NXR Podcast - NXR Livestream - Oil Fields Burn | More Americans Dead w/Dominic Michael Tripi
Aired: 2026-03-09
Duration: 01:02:49


=== Mass Deployments to the Middle East (01:44) ===

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[00:00:24]  Fighting shoulder to shoulder with such a capable ally is a true force multiplier.
[00:00:29]  Because the Department of War assessed that if we did that, if we waited for them to hit us first after they were attacked, and by someone else, Israel attacked them, they hit us first, and we waited for them to hit us.
[00:00:40]  We would suffer more casualties and more deaths.
[00:00:42]  We went proactively in a defensive way to prevent them from inflicting higher damage.
[00:00:46]  Secretary of State Marco Rubio was talking about the motivations for this war.
[00:00:50]  He said Israel was planning attacks that could lead to reprisals on American troops, so the U.S. had to get involved militarily.
[00:00:55]  He since walked that back a bit.
[00:00:58]  But what does that say to you about the relationship between the U.S. and Israel and the influence that the U.S. has over Israeli policy?
[00:01:06]  Look, you know, this has been a long story when it comes to Iran.
[00:01:10]  And back during the Obama administration, The Israelis were pushing President Obama to take military action against Iran and were warning that they would do it themselves.
[00:01:23]  We're so back.
[00:01:24]  Patriots in control.
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[00:01:28]  Donald Trump is in the Oval Office and he's coming through on every single one of his promises.
[00:01:33]  You voted for mass deportations and you're going to get mass deployments to the Middle East to fight another war against Muslims on behest of Israel.
[00:01:44]  Meagre.
[00:01:45]  We are making Israel great again.
[00:01:48]  Will the United States benefit from the conflict in Iran?

=== The Long War in Iran (15:39) ===

[00:01:52]  Maybe.
[00:01:53]  Maybe not.
[00:01:54]  Maybe.
[00:01:54]  But I'll tell you one thing's for sure Israel will benefit exponentially more.
[00:01:59]  We are clearing the board, setting the stage for Israel to grow in strength as our nation continues to decline.
[00:02:06]  There is a golden age that was promised, and that is happening.
[00:02:10]  It's just not a golden age for us.
[00:02:13]  If you think that this is going to be a quick turnaround, If you think that we're somehow going to benefit in the short term or even the long term, then you are trusting the plan to your detriment.
[00:02:24]  This is not 17D chess.
[00:02:27]  This is a president who ultimately is functioning for a foreign country.
[00:02:33]  He is serving their interest.
[00:02:36]  He is bought and paid for, and the proof is in the pudding.
[00:02:41]  It is explicitly clear by this point.
[00:02:45]  Quit fooling yourself.
[00:02:47]  Come to reality.
[00:02:49]  This is not in our interest.
[00:02:51]  We were promised no new wars, and yet our sons are going to go and fight in the desert on behalf of Israel once again.
[00:03:00]  Today, we have Dominique Trippi coming on the show.
[00:03:02]  He's bringing receipts.
[00:03:03]  We're going to talk about all the oil that's currently in flames and what this means for the United States and the world at large.
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[00:05:06]  All right, here we are.
[00:05:07]  It is Monday, 12 p.m. Eastern Time.
[00:05:09]  I'm going to cut straight to the chase.
[00:05:11]  We have Dominique Trippi, who is joining us.
[00:05:14]  He has been keeping tabs on the ensuing war in Iran.
[00:05:18]  We are fighting once again Israel's war.
[00:05:21]  The United States is doing the heavy lifting per usual.
[00:05:24]  It is costing the taxpayers here in the U.S. approximately $1 billion per day.
[00:05:30]  Iran has just signaled that they could keep it up for six months.
[00:05:34]  That's not even to mention potential allies.
[00:05:37]  For Iran, China being one of them, we have 120 something, what is it, 112 days worth of oil reserves?
[00:05:44]  125.
[00:05:45]  125 days, whereas China has boasted of 200 days.
[00:05:50]  I think it's actually 400?
[00:05:51]  200 days of imports.
[00:05:53]  Wow, imports.
[00:05:54]  So they've got us beat.
[00:05:55]  They can last longer.
[00:05:56]  It's not looking great.
[00:05:57]  Let's go ahead and get to the facts, some of the receipts.
[00:06:01]  Dominique, thanks for joining us on today's show.
[00:06:04]  Can you lay out for us how bad it is, man?
[00:06:09]  First of all, thanks for having me, gentlemen.
[00:06:12]  You know, this is just tremendously disappointing.
[00:06:14]  It's dangerous.
[00:06:15]  It's not going well.
[00:06:17]  And the main reason being is that, of course, going against the military might of the United States is something that's going to be a virtual impossibility for any country.
[00:06:26]  But the thing that the U.S. didn't account for is how effective Iran was going to be as far as asymmetric warfare is concerned.
[00:06:34]  As soon as they started actually bombing Iran on the 28th of February, Iran immediately responded by hitting the Gulf countries, which do not have the appetite and they do not have the defense capabilities to actually sustain this type of situation.
[00:06:51]  So I think the way they've gone about it, they have put so much pressure on these Gulf nations, which the U.S. is key allies with, in hopes that these Gulf nations would pressure the U.S. to end this conflict.
[00:07:07]  And that's exactly what I think we're seeing right now.
[00:07:09]  And I just don't think the U.S. expected this sort of retaliation from a nation that.
[00:07:14]  They view to be totally inferior in every way.
[00:07:18]  Yeah.
[00:07:19]  Yeah.
[00:07:20]  It does not seem like this is going to be a quick turnaround.
[00:07:23]  Yeah.
[00:07:23]  That's a great point, too, Dominic.
[00:07:24]  I'm just thinking about, you know, the naturally the defensive position in the case of Iran is obviously in a better position to be in.
[00:07:33]  You know, the Wall Street Journal, for example, is reporting on the closure of the Strait of Hormuz that even a weakened Iran can just close the Strait with drones, with one way drones and with missiles because it's just so close and they can be defensive.
[00:07:45]  And I think their strategy is.
[00:07:47]  We just want to make this hurt for the U.S.
[00:07:50]  We want it to hurt enough so that it no longer makes sense.
[00:07:53]  And you already see this sort of in the MAGA base, this swell of Americans really just thinking we're fighting this war for Israel, not really on board.
[00:08:00]  I mean, that was already true that it was largely unpopular.
[00:08:02]  But I think what Iran's play is to continue to lean into that, right, and to continue to make it more painful with respect to, you know, even concerns about false flag attacks, with concerns about gas prices, so on and so forth.
[00:08:17]  Obviously, as Americans, the death count of Americans continues to.
[00:08:21]  Tick up.
[00:08:24]  I think Iran has a pretty good strategy here.
[00:08:26]  And obviously, the US is completely caught off guard by that.
[00:08:29]  Yeah.
[00:08:30]  Dominic, can you just read?
[00:08:32]  You've got a punch list of a bunch of different things going on.
[00:08:36]  Can you read some of that?
[00:08:39]  Yeah, absolutely.
[00:08:40]  So, as far as the countries that Iran has struck so far, they've struck Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE.
[00:08:50]  They've also hit military installations in Jordan.
[00:08:52]  There's been reports in Oman as well.
[00:08:55]  The thing is, is that, you know, it'd be one thing the U.S. expected them to hit some U.S. bases and military installations.
[00:09:03]  But what we've learned is there's been reports that have surfaced that Iran is getting targeting intelligence from Russia.
[00:09:09]  They're getting drone components from China and Russia, and they're hitting places where allegedly US intelligence members, members of Mossad, specialized US forces, were hitting places like residential hotels in the UAE and Bahrain, where these individuals, allegedly for the United States forces in Israel, were staying.
