Jim Fetzer - Truth vs. NEW$ Inc, Part 1 (11 May 2026) with Don Grahn, Joachim Hagopian, and Brian Davidson
Aired: 2026-05-13
Duration: 01:02:12


=== Welcome to Truth Versus News (01:40) ===

[00:00:00]  And welcome folks, welcome folks to Truth Versus News incorporated.
[00:00:07]  Yes, this is monday may, the 11th 2026, and yes, we are back, for we're doing about 20 years worth of shows here and we're always getting better every week and we have the best people here.
[00:00:22]  I'm very pleased and honored and proud as can be to have Jim Fetcher leading the show here.
[00:00:29]  He's just a strong arm that wrote a book called Noble The Dead At Sandy Hook, which is very famous, and now the JFK how, who and why and things, and and about the moon yeah, about the moon.
[00:00:45]  We can't find the moon, you know.
[00:00:47]  And American Lips on 9-11.
[00:00:49]  These are for column volumes that you should have in your library and we're, going to learn a lot by those, and learn a lot today, as we also have Brian Davidson of Private EYE AND UH Houston, who is a remarkable investigator and and really knows what's happening and tells it like it is.
[00:01:10]  And what came to Gopin all the way from beautiful Bali, he gets to come in out of the sun and share some light on his perspective and what's really going on.
[00:01:21]  So Jim, I guess we have some major news here about the breaking news, in fact, about Russia and Ukraine agree to Trump's ceasefire request.
[00:01:31]  So the beginning of the end here, it looks like we're making progress.
[00:01:37]  Well, it's a nice thought, isn't it, Don?

=== Ceasefire and NATO Secrets (02:39) ===

[00:01:40]  Russia and Ukraine did agree to a three day ceasefire, which ended today.
[00:01:48]  President Trump, Friday, Russia and Ukraine agreed to a three day ceasefire, which may lead to an end of the conflict entirely.
[00:02:00]  I believe to announce there will be a three day ceasefire May 9th, 10th, and 11th today in the war between Russia and Ukraine, he posted on Truth Social.
[00:02:10]  Celebration in Russia's for Victory Day, but likewise in Ukraine, because they were also a big part and factor of World War II.
[00:02:19]  The ceasefire will include a suspension of all kinetic activity and also a prison swap of a thousand prisoners from each country.
[00:02:29]  In addition, we have a report about NATO having been infiltrating anti Russian.
[00:02:40]  Propaganda.
[00:02:41]  A scandal has erupted over covert NATO conferences with the Western entertainment industry.
[00:02:47]  Leaked documents, reviewed by the Grey Zone, Max Blumenthal, show that NATO has sought to infiltrate film and TV for decades, with UK intel operatives taking the lead.
[00:03:03]  On May 3rd, The Guardian revealed NATO has held a series of secret meetings with directors, screenwriters, and TV producers in cities from Paris to LA.
[00:03:14]  The disclosure suggests NATO is seeking to employ the entertainment industry in its propaganda operations as a European war looms.
[00:03:26]  To date, NATO's conversation with scriptwriters have reportedly inspired, at least in part, three separate unstated projects which are already in development at a forthcoming London Summit.
[00:03:43]  NATO operatives are set to meet with screenwriters.
[00:03:47]  Tied to the Writers Guild of Great Britain.
[00:03:50]  In email correspondence, the Union told its members the event will focus on the evolving security situation in Europe and beyond, all of course with an anti-Russian slant.
[00:04:05]  Meanwhile, as for how technology can affect the warfield battle, Ukraine is fielding 25,000 ground robots by mid-2026.
[00:04:18]  This is already May.

=== Robots on the Battlefield (13:58) ===

[00:04:20]  We're already mid-2026.
[00:04:23]  Ukraine's defense ministry plans to contract 25,000 unmanned ground vehicles in the first half of 2026, more than doubling last year's total, as Kiev works to shift frontline logistics and casualty evacuation off soldiers and onto robots.
[00:04:45]  Defense Minister Mikhailo Fedorov announced the target after meeting with domestic manufacturers.
[00:04:53]  Saying the goal is for a robotic system to handle all frontline supply runs.
[00:04:59]  Fedorov disclosed a figure in an April 18th Facebook post, writing that UGVs performed important logistic and evacuation tasks on the frontline, and that Ukrainian forces ran more than 9,000 robotic missions in March alone.
[00:05:20]  That's pretty fascinating stuff.
[00:05:23]  Joaquin, what are your thoughts about it?
[00:05:29]  Yeah, let's go with the Ukraine robot situation.
[00:05:32]  We knew this era would come.
[00:05:35]  I mean, you know, this is the robotic AI age.
[00:05:39]  And so for them to end up on the battlefield, well, you know, we've had previews of it in the past, and here we are.
[00:05:48]  We're in it now.
[00:05:50]  You know, I mean, if all war from now on was just by these robots, you know, I'd be kind of for it.
[00:05:58]  You know, I'm not for war in any way, but.
[00:06:01]  Uh, you know, at least humans would, less humans would die.
[00:06:05]  I guess that's the only positive of it is that perhaps.
[00:06:09]  But my thought is with the more sophisticated uh weapons that they're using all the time now, uh, actually, no, civilians, especially when it comes to wars being fought by Israel and Ukraine and America, uh, civilians are targeted all the time.
[00:06:31]  That's the MO, it's against all.
[00:06:34]  Rules of engagement in the war laws, and it's also a war crime.
[00:06:42]  But that doesn't stop the US, Ukraine, and Israel from killing lots of civilians.
[00:06:48]  So, I mean, just adding the robotics effect to the battlefield won't change that, unfortunately, I don't believe.
[00:06:58]  If anything, the robotics can be even more lethal than the human soldiers.
[00:07:05]  You know, I'm not really optimistic that it's going to decrease the death toll of war in the modern era.
[00:07:15]  But it is interesting that, you know, Ukraine, they're coming out with, you know, for a nation that's had its ass kicked for the last, what, how many years now?
[00:07:25]  Four years?
[00:07:28]  It's amazing that they're still coming out with some really developed warfare methodology, like their long range drones now.
[00:07:39]  They're really having an impact in the war with Russia.
[00:07:45]  We'll probably get into it.
[00:07:46]  I haven't gone through all the items to be discussed today, but anyway, that's the Ukraine situation, the covert NATO initiative.
[00:07:58]  You know, Hollywood has been in the pocket of basically Zionist Jews forever.
[00:08:05]  I mean, they were owned by and still are owned by the Zionist Jews.
[00:08:11]  So for them to be on the side of Ukraine in the war, Or, you know, with NATO, you know, it all fits.
