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June 25, 2025 - Lionel Nation
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If Trump Goes to War, MAGA Dies—Plain and Simple
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I want today to send this message almost as a tutorial to those individuals who are first-time visitors to a Lionel Nation, who are new to the conspiratorium, who've never been here, but also maybe you might be new to the whole notion of political discourse, political conversation, what's going on right now.
I'm going to explain this to you, what the basics are, who's right, who's wrong.
But most importantly, let me explain to you what to be on the lookout for.
It's like if you took somebody to the first tour, their first wrestling match, it looks obvious.
You say, oh, good guy, bad guy.
No, it's a little bit different.
It's a little bit more complicated than that.
That's what this is to.
Because there are multiple layers.
Yes, there's the event that's happening.
Yes, there's a political, but there's also the societal.
There's also the cultural and the social and other aspects as well.
We're going to be talking about that.
I just did my private channel piece where I can speak a little bit more freely, as you can imagine.
It's amazing what words and ideas are throttled.
As you will see many of the times, the people who will comment, the live chatters, will extol forever on what words they can't type, what words of Roboten.
It's a fascinating subject to them, but nobody else.
So that's that.
Next, what's also critical to understand is that on July the 19th, 19th, I'm going to be at the cutting room in New York City.
And I can't even imagine, this is a month away, I can't even imagine what we're going to see in terms of this type of coverage.
Because this is something the likes of which you've never seen before.
You've never seen anything like this.
Let me just put it to you this way.
It is beyond incredible.
So get ready.
And I also want you to take everything that you've ever thought about, every notion that you thought, and put it aside.
Because what you're going to do is listen to me.
The comments are wonderful, but you're going to see a lot of folks just enter into the fray.
Many of them, sometimes too many, who just want to say things just to say things.
You're going to hear people talk about the USS Liberty, or they'll talk about something from the past or something.
But it's a group of people, everybody raising their hands, trying to come across as the smartest, the most relevant, the most funny, which is very critical, and the most entertaining.
Be on the lookout.
I will explain to you what's going on.
But more importantly, you will leave today with a better understanding.
And you'll also say, oh, that's what he's talked about.
Because I'll tell you what to be on the lookout for.
And I'll also give you some theories and some hypotheses to explain what happened, which makes and make the most sense.
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Now, my friends, let me see if we can bring you up to speed on this and see if we can talk about a couple of things.
First and foremost, let me give you a couple of ideas, some ideas.
Pilgrim says, move along, folks.
Nothing to see here.
Kidding.
I guess.
No, Pilgrim, there's a lot to see here, but I think I know what you're saying.
Remember also what you will see for the most part.
Most people, not you, cannot write.
They cannot write.
They can't put a word.
Here's the idea I want to say.
This is a distraction that is brought to you by such and such.
No.
No.
Smoking mirrors.
What does that mean?
Who's smoking mirrors?
Us?
It means that.
Don't know.
LOL.
20 minutes into it, somebody will say LOL.
What LOL?
I don't know, LOL.
And also we'll say USS Liberty.
If you're new, let me explain this to you.
I, and most people I think who are of sound mind, look to Israel as a country.
I call it a state.
It's a country the way we look at Europe, Russia, Ukraine, NATO, that's it.
Israel is associated with Judaism, Jews.
But this has nothing to do with Jews.
It's about Israel.
It's about Zionism.
It's about the future of this territorial peace.
There are Arabs who are Israelis.
There are Catholics who are really.
There are Baha'i.
And if you've ever been to Haifa, I saw like Douglas Murray, in Haifa, the Baha'i, I really liked it.
I liked Haifa.
It was beautiful.
They say you go to Tel Aviv to play, Jerusalem to pray, and Haifa to stay, or something like that.
It's a beautiful thing because Lebanon's right there.
You can just look and see, yep, there's Lebanon.
And it's really, and you have to look at the configuration of it.
But it's a beautiful place, beautiful people, wonderful.
It's really neat.
And there are people who are Baha'i faith.
This is their Vatican, so to speak.
So when you say Israel, it's not all Jews.
If you go to Jerusalem, if you go to the Sukk, you know, where they have the merchants, Arabs.
When you go to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where Christ was crucified and buried, Coptic Christians, every imaginable pilgrimages.
So when you say Jewish, yeah, but there are folks who have an Israeli point of view who like, who consider themselves Israeli, not Palestinians.
And the Palestinians consider themselves not Israeli, but Palestinians.
Palestinians don't say necessarily we're Muslim, though they could be.
So this is, see, this is a distinction we don't have in this country because we have, our First Amendment speaks specifically to the notion of the establishment clause.
Congress shall pass no law regarding the establishment of a religion.
We don't have, we're not a Judeo-Christian country.
The Treaty of Tripoli in 1811 or whatever is that.
No, 18, it was Section 11, I believe it was, under John Adams.
So people, and by the way, if you're also new here, you're not going to understand a lot of what this is because nobody's ever spoken to you about history.
You also have to understand that in the world of political lobbying, the biggest lobby like Chamber of Commerce, the Pharma R, PHMA, AARP, used to be NRA.
And somewhere down the list in terms of maybe money and numbers was APAC.
And you will hear APAC a lot.
And APAC is a very, very significant part of this.
APAC is the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee, not political action committee, public affairs.
It's a PAC, which is a political action, but they call it public affairs.
It is a bipartisan, very bipartisan political action committee that focuses on, this is what they say, strengthening the U.S.-Israel relationship.
It's the largest pro-Israel PAC in the United States with a large grassroots membership of over 3 million.
Its key activities include lobbying for pro-Israel policies and encouraging the U.S. government to enact policies that support a strong relationship with Israel.
I just told you, it might not be the largest lobbying group, meaning there are others, but it builds bipartisan support.
