
So I need to convert that to metal.
Let's not worry about that.
That'll give me, we won't worry about a critical mass.
Let me just, all right, I won't worry about that.
So what I would do is simply blow.
I have a device that's the size of a large closet that would be blowing.
Very, very toxic high temperature gas, hydrogen fluoride, through particles, through a gas of uranium hexafluoride.
So, this is a very high temperature, very toxic material.
But you can build something that's, you know, feet in size to do this.
Toxic Gas from Uranium Hexafluoride 00:02:42
Let me just say I mean, here's Scott Postal explaining Iran has enough.
Uranium for 10 or 11 or 12 nuclear devices they can deliver in their missiles.
And their missiles, they don't need to go and have a separate nuclear bomb test and all that.
They've already got it.
Iran already has nuclear capability.
Iran has already crossed the threshold.
Bear in mind.
When we come back, we'll take a visit to Winter Watch and see the latest for what Russ has for us to share.
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Russ, I think your meme of the day fits today to a T.
The next big Iran war announcement.
What are we waiting for?
Everyone to set their trades in.
Absolutely.
They're going to be wanting to file all these trades at last minute because Trump is going to pull us out.
It's astonishing the amount of corruption in Washington.
Go ahead.
It could be that.
But, you know, everybody's gotten used to these flip trades, you know, these algorithm trades being sort of manipulating the markets back up and.
Creating that effect.
But I'm going to remind everybody that Trump is what's called a dark triad personality, psychopath, narcissism, Machiavellian.
And there's a fourth trade of the dark triad that enters in.
That's where you get your serial killers and whatnot.
That's sadism.
And so one of the things that he thrives on is fooling people, trickery, and catching them off guard, catching them on their back foot.
He really loves that.
So it could go the other way.
I mean, I don't.
I don't get the memos, so I don't know what he's going to say.
He may just kind of do a bunch of gibberish and nothing, but they might be ready to flip the market down big time.
So they might be lining up for shorts, and that's where they can really make a lot of money just collapsing the market on some nonsense that he throws out there.
Look how the military industrial stock is going to drop if we're getting out of the war.
I mean, there's going to be much reduced demand.
So, right there, they could make a bundle.
Joaquin, your thoughts.
Yeah, I think, yeah, he's going to make a bundle.
He always does.
You know, insider trading, he does his policy according to how much he can make from every statement he makes.
I want to just make a point, though, also that I think that since last June, Iran realized, I think the IRGC has realized, not necessarily, you know, the supreme leader, but I believe that the IRGC said, Hey, we have to defend ourselves and we need nuclear weapons.
And I believe that they were raising it up to the 90% level during that whole time between last June and now.
And I am certain, almost certain anyway, that they do have possession now.
So they're ready to go.
I mean, hopefully, Israel will not do it, that Samson option.
But if they do, Israel is going to be gone.
Iran is a big country, so it can maybe absorb a tactical nuke, but Israel can't.
Well, Professor Postel was explaining how the fatwa included a provision that the existence of Iran were at stake, that Iran was entitled to use nuclear weapons.
So I believe this is all consistent.
He's also explained how they already have the material for these nuclear devices they can fire in the rockets.
And you may or may not have noticed, but the new Ayatollah has talked about, Nuclear deterrence.
He's admitting.
He's saying, yes.
Yeah, he's signaling they've already got it.
Iran has already got it.
Yeah.
And I love to go back down to McChrystal when he was saying the three seductive or the covert ops, the surgical strikes, and the air power.
This idea, this is Russ's first story here.
Fantasist Trump's ride of the Valkyries scheme to grab Iran's uranium.
Preposterous.
Absolutely preposterous.
This stuff is, you know, a half a mile underground.
It's securely, nobody knows where the hell it is.
I mean, this is just idiotic.
But that's Trump.
He's utterly incompetent.
He's totally out of his depth.
I find this all very embarrassing.
Here we have a report.
Let's pick it up with Jesse Waters.
We can absolutely do it.
And I think I want to tell all the IRGC leadership now who's watching this show that don't doubt President Trump has the resolve to make that call.
You know, and I mean, at some level, I have a wish to see.
I want the choppers coming in, hitting the beach, you know, blaring Ride of the Valkyrie, ghost of Robert Duvall in the lead helicopter, and the discombobulator blazing their way to knock everybody out of the way.
The problem is from the beach to the places we have to go is almost 500 miles.
And that's a heck of a logistical nightmare.
