Truth vs. NEW$ Inc, Part 2 (13 April 2026) with Don Grahn, Joachim Hagopian, and Brian Davidson
Don Grahn, Joachim Hagopian, and Brian Davidson dissect the U.S.-Iran conflict as a neoconservative plot to secure Middle Eastern oil, labeling the current ceasefire a "scam" for Israeli regrouping. They argue Trump and Netanyahu serve the City of London while ceding global influence to China and Russia, with Hagopian predicting Trump's premature 2027 exit due to his "false clown" persona. The trio critiques Israel's media countdowns and Trump's controversial AI Jesus image, concluding that America's neocolonial abuse has triggered a karmic decline, forcing a painful shift toward self-reliance amidst rising inflation risks. [Automatically generated summary]
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Escalation Beyond Borders00:14:40
Welcome back, folks.
This is truth versus all that crazy news out there that is getting worse and more outrageous and making it so that the truth is getting, you know, it's harder to hang.
The truth is worse than it has been because it seems to be getting worse here on that 7th and 13th of April, 2026.
Jim, I guess we're just going to get going with Gregor, who says that we, U.S., cannot destroy Iran for Israel.
Yeah, rather a simple point, isn't it?
But he says it so well.
Love the kernel.
Iran, India, the Turkish state, Turkey, thanks to its Ottoman heritage, these are core civilizational states in the world.
They represent much more than just their own nation state.
They represent thousands of years of culture and history.
So, none of these states under any circumstances are going to surrender their sovereignty.
But we need to understand that for Iran, this is existential.
Remember what President Trump said about this initially?
Oh, this is just a journey.
This is a journey.
In other words, it's not existential for us.
You know, a journey in which we've decided that we're going to bring a nation of 93 million people to its knees.
We're going to destroy its way of life, its existence.
But for us, it's just a journey.
Why is it just a journey for us?
Because it's a journey for Israel.
And that's the problem.
This is the problem that people don't understand.
We cannot solve Israel's strategic problems militarily, which is what we're being asked to do right now.
Israel was already widely disliked, if not treated as a pariah in the region anyway.
Now, the rest of the Islamic world sees Israel as this menace, this virus.
That is going to ultimately destroy all of them.
And all you have to do is look at the map of Greater Israel.
The map of Greater Israel includes much of Saudi Arabia, Northern Iraq, Syria, Jordan, the Sinai, and some territory west of the Nile, and of course, at least half of Lebanon.
And all of this is part of so called Greater Israel.
Well, we used to have something during World War II called Greater Germany, Großdeutschland.
You know, this was the expanded Germany.
Ultimately, that actually made more sense than what we're seeing because at least there were Germans living on the territory, not always in the majority, but there.
In this case, we're talking about whole populations that have to be subjected to Gaza treatment.
They're going to have to be effectively subjugated, enslaved, or driven out.
This is insane.
And this is what we are fighting for.
People need to understand this.
And I don't see any evidence that it could possibly exist.
We've always had the objective of gaining control of the oil fields in the region.
You've got to go back into the 1990s and go back and read the things that Richard Pearl and Paul Wolfowitz and a host of others in their group of neocons were writing and insisting that if we could control all the oil resources in the Middle East, then we would have China by the throat.
Of course, the real intention was not just to have China by the throat, but to make Israel the undisputed champion and king of the Middle East.
I don't think we're going to ever get China by the throat, nor do I think we as Americans need to do that.
That's absurd.
But I think we're back to where we were before.
This is all about Israel and securing it and making it safe and putting it in charge of the whole region.
All of this is going to fail.
It has no chance of success.
And this business of bombing a nation into the Stone Age, I must say, I do disagree with one thing you said.
You said, well, Dresden, we can't do what we did there.
No, I think we can.
And I think the Iranians know this.
And their cities already show evidence for it.
We're doing things that we have not done since the Second World War of Vietnam.
And one could argue that our bombings, both we and the Royal Air Force during World War II committed war crimes.
And you can make the argument that we did the same thing in Vietnam.
And I think we're going to do the same thing here.
Ultimately, you end up destroying power.
You put hospitals out of business.
The Israelis have been bombing hospitals in Iran and emergency centers ever since the war began.
And they launched a number of strikes last night, I think, because they worried that they might end up facing a ceasefire.
I don't think there's any chance of a ceasefire coming.
I think what they're going to end up Facing is something worse than they've already encountered from Iran and potentially others that support Iran.
You know, he's in this escalatory trap.
He doesn't know how to do anything else but bully.
So, what he's trying to do is bully once again.
Remember, we talked about, you know, if it fails, what else do you do?
Well, you escalate, you escalate, you'll escalate.
You could turn around and say, well, escalation isn't the answer.
