Truth vs. NEW$ Inc, Part 1 (13 April 2026) with Don Grahn, Joachim Hagopian, and Brian Davidson
Don Grahn, Joachim Hagopian, and Brian Davidson dissect escalating US-Iran tensions on April 13, 2026, alleging a failed CIA-Mossad-MI6 operation using "starlight terminals" was thwarted by Iranian-Turkish cooperation. They claim Saudi Crown Prince MBS secured a $100 billion payment and trillion-dollar investment to prolong the war, while six ballistic missiles struck Prince Sultan Air Base. Hagopian speculates Rothschild controllers use World War III for depopulation, labeling Trump a "Shabbat Satanist," whereas Ritter warns against blocking the Strait of Hormuz due to risks involving Chinese and Russian vessels. Ultimately, the hosts argue Trump faces dangerous impulsive decisions trapped between Netanyahu's pressure and Iranian military capabilities. [Automatically generated summary]
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Historic Opportunity to Deceive Iran00:15:15
And welcome folks to Truth versus News Incorporated.
Yes, Truth versus News Incorporated.
And it's a wild time these days.
We have a lot of things happening and it seems that the truth and the news are further apart than ever as we hit the war.
And we're going to bring it back together and let you know the truth here.
And you want to get this show out because nobody else is doing what we're doing and it's very intense times and the news is not what it's supposed to be.
So we're doing the truth.
True truth here on the 13th of april 2026, as we're heading into war, it looks like our stories are something else here, and I have the best people to bring the stories to you.
Of course, we have professor James Fisher, the almighty, wonderful researcher who puts this all together and works tirelessly 24, 7 to do things and write books like the Nobody Died On Sandy Hook and about the war and everything else.
So um anyway, we'll.
Um, That's great.
Excuse me.
Then we have Brian Davidson, a private investigator out of Texas who really knows a lot and expresses his views very distinctly.
And what came again all the way from Bali, Indonesia with his writings that are just outstanding on being critical of what's happening today.
So Jim, about what's happening today, we got negotiations of feeling and what military targets and Iran is striking at Sultan Air Base and missiles flying.
Oh my God.
You want to get the show, folks, and record it and ensure it.
Thanks, Jim.
Go ahead.
Much appreciated, Don.
We begin with Colonel McGregor talking about negotiations or sticky wickets.
Iran really holds all the cards, but Trump is trying to figure out a way to save face.
It's fairly stunning stuff.
I think there's a lot of confusion and, frankly, what I think you're seeing is another manifestation of the absence of any real strategic planning, thinking, preparation before execution.
Everything is impulse driven.
It's whatever Donald Trump wakes up and decides he wants to do.
His cabinet scurries around and tries to respond to it.
Now, in reality, what happened?
I think that.
We thought we had an opportunity inside Iran to really disrupt the regime, even bring it down.
This, of course, was based on the protests that are really a consequence of a terrible economic situation and the dramatic reduction in value of the rial, the Iranian currency.
Now, a lot of us have wondered why Iran has not gone to BRICS or to the Chinese or someone and said, look, lend me a billion dollars because they could do that easily.
That would boost the economy and help the situation tremendously.
But for some reason, they haven't done that.
Now, I know there's Islamic law that essentially forbids usury.
This is one of the reasons the banks in the Islamic world tend to be very solid as opposed to ours.
I don't know if that's the justification for it.
But the bottom line is that what you started with were very legitimate protests about the economic conditions in Iran.
Those overlapped with a struggle, political struggle, between reformers and conservatives.
This then was developed into a CIA Mossad MI6 operation with the introduction of thousands of these starlight terminals, enormous quantities of money, which in that setting, of course, is going to buy a certain amount of support.
And now we have all sorts of evidence that's being provided overseas as well as here at home for instructions given to people in the crowds to fire on the police.
And provoked the police to shoot back at them in the hopes that people would be killed.
And this then would worsen the situation.
Well, all of this unfolded and it failed.
It failed for a whole variety of reasons.
The failure began, I would argue, last week on Friday when the Iranians and the Turks cooperated to annihilate 400 Kurdish fighters who were trying to move from Syria into Iran.
I don't think the Mossad or the CIA anticipated that, but I think that's a very important development.
There's a growing.
Appreciation in Turkey for the criticality of stability and unity in Iran.
The two states, for different reasons, have been competitors and sometimes enemies over a thousand years, but both are civilizational states.
We need to understand that.
Americans don't have any idea what that means.
Iran is Persia.
The Persian Empire has been with us for 2,500, 2,600 years.