It's not quite as simple.
It can be done, and we have the capabilities and the people to do it.
But I think everyone should be cognizant that's a heavy lift.
It is.
This guy is a complete moron.
Yeah, that's just more typical Fox News goy slop for the guys.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's just disgraceful.
Too many Mission Impossible episodes.
Probably Trump.
Is that guy an ex general or something?
Well, his former special forces.
Yeah, yeah.
Typical moron.
Moronic.
Somebody puts a comment.
Somebody puts a comment.
Anyone see Black Hawk Battle?
The 99th Battle of Bangladesh?
Sounds like victory.
Titan failed to capture a single Somali warlord with catastrophic effects.
Man, oh, man.
I love what you do with your site, Russ.
It's wonderful.
Growing number of House Republicans won't face re election.
They know they're going to get wiped.
They're going to be wiped.
Russ, your thoughts.
Yeah, they don't even want to, they know they're licked, and maybe they're tired of the scene.
You know, they're just tired of taking money from APAC and the shit that they're going to get for that because they're going to just be hounded continually on the campaign trail.
So, yeah, you might as well step in.
Given everyone knows how much APAC money they've already taken, given that their opponents will be advertising they're taking no APAC money, the choice is a no brainer, a no brainer, Joaquin.
Yeah, I mean, I can't stand the political system, you know, this two party system.
You know, yeah, we go back and forth, back and forth because every administration is such a mess up.
So, of course, they go with the other party in the off years.
You know, it's just stale.
And the Democrats are just as bad as the Republicans.
And they're all owned by Israel and, you know, Zionism.
So, They're all bad, all of them.
Democrats, Republicans, there's probably maybe five people in Congress in the U.S. that might be worth something, but the rest are just totally bought and sold.
Yeah, I've been floating the idea of the libertarians, which I gather are qualified on the ballot in all 50 states, should run Thomas Massey, you know, become an America party.
Maybe Marjorie Taylor Greene, though I'm hearing rumbles that there are somehow.
Contractual issues where companies she owns are making a bundle off the war or will for reconstruction or whatever that bother me.
She's been so magnificent in speaking out against Trump.
Tulsi may have lost a bit of luster.
I still have a lingering faith in her, but maybe I'm going to be completely disillusioned.
Russ, your thoughts?
Yeah, I mean, I would imagine that here we have a story of the Republicans dropping out.
There's going to be a lot of Democrats not rerunning as well because they're under the same.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Could we get a Congress that was, well, let's see, the Senate, it's one third the House, though.
Every member of the House is up every two years, are they now?
I mean, this is fascinating.
Could we get a situation where we had more non APAC members of a House?
Possibly.
Possibly our first step towards that, where you just have some of their main candidates beaten.
But I'm kind of hearing that even Massey is having a hard time with his campaign.
Now, American people are really hopeless.
They really are.
I think Massey's very popular with his concerns.
Yeah, Massey's not going to have any problem.
No matter what they throw at him, they're going to throw everything, including the kitchen sink.
Here we have.
We did.
Okay, we covered that.
We've been covering that.
We did the ass kicking in Lebanon, yeah, where the Israelis are not learning any lessons.
It's really stunning.
Meanwhile, then we have Israel.
Yeah, I was really appalled by this.
It has to be a gross violation of international law, but they're overjoyed that the Knesset has passed the authority to hang detainees just because they're Palestinian, just because they're Palestinian.
Everybody's a terrorist.
Yeah, outrageous.
We're terrorists.
Yeah, I think we are, the three of us.
Yes.
Israeli National Security Minister.
When you think they can't get any more evil, they come up with terrorism.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes, I like that, Joaquin.
Israeli National Security Minister Ben Gurub outside the Knesset celebrates passing the death penalty for Palestinian detainees, describing his head as historic.
Soon we will count them one by one.
The only good power is the power of the government.
it is sick this is enough to turn you into an anisemite all by itself i've got a good meme right underneath there it's worth taking a look at hold that out.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
This Bolshevik Jew, Chenecker Yoda, slaughtered 10 million white Christian, Russian Christians.
He's missing from the top mass murders in the World History Book.
He's one of the main reasons Hitler came to power out of fear Germany would fall into the hands of the Bolshevik communists.
He also oversaw the death penalty of any Soviet citizen considered to be an anti Semite.
The ADL now considers using the word Bolshevist.
Anti Semitism.
Wow.
This guy was a monster.