But there's no one telling him to do that, as far as I can tell.
And I certainly don't see great evidence for people standing up in the Department of Defense and telling him, Sir, this is not going to work.
And if you do this, we could end up in a much wider war with a lot of other people.
And by the way, you know, we mentioned escalation beyond the borders of the Eastern Hemisphere.
In other words, could there be escalation here in the Western Hemisphere against us?
And the answer is yes.
You know, the drug cartels, which have always been the real threat to us in Mexico, are for hire, and they have an interest in seeing to it.
That they continue to move drugs and people back and forth across our borders and, uh, coastal waters.
So could they possibly cooperate with Iran?
Absolutely, without question.
There are already Hezbollah chapters down in Mexico.
They've never taken any action against this, but they exist.
The Sunni chapters, the ISIS slash Al Qaeda al Nusra crowd, they've been much more active in Mexico.
But all of these things could blow up on our faces inside our country.
They could destroy our refineries, our oil infrastructure.
What about our nuclear power plants?
Could they cause accidents there?
There are a whole range of things.
And we have not done what we need to do to secure our own infrastructure.
We started under Obama, and Obama diverted all of the money that was supposed to go into modernization of the power grid and other things into the pockets of his campaign supporters.
So we didn't get much out of it.
We really do need to pay attention to our own domestic infrastructure.
particularly our electrical grid, our power grid.
So yeah, I think that could happen.
And of course, you talk.
Yes, it could happen.
And when is a ceasefire a scam?
Phil Giraldi nails it.
He's a very smart guy.
During my most recent appearance on Judge Knapp's Judging Freedom Wednesday, I expressed the view the ongoing ceasefire between Washington and Debran was a scam designed to support Israeli interests in the region, give both Tel Aviv and the White House breathing room. to prepare for the next major assault on Iran.
I base my judgment on several aspects of the story being circulated by the White House and the tame media.
First of all, it's being suggested that the U.S. acceptance of the proposal for a ceasefire put forward by Iran through mediators in Pakistan was arrived at without discussion with Israel.
In other words, Israeli PM Netanyahu had no preview of it nor hand in it.
This defies all the history of the relationship between the U.S. and the Jewish state preceding the agreement, if that is truly what it was.
Up until now, Donald Trump, like his predecessor Joe Biden, has been the most loyal accomplice of Israel, up to and including that country's war crimes, never using the considerable leverage the U.S. have to even contest or block anything Israel does, no matter if it's doing serious collateral damage to the U.S. or U.S. interests.
In that context, one might cite how there have been ceasefires in Lebanon, in Syria, and with Gaza, all of which has the U.S. as an implementer or guarantor, which Israel immediately violated, just as it is doing right now in all those locations as well as with Iran.
When Israel defies what has been agreed upon, Trump says nothing, which suggests that this latest ceasefire, was all a clever contrivance by Israel and the U.S. behind the scene to create a pause in a war that's going badly, to permit renewal of fighting possibly as soon as the two-week term of the ceasefire expires without anything more substantive to replace it.
To my surprise, the agreement did not last even 24 hours before Israel chose to stage a devastating attack on Lebanon, which killed as many as 300 civilians and destroyed residential neighborhoods.
There should be no doubt that the Israelis stage the attack to disrupt any movement toward a ceasefire or peace arrangement with the Persians.
Let me add, by the way, Donald Trump made 11 phone calls to JD Vance during this, and even Netanyahu got involved with yet another.
How outrageous is that?
They were monitoring every step of the way.
What a farce.
Joaquin, your thoughts.
Again, Israel's in control.
You know, they call the shots.
You know, Trump is just a tool, a pliable tool.
And so, yeah, I mean, here we go again.
You know, another sabotage and more war coming.
But the bottom line is.
Iran's not messing around anymore.
They know that they have to go all the way and strangle the world economically with the Strait of Hormuz closure and making sure that the economic impact on the rest of the world is gravely felt before any kind of resolution can happen with the ceasefire turning into a permanent peace.
So they got all the cards and they're using them because they have to.
They know what they're up against now with a totally unreliable, lying Trump and, you know, Bibi in the driver's seat driving it, you know.
And of course, he only follows City of London orders himself.
So we know what's going on and we know the outcome.
The outcome is it's going to be a real, real shocker economically when people can't afford to pay for gas and go to work and.
Food shortages and all the rest of the horrific scenario that we have been projected that that's going to happen.
And yeah, we're getting closer and closer to that endgame.
And it's no resolution, it only gets worse.
Brian, your thoughts.
Yeah, I think the Jaral, the article is right on.
And the problem with the article is that everybody sees it coming.
Look, it's what we did.
How many times in Ukraine when we were using them as our proxy puppets?