They have a unique civilization and culture.
So do the Turks.
For very similar reasons.
The Turks came out of Central Asia.
They're not Arabs.
Anyway, the point is that both of these states are not going to help us or the Israelis destroy one or the other because they see their survival as civilizational states at risk.
So, what's happened is that the starlight terminals were largely picked up, confiscated.
The Chinese assisted technically helping to suppress and jam these things and the satellite connections.
I think the Russians have helped in whatever way they could, but the point is.
I think President Trump was told that this was a golden moment in time, which would allow him with very little effort to topple the government.
That failed miserably.
Secondly, once it became clear that failed, I can't prove this, but I suspect the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Kane, probably told him if we're going to do this, we're going to need more firepower because what we anticipated has not happened.
In other words, the country is not imploding.
Its armed forces are intact.
It's integrated air and missile defenses are intact and so forth.
And I think at that point, stories were spun out to explain why now suddenly the attack was off.
And remember, President Trump tried to persuade people, well, they've stopped killing.
And I told them I didn't want them to kill.
Give us a break.
There's no evidence that Trump gives a damn about who lives or dies in the Middle East, least of all, Iran.
So I think that's just nonsense.
And I think they had a Pakistani diplomat insists in his discussions with the Iranians that they told him that.
They informed Trump that they were scaling back on the killing.
Now, maybe that was true, but I don't think it's killing in the sense of what you saw in the riots.
I think it's really executions of fifth columnists.
People betrayed their country and sold out principally to Mossad because you had, according to Mr. Pompeo, lots of Mossad agents out in the audience.
Well, gosh, what a shock.
I think they probably told, you know, it could be that President Putin, because supposedly the Russians have had their hand in advising them.
Said, listen, scale back on these executions for the moment.
Yeah.
Even though we tolerate these kinds of executions in Saudi Arabia and any other places all the time, and Trump never expressed any concern about the loss of life in Gaza.
So who knows?
But I think the show is on.
You have to look at the Lincoln carrier battle group, it's still on its way to the region.
We may see a second show up.
I wouldn't be surprised.
So I think the war is definitely on the agenda.
And I don't see any evidence that, uh, Mr. Netanyahu is relenting.
This is his golden moment.
Either he acts and gets the full support, unconditional support of the United States Armed Forces and wins his war in his mind, or he loses.
Yeah.
Now, Trump was about to pull out to really call it a day when he received a message from Saudi Arabia.
Hal Turner reports.
President Trump was ready to walk away from the Middle East yesterday until urgent call came in.
Whore for money.
The term seemed quite relevant based on the information I just received.
This is Hal Turner reporting, of course.
President Trump was ready to walk away from the Middle East troubles after the Iran negotiation failed.
But an urgent phone call from Crown Prince MBS changed Trump's decision at the last moment.
President Trump intended to declare complete ceasefire and end the fighting against Iran in exchange for the immediate opening of the Strait of Hormuz.
However, a tenth phone call.
From MBS dramatically changed the plan.
According to the White House, Minsalman begged Trump not to stop the war.
This is an historic opportunity.
We must finish a job and weaken the Iranian regime once and for all.
In exchange for continuing the fighting, Saudi Arabia offered an unprecedented package of economic and strategic incentives.
Key points 100 billion transferred directly to finance American war costs, full and immediate normalization with Israel after the fall of the regime, direct oil pipeline from Saudi Arabia to the port of Ashdod, turning Israel into a major Energy hub, investment of about a trillion in the U.S. economy, purchase of 500 billion in American weapons, establishment of a new regional defense alliance between Israel,
Saudi Arabia, and other moderate countries under an American umbrella, joint naval force to control the Strait of Hormuz and Babel Mandab, funding of U.S. strategic bases in Israel, joint reconstruction fund for post regime.
Secular and moderate, secular and moderate rant in the end.
Trump announced a temporary ceasefire, not an end to the war as was expected.
Senior diplomatic sources describe the move as an historic turning point, marking the beginning of a new regional order.
Others see it as the USA whoring itself for money.
Unbelievable.
Meanwhile, just to show that, in fact, Prince Sultan Air Base is burning right now.
Six ballistic missiles and twenty-nine armed drones just struck the most important American military installation in the entire Arabian Peninsula.
The base that houses f thirty five stealth fighters, patriot missile batteries, and the central command node for every American air operation running between the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea just took its first direct hits in the history of this conflict.
And the strikes did not come from the direction anyone expected.
Three of the six ballistic missiles were Kabar Shekhan medium-range variants launched from deep inside southwestern Iran.