[00:08:20]  You know, they're all enemies of the world NATO, Ukraine, Israel, and America.
[00:08:29]  They are the bad guys of the world, as I see it.
[00:08:32]  Now, you know, in contrast, I don't say that the other ones they're fighting against are the good guys.
[00:08:39]  I can't say that.
[00:08:40]  I think they're controlled opposition Russia, China, Iran, et cetera.
[00:08:45]  But they're less bad.
[00:08:48]  Less evil than the ones that I just mentioned.
[00:08:51]  And so, of course, for Hollywood and the whole propaganda war that they're in, of course, they're going to use, you know, film slants to go against the enemy.
[00:09:07]  You know, it's always been in play, really.
[00:09:09]  And then the first story here with the breaking Ukraine situation, you know, obviously, any ceasefire is good, even though.
[00:09:20]  It's always used on the part of the US and Ukraine to basically recoup the losses and prepare for the next round of opposition in the war.
[00:09:34]  That's the way I always see these ceasefires.
[00:09:38]  None of the ceasefires have been permanent.
[00:09:41]  There's not an end to the war, not even the four year long war in Ukraine.
[00:09:47]  So I don't have a high hope.
[00:09:50]  And of course, I think Putin, who's so crafty and such a diplomat in all his dealings, he knows the egomaniac of Donald Trump and he plays him.
[00:10:02]  I believe that he knows how to coat his ego, to soothe him, and also get the point across from the Russian point of view.
[00:10:12]  I think he's met with, on the phone, that is, with Trump, and he's basically, you know, Told him about red lines with Iran.
[00:10:26]  But I think that, you know, Trump beats to a different, you know, drum.
[00:10:35]  Yeah.
[00:10:36]  And the drums beaters are, of course, you know, the World Economic Forum and the City of London, the ones that control the money and the, you know, military industrial complex, all the governments of the West, you know.
[00:10:55]  That's who he answers to.
[00:10:58]  So he doesn't, you know, go along with whatever red line that Putin might give him.
[00:11:06]  He resists.
[00:11:08]  But Putin tries, you know, he's the master of, I think, even a much better manipulator than Trump is.
[00:11:16]  Trump is just in your face with his aggression.
[00:11:20]  And Putin is much more sly and clever.
[00:11:26]  In his delivery.
[00:11:29]  But anyway, you know, let's hope that this thing can finally end.
[00:11:35]  But I don't know that it will in Ukraine.
[00:11:37]  They've been talking peace for a long, long time now, and it hasn't happened.
[00:11:42]  So, you know, I think there probably will be three war fronts with World War III.
[00:11:50]  I don't have a lot of hope, or, well, I have hope, but not optimism, that a multi-World War III is going to happen on multi-fronts.
[00:12:02]  What strikes me is the timeline with NATO and the Hollywood TV producers, it takes a couple of years to get productions out.
[00:12:13]  So that suggests to me, They're going to pick up where Ukraine leaves off.
[00:12:18]  In a couple of years, Europe is planning to go to war with Russia, and they want the propaganda out there to back them up.
[00:12:24]  Brian, your thoughts.
[00:12:28]  Well, I think that we've been fighting warfare with bullets and shovels and tanks and citizens for so long.
[00:12:35]  I'm really horrified about this new.
[00:12:39]  It looks like Ukraine's basically becoming the testing ground for the next generation of drone based or.
[00:12:47]  Automated war field.
[00:12:49]  And that means that AI assisted killing is becoming a new war doctrine and it's going to get support from NATO.
[00:13:02]  So if NATO accepts this military modernization of robotic warfare, then we're going to be in a really difficult position.
[00:13:13]  I like to think of the Second Amendment as we were able to defend ourselves against our government if our government were to ever step.
[00:13:20]  Too far out of line where it no longer served its function.
[00:13:23]  But if our government's able to automate on that level and we're not able to automate on that level, we don't have a chance in hell in terms of taking them on if they ever grow out of control.
[00:13:36]  But overall, I think what's happened is that they've burnt up the traditional bullets and people just don't have the appetite for the traditional bloody wars that we've been after.
[00:13:48]  And so now people will be able to swallow it a little bit.
[00:13:53]  Better if they just think it's a bunch of robots fighting each other and it's sort of a drone warfare laboratory or a robotic proving ground instead of actual war killing actual people.
[00:14:06]  When I first saw videos of these drones killing guys in Ukraine, I was horrified.
[00:14:11]  These guys are running as fast as they can and hiding wherever they can, but these drones just drop in on them and pop them.
[00:14:19]  They've got facial recognition, they've got cameras, they're remote controlled, and they've got little grenades on them.
[00:14:25]  And that's just how they're able to deploy, so they're still killing weapons.
[00:14:30]  And now it looks like Ukraine, as the puppet, the Western puppet that they always have been, we're going to roll out the new testing system, um, for this new prototype of a 21st century military automation.
[00:14:45]  I think these things ought to be destroyed, just like I think that you know the Terminator Matrix type Skynet stuff should have been destroyed from the machinery perspective from the movies.
[00:14:58]  Humanity is.
[00:14:59]  Much more important than you can imagine.
[00:15:01]  We're made in the image of God.
[00:15:03]  We're special people.
[00:15:04]  We represent God.
[00:15:05]  And so to see this world descend into sort of a Call of Duty sort of, oh, no big deal.
[00:15:13]  I can just continue to kill people.
[00:15:16]  I've been practicing for years playing Call of Duty.
[00:15:19]  This is no big deal.
[00:15:20]  Oh, yeah, these are just real people.
[00:15:21]  It's no big deal.
[00:15:23]  So if warfare is really shifting from sort of manpower to machine power, then.
[00:15:30]  The question Are these contractors going to have the updates also to do the medevac using drones?
[00:15:41]  Are they going to be, you know, how are they going to continue with the supply lines?
[00:15:46]  And how are they going to do their autonomous perimeter defenses?
[00:15:53]  You know, these things become very, very dangerous questions when it comes to how do you control this?
[00:15:59]  What about animals?
[00:16:00]  Are animals going to be targeted by these machines because they have the right thermal profile and they can be, you know, targeted?
[00:16:08]  So we've got all sorts of problems that are going to be developing with this.
[00:16:12]  But frankly, I think Joaquim's right.
[00:16:14]  The more war becomes robotic, the easier it becomes politically, which means they can spread it out much, much longer.
[00:16:22]  And if NATO were to go ahead and standardize it as sort of the new standard for warfare, then that means it's going to get exported.
[00:16:31]  That means all the military industrial complex guys are going to update to this new type of warfare, and it's going to take over sort of your Eastern Europe, Middle East, Taiwan scenarios, China scenarios.