He kind of looks like Ben Gavir.
I wonder if they're related.
He does.
They're incarnation cousins.
Distant cousins.
Here you go.
I do something evil, but you're guilty because you found out and that makes you anti Semitic.
Now, this guy actually is an Orthodox Jew.
I think it's the rabbinical or the Zionist more extreme Jews who are actually the problem more.
So, than the Orthodox.
Yeah, the Orthodox are the welfare people.
They don't support the state and just kind of leech off of them and collect welfare.
Yeah, do we have more here in this?
Okay.
That's it.
That's it.
Yeah.
Meanwhile, yes, this is fascinating.
Israel to sit out ground combat in Iran.
That's really damn fascinating, Russ.
Of course.
Of course.
You know, in World War II, they sent out notices to all the Jews, you know, not to cooperate with the draft and to get on the draft boards to get made sure the Goyim got signed up and sent and actively subverted sending their people over.
Now, that's not to say that a lot of Jews didn't serve in the war, they did.
A lot of times they were more in intelligence capacities.
Russ.
And that's what's funny about this combat operation.
They announced that Israel would be helping, quote unquote, with intelligence functions.
What a joke.
Here's the tweet Israel says its soldiers won't join any U.S. ground up in Iran.
Challenge 12 reports IDF is setting this one out if boots hit the ground.
Israel reportedly keep bombing from the air, but won't send troops 1,000 miles into Iranian territory.
The logic is straightforward.
Israel doesn't have the logistics to sustain ground forces that far from home.
Imagine if Israel can't.
Neither does the U.S. Neither does the U.S. Neither does the United States, yeah.
Because our problems are overwhelmingly greater logistically than theirs.
So the country that pressured the U.S. into the war, that struck some parts without permission, that keeps bombing through peace talks, whose intel helped justify the entire op won't be sending a single soldier if the mission gets dangerous enough to require ground troops.
Joaquin, your thoughts.
Well, they're in over their head with Hezbollah now in Lebanon.
And, you know, they haven't taken out Hamas and they're still going.
They're stretching themselves pretty damn thin now.
And yeah, and then of course, you know, Iran's pulverizing all their infrastructure, their industry, their economy.
Everything's shooting down so fast now for Israel.
You know, like I say, I don't know that they're going to survive, especially if the war goes on.
It's only going to get worse for Israel.
So that's another reason, probably, why I bet BB's like saying, okay, yes, tell them we won already, just like last June.
You know, that's how I think it's going to play out and it's going to be over.
I pray that that happens.
Why Iron Dome Failed Against Missiles 00:05:12
Why is Israeli air defense failing against Iranian missiles?
Three layers, Iron Dome for rockets, David Sling for missiles, Arrow for ballistic threats in space, sounds impenetrable until Iran's glide vehicles start zigzagging mid flight, confusing every tier.
Let's take a look at this.
Now, let's take a look how the Israeli defense system works.
The Israeli defense system consists of three tiers.
First up is the long range aero missile defense system, which was designed specifically with Iranian missiles in mind.
Each of these system rockets costs a few million dollars and they can intercept missiles outside the Earth's atmosphere, resulting in enhanced protection.
The second layer of defense is the so called David Sling system, designed for taking out missiles and drones.
Finally, the Iron Dome stops most short range rocket attacks in Israel.
Let's take a look at why the Iron Dome failed to intercept the Iranian ballistic missiles.
Apart from discussing the multilayered missile defense system, the Iron Dome itself has a range of around 40 miles, while the David's Sling can intercept ballistic missiles up to a range of 180 miles.
The top tier aero anti ballistic missile systems can target threats up to 1,500 miles away.
According to reports, 180 ballistic missiles, which are possibly hypersonic as claimed by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, were launched.
Although the Aero Missile Defense System successfully intercepted many missiles before they reached Israel, many still got through.
The main problem behind the failure to intercept was after the detachment of the Glide vehicle from the launcher.
The Glide vehicle can change its trajectory multiple times, which confused the Aero missiles.
This maneuver also bypassed the David's Sling and finally the Iron Dome system, which is not designed to counter hypersonic missiles like the FATA 2 model.
Let's examine the cost implications of a single day of missile attacks.
Iran expended over $200 million by launching ballistic missiles along with drones, whereas the IDF spent $1 billion to defend itself.
This includes the ARA missile, which costs around $2.5 million.
The David Sling costs around $1 million to produce, while the Iron Dome costs around $20,000 to $100,000 for a single missile, depending on inflation.