And what they do is they're into lobbying, grassroots mobilization, political analysis, promoting peace is what they say, opposing anti-Israel discrimination.
But here's what was important to understand.
Compared to like the, I don't know, the AARP or Chamber of Commerce, these people, if you significantly exhibit behaviors which are considered anti-Israel, they will not only speak out against you, they'll cut your balls off.
And I say that with all due love.
They are a great source of absolute admiration on my part.
I love strength and they have done it.
Nobody, but nobody comes close to them.
In fact, what a lot of people really seriously feel, there's a sense of kind of like resentment.
It's like, why can't we do that?
It's not illegal.
It is brutal.
But up till now, there has been this fantastic effect in the way people say.
When you say Israel, exactly remember, if ever, and this is the strangest segue, but if you ever use the word, if you're ever in public office and you use the word Hitler, you've lost.
Comparing somebody to Hitler, referencing Hitler, it just don't bring the name.
I don't care what.
You can explain it all day long.
You can explain it all day long.
Nobody wants to hear what you have to say about Hitler.
There's something called Godwin's Law.
You've heard about this.
Godwin's Law is a kind of like a bit of an online pun.
Not a pun, but a bit of a joke.
It says that Godwin's Law says the longer that you are on the internet discussing something, the greater the probability that you will bring up the name Hitler approaches one.
They always compare Hitler.
Well, this is Helario.
This is a Stormtrooper.
Okay.
Up till now, there was a word that said, if you say Israel, you're dead.
You're doomed.
You're anti-Semitic.
I didn't say anything.
Unless you say, I support Israel.
Because what they did was they blurred it into anti-Semitism.
You say, I didn't say anything about Judah.
I said about Israel.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
And this is brilliant.
The same thing happened when you said 9-11.
Did you say 9-11?
No, I didn't say 9-11.
Did you say 9-11?
Are you a truther?
Oh, no, no, what is it?
Remember COVID?
Remember Ivory Mexican?
Don't say that.
Don't say that.
So you want to hit that third rail status, and they have it 100%.
Again, absolute admiration.
Way to go.
Italians hit years ago, Joe Columbo, look what happened to him.
The Italian, they had people who said, we want to ban mafia movies.
The guy, oh, for the love of God.
No, no, nobody's mind.
Okay, fine.
So that's the rule.
AIPAC is the best.
The best.
And I'm telling you, people are just there, they wish because they will cut your balls off.
You do something, they'll say, we'll primary your ass.
We'll do it.
See, you know, AARP may say, we want to find it.
We're passing no prescription medication.
Okay.
AARP says, let me tell you something, Mr. Congressman, we're going to assign an AARP member to each.
And they always say that.
They say, is it true?
There have been reports that APACS assigns or assigns, if you will, a member or some kind of observer to every member of Congress.
Good for them.
People get so upset about this.
They say, well, you're supposed to do that, right?
You're a lobbying group, aren't you?
Well, then do it.
Think somebody's going to say, hey, did you go inside a building or whatever it is about deductibles for a primary ass.
Nobody does it.
NRA didn't do that.
They talked.
They've also become part and parcel with this new group of people.
And that is the line that I'm starting to really appreciate Steve Bannon more than ever before.
Steve Bannon said Fox should have to register under Farah, you know, Foreign Agent Registration Act.
They're essentially a foreign agent for Israel with the way they cover every single story through the eyes of the Likud party.
She's absolutely right.
She's absolutely right.
Did you hear Mike Huckabee, who is the ambassador to Israel?
Oh my, he wrote this letter and they printed it.
I mean, it was the most glowing thing.
Okay.
Remember, nothing illegal with this.
You may not like it.
You may not like it, but that's the way that is.
So grab this.
Okay, you understand what's happening here.
Next, Bibi Netanyahu.
People don't understand him.
In a lot of trouble.
Did they like him?
They wanted to indict his.
Let me tell you something.
Israel.
Israel is a tough place.
Read Jerusalem Post, which is like New York Post, Fox News, and then Haretz or Ha'aretz.
It's H-A-A-R-E-T-Z.
Like a dip song, kind of.
Hawaii.
Manhattan.
Sorry, it's a joke.
If you got that joke, you're one of three people, including me, who understand that joke.
Okay.
This guy was going to be indicted.
They went after his wife.
They wanted to turn out him.
Look at Ehud Olmart.
I mean, they go after people.
They are a serious business.
And then you have factions.
It's kind of a secular country.
When I was there, I couldn't believe they say, you know, the religious people and the religious people.
Because they look at the religious and the hardcore, I don't want to use the word again, Zionists.
There are people who say, we're not going to serve in your military.
We have nothing to do with this.
We don't work.
It went on and on.
Again, very, very complicated.
But please do not think it's this monolithic group of folks where everybody walks around with a kippah and pay us a new, new, new, new, new, new, new.
It's a socialist country theoretically.
A lot of the people, the origins are Eastern European versus Arabic.
Very complicated.
But understand it.
Take some time to understand it.
But listen to what I'm saying.
There are people, I don't want to mention names, but there are people, some people who are very, very good and other people who are seething.
They can't say Israel without just.
And I don't know what it is.
There's something wrong with them.
You know who they are.
Yesterday, the other day, there was a very, very, very, I think the best, if you want to go to one source, one source, just to get, okay, in a one-stop shopping, give me the, give me not, not, I don't want to say anti-Israel, but the, I don't know what the word is, not anti.
Because Democrats are not anti-American.
Republicans are not anti-American.
And but Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate, but Max Blumenthal, he's not anti-Israel.
It's government, not the country.
These are Jews.
They're not against a country.
They don't want bad things to happen to them.
It's the idea of who runs the country and the influence A country has over the United States.
Let me go back to what's going on.
What influence does NATO have?
What interest does NATO have, not only over the U.S., but over Europe?
Same issues, but NATO doesn't have that sting.