The other three were desfull close-range ballistic missiles launched from positions that American intelligence is now scrambling to confirm, but that early trajectory analysis places inside Iraqi territory west of the Zagros mountain range.
The twenty-nine drones came in three separate waves from three different compass headings north, northwest, and east, arriving over the base perimeter within an eleven-minute window that turned every air defense system on that installation into a prioritization nightmare.
This is not a symbolic strike.
This is not a warning shot.
This is Iran telling the United States that its most protected, Most heavily defended forward operating base in the Middle East is not safe.
And by the end of this video, you are going to understand exactly why Iran chose Prince Sultan Air Base, what the combination of Iraqi launched and Iranian launched missiles tells us about how this war has just expanded, what the drone swarm approach pattern reveals about how Iran mapped the base's air defense architecture before the attack, and why what happened in the last four hours changes the strategic calculus of every American military planner operating between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean.
Let us get straight into the details.
Prince Sultan Air Base sits approximately 100 kilometers southeast of Riyadh in the Al Qarj region of central Saudi Arabia.
It is not just.
Yes, this guy is very, very good.
We want your thoughts, Joaquim.
Go right ahead.
Well, there might be these factors that.
And, you know, this other guy's talking about, you know, Saudi Arabia, Hal Turner had that thing.
The overall pattern, and it's repeating itself over and over again.
And the overall pattern is that when Trump realizes Iran has the upper hand, they always send out the same old idiots to negotiate.
And in good faith, Iran always accepts the offer.
You know, I know there's always a middleman, in this case, Pakistan.
But the pattern is there over and over.
I mean, whether we're talking about the end of the 12 day war last June, or we're talking about the February 28th attack, joint attack by Iran, I mean, by Israel and the United States, they're busy working out deals at the same time that they have a plan to attack.
And then, of course, it just happened again.
So, my view is this is the plan that Trump is using to try and deceive Iran every single time and then come back for more war.
And I also believe that he's not in control, that they use his erratic nature because he's a basket case, especially at this point.
Trump's Plan for More War00:09:18
To promote this overall pattern of aggression.
And then, of course, we say, well, Netanyahu has him by the balls because of the pedophilia.
That's part of it.
They use all of these different factors to try and assess the situation as to why every time it looks like it's going to, we see an opening of light finally, and then all of a sudden it's back into the darkness, full speed ahead for active World War III.
You know, it's a pattern here three times in a row now where it happens.
So I think that the overall pattern is World War III, and it's probably going to go nuclear because I see that.
Israel is weak.
They have been just completely obliterated by all the missiles and drones by Iran.
They are very weak.
The people are weak psychologically, having to go up and down, up and down into the shelters, you know, living that lifestyle now for this long.
They're weak.
They don't have a population to support the war either.
That's why they have to use the United States all the time.
So, They're getting to a desperate place right now, Israel is.
And I believe that in all likelihood, yes, they're going to end up using their nukes, maybe a tactical nuke, maybe a strategic, which would be obviously very much worse.
But I see that that's going to be the end result.
World War III, it looks like it's unavoidable.
And Russia and China are going to be involved, obviously.
And the United States and the West are going down.
That's been my view for a long, long time that the controllers of this earth, the Rothschilds et al., money changing bloodlines that have been in control financially over the earth, are bent on depopulation.
And they're using World War III to do it, and they want to get rid of the West first because they've known, quote, freedom, the illusion of freedom, actually, for the longest time.
Whereas, quote, third world continents, those people have lived in the colonial, and now it's neo colonial, basically.
So they figure they're a lot more easily handled, and they've moved all the act towards the He is.
We lost him.
That's the bottom line.
The nation of the West is going to take a major hit.
I'm just not seeing a way out because of the satanic nature of the bottom line controllers.
That's the bottom line.
And Trump, yes, he is a Shabbat Satanist.
So, you know, it's a pattern here.
So.
You can look at these latest things and say, well, this happened and therefore this.
But when you see a pattern keep repeating itself indefinitely, you have to take a full look and realize what the real game plan is.
And that's, in my estimation, the real game plan.
Brian, your thoughts.
Yeah, I kind of want to talk about McGregor's statements there because he's not a lightweight.
He brings a lot of credibility and pattern recognition.
But he also makes a lot of speculation and narrative leaps that aren't necessarily all there.
He raised a lot of very important structural concerns, especially about the stability of Iran.
And I think that's fair.
And I think it's a nice analytical thing.
But I'm not sure it's fair to say there's been no strategic planning and that this is impulse driven policy.