By contrast, Iranian ballistic missiles cost around $200,000 each, and its drones only $20,000 to $50,000 each.
The Aero Missile Defense System consists of three basic parts the Missile Launcher Unit, the Green Pine Radar Antenna, and the Aero Missile.
The Missile Launcher Unit is composed of six Erector Launcher tubes housing ready to fire missiles.
Positioned at the rear of a two axle trailer, each launcher, when fully loaded with six launch tubes carrying ready to fire missiles, weighs 35 tons.
The Green Pine radar serves as the warning and fire control radar for the Aero 3 anti ballistic air defense missile system.
It plays a crucial role in target detection and guidance.
The Aero operates as a two stage missile.
Let's look inside this engineering technology.
This is the solid propellant booster in Sustainer rocket motors.
At the rocket's peak sits the ignition chamber, triggering the combustion of the solid propellant when activated.
This propellant isn't just any substance, it's a meticulously crafted blend of fuel and oxidizer poured into a casing and then cured.
Encasing this blend is a protective shell called the motor case.
At the core of the rocket lies the propellant burning zone.
Here, the solid fuel and oxidizer react, producing incredibly high temperature combustion gases, which helps to launch the rocket at incredible speed above the Earth's surface.
Moving further to the front, the most important part of the missile is the kill vehicle, which can be divided into three basic parts.
The second stage is the propulsion system with a thrust vectoring nozzle.
Just above it is the warhead, a directed high explosive fragmentation weighing 150 kilograms.
Which translates to three hundred and thirty pounds.
The third stage is the seeker, capable of pivoting itself to track its target.
But what's the big deal about this long range anti ballistic missile system?
Let's start with a propulsion system.
The famous THAAD terminal high altitude area defense uses a divert attitude control thrusters.
In comparison to the Aero 3 kill vehicle, which utilizes a thrust vectoring nozzle with a solid fuel rocket, it has a shorter and more limited burn time.
It has a few advantages, one of them being the ability to compensate for a lack of radar accuracy.
When the radar sends the interceptor to an inaccurate target location, the Aero 3 kill vehicle can adjust its trajectory.
Since intercontinental ballistic missiles travel at very high speeds, the kill vehicle must change its trajectory based on newer, more accurate radar data from its seeker.
A failure to fully divert the course to the new target would result in a failure to intercept.
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Excellent, excellent, excellent.
Joaquin, your thoughts.
I think, you know, it's all interesting and all that, but the reality is they don't have the missile interceptors anymore.
Or the radar.
Or the radar.
They're not picking up the radar.
Yeah, they don't have the radar or the interceptor.
Sirens aren't even going off.
To sustain this war.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I agree.
And everyone, I mean, weeks in advance, McGregor was saying they run out of missiles before we run out of missiles.
And the Iranians have been so thorough and methodical in taking out the radar, the command, communication, and control, so they blinded the U.S. and Israeli forces from the beginning.
I mean, once they began retaliating, it has been devastating, Russ.
Yeah, and they used up all their old missiles in the beginning.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, they used up all their old missiles in drawing out the expensive interceptors because Israel was firing off those beauties against the cheaper, inferior missiles while Iran kept all their best stuff.
They haven't even used it yet.
They've got better missiles they have yet to use, believe it or not.
Rust.
Yeah, because they calculate their intel, the Jareds of the world, or whoever gives the intel out, completely miscounted the effectiveness of the Iranian missiles.
And plus, they thought, well, even if they've got more than we think, we can always take them out.
We can hit their platforms.
So you just see Fox News just repeating it over and over.
Well, we're pounding their platforms.
Well, that's underground.
That's in the Granite Mountains.
So they've had two major miscalculations.
They've missed the number of missiles that Iran has, and they underestimated the defense.
And now they're paying for it.
So, I mean, what's Trump going to do tonight?
He's going to have to address this, but Iran's not going to let him off the hook.
So, I don't know what tricks he has up his sleeves.
He's going to declare victory and pull out, Russ.
I guarantee you.
That's what he's going to do.
They've got no Navy left.
They've got no Air Force left.
Yeah, we already got it.
Wow, we won.
Right, right.
The Fantasist speech, okay.
Yeah, yeah, that's what we're going to get tonight, 9 o'clock Eastern.
It will be the single most humiliating experience of his life, but it's better than letting this terrible situation become catastrophic for the entire world.