[00:16:43]  And it's going to have really serious cultural implications.
[00:16:48]  So, Autonomous killing systems, I can't think of anything scarier or more immoral than an autonomous killing system.
[00:16:58]  If there's a man lined up on the other side of the battlefield and he's going to take me on, I understand that.
[00:17:04]  But autonomous killing systems and remote warfare, this is a really deep, deep concern because if these machines carry out war, human moral restraint is going to continue to decline even faster.
[00:17:21]  Then our military efficiency is able to rise.
[00:17:25]  So the benefits are not so good.
[00:17:32]  And it just makes it easier to carry out wars for years and years and years and years.
[00:17:37]  So I'm concerned about it.
[00:17:40]  Fascinating.
[00:17:42]  I'd like to make one point here, too.
[00:17:44]  Go right ahead.
[00:17:45]  What Brian just said.
[00:17:47]  You know, they have those video games out, and generations have been doing them for now what?
[00:17:54]  20 years, maybe 30 years now.
[00:17:58]  That desensitizes the younger generations because everything's mechanized and it's moving towards the same thing we're talking about right now with AI robotics on the battlefield.
[00:18:10]  It's desensitization of humanity, basically for the purpose of human destruction.

=== CIA Pre-War Intelligence (15:37) ===

[00:18:18]  That's where we're going.
[00:18:19]  It's just on a greater, bigger scale.
[00:18:23]  Yeah, little did they know it, but all those kids playing all those.
[00:18:27]  Video games were actually preparing for military service in a new robotic computerized universe.
[00:18:36]  Meanwhile, Putin reports the U.S. blocked a secret plutonium deal with Iran.
[00:18:42]  Are we surprised?
[00:18:47]  Moscow.
[00:18:48]  Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday the U.S., Israel, and Iran had agreed to transfer enriched nuclear material from Iran to Russia.
[00:18:57]  but that the arrangement ultimately collapsed after Washington reversed his position and demanded the material be sent only to the United States.
[00:19:06]  This has to be Bibi's influence.
[00:19:09]  Speaking during a lengthy post-Victory Day press conference at the Kremlin following military commemorations in Moscow, Putin described the earlier negotiations as a missed opportunity to reduce tensions in the Persian Gulf and revive confidence in diplomacy surrounding Iran's nuclear program.
[00:19:31]  Addressing questions about the current standoff between Iran and the U.S., Putin revealed details of the recent talks about plutonium.
[00:19:40]  Meanwhile, CIA says Iran has 70% of its pre war missiles can ride out blockade for months.
[00:19:52]  CIA analysts directly contradict public statement made by President Trump at his top aides.
[00:19:59]  Iran can withstand the U.S. naval blockade against it for three or four more months.
[00:20:04]  Before facing severe economic hardship, CIA told the Trump admin this week, according to Washington Post Thursday.
[00:20:13]  The report also said CIA found Tehran retains significant ballistic missile capability after weeks of Israeli and U.S. bombardment.
[00:20:24]  The CIA report flies in the face of public statements by the Trump admin, which has claimed the vast majority of Iran's drone and missile capabilities have been destroyed.
[00:20:36]  The Washington Post cited a U.S. official saying Iran has 75% of its pre war inventories of mobile launchers and about 70% pre war stockpile of missiles.
[00:20:50]  Iran has also managed to reopen its underground missile storage facilities.
[00:20:55]  Their missiles are mostly decimated.
[00:20:58]  They have probably 18, 19%, but not a lot compared to what they had, Trump said in the Oval Office as recently as.
[00:21:07]  Wednesday.
[00:21:09]  Meanwhile, Scott Ritter lays the record clear.
[00:21:13]  I would say that Iran is in a better position than the CIA is reporting.
[00:21:18]  It's not three to four months.
[00:21:19]  Iran can last indefinitely.
[00:21:21]  On the missiles, I would just refer to Foreign Minister Arachi's response.
[00:21:27]  He said, We're not at 75%, we're at 120%, meaning that Iran has far more capability today than they had when the war started.
[00:21:39]  I'm here with.
[00:21:41]  One of our favorite guests, Scott Ritter, one time Marine intelligence officer who served in the former Soviet Union, implementing arms control agreements from 91 to 98.
[00:21:51]  He served as the chief inspector for the United Nations in Iraq, leading the search for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
[00:21:57]  Didn't find any.
[00:21:58]  He was later a vocal critic of the American decision to go to war in Iraq.
[00:22:01]  He's also the best selling author of nine books, his latest, Highway to Hell, The Armageddon Chronicles, 2015 and 2024.
[00:22:08]  Welcome back to the show, Scott Ritter.
[00:22:11]  Thank you very much for having me.
[00:22:12]  Thanks for being on, Scott.
[00:22:14]  I always appreciate you accommodating our schedule.
[00:22:16]  It's always nice to.
[00:22:17]  This is my Judge Napolitano impersonation.
[00:22:20]  I hope you appreciate it.
[00:22:22]  You're always very kind and generous.
[00:22:24]  We always appreciate your insights.
[00:22:25]  It's amazing.
[00:22:27]  Scott, so I wanted to get right to it.
[00:22:30]  I saw this tweet by our friend Furcan.
[00:22:33]  He says the Pentagon is in absolute panic mode.
[00:22:35]  Al Jazeera completely exposes U.S. Central Command for dodging basic questions about massive damage to American vessels.
[00:22:43]  The Trump administration recklessly fired on a tanker.
[00:22:47]  And sparked a retaliation.
[00:22:49]  Trump is hiding a massive failure.
[00:22:51]  Let's listen.
[00:22:51]  Well, that's right.
[00:22:52]  And I should point out that we here at Al Jazeera have reached out to U.S. Central Command to try and get the U.S. take on what exactly occurred in the Strait of Hormuz in the last couple of hours.
[00:23:07]  Our response was that they had nothing to offer us.
[00:23:11]  In other words, they didn't confirm it, nor did they deny it.
[00:23:15]  And we should point out that when it comes to Iran's state broadcaster, there have been reports of Damage to U.S. vessels before.
[00:23:23]  The United States has always denied or minimized that.
[00:23:26]  And so it's really unclear right now exactly just what has occurred.
[00:23:32]  But as you reported at the start of the bulletin, this escalation has come on the heels of the United States firing on Iranian tanker just one day earlier.
[00:23:44]  And so there is certainly an incident that potentially has prompted the Iranians to now retaliate against the United States.
[00:23:54]  But again, the United States Central Command not confirming, nor is it.
[00:23:59]  Okay, so Scott, do you have any?