There ain't no NATO lobby.
Okay?
So understand this.
Now, in 1967, there was the incident involving the USS Liberty.
This is an American ship where it was attacked by Israel.
They say by accident, they thought it was an Egyptian ship.
Who knows why?
LBJ said, don't bring it up.
Do me a favor.
They will never forget this.
Without even knowing it, they'll say, the liberty.
What about it?
You know damn well about it.
What about it?
The Israelis shot down, they shot the USS Liberty.
I know, but what was it about?
I don't know what it was about.
God damn it.
And that's the way it is.
They're just told, they're given a book of like, just use these.
Whenever you don't know what to say, also, son z, just throw him in there too.
Something about deception or war.
The old days when you talk about Trump, say 3D chess or 4D chess.
Just say things.
You don't have to necessarily know anything about this.
Okay.
Okay, okay, fine.
Now, let's keep looking at this.
Where are we today?
First and foremost, no matter what anybody says, I don't care where you're from, there is no way that the United States seriously had any serious concern about Iran to the point that we would illegally,
unconstitutionally, and against every rule of international law, go after and attack a sovereign country.
There is no basis for it.
It is as illegal and unwarranted and unprovided for as you can imagine.
So says the country that has done this repeatedly.
We don't ask permission.
Now remember, you're tuning in, maybe for the first time.
I'm telling you, in case you haven't noticed, America doesn't ask for permission to do anything.
Vietnam, we'll make it up.
Coalition of the willing.
We pretended after 9-11 is like, okay.
See, 9-11, 9-11 taught us a lot of stuff.
9-11 says, if you want to go after Iraq and Afghanistan, which we did, and others as well.
Of course, if you believe Wesley Clark and Peanak and a lot of those people are still here.
9-11 was the Pearl Harbor.
See how that works?
Huh?
You see that one?
You see how that one works?
9-11 was the Pearl Harbor.
Nobody questioned anything.
Nothing.
Nothing.
Okay?
Isn't that interesting?
Isn't that interesting how that works?
Nobody.
It was nothing.
So we go, well, let's have a coalition.
Okay, well, I'll vote.
We got it.
America, they loved America.
They thought we were terrific.
And they were behind us.
This time, okay.
Next rule.
Listen to me.
We don't care what the world thinks.
I was watching the great folks, the Duran.
I like them.
Alex and Alexander.
Isn't that great?
Brilliant.
Scott Ritter, brilliant.
Mearsheimer, off the charge.
Colonel McGregor, beautiful.
Aleister Crook, Wilkerson, Larry Johnson, Judge Napolitano, brilliant.
Brilliant.
But they forget one, not forget, but we don't care what the world thinks.
And that's not, I'm not being mean.
We don't care.
It works like this.
Americans will say, look, when you're the biggest and the baddest and the, you know, the most righteous, you're going to make enemies.
And people are not going to like you.
And that's the way that goes.
So what are you going to do?
We don't care.
We're not going to lose any sleep over it.
But so what?
That's it.
So don't don't get bent out of shape.
Doesn't matter.
We don't care.
Because we can't care.
You got it?
Okay.
From, and I put this, please follow me on X under Lionel Media.
Please, it's one of those things which is so interesting.
I write some good, good stuff.
And one of the issues is you must understand that how long we have been going through this.
And let me see if I can.
There's a great piece of that.
Oh, oh, God, it was a great piece.
On the Strait of Hormuz.
Please, please, please watch that.
Please, I beg you.
I beg you.
As people do, whenever they say, whenever they send me some stupid email.
By the way, you know who's looking incredibly irrelevant lately?
Victor Davis Hanson.
Doesn't he look like his...
Like he just gave up.
Bill Clinton, RT reposted something on him?
100% correct.
Incredible.
But I read this.
Let me ask you this.
Let me do this.
Let me ask our good friend at ChatGPT.
Let me do this.
Okay, you're going to love this one.
Very simple.
In its entire existence or throughout its existence, what percentage and how long has the United States been at war?
Okay, that's the question.
This is what you do.
You go to ChatGPT, I like ChatGPT, I think it's like 4, OpenAI, whatever you want.
Not Google, ask them.
And then you get this story, which is the most phenomenally interesting here.
Throughout the United States, in our history, we have been at war for approximately 93% of the time.
It was founded in 1776.
As of today, we are 249 years old.
We have been at war 232 years.
We had 17 years of peace.
That's 93%.
This includes Revolutionary War, Civil War, World War I, II, Vietnam, Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, smaller military interventions, Panama, Grenada, Libya, Syria, and a covert, a whole bunch of undeclared.
We go to war and we do anything we want.
Now, I'm not being mean.
You might want to call this a realist point of view, a la, a la, John Mearsheimer.
It's just the truth.
We don't care.
We don't need no stinking badges.
We don't care.
We don't care.
So, like I've heard Alex and Alexander say, well, you know, I don't know what this is going to do to the image, United States' image, our image, what people think of us.
We don't care.
We never have.
And to be an American, is it given that luxury?
We don't care.
Because whether you like us or not, it doesn't affect the bottom line.
In fact, when people do like us, a lot of politicians say we're doing something wrong.
We were born.
See, we think we're better, smarter, more powerful, groovier, you know, that kind of thing.
So that's something we just don't care about.
So remember this.
Now, what am I getting at?
I want to give you all these background stories first.
I want you to follow that first.
Follow that information first.
Now, I want you to also think about what's going on.
Do you think, see, if I ask this question, people, sometimes I stop and I read stuff and I look at this.
I love this one.
Golden says, wrong, nothing about bring a doormat in MAGA.
See, I don't know what this means.
This is English.
This is Galen Hoff.
How?
Wrong, nothing about bring a doormat in MAGA line.
See, I don't know what this means.
I don't know what the hell this means.
But I try to read them.
I said, I don't know.