[00:09:32]  So the level of sophistication of their intelligence.
[00:09:36]  Their ability to impede our defense capabilities consistently across these five nations.
[00:09:43]  Honestly, it's really been extraordinary.
[00:09:45]  And yeah, I will go through some of the places they have hit.
[00:09:47]  So in Bahrain, they have hit a U.S. naval support base over six times over the course of the last week.
[00:09:54]  They've actually had to abandon the embassy in Kuwait temporarily because they were repeatedly getting hit so badly.
[00:10:01]  There's been a very numerous popular hotels.
[00:10:05]  One of the most popular is called the Crown Plaza Hotel in, I believe it's called Manama, Bahrain.
[00:10:11]  They've hit oil refineries in Bahrain.
[00:10:12]  They've hit civilian high rises.
[00:10:14]  In Kuwait, they've hit the U.S. consulate.
[00:10:16]  They've hit air detection radars.
[00:10:19]  They've hit a U.S. base in Kuwait as well.
[00:10:22]  They've hit a camp that houses U.S. soldiers, other U.S. facilities, communications radars.
[00:10:29]  They've hit a base in Qatar.
[00:10:30]  They've hit a hotel in Qatar.
[00:10:32]  They've hit one of the most popular hotels in the UAE in Dubai.
[00:10:35]  They've hit another Air Force base in Dubai.
[00:10:38]  Honestly, the list goes on and on.
[00:10:41]  And again, I just don't think that the United States had planned for this.
[00:10:45]  I think the initial plan from the onset was to strike them with such intensity to kill a lot of their leadership.
[00:10:51]  And obviously, they were successful by killing Ali Khamenei, their original Ayatollah.
[00:10:57]  The thing is, they expected them to hit them so hard that they were eventually just going to quit.
[00:11:04]  Their intention was to cause internal uprising in the country, to cause a faction that was anti regime to rise up.
[00:11:11]  And I think that their plan just simply didn't work.
[00:11:15]  And now it's become somewhat of a war of attrition.
[00:11:18]  And again, and this is something that Marco Rubio emphasized himself you know, these drones that they're using that have been so effective, they fly very low.
[00:11:26]  They actually fly slow, which you would think would be a negative.
[00:11:30]  But that actually, for whatever reason, our defense missiles fly so quickly that them flying slow actually is an advantage.
[00:11:39]  So these interception missiles, these THAAD missiles from the United States, they cost anywhere from four.
[00:11:45]  To $15 million by some estimates.
[00:11:48]  The launchers for these THAAD missiles are actually upwards of a billion dollars apiece.
[00:11:53]  And so, Iran is, you know, nowhere near the capability the U.S. as they may have.
[00:12:00]  They're able to shoot these drones off 10, 20 at a time all day long.
[00:12:05]  And the United States just simply cannot afford, or nor do they actually have the munitions to keep shooting these things down.
[00:12:12]  And God forbid, if we were to ever get ourselves in a situation where a China or a Russia or a bigger Country actually did have some military standoff with the states.
[00:12:22]  What are we going to do when we have such a low supply of these missiles that the U.S. already admitted that we wasted 25% of our global supply in only a 12 day period last summer in the 12 day war?
[00:12:36]  And guys, right now we're at day 10.
[00:12:38]  So I think that Trump's deception, his repeated lies, they are putting us in a little bit more of a dangerous situation than many Americans, many conservative political pundits would like to admit.
[00:12:50]  We're really getting into bad territory right now.
[00:12:53]  This is a classic mistake when it comes to war.
[00:12:55]  I think of the American Civil War, the very first battle, Bull Run, Manassas, as it's sometimes called.
[00:13:00]  The Union expected to win so quickly that women and children actually packed lunch to go to the battle and watch the quelling of this little uprise.
[00:13:07]  And obviously, that battle or that war lasted five years.
[00:13:10]  Same thing with World War I Germany thought it would be six to eight weeks.
[00:13:13]  They would quickly take France.
[00:13:14]  Russia would mobilize very slowly.
[00:13:16]  They'd be able to take France and they would pivot to their Eastern Front.
[00:13:19]  Well, it took a while to capture Belgium and Russia mobilized more quickly.
[00:13:22]  And they fought this two front war for years.
[00:13:24]  That's classic thinking.
[00:13:25]  We'll get in, we'll strike fast, we'll strike hard, we'll knock it all out, we'll go home.
[00:13:30]  This will be over in two to three weeks.
[00:13:32]  But every day, That this continues to go on, the likelihood of this being a seven day war.
[00:13:36]  I mean, we did see like a 12 day limited war in the Middle East last year, but every day that goes on makes it much more likely we're dragged into something that'll last months, if not years.
[00:13:46]  I want to show just quickly a topographical map of Iran.
[00:13:49]  Look at the mountains that cover this country.
[00:13:52]  All Iran has to do to win is survive, disrupt, and make our allies and the United States lose the will to fight.
[00:14:01]  They have a great, in many ways, not perfectly, A great defensible position.
[00:14:05]  There's no way to root out through all those mountains without long, sustained ground engagement.
[00:14:11]  And even then, they have the upper hand because they're playing defensively.
[00:14:14]  And so it appears, by all means, as you were alluding to, Dominique, they were ready.
[00:14:18]  They had their intelligence.
[00:14:19]  They knew where the U.S. bases were.
[00:14:21]  They knew critical oil infrastructure where that was.
[00:14:24]  And then when the war came, they struck it.
[00:14:26]  And now they've basically said, we're going to dig in, we're ready for the invasion, and we're going to make you expend your money, expend your missiles, expend your troops, expend.
[00:14:36]  Maybe even your nukes to get us out of here.
[00:14:38]  Could you tell us a little bit?
[00:14:39]  Oil went up to, I think at the peak it was an overnight trading, $115 a barrel.
[00:14:45]  It's come down a little bit since then.
[00:14:47]  How is this affecting and looking for the global economy that relies on so much oil from the region?
[00:14:53]  So, actually, as it stands right now, it's projected to be the worst energy crisis since the 1970s.
[00:14:59]  And here's the thing we'll get to the oil here in just a moment, but just even for this oil facility to be struck, you know, we've talked about how this is a war for Israel.
[00:15:09]  Well, the United States has come out, and even very famously at this point, Lindsey Graham himself has even come out and basically criticized the Israeli government for targeting this critical infrastructure, specifically this large oil refinery in Tehran.
[00:15:25]  And the thing is, this just goes to show that the United States is simply incapable of restraining Israel at this point because we're providing the muscle, we're providing the munitions, we're providing the security guarantees for Israel to continue.
[00:15:41]  To behave in this aggressive manner in the region.
[00:15:44]  Yet, when we're actually in a joint operation with them, they still hit targets that the United States is not signing off on.
[00:15:53]  So, as far as the way that this could really affect the global economy, it could literally cause a complete market crash.
[00:16:01]  And the reason why you saw the price of oil shoot to 115 a barrel and now it's hovering somewhere, I believe, around 95 the last time I checked is because.
[00:16:11]  All large global countries are having to release their strategic global reserves in order to bring these prices artificially down.
[00:16:20]  It went up so fast, it was the largest single day rise in history.
[00:16:24]  And the only reason they're doing this is because they realized very quickly that if market prices for oil get so high, well, everything, including people on planes and products and people or products on trucks, every other item gets significantly more expensive.
[00:16:42]  With a shocking sharp fuel rise of this nature.
[00:16:46]  So, right now, you're going to see just like you would see, you know, financial people at a JPMorgan Chase or something use intricate financial tools in order to ease immediate effects of whatever's going on with market conditions.
[00:17:00]  That's what you're seeing now.
[00:17:01]  You're seeing people basically waste their strategic oil reserves in order for them to artificially lower this price immediately.
[00:17:11]  So, you know, those don't last for very long.