[00:24:02]  This is from yesterday.
[00:24:04]  Do you have any information that could confirm or deny this report?
[00:24:08]  No, I don't have a hotline to Central Command, so I wish I did, but if I did, they probably wouldn't tell me anyways.
[00:24:16]  You know, I would err on the side of the Iranians being over optimistic.
[00:24:29]  I do believe they engaged our ships.
[00:24:31]  Our ships have some very sophisticated.
[00:24:34]  Self defense capabilities.
[00:24:36]  The important thing here isn't whether or not they actually hit a ship and did damage, although that would be a very big story.
[00:24:45]  It's that they made the ships turn around and run away.
[00:24:50]  Apparently, the attacks overwhelmed the defenses to the point that they had to use the close in weapon system, basically the Phalanx 20 millimeter Gatling gun, in a desperate Effort to stop the Iranian missile from hitting the ships.
[00:25:09]  And the Gatling gun only has a finite amount of ammunition.
[00:25:13]  It burns, it can cycle through that ammunition in 30 seconds.
[00:25:16]  So, had a second wave been launched and broken through the missile defense barriers, the ships would have been helpless.
[00:25:24]  And so they had to leave.
[00:25:26]  And this just, again, underscores the fact that Iran is in complete control of the Strait of Hormuz, and the United States Navy is powerless to change that equation.
[00:25:37]  Well, speaking to that point, the Washington Post reports that the U.S. intelligence says Iran can outlast Trump's Hormuz blockade for months.
[00:25:47]  And John Hudson did a nice summary of this.
[00:25:52]  A confidential CI analyst delivered the policymakers this week concludes that Iran can survive the U.S. naval blockade for at least three to four months before facing more severe economic hardship, finding that contradicts those hailing an imminent collapse.
[00:26:06]  The U.S. intel also indicates that Iran.
[00:26:09]  Retains about 75% of its pre war inventories of mobile launchers and about 70% of its pre war stockpiles of missiles.
[00:26:20]  Per a U.S. official, the regime has also been able to recover underground storage facilities and repair damaged missiles.
[00:26:29]  And here is from the report one of the U.S. officials said they thought Iran's capacity to sustain prolonged economic hardship is far greater than even the current CIA estimate.
[00:26:41]  The leadership has gotten more radical.
[00:26:43]  Determined and increasingly confident that they can outlast U.S. political will and sustain domestic repression to check any resistance.
[00:26:51]  Inside Iran, the official said, comparatively, you see similar regimes lasting years under sustained embargoes and air power only wars.
[00:27:00]  What's your response to this report?
[00:27:03]  Well, I would say that the CIA doesn't have good insight into Iran to begin with.
[00:27:12]  You know, we've burned through.
[00:27:15]  Three human intelligence networks over the years.
[00:27:19]  And when I say burned through, that means that they were compromised and all of our spies on the ground were captured and killed.
[00:27:26]  So we've been relying upon Israeli intelligence.
[00:27:30]  That's what got us in this war to begin with bad Israeli intelligence.
[00:27:34]  So what we're looking here is a CIA assessment of open source information, no spectacular insights.
[00:27:44]  And the CIA is prejudiced against Iran.
[00:27:48]  You know, show Iran to be in a better position than the White House has spun it.
[00:27:53]  I would say that Iran is in a better position than the CIA is reporting.
[00:27:58]  It's not three to four months.
[00:27:59]  Iran can last indefinitely.
[00:28:01]  People tend to forget that Iran has been laboring under, you know, U.S. sanctions and restrictions on its oil economy for 47 years.
[00:28:12]  This isn't their first rodeo, their first fluctuation in market realities.
[00:28:17]  They know how to deal with this.
[00:28:19]  It also ignores the fact that, A great deal of Iran's oil production is consumed domestically.
[00:28:28]  They aren't necessarily held hostage to the closure of the strait as much as people might think.
[00:28:36]  They have other ways to get oil to market.
[00:28:40]  Right now, the Pakistani Iranian border looks like something out of Mad Max with all the oil tankers going back and forth.
[00:28:51]  The Iranians have mastered oil smuggling routes.
[00:28:54]  They're not panicked at all.
[00:28:56]  The Iranians I have spoken to say that there is no panic in Iran about the people that are panicked are the Gulf Arab states, Kuwait, for instance, who shipped zero oil last month.
[00:29:09]  They're the ones running the storage problems.
[00:29:12]  Same thing with Saudi Arabia, same thing with the United Arab Emirates.
[00:29:15]  They're the ones that face oil field closure and maintenance issues.
[00:29:21]  So the CIA is wrong on the missiles.
[00:29:25]  I would just refer to Foreign Minister Arachi's response.
[00:29:29]  He said, we're not at 75%, we're at 120%, meaning that Iran has far more capability today than they had when the war started.
[00:29:39]  That reflects the reality that the United States hasn't destroyed anywhere near what we claim to have destroyed, and that Iran took their missile production underground.
[00:29:48]  They've been building missiles during the war, and they're building missiles now.
[00:29:52]  They have more missiles today of a more modern variety than what they started the war with.
[00:29:58]  Come see me on tour in Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Atlanta, Raleigh.
[00:30:02]  I'm all for going out to see Jimmy Dore if you get a chance.
[00:30:05]  Meanwhile, Joaquin, give me your thoughts.
[00:30:10]  Well, you know, as far as the plutonium deal going to Russia, you know, the United States rejected basically the response by Iran because Iran would not go along with all the ridiculous demands that the United States keeps putting out.
[00:30:35]  And They're not being reasonable at all, so there's no way that both sides, Iran and the United States, are coming together with any kind of truce or end of the conflict, it's not going to happen.
[00:30:52]  Uh, so we can expect only more war between Iran and the United States, that's where it's headed.
[00:31:00]  Uh, you know, so that's that point, even with Russia trying to help out by taking the plutonium, and Iran would have been willing to do that too.
[00:31:10]  But to give it to the United States, they're not willing to do that.
[00:31:14]  So that's a bridge too far for Iran.
[00:31:19]  And the United States is not willing to work with Iran, basically on sanction relief, on any of the points that Iran is demanding.
[00:31:28]  And let's face it, Iran holds the cards.
[00:31:33]  The United States does not hold the cards.
[00:31:37]  And Scott's making a very good point about the recuperative power of Iran.
[00:31:45]  They've prepared for this war for 40 years and they are in it.
[00:31:50]  They're very smart people.
[00:31:52]  They have moved underground facilities where their war making capacity cannot be affected by what's going on at the surface.
[00:32:02]  And so America has found that out that, you know, they cannot sustain this war.
[00:32:09]  Again, Iran holds all the cards.