Here, you just got drafted to fight Iran?
I don't want to go fight Iranians for Israel.
Joey, don't you dare be anti Semitic!
I want to go home, sir!
You're some kind of anti Semite, Joey!
I just.
I don't even know why we were there.
Let's focus on why that thought is anti Semitic, Joey.
Get a job, loser!
Israel needs our taxes!
But I'm not even dead.
That's anti Semitic, son.
That's so bad, but it's so true.
Meme wars are just going nuts.
That's great.
Yeah, here, I love this one.
This makes all the sense in the world.
This is what it's all about.
Make it a Mica pipeline.
Make America great again.
Go in live troops, come out, flag great costs, and make Israel great again.
Absolutely.
Let's watch that little video again.
Stop!
Stop!
Stuff, good stuff, Ross.
Good stuff.
I'll get us back there again.
Yeah, fascinating.
I mean, could the situation possibly be worse?
Trump's incoherent utterance of the day.
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Well, there's not a lot left to
say.
Uh, we have a report now, I just caught on the television that Israel has had 10 bombing alarms.
You know, the sirens setting off already.
And as we've already reported, they're going to have the greatest attack on Israel today that they have yet to launch.
To make the emphatic point that what Trump is telling the world is hard, yeah, exactly.
I love it.
It's funny how Trump just lie, you know, he'll just come up with some utterance and then.
Iran immediately counters it as they are here.
So, in this situation, Trump's claiming that Iran gave him a gift, a tribute, with 20 boats of oil.
And the truth of the story is that Iran released 20 boats of oil or tankers of oil to Pakistan as a neighborly gesture.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's not a gift or tribute to Trump.
But that's the dark triad personality at work.
It's just amazing.
And it's just.
How they just suck people in, they just never see through it, I guess.
I think you've nailed this guy, Russ.
This is hilarious.
Trump at 8 p.m. Iran has gifted me 20 boats of oil out of respect.
Iranian professor at 9 p.m.
Iran hasn't gifted anything to Trump as usual, he is lying.
I love this Iranian spokesman, man.
He's just calm, cool, collected.
Here we go.
No, no, the Iranians have not given any gifts to Trump.
As usual, he just makes things up.
He's known for that.
Yeah, it's just embarrassing.
And the way Trump lies is a very interesting technique.
And apparently, he thinks it sounds credible to say, well, they gave us eight boats, but then I've learned they've added two more, and now they've sent 20.
So he does this little math, this.
You know, fantasy math game to kind of throw out there.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Dark triad lies.
I think we're seeing American history because no president has ever been like this where everything that comes out of his mouth is a lie.
I don't think it's ever happened before.
Yeah, not day after day.
Right.
I mean, Clinton was pretty bad.
Obama was pretty bad, but not just day after day after day of just like going before the cameras with a new blatant lie.
I think this is a guy who's made his whole career based upon.
False in it.
I mean, I think he has to have a massive history.
I understand he's had so many lawsuits because he hires contractors and then refuses to pay them.
He claims their work wasn't up to standard, which I'm sure actually, in fact, was, but that's his excuse for declining to pay.
And that is one way he's made a lot of money.
So, what's the desk?
A grifter from way back.
A grifter.
I think so.
A world class grifter.
What's the destination for the 20 ships?
Is it Pakistan?
Is it Pakistan to be used domestically in Pakistan?
Please answer my question.
Yes.
This must be an AI inquiry, right?
Yes.
The 20 Pakistani flagships are destined for Pakistan to be used domestically there.
They're part of Pakistan's effort to import oil and ease its severe energy crisis called by the strait restriction.
Ishgadar reporting explicitly linking the arrangement to securing energy for Pakistan itself with prior similar transits heading directly to Pakistani ports like Karachi.
No credible source indicates any other destination or third-party use such as rerouting to the U.S. Trump framing as a gift to the U.S. remains contradicted by Pakistani and Iranian contacts.
Look at that as he looks at his watch.
It's time to lie again.
Oh my God.
So, the next one we can go to, let's go to March 28th, the CPAC meeting.
Let's take a look at that.
So, go to your.
Okay, up, right.
You got to go through.
You know, you got to go to News Around the Web and then click it again and then go to the back pages.
News Around the Web and then click it again.
I think it's March 28th.
Okay.
Let's see, Russ.
Where do I. Scroll down the page.
Scroll down the page.
Okay, they're all chronological.
Okay, so uh, go back up March 28th.
