Friday War Room: Battle of Kharg Island Updates: Iran Downs U.S. F-15E, One Pilot Rescued, US A-10 Warthog Fighter Jet Crashes Near Strait Of Hormuz, Pilot Rescued, 2 Airmen Missing, Trump Requests $1.2 Trillion in Military Spending & More
Harrison Smith and Lebanon John dissect the April 3, 2026, escalation where Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth purged three generals amid U.S. losses of an F-15E and A-10 Warthog over Iran. They analyze Trump's $1.5 trillion spending request, alleged war crimes against civilian infrastructure, and the firing of Attorney General Pam Bondi. The discussion pivots to conspiracy theories claiming a globalist agenda uses incompetent wars to collapse the petrodollar, while Lebanon John predicts World War III triggered by Turkey and Russia will humble elites before a Christian renaissance. Ultimately, the episode frames current conflicts as deliberate steps toward an Antichrist-led one-world order. [Automatically generated summary]
I'm your host, Harrison Smith, coming to you live this Friday morning.
Good Friday.
Hope everybody's doing well ahead of this Easter weekend.
We got, of course, a ton of big news to get to.
Almost all of it having to do with Iran.
And trust me, it's not by choice.
It's just there's a lot going on with the generals being purged.
Multiple aircraft now being shot down by Iran in what appears to be a failed attempt to start the ground invasion.
We'll bring you all of that news as well as the political fallout from the generals being fired, Pambandi being fired, Theo Vaughn going on Joe Rogan and being told he's crazy for saying the truth.
Just a lot to cover.
So let's get into it like we do every day with our daily dispatch.
Here it is, folks.
Your daily dispatch for Friday, the 3rd of April, 2026.
Three generals ousted as Pentagon shakes up war command.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has removed the Army's top general along with two other senior officers in a sweeping wartime shakeup, dramatically expanding a leadership purge inside the Pentagon as the Iran war intensifies.
Hegseth asked the top officials to step down and take immediate retirement, as initially reported by multiple news outlets and confirmed to military.com by the Pentagon.
The department said.
George will retire effective immediately.
Defense officials also said the shakeup includes General David Hodney, who leads the Army's Training and Doctrine Command, and Major General William Green Jr., the Army's Chief of Chaplains.
The removal of multiple senior officers marks one of the most significant wartime leadership shakeups during active U.S. combat operations in recent years.
No official explanation has been publicly provided.
So, of course, a lot of speculation about this.
We'll bring it all to you, but the most common sentiment is.
This is probably because the generals didn't want to do a ground invasion of Iran or perhaps use a nuclear weapon or some sort of other order that they were given that they vehemently disagreed with.
That is speculation.
It could very well be the other way around.
So we'll get into what may have happened there.
Meanwhile, Iran refuses to meet U.S. negotiators in Pakistan.
Iran told mediators that it will not meet with the American officials in Islamabad, Pakistan, and has rejected U.S. demands.
The Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
The decision is the latest blow to President Donald Trump's efforts to broker an agreement to end the war, which began nearly five weeks ago.
Five weeks ago today, I would say.
Trump stated this week that if Iran had asked for a ceasefire, though he may have referenced a public comment from Iranian President Pezekian expressing openness to a ceasefire in exchange for security guarantees.
But of course, I mean, every couple of days, Trump says they're on the cusp of a ceasefire, on the cusp of an agreement, only to have Iran come out and say, nope, not even close.
Actually, not even talking.
So they were supposed to go meet in Pakistan.
Iran did not want to meet in Pakistan.
They wanted to meet in Qatar.
This Was a non starter for them, and so they chose not to continue with the ceasefire talks, which, again, can't really blame them.
We do keep killing everybody that we're supposed to be negotiating with, so I understand why they would want to take extra security precautions.
This is, once again, the consequences of our own decisions.
We have only ourselves to blame.
Trump, meanwhile, requests $1.5 trillion for military spending.
With the United States at war with Iran and embroiled in conflicts around the world, the White House asked Congress on Friday to approve about $1.5 trillion for defense in the 2026 fiscal year.
If enacted, that amount would set military spending at the highest level in modern history.
No, we cannot do daycare.
We cannot do welfare.
We cannot even maintain the Social Security fund that we took your money your whole life in order to uphold.
But we do have $1.5 trillion for waging a war overseas that, as of yet, has only hurt us and has only caused us pain, suffering, and higher prices.
Finally, American fighter jet shot down over Iran.
One crew member has been rescued, another one is missing.
There's news now that another aircraft has gone down, the A-10.
Warthog has gone down as well as a helicopter that was searching for the missing pilots.
We'll cover that.
Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
This is The War Room.
I'm your host, Harrison Smith, coming to you live this Friday afternoon.
Hope everybody's doing well on this good Friday ahead of Easter weekend.
We, of course, have a lot to talk about in terms of the Iran war, some major developments happening over the last 24 hours.
None of them good, all of them easily predictable.
And we did predict it.
It appears as though some sort of ground invasion probing force is at work.
On the coast of Iran, and they're being supported by a whole cadre of various aircraft.
We reported yesterday that A 10 Warthogs were seen moving towards the Middle East.
Those, of course, are infantry support aircraft.
So that's what you use to clear the ground before the infantry goes in.
That's what they're used for.
That was a symbol, a sign that, yes, indeed, the ground invasion of Iran was imminent, and it appears to have gotten off to an absolutely terrible start.
Also, of course, we'll get into the purging of the Pentagon and the generals being fired.
This is from Limitless at Limitless Cobs on X.
It says, Holy cow.
Catastrophic mourning for the U.S. air campaign in Iran.
An F 15E Strike Eagle was shot down over Kogulia province, wreckage confirmed by war zone.
Ejection seat found and photographed by Iranian civilians.
A rescue helicopter was also reportedly shot.
Iranian state TV broadcasting a bounty for American pilots, promising a valuable reward for any Iranian who were to capture one of the downed pilots.
Trump, 24 hours ago, said that Iran was eviscerated, that the war was essentially over, and certainly that their air defenses were no longer anything to be concerned about.
The running total so far is 483, followed by about 100 zeros.
Let's see if I can even figure out what number I'm looking at here.
I think this is 4.8 billion.
Yeah, 4.8 billion.
All right.
Sometimes, you know, when you're talking about trillions and hundreds of millions, it gets confusing sometimes.
So, yeah, nearly $5 billion in assets destroyed, 25 plus aircraft, six F 15s down.
Trump just 24 hours ago said, you know, bragging about eviscerating Iran and saying that the war is over.
These would be the first American POWs of the entire war if the pilots were captured.
Now, one has been rescued, one is still missing.
And it is likely that he was captured because, of course, there are GPS locators on their uniforms and the ejection seats.
And so, if they cannot be found by the GPS coordinates, then it means they've been removed from their equipment.
This person says, I just got off the phone with a former CENTCOM operations officer.
What he told me made my stomach drop.
When they deny the jet exists, but the wreckage is on camera, the next move is always the worst one.
This is not a war winding down.
This is a war that just produced hostages.
And, of course, I don't think I need to tell you this if you're a regular viewer.
All of this was predictable.
All of this was obvious.