I mean, just earlier today, we saw just about every ship around the world turn around and start heading towards the Gulf to drop off its oil loads because the closing of the Straits of Hormuz.
That puts us in an incredibly powerful position if all these ships are turning around because there's so much risk in the Straits of Hormuz.
And it's not something that I saw earlier on in this process.
I never asked the question, well, where will they go?
They'll turn around and start heading towards the Gulf to get rid of their payloads.
So, I can't really tell what is impulse driven policy.
Obviously, Donald Trump's tweets are impulse driven, but they're not necessarily policy.
So, I guess I would say that I think there's probably a little bit more here to the plan than maybe even McGregor gives them credit for.
He's right that there's a lot of inconsistency in the messaging, but the inconsistency doesn't.
Necessarily mean there's been no planning.
It may just reflect that there's competing strategies inside the system and that the spinmeisters who are trying to keep this thing going in the right direction are rolling out new messaging campaigns all the time.
McGregor says that the regime change operation fails.
And in a sense, I think he might be right short term, but I don't know that he's going to be right long term on that.
But, you know, the bottom line is there's a long history of external actors engaging in influence operations, but the claims about scale and coordination are not incredibly strong.
Iran is a civilizational state that probably will not collapse.
It's very durable, it's a very cohesive civilization.
It aligns itself well with Turkey for stability.
And I don't think that the regime is just going to implode because Donald Trump sends some tweets.
So I don't know.
You know, McGregor also claimed that war is now fundamentally inevitable, that it's going to happen in seven to 10 days.
Well, we'll find out if that's true.
I tend to think that there's going to be some cooler heads that are going to begin to prevail when they realize that the petrodollar is actually, in a sense, Not weakening like I had expected, but more potentially strengthening itself under these circumstances with all these tankers turning around and the Straits of Hormuz being basically abandoned.
So I think it's a little bit early to tell where it's all going to play out.
Yes, I think Israel is an important part of this, but just simply because that's a piece of real estate that's been important for civilizational trade since the beginning of time.
Are they influenced by Satan?
Well, yeah, I would say there's certainly something there, but is their power structure really one that is capable of total global dominance?
I wouldn't give them that much credit.
And yeah, they propagandize their citizens and get them ready for war, just like we, in a sense, used to.
But that doesn't necessarily mean that they're weak.
There is the possibility of nuclear escalation.
Israel could use nukes to try to preserve itself.
And there's obviously speculation that there's going to be some sort of chain reactions or underground tests that take place.
You just have to be real careful about that stuff because it's a little bit early to say that this thing is going to result in a nuclear escalation.
And I think, really, when it's all about the strength of the petrodollar and whether or not it will emerge as the currency that moves forward.
Yeah, that's my bottom line on it.
Well, in my opinion, it's the MBS thing that mucks the whole thing up that he's bought America.
He's turned us into a whore under Donald Trump, who's a pimp master.
It's embarrassing, it's shameless, inexcusable in an American president.
I am ashamed of Donald Trump.
It's very bad.
Wrong Tack and Economic Warfare00:15:35
Meanwhile, let me get back to our.
Here we go.
Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.
What the hell happened here?
Trump says the U.S. Navy is going to begin a blockade of the Strait of Humeau given the failure of a ceasefire agreement.
In my opinion, this is one more blunder being committed.
Here's the story Islamabad.
President Donald Trump Sunday said the US Navy will immediately begin a blockade to stop ships from entering or leaving the Strait of Hormuz after historic US Iran ceasefire talks in Pakistan ended without an agreement.
or next diplomatic steps inside.
Here we have Larry Johnson asking whether a blockade could actually work.
The short answer to my question is no.
The US, notwithstanding Trump's words, is not going to deploy its Navy ships close to Iran's shore.
The USS Abraham Lincoln got within 210 miles of the Iranian southern coast in March, but was forced to retreat to a position about 700 miles from the coast after it was attacked by a swarm of Iranian missiles and drones.
They could have sunk it outright.
So, any attempts to interdict a tanker will take place hundreds of miles off the coast of Iran.
The interdiction of a tanker is normally carried out via a helicopter air assault.
This means the U.S. must rely on ships capable of carrying and launching choppers.
At present, there are only three groups of Navy ships that meet this criteria.
Abraham Lincoln on the one hand, and the 11th and 31st Marine Expeditionary Units.
The 31st consists of a series of ships, the 11th, another series of ships he explains here.
This means there are a total of seven ships that can launch one or more choppers for a takedown mission.
What seems like a simple mission becomes a problem when the tankers are 700 miles or more.