You think he could have said, wait, before I hit send, does this make any sense to you?
Let me rewrite this.
Help me out.
Maybe run it through Chat GPT.
Take an idea and kind of work it out.
This is what I deal with.
Wrong.
Wrong.
People love to say they're wrong.
They don't know what the hell they're talking about, but that's okay.
It doesn't matter because people love to say, oh, you're wrong about that.
You also got to meet this.
There are people who love Trump to the point where it's a fetish.
I think he's the best president in my lifetime.
I would vote him again and again and again and again.
He's not always right.
Big time.
But I'm not going to go Democrat.
I'm not going to vote for anybody else.
That's it.
I mean, I'm sorry.
I am stuck with him and stuck on you.
All right.
But people love to get upset.
They love to get angry.
They don't know shit about what they're talking about.
They don't know anything.
They don't read.
They sit back in their beanbag chair and their Cheeto dust.
They'll tap it away in their basement.
They don't know.
But they love to be, God damn it.
You know, they just, so you try every now and then I look over and I'm thinking, this doesn't make any sense.
And half the time I spend my, this is most of my reaction to this stuff here.
What?
What?
So anyway, chat away, enjoy yourself.
It's a free country.
But half of the time, I don't know what the hell you're talking about.
And there's no basis for this.
But the truth is, and if anybody doubts us, you haven't been paying attention.
We don't care about War Powers Act.
We don't declare war.
We don't do whatever.
We actually said, the president actually looked up and said, and you understand something.
We said, and when Iran told us that they said death to America, goddamn it, that was it.
You bombed a country because of what they said?
You goddamn right, I did.
And people will say, well, what's wrong with that?
What's wrong with that?
Bombing a country because they said something?
Who are they?
We say bad things about other people.
Well, that's because we're America.
Pilgrim says, my homepage is Grok3.
Much better than Google.
Is that Google?
Grok3, no.
Grok is better for graphics.
No.
This is good stuff.
I mean, sometimes they have some, we can't do that.
Then I say, parody, okay, you know how to get around that.
To each his own.
The point is, Google is dead.
Nobody looks up stuff.
Now, so understand this.
And Sean Hannity, who's just like, Sean Hannity this morning is kind of he's a, here's a, here's, here's Sean Hannity.
Here's, you know, Trump.
And he's just, say this, Sean.
Okay.
The guy's made a fortune.
He's thinking, I'm not going to, I'm not going to worry about this.
Hell, I'll say whatever.
I'll do whatever I want.
He's brilliant.
But you don't go to him to find out what's going on.
Absolutely not.
Where do you think you go for information?
Where?
Never go to cable news.
Listen to the people who hate you.
Get a little bit of that.
Triangulate because you're not going to get any straight information.
Let me try this for you.
Okay.
And I just did a video, and I hope that you saw it, but let me give you an idea.
What if?
Let's play what if.
What if President Trump now turns to AIPAC and Bibi?
Please, that's the only reason we're there.
Because Iran made...
Okay.
North Korea has them.
What has that meant?
Remember, there's three things that they wanted.
This is What BB said he wanted.
Number one was to end any and all nuclear development.
Okay, fine.
Number two, regime change.
I don't even know how you do that.
And number three, surrender.
Yeah, okay.
Anything else?
How about a cash reward?
Maybe they can just leave.
So, okay.
You think Trump's going to say, yeah, yeah, that's what I want.
Yeah.
They want regime change.
Be placed by whom?
Because let me tell you something.
The new people in Iraq, in Iran, rather, you're not going to like them.
So anyway, so what if President Trump turns to Bibi and AIPAC and Adelson and says, okay, now look, folks, we delivered.
You wanted me to bomb?
That bomb.
Wanted me to bomb?
That's it.
The promise action has been taken.
You wanted me to bomb?
I bombed.
You got that?
I bombed them.
Just like I said I would.
I bombed them.
Remember the line?
That's it.
Now, I'm not sure about the proof of this.
They're going to say we didn't hit him.
They're going to say a lot of different stuff.
And what happens is, and you're not going to see Fox News explain this to you.
Cut up Chatter says, there's always something I don't know that may change my mind.
I try to be very careful about what I defend passionately.
Yeah, absolutely.
But I also want to hear as many different opinions as possible to hear what people think.
It's like learning about a cuisine.
You never thought about cardamom until you went into the world of Caribbean or Indian.
Sometimes you'll learn from things.
But the bottom line is simply this.
The promised action has been taken.
The box has been checked.
The debt settled.
No more.
That's it.
Thank you.
Have a nice day, baby.
We did it.
What?
We did it.
Now there are two, no, three sites that you may or may not have noticed, which is very, very interesting.
There are three sites which are critical.
Very, very, very, very critical.
And that is Natans, Isfahan, and Fordo.
Okay?
Natans and Isfahan, you know what they're saying?
What?
You know what people are saying about those?
No?
Should I know?
Yes.
Some folks were saying that Israel bombed it before.
There was nothing there, and they threw it in just to get rid of the old bomb.
Anyway, but Fordo, now Fordo, that's the one people would know about.
Now remember, are people going to learn geography?
No.
Are they going to learn the names?
No.
They're going to go to Ainsley and then Lawrence, and they're going to say, ooh, they love it.
They're just, they're sporting chubs.
Can we get a graphic of that big bunker buster?
That's great.
Boy, that's great.
May not have been a bunker buster.
What?
Well, some people say it might be an, I don't know, could be.
They said it might be a, it might have been submarine launch.
May not be what you think it was.
Yes, it was.
Okay.
Who's going to believe the news?
If Iran says it, one thing, you're going to take their word for it?
Of course not.
If Fox News says, you better believe it, you will.
Why?
Because you just, they give you what you want to hear.
How we were magnificent.
You see when the president spoke, that was a weird group.