Okay, keep going.
I'm having trouble.
There you go.
There you go.
Just passed it.
CPAC calls empty.
Right at the bottom, right at the very bottom.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
This is a good one.
Yes.
CPAC halls empty with occasionally boomers spotted.
We've been trying to tell you, neocons and mega holdouts, but you wouldn't listen to us.
The coalition is dead.
Your stupid war and covering for Epstein were the nails in your coffin.
Look at all those empty seats.
It's just a.
This was a vibrant, central, vital element of American politics.
Yeah, they do a contrast to last year here.
So let's go ahead and play this.
Strong sanctions by the Trump administration.
Watch this.
As soon as Boomer, see the Boomer napping?
Devastating, devastating.
Okay, then right below that is another good one.
Oh, I apologize that I missed out.
Let me do that, go back to it again.
News around the web.
Okay.
One below CPAC.
Now, you guys like the Lego videos?
I mean, it's up to you if you want to watch them.
I kind of like them, but I don't know that everybody does.
All right.
We'll throw this one in then return.
Iran doesn't seem intimidated at all.
Just released another Lego video mocking the coalition.
Yeah, these are animations of the war and how it's going, but they seem to be accurate, actually, in their import.
They're really pushing the loser narrative.
Yeah, but that's exactly what's going to happen tonight.
He's going to declare victory in the face of defeat.
Notice they picked up, look at this, look at the detail.
They picked up on his discolored diabetic hand.
See this?
I wondered what that meant.
His hand discolored and diabetic.
I got it.
Wow.
I did not.
I'm glad.
The Iranians picking up on it.
I mean, they're really kind of zeroing in on all the meme, the memeology.
Astonishing.
Meanwhile, back here we got Daniel Davis with Joe Kant on the truth of the Iran war.
This guy, Joe, is a great national hero.
Your last chance to disappear until summer and come back unrecognizable.
Start the day 27 of the U.S. Iran war continues to rage on.
We continue to wonder is ground troops going to be in the cards coming up just here and maybe even a few days from now?
What will happen to it then?
Or is there going to be a Rabbit pulled out of the hat diplomatically.
Is President Trump going to find some amazing way to get a diplomatic into this?
All this we're waiting to be discovered possibly within days.
However, I want to take a look today at how we got here because we have today with us a remarkable guest, a great opportunity, Joe Kent, former director of the National Counterterrorism Center, number two at the ODNI, who recently made a lot of international news by resigning.
And now we're going to find out a little bit.
You know, straight from the horse's mouth, what in the heck was going on?
Joe, first of all, welcome to the show.
Glad to have you here.
Danny, it's great to be with you.
Thanks for having me.
All right.
Well, listen, let's just jump right into it because, you know, a lot of people are wondering what led you to making the decision you did to resign because we've all read the letter.
We actually did a show on it here the day that you made the announcement and we've talked a lot about what you wrote in there.
So we've seen a lot of that.
But I just want to start off, first of all, with kind of Your own personal journey.
I just know from my own experience in 2012 of coming forward while I was still in uniform about the lies that our leaders were telling us about the Afghanistan war and the death and destruction, the reality, et cetera.
And that was an agonizing process for me.
And I just wonder if you could tell us a little bit about what led you to the conflict between I want to stay inside and serve, I want to keep helping, or do I make this move to come out and say what you did?
How can you explain that?
Yeah, I mean, it was both.
I would say my issues with the fact that the Israelis, as I pointed out in my letter, really forced our hand.
And I have a major issue with a foreign country dictating the foreign policy, but especially whether or not we go to war, those types of decisions for our nation.
We can get into the details of how I saw all that firsthand.
But then also, just, you know, bigger picture, being a veteran like yourself, and I spent a lot of time in Iraq in my service.
And I was somewhere in my third deployment when I realized that, like, we had pretty much gotten lied to.
To get us into that quagmire.
And I remember being pretty frustrated with my seniors, but especially like the veterans of previous wars, in particular, guys like Colin Powell, who served in Vietnam.
They saw the firsthand quagmire, they saw the lies that got them into that war.
And then they soldiered on, they stayed the government, and they were in very, very powerful positions.
And quite a few of them, Colin Powell, most notably, they helped sell the war, and then they never really came clean about it.
They definitely didn't do anything to stop it.
And so I said to myself, You know, 20 plus years ago, if I'm ever in a position where this is happening to the next generation, I will speak out.