From the Iranian coast.
Locating and tracking a ship, even a large tanker, is difficult.
The farther the tanker is from the coast of Iran, the search area grows proportionately large, making it more difficult to find and locate a target.
This ain't the Caribbean, and it certainly is not Venezuela.
Trump in making this announcement has given the owners of those tankers who are allowed to leave the Persian Gulf ample time to place security teams aboard their ships, armed with shoulder filed man pads.
Those are portable anti aircraft devices.
If any of the tankers are carrying the Chinese or Japanese flag, any attempt aboard could be viewed as an act of war.
I don't think that has really thought through the problems and dangers that arrive.
If CENTCOM actually executes this mission, with which I completely agree.
Plus, we have Scott Ritter, who really has so much to say.
This is such an impassioned speech.
War in another week?
I don't think he, I mean, first of all, we're in a very dangerous situation because war is always on the horizon.
But there will, you know, it's alleged that Albert Einstein once said, you know, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over again, expecting a different outcome.
If we resume the war, we're going to lose.
There's nothing that's happened militarily that changes the dynamic that already delivered an American defeat.
We don't control the Strait of Hormuz, and we never will control the Strait of Hormuz.
We cannot collapse the regime.
The more we bomb, the stronger the regime gets.
And I know there's been a lot of C 17 flights moving around, replenishing the missiles on board the ships, getting more defense.
But we will, and the Iranians said, do whatever you need to do.
You'll burn through all your stuff within two days and we'll be right back to where we started.
The same dynamics in play.
Iran controls every aspect of this conflict.
We can blow up buildings on the ground.
That's all we can do.
We don't even know what.
If you think there's anything of value in any building in Iran today, I've got a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn.
We're going to go back in there.
Donald Trump says he's going to blow things up.
Well, you touch a power plant, Donald Trump, and the lights go out throughout the Middle East.
Every single major energy production field in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates disappears, gone.
And if you want to play even more stupid games, they'll start taking out desalinization plants.
And they'll do that in Israel as well.
And that's life.
Terminating.
That's the end of modern civilization in this region.
And this is where the Iranians are ready to go if that's the game the United States wants to play.
This is why we stopped the war because we had reached the cap of our escalation capabilities.
Had we continued with his civilization erasing threats, there would be no energy coming out of the Middle East for a century.
He stopped.
Trump stopped because he understood this that we had gone.
So, what's he going to do?
Start all over again.
So, this is why he's taking a new tack, the blockade.
But this isn't going to work.
A blockade is, by definition, an act of war.
So, he's in effect declaring war on Iran.
And I anticipate that the Iranians will treat it as a warlike gesture.
But I also anticipate that the allies of Iran aren't going to sit by and let this happen.
I don't think any Chinese ships are going to say, well, we're not going to an Iranian port because of this.
And I don't think any Russian ships are going to say the same thing.
And I don't think the United States navies.
Going to get too far boarding and detaining Chinese and Russian flagged ships at this juncture.
So, Donald Trump is posturing right now.
Let's see where it goes.
But there's no place for him to go because the outcome is guaranteed continued American military defeat, and we lose by not winning, and global economic disaster.
What does it take to effectuate a.
I so appreciate Scott Ritter.
Joaquin, your thoughts.
Joaquin, have we got you, buddy, or not?
Go right ahead, Brian.
Joaquin, can you hear me?
Yeah.
Did you catch Scott?
There's a little trouble.
Did you catch Scott?
There's internet interference, but I know.
I know.
I'm available.
Did you catch Scott?
Can you comment on the story?
Yeah.
I think it's very clear no matter what happens, Trump's going to fail.
The United States is not able to disrupt Iran from still holding the cars in this war.
It's not going to stop.
You know, to try and stop the shipping, it's not going to happen.
There's so many ships out there, and Russia and China are not going to sit idly by and allow it to happen anyway.
So it's another.
You know, desperado move that is going to not pay off and only make basically the economy, you know, the gas prices, oil prices, fertilizer, everything economically that's where it's going to go.
It's World War III economic style.
And so, yeah, the West is going to go down, like I always keep saying.
That's that's he's doing everything to bring the West down sooner than later.
That's the bottom line here.
Ryan.
Well, you know, I really enjoyed the Sonar 21 article with Larry Johnson.
He's really arguing here that there's a lot of strategic issues related to winning this thing.
And there's a good argument that our capabilities are just there, not there.
It's not a political argument, but let's take a look at, you know, What he's saying.
He's saying there's a distance problem.