[00:17:13]  And if you remember, Joe Biden famously used United States strategic oil reserves when we were not really even in a conflict.
[00:17:20]  In order for people just to say they had lower gas prices.
[00:17:23]  So, you know, I think it's a foolish move.
[00:17:26]  I think that a lot of times when you don't let market conditions play out, you end up paying in some other ways.

=== Strategic Oil Reserves Waste (04:56) ===

[00:17:31]  So, no, I mean, we're really, it's not just that this was probably a haphazard and not very smart war to enter, you know, militarily speaking, but as far as the financial conditions that could come about because of this, there's no telling.
[00:17:46]  I mean, this is terrible, truthfully.
[00:17:48]  I want to go to one more aspect before we go to our first commercial break, and that is the people of Iran.
[00:17:52]  We expressed this when the war broke out that we have a genuine sympathy for the people that have lived under a murderous Islamic regime.
[00:17:58]  We have no love for Israel in this conflict.
[00:18:00]  We also have no love for Iran as far as the leadership goes.
[00:18:02]  This has been, since the 1979 Iranian Revolution, one of the most Islamic regimes in the world.
[00:18:09]  But there are a number of Christians there.
[00:18:11]  We've seen the proportion of Iran that's Christian growing over the last couple decades.
[00:18:15]  And there are many people there that have been frustrated with the leadership and want a freer country, that don't want to live under the regime that they've been.
[00:18:22]  But part of the fires and the strikes that have gone on, this is CNN's reporter.
[00:18:26]  Frederick Pletkin, he's on the ground.
[00:18:29]  He's showing how the basically the fires and then the smoke rising to it that what's coming down now is black rain in the area oil and smoke and soot raining back down on millions and millions of people that live in these highly populated cities.
[00:18:43]  And you're looking at a crisis not just here and now in these next couple of years, but as far as cancer, as far as disease, as far as autoimmune conditions.
[00:18:50]  The Iranian people, even those that have no part in this conflict, not fighting age males, not men chanting death to America, death to Israel, women and children and Christians especially.
[00:18:59]  They're caught in the crossfire of a brutal war, and this war that's going to have an impact on them long term.
[00:19:04]  It's going to have an impact short term on their living conditions.
[00:19:07]  So, even for them, it's not even beneficial.
[00:19:10]  So, it's not beneficial for us here in the United States.
[00:19:12]  It's not beneficial for the world globally, economically, and also for the people of Iran.
[00:19:17]  Well, they're getting a new leader, and this leader is going to be more conducive to Christianity, into democracy, into liberal ideals.
[00:19:24]  Oh, no, they're not.
[00:19:25]  It appears the new regime is more radical than the last regime, and we're also bombing them to the point where the rain coming down out of the sky is black with oil.
[00:19:33]  And smoke fills the air.
[00:19:35]  I mean, go ahead and get the air quality index out there in Tehran right now.
[00:19:38]  It's not going to be good.
[00:19:39]  Yeah.
[00:19:41]  This is just categorically different than what recently took place with Venezuela.
[00:19:46]  In the case of Venezuela, you had a vice president that was already waiting in the wings that was set up that we knew would be more favorable to us and, of course, Israel.
[00:19:57]  That's just kind of a given at this point.
[00:20:00]  But we knew that she would be more favorable to the U.S., that it would benefit us, that it would be this 12 hour extraction.
[00:20:07]  Action, you know, one and done, and that the conditions would immediately improve.
[00:20:12]  What's happening in Iran is absolutely nothing like that.
[00:20:15]  We had no reassurances whatsoever.
[00:20:19]  It's not like there was a vice president waiting in the wings that we knew was going to be pro Christianity, that was going to treat Christians in Iran with more sympathy, that was going to be favorable to the U.S., you know, and say, hey, you know what, you know, peace with Israel, that's probably a good idea, even though they keep whacking us with a stick.
[00:20:36]  We'll still, you know, we'll play nice.
[00:20:38]  There was none of that.
[00:20:39]  There were no assurances.
[00:20:41]  There wasn't even an inclination.
[00:20:42]  There weren't even signs of even the potential that we would get anything different.
[00:20:48]  So it's like, okay, we're going to cut off the head of the snake, knowing if anything, there's a 99% chance that the head that grows back in its place will be just the same, just as bad, if not even worse, because now it's far more agitated than what we just dealt with.
[00:21:05]  This was absolutely foolish.
[00:21:07]  And you've heard it from the mouth of Mark Rubio and several others.
[00:21:11]  At this point, we did it because Israel forced our hand.
[00:21:15]  If we did not attack first, Israel was going to attack.
[00:21:18]  Their attack would be weaker than ours.
[00:21:20]  And then all of a sudden, our U.S. service members in bases around Iran would have been crushed in the retaliation, in the response from Iran.
[00:21:32]  And so we attacked because we thought it was best for us or because we thought it was the optimal strategic decision.
[00:21:38]  No, we did it because we knew that Israel will not actually ally with us.
[00:21:42]  They won't actually.
[00:21:44]  Israel is Leroy Jenkins, right?
[00:21:45]  Leroy, like, he's not a team player.
[00:21:48]  Israel is for Israel.
[00:21:49]  The dwarves are for the dwarves, right?
[00:21:51]  They're not a team player with the U.S. They're just looking out for numero uno themselves.
[00:21:56]  They were going to attack in such a way that our service members in our bases reaped the whirlwind.
[00:22:03]  So we attacked first, trying for it to be more decisive so that all of our service members there in the Middle East in our various bases would not get hit at least quite as hard.
[00:22:13]  And the reality is, that's what got us into the war.
[00:22:16]  It was not our deliberate decision, it was us.
[00:22:19]  Acting on a dime because we knew Israel would work for them at our detriment, per usual.

=== Israel for Israel Alone (02:05) ===

[00:22:27]  And now the outcome is still the same.
[00:22:29]  We've got new leadership in Iran that's just as bad as the last leadership.
[00:22:34]  We've got our service members getting hit, and now we're going to have boots on the ground, an all out war.
[00:22:41]  And both the toll with our taxes, financially, economically, and the lives of our sons and daughters, because we are a wicked secular nation that sends women into war.
[00:22:54]  The reality is, who's to say?
[00:22:55]  We don't know how high the cost is going to be, but it's looking like it's going to be pretty high.
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[00:23:34]  And then there are other times where it's like, I'm feeling a knick-knack, tic-tac, you know, polywack, give a dog a bone.
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[00:23:43]  So it's different than a pouch.
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[00:23:50]  And what I really like about them is I've actually got the privilege of meeting the CEO and meeting the rest of the team as well.
[00:23:57]  You can see, Probably not with a camera, but their logo, it's a foot crushing the head of a snake.
[00:24:02]  These guys are based.
[00:24:04]  They are Christian.
[00:24:06]  They are America first, very unapologetically, America first, but they're also, most importantly, Christ first.
[00:24:13]  And so that foot crushing the head of the snake, that's indicative of Christ crushing the head of the serpent, the promise that was given by God to the woman, her offspring would crush the head of the serpent.
[00:24:26]  So these guys are Christ pilled.
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[00:25:17]  All right.
[00:25:18]  So we want to turn to now.
[00:25:19]  We have an article here from the Wall Street Journal.
[00:25:21]  This article is titled Netanyahu Finally Got What He Wanted on Iran by Appealing to an Audience of One.
[00:25:27]  I wonder who that audience is.
[00:25:29]  It wasn't me.
[00:25:29]  I'll tell you that.
[00:25:30]  The American people together?
[00:25:32]  No.
[00:25:33]  It may have been Yoram Herzoni.
[00:25:35]  It may have been Doug Wilson.
[00:25:37]  It may have been Mark Levine.
[00:25:38]  But I've got a feeling it was Trump.