You see, Marco Rubio looks like, what am I doing here?
JD Vance has this weird thing because he's thinking, Palantir, what am I doing?
Hexeth, his arms are out.
He's going to that lact movement.
You're standing there.
I'm a tough guy.
And Marco's looking around like this.
But the president, I like when he riffs sometimes.
He'll read the script.
He'll say, and we thank, of course, the magnificent role of our men and women, whatever.
And we thank God.
God.
Love God.
Good guy, God.
God's a good guy.
Good.
God is good.
God's a good.
Good man.
Good.
Good.
God is good.
Yep.
God is good.
He just rips.
I turned around and that was it.
Any pictures?
No.
But Trump, and listen to what I'm saying.
And this is a part you're going to find the most interesting.
Trump could be a genius.
Raul says, will the U.S. continue to say hard hello to Iran?
It's a good question.
I don't know.
George Len says, there's ever been a better time to be open-minded.
That's true.
That's true.
Indeed, there is.
But let me tell you this much.
What if Trump is so good at this?
He says, watch this.
There are some people in the world of organized crime that many people have suggested are, for lack of a better word, Cretans.
Not the smartest people, but Cretans.
But when it comes to making money and being criminals, oh my God, they're the worst.
I'll be the best.
They are genius.
Genius.
Trump may not be the most fluid and fluent in matters that are, you know, brilliantly crafted speech.
He'll say some things that are awkward.
But he, I've always suspected, has a genius.
For example.
Okay.
Pick up the phone.
Now, the people that you think are big or not, the people who you think are important.
Sal Angelo, by the way, Sal says, how will Iran watch football on Sundays now that we've bombed their man cake?
You know, that's funny.
That's actually, that might actually be funny.
Very good.
Thank you.
But let's go through this very carefully.
What if Trump says, we got our backshin on you?
Call a biotone.
Yeah, not from me, dude.
Listen, for how many years do you think you've been warned about bombing your nuclear facility?
How many years?
How many years?
How many years is BB up there with this red line?
They got the line.
How many lines?
20, 30?
I don't know.
Okay.
Do you think maybe you've moved them by now?
He's only been warning you for the past, whatever, yeah.
And when he says he's warning you, he's warning us about us because they don't have shit to bomb you with.
Everything they've got, we gave them.
They don't have anything.
Every one of their missiles costs about 10 million apiece, whatever Iran has, if you believe somebody, I don't know, between 40,000, 50,000, 100,000, 400,000.
Who knows these rockets?
But they cost about 200 grand a piece, a lot of them, and they can wreak havoc.
So what if Trump says, listen, I'm going to bomb you.
I'm going to give you the two weeks.
I'm going to take time off.
That's that time.
I'm going to give you time, you know, to do whatever you got to do.
Okay?
We're going to bomb you.
You're going to?
Yeah.
I like when they said also, they said, they did not confer with Israel.
It's like, you're kidding me, right?
You're kidding me.
Seriously?
You didn't convert?
You didn't convert?
You surprised them?
I don't think so.
But anyway, last night there was a bombing or whatever it was, okay?
A bombing.
And Trump says, okay, you happy?
Yeah.
You got that, Ayatollah?
Right?
That really.
Oh, that ruined us.
I'll bet it did.
I will bet it did.
You happy, BB?
What do you mean?
We did what you said.
Well, wait a minute.
Aren't we going to go back?
No, no, no, we're not going to.
I told you, tell our friends at AIPAC, we're behind Israel 100%, but we're not going to just keep hitting you with this because we kind of have other stuff to do.
But I promise you at least one good show, we gave you a show.
That's it.
We're getting tired of this shit.
Iron Dome's not working.
We're spending.
And by the way, they move the Nimitz.
Remember that one?
He's really good.
Move the Nimitz.
Why?
Let's move it.
Liberty.
Looks like the Liberty.
Oh, another decommissioned ship.
People were thinking, you think maybe they're going to attack that too?
A false flag?
I don't know.
That was really good.
Okay.
Why are you going to put this ship out there?
But anyway, you did.
And Trump said, and we're back.
And it was beautiful.
And that's it.
Have a nice day.
Thank you.
Good night.
Thank you, Cleveland.
That's it.
And BB said, wait a minute.
What do you mean, wait a minute?
No, no.
Is that it?
That's it.
That's it.
That's all there is.
Period.
Done.
No more.
No more follow-up.
No more subsequent bombings.
Because now I got to worry, and I got to talk to these folks.
I don't want any American soldier or Marine or anybody hurt in one of our bases and one of our 800 foreign bases that we're in in 80 countries, which is another thing we got to worry about.
If Iran does that, and by the way, baby, don't you, no false flags.
We're watching you.
Don't you claim it, hurt one of our soldiers, claim it was Iran, just to try to rekindle this.
We told you what we were going to do.
We did it.
Now that's it.
We're done.
No more.
With one strike, Trump has the leverage to declare that the United States fulfilled its obligation, whatever that means, to its strategic allies in the region, but will go no further.
That's it.
The delivery has been made.
No sequel, no entanglement, nothing.
It's done.
Genius.
Meanwhile, Netanyahu may be coming to terms with the fact that the, you know, whatever problems he hoped that he would solve with an American military airstrike, he's going to find out, it's not going to go away.
He's got a lot of problems.
Politically, legally, all this other kind of stuff.
Now, the weapons, the ordinances, the sorties, the assets, the munitions, they may have dropped.
And the headlines may scream of victory.
Victory scream with the graphics.
And Owen and Ainsley and Lawrence.
Ooh, look at that.
And Mary Campano.
Look at the graphics.
Oh, isn't it a cool plane way that opens up?
That's called a bunker buster.
I went in a bunker bust.
How do you know?
You ever see you?
You have any pictures of it?
No, okay.
But we trust them.
Absolutely.