It's very plausible to think that the ceasefire is just a tactical pause.
It was never meant to hold.
It was just used for regrouping and making sure that we're updating our strategy to the proper level.
Um, ceasefires have always been used to reposition forces, resupply and reset tempo.
Look at Gaza and their cycles.
Look at the Ukrainian pauses.
Look at Syria's de escalation zones.
He's on solid ground when he says the ceasefire isn't durable.
They often always do function as operational pauses rather than true peace agreements.
Israel will not allow de escalation.
That's something that he says.
Probably, he's probably right.
Israel has shown a pattern of resuming operations after pauses, but then attributing the escalation to a single deliberate strategy.
You know, this is what they do.
They're the world's greatest hypocrites, and they use that like a cudgel to beat their partners into helping them out.
A stupid Caucasian seems to fall for this every single time.
Negotiations being designed to fail, yeah, they're going to be designed to fail until we can smoke out what we need to replace in terms of the regime.
So sometimes they buy time, sometimes it's just political theater.
Negotiations can solve multiple purposes de escalation, delay.
Positioning, finding out what the other side knows, what they believe, what they think, looking for spies.
Losing Global Influence00:15:46
There's a lot of there.
So, Giraldi's making very strong points, and he aligns with McGregor, who talked about escalation, and Johnson, who talked about the pressure dynamics, and even the earlier article at antiwar.com with Ho that talked about.
Our structural instability.
So, Giraldi is very strong at recognizing that the underlying drivers of this conflict haven't changed, which makes the idea of a lasting ceasefire almost completely unlikely without some sort of broader agreement.
Yeah, I have no doubt the Iranians are going to prevail eventually.
And with the help of Turkey, Russia, China, there's no way they will be defeated.
It's a fascinating situation.
Trump has to bite the bullet.
It's insulting what he's doing here.
Unbelievably bad.
Meanwhile, there are four ways the war in Iran has weakened the U.S. in the great power game.
From the Hindustan Times.
Four ways war in Iran has weakened the U.S. Napoleon Bonaparte's maxim, namely, never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake, may well have been in the mind of policymakers in Moscow and Beijing these past weeks as the U.S. war in Iran dragged on.
And now that a 14 day ceasefire between Tehran and Washington is in effect, with both sides claiming victory, Russian and Chinese leaders still have an opportunity to profit from what many see as America's latest folly in the Middle East.
Throughout the week long conflict, China and Russia struck a delicate balance.
Both declined to give Iran, seen to a varying degree as an ally of both, their full throated support or incur any real costs in the conflict.
Instead, they opted for limited assistance in the form of small scale intelligence and diplomatic support.
I actually believe.
It's been far more substantial.
But here are the four ways.
First, losing the influence war in the Middle East.
As I explain in my book, Defending Frenemies, the U.S. had long struggled to balance competing objectives in the Middle East.
During the Cold War, this meant limiting the Soviet Union's influence in the region while contending with the development of nuclear weapons by two troublesome allies, Israel and Pakistan.
By the 2020s, the priorities in Washington were aimed at restricting the influence of the US great power rivals, China, and to a lesser degree, Russia and the Middle East.
Yet under President Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, China and Russia have sought to increase their footprint in the region through a variety of formal alliances and informal measures, and they are succeeding.
Second, taking US eyes off of other strategic goals.
In expanding military, diplomatic, and economic ties in the Middle East, Russia, and China over the past two decades, we're exploiting a desire by Washington to move its assets and attention away from the region following two costly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Trump's decision to wage war against Iran directly contradicts the national security strategy.
This had been released in November of 2025.
According to that strategy, the admin would prioritize the Western Hemisphere and the Indo-Pacific, where the Middle East importance will recede.
It didn't happen.
Third, disproportionate economic fallout.
Iran's closure of Strait of Hermuz for some 20% of the world's oil passes was as predictable as it was destructive for U.S. interests.
But for Russia, this meant higher oil prices.
That boosted its war economy.
It also led to the temporary but ongoing easing of U.S. sanctions, even on Iran, which would provide Moscow an indispensable lifeline after years of economic pressure over the war in Ukraine.
And fourth, loss of global leadership.
Trump's willingness to abandon talks to go to war and the contradictory rhetoric he's employed throughout the Iran conflict have weakened the perception of the U.S. As an honest broker, that provides a massive soft power boost to Beijing.
It was China that pressed Iran to accept the 14 day ceasefire proposal brokered by Pakistan.
Indeed, China has slowly chipped away at America's ongoing lifetime status as global mediator of first resort.
Beijing has successfully mandated in the past between Iran and Saudi Arabia, and it attempted to do the same with Russia and Ukraine and Israel and the Palestinians.