I saw a bunch of headlines yesterday saying the Pentagon was shocked at the resilience of Iran.
They did not expect such a resistance.
And I just want to say again how did we know?
How is it that the Pentagon didn't know, but we did?
That doesn't make any sense.
No, they knew.
Of course they knew.
Maybe they didn't want to believe.
Maybe they were so just controlled by hubris and self importance.
They thought it didn't matter what the facts on the ground were, but.
To pretend like nobody knew that this is what was going to happen is absolutely ridiculous.
Obviously, it was never a good idea to do a ground invasion.
And even just a tiny little, you know, whatever, mission impossible, Oceans 11 heist to get the uranium always comes with the risk of those soldiers being captured, becoming POWs.
Forcing a rescue mission, which itself could get shot down, causing more problems.
You know, it's like the old lady that swallowed the fly and had to swallow a spider and a frog and then a cat and then a dog.
It's like, yeah, this is the snowball effect, folks.
If only Trump could do it himself.
So it ain't going well, folks.
It's not going well.
We have supposed footage of this.
All happening, the fighter jet going down.
We go to clip number 18 here.
This purports to be the footage of the actual jet going down, I believe.
We can go to this.
So, this was released by the Iranian media, claiming to show the F 15E being shot down above Iran.
And once it crashed down, you had the search commence.
And again, the search in and of itself was.
You know, kind of odd that there's the ejection seats being deployed.
The ejection seats, of course, have the parachutes and they have GPS trackers on them.
But the pylons weren't there.
So then we had to scan the ground with, you know, scanning equipment on helicopters.
Now, apparently, a helicopter has been brought down.
We can go to clip number 20.
This is Iranian tribesmen using their rifles, their hunting rifles, to open fire on the U.S. rescue aircraft.
We can go to clip number 20 now.
You can bring the audio up a little bit.
Some pretty dramatic gunshot noises and screaming of people.
But yeah, there are lots of videos of these Iranian tribesmen just on their own shooting their rifles at the American Air Force.
In this case, I think they're shooting at the helicopter, the search and rescue helicopter.
So it doesn't seem like they're embracing us as liberators.
You know, I saw somebody suggest maybe they can't find the pilots because the Iranian people are helping to hide them.
No, they got their guns out and are shooting at them.
Clip 29, I believe this is a similar video, although this may show, again, this purports to be, and again, there's so much AI and so much.
The facts on the ground as I'm reporting them are confirmed.
These videos, not necessarily each and every one of them has been confirmed, but there's a lot of AI out there, and I avoided a lot of it.
But I believe this is, purports to be at least, a video of the Iranians perhaps capturing one of the pilots that was there.
We can go to clip number 19 here.
This is a report from ABC News about some of the new unexpected technology that Iran deployed in order to take down this extremely advanced fighter jet.
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Let's watch.
Colonel Ganyar, what does this mean for U.S. jet strikes and other aerial missions moving forward?
The skies are not as safe as they perhaps presumed.
My guess is that this was daytime.
My guess is that the Iranians use what's called infrared.
So they use detection.
That's passive, that used heat differences.
The president did say that their radars rolled down, and so he probably can claim that legitimately.
But the fact that there are still anti aircraft kinds of capabilities that are based on heat temperature differences that can identify aircraft and still target aircraft is probably what got this F 15.
And that two U.S. pilots are missing inside Iranian territories.
This took place towards the west of the country in the areas of Luristan, between the areas of Luristan.
And now we're hearing that, according to information, that's circulating here on Iranian media that the US is conducting search operations for pilots who fell in two areas, Kagalou and Burwar Ahmed, as well as in Bushehr.
Airdrop operations have been carried out and intense clashes.
So what the Iranians are saying is that there are intense clashes between these forces and Iranian ground forces from the Revolutionary Guards in the Dalai Lama region, resulting in casualties among the invading forces.
So again, imminently predictable, could not have gone more to the script, right?
I mean, it's just exactly what we always expected.
Going into Iran, knowing that we haven't taken out their missile defense, knowing that we don't actually control their airspace, but they lied and said that we did.
We told you we didn't.
Just, I mean, again, it's like, what is going on in the world where literally just like we know more about this stuff than the White House, apparently?
Again, doesn't make any sense.
It's a ridiculous thing to think that we would somehow have better information and know more than they're lying.
They're lying to you.
Do you understand?
So we knew that their air defense was not destroyed.
We knew that a ground invasion was imminent.
We knew that once they tried to do a ground invasion, it would probably be something small, but that there would be casualties and likely POWs, and that would necessitate a rescue operation, which itself would be targeted.
And could quickly spiral out into a wider conflict.
This is the script that we laid out as soon as this conflict started, and they're following it to a T. You should really ask yourself why.
Now, let's go to clip number four here.
This is a retired U.S. general admitting the terrifying truth about the Strait of Hormuz.
Well, there's a thought that once we stop operations with all assigned objectives, we're going to go to our own self imposed ceasefire, that Iran will eventually open up the Straits.
That is likely.
They will likely at some point open it up.
But the reality is.
They're in control, and we cannot let that stand.
That is the issue.
Not that they would open it up, it's the fact that they are in control.
And that would be a strategic victory for them because then they're impacting our allies and partners in the region.
They're controlling when they shut it down.
They could shut it down again and interfere with things when things aren't exactly going their way.
That cannot happen, in my view.
What we have to do is open it up ourselves, and we have the capability to do that.
And those plants, the people in charge of them have a lot of confidence in doing it because they play war games and the like to do this sort of thing.
We think we can absolutely accomplish that mission.
And then at some point, we would pass it to allies and partners for them to continue to do it.
We may have to give them a couple of assets that we have that uniquely that they may not have.
But nonetheless, this is a very doable.
And we certainly cannot leave Iran in control where they shut that down and open it up at will.
That would change the Middle East and give them a huge amount of influence.
And that would be staggering after almost two months of taking all their offensive capability away from them and leaving them as a huge geopolitical advantage, which that gives them.
I mean, as of right now, without some major change, and it looks like the attempts to do something are being intercepted and prevented, the only, like, the ultimate upshot outcome of this war.
Will have been that we surrendered the Strait of Hormuz to Iran.
That's what he's talking about right there.
Basically, that is a very viable outcome at this point without getting into like total World War III, which we'll probably choose to do anyway.
But I want you to understand just how, yeah, the Trump administration underestimated Iran's impact on the Strait of Hormuz.
Just like, but how though?
That's like, if that's true, they should all be fired.
That's the thing.
If they actually didn't know this was going to happen, they should all be probably not just fired, but tarred and feathered while we're at it because you'd have to be an idiot.
You'd have to be an absolute idiot not to know exactly how this would go.
And it's easy to say that after the fact, but we said it before the fact, which is why it's important that InfoWars be on the air to be here so we can tell you hey, here's what's really going to happen.
Here's the reality of the situation on the ground.
So then later, when they come out and go, oh, gee, we couldn't have expected this, you can point back to our shows where we predicted exactly how it would happen as proof that they're lying.
You understand?
I want you to understand how badly this is going right now.
We've got stories from The Intercept claiming that the casualty figures that we've been given here in America are significantly undercounting the real number of injured and dead American soldiers.