[00:25:40]  It's a little higher than Trump.
[00:25:41]  A little more powerful there.
[00:25:43]  But okay.
[00:25:43]  So.
[00:25:44]  We've talked, I think, up to this point in the show, we've talked about all the deleterious aspects of this war.
[00:25:49]  Deleterious?
[00:25:50]  We're just making up words.
[00:25:52]  All right.
[00:25:53]  Wrong.
[00:25:53]  That's a good one.
[00:25:54]  That's a good one.
[00:25:55]  But all of those arguments aside, I think people are asking this question.
[00:26:00]  It's actually being answered by the Trump administration, but they're asking the question okay, I have an inkling that Israel is behind America's involvement in this war.
[00:26:08]  And the good news is it's not a conspiracy.
[00:26:12]  Basically, every Trump official at this point has come out and said just as much.
[00:26:15]  And the Wall Street Journal here is reporting, we're going to read a couple quotes and we'll pull up them on the Up on the screen here, but this is getting into the nitty gritty in terms of exactly how Israel convinced the United States to be brought into the.
[00:26:27]  There's Joel.
[00:26:29]  We're just having fun.
[00:26:30]  It's a Monday afternoon.
[00:26:31]  It's Monday.
[00:26:32]  The world's going to end.
[00:26:33]  Gas prices are spiking.
[00:26:34]  Yeah, I feel like I'm on the Titanic.
[00:26:36]  You know, when it's like, okay, the thing's going down.
[00:26:38]  I'm a father of five.
[00:26:39]  We can freak out or I can read my kids a bedtime story.
[00:26:42]  Get ready for a good cold plunge.
[00:26:43]  Yeah, have one good last night.
[00:26:45]  Yeah.
[00:26:46]  All right, sorry.
[00:26:46]  Yeah, but okay, so we're going to pull this up on the screen.
[00:26:48]  I'm just going to jump right in and we'll open it up.
[00:26:50]  But okay, so this is.
[00:26:52]  The article from the Wall Street Journal on Netanyahu and how exactly he convinced the Trump administration to get into this war.
[00:26:59]  It says, The campaign, undertaken side by side with the Americans, would transform the region's strategic landscape with Israel as an unrivaled military power.
[00:27:07]  And it would mark a stunning success for Netanyahu, who has long argued that the threat from Tehran isn't only Israel's problem, but America's as well.
[00:27:15]  Of course.
[00:27:16]  Central to that success was Netanyahu's belief that the most important audience for Israel's case against Iran was the American president.
[00:27:24]  He poured his efforts into an audience of one, President Trump, said Aviv Bashinsky, a former advisor to Netanyahu.
[00:27:32]  Jumping down a little bit further, his focus on winning over Trump was a departure from his long held view that the path to influence in Washington ran through American voters.
[00:27:41]  Netanyahu was a frequent guest on cable news, arguing Israel's case directly to the public.
[00:27:47]  This time, he has taken an unusual backseat role in driving the public rhetoric in the U.S. Netanyahu has emphasized Trump's central role in the war and credited the president.
[00:27:57]  With key decisions, portraying him as the driving force behind the effort against Iran.
[00:28:02]  In television interviews and public statements, Netanyahu has stressed that Trump acts in America's interests and makes his own decisions.
[00:28:09]  That approach is playing to Trump's instincts.
[00:28:12]  How did he do it?
[00:28:13]  Quote, he has figured out how to persuade and partner with and flatter Trump in ways that have been extremely effective in advancing his goals, said Daniel Shapiro, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East.
[00:28:27]  Is anyone surprised at this?
[00:28:28]  Is anyone surprised that Netanyahu?
[00:28:32]  Obviously, the war drums with respect to Iran have been pounding and pounding for almost two decades now.
[00:28:37]  And we have a clip here we'll play here in a little bit.
[00:28:39]  And we've already alluded to, but Secretary of State, former Secretary of State Antony Blinken, actually did an interview with Bloomberg where he basically laid out the same thing that Marco Rubio has said was the cause of America getting involved.
[00:28:52]  He said, We were approached under the Obama administration.
[00:28:55]  Israel said that they were going to unilaterally attack Iran.
[00:28:58]  They saw them as a threat and they were going to do it.
[00:29:01]  And we said no.
[00:29:02]  We said that there was a better path.
[00:29:03]  Obviously, that path was the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, JCPOA.
[00:29:07]  That was the Iran nuclear deal.
[00:29:08]  The better path was wait a second.
[00:29:11]  We've got 330 million people in this country that are dying to pay extra taxes.
[00:29:16]  That's the better path.
[00:29:17]  Oh, yeah, 100%.
[00:29:19]  And so Netanyahu changed his course.
[00:29:20]  He said, I think I can win Trump.
[00:29:22]  I think, and this kind of gets into the background of the many, many visits to Washington, Netanyahu visiting Trump.
[00:29:30]  Seven times.
[00:29:31]  I think eight now.
[00:29:32]  I'm sure he's got another one in there.
[00:29:33]  He's got to do his laundry after all.
[00:29:36]  You got to take that to the White House.
[00:29:38]  But no, that's insightful, Antonio.
[00:29:41]  I think this article actually nails it.
[00:29:44]  That's not an endorsement of this group all the time.
[00:29:47]  But I think that they're right because that's actually because at a certain level, it's like, this is so dumb, right?
[00:29:54]  This is so dumb.
[00:29:55]  Why is Trump just throwing away his polling numbers, his popularity?
[00:30:01]  I mean, he won not just the electoral college, but the popular vote, which is very rare for GOP president to do.
[00:30:08]  And it's just in the toilet.
[00:30:10]  And it's like, why?
[00:30:11]  Why would he do that?
[00:30:12]  There must be something going on, 40 chess, this, that, or the other.
[00:30:16]  But it actually makes sense when you think, no, Netanyahu, he bet the house, right?
[00:30:21]  He just went all in on Trump.
[00:30:25]  And it's like, you know, America is more skeptical and negative in their sentiments towards Israel than we have been in 50 years.
[00:30:37]  And it's like, why would they do this?
[00:30:39]  And it actually makes sense to think, no, this was actually calculated.
[00:30:43]  They knew that that was a liability, but it was worth it.
[00:30:45]  They said, We don't need to win 300 million people.
[00:30:48]  We just need to win one.
[00:30:50]  And so we're willing for our popularity, Israel, to tank in the American purview, but we're going to tank Trump with it.
[00:30:59]  And we're going to just talk in his ear.
[00:31:01]  You know how Trump loves himself, some Trump, you know.
[00:31:03]  And this was this decision that we actually made for you was actually your decision.
[00:31:08]  It was one of the best decisions.
[00:31:10]  Oh, it was such a wise decision.
[00:31:11]  And like, who is like unto you, O King?
[00:31:14]  Yeah, who is like unto you, O King?
[00:31:15]  You know, make a decree that for the next.
[00:31:17]  30 days, there will be missiles, a billion dollars a pop, you know, and Trump eats that up, you know, and that's really what has been going on.
[00:31:26]  And I got to give props.
[00:31:27]  I mean, you've got to give credit where credit is due.
[00:31:29]  Netanyahu and Israel, in terms of the moral categories, they're all going to hell for sure.
[00:31:35]  I mean, like right now, like I feel like the devil is having to renovate, you know, like we need a new layer of hell that's worse than any we've had.
[00:31:43]  White House is expanding the ballroom.
[00:31:45]  We need another layer.
[00:31:46]  Exactly.
[00:31:47]  Yeah.
[00:31:47]  So, I mean, they're for sure going to hell in the moral category, but in the strategic category, this was brilliant.
[00:31:51]  You got to give credit where credit is due.
[00:31:54]  They bet the farm.
[00:31:55]  Netanyahu, Israel, they bet the farm on Trump.