But the threat he saw on his horizon, it's still there.
And Iran, don't sell these people short.
Don't engage them.
Remember, especially when they don't pose a threat to you.
I mean, everybody poses a potential threat.
China does.
Russia may, depending upon what your perspective.
But you don't bomb them.
But Iran may have, people are saying, relocated the assets, maybe hardened or toughened the defenses, and launched its own PR war with the entire world to frame the attack as ineffective, as a waste of time.
Go look and see what Al Jazeera and India and China, just look what the rest of the world is saying.
They're laughing their ass off.
They're saying, you think that was it?
Are they buying this story?
What bombs?
Take it from us.
Okay.
The aftermath, the smoke and mirrors and the flash and all this stuff, little substance.
The real background and the real battleground, the real, Gaza.
That refuses to go Quietly.
Gaza.
What happens?
If anything, the strikes kind of redirected the world kind of global scrutiny, the global awareness to a conflict that Israel can't control any longer through narrative manipulation.
I don't know what you're going to do with that one.
I mean, America just, and you will feel that.
America just said, all right, that's enough.
Because for the longest time that we've been hearing Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, and we've got Iran fatigue.
Okay, that's enough.
We did it.
Israel, okay.
And for the longest time, too, people, I think Americans kind of understood the official narratives was that Israel was indeed, again, it was being bombarded by so many evil forces, and they had everything in their power just to maintain existence.
But now people are getting tired of it.
They're saying, all right, that's enough.
And another thing, you have no idea what did Ted Cruz, Ted Cruz made people say, what the hell was that?
Whose ape?
What are we doing now?
You see, you got to understand something.
And I'm going to try my best to say this politely.
Americans don't know anything.
They don't know anything.
You've got to tell people, whenever you do something like this, keep talking to them 50 times.
See, my show is American-based.
If I went onto some European platform, they say, what's this guy saying this stuff?
It's like he spews one no-shit platitude after another.
Because what I'm telling you right now, now is the stuff that is being released, maybe some of the evidence, you know, satellite videos, and again, this shaky, this cam drone footage, the clips, the montages, the pieces, heavily edited, no time stamp, no verified location, maybe old clips, you know how that is.
We do it all the time.
Iran releases its own clips, you know, maybe some from old war games or others, I don't know, dramatized or propaganda.
Do you believe any of this stuff?
We always have the people say, well, that's not true.
You know, a lot of times you'll see crisis actors up.
You see this woman here?
You see this woman running for her life and this thing?
Yeah, well, see, I got a picture of her.
She's in another event.
And then you're thinking, is that, how do you know that's the same woman?
Well, it looks like it to me.
Well, I don't think it looks like her.
Each side gets to narrate its own version of, you know, the facts and the events.
Each selects the message.
And the left is screaming that this is Trump.
This is the Gulf of Tonka.
This is wrong.
And the right, fractured, because they don't know what to do.
Because MAGA, this hurts MA, sorry.
They begin to devour itself.
And the neocons, they're foaming at the mouth for war.
They're clashing with isolationist America.
First base, you know, this group.
And in the middle, Trump, poised, strategically ambiguous, maybe even disinterested.
Maybe Trump doesn't even care at all about this.
He already declared the mission accomplished.
He already said it.
That's it.
We're home.
That's it.
That's it, folks.
Have a nice day.
This guy could be this 4D genius.
Now, from a realist point of view, you know, from a Mearsheimer-esque, it's worth considering, my dear friends, that the entire confrontation was a coordinated performance.
Strategic performance, performative scrums, kabuki choreography.
Agreed upon kind of in whispers.
Okay, you got that?
You got that?
And Iran, aware of the strike window, many are saying it could very well have it.
It's a possibility, evacuated into high-value assets.
And the United States and Trump, who would be a little unwilling to launch a real war, they issued so many advance warnings through back channels.
So much why you.
The missiles flew.
I guess the headlines blazed.
But the damage was de minimis.
Is that a possibility?
You betcha.
Iran's response was theatrical.
A few rockets into empty desert, no casualties.
Red lines uncrossed.
That's it.
The Ayatollah's, you know, rally their base.
The Pentagon runs, victory laps.
And the world moves on.
And it's over.
And it's a genius.
And it's not without precedent.
In a newsletter, I hope you subscribe to my newsletter.
It's going out one, one later going out tomorrow, but kind of formulates this.
Remember during the Cold War, there was all this shadow boxing and this faint kabuki stuff.
In 1983, look up Abel Archer.
This was a, I think it was a NATO, but it was a kind of a drill, which later on the U.S. thought that we were this close away from nuclear conflagration because Russia thought it was real.
The U.S. and Russia danced very, very close.
It was the USSR then, to nuclear war.
And was based on a mutual misreading of kind of scripted aggression.
Now, today, what we're seeing right now, this may be a reboot, kind of a necessary, you know, conflict or something to kind of reestablish credibility, but it's very well carefully managed to prevent real war, true fallout.
And what both Iran and the U.S. need now is stability.
And we have to tell Bibi, and he will, that's it, Baby, because you know and I know.
Trump doesn't like Bibi.
No way.
Nobody likes him.
Nobody does.
Listen, you may not like Obama, and I understand that, but the way he treated Obama was incredible.
You see, this is the theater of conflict.
And it gives both sides the chance to, you know, establish legitimacy and toughness.
You know, the Ayatollahs and the Mullahs can say they stood up to the great Satan.
We did it.
Meanwhile, their ranks, because Trump brought them together more than you can imagine.
Okay?
Seriously.
Mygah, make Iran great again, whatever it is.
And Trump can say, he struck first and struck hard.
And yet, beneath all this posturing and all this choreography and all this, this, again, this kabuki theater, there's this truth.
Trump needed this.
Trump needed this.
Not a war, not another Afghanistan, but some signature moment to reassert strength.