We are in less of a secure place than we were at the start of this war.
Iran is more in control of the Strait of Hormuz than they were at the start of the war.
Of course, our off ramps are routinely obliterated, destroyed, deconstructed by Israel when they kill the people that we are hoping to work with.
Like, I really like it's almost too much to think about it a single time how many different ways this has gone bad.
It's like hard to even explain.
But I want to go to clip number 10 here because when you think about the fact we're five weeks into this war.
As of tonight, we've lost men.
We've lost billions and billions of dollars of very expensive and hard to replace equipment.
The energy shocks around the world are going to continue for a long time.
The fertilizer shocks we haven't even started to feel yet, but will be devastating.
There's like geopolitical realignment that is all opposed to our benefits and priorities.
India just bought oil from Iran for the first time ever because of what's happening.
So we now have our allies buying oil from our enemies as a consequence of our action, kind of like exactly what happened between Russia and China.
I mean, it goes on and on, right?
We're still in it.
We're still not, like, we're still apparently gearing up for a ground invasion.
In fact, I don't know, did you guys censor the video of the soldier talking about deploying?
Let's go to clip number nine here, just because this is, you know, it's still American young men, the best and brightest, most patriotic of us are being sent probably to die in this, you know, God forsaken debacle.
Here's one of them.
Let's watch.
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Well, guys, we just got emergency orders.
I guess I'm going to Iran.
So that's a thing.
I guess they're canceling the whole training rotation so that they can emergency send our asses to go fight in the war.
Not exactly thrilled about it, but he knows what's coming.
But all this is to say this was so unnecessary.
There was no imminent threat, as confirmed by everybody who's not.
Trump lying, Pete Hegzeth lying, Marco Rubio lying.
They told us themselves that the imminent threat was from Israel attacking Iran, knowing that Iran would counterattack, but apparently not understanding how big the counterattack would be.
So, again, it doesn't make a lot of sense.
We had no reason to go to war with Iran.
We were negotiating with Iran.
The people, even that we were working with, essentially to take over Iran after we kill all of their leadership, were then killed by Israel.
And it turns out what's been revealed today, clip number 10.
From David Rode, was that Iran was actually willing to make gigantic concessions and had told Trump's negotiators, Steve Witkopf and Jared Kushner, that they're willing to surrender all of their enriched uranium in exchange for security guarantees, meaning that this entire war was essentially solved, could have been totally avoided if we had just stuck with the diplomacy that was having tangible success.
Instead, we killed everybody we were negotiating with.
And they are now in this absolute quagmire with everything going bad.
But let's watch this reveal earlier today of what the Iranians had offered to the Americans during the last meeting five weeks ago, right before we bombed a bunch of their children.
Iran offered to give away all of its enriched uranium during the peace talks.
And hours later, the U.S. started dropping bombs.
And the Guardian broke yesterday that there were British officials, the British National Security Advisor was present in Geneva during that last round of talks.
The British were surprised by the Iranian offer.
They thought it was credible.
They thought the talks should continue.
And the British were shocked when the Trump administration started bombing Iran hours later.
So that just shows you how pointless this war was, is to this day.
Totally unnecessary.
We could have gotten everything that we wanted now.
We apparently have an American POW missing somewhere in Iran.
Invasion rescue force being staged to try to go in and save them, meaning that this snowball is really starting to roll down the hill and it's only going to get worse as this feedback loop really gets into motion.
Totally avoidable from not just the beginning, but from before the beginning.
This was never even remotely necessary, never even.
I just can't believe it.
I just cannot believe how deliberate all of this is.
Nothing has forced our hand on any of this except for Israel, right?
Iran wasn't threatening to attack us, did not have plans to attack us.
We're in the middle of negotiating and were willing to give us everything that we wanted that apparently this war was focused on, right?
So we start the war five weeks ago with this checklist of things that we want to achieve.
The primary one, the main one that all the other ones are in service of is getting rid of their enriched uranium, right?
That's the main goal.
You got to get rid of their Navy, you got to get rid of their missile launchers, but all that is just Because you want to get that uranium.
Now, in the five weeks since we announced this goal of getting their uranium and destroying their nuclear program, it's changed.
Now, our goal is to simply mitigate the effects of the war by opening the Strait of Hormuz.
Seems like we're not even really trying to open the Strait of Hormuz anymore.
And so, the actual goal of the war in the first place that could have been achieved through diplomacy, we had the offer on the table hours before we chose to start the war.
Yet, instead of even achieving that goal that was just right there, imminently available, ready to be picked up, we didn't do it through diplomacy.
And now it's not even in the top three or four potential outcomes for this war that we're currently pursuing.
Now it's gone back to let's just try to mitigate, let's just try to undo the consequences of this war that we started by opening the Strait of Hormuz.
And Trump came out two days ago saying, actually, we're not even trying to open the Strait of Hormuz, that's going to be on Europe.
So, again, I'm just trying to lay out, just, you know, from my memory, just like how many off ramps we could have had that have been deliberately ignored or destroyed, how pointless this entire conflict was in the first place, and how the negative consequences will unravel before us.
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So, the latest is that the ceasefires have hit a dead end because Iran refuses to meet with American negotiators.
One American pilot has been rescued, a second is being searched for.
A Black Hawk helicopter has also been hit, apparently.
And now a second Air Force combat plane has crashed in the Persian Gulf region on Friday.
And the lone pilot was safely rescued, according to two U.S. officials who spoke on conditions of anonymity.
An A 10 Warthog attack plane went down near the Strait of Hormuz the same time that an Air Force F 15E was shot down over Iran, the official said.
In that incident, one crew member was rescued, and search and rescue operators are looking for the second airman.
Officials provided Scant details about the A 10 crash, including how and where it happened.
But that's an A 10, an F 15E, and reportedly a Blackhawk helicopter all down today, two days after Donald Trump gave a primetime nationwide address in which he said that the Iranian air defenses were thoroughly, completely, and totally destroyed.
So, no, they're not, obviously.
And of course, that's not the only place that the Middle East war is heating up and not.
In a good way, if you're not Iran.
Let's go to clip number 13 here.
This is footage showing an Iranian missile hit Tel Aviv last night.
Absolutely no interceptor missiles were fired at this one.
Let's go to clip number 13.
So again, yesterday was the, well, the day before yesterday was the biggest bombardment of Tel Aviv, at least since the war began, and it doesn't seem to be slowing down whatsoever.
Again, it's hard to get video out of Israel, and there's just every day dozens of AI videos showing huge amounts of missiles falling.
So far, I don't think I've shown you anything that isn't confirmed, like in this whole, you know, More than a month at this point of war, which is just crazy.
We've been in war for over a month at this point.
Let's go to clip 28 here.
This was posted saying, thanks to the tight Israeli censorship, we hardly ever get videos, but this was able to be smuggled out.
Videos capture Iranian projectile falling in central Israel.
So this was recorded last night and verified and confirmed by Al Jazeera.
And you have multiple angles of this assault on central Tel Aviv.
Roughly half of Iran's missile launchers are still intact, and thousands of one way attack drones remain in Iran's arsenal despite daily poundings by U.S. and Israeli strikes against military targets over the past five weeks, according to recent U.S. intelligence assessments.