US ships have to stay 700 miles away.
It's going to be harder to find the tankers, and that there's going to be a big search area related to that.
That we have a very limited capability when it comes to interdicting to salvage any ships that are being threatened.
And we're not going to really have what it takes to do boarding operations in the event that this thing breaks out into that sort of war.
Armed tankers.
Chinese and Japanese flagships could definitely trigger a much wider war.
And I think he's right about that.
And you have to be very careful and acknowledge that there's a lot of friction there associated with this.
The Gulf is not a controlled environment, targeting ships at a distance is difficult, and boarding operations are very slow and risky.
So, it's a very, very complex maritime environment.
And even limited disruptions can shut down traffic due to risk perception, as we saw today when all the tankers started turning toward the Gulf, which, by the way, is a good thing.
We've got plenty of oil that we can sell them and fill that up for us.
But you've got to remember Iran doesn't need to win a war, they just need to disrupt the global economy enough.
To get everybody to back off, and of course, just the presence of mines or even the suggestion that they'll be there or drones or missiles that's going to create insurance denial zones where, um, it shipping is going to be halted in that area.
Um, so I, Johnston was thinking tactically, I like Ritter's arguments too, and I think he's got some.
Some real strength there in the way that he argues that this thing cannot be restarted.
It's got to be finished where it's at.
But you've got to realize that there is something called a siege, and you don't necessarily have to hit energy grids and desalinization plants to start cutting off supplies and create a siege that puts more pressure on that regime.
So, you know, I think what will happen is that this thing will slow down and turn into more of a siege type environment where we're basically just going to use all political resources possible and European resources and Middle Eastern resources with the Saudis and Qatar and other neighboring countries, such as Jordan, Yemen, and others, to try to cut off Iran and continue to apply a great deal of pressure.
But those are tough people.
They're going to live, they're going to be just fine for a while, but sooner or later, inside of a siege type war condition, you know, you get hungry, you get thirsty, and you start to ask your leaders to take a hike.
And that's something that doesn't happen overnight.
That's something that happens in time.
And maybe the Iranian regime that's in place will see that and begin to understand what's coming and start making some concessions.
Then again, maybe not, because for them, it's really just a battle of survival.
The fact is, time is on Iran's side.
It's the world that can't stand for a siege to put this off.
They've got to settle it now.
And Iran can control it.
Iran can control it.
It's not as though they didn't anticipate all these things.
They have thought this through, they know what the hell they're doing.
They aren't going to be forced to give up what they have been fighting for because of a siege or a blockade.
It ain't going to happen.
Here we have a ground war.
Antiwar.com reporting is only going to make matters worse.
Easter Sunday and the bad emperor Donald Trump threaten war crimes against the people of Iran.
The derangement of the American president in the argument for invoking the 25th Amendment for his removal has as much, if not more, evidence as existed for the cognitive impairment of his predecessor Joe Biden.
Trump's social media post yesterday.
If written in the early centuries of our era by a Roman emperor, or would have been worthy of quotation in Evergivens' history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire.
Thus, another sign of the American Empire's decline and fall, not solely the corruption of its executive, but the madness of the emperor and his court.
It's an empire that, in its decline, lashes out, an empire that, while seeking to control and maintain its dominance, perpetrates disastrous and vainglorious acts of war.
Acts of war that feed the empire's demise while bringing ruin to its vassals and opportunity to its enemies.
That is happening now.
Just in, there's a report here.
I've been unable to confirm Colonel Wilkerson.
Empire Decline and Strategic Errors00:05:04
Salinated output.
And you need functioning pump and distribution infrastructure to move the treated water from the coastal plants through the network to the people who need it.
Take out any one of those three dependencies and the entire chain fails.
Stay with me because this next part changes everything.
Iran did not take out one dependency tonight.
Iran has now taken out all three.
The nationwide blackout struck the electricity dependency that the desalination plants require to function.
The earlier water infrastructure strikes during this conflict damaged the chemical dosing and treatment infrastructure that desalinated water requires before it can be safely consumed.
And tonight's strike at Rishon LeZion destroyed the last facility that had been maintaining the treatment and distribution function connecting the desalination chain to the population it serves.
Three dependencies.
Three strikes.
The sequence was not accidental.
The sequencing was the strategy.
To understand what was lost tonight in concrete terms, you need to understand what Rashon LeZion actually was in the context of Israel's degraded water system.
Before this conflict began, Rashon LeZion was one of several treatment and distribution hubs serving the greater Tel Aviv metropolitan area.
Lose one, and network rerouting through the remaining facilities could compensate.