In general, the Iran war had to wait for Beijing's worldview that the U.S. led liberal international order is over.
And Mersheimer, the world has changed forever as Iran has defended.
Defeated the United States this time.
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What about to end the war?
But before you can get to the negotiations, you have to get a ceasefire.
But we don't have a ceasefire.
That's a key point to understand.
And the question is whether or not President Trump is going to be willing to lean on Netanyahu in a really serious way to get him to stop attacking Hezbollah.
And then we'll get a ceasefire.
Then the straight will be opened.
But in terms of Hegseth and Trump declaring victory, this is putting lipstick on a pig.
Come on, it's clear we've lost.
You just want to think about it.
We went into this war.
With four demands.
One was regime change.
Two was Iran would get rid of its nuclear enrichment capability.
Three is Iran would eliminate all its long range ballistic missiles.
And four, Iran would stop supporting the Houthis, Hezbollah, and Hamas.
None of those four demands have been realized.
None.
Furthermore, Iran now controls the Strait of Hormuz.
Which gives it enormous leverage.
Furthermore, Iran still has a huge inventory of ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and drones, which allows it to attack American bases in the region, American forces in the region, the GCC states that are allied with the United States, and Israel itself.
So Iran is in an excellent position today compared to the position it was in on February 27th.
And furthermore, as I said, President Trump.
In his truth social post on Monday night, this is April 6th, said, We're going to negotiate on the basis of the 10 point plan that the Iranians have put on the table.
This is a clear defeat.
And by the way, it's an even bigger defeat for Israel.
And in Israel, there is all sorts of talk to that effect.
The Israelis fully understand that.
If you look at where this train is headed, this is a catastrophic defeat for them.
And of course it is for President Trump as well.
Yes, indeed.
In the future, I saw a.
Defeat.
Meanwhile, Flash, and this is more evidence of our having lost, U.S. releasing $6 billion in frozen Iranian assets.
That's saying the precondition has been accepted.
That's the sole post there.
Let us hear from our experts.
Joaquim, your thoughts, my friend.
Yeah, it's like.
Iran gets its cake, it eats it too.
They finally have unfrozen their stolen funds in banks in the West.
So that's good because that should have never happened to begin with.
No country has the right to freeze anybody else's assets.
That's the way it should be.
But the United States, as the owner of the world, at least in its own mind, Has exercised that kind of power over the rest of the world with their economic sanctions.
They've gone crazy.
Well, the outcome of all this is that the U.S. is not going to be able to do economic sanctions anymore because the U.S. is diminished in power.
It's shriveling up right now in power.
And the rest of the world sees it, knows it, and they're not going to be afraid of America.
In the same way that they have been forever for the last century, the American century.
Well, the American century is about over now.
And, you know, when you abuse your power, mistreat others, karma finally sets in.
And that's what the U.S. government is now facing.
And unfortunately, the American people are going to have to face the karma too, because.
Unfortunately, they sat idly by, feeling like powerless to control, because after all, the U.S. government has been controlled by the oligarchs that pulled the strings behind the curtain and the financial clout of the world.
So, you know, I mean, in the long run, these are all positive changes because obviously America is going to have to learn to live in a world where you, by necessity, have to take care of yourself.
Great power game.
You know, they're being deflated very, very quickly right now by all the actions that we've seen this week.
And so, yeah, the world has changed.
America has to wake up.
We're not the world controller anymore.
We're not the bullet.
We cannot be the bully.
Yeah, we unfortunately, with Trump in there, he's going to continue to.
Pretend he's the bully of the world, but you know, everybody knows he's just a false clown that is not going to succeed in anything that he's going to set out to do.
All his threats, none of them are realized because everybody knows he's just throwing his weight around, but it's empty weight, it's air, it's just the breath of what he's saying as far as lies go, and he doesn't have the strength to back anything up.
We've seen it over and over and over again.
So, this is the big picture.
America is going down as the quote number one power of the world, as it should, because it doesn't deserve to be.
It has only abused its power in the American century to try and monopolize and control, neocolonialize the rest of the world.
Well, it's not going to work.
It hasn't worked.
And now America has to face the reality.
Let's take care of the American people as best as you can now.
But we're not going to get that.
I predicted that Donald Trump is not going to last 2026 into 2027.
He's going to be out.
We know what's going to happen in November.
You know, there's not going to be Republican control of the House and the Senate.
That ain't going to happen.
He's a lame duck and nothing's going to happen and he's going bonkers.
So, you know, I don't see him lasting into 2027.
They probably will have to do.
The 21st Amendment, that's probably coming.
I'm sure there's undercurrents going on right now in that direction, but it hasn't gone public yet.
But yeah, Trump's days are soon to be over.
In my opinion, his most gracious exodus is to resign for reasons of health and step aside.