Three sources familiar with the intel told CNN.
They're still very much poised to wreak absolute havoc throughout the entire region, one of the sources said of Iran.
The U.S. intelligence assessment total may include launchers that are currently inaccessible, such as those buried underground by strikes, but not destroyed.
Thousands of Iranian drones still exist, roughly 50% of the country's drone capabilities, two of the sources said the intelligence indicated.
The intelligence compiled in recent days also shows a large percentage of Iran's coastal defense cruise missiles still intact, the sources say, consistent with the U.S. not focusing its efforts.
Air campaign on coastal military assets, though they have been hitting ships.
Those missiles serve as a key capability, allowing Iran to threaten shipping traffic in the Strait of Hormuz.
Again, this is the reality on the ground, even if those in power would rather unite not to know it.
And it's really not going well for Israel.
They are kind of getting their butts handed to them by Hezbollah and are now completely, you know, changing their mind on what the ultimate goal of that is.
Last week, they were saying, We are going to annex all of South Lebanon and make it a security buffer zone.
And now they're like, Can we please go home now?
Please, for the love of God, just let us go home.
And don't kill us.
And I think that's a little too much to ask, frankly.
Let's go to clip number seven here.
This is actually an IOF reservist.
So, this is the defense or the offensive forces of Lebanon, whatever.
It's a corollary to the IDF, another military force there in Israel.
Let's go to clip number seven.
This is one of their reservists talking to a French reporter about his experience on the Lebanese frontier.
He says, or the reporter says, with his face hidden for security reasons, this reservist agrees to speak with us.
Just back from two weeks on the Lebanese front, he describes the exhaustion and hardships facing mobilized troops.
But it's really tough, he says.
You're exhausted.
We pay a heavy price in our personal lives and, of course, on my body, on my mental health.
Since the October 7th attacks, he served 350 days, a relentless pace that's become routine in the Israeli army.
Imagine somebody taking a third or quarter of your time with your wife, kids, work, hobbies, whatever.
We're drained.
One solution the government is considering recruiting ultra Orthodox Jews into the army.
Until then, until now, they've been exempt from the military.
Basically, saying that you'll see posters like this saying that everything must be done to prevent this, prevent the Orthodox from being used as soldiers.
They say compulsory service is not enough given the front we face today and will have to face in the future.
The Israeli army currently needs 12,000 new soldiers.
Without major changes, I see no other solution than to reduce our missions.
Reservists don't work during their service days and are paid by the state.
Their massive and continuous mobilization by the army in the coming months could also have a major impact on the country's economy.
Well, America pays for it.
They pay for it with the money America gives them, but still.
Again, just not going well.
Just total collapse of morale and collapse of their very ambitious desires in South Lebanon.
Israel scales back war aims from the Latani to just three kilometers and no longer seeking Hezbollah's disarmament.
Israeli army radio reports that the military will.
Present a plan this week to the political leadership aimed at the complete destruction of villages along the southern Lebanese border and the establishment of a security zone cleared of civilians with no return allowed for Lebanese residents of frontline towns.
According to Israeli military officials, the entire area within three to four kilometers of the border will be transformed into a buffer zone reinforced by forward military positions.
At the same time, the Israeli army now states that disarming Hezbollah is not among the objectives of the war.
For over a year, Israeli leadership insisted Hezbollah had been crippled or effectively neutralized.
Today, the goal of disarmament is no longer even pursued.
The contradiction is unavoidable.
If that objective had been dropped, it's because it was never achievable in the first place.
What was once framed as an advance towards the Latani River has now been reduced to a narrow strip of three to four kilometers.
If this trajectory continues, those goals will be shrinking until the reality becomes undeniable.
Holding ground inside Lebanon is not sustainable, and imposing outcomes by force has clear limits.
Regardless of these plans, the reality on the ground will not follow that script.
The people of the South will return to their villages.
Regardless of these plans, the reality on the ground will not follow that script.
Repeats itself.
A depopulated buffer zone is not something that can be imposed or sustained.
It's something they will never be able to achieve.
Well, hopefully, hopefully, they will not be able to achieve that.
But of course, it's exactly what we said would happen last time that we were on with Lebanon John, who will be joining us in the third hour of today's program to talk about the latest developments, including what's happening in Lebanon and Iran, and a very interesting theory he has about the firing of the generals here in America that we'll get to in just a second.
From themirror.co.uk, seven unhinged signs Donald Trump's White House is in meltdown and something huge is about to happen.
Says he's considering firing some of his most loyal sycophants.
His Secretary of War is at war with the U.S. military and Trump keeps boasting about committing war crimes in Iran.
He's considering firing some of his most loyal sycophants.
They say his administration is in meltdown again.
There's also increasing evidence that Trump is planning to put boots on the ground in the Middle East this weekend.
Things are moving fast.
Here's all the unhinged moments from Trump's escalating meltdown.
It all started with him sacking Pam Bondi on Wednesday before Trump was supposed to go in front of the cameras to deliver an address to the nation with an update of the Iran war.
He had a chat with Attorney General Pam Bondi, reportedly in the back of the Beast automobile, on his way to the White House from the Supreme Court.
Bondi, who's been a loyal sycophant, but a pretty terrible AG, is ultimately the reason some of the Epstein files are in the public domain and the cause of many of Trump's most existential nightmares.
Trump had promised to release the files if he returned to office, and early last year, she arraigned a stunt with a bunch of MAGA influencers.
Who were handed big binders marked the Epstein files.
Unfortunately, when the influencers started to read them, they noticed most, if not all of the files, were already in the public domain.
And I guess on that note, we can go ahead and go to this video, take a little sojourn, a little deviation away from the list of the Trump meltdowns to show a video of Thomas Massey talking about Pam Bondi being fired, his interpretation of how this all went down.
And I, you know, I think there might be something there.
Because again, I mean, just going back and looking at how all of this unfolded, I mean, none of it really makes any sense.
And it's especially weird being in this position now where you hear things like, you know, this Daily Mail article that's like Trump's administration's melting down again.
It's like, how many times have we heard this over the last 10 years?
Every other time I've ever heard anything like this, you just kind of roll your eyes and you're like, okay, it's the liberal media trying to stir up drama where there isn't any.
And it's just weird because their coverage has remained the same.
But now it's like, no, it's true, though.
But now it actually is true.
This isn't a change in my perspective.
I can just tell you that previously they would be manufacturing scandals and coming up with stuff to try to cause trouble.
But now, I mean, look around.
Pam Bondi's being fired.
Joe Kent resigned in protest.
I mean, that in and of itself was a major deal.
As this article notes with its second point of the meltdown, Pete Hegseth just sacked the most senior army general in the middle of a war.
And then he sacked two other very high profile generals and then a whole bunch of other slightly lower underlings of theirs.
Total massive shakeup, not something you do if things are going well.
Susie Wiles, Trump's campaign manager and his top assistant at the White House, gives an interview where she's saying that Trump is being.
You know, kept from damning information, and you know, these people advising him are only presenting him the rose colored view of reality.
I mean, that's a big deal.