[00:31:59]  And if you were wondering, it's like, okay, think about this logically, right?
[00:32:03]  We were all saying back in 2020, Trump was robbed, the election was rigged, and all this kind of stuff.
[00:32:09]  And I still believe that, just for the record.
[00:32:11]  But if that's the case, then how come?
[00:32:14]  I mean, do we really think that four years go by and then all of a sudden, the elites and powers that be are like, hey, you know what?
[00:32:22]  Fair is fair.
[00:32:23]  We'll rob one election, but we won't do it twice.
[00:32:26]  That's where we draw the line.
[00:32:27]  We've got ethics.
[00:32:28]  You know, we have some standards after all.
[00:32:30]  No, like they let him win.
[00:32:32]  They could have robbed it again.
[00:32:33]  They let him win.
[00:32:34]  Why?
[00:32:35]  Because 2016 was an accident, right?
[00:32:38]  They didn't hedge their bets.
[00:32:39]  Hillary wrote, she didn't even write a concession speech that nobody thought that Trump would actually win, at least none of the elites, nobody in charge.
[00:32:47]  So, 2016, how did he get in?
[00:32:50]  He got in by accident.
[00:32:52]  2020, now that they knew it was actually possible, they're like, can't happen again.
[00:32:56]  They took it.
[00:32:57]  2024, what changed?
[00:33:00]  They didn't rig the election hard enough, too big to rig.
[00:33:03]  No, by 2024, they had bought him.
[00:33:06]  They had bought him.
[00:33:08]  And it was now permissible for him to win because now he was their guy.
[00:33:12]  He's not coming to drain the swamp.
[00:33:13]  He's coming to make renovations and expand the swamp.
[00:33:17]  That's what's going on.
[00:33:19]  And I know it hurts.
[00:33:20]  I like Trump.
[00:33:21]  I voted for Trump.
[00:33:22]  I appreciate God and his sovereignty and the good things that he's done through Trump.
[00:33:26]  I recognize that the border is closed.
[00:33:28]  That is a huge blessing.
[00:33:30]  But at the end of the day, Trump is no longer our guy.
[00:33:34]  Trump is bought and paid for, and he is working for Netanyahu and Israel.
[00:33:40]  But it is not in the best interest of the American people.
[00:33:43]  And we can't even begin to deal with the problems until we first acknowledge that the problem exists.
[00:33:50]  Dominique, you reported that Trump says it will be a mutual decision on when to end war with Iran made together with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to Times of Israel.
[00:33:59]  So it sounds like it's up to Israel when this war ends, huh?
[00:34:04]  Sounds like it to me, gentlemen.
[00:34:05]  And Joel, you had just said something along the lines of is that Trump is bought and paid for.
[00:34:11]  And that very well may be true.
[00:34:13]  But the other things that could contribute to why we're in the conundrum we're currently in is he could also be compromised, perhaps by blackmail, or he also could have just been flatly threatened.
[00:34:24]  And I always thought that it was remarkably suspicious that there was an assassination attempt on the president of the United States now, who was a candidate at the time.
[00:34:34]  But the fact that we've heard so, so, so little about Butler, Pennsylvania, and the fact that he, every time he's publicly asked about it, he constantly shrugs it off as if he himself is not even interested in it.
[00:34:46]  I always found that to be very strange.
[00:34:48]  And reports from that day, if you dig very deep, you can also even find that Israeli intelligence was apparently putting recording devices inside of some of the black SUV vehicles that President Trump rides in.
[00:35:03]  Obviously, there was the issue with the Golden Pager.
[00:35:06]  There's been a lot of very strange activities that could lead someone to believe that something like him being compromised or threatened is totally possible.
[00:35:16]  And then, as far as Netanyahu and his approach to winning Trump over this time and actually having the US work to achieve his and Israel's goals, this has always been one of the main problems with Trump.
[00:35:29]  And it was actually something that many people thought was sort of a positive, or they thought it was funny his just extreme arrogance and his love of himself.
[00:35:38]  But the thing is, is, you know, oftentimes these days we say that Trump is Israel first, and in many ways he is.
[00:35:45]  But the truth is, Trump is Trump first.
[00:35:48]  Yeah.
[00:35:48]  Israel second and America third.
[00:35:51]  And I think in many of his behaviors and actions, that's very indicative.
[00:35:55]  A lot of this presidential term has been used to enrich himself, to secure future riches for his family.
[00:36:02]  And I do think that, you know, for all these shills out there that act like people like us are in the wrong for giving reasonable criticism.
[00:36:11]  Due to his failures and his betrayals, you know, for him to have the audacity to run and have his whole political mantra be centered on draining the swamp only to do this, I think anything else but harsh criticism is just total dishonesty.
[00:36:27]  And it just goes to show how this sort of political landscape is declining, mostly because of greed.
[00:36:34]  So, yes, it is true.
[00:36:35]  Times of Israel did report that Trump said that himself.
[00:36:38]  And again, I mean, clearly Trump is in the driver's seat.
[00:36:42]  At most, he's in shotgun.
[00:36:45]  He seems just to be an old man that is losing touch, that constantly wants people to praise him.
[00:36:51]  And as long as you meet that requirement, you can basically do whatever you want.
[00:36:54]  And that's also why you're seeing him surround himself with cabinet members.
[00:36:59]  That don't offer any reasonable criticism.
[00:37:01]  They don't even want to give him any feedback that's contrary to what he's already said because anything that is viewed as going against whatever he's ordered is viewed as disloyalty and not as just trying to strategically help him and offer him a different point of view.
[00:37:19]  So, a lot of people have been complaining about how this administration goes, but I think it needs to even be more intensified because if we remain on this current track, I don't think we're going to continue to have a country here and even something short like 10, 20 years.
[00:37:35]  Wow.
[00:37:35]  All right.
[00:37:36]  This is what I want to do.
[00:37:37]  Moving forward, I want to talk about nukes.
[00:37:41]  I want to do it.
[00:37:42]  I understand it's not super likely, but I'm going to go ahead and poll the podcasters real quick.
[00:37:49]  There are four of us.
[00:37:50]  I'm going to start with Wes and Antonio.
[00:37:52]  Then I'm going to give it to you, Dominique.
[00:37:54]  You're the guest.
[00:37:54]  So I will give you the privilege of not going first.
[00:37:57]  I'm going to go last.
[00:37:58]  I'm going to go ahead and just shamelessly give myself the most advantage.
[00:38:03]  By going last.
[00:38:05]  Let's do this.
[00:38:06]  If we were to put it into percentages, okay, what do you guys think?
[00:38:09]  And then I'm going to show a little bit of receipts.
[00:38:12]  And these aren't definitive by any stretch, but I'll give you at least, you know, what kick started this conversation, give you some of the backing, the explanation for why I'm begging the question.
[00:38:23]  Okay, so let's go ahead and start with you, Antonio.
[00:38:25]  What do you think the chances are that America launches a nuke?
[00:38:30]  I think it's very low.
[00:38:31]  I think just, I'll preface it by saying this the administration, I'm thinking Caroline Levitt, Was on Fox, I think, Fox News Sunday, talking and was basically being questioned hey, what's off the table?
[00:38:44]  Is a military draft off the table?
[00:38:47]  Nukes weren't, I don't believe, asked specifically, but she made it a point, I think, in principle, to say that Trump considers all of his options.
[00:38:54]  And so that is to say a military draft isn't off the table, but potentially the use of nukes is also not off the table.
[00:39:02]  That said, I still think just militarily, the U.S. can probably.
[00:39:07]  Achieve what it wants to achieve.
[00:39:09]  Now, that cost will be higher than even they expected, I think, even than the intelligence agencies expected.
[00:39:16]  But I think they still can't achieve the objectives of the purported war without the use of nukes.