Vance was not enthusiastic about the war.
He's got a chance of doing something good here.
Brian, your thoughts.
Well, I'm going to take a little more, hopefully, balanced perspective.
You know, the Hinduist, the Hinduistan Times, and all the academics and all of us have been saying this, this, this Straits of Hormuz situation with Iran is, is weakening us.
The, the position is that the arguments all fall into we're going to lose our influence in the Middle East.
We're going to, It's going to distract us from the more important issues with China and the Pacific.
And there's going to be an economic blowback and a loss of credibility and leadership for America.
So we can no longer be the zookeepers of the world.
And all the animals are going to get out of their cages and they're going to kill the zookeeper and they're going to set up their own animal farm.
On the other hand, maybe you could look at this exact same scenario from a different perspective.
Maybe Trump is using the crisis to choke Iran and hurt China and redirect global energy to the United States.
Energy Shift and Risk00:15:34
Look, with Hormuz being disrupted, there is a global energy shift that's taking place.
And I hate to say it, but we're becoming the dominant supplier right now with the Straits of Hormuz being disrupted.
All the major ships have turned toward the Gulf.
There's going to be energy disruption, but it could very well be good for us.
Um, so you look at exactly the same mechanism energy disruption, but then you can have a fair disagreement about who controls the outcome.
So, same event, different conclusions.
Uh, you know, that the sky is falling says we lost control, China and Russia are going to benefit.
The other side says we forced a situation, everybody's reacting, and uh, and We might actually come out of this in better shape.
So, look, the Hinduist end times gets it right.
It does, war does strain alliances.
The Middle East distraction is very real, and China and Russia do benefit from U.S. distraction, credibility crises are real.
But on the other hand, energy flows have now rerouted to the Gulf.
US has become the major exporter of 85% of the global oil, and China is incredibly vulnerable to energy disruption.
Markets are going to react very, very quickly.
So, all I'm saying is that it's very easy to overreach one way or the other, and it makes for interesting dialogue.
But I don't know that this is a clean win or loss.
It's a disruption event, and disruption creates.
Opportunity and risk at the same time.
Energy choke points like Hormuz, they're not going to create winners, they're going to create volatility.
And smart people know how to capitalize when markets are volatile.
And the side that adapts the fastest is the one that's going to benefit in the short term.
And I can guarantee you that we can adapt faster because we do have a better infrastructure than what they have over there in the Middle East.
So, you know, on the one hand, the narrative is this has weakened us.
Handed over our advantage to China and Russia.
All the animals are going to get out of the zoo.
The zookeeper is going to be decapitated.
And then all the clan animals are going to fight for who gets to control the world.
But think about how unlikely that actually is in terms of global geopolitics.
The disruption is real.
But the question about who adapts faster in a system like this is we think the favor goes to us.
And, you know, in geopolitics, disruption doesn't pick a winner, adaptation does.
So, you know, the danger is assuming that either a collapse or a master plan. Is in play here.
I don't know that it's either one.
It may just simply be a high risk move in a system where the outcomes aren't controllable.
So, you know, I can see both sides of this.
I think Donald Trump needs to replace Carolyn Levitt with Brian Davidson.
She'd do a better job promoting his interests.
There's a silver lining if ever there were one.
Well, wait a second.
Wait a second.
Hold on.
Let's not be unfair with me, okay?
You think I was being unfair?
I didn't think I was being unfair.
I know everybody thinks Trump is this maniacal.
Look, they don't call him King Midas for nothing.
Okay?
The guy has a history of being able to make a comeback.
It's a strong history.
Is he dead?
No.
You know, he's not dead yet.
He's made comebacks because the Rothschilds were financing him to keep.
Control to groom him to become president so we could use him for events like the attack on Iran.
And don't forget, Brian, fertilizer is not coming out.
Other precious metals are not coming out.
There's going to be a vast famine because of these events.
It's not just to do with oil and gas, where you're correctly pointing out there's a stream there that could benefit the United States.
But I guarantee you the result is going to be a closer relationship between Russia, which has all the national resources, and China, which consumes them.
They're going to become tighter than Siamese twins, and Iran is going to benefit.
I guarantee.
I think in the short run, you are right.
But in the long run, not.
My thoughts.
Yeah, go ahead.
Go ahead.
Yeah.
The U.S. cannot control the oil that comes out of Iran.
It's going to keep going, it's going to keep flowing.
It's going to go to Japan, India.
The United States does not have the naval power to control.
Don't they have to be far out there just to not get blown away by all the missiles, basically, from Iran?
So it's not going to disrupt oil from Iran, it's not going to.
They're inept to do that.
Listen, Iran from the beginning had the ability to blow away every American ship within a thousand miles, they could do it anytime they want.