And, you know, coming into this administration, I was under the impression that we were going to do everything we could to avoid more quagmires in the Middle East.
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Now, I'm also a realist, and I know that sometimes we do have to do targeted counterterrorism strikes, counterterrorism raids, those types of things.
And I think there's a place for that.
There's a place for intelligence operations, all those different things to defend our country, to eliminate threats.
But getting into another regime change war, Was just not anything that I was going to be a part of.
But then also, like I said, just watching firsthand at a fairly senior level the Israeli government come in and create that ecosystem that I described, that echo chamber of official engagements that basically circumvented the intelligence process.
And then those same talking points being echoed by pro Israel members of the media, of think tanks, the AIPAC lobby, et cetera, to drive us into this war.
That was where I said, hey, look, I feel like the traditional channels that I would have as a, you know, Senate confirmed presidential appointee, head of the National Counterterrorism Center, my ability to influence this any further, it's just simply being blocked.
We're not being listened to whatsoever.
The deputies' process is dead.
The NSC process is dead.
In order for me to stay true to my morals, to remove myself from being part of a regime change war, but then also to call attention to really the Israeli influence factor of it all, I needed to leave the government.
And it was a hard choice to make, as you know from your own personal experience.
But once I decided it was what I was going to do, I felt a sense of clarity, and I still feel.
Really clear.
I still feel very clear headed and like I did the right thing.
And I guess just kind of on a personal level, how hard was it to actually make the decision?
Because again, from my own experience, I know once I came to that clarity in my mind that this is, I no longer had a choice morally.
I felt I was not able to keep my mouth closed.
But man, to make that long walk, in my case, across the Pentagon to go and tell a then four star general, you know, what was about to drop was a really heavy, long walk.
How was that for you when you went and told?
I don't know if it was Director Gabbard or some other official, but can you tell us a little bit about how that happened?
Yeah, I mean, it was a long two weeks.
I was hoping that we were going to, even though we shouldn't have gotten into the war in the first place, I was hoping that we were going to quickly de escalate it.
And it was going to be a situation like we have with Midnight Hammer.
And so we worked really diligently to attempt to provide options of a quick claim of victory and then just get us out of there.
Once I realized that we weren't going to be able to do that, I made the decision that I had to leave.
And it was challenging.
I mean, I have, as a presidential appointee, I had to resign directly to the president.
But DNI Gabbard was my day to day boss with NCTC as part of ODNI.
So I had a really hard, hard, frank, candid discussion with DNI Gabbard.
Obviously, she wasn't pleased with the decision that I had made, but she heard me out.
And then I requested to actually be able to deliver my resignation to the president.
I got to do it to the vice president, which I'm grateful for.
I'm not a primary cabinet member, so by no means did I kind of rate being able to go in and speak directly with the president.
So getting to speak with the vice president.
I'm grateful for.
Again, same thing.
He wasn't pleased that I was leaving, but at the same time, he heard me out.
And then I got a phone call later on in the day from the president.
And so those were really difficult conversations.
But again, I felt clear headed in having them.
And then same thing with the conversation with the president.
And to the extent that you felt appropriate, how did that conversation with the president go?
Did he try to talk you out of it?
Was he upset?
Did he understand?
I mean, what was that conversation like?
You know, he was, I would say he was pretty polite and professional, honestly.
He was respectful of my service.
He said he disagreed with the decision.
He understood that I had an issue with the way that I believed.
And again, we can get into it.
I think that the data supports this that Israel forced our hands.
Obviously, he rejected that premise, but he was still respectful.
You know, thanked me for being in the administration for the time that I was there.
But overall, I think it was a positive conversation.
I think we, you know, Ended on as good of terms as you can in the circumstance.
So, yeah, it was fine.
Let me ask you guys your thoughts about this.
I mean, here he's going in to tell the president that he's resigning because we're fighting a war for Israel.
And how can Trump deny it?
I mean, how can he deflect it or minimize?
I mean, I'm really kind of puzzled by that.
Joe obviously made the right decision.
I think.
Tulsi ought to have been sufficiently impressed that she joined him.
She ought to have resigned as well, in my opinion, to preserve her integrity because the situation is gross.
Russ, your thoughts?
He's just a dark triad.
That's got to explain a lot of it.
And so he knows he lies.
He knows the premise of everything he's doing is a big lie.
But he just kind of keeps digging himself deeper and deeper and deeper.
And somehow he kind of thought, like I said, that Jared told him that he would have a huge lift in popularity.