[00:39:23]  And so I think it's very unlikely.
[00:39:25]  If I had to give it a chance, I would say probably 5% chance that nukes are actually used.
[00:39:31]  And then I would also just say a little bit further that if there were nukes to be used, I think it would be used in a controlled manner.
[00:39:39]  I don't think it would be reckless.
[00:39:41]  I think you would probably need a bilateral agreement.
[00:39:45]  I'm thinking particularly with Russia.
[00:39:47]  I'm thinking particularly with China.
[00:39:50]  And so the big nuclear powers would have to be alerted to the use of nukes.
[00:39:54]  And so it would be more of like, this is what we're going to do, Russia, China.

=== Nuclear Weapons Probability Rising (05:03) ===

[00:39:59]  This is our path.
[00:40:00]  And we need you to be on board with this because we don't want Armageddon.
[00:40:04]  And so China, obviously, they at first push back.
[00:40:07]  But if I'm the US security official, I'm saying, Here's the concessions we can give you.
[00:40:11]  And we talked about this in the last discussion on Iran.
[00:40:14]  Concessions would look like Taiwan, concessions for Russia would look like Ukraine, and there would be some bilateral agreement that, okay, the U.S. can have its way in Iran, but this is what we're going to get in return, and we're not going to lose out on this.
[00:40:26]  But anyway, low chance.
[00:40:28]  I mean, there are, I think the Telegraph was reporting there are two cabinet officials who actually purchased, allegedly purchased bunkers.
[00:40:38]  So this is being reported and this is being talked about online, but it's not that widespread, and I don't think anyone needs to be unreasonably concerned of some kind of nuclear fallout.
[00:40:47]  Armageddon situation.
[00:40:48]  All right, Wes, what do you think?
[00:40:50]  It's infinitely higher than it was probably a couple weeks ago.
[00:40:53]  I do see some parallels with the nukes on Japan.
[00:40:55]  As you remember, we were pushing for unconditional surrender on the part of Japan at the end of World War II.
[00:41:00]  And the big reason for invoking nukes at the time was it would be too costly to enact a ground invasion.
[00:41:05]  They would fight every last man, woman, and child.
[00:41:08]  It would have cost hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops to do so.
[00:41:11]  And so a dramatic show of force would bring Japan to its knees and force the unconditional surrender that we want.
[00:41:17]  We did just play through, we looked at the topographical map of Iran.
[00:41:20]  It's going to be very difficult to install a pro US, pro Israel regime in Iran without some type of invasion.
[00:41:27]  And so, sure, a couple weeks ago, the idea that nukes would be used in this decade seemed, I mean, practically off the table.
[00:41:33]  They have not been used in over half of a century.
[00:41:35]  However, you get dragged into a long, unpopular war.
[00:41:39]  You do always have a trump card, pun intended, in your back pocket, a dramatic show of force.
[00:41:45]  You have the excuse to say, this is saving American lives.
[00:41:47]  This is saving the lives of our allies in the Middle East.
[00:41:50]  Look at how they're disrupting the economy.
[00:41:52]  We have to do this.
[00:41:53]  It's short term pain for long term gain.
[00:41:57]  And as we alluded to, as far as Trump's ego, I think he would think, looking back, that it was FDR, I believe, that dropped the nukes, that it was relatively popular.
[00:42:06]  History looks back on him favorably.
[00:42:07]  And so I don't think Trump is completely opposed to that optics.
[00:42:11]  The man who stood up and did what needed to be done.
[00:42:13]  Now, it's kind of fitting that if he ever did do it, it would be on behalf of Israel, which would be the fitting kind of period or exclamation point on his story.
[00:42:20]  So, not impossible.
[00:42:23]  Not as unlikely as it was a couple of weeks ago, five to 10% chance for me.
[00:42:27]  Yeah.
[00:42:27]  Okay.
[00:42:28]  What do you think, Dominique?
[00:42:30]  So, this is again where Trump's ego comes into play.
[00:42:33]  I think that Donald Trump will do anything, and I mean anything, in order to avoid a perceived loss to the American public and to the world, or to show a sign of perceived weakness to the world.
[00:42:46]  So, I read a report from the Wall Street Journal yesterday that if we were to send in ground troops, full ground invasion, Even then, the chances of a full regime change would still actually be low, according to their projections.
[00:43:00]  So, I don't think that it would be a type of situation where it's Hiroshima or Nagasaki or anything of that nature, to where we're talking about mass destruction, civilian deaths, things like that.
[00:43:12]  But as far as a tackler nuclear weapon, especially in the particular case of us doing something similar to what we try to do with the nuclear facilities in Fordeaux, where we use bunker buster bombs.
[00:43:25]  I think because apparently we didn't do much damage to those bombs, and that's what intelligence reports indicated right after we did that strike last summer.
[00:43:33]  I think the chances of us deploying some sort of tactical nuclear weapon to where we actually drive it deep within the ground with the intention of blasting off underground in order to actually collapse the nuclear facility that or more than one I would give it a 20% chance.
[00:43:54]  I and I think it's increasing, and the longer that this conflict goes on.
[00:43:59]  Or the longer that it seems that Iran is giving us some difficulty in the Persian Gulf, I think those chances are going to continue to increase.
[00:44:07]  So I think it's about a 20% chance.
[00:44:09]  Like I said, I don't think it's going to be a traditional nuclear bomb.
[00:44:14]  But I think as far as a tackler nuclear weapon, either to show them a sign of we are willing to do whatever it takes to completely crush you is an attempt to kind of break their will, or just, you know, as the strategic play on one of their nuclear facilities, I think 20, 25% easily.
[00:44:31]  Yeah.
[00:44:32]  All right.
[00:44:33]  I agree with you.
[00:44:34]  I was going to say it's certainly not zero.
[00:44:36]  Unfortunately, I'd like to see zero, but it doesn't seem as though that is actually the reality.
[00:44:41]  So, yeah, I think that it's.
[00:44:44]  The chances are still, you know, certainly less likely than they are likely, but rising by the day.
[00:44:50]  I think 20% is not crazy by any stretch, unfortunately.
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[00:46:50]  All right, some final thoughts.
[00:46:52]  All right, well, in some ways, it's a little bit of we told you so.
[00:46:56]  It was about close to a year ago where we came out and we said, hey, Nick Fuentes, as far as his analysis on the U.S.'s motivations in this upcoming war with Iran, he's right.
[00:47:05]  We warned as well that these frequent trips from the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to the White House signaled that there was a certain level that Trump was beholden to Israel, beholden to their foreign policy, beholden to what they wanted to do.
[00:47:18]  And now we are nine days into a war that the American public broadly Disapproves of.
[00:47:22]  There was a poll that came out yesterday of Republicans under 50, 45 percent responded by agreeing that Jews are a threat to the American way of life.
[00:47:31]  So public sentiment is turning, but the old guard, Donald Trump, Netanyahu's, Miriam Adelson, the rich Jewish families here in the United States, they still have incredible sway over what actually happens.
[00:47:44]  And so we're going to see this tension continue to play out for years.
[00:47:47]  The elite and the institutions and the apparatus and structures that exist wanting one thing, and the people standing on the sidelines saying, We never.
[00:47:56]  Asked for this.
[00:47:57]  We never asked for our economy to be as bad as it is.
[00:48:00]  We never asked for gas prices to go up.
[00:48:02]  We never asked for unemployment.
[00:48:04]  We came out with February's job numbers, not good.
[00:48:07]  We didn't ask for these things.
[00:48:08]  We asked for mass deportations.
[00:48:09]  We asked for no new wars, but the elite said we have different plans.
[00:48:12]  And so we're now nine days into a war.
[00:48:14]  This war could go 90 days.
[00:48:16]  This war could go nine months.