Heretofore, it wasn't going to happen with this blockade.
I'm sorry to say, I think it probably will.
No guarantees, but I'm very concerned that is going to be one of the outcomes.
Meanwhile, the Israeli media hold a countdown clock when they thought Trump was going to blow away the civilization.
Since 2010, World Central Kitchen has served millions of meals in response to the clock.
This is from Israel's Channel 13.
They've set up a countdown clock for Trump's threat to wipe out Iranian civilization.
It's like a celebratory clock.
They're excited.
They can't wait.
I didn't even see this.
This is insane.
They can't wait for Trump to hit that clock.
Oh, my God.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Everything I see out of Israel is like it's like it feels like an AI recruitment video for the American Nazi Party.
Yeah.
That is.
And that's Channel 13.
Channel 14 is the pro Netanyahu, Likud, fascist channel.
13 is sort of mainstream.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They look so indigenous, don't they?
Yeah.
And you have that, you know, you see it in the top right corner that Israeli and American flag sort of merged with Israel over the American flag.
With Israel over the American flag.
But honestly, there's more of a distinction there in that graphic than there is on Fox News.
If you watch Fox News, the Israeli and American flag has sort of been morphed into one.
So even Israel draws more of a distinction with the U.S. flag than American state TV, Fox News, does right now.
But that's what's happening in Israel is a countdown clock to the extension, the threatened extinction of a civilization in Iran.
A bunch of demons.
But sorry, you wanted to show an NPR.
I think that's it.
A bunch of demons.
Meanwhile, Iran's backbone, the IRGC, deserves the Nobel.
I think you could find a hard to find a better candidate.
The warmongering dog Trump wanted to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
After assisting his fellow Nazi mentality dictators in Israel, slaughtered children in the tens of thousands.
Was there a single person in his or her right mind on the planet who wasn't sickened at the thought of that war criminal getting an award for seeking peace?
Iran, however, clearly has vast support worldwide due to its facing down and defeating the warmongering Trump and his fellow war pigs in Israel.
Iran, through its persistence and Determined response to their unprovoked aggression has won the world's unlimited respect.
Iran, far more than any nation in recent history, fully deserves reward.
The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded only to individuals or organizations, so, Iran as a state cannot receive it.
Therefore, the award should certainly go to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for defeating the new Nazis of Israel, the IDF.
Defending your nation to restore peace in your land is an act certainly deserving of this award.
I agree.
Meanwhile, here's Hal Turner's explanation for what's been going on here.
Very close, by the way, to Brian's.
Listen to this.
The green colored little icons on the map below are VLCC tanker ships.
A VOCC tanker holds about 2 million barrels of oil.
Every ship you see heading toward the USA is empty.
They're coming here to fill up.
All those ships used to get their oil from the Middle East.
Now they have to get it from us.
Now do you see the real reason for the Middle East war?
We are the ones making all the money.
The stupid Israelis think we were over there supporting them.
They're just too arrogant, obnoxious, unschooled, psychotic, and short sighted to see the only actual reason we're doing this is to force the world to buy oil from us.
They think we somehow actually care if they get obliterated by Iran.
Hint, we don't care at all.
Oh, did I mention US dollar only to fill his ships?
Thank you.
So much for de dollarization.
The bankers' city of London thought the US was going to protect their gigantic dark money oil cash flow from the Middle East.
The Arabs thought we needed them.
They all thought they had us by the balls.
Now, who has whom by the balls?
Give it a few more days for the Eurofag vassals of NATO to realize they better do what the U.S. wants or maybe no oil or gas for them, too.
The world needs oil.
There are only so many places to get it.
Most of those places are now cut off by the Iran war.
The choices are us, Russia, Venezuela.
Oops.
That's U.S. too now, Canada, or where else?
Nowhere else.
The city of London.
Is getting cash starved.
Their dark money is drying up.
The Euro thags can't go to Russia because they've been so animalistic toward Russia about the Ukraine thing.
They can't dump US Treasury bills and sovereign debt as they've been toying with because if they do, no oil and gas for them.
And besides, they need those things to pay for the oil and gas they must now buy from us.
A slew of people thought Trump was a madman, allowing Israel to start this conflict with Iran.
Turns out he was a genius.
Now the U.S. gets to sell the oil at present high prices, very profitable.
Dedollarization is dead.
And NATO once again understands its actual place in the world on our leash.
Joaquin, your thoughts, my friend.
There's quite a bit of that again.
But yeah, I think that actually, I believe that the rest of the world is moving quietly being handled behind the scenes through the BRICS, really, BRICS with Russia and China input.
I mean, they were basically only doing, Iran was insisting that all their oil was going to be done with Yuan.