You've got the head person at the White House going to the media and telling them that Trump is being lied to and presented a false image of this war.
I mean, this is the meltdown.
And again, it's crazy to go through 10 years of the left talking about Trump in the craziest way possible.
Because I got to figure out how to say this.
It makes sense to me.
None of this is all that complicated.
But it's hard to even explain.
It's like right now, it seems like Trump is on a very dangerous path.
And it's almost to the point that I'm like, I'm not even at that point yet because it's just too dangerous of a precedent.
But you look back at General Mattis or whoever, was it Mattis or the other guy?
There's the other guy saying, you know, we need to take these nuclear codes away from Trump.
And it's like, okay, that was treasonous.
That was, I just was like, go off on that endlessly because it obviously wasn't true then.
But like now, I don't know.
If Trump feels cornered and gives an order to drop a nuke on Tehran, I mean, that's not out of the realm of possibility at this point.
So it's like things have changed.
It's not like you go back and go, so he was right the whole time.
It's like, no, they were treasonous.
They're absolutely not.
It was not right what they did to Trump.
And it's not right when they were talking about 25th Amendmenting him because he asked Ukraine to look into corruption or whatever nonsense they would get into.
But it's like he has become the parody.
He has become the person that they always said he was.
And that is the craziest part of all this he wasn't for his entire presidential political career.
He was never the warmonger.
He was never the unhinged person.
They always portrayed it as that.
It was just never true.
You could always see what he was really doing.
You could always, if you just.
Looked at what he was saying.
It was very clear, you know, that what they were saying was lies.
Now I look at it and it's like they're saying the same thing, but now it actually is true.
And so it's just a weird feeling.
It's just a kind of bizarre.
And again, it's not, I'm not going back and going, oh man, I was fooled back then.
He was like this the whole time.
He wasn't like this, this wasn't the way things were.
His White House was not in meltdown, chaos, like, you know, free fall.
It is now.
It is.
It absolutely is.
In fact, as of today, Trump's approval rating has flipped and gone upside down underwater with working class white voters for the first time ever, ever since he came on the political scene.
Since he came down that golden escalator in 2015, he has always had an above average, a positive approval rating with white working class voters.
So you've got he's fired Pam Bondi, Pete Hegseth sacks all these generals.
What does it all mean?
They ask.
We can only speculate on the reason for this unprecedented purge at the top of the Army, but here are some facts that may have played a role.
The Chief of Staff would ultimately be responsible for any infantry boots on the ground in Iran.
Thousands of Army soldiers, notably the 82nd Airborne Division, have been deployed to the Middle East and are expected to arrive about now.
If the mission requires any non standard operations, such as, say, the rapid evacuation of nuclear sites, the viability of that would have to be signed off by the Chief of Transition and Training.
The Chief of Chaplains is the senior Army advisor for the ethical and spiritual impact of warfare, particularly on the rules of engagement.
Trump keeps bragging about targeting civilian infrastructure in Iran.
More on this later.
Trump historically has always commenced and announced major military operations over the weekend while the markets are closed, and today is Friday.
So add all these things up.
And if one were to speculate, it seems to be a reasonable supposition that Hegseth gave an order on Thursday that one or more of the generals took issue with.
The theory is given further weight by Hegseth replacing the chief of staff with General Christopher Lenev, a loyalist who was handpicked and fast tracked to the deputy role after serving as Hegseth's senior military assistant.
A Pentagon spokesperson last night said Lenev was, quote, completely trusted by Secretary Hegseth to carry out the vision of the administration without fault.
Okay, so number four, then rumors started swirling of a wider and more brutal reshuffle as the dust settled from Bondi's ouster and the sacking of the top of the army.
This is unsurprising for reasons we've covered already.
Trump's poll ratings are a dumpster fire.
He is the most unpopular president of all time, and his already terrible approval rating has taken another, even more humiliating nosedive since the start of the war.
So the talk of the town is that he's about ready to clear house, taking down some or all of the people he blames for his woes.
He's very angry, and he's going to be moving people, a source told Politico last night.
And of course, Top of the list, Tulsi Gabbard, the person who tried to get him to avoid this fate the entire time, the one person who kept putting her career on the line to very tactfully and respectfully contradict the things Trump was saying, tell the truth about the intelligence they had about the nuclear bomb in Iran, and contrary to the lies he was being told by Mossad and whatever Israeli handler was whispering in his ear like worm tongue.
Tulsi Gabbard is the one who should have been listened to the entire time and he would have never been in this mess.
Instead, He is blaming her somehow for what happened here.
Tulsi Gabbard, director of national intelligence, he's reportedly mad at her for failing to condemn Joe Kent, the former counterterror officer who very publicly tore Trump's rationale for war with Iran into pieces last month.
Yeah, I mean, if Trump was serious about saving the country, if he wanted to save the midterms, not let the Democrats come in, then he would be begging Joe Kent to come take a cabinet position.
And he'd be putting Tulsi Gabbard out in the forefront to tell him how to fix this.
But he listened to people who got him into this problem, and now he's listening to those very same people for how to solve it, and he's firing the people that tried to get him to avoid it in the first place.
But in addition to that, we do have some swamp creatures.
We do have some Epstein associates on the list.
Howard Lutnick, Commerce Secretary, Trump's Todius Flunky.
But his big shot at bathing in the warm glow of the president's approval was the tariff strategy, which he was heavily involved in.
The Supreme Court ruling last month means those days are over.
Of course, he made a lot of money with it.
Lori Chavez de Remer, Secretary of Labor.
Job numbers have been tanking even after Trump seized control of the Stats Bureau in order to rig them.
Kash Patel, Director of the FBI.
They say just pick one, just pick a reason to fire Cash.
There's plenty.
Number six, they say Trump keeps bragging about committing war crimes.
Trump keeps posting on True Social, bragging about targeting civilian infrastructure in the Iran conflict.
Most recently, he posted our military, the greatest and most powerful by far anywhere in the world, hasn't even started destroying what's left in Iran.
We'll get into the Iranian response to that on the other side.
But they are war crimes, and we are targeting civilian infrastructure.
And the ultimate upshot of this will be that we are setting a precedent that we will come to regret, that we will rue one day, that will cause blowback attacks to hit us.
I explained this a lot yesterday.
I don't need to go into it again, but the idea that when we bomb their hospitals sort of opens up the door for them bombing ours.
And while we would.
If all of the sudden, you know, the Mayo Clinic was bombed by a, you know, tactical nuke smuggled in a suitcase or something, we would feel outraged and horrified and shocked.
And it would be traumatic and devastating.
And it would probably cause a lot of people to start to support the war.
But we would feel outraged and, and again, just horrified and victimized.
And how do you think they feel?
Like, how do you think Iran feels?
We're bombing their hospitals.
I have the feeling that they're all saying they're going, we should bomb their hospitals if it's going to be like this.
And the only reason they're not is because they know the American public is against the war.
But we're getting set up here.
We're getting set up.
We are the ones who will experience the blowback.
They're bombing hospitals and elementary schools in our name, and we are not stopping them from doing it.
So Iran would be justified.
All right, well, we're back, folks.
Yeah, I mean, we're just, we're back.