[00:48:17]  Who to say?
[00:48:18]  But ultimately, we, the people, it seems, have been left out of that calculus.
[00:48:22]  That, in our opinion, has not really been considered.
[00:48:25]  The things that we wanted, the things that we asked for.
[00:48:27]  And we began eight to 10 months ago warning you about this.
[00:48:31]  And so it's a shame to be right in some ways.
[00:48:33]  But also, this is the world we're in.
[00:48:35]  You have to take a sober analysis of it, realize that that's the calculus, and act accordingly.
[00:48:40]  Right.
[00:48:40]  Dominique, any final thoughts from you?
[00:48:43]  Yes.
[00:48:45]  Well, we're in very scary and dangerous times.
[00:48:48]  And I implore people to ask themselves clearly, Israel's intention is to become the primary global superpower on this planet.
[00:48:56]  What is next for America if they actually achieve their goals?
[00:49:00]  Nothing good.
[00:49:00]  I can tell you that.
[00:49:02]  Right now, they're working to be the regional hegemon in the Middle East.
[00:49:06]  Their plan has gone exactly to play.
[00:49:08]  They knocked down Syria.
[00:49:09]  They knocked down, they neutered Jordan and Egypt many years ago.
[00:49:13]  They were able to defeat Hamas.
[00:49:15]  They were able to defeat the Houthis.
[00:49:16]  They were able to defeat Hezbollah.
[00:49:18]  The last piece on the chessboard is Iran.
[00:49:21]  And now they've got the big muscle, the United States, with their endless security guarantees and weaponry going to bat for Israel.
[00:49:28]  But the thing that people don't understand is after this is done, and after the U.S. is observably completely weakened in many ways with depleted munitions and everything else, and honestly, if it keeps going this way, just a tattered image on the global stage, what is going to be next is that Israel is probably going to start.
[00:49:48]  Openly competing with and you know, basically being an adversary to the United States in many ways.
[00:49:56]  So, I think that people really should be careful what they wish for.
[00:49:59]  All these stupid boomers out there that think that this is some war that's in America's interest or this is our best friend and nothing you know in the future is going to be adverse to America.
[00:50:09]  I really think this is very dangerous, and I think that's an element that people are not discussing enough.
[00:50:14]  Yeah, Antonio, any final thoughts?
[00:50:16]  No, I think that was great analysis.
[00:50:19]  I would just say there's a A severe threat for protraction here in terms of just what the stated goals of the United States are.
[00:50:26]  And going back to the point of Trump really not willing to lose on this, and I think Netanyahu even more so, I think Israel very much sees this as an existential crisis for them.
[00:50:38]  And so when you look at some of these, and I'll just read them the White House's official statements destroying ballistic missile capabilities, dismantling Iran's existing missile stocks, annihilating their entire navy, eliminating the regime's naval forces, preventing nuclear periphery.
[00:50:51]  Proliferation.
[00:50:52]  So ensuring Iran can never obtain a nuclear weapon.
[00:50:55]  And then this one, the most vague one, neutralizing their proxy networks.
[00:51:00]  So stopping Tehran from arming, funding, and directing militant proxy groups throughout the Middle East.
[00:51:05]  I don't think this is even possible without regime change.
[00:51:08]  Again, we've talked about Khamenei, his son, who has just been appointed the new leader.
[00:51:11]  He's a hardliner.
[00:51:12]  So if you thought that he was the previous leader was difficult, and by the way, this is the story as old as time as you eliminate one leader and they're replaced with someone even worse.
[00:51:21]  This is what happened with Rayabone.
[00:51:24]  You know, when his father, Solomon, is done, he's like, you know, my father, he, you know, he, what is it?
[00:51:31]  He whipped you with lashes or something, but I'm going to whip you with scorpions.
[00:51:38]  Yeah.
[00:51:38]  Like, I'm going to be even worse.
[00:51:39]  Yeah.
[00:51:40]  So the threats, to your point, Dominic, the threats here are incredibly severe.
[00:51:44]  I think even Trump's rhetoric on unconditional surrender, so like a very, very clear appeal to regime change and saying we just won't have it.
[00:51:52]  These are difficult things to achieve, I think, in the context of the top.
[00:51:56]  The topographical sort of characteristics of Iran.
[00:52:00]  I think also just their defensive position, their backing by Russia and China, their hold on one fifth of the world's oil supply.
[00:52:09]  These are going to be very difficult things to achieve.
[00:52:12]  And if you have a president who's not willing to back down or acquiesce on any of these points, this should be very alarming for Americans.
[00:52:20]  Yep.
[00:52:21]  Well said.
[00:52:21]  All right.
[00:52:21]  We've got a couple super chats.
[00:52:22]  I'm going to take them right here at the end.
[00:52:24]  We've got one from Dakota Davis.

=== True Children of Abraham (05:56) ===

[00:52:26]  He's a longtime supporter of the show.
[00:52:27]  We appreciate you.
[00:52:28]  Davis, thank you.
[00:52:29]  He said, I long for the day when Jews say shalom.
[00:52:33]  And actually, mean it.
[00:52:34]  They have also healed the hurt, he's quoting scripture now, of my people lightly, saying, Peace, peace, when there is no peace.
[00:52:43]  So true, King.
[00:52:44]  Amen.
[00:52:45]  Tyler Burke.
[00:52:46]  Tyler had the privilege of meeting him yesterday.
[00:52:49]  He and his fiance came and visited our church on Sunday morning.
[00:52:52]  So that was a blessing.
[00:52:53]  We are located about an hour north, northeast of Austin.
[00:52:59]  So if you're in central Texas, you're looking for a good church, feel free to email, reach out, and we can tell you.
[00:53:05]  A little bit more details.
[00:53:06]  I don't like to publicize the address of the church.
[00:53:09]  We have many enemies, right?
[00:53:10]  So we try to keep that close to the chest.
[00:53:13]  But if you're looking for a good church in central Texas, in the greater Austin area, come visit.
[00:53:17]  Tyler visited yesterday.
[00:53:18]  It was a blessing to meet him for the first time in person.
[00:53:21]  And he said, I'd like to start by saying that the service on Sunday was great and we do plan on returning.
[00:53:27]  My question is for you, Joel.
[00:53:29]  How do you respond to boomers sticking with the Bible says to bless Israel argument?
[00:53:37]  A simple answer that I'll give you is this.
[00:53:40]  If you actually go and look at Genesis chapter 12, the word of the Lord is given to not the nation state of Israel, certainly not Bibi Netanyahu in the year of our Lord 2026, but it's a word that's given not to a people, but to an individual.
[00:53:55]  It's given to Abraham, and it is those who bless you, Abraham, will be blessed, and those who curse you will be cursed.
[00:54:02]  So then the question is who are the descendants of Abraham?
[00:54:05]  If you go with a physical descendancy, then that would Ironically, that would include Muslims, not just Jews.
[00:54:14]  Remember that if you were talking about Jacob, whose name was literally changed by God to Israel and the 12 tribes of Israel, Jacob's 12 sons, that would be a little bit different.
[00:54:26]  But Abraham, he had his son Isaac, who beget Jacob, but he also had a son Ishmael, and the descendants of Ishmael make up many Muslim tribes.
[00:54:41]  And so the word is not given.
[00:54:42]  This word from the Lord about those who bless you will be blessed, those who curse you will be cursed, is not given to Jacob.
[00:54:48]  It's given to Abraham, speaking of him and his family line, his descendants.
[00:54:54]  So if you go the physical route, well, then, you know, boomers in America who claim to be Christians should be just as concerned about not cursing Islamic nations as they are Jewish ones.
[00:55:06]  So that's probably not the best interpretation.
[00:55:09]  But the alternative is you can go with spiritual.
[00:55:12]  Spiritual descendants, right?