And China has been exercising more power in asserting its yuan onto the international market.
I don't think that the internet, the coming up with BRICS is going to actually go with yuan for everybody, but I think they are going to come up with eventually their own unit, international unit, monetary unit.
You know, as far as the other sort, yeah.
This actually is the downfall of the whole economy globally, but it's also more than anything else the downfall of Israel.
It really is because there's no way that Israel is even going to survive this if they persist in this pattern of continued aggression against Iran or any force that's trying to upend this whole, you know, U.S. Israel.
Catastrophe that's going on.
So, Israel is going to be the worst loser because they may not even survive as a nation when it's all said and done.
So, that's kind of the way I'm looking at the bigger picture here.
Brian, your thoughts.
And you're in rather good company with Al Turner, by the way.
I didn't even know that that story was in there, I hadn't read it in advance.
But it's interesting that people are starting to see that.
There's so much of a slice of America, especially the quote unquote evangelical conservative, that believes that we are supporting Israel because they're the chosen people of the Bible and that they've been deeded the land and that eschatological events depend upon us blessing them.
That is a bunch of bullshit.
Okay.
Anybody who actually reads the Bible knows how crazy that actually is.
These people have been judged and scattered to the wind over and over and over.
Did they make a comeback?
Biblical History Ties00:03:47
Yes.
Do the 12 tribes of Israel exist in the book of Revelation?
Yes, they do.
So there's something to it, but let's face the practical reality of the situation.
Israel, from a strategic perspective, is land that sits right in the middle of the Middle East that must be controlled to control the trade routes that head north from the Red Sea, north from Africa.
It's the connection between Europe.
And the northern Middle East and Africa.
And so it's a very important strategic piece of land that's sitting right there.
Now, I don't think we're supporting Israel because they're the chosen people.
I think that we're supporting Israel so that we can continue to control those trade routes, which have been important for all of the history of mankind.
If you think about it, the Assyrian invasion, 738 BC, the Babylonian invasion, 538 BC, The Romans, the Greeks, the Cyrus invasion of the Persians and the Medes, all that biblical history ties to one important fact.
They were all headed down to control that route north from Africa to Europe.
And, you know, so it's important, but not because these are the chosen people, although a lot of people tend to believe that.
It's more because it's just strategically a very, very important corridor for control.
I doubt very much that Joe Biden or Donald Trump are familiar with any of those historical points you make, Brian, but I love your defense.
It's fascinating, and our differences are extremely interesting.
Let me skip ahead.
Here we have for our final series of stories President Trump promises mass pardons for his entire administration.
How appropriate.
This could help members of the Trump admin escape political prosecution in the future.
Insiders within the White House reportedly told the Wall Street Journal President Trump plans to grant sweeping pardons to the entire administration.
Trump reportedly told White House advisors he plans to pardon anyone who is within 200 feet of the Oval Office.
Here's part of the story President Trump has repeatedly promised his top admin official pardons before he leaves office.
According to those who have heard his comments, if I'll pardon everyone who has come within 200 feet of the oval, Trump said in a recent meeting to laughs.
According to people with knowledge of the comments, that radius appears to be expanding as the president repeats the line.
Another person who met with Trump earlier this year said the president whipped about pardoning everyone who had come within 10 feet, but now it's 200.
Soon it's going to be a half a mile.
In one conversation with advisors in the dining room next to the Oval Office last year, Trump said he would host a news conference and announce mass pardons before he leaves office.
People said they weren't aware of specific pardons being offered to specific people for specific acts.
The unconditional power of pardon is one of the most sweeping powers given the presidency by the Constitution, I have no doubt.
He has authority to do it.
Doctor Without Borders00:02:05
Meanwhile, Trump is depicting himself as Jesus, claiming it was me as a doctor.
President Donald Trump removed an image on his Truth Social showing himself appearing like Jesus Christ.
The image, which appears to have been generated with artificial intelligence, was posted after the president blasted Pope Leo XIV for criticizing U.S. military actions against Iran.
Megan Basham, a conservative Christian commentator, called the image.
Outrageous blasphemy in a post on the social media site X.
I thought it was me as a doctor, Trump told reporters at the White House when asked about the image, and there it is.
Take a look.
What do you think?
Is that Donald Trump as a doctor, or is that Donald Trump as the reincarnation of Jesus Christ?
Get this.
Here we have his explanation.
I did post it, and it wasn't meant to be Jesus at all.
It was meant to be me as a doctor.
And I would have made a great doctor because I make people better.
I do.
Jesus, he wasn't a doctor.
He was a carpenter.
We know that.
But he could have been a doctor if he was a Jewish guy.
He was a great Jewish guy.
He could have been a great doctor, as a lot of Jewish people are.