And it hasn't gone that way.
So I think that's kind of caught him by surprise, the trajectory that way.
Maybe he thinks somehow it'll miraculously turn around, that he can pull some rabbit out of the hat to kind of change the momentum.
You know, it's kind of like the V 2 rockets and the Germans had, and late in the war, people thought that that would save him.
So maybe Trump has that same dark triad mentality.
Well, I think his superiors, City of London, Rothschild, that bailed them out a couple of times.
Yeah, I think they knew that he was going to be a loose cannon.
That's why they groomed him for years and had him basically be the destroyer.
They knew he would fulfill their demand.
And, you know, he's got such a huge ego and cannot ever.
Admit error or, you know, say he's sorry about anything.
And he reacts all the time.
So, yeah, I think that the counterterrorism guy is a very brave individual, honest individual, and he makes all the sense in the world telling us what we already know that the whole administration is totally contaminated by psychopaths that just feed the ego of their boss.
And they're going in deeper and deeper because they're all controlled by Israel.
And yeah, Tulsi Gabbard, she's a sellout.
I no longer respect her whatsoever.
She should have been retired.
She should have resigned a long time ago.
But she's, you know, she takes the shit, you know.
She was the one that was blocked from any meeting for a long time because she was telling too much truth, you know.
But how can she live with that, you know?
She has, I'm sure she.
Her career is over as far as any political aspiration to go beyond what she is now, she's done.
So, yeah, big disappointment.
Yeah, very, very.
I have been so supportive of Tulsi, such a believer.
This has been an extremely disappointing and painful experience for her to fall so far short.
And there's so much here we could also address.
Let me say, this is interesting.
Alex Jones is throwing Trump under the bus.
Who would have believed?
Not about time.
What took you so long?
Four, that means heart failure.
And he does look sick.
And he does babble and sound like the brain's not doing too hot.
And so we just cut bait on Trump and we just mobilize against the Democrats.
And we mobilize against neocons.
We primary them and we just fight even harder because look at how we've turned the tide.
Look at all the good we've done.
There's a fourth turning.
Populists, nationalists, conservatives are winning everywhere.
There's a Christian reawakening.
And Trump is just a minor figure in all of that now.
And we have to be appreciative of the old Trump that went through so much and got so much done.
And that's the Trump we remember.
And we're just sad because that happens.
We need to be sad about Trump.
This is not funny.
This is not good.
But he's gone.
And that's it.
And all the people rallied around him.
You can see Hexess freaked out.
You can see the press secretaries freaked out.
They're being loyal.
They think it's the lesser of two evils.
And I, okay, but I just.
Trump needs intervention.
He needs to take some time off.
We need to pray for Trump that the Holy Spirit touch his heart and loose him from whatever evil control he's under.
I'm serious.
And I think that's the answer.
We need to pray for President Trump.
We need to.
No, we don't.
We need to pray for other people to be awakened.
We need to pray for justice and peace because we're in so much danger.
Now, the reason he scrolled down to the ankles is because Trump's ankles, that's where he was beginning.
Are like triple swollen, yeah.
Yeah, Russ, go ahead, Alex.
Come on, pray for Trump, you know.
And he's he just has positive vibes for the guy, you know.
He's just still work, and he's still worshiping a dark triad that's a very individual.
He's abandoning him, though, he's throwing him under the bus.
He says, Be kind to him, but he has kind words for him.
He kind of said, I mean, I don't.
What do you expect, Ross?
For God's sake, I don't know.
This is an astonishing development.
I mean, Alex was a big pro Trump from the beginning.
Way back in 2015, he was a major force in getting Trump elected the first time over.
He's talking out two sides of his mouth all the time.
Well, of course.
Joaquin, go ahead.
Your thoughts.
Joaquin's frozen just when we want some fun.
Yeah, I kind of wanted to hear what he had to say about this.
No thoughts about Alex.
I'm just astonished, Russ.
I'm just astonished to see Alex do this on us.
Of all the things I wouldn't anticipate, this is right up there.
Well, he's kind of been doing a little of this, but he's, you know, I don't think that Alex totally appreciates the kosher element.
You know, he doesn't really address the elephant in the room.
Oh, well, look, look, look.
Alex has been ignoring or defending or suppressing Israel and its malfeasance forever.
In my opinion, that's been the long take about Alex.
Hey, you and Joaquin were just superb.
Love doing these shows with you guys, Russ.
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