[00:55:13]  You could always opt for the interpretation that the New Testament of the Bible literally explicitly lays out.
[00:55:20]  Who are the children of Abraham?
[00:55:22]  Who are Abraham's real seed, his real descendants?
[00:55:25]  Those who have union with Christ.
[00:55:28]  The seed of Abraham, not plural, but singular, is ultimately referencing Christ, the Messiah.
[00:55:36]  And those who are Abraham's true children are those who have union with.
[00:55:42]  Christ, his seed, by virtue of the Spirit and through faith.
[00:55:47]  This is what Jesus himself, we see that in Galatians and elsewhere, but this is what Jesus explicitly says himself in John chapter 8, when the Jewish leaders who were seeking to lie about him and ultimately crucify him, they're claiming, making appeals to their lineage and saying, We are not illegitimate children, we are children of Abraham.
[00:56:07]  And Jesus says, No, you're not, because children always bear a striking resemblance to their father.
[00:56:13]  Abraham looked prophetically.
[00:56:15]  Through the corridors of time, he heard the prophetic word that a seed, I, would eventually come.
[00:56:20]  He looked forward to me and greeted me with open arms.
[00:56:24]  Abraham was excited about me, but you hate me.
[00:56:28]  You bear no resemblance to Abraham, therefore, he is not your father.
[00:56:31]  Then these Jewish rulers, Sadducees and Pharisees and the lawyers of that day who hated Christ, then appeal above Abraham and say, Well, let's just cut straight to the chase.
[00:56:42]  We're not just children of Abraham, we're children of God.
[00:56:46]  And then Jesus responds and says, in the same way, the concept, the principle remains constant.
[00:56:53]  Children, if they are legitimate children, bear a striking resemblance to their father.
[00:56:59]  You don't look like Abraham because he loved me.
[00:57:01]  You hate me.
[00:57:02]  You certainly don't look like God because God is my father.
[00:57:06]  He loves me.
[00:57:07]  In me, he is well pleased.
[00:57:09]  And again, you hate me.
[00:57:11]  So then, who is your spiritual father?
[00:57:14]  Well, it's probably the guy that you look the most like.
[00:57:18]  You're liars.
[00:57:20]  You're murderers.
[00:57:21]  Well, there is one who has been a murderer since the beginning, and when he lies, he speaks his native tongue.
[00:57:27]  All he does is lie.
[00:57:29]  You are not children of Abraham.
[00:57:30]  You are not children of God.
[00:57:32]  Your daddy is the devil.
[00:57:34]  You are children of the devil.
[00:57:37]  So, according to Jesus, the true children of Abraham, his true descendants, are not those physically, but spiritually.
[00:57:44]  So, you only have two ways at the end of the day to interpret that text in Genesis 12, which is not given to a nation state of Israel, but Given to a man, Abraham, that says, Those who bless you will be blessed, those who curse you will be cursed.
[00:57:58]  You can say that this is speaking of his family tree, his descendants physically, in which case it would include, because of Ishmael, Muslims, not just Jews.
[00:58:08]  Or you can take the New Testament biblical explicit interpretation that God gives us, which is spiritual descendants, not physical, in which case it references those who have union with Christ, those who love Jesus.

=== Spiritual Lineage and Prayer (04:26) ===

[00:58:22]  Okay, so that's what I would say to the boomers.
[00:58:26]  That said, maybe some will get wise, maybe some will repent, but the way that it's been going and the way that it looks as though it will continue, our best strategy is we're probably just going to have to wait 10 years for the boomers to die because it does not seem as though they are going to repent of their dispensational Zionistic heretical doctrine.
[00:58:47]  That is a tragedy.
[00:58:50]  It really is, but it looks like that's where we're at.
[00:58:53]  So that'll do it for us today.
[00:58:55]  Dominique, thanks so much for joining us on the show.
[00:58:58]  It's been incredibly helpful here at the very end.
[00:59:00]  Would you let our listeners know where they can follow you?
[00:59:04]  Absolutely.
[00:59:05]  First of all, just you guys are great, great men, great show.
[00:59:08]  Always appreciate you having me on.
[00:59:09]  You can find me at D. Michael Trippy on X. Do most of my stuff on X.
[00:59:13]  It's not for money, it's not for anything.
[00:59:15]  It's just to get truth out there.
[00:59:16]  So I don't really do anything else besides just bring simple headlines.
[00:59:20]  And that's the way I like it.
[00:59:21]  So thank you so much, guys.
[00:59:23]  Awesome.
[00:59:23]  Yeah.
[00:59:24]  Dominique's X account, you should follow.
[00:59:27]  If you're not following, What are you doing?
[00:59:29]  You should feel bad about yourself.
[00:59:31]  Rectify that immediately.
[00:59:32]  You should follow his ex account because it's not just unhinged, you know, edgelord kind of stuff.
[00:59:37]  I do a bit of that myself.
[00:59:39]  But for him, it's just multiple tweets every single day, and it's just literally just headlines.
[00:59:45]  This announced right now, breaking news, this right now.
[00:59:49]  Great account to follow if you want breaking news on the ground when it's happening that's actually America first in terms of the perspective and not breaking news that's constantly coming through the lens of Israel first.
[01:00:07]  So definitely a great follow on X. One more time, the handle, Dominique.
[01:00:12]  D. Michael Trippi, Dominic Michael Trippi, but the handle is just D. Michael Trippi, T R I P I.
[01:00:19]  Then thanks.
[01:00:20]  That was quite a nice little endorsement.
[01:00:24]  Yeah, you deserve it, man.
[01:00:25]  You earned it.
[01:00:26]  Dominic Trippi has been excellent, right?
[01:00:31]  We appreciate you, man.
[01:00:32]  Thanks for tuning in.
[01:00:33]  God bless all of our listeners.
[01:00:35]  Right here at the end, we don't always do this, but let's do it, right?
[01:00:38]  World War III may be on the way.
[01:00:40]  Seems like it merits a prayer.
[01:00:42]  Father, we thank you.
[01:00:45]  We thank you for your people who are not any race or bloodline, but those who have union with Christ.
[01:00:52]  We thank you for Christians.
[01:00:54]  Lord, we pray for those Christians in Iran.
[01:00:56]  It is one of the quickest growing groups of Christians in the world, it is happening in Iran.
[01:01:03]  There's still, of course, an extreme minority, but in terms of the rate of growth, Christianity has been growing like wildfire in Iran.
[01:01:10]  We thank you for that.
[01:01:11]  Lord, we pray that with all the chaos and everything that's going on, We pray that the end result, as it pertains to Iran, would be favorable for your people, for Christians.
[01:01:21]  Lord, we pray in the case of Israel, Lord, we pray that they would repent of their sin.
[01:01:27]  They would repent of, first and foremost, spiritually rejecting the Lord Jesus Christ and believing that he's burning in hell.
[01:01:33]  But we also pray that they would repent of just being warlords, the genocide in Gaza, and continuing to pick fights with everybody and anybody all the time.
[01:01:47]  And Lord, we pray for our nation.
[01:01:49]  For our leaders politically, that they would resist being subservient to foreign influence, that they would repent of their own pride and arrogance and doing things for themselves, and that they would actually care about the American people that they've been appointed to serve.
[01:02:06]  And then, Lord, we pray for Christians here in our country.
[01:02:09]  Lord, we pray that despite all the chaos, all the confusion, Lord, we pray that your people would prosper, that you would protect us, and that through all the conflict and through all the chaos, That somehow, some way, that you would work this for the good of those who love you and are called according to your purpose, and that you would do it all for your glory.
[01:02:29]  In Jesus' name we pray.
[01:02:31]  Amen.
[01:02:31]  All right, that does it for us.
[01:02:32]  Thanks for tuning in.
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