The system was designed with exactly that redundancy in mind.
But the previous strikes in this conflict systematically eliminated that redundancy before tonight's final strike was ever executed.
The Mecha Rot pumping stations that move water through the national water carrier backbone were struck in the second water infrastructure attack of this conflict.
The treatment facility at Peta Tiki.
Serving the northern metropolitan area was damaged in the third.
The distribution hub at Bat Yam, serving the southern coastal communities, was damaged in a strike primarily targeting adjacent military infrastructure.
What remained after all of those strikes was Rishon LeZion, not fully intact, not operating at pre conflict capacity, but still processing water, still maintaining pressure in the distribution network, still functioning as the single remaining node keeping 8 million people supplied.
Iran waited until there was only one node left.
Then it struck that node.
That is not a missile attack.
That is a strategic operation executed with the patience and precision of a campaign that was designed from the beginning to reach exactly this outcome.
It's brilliant how Iran has proceeded systematically and thoroughly.
Meanwhile, Turkish president throws down the gauntlet to Israel.
Any attack on Iran or Lebanon will be considered an attack on Turkey.
Hal Turner.
Flash traffic urgent.
President Recep Erwin of Turkey has just publicly announced to Israel any attack upon Lebanon or Iran will be considered an attack upon Turkey.
His exact words if Israel doesn't stop playing with fire and creates hurdles for the peace process in the region, we will make sure Israel learns a good lesson.
Any attack on Lebanon and Iran now will be considered an attack on Turkey.
To put these remarks in context, Erwin also said.
On the day of ceasefire, Iran killed hundreds of innocent Lebanese people.
Netanyahu is blinded by blood and hatred.
If it were not for Palestine mediating the war between the U.S. and Iran, we would have shown Israel its place.
Turkey has a capacity to reach Israel with ballistic missiles.
Turkey possesses a large arsenal and is developing advanced locally produced missiles like the Tayyan 750 to 1,000 kilometer range and the projected Sirk. 2,000 kilometer range, which can directly strike Israeli territory.
Unlike Iran, Turkey also has an ability to launch an actual ground invasion of Israel.
The border of Turkey is only 166 miles away.
By any and every measure, military experts are united in their assessment that Israel sucks at infantry fighting.
They keep losing to Hezbollah.
The population of Israel is a bit over 10 million.
But only 7 million Jewish, while the population of Turkey is 86 million.
Turkey would be allied with Iran with a population of about 90 million.
These population numbers do not bode well for the Jewish state.
Joachim, your thoughts.
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Yeah, just to show the world that, you know, Trump's not in control as they work on that peace negotiation.
You know, the first few hours of it, they were all in agreement, you know.
Then all of a sudden, Netanyahu came in, basically the surrogate, with all the phone calls being made by JD Vance, you know.
He's totally upon.
And Netanyahu, the boss of the boss, and City of London, the boss of the boss of the boss.
And so, yeah, it was destined to be a failure.
And, but, you know, they killed 500 Lebanese people, you know, in 24 hours just to sabotage.
So, you know, like I say, the pattern is there over and over and over.
Any kind of peace movement whatsoever that's ever made.
So, and the reality is, yes, I round hole, you know, they're taking out salination, they're taking out the electrical energy.
I mean, the Gulf states are gone.
They rely on all of this and they're going to be without it.
Never mind the American presence in the Gulf states, they're decimated now.
I mean, the death toll of American soldiers.
They're not willing to admit the truth, but it's, you know, into the thousands, you know, and then injured too.
Oh my God.
So it's a disaster.
But the biggest disaster, as I mentioned, is the economic disaster that's going to hit the world.
This is what the end game's all about.
World War III, bam, the economies are going to blow because.
For the plants, for the food shortages that are going to happen, the economic and financial disaster that's now in the making.
Yeah, we haven't seen it yet.
You know, the major worst changes are still ahead, but they're coming and they're coming rapidly with major, major problems ahead.
So, yeah, I mean, this has been the design from all along, despite the fact.
back and forth with the erratic mental case of Trump.
Brian, your thoughts.
Yeah, I think both those articles merge together in sort of the same way.
You know, the antiwar.com article by Matthew Ho was basically a really well thought out warning that a U.S. ground operation in Iran would be fragile, to say the least, if not a total disaster.
And then you add to this the second variable of Turkey's President Erdogan.
Signaling that escalation is going to trigger a much broader involvement.
And, you know, that changes the risk profile.
It magnifies it completely.