We're back here where we were five weeks ago.
Only everything's worse.
Only we have gained nothing.
We've lost a lot, and we're in actually a worse position than we were five weeks ago.
That's just where we're at.
We have not significantly diminished their missile launching capability, we are losing fighter jets and helicopters out of the air.
Over Iran, it appears as though there has been some sort of attempt to make some sort of landing that has been thwarted.
At least that's my interpretation from the A 10 Warthog.
That would be the people deployed to clear a landing zone.
But if they get shot down, what do you do at that point?
It's not going well for them in any possible way.
And yet, we were told, I was told over and over and over.
First of all, you'll, you'll notice it everywhere.
Like I often bemoan and lament the general stupidity of the wider world.
I try not to, but boy, it's hard not to when it's everywhere and ruining everything.
But at the same time, I almost never say that individual people are stupid because I don't think they are.
I'm much more likely to think these people are lying, these people are pretending to be stupid.
I don't believe that you get to the top of our government, on the top of our military, as a stupid person.
But on X, it seems to be the only argument that the pro Israeli side has now they can't actually convince you.
They don't actually have evidence to support what they believe.
They will just condescend at you while also being wrong about what they're saying.
It's very frustrating.
And I've noticed this cycle that occurs where it's like, I'll say, you know, Iran has not been diminished that much.
I'm trying to think of an actual, like, you know, real life example because there was one recently.
Because the way it typically goes is, you know, Iran actually is not destroyed that much.
I think Trump is lying.
And first, it's like, you believe what Iran says, just like back then it was, you believe what Hamas says, you trust those guys, what do you love Hamas?
You trust them, those liars.
And it's like, well, it's just true.
I just, I know it's true.
And they're also saying it, but okay.
This is how it goes.
Oh, you believe them?
You believe the enemy?
And then I go, no, actually, this is from the New York Times.
Oh, you believe the New York Times?
Oh, you believe those liars?
Actually, it's the New York Times quoting an American official.
Well, then, I mean, you think that matters?
You're so stupid, right?
It's just every time it's like this.
Oh, you believe these things?
Yeah, they're true.
So, you know, well, you can wait a month or two until you find out that it's true, or you can just listen to me right now.
I guess that's your choice.
But we are right.
And let's go ahead and go to clip number 17 here.
This is the latest that Iran has issued.
You tell me if they seem defeated and, you know, shocked and at the mercy of Trump.
Concerning Iran's power plant facilities, the following retaliatory measures shall be promptly enacted.
All power plants, energy infrastructure, and information and communication technology of the Zionist regime and all similar companies within the region that have American shareholders shall face complete and utter annihilation.
Nothing stays hidden to our site, even if it's hidden by Google.
Stargate UAE, Abu Dhabi.
I mean, they're literally just like, yeah, we know where your stuff is.
We're going to destroy it.
Now, interestingly, as it goes across these people, you'll notice not a single one of them is a white Anglo Christian.
Not a single one.
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I want to go now to a little video put together by a user named Black Sheep on X Roblox Jones.
There's been a lot of these that have come out, and I haven't played any.
It's pretty interesting.
I mean, this is strange, a brave new world we're in.
I mean, think about what I should have done is gone back and found some of the old propaganda from like World War I.
This is actually a fascinating topic.
I actually hadn't thought about this yet.
But war propaganda is a really fascinating topic to look into.
One of the interesting processes that took place in between World War I and World War II was that in World War I, the propaganda was designed to make the enemy look silly, to degrade them, mock them, and make them look like a bunch of idiots.
And it didn't work very well.
It didn't work very well.
And they learned that actually, what you need to do and what they did in World War II was they made the propaganda a lot more scary.
And it kind of makes sense, right?
You don't want to have your soldiers, you know, and you go to them just be like, who you're about to fight is so strong.
They're so powerful and evil and awful and it's going to be really hard.
Like, it makes sense.
At first, you're thinking, no, we want to pump up our soldiers by showing that those dang krauts are nothing but no good goofballs and we're going to go, you know, stomp all over them.
But what happens when, you know, you're told that the Germans are all a bunch of idiots?
And then they wipe out a platoon of yours.
It's like, oh, okay, they're not idiots, actually.
All of the propaganda just sort of fades away the instant that it's proven that they're not a bunch of idiots.
And so what they learned was that no, you need the propaganda to scare people.
You need to make your enemies look really evil and dangerous and scary, throwing babies against walls, babies on pikes, right?
Japanese guys with like sharp monster teeth, like, you know.
So it's interesting.
You know, psychological manipulators of the world refine their art of manipulating the masses.
We've arrived at a point that, in a way, we're back to the ridicule, we're back to the absurdity, we're back to simply trying to humiliate and denigrate your enemy because the propaganda now is focused as much on your enemy as on your own people.
So, while they'll make videos to make, you know, Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump look ridiculous.
You know, it's also because they're trying to convince us that they look ridiculous.
They're trying to create the chaos in our country that would benefit them.
So let's go to this Hegsef Lego Iranian propaganda, if for no other reason than the, you know, academic interest we have in the ever changing landscape of war propaganda.
Let's watch.
unidentified
Yo, Pete Hexes, this one's specially for you, you punk ass rapist, bitch.
Straight from Iran.
Your tattoo, cover clown with that cafe ink on your arm.
Think you a crusader?
Nah, just a drunk infidel in the fake uniform.
Channel kill all Muslims.
Wasted in the hotel lobby.
Sexual assault settlement in Monterey.
Blacked the door, took the phone, paid her off quiet, cause me too was on.
Are you secretary?
What a joke, bro.
I don't think they know that radio is supposed to rhyme.
So, again, you know, they're spreading anti American propaganda referencing the Epstein files there.
I just find it interesting because it's like, it's this weird mix of like kind of lefty stuff where it's like Me Too movement, you harassed women.
It's like, this is kind of weird for this, like.
Big warrior culture, you know, patriarchy to be saying that.
Well, at the same time, they're like, Andy is, you know, cheats on his wife.
He commits infidelity.
And it's like, it's just kind of interesting because the left over here would never make a statement about infidelity.
They wouldn't care about that type of thing.
It's a curious mindset on display there.
I just think it's fascinating.
And just that's what people around the world are.
Making fun of us for, I guess.
I guess you could say.
I do want to move on from the Iran war.
We're going to come back to it in the third hour because we're going to be joined by Lebanon John and we're going to get a big overview of everything going on and where we may be going.
And we'll be talking about, yeah, these are actually great.
Yeah, these propaganda videos are hilarious and so well done.
It's kind of ridiculous.
I would watch a full show if they produced something like this.
And again, they seem to have it right.
That's a Chinese one.
So there's Chinese AI where you have America represented by the eagle.
And they also represent Israel basically as a squid that sits on the eagle's head and is controlling it.
So it's just kind of weird that our geopolitical enemies are both making propaganda in different instances where they're claiming that America is being controlled by hostile foreigners.
And that they're not actually at war with us, they're at war with the same people that we should be at war with, which is interesting.
That's an interesting perspective to take that I agree with.
Now, I do want to move on, but there's like this one is pretty big deal, I think, from the Palestinian Chronicle.com, but it's actually just reporting what the Intercept has reported casualty cover up.