[00:32:12]  It can, the United States, and for that matter, the whole world, with the closure of Ormuz Strait.
[00:32:20]  They cannot last.
[00:32:22]  The world cannot last.
[00:32:24]  If the United States presses this war indefinitely, the world's going down.
[00:32:31]  And the world realizes that the perpetrator here is not Iran.
[00:32:37]  They were defending themselves and are defending themselves, their own sovereignty.
[00:32:44]  It's the offender, the United States and Israel, that are causing the world to be in havoc.
[00:32:53]  The age that we're approaching is far worse than what we've ever lived through.
[00:32:59]  That's where we're headed because the puppets of Israel and America want to bring down humanity.
[00:33:08]  I've been saying that a long, long time.
[00:33:13]  And yes, the recuperative powers of Iran, they have everything going to outlast America and the entire world if it comes to that.
[00:33:24]  Because they have been forced into this, you know, they've been under the sanctions forever.
[00:33:30]  You know, that started in 1979 with the sanctions.
[00:33:35]  So they are survivors, and the United States, sadly, tragically, is not a survivor in this conflict, nor will Israel.
[00:33:48]  Brian.

=== Over-Dependence on Israel (04:41) ===

[00:33:56]  You're muted.
[00:33:58]  You're muted.
[00:34:00]  Muted.
[00:34:01]  Okay, I'm sorry about that.
[00:34:03]  Yes, we may not be a survivor in this particular war, but you have to ask yourself why.
[00:34:11]  There was a clue in what Ritter said, and he said, Oh, well, the U.S. may be over dependent on Israeli intelligence.
[00:34:22]  I want you to think about what this means.
[00:34:25]  He's saying the U.S. has very weak human intelligence inside Iran.
[00:34:31]  So, therefore, we've relied heavily on Israeli intelligence.
[00:34:36]  Well, Israeli has a dog in the hunt, don't they?
[00:34:40]  Doesn't Israel?
[00:34:42]  So, if U.S. assessments are overly dependent on Israeli intelligence and Israel has its own strategic agenda, then American decision making is clearly distorted.
[00:35:00]  Before even the first shot got fired in this war, this is the fundamental problem here.
[00:35:07]  Israel doesn't care if we deplete every one of our weapons and every one of our stockpiles.
[00:35:13]  Israel doesn't care if America has a cost or a sustainment problem.
[00:35:19]  Israel doesn't care.
[00:35:21]  And Israel wants a larger geography to protect its borders and set up itself as the new sort of London of the new global.
[00:35:32]  New world order, and it couldn't care less about the American agenda.
[00:35:36]  This is the problem with having dual Israeli American citizens littered throughout our institutions and our governments.
[00:35:44]  This is the problem with having a president who appears to be acting as if Israel hung the moon and can do no wrong.
[00:35:53]  Israel doesn't care about throwing us to the wolves.
[00:35:56]  Israel doesn't care.
[00:35:58]  And so, you know, would it surprise you that if you were only listening to little Israeli Demons talk in your ear that we would get led into something where there's a mismatch between our global ambition and the local geography of Iran.
[00:36:20]  The US military has always been built for global reach.
[00:36:25]  And sort of the world has depended upon us to stick our nose in there and protect things like the Straits of Hormuz.
[00:36:31]  But in this particular case, Hormuz is being used as leverage to guarantee that America continues to stay inside the war.
[00:36:41]  So that we can continue to weaken Israel's enemies.
[00:36:49]  So, he may have been dependent on Israeli intelligence, overly dependent.
[00:36:55]  Like, is that the understatement of the century?
[00:36:59]  Because it seems to me like we wouldn't even be here if it wasn't for Israel.
[00:37:07]  Yes.
[00:37:09]  Brian, I think that's 100% correct.
[00:37:11]  We wouldn't even be here if it weren't for Israel.
[00:37:14]  You got it right.
[00:37:16]  Meanwhile, some 1,500 ships are trapped in the Gulf because of the Iran war.
[00:37:24]  1,500.
[00:37:25]  Around 1,500 ships and their crews are trapped in the Gulf due to the Iranian blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, the UN's International Maritime Organization chief said in Panama Thursday.
[00:37:42]  The war unleashed on 28th Feb by Israel and the U.S. against Iran provoked reprisals from Tehran across the region.
[00:37:49]  In a blockade of Hormuz, a crucial global trade route.
[00:37:54]  Right now, we have approximately 20,000 crewmen, around 1,500 ships trapped, IMO Secretary General Arsenio Dominguez told the Maritime Convention of the Americas.
[00:38:08]  Dominguez said maritime shipping moves over 80% of total consumed products in the world.
[00:38:16]  The stranded crew members are innocent people.
[00:38:20]  Who are doing their jobs every day for the benefit of other countries, trapped by geopolitical situations outside their control, he told the gathering of industry executives and IMO representatives.

=== Sixty Days of Stalled Progress (15:17) ===

[00:38:37]  Ron Paul addresses the staggering cost of the war.
[00:38:44]  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth claimed the Iran war has cost the U.S. $25 billion is laughable.
[00:38:51]  The actual cost, according to a new study, is at least three times more.
[00:38:57]  And that leaves out other costs, such as opportunity costs.
[00:39:01]  And what did the U.S. get out of this?
[00:39:04]  Here he is.
[00:39:05]  The spirit of this revolution is not going away.
[00:39:08]  This is the Ron Paul Liberty Report with Ron Paul, Daniel McAdams, and Chris Rossini.
[00:39:15]  We are all ambassadors of the Ron Paul Doctrine.
[00:39:17]  And it's so simple just tell the truth.
[00:39:20]  The enemy cannot be stopped by any army or any government.
[00:39:38]  Hello, everybody, and thank you for tuning in to the Liberty Report with us today with Daniel McAdams, our co-host.
[00:39:46]  Daniel, good to see you this morning.
[00:39:47]  Good morning, Dr. Paul.
[00:39:48]  How are you this morning?
[00:39:49]  Doing well, doing well.
[00:39:51]  But we're going to talk about budgeting wars.
[00:39:54]  And it's very lucrative.
[00:39:56]  It's a very big economic system.
[00:39:59]  A lot of people make a lot of money, and a lot of people go poor because of it, because they steal the money from poor people to begin with.
[00:40:08]  Fight wars that we don't need, and we had it hasn't been once or twice.
[00:40:14]  It's incestuous, or what we do, on how we need activity the whole time.
[00:40:20]  And I don't want to go how many we've had just in my lifetime, but just since I've been very much engaged, it's we've had quite a few like the Iraq war, Afghanistan war, Ukraine war, Iran war.