To let people know, hey, don't mess with him, but he didn't really do anything.
Well, it doesn't matter.
As domestic critics go crazy in this anti-Trump world and indictments and all this kind of stuff, the media will amplify every misstep.
You know, that this Iran strike maybe, maybe gives Trump a momentary political reprieve.
I'm curious as to what, I'll bet his poll numbers go through the roof.
A chance for him to pivot, kind of change the narrative.
Now, whether the strike was militarily significant, you're not going to know the truth one way or the other.
but it delivered politically.
It will dominate whatever today's...
I guess anyway.
It's going to bury the latest scandal, whatever it was, and it's good for three days.
And most importantly, most critically, it allows President Trump the chance to return to the campaign trail, so to speak, as a wartime pres for midterms coming up without a war.
It's genius.
Israel, Bibi, on the other hand, they may have overplayed their hand.
See, by pressuring Trump, by pulling it, Cooney, you've got to do this, into this limited engagement, it exposed itself now to this more of a global rebuke, a global disagreement, you know, this consternation of the world without resolving its core strategic strengths or threats, excuse me.
Because Israel is going to say, okay, you bomb, now what?
Israel didn't even know.
They're going to claim our intel, we destroy.
Okay.
If Israel says that's not enough, you didn't do it.
Trump's going to say, excuse me, you better go on TV.
You better say how superior we were because I put my neck on the chopping block for you.
So you better go out.
Mr. President, if I go out, we need more of this.
We haven't decapitated Iran.
I never promised any kind of decapitation.
And we're not going to go after the Ayatollah.
We're not going to do that.
That's what you got.
You wanted to bomb?
I bombed.
You happy?
Whether you're happy or not?
Screw you.
We're doing nothing.
You got to worry about Gaza.
And we're getting real tired of that.
Because people are really...
Oh my God.
You got to see this.
Gaza is the powder cake.
The West Bank is going crazy.
Hezbollah, they haven't moved yet.
Remember what Trump found out about the Houdis or Houthis, rather?
30 days?
He said, screw this.
These people aren't.
See, Americans think we're the best in the bright.
Well, we may be the best.
But there are other people who are saying, don't you remember Vietnam?
Some guy with a loincloth and a rifle and a bag of rice?
I mean, we never learn.
So if Bibi hoped for some American umbrella, you know, to ultimately protect him from everything, he may find that that umbrella ain't there.
And somebody said it collapsed under the weight of American disinterest.
The moment, the moment this event, Operation Eagle Rising, or whatever the hell these are, it may signal a pivot, a kind of a shh for conservatives and MAGA and America firsters, because the MAGA base, who was long, 100% long wary of foreign entanglements and stuff, these people don't watch it very, very carefully.
And they cheered when Trump tore up the JCPOA.
Remember the renewing thing.
But they sure as hell didn't sign up for another Mideast quagmire.
We're tired of that.
And remember, the first time an American soldier or Marine gets hurt, that's it.
Then they're going to turn on Trump.
You watch what happens.
So that he better pick up the phone and tell Ayatollah.
I'm telling you, that one we might have been shooting a little blank, so to speak.
But next time, we know where you live.
And if the next chapter of this reads anything, anything like Iraq or Libya, it's over with.
But if Donald Trump can sell this event as some finite show of American force, a reminder of our dominance and how great we are, without some imperial consequence,
he may have pulled off the impossible, a strike that satisfied Hawks and neocons, avoided war, and reaffirmed his legacy and sovereignty in life.
Look, of course, this depends on what happens next.
If Iran chooses to escalate, all bets are off.
If a U.S. service member, as I'm telling you, is killed, if a tanker is sunk, if the Strait of Hormuz, if anything happens, if Hezbollah launches a missile barrage, then the rules, you know, the calculus, everything, it all changes.
But if all parties maintain this kind of kabuki ceremonial tea service, oh, if the lines hold, this may be remembered as a masterclass in strategic planning and messaging.
Donald Trump, in that case, will not only have struck Iran's, struck the nuclear facilities, but also struck a blow and a movement against the globalist narrative that the U.S. must forever stay away from.
My friends, we are entering into a new era.
This is post-truth ideological warfare.
And power is projection.
And victory, whatever that means, is a matter of who tells the story.
Remember what they said?
History is written by the winners.
History is a myth that men agree to believe.
History would be a wonderful thing if only it were true.
But Trump's story is winning.
And that, my friends, that is all that matters, period.
That's all that matters.
So you're going to be here and you can watch all these people all day long.
You can listen to people and you can listen to what people say and it's nice.
But does it really matter?
Not really.
MP says DYK, cheap bastard pocket squeak.
It's deep, cheap bastards, pocket squeak.
DYK.
Interesting.
Thank you for that.
It's not World War III.
No, of course it's not World War III.
Make the Dream Great Again says he turned BB into Zelensky.
Maybe.
And Edie says there's never been a better time to hit that like.
That's correct.
That is correct.
Now, let me give you a couple of other things you got to understand.
Remember this.
Number one, nobody knows anything.
Do not watch a lick of Fox News.
You can, but I, because they're just handing them this.
Pentagon's just handing them to this.
They get two briefings, one from BB and one from the Pentagon.
That's it.
Also, listen to what other people are saying.
You've got to go and hear what other folks are saying.
You've got to hear people.
The best commentary is not on cable news.
Listen to people who were there.
Listen to what they have to say.
And you better be listening to see whether they have regrouped, whether the Ayatollah has somehow benefited by virtue of this.
That's the part that gets me.
Did they benefit by virtue of this?
That's the part that I find fascinating.
So remember something.
If we go to war, war, this ain't war, but if he goes to war, MAGA dies.
He's done.
He's done.
Nobody ever, ever survives wars.
Nobody wants them.
They may be great at first if they have a little kind of a, hey, and then after a while they say, this is stupid because they're never planned right.