The Intercept reveals 750 U.S. troops killed or wounded.
Again, something that we ourselves said and have said over and over.
If you think only 13 people have died as a consequence of this month long bombing campaign, You don't understand the world that we're in now.
See, the world that we're in now, America acts like Israel.
We don't believe the things that we used to believe.
We used to believe in transparency and truthfulness.
We used to believe in fair dealing and, you know, reciprocal benefits.
Now we operate as if we can kill anyone we want for any reason we want.
We can lie endlessly about whatever we want.
We can abuse our own people.
We can sacrifice anybody for any particular reason.
We have been morally hollowed out.
As a consequence of our relationship and subversion by Israel, it's very sad.
It actually is sad to see because we spent a long time in this country creating a system that thrives on honesty, that can operate with as close to total transparency as you can while still recognizing the necessary secrecy involved in geopolitics and international relations.
But still, this was the thing that separated us from everybody else.
You think back to the JFK speech where he talks about a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy around the world trying to destroy America.
And it was all about the repugnance that our culture feels at the very concept of secrecy, knowing that whatever benefit you get from keeping things secret is always and inevitably outweighed by the damage that's done by keeping things secret.
Yeah, it might not go well if you.
Tell everybody that you got 500 soldiers killed.
People are going to be mad at you.
It's not going to go well.
It might feel like a better idea to just keep that secret if you can.
Who's going to know, right?
Well, first of all, eventually they're going to know.
So your secrecy will be seen as a betrayal.
But also, if you're able to cover up the disastrous consequences of your policy, then you can continue that policy and the disastrous consequences can only become more disastrous.
And the more disastrous they become, the more necessary it becomes to keep it quiet.
And the harder it.
To keep it quiet.
So, the more you need to use tyrannical measures to keep it quiet, it's a feedback loop that the founders recognized in 1776 and wrote the First Amendment to avoid.
We are abandoning those principles because we've decided to redefine the West as we know it, meaning that we're redefining our foundation, what made us special, what established our mode of thinking and the traditions by which we operate our civilization.
These things have all been very quietly but systematically replaced with just entirely new concepts, utterly divorced from our real history.
So, maybe now would be a good time to show sort of a two sides of the coin type of thing the consequences of our failure to uphold our actual foundational principles, morality, worldview, and then show somebody doing a very good job attempting to recapture that.
But again, this is all based on the fact that we do seem at this time to be willing to.
Behave like the United States as a government is willing to behave in ways that are totally anathema to our moral conscience because the people in power are doing bad things they don't want us to know about, so they have to hide it and disguise it and frame it as anti Semitism or whatever other excuse they need to silence it.
And you know, it's not a small thing.
I mentioned at the very end there, but Before we go to these other videos, I want to go back to clip 17 here.
And I don't know, this just kind of struck me as I was watching it.
I guess I could go through and find each one of these guys.
But at the end of this video from Iran, they show like a pan over, pan across of all these guys.
Half the guys are the Qatari Middle Eastern guys, and the half guys are the American guys.
And all the American guys have the American flag under them.
I don't think a single one of them is a white American Christian.
I don't know about Mark Rowan, but I believe he is Israeli.
Huang, not exactly Smith, Altman, Jewish guy, Satya, Indian guy, Solomon, Jewish guy.
So it's just kind of like this isn't America.
I mean, the historical American nation was white, European, Christian.
And yet here we are in a war overseas, and you can show a pan across of everybody making deals over there with an American flag on their name, and not one of them.
Is a white Christian?
Not one of them.
It's not really American.
It doesn't feel very American to me.
It's Chinese, Zhio Chinese is how it feels to me personally.
I mean, wouldn't it be kind of weird?
Like, wouldn't it seem kind of strange if there was a panover of all of the big leaders of China and they were all named like Mike Waltz?
They're all named.
Jim Smith, Harry Painter, just like, what?
I thought they're all Chinese.
I thought this was the Chinese Empire.
Why are they all white Christian dudes?
You would never see that, obviously, because it's only white Christian countries that have been taken over and replaced.
It seems like they replaced the leadership and now they're replacing the actual people.
But that just kind of struck me that it's like, okay, Iran hates America.
But then the people they're pointing out, not one of them is a white European Christian American.
So it feels like we're being used a little bit, a lot, actually.
And so, what's the ultimate result of our willingness to be suckers, of our endless gullibility when it comes to the lies of scammers and crooks and infiltrators?
Yeah, Apple, Google, Microsoft, have at them, boys.
Have fun with that.
Iran threatens to start attacking major US firms on April 1st.
Yeah, you know, have fun.
Enjoy yourself.
Won't affect me in a negative way.
So, the ultimate outcome, the ultimate result of this usurpation, willing usurpation in many cases, we gave up our willingness to have a country.
Results in something like this.
This is clip number five.
This is an ad for a congressional candidate in New Jersey.
So, this is the official campaign ad for what could very well be our next American congressman.
We have congressmembers running in America, not even speaking English, not even trying to appeal to English speakers in America, appealing only and exclusively to his ethnic group, which apparently has a sizable enough population in his district that that's a viable strategy.
Yeah, this is a problem.
This is like a gigantic existential problem.
Luckily, I know a great.
Friend and commentator who understands this like I do, Kevin Deanna, friend of the show, been on before.
Here's a little clip from his show, clip 24 first.
Kevin Deanna on an important message to Americans on what are American values?
And again, I think the most important part of what he just said was we know it and they know it.
That I think is important to understand.
Every once in a while, you'll hear somebody actually say it.
There's a tweet that goes viral every once in a while an Indian guy who's moved to Canada.
And he says, very simply, we're going to keep moving in here.
We're going to outnumber you soon.
And then it will be.
A matter of a single vote to kick out all of you white invaders.
And it's like, okay, here's one Indian guy out of what, 25 billion?
How many of them are there?
But there's at least one, meaning there's probably more than one.
And I want to almost like go out with that tweet printed out and like show that to liberals and be like, but what do you do about this?
But what do you do about this?
I mean, you can't ignore this.
You can't just pretend this doesn't exist.
You have people.
Moving in, who are very clearly motivated by hatred of you, by a desire to not just like replace you, but like hurt you, like take your stuff, punish you for existing,
take your country, humiliate you, and their entire lives and the entire world media encourages them that this is a good thing, that they're actually acting on the side of righteousness and good.
To come in as an invited guest with a secret plan to steal your host's home.
It's sick and it's wrong.
And we have to stand up against it.
And if the thing stopping us from standing up against it is that we're being called racist, it's time to get over that.
It's almost one of those IQ charts, the midwit chart, where the dumb guy and the smart guy think the same thing, but the midwit believes the bullcrap.
It's kind of like the midwits, the ones going, no, the founding fathers were egalitarian.
It's like, no, I think they were actually really racist, actually.
Actually, I think that was really a fundamental aspect of their thought process.
And guess what?
That's not a bad thing because that's literally the same case for every other race of people for all of time.
It's fine to want your country to remain your country.
It's fine to deny the lies of foreigners that want to infiltrate and steal your stuff by playing on your pity and your covert, inverted white supremacy that makes you think you don't need protection.