[00:40:37]  They have to have something keeping going.
[00:40:40]  But they're always making us safe and they're always making everybody happy.
[00:40:44]  And a lot of people make a lot of profit, but the payment is due, it's being paid, and most of it's falling on the innocent people who probably could have been more active in trying to prevent this, but they're not the participants who are making money off the war.
[00:41:01]  And that's the general middle class.
[00:41:03]  And I tell you what, this thing is getting bad because, you know, if they report, they do report, and it helps to wake people up.
[00:41:14]  But you know what?
[00:41:15]  They fib.
[00:41:16]  Fib.
[00:41:17]  People, one article said, don't play around with words.
[00:41:20]  They steal it.
[00:41:21]  They steal the money and they lie about it, too.
[00:41:25]  And here it is.
[00:41:26]  I think we talked about it when the first report came out from this group.
[00:41:31]  It said that we were spending $50 billion on the war.
[00:41:37]  And this article said, no, it's.
[00:41:42]  And then you were talking about the first 60 days.
[00:41:45]  It's really.
[00:41:46]  It's really $72 billion.
[00:41:49]  And quite frankly, the people who know a lot about this said it's going to be more.
[00:41:55]  What if it goes another 60 days?
[00:41:58]  And can they walk away from that?
[00:42:01]  I think the administration's trapped because that was Nixon.
[00:42:06]  Oh, no, it was LBJ that said, I can't be the first American president that lost a war.
[00:42:14]  So he was just fighting the war just for his image.
[00:42:18]  And so there's a lot of that.
[00:42:21]  See, they're not going to walk away, they're being warmongers and say, oh, we wasted our time, we wasted your money, we're not going to do it.
[00:42:30]  But these numbers are startling and they're destined to go much higher.
[00:42:37]  I don't know how the financial system is held together with so much debt and so much monetization of this debt and so many people suffering.
[00:42:47]  Something is going to have to give, and I think we see the big crack already.
[00:42:52]  Yeah, I think we're getting there.
[00:42:53]  Now, this is some Stefan Semler at Popular Information Substack went through and crunched the numbers.
[00:43:02]  As we know, Secretary of Defense Hegseth was before Congress a few days ago, and he said the cost of this war so far is $25 billion.
[00:43:12]  We all knew it was a low ball when he said it, but it's actually a real big low ball.
[00:43:17]  If we can put that first one up, the real cost of the Iran war, $72 billion for the first 60 days.
[00:43:23]  Now, he has a methodology here.
[00:43:28]  For making this assessment.
[00:43:30]  Now, if you go to the next one, this is where Hexetz said $25 billion for 60 days.
[00:43:37]  CBS reported $50 billion, double the amount.
[00:43:40]  However, Semler holds that this is actually still even too low.
[00:43:47]  If you go to the next one, he says Popular Information, that's his substack, conducted a cost estimate of the Iran war based on official statements, military procurement, and operations data, and reported on deployments and armament use.
[00:44:01]  Through 60 days, the U.S. spent an estimated $71.8 billion on the Iran war, or $1.2 billion.
[00:44:08]  Now, if you go to that next one, you'll see a chart.
[00:44:12]  And this is the estimation Operation Mobilization, Administration of Combat, $15.8 billion.
[00:44:20]  Weapons, missiles, interceptors, bombs, and other, $41.2 billion.
[00:44:25]  Losses, damaged or destroyed military assets, $11.9 billion.
[00:44:29]  Subsidies, paying for Israel's bombs and interceptors, $2.9 billion.
[00:44:34]  $71.8 billion is their estimate now of this first 60 days of war.
[00:44:40]  And as you rightly point out, Dr. That sounds to be about right, I dare say.
[00:44:47]  And it's all coming out of the taxpayers' pocket.
[00:44:51]  Meanwhile, President Trump has released his new statement about Iran.
[00:44:58]  They will be laughing no longer.
[00:45:02]  Trump, late Sunday, released a new statement.
[00:45:06]  The 47th president noted the Iranian regime has been an enemy of the United States for 47 years, which is absurd.
[00:45:15]  Trump also called out former President Barack Obama and Joe Biden for being weak toward Iran and allowing the regime to have access to billions through a failed nuclear deal.
[00:45:27]  Here's what he published.
[00:45:30]  Iran has been playing games with the United States and the rest of the world for 47 years, delayed, delayed, delayed, and then finally it paid her when Barack Hussein Obama became president.
[00:45:43]  This is just so bad, so propagandistic.
[00:45:49]  He was not only good to them, he was great, actually going to their side, jettisoning Israel and all other allies, and giving Iran a major and very powerful new lease on life.
[00:46:04]  Hundreds of billions, $1.7 billion in green cash flown into Tehran, was handed to them on a silver platter.
[00:46:14]  Every bank in D.C., Virginia, Maryland was emptied out.
[00:46:18]  It was so much money when it arrived, the Iranian thugs.
[00:46:22]  Had no idea what to do with it.
[00:46:24]  They'd never seen money like this, and they never will again.
[00:46:28]  It was taken off the plane in suitcases and satchels, and the Iranians couldn't believe their luck.
[00:46:35]  They finally found the greatest sucker of them all in the form of a weak and stupid American president.
[00:46:42]  He was a disastrous leader, but not as bad as sleepy Joe Biden.
[00:46:48]  For 47 years, the Iranians have been tabbing us along, Keeping us waiting, killing our people with their roadside bombs, destroying protests, and more.
[00:47:00]  I mean, this is, in my opinion, utterly ludicrous.
[00:47:05]  What came your thoughts about it?
[00:47:09]  Yeah, well, you know, the old American politics game, Republican versus Democrat, is just to, you know, go beat against the Democrats, always blame the previous Democrat presidents for the Problems that Trump has created.
[00:47:26]  You know, that's his MO.
[00:47:28]  That's his defense.
[00:47:30]  And he won't stop ever.
[00:47:32]  So, you know, it's just more garbage, really.
[00:47:37]  If there's probably going to end up a deal that is made with Iran regarding nuclear energy and nuclear weapons, the deal probably will not even be as strong as the JPOA deal that Obama did, you know, that Trump broke.
[00:48:04]  In 2018, he threw it out.
[00:48:07]  So, you know, but here we go.
[00:48:10]  And, you know, the staggering cost of the war, well, that's just the beginning, you know, $72 billion.
[00:48:17]  I have the implications of the consequences of this war are so much more.
[00:48:25]  The whole war has been designed to basically break the bank, collapse the global economy.
[00:48:32]  That's what they've been waiting for.
[00:48:34]  That's their great reset.