Because the people who are coordinating, who should be coordinating the war, aren't doing it.
It's political.
It's a bunch of people standing around trying to be, they love to play tough.
Trump loves to play tough guy.
Trump loves this.
He loves that this salute and this and the magnificent.
Because don't be surprised if somebody's picking up the phone and there's back channels.
You know, we have people in Iran that 4-0 and say, how was it?
That's nothing.
We moved this thing.
Hell, you only told us for the past, what, 10 years?
We moved that shit.
IAEA is going to be, and whatever happens, remember, the official word of Fox is going to be, they're lying.
They're all lying.
Okay.
And then what other people are going to be saying is that Fox is lying.
And it's just a big joke.
This will be forgotten.
But a lot of people are saying, because if Trump wanted to wipe out Iran, if that was their deal, same thing with Putin.
If Putin wanted to take out Ukraine, oh, shit.
He's been the most patient of them all.
He said, okay.
All right.
One of the reasons why there's so many, because so many of the folks have a Russian contingent.
So the bottom line is simply this.
Number one, remember, this was Israel's war.
This was not war, but this was, you got it?
That don't ever, don't ever misunderstand, don't ever misunderestimate that, as George Bush said.
Don't.
Number two, they got what they wanted.
You wanted to bomb it?
Okay.
Number three, that ain't going to do it.
And pretty soon they're going to say, we're enough.
We're done.
And then they're going to say, you don't understand.
We have to, you have to continue.
And Trump's going to say, that's enough.
We never signed on to this.
And the moment Trump turns around and says, you know what he just told me?
You know what he just told me?
He told me that we have to continue this.
Like, excuse me, I've got a country to run.
And we were nice enough to do this.
We certainly saw the merit of this.
But we're not going to spend the rest of our life going after and fighting your wars.
And Bibi, if you can't blame him, he says, why should I worry about anything I ask for?
Anything I ask for, you go ahead and you just do it.
And by the way, you're going to see, wait until you see the word APAC now hit the top of mind awareness.
So people are going to say, who is this?
And not only APAC, not who are the politicians, who are the performers, who are the bloggers, who are the influencers.
Now, let me say this again.
Listen like you've never listened before.
There's nothing that is illegal about APEC.
Somebody who might be acting, you know, Logan acts stuff, Farah, that's going to be kind of tough.
But there's nothing illegal about it.
Ronald Reagan got his start, really, after his acting, when he went around the country doing lectures and things for GE America is propaganda propaganda is America is the world propaganda the word from Gregory Pope the 17th or something from propagandum the propagation of the faith it was it was to disseminate faith propaganda is not a bad thing Bernays told you that but
if I would tell Mr. President I would say you are brilliant he is such a bluffer is bluffing sleight of hand it's the most incredible thing in the world he he he basically told people he basically told people what he was doing and I'm giving you two weeks okay I why hey I'm afraid and he would say things so
people would say what I don't want this to be you know this might be Libya now you're thinking about this he knew we're gonna be moving the the nimits the nimits okay I mean I can't believe how many people fell for this stuff and in a way it's probably the best thing a president could do is say you don't know what he's gonna
do when Trump tells you oh don't worry we're fine you can't you you can't why should the world trust him he he's my president he's not yours as long as I trust him and I and I you know but watch what's happening what wait until the next one is palantir oh man that's gonna be harder because that's hard that's AI and that's coming up next but APAC APAC by the way palantir is gonna go the way of Halliburton but
APAC was not irreparably but really hurt by Ted Cruz I mean they're going to have I will what I would do if APAC involved me and asked me what to do I would say you've got to send one of your handlers to go to each person and say here's what you do whether APAC supports me you pull out a list and says yes they do because it's written there but so does the chamber of commerce so does the so does the veterans so
does the girl scout so does you let them know don't run from this ted cruise did more damage than you could ever imagine you know who's going who's really losing her mind candace owens she just gets so contagious she just she acts like like she feels the pain it's like listen you're not going to make it to 50 if you get this upset all the time so just take it easy listen i've been through this my whole life vietnam well before that it was korea vietnam i
was born after korea but vietnam and then remember um oh my god we did every conceivable all of our ops cia and others but we've done more oh a grenada and you know just these weird things we just do whatever we just do we wouldn't we picked up remember noriega just picked his ass up and
just and how we target assassinate people i have no idea how we do that we just do it so i mean i nobody says anything can you imagine if all of a sudden one day uh paris i'll make it easier let's say this wouldn't happen but let's say putin decides you know what i don't like this guy and putin sends out some hellfire
missile to shoot somebody and kill somebody and putin says yeah we did it and putin goes on tv just like trump and brags about it alsimani you know you dirty dog you know say would go nuts but when trump does it people say well that's trump for you the man's a genius the man's a genius he comes across sometimes oafish but he's not he's like that he's like that mobster who understands business you
understand what i'm saying you dig it so eat equally and make the dream great again thank you mp salangelo thank you my friend george lenz raul rodriguez and mr media pilgrim media and brad opelin thank you for this don't forget july the 19th july the 19th at the cutting room tickets available i put it i linked them on here follow mrs l at lynn's warriors lynn's warriors
can't say that enough this week she's going to be busier than you can imagine wait till you see where she goes she how she does it nobody knows and thank you make sure you're subscribed to lionel nation boy they've been hitting our subs like you can't believe i don't know why they always say whoa we're doing a purge but you know it is what it is i'm just speaking the truth so the bottom line is simply this don't
get bent out of shape about this this is not world war iii sorry sorry i'll tell you when it's time i'll tell you when it's time to really worry but watch what other people say and the commentaries are fantastic unbelievable but remember in order for you to speak the truth doesn't mean you hate america or that you hate israel or that you hate iran this has nothing to do it's not personal it's not personal it's
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