And you're.
You're white, so you don't want to make the non white people feel bad by talking about being white.
We're also going to get into how Turkey plays into all of this.
And actually, I'm going to get into some, I'm going to get into the data center stuff here in just a second.
But there's another phenomenon.
Earlier, I talked about how online the pro Israeli people are just resorting to calling everybody stupid and it's not working very well.
And one of the main strategies is source discrediting, right?
Oh, you got that from Iran.
You believe them.
And it's so funny because it's stuff like the attack on the school, right?
And they're like, you believe what Iran said?
It's like.
Pete Hegseth admitted that this was the case, but it's like it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter.
That's one of the strategies that's often used.
The other, and it's hard to kind of explain this, but you'll already know it if you're a conspiracy theorist because this is kind of a regular thing that's always happened.
And it's that sometimes reality really is so ridiculous that people won't believe you on the basis of how ridiculous it is.
So, Like I said something about, you know, maybe Trump wants to leave NATO because they're gearing up to make Turkey the next enemy.
Or the other one I'll get is people say, oh, why don't you?
You're freaking out about the red heifer thing.
And it's like, I'm not the one saying the red heifer thing.
They're the one saying it.
We have Naftali Bennett, the former prime minister of Israel, saying that Turkey is the next target.
So it's just, it happens over and over where you just repeat what they're saying.
And then people act like you're the crazy one.
Well, you're obsessed with this.
They're going to have the red heifer and they're going to remake the temple to bring about the Messiah.
And it's like that Benjamin Netanyahu gave a speech saying that, not me.
You think it's ridiculous?
Take it up with him.
I just take him seriously.
I take Naftali Bennett seriously when they say this, especially when the geopolitical construct of the world shifts in accordance with what they're saying.
When Trump is threatening to leave NATO, I really think that they are, I mean, they operate on timetables that are years in advance.
They're seeding the ground for this war to not just continue forever in Iran, but to expand to Turkey and maybe then to expand to the rest of Europe as more and more Muslim refugees get into Europe and they take more and more power and eventually vote themselves into Sharia law.
Suddenly they'll be the big terrorist Muslim threat that we have to go after.
Because the war that we are now in, that I would contend has been going on for probably 10 years or more at this point, concerning the fact that you have the civil war in Syria that comes after the Arab Spring.
That Russia's involved in, and you've got the sort of proxy war going on in Syria for like 15 years, actually, which has been going on forever the whole time.
And I mean, we're in World War III, and we've been in World War III for a long time.
I guess it's up to the future historians to look back and determine exactly where it began, but certainly it has begun and it began a long time ago.
And, you know, again, we're just looking at all these different signals that we're getting.
Many that are contradictory or out of step and out of line with what we've heard before.
Again, the fact that Susie Wiles goes on mainstream media and says, Yeah, Trump is being given a rose colored view of the conflict, and I had to tell his advisors to just give him the truth and not, you know, change what they're saying to make him happy.
Like, that's crazy.
That's a very big deal.
Joe Kent quitting is like the biggest deal ever.
That's huge.
Pete Hegseth firing all these generals, and the assumption is that's because they weren't yes men, they weren't going to go along with what is probably a giant invasion of Iran.
An invasion of Iran, by the way, that Trump has apparently been planning since the 80s.
And I'm going to wait to get in.
I'm going to wait for Lebanon John to really get into this because he and I were talking about it earlier today.
And we were thinking maybe that's part of the problem is that Trump actually, I mean, he gives interviews and all of the crew pull in the Barbara Waters interview from the 80s where Trump is talking about Iran.
And he's talking about we can go in and take their oil and we can take over the coast and be this giant injection of cash into the American economy.
And it's like, okay, did he come up with this plan in the 1980s and never changed it, never updated it?
Is still operating on assumptions that he made 40, 50 years ago?
Is that possibly part of why this boondoggle has been carried out under Trump?
And was this the reason that Trump was even supported in the first place by some of the Israeli influence networks here in America?
They obviously were very, very, very upset with the JCPOA, the nuclear agreement that Obama made.
And they really wanted it taken down.
That was one of the first things that Trump did when he became president.
And it's not unlikely that that was a bargain.
Hey, you support me, get me into office, I will get rid of the JCPOA.
And if you watch the lobby, the documentary made by Al Jazeera about the Israeli lobby here in America, they made one in the UK as well.
Yeah, go ahead and pull this one in for when John's on because we'll want to reference this.
Because it's important to understand.
Because, I mean, this shapes Trump's thinking and like where we are, what the purpose of all of this is.
And it may be that the plan he came up with in the 1980s, he's still running with while Iran has made 40 years of advancement and been ready for this for so long.
We don't know.
We just don't know.
But we do know the consequences of everything else we've done in the Middle East in this world war that's been going on for 15 years.
Of course, the president of Syria is, I believe, still in Europe.
Being celebrated and honored with the red carpet rolled out.
Meanwhile, drugged, raped, and impregnated Alawite women recount kidnappings in the new Syria.
Abductions of women and girls from Syria's Alawite minority are, quote, more common and more brutal than Syria extremist led government has acknowledged.
A New York Times investigation published April 3rd has found.
In November, the Syrian government, led by former ISIS commander Ahmed al Shara, denied that Alawite women and girls are being abducted, claiming that dozens and dozens of cases they had just run away from home to be with lovers.
However, Syrian activists confirmed the details of nearly 100 Alawite girls who had been abducted, including many who were taken following the government's massacre of at least 1,600 Alawite civilians in March 2025.
So, again, you don't even need our speculation.
You don't need us to look at Iran and go, here's what will happen in the future.
Just look at Syria.
Syria was not an enemy of ours, it was not a threat to us.
They also didn't have nuclear weapons or anything that.
They used to justify the attacks on Iran.
None of it existed for Syria.
Syria was not a Western country.
It was not a democracy by any means.
Of course, it's not one now.
That didn't seem to matter, actually.
It turns out that it doesn't really matter to the people in power if you are a monarchist, authoritarian tyranny, like our best friends, the Saudis, or a clerical construct of government.
Like the Iranians, that's not the thing that they care about.
Bashir al Assad is no less or more of a democratic leader than al Shara is.
Al Shara didn't usher in a utopian globalist vision of diversity, the exact opposite.
Massacres against minority populations, Christians, Alawites, Druze, kidnapping girls from these minority sects to both psychologically and physically terrorize.
These minority populations.
What is the argument for this?
Like, can anybody out there, and there are thousands of people out there who spent 10 years desperately advocating for America to get involved and go oust Bashir al Assad?
Is this the outcome that was desired?
He was an eye doctor who lived in England most of his life.
And if you see the images, I mean, look at a picture of Bashir al Assad and his wife.
She's beautiful, she's glamorous, she's wearing something that you would see.
You know, a woman from the Kennedy clan, where like she's classy, she looks Western.
She looks like somebody you'd see walking around the streets of Paris.
Meanwhile, Al Shara, you can't even find a picture of him with his wife because every time there is one, she's standing 10 feet away from him and a little bit behind him and dressed head to toe in black robes.
So it's like, okay, we replaced the Western guy with the ISIS terrorist.
And this was