[00:48:36]  Accelerate World War III on multiple war fronts to break the global economy.
[00:48:44]  That is the game.
[00:48:46]  That's the great game that the puppet masters are pulling on the human population left alive.
[00:48:56]  So, you know, it is staggering, but it's only going to get more staggering as time goes on and we see the dominoes falling where.
[00:49:07]  Basically, the standard of living of Americans is just going to drop.
[00:49:12]  And for the whole world, it's going to drop and drop and drop.
[00:49:16]  We have no clue as to how bad it's going to become because we've never seen the devastation that what's going on now is going to cause down the road with supply chain shortages like we've never seen before, the inflation kicking, hyperinflation kicking in.
[00:49:41]  It's going to get real, real bad for the whole world.
[00:49:47]  And then the bottleneck with Iran controlling the Strait of Hormuz, there are ships that are moving.
[00:49:57]  They happen to be on the side or friendly neutral countries with Iran, and they are allowing those cankers to go out.
[00:50:08]  Now, occasionally, The U.S. Navy tries to intercept.
[00:50:14]  They've only done it to a couple ships.
[00:50:17]  And of course, they did fire on the Iranian tanker and did some damage on that.
[00:50:25]  But of course, that came after the three destroyers got chased out.
[00:50:31]  Or maybe actually it was before.
[00:50:33]  Actually, I think the provocation was on the part of the United States to cause Iran to go after those destroyers in the Hormuz Strait.
[00:50:44]  And then they.
[00:50:45]  Quickly moved out because they were fired upon.
[00:50:50]  And had they stayed there, they would have been sunk.
[00:50:54]  That's the power that Iran has with its missiles, hypersonic missiles, and drone swarms.
[00:51:03]  They would have been sunk.
[00:51:05]  And that is why the aircraft carrier fighter groups, they're all outside the range.
[00:51:13]  And they're not daring to come in because they know we're going to be missing our.
[00:51:19]  You know, three, they're not even know if they're all there.
[00:51:22]  I think one of them went home for repairs because of all kinds of problems.
[00:51:27]  So, the United States, you know, the world is looking at what's going on now, knowing that it's a catastrophe, especially down the road for everybody on Earth.
[00:51:38]  But they're seeing the fallibility, the limitation of the quote American military hegemon empire.
[00:51:47]  It's going down in flames now, and the whole world is watching, you know.
[00:51:53]  So, that's the outcome here.
[00:51:55]  How far America goes down and the world goes down.
[00:51:59]  We don't even have a clue as to how bad it's going to be.
[00:52:04]  But, you know, for those of us that are aware, we know it's going to be bad.
[00:52:11]  And so, you know, get whatever supplies I, you know, I know that this will probably do rushing on whatever stocks the stores have.
[00:52:23]  But, you know, stock up with what you need because it's going to get really hairy in the near future, like within.
[00:52:32]  One month, we're going to see the main effects starting to hit.
[00:52:37]  And it's going to be, like I say, a domino effect of worse, worse, worse, less, less, less.
[00:52:44]  That's what's on the road.
[00:52:47]  Brian, your thoughts.
[00:52:50]  So let me make sure I understand what Donald Trump was saying with his little statement there in the WLT reports.
[00:52:56]  He's saying that Obama and Biden just simply paid them off with $1.7 billion in green cash.
[00:53:05]  Which was emptied out of DC banks, put on an airplane, and thrown over there.
[00:53:11]  And we have, on the other hand, Ron Paul saying that since we decided to fight Iran, we've spent $72 billion.
[00:53:23]  Okay.
[00:53:25]  So Biden and Obama were able to stay out of a fight by paying them off with graft of $1.7 billion.
[00:53:34]  That lasted forever, whoever.
[00:53:37]  How long, and they probably just used it to get missiles.
[00:53:40]  But now we've spent $72 billion to start our little war here, which now goes to military industrial contractors while we destroy Iran.

=== Attacked Iranian Regime Goals (08:17) ===

[00:53:55]  But yet we still haven't accomplished anything at all at this point in time.
[00:54:02]  Our strategic goals were to change regimes.
[00:54:04]  That's not happening.
[00:54:06]  Apparently, these boys can hold on for quite a while.
[00:54:09]  And so I'm going to ask Donald Trump, didn't you just make yourself look like a dumb shit?
[00:54:16]  If they went and spent $1.7 billion and now you've already spent $72 billion and you've accomplished nothing, I would say their $1.7 billion was money better spent, even though that's not how I would run the economy, just by paying off whatever thug happens to be out there on the block.
[00:54:35]  But still, you've spent $72 billion and accomplished nothing.
[00:54:39]  They spent $1.7 billion and kept us out.
[00:54:43]  Hmm.
[00:54:45]  I think that somebody can figure out a better way to make this work.
[00:54:48]  And I don't think it looks like it's Donald Trump anymore.
[00:54:51]  Maybe that Israeli intelligence is starting to cloud his thinking.
[00:54:55]  I'm not exactly sure.
[00:54:58]  What a wonderful, wonderful comment.
[00:55:00]  I love that, Brian.
[00:55:02]  Don, I guess we have a minute left.
[00:55:04]  Is that what you're telling me?
[00:55:06]  A minute?
[00:55:08]  I'm telling you, we have about two and a half minutes.
[00:55:10]  Two and a half minutes.
[00:55:12]  Well, let me see what I can do with two and a half minutes.
[00:55:15]  There are forces, as Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Davis is reporting, trying to push war.
[00:55:22]  $5.
[00:55:23]  That's how much I'm hoping you'll contribute to our campaign to take back Texas.
[00:55:29]  $5.
[00:55:30]  And then right now, they have attacked.
[00:55:32]  Yesterday, the Iranian side has attacked a couple of ships that tried to pass without their authority.
[00:55:37]  Now, as you're going to see in a minute, we have not been sitting passively by on that.
[00:55:40]  And we've actually been taking some pretty aggressive counteractions also against Iranian shipping containers and tanker ships.
[00:55:48]  We're going to get into that in a second.
[00:55:49]  But you see, Rubio's trying to just talk his way out of this.
[00:55:53]  Well, if we let this get away, if we let this pass, then other countries are going to be able to do it, et cetera.
[00:56:01]  No, they're not.
[00:56:03]  I mean, the only reason this one happened is because we attacked them and were oblivious to the likelihood that they would do this.
[00:56:13]  Now, these other straits they're talking about, the Malacca straits, et cetera.
[00:56:17]  Now, if you want to get stupid, if anybody wants to get stupid there and they want to go in and attack one side or the other and give the attack, Side motive to do so, then I guess it's possible you could get it.