But I could have been a doctor too.
And we have Dr. Oz, who's a great doctor.
We love Dr. Oz.
But that's what it was meant to portray.
I mean, I could have been a gynecologist, and with these hands, I guarantee you there's no problem.
I could have done all kinds of things in medicine.
You know, I could have stitched.
People up just like I sealed the southern border.
I'm very good at that.
You know what Biden would have been if he was a doctor?
He would have been a doctor without borders.
That's what he would have been because that's what this country was.
It was run by a doctor without borders and we fixed that.
I could have been a gastro, you know, giving people beautiful colonoscopies, beautiful colonoscopies, opening them up like the Strait of Hormuz.
I would have done that.
And so that's what that's depicting.
It's me as a doctor.
Dr. Jesus.
The Great Doctor Wish00:05:45
Sorry, what?
God, I love that, Joaquin.
Your thoughts, my friend.
Your thoughts.
Yeah, that guy is very good.
That's a really good imitation of Trump.
You know exactly who it is, you know?
Wow.
And he's funny, too.
Yeah, with the promise of pardons.
Oh, my God.
It's like he knows he's in a criminal organization and therefore.
You know, before he's out, and he obviously this is his quote, first year of his second term, and he's already talking about pardons.
You know, he already knows he's not going to last the four years.
And so, yeah, he's putting it out there to protect all these criminals around him.
But he's the biggest criminal of them all, of course.
You know, and then the Trump tariffs one year, you know, they've it's been a disaster.
The rest of the world has learned to function without America.
And therefore, America is a pariah to the rest of the world, and they are seeking other trade partners.
So America loses out.
I don't think too many countries are paying for all those tariffs that the United States or Trump is insisting on.
And then, you know, I guess you're not going to do the Eric Swalwell story?
No, it's time for Swalwell, but he's going to be gone.
He's already announced he's resigning from Congress.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, he's been up to no good for too many years.
It's a good thing to get him out.
Yeah.
So, yeah, it looks like we're at the end of, nearing the end of the program now.
Yeah.
We are, we are, we are.
Brian, Brian, give us your thoughts.
Oh, it reminds me of my favorite line in one of my favorite comedies of all time.
It's when Harry's talking to Lloyd in the movie Dumb and Dumber after he went and traded the dog van for a scooter.
And Harry looks at Lloyd and says, Just when I thought you couldn't get any dumber, you go and do something like this and totally redeem yourself.
And then they go riding on a little scooter into town.
Well, Donald Trump has said some dumb things.
He has tweeted some dumb things.
He has gone after it.
But, you know, I will give him this.
He's not Joe Biden.
He's not controlled by some political pansy in terms of what he says and what he doesn't say.
He obviously takes money from powerful interests and he obviously aligns himself with those interests.
He obviously spent the 80s getting himself aligned with Epstein and his crowd and this international real estate mogul system.
He probably got involved with almost everything that they said was forbidden.
Although there's conflicting stories about that, he probably has a deep, dark history of betrayal, backstabbing, just like any other tycoon would.
But the one thing I got to give him is he is original.
And it's a lot better than getting some puppet in there that's being controlled by some fake machinery.
At least it's entertaining watching the guy rub everybody wrong and watching all the reactions.
It's much more fun than it was before.
But no, I'm not entertained by the Israeli alliances and I'm not entertained by the risks that we're taking.
I wish we could focus on our domestic agenda and get rid of this whole global geopolitic thing.
But, you know, it's not easy being the king.
And right now, United States hegemony has been well established since the 40s.
And it looks like it's going to continue to grow that direction unless we're brought down.
And.
You know, I hope it doesn't happen from a sense I'm an optimist in the sense that I like my lifestyle here in America.
I like the idea of U.S. hegemony.
I like cheap power and I like cheap gas and I like affordable things.
And I don't want to give that up for a moral standard that treats everybody fairly if I don't have to.
And that's the one thing that maybe Donald Trump is doing.
Long term, although I can't say that he's bothered calculating all these different risks.
No doubt about that.
Listen, Brian, I'll give you the short term gain, but long term, I'm sorry, Joaquin and I got it right.
It's going to be a disaster for America and it's going to endure.
The quality of life our kids are going to enjoy is going to be far less than ours.
The value of the dollar has shrunk.
Inflation is going to continue to rise.
We're going to suffer the consequences for generations to come.
If we as a nation can survive, and I wish us well, I wish us well.
Don, take us out.
Short Term Gain Disaster00:00:52
Wow.
You guys took us out here.
And speaking of gas prices here in Seattle, diesel is now $7 a gallon.
And I can't imagine that.
So, anyway, times are getting tight, money's tight, and everything else.
So, anyway, thank you so much for watching.
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