So the anti war argument was that trying to do a ground operation was going to be a complete tactical failure because of our limited troop presence,
the difficult logistics related to the desert that we're not exactly used to, our reliance, our Like almost full reliance on air insertion and a drone heavy battlefield is going to result in isolation and attrition among the actual military soldiers.
And then you add to that Turkey's strategic escalation risk that basically frames any attack on Iran or Lebanon as an attack on Turkey.
That, and what he's doing really is he's signaling that he's willing to expand the conflict and get into it.
So now you've got NATO complexity beginning to muddy up all the waters.
So Ho describes how a ground operation could fail, and Turkey's statement simply raises the stakes and it turns a failed operation into a regional war.
So, yeah, ground war is already a high risk.
Even without additional actors, a ground operation would be logistically very, very difficult.
And it would be vulnerable to the drones and difficult to sustain.
And if Turkey gets in, that's going to magnify the problem even worse.
They're going to treat any escalation as a direct threat, and they're going to stop becoming bilateral and they're going to become lateral.
And multi state, which makes it a multi state war, not just US, Israel, Iran, but more actors, more fronts, thinner resources, more participants, which means that we're back into a Vietnam style scenario where we can't de escalate.
And now you've got other global involvement and blood being spilled for what?
Protection of the US petrodollar?
That's not going to play very well over the long haul.
So, you know, I think it's, I think there are two very interesting articles that show why this thing is turning into a shit show.
Well, let me just add, as a former Marine Corps officer trained in amphibious assaults, there's no possible way an American invasion of Iran could succeed.
None.
Zero.
Zip.
Zilch.
Nada.
You ask any competent military person with the least experience, I'll tell you this is absurd.
You got a commander in chief who doesn't know his elbow from his asshole.
He's an idiot.
He's a military moron.
And the idea that he would waste American troops or put them in jeopardy with a blockade.
They can't possibly succeed.
The Iranians can sink every damn ship we have out there anytime they want.
Get it?
Everyone has to understand.
American public, I'm speaking to you.
This is preposterous.
This is moronic.
We're being led by a complete idiot.
And I'm sorry to say, I voted for the guy three times.
He played me.
I admit it.
We have to recognize the truth.
He was never qualified to be president.
We only thought he was.
He was never putting America first.
He only told us he was.
He was always an Israeli president.
In fact, he's not just the first Jewish president, he's actually the first Israeli president of the United States.
We are paying the price.
Alas.
Don, take us out.
Oh, no, I can't take us out yet.
We still got four minutes.
And we're just getting going, Jim.
You're hot.
Keep it going right now.
Four more minutes.
We got a weather warning here that's just come in.
Oh, it's an amber warning for a child.
Meanwhile, turn here.
Trump has two razor sharp knives at his throat.
Why is he in such a predicament?
Listen to this.
Trump is joined at the hip to Netanyahu in the Israeli lobby.
He is fixed there by the strongest super glue ever developed.
It can't just be his sex crimes via Epstein, it's a much stronger adhesive than that.
Trump's commitment to Israel, without doubt, goes back many years before even his first presidency.
Now, Trump is no genius.
No matter how many times he says he is, he is an individual who boasts about his deal making abilities.
Quite clearly, the entire Panoply that makes up Israeli influence promised him the deal of a lifetime.
They would do everything possible to make him president, but if he ever crossed them, they would destroy him completely.
Epstein was without doubt part of the insurance policy the Israelis took out on Trump to make sure he always did what they said and would never do anything contrary to their interests.
They held a knife at Trump's neck 24 7.
And due to Epstein and who knows what else, Trump can't move an inch.
But now Trump has two knives at his throat.
His insane war against Iran, against all known specialist advice means the Iranians, now hold that second knife firmly in their hands.
Trump surely knows he is doomed, whichever way he moves now, and is displaying his angry desperation ever more clearly each day.
Every move he makes drops both knives closer to his flabby throat.
He has no way to escape now.
Though he's making a pretense of having all the cards and Rand having none.
This is a King Midas in reverse figure projecting like there's no tomorrow, which is a fate beckoning him every hour as we move forward.
His new idea, a blockade on the Strait of Hormuz, will only make matters worse.
Don, take us out.
Oh, boy.
Well, this is a show to take everybody out.
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Truth versus news here, and the truth is just really um heavy I mean, it's Wartimes, it's here folks and it made us stay close to a show like this and and share it widely.
I there's such a big internet out there I can't cover it all.
So thank you so much, Jim for the powerful information, and Joachim and and Brian here on the 13th of april, so god bless, and we'll uh, hopefully be back for more there.