[00:56:28]  But the lesson to learn is not, hey, let's go in militarily and conquer Iran so that we can get them out of the straits.
[00:56:34]  The message is don't go to war against somebody who's on one side or another of an important waterway and strait and leave them no outcome except to seize control of the waterway.
[00:56:45]  That's your real lesson here.
[00:56:47]  But now then, what are we going to do?
[00:56:50]  Believe me when I tell you, if there was any path to a military success where we could.
[00:56:55]  Force them to open it up the straits.
[00:56:57]  We wouldn't have tried to Marco Rubio out there on a visit to the Pope and to try and shame countries in to do it, I guess, to try and shame the Iranians into it by, well, we can't let this happen because bad things are going to consequence.
[00:57:10]  It's not going to work.
[00:57:11]  But that does show you that there's a lot of pressure on it.
[00:57:14]  Well, that's not the only pressure we got.
[00:57:17]  He's not exactly going to help his cause out here.
[00:57:20]  And again, he kind of doubles down on a mistake he made yesterday when he said something like, I can't remember the exact phrase about Iran, but they're.
[00:57:27]  Their brain is crazy, or something like that.
[00:57:30]  He kind of doubles down on that.
[00:57:32]  And again, he seems to be really lacking.
[00:57:33]  I guess he's been around Trump too long now, and he's forget about the diplomatic language that you're supposed to use as the chief diplomat in America, the Secretary of State.
[00:57:42]  And he's talking about dumb countries.
[00:57:45]  If you fire at a U.S. Navy ship, what are we supposed to do?
[00:57:48]  Say, oh, there's a ceasefire.
[00:57:49]  We're not going to shoot down your drone.
[00:57:50]  That's a stupid question.
[00:57:51]  That's a stupid position to take.
[00:57:53]  Of course, we fired back at them.
[00:57:55]  They were shooting at us.
[00:57:56]  That's what I would expect to do.
[00:57:57]  Only stupid countries don't shoot back when you're shot at.
[00:58:00]  And we're not a stupid country.
[00:58:02]  Yeah, now only stupid countries don't shoot back when you shot it.
[00:58:06]  That's important to point out here.
[00:58:07]  Now, his claim is man, we just had these ships in the middle of the strait.
[00:58:12]  All we're doing is just patrolling around, and bam, Iran came out of nowhere, violated the ceasefire, and attacked those ships.
[00:58:18]  And we told them what it was for.
[00:58:20]  We hit their bases in Bandar Abbas and Kashyyyyam, and I think one other location.
[00:58:27]  And yeah, we hit them back and we hit them hard because they hit us first.
[00:58:30]  Except there's a lot of evidence that says actually it was the other way around.
[00:58:33]  Apparently, the U.S. Actually, hit some Iranian tankers, and then in retaliation, they fired back.
[00:58:40]  Now, this is a situation, you know, who can say that this side did it first, that side did it first?
[00:58:45]  We don't know for sure.
[00:58:46]  All we know is that there are competing claims in here.
[00:58:49]  That was from last night, though.
[00:58:51]  Now, what is not up for debate because it was claimed by Central Command, and that is today the U.S. disables two more vessels floating in the blockade of the Gulf of Oman.
[00:59:00]  That's today.
[00:59:02]  And you see this ship that's burning in here now.
[00:59:05]  These are tankers that belong to the Iranian side here.
[00:59:08]  So, what do we think is going to happen with that?
[00:59:12]  Do we think that the Iranian side is not going to shoot back?
[00:59:15]  Actually, I'm sorry.
[00:59:16]  I just got a notice a few minutes ago.
[00:59:17]  I asked Professor Morandi, who we've had on the show several times, I said, What will Iran do if we continue to do this?
[00:59:26]  And he says, Iran is going to strike UAE oil facilities and other targets in the UAE.
[00:59:33]  So, at least as of right now, we haven't seen that happen yet.
[00:59:36]  But apparently, because of these strikes today, Iran is saying, Okay, we fired at your ships the other day.
[00:59:42]  And apparently, Iran claims that they hit our ships.
[00:59:46]  We claim that they didn't, that all of our Defensive measures worked, and the few cruise missiles and I guess speed boats and drones that may have been attacked were knocked out, and none of them got through.
[00:59:56]  Now, maybe that was in fact true.
[00:59:59]  Maybe it's one of the few times we actually told the truth.
[01:00:01]  Oftentimes, it's easy to tell the truth when it's into your favor.
[01:00:03]  So maybe all of our defensive measures did work.
[01:00:06]  Maybe they didn't do a big swarming attack, but something small that our defenses could handle, and we knocked it out.
[01:00:12]  Well, then the lesson learned for the Iranian side is don't go after something that has really good anti ship, anti missile defenses.
[01:00:20]  And instead, go after a softer target like in the UAE.
[01:00:23]  Now, we're going to wait and see how that's going to happen.
[01:00:25]  But if you're trying to find a way out of this, that's not helping your case any.
[01:00:30]  And, you know, we have to just ask the question what is the intent of this operation here?
[01:00:35]  Is this just to say, hey, let's just keep putting more and more pressure on the Iranian side, that that will make them capitulate and that will compel them into finally having an agreement that we like and that will have enough pressure on them, et cetera?
[01:00:49]  We just showed you yesterday the Washington Post article.
[01:00:51]  That revealed that the intelligence community said that, as a matter of fact, that won't work, that you can do this for months and that they can endure all this pain.
[01:01:01]  They've got a lot of experience with it.
[01:01:03]  They have redundancies built in.
[01:01:05]  They have, I mean, they have whole systems expecting this kind of thing to try and mitigate against it.
[01:01:10]  And of course, culturally, they know how to suffer.
[01:01:12]  We've made sure of that for decades.
[01:01:16]  So, excellent, excellent, my Colonel Davis.
[01:01:20]  I dare say, Iran is not going to capitulate under any circumstances, period.
[01:01:27]  But we have a dumb enough leader that he could keep this going and bring about catastrophe for the world.
[01:01:32]  Dawn, take us out.
[01:01:35]  Oh, wow.
[01:01:37]  Take us out.
[01:01:38]  Yeah, let's take us out of this war.
[01:01:40]  We're talking about war and real bullets and all kinds of disasters happening here.
[01:01:44]  Let's get out of here.
[01:01:46]  Anyway, we are out for the first half of this hour on May 11, 2025.
[01:01:51]  Truth versus News.
[01:01:53]  Wow, it's getting heavy folks and we better be alert and get ready to prepare for war and it might be hitting close to home.
[01:02:03]  So God bless and share this widely.
[01:02:05]  Thank you so much.
[01:02:11]  Okay, how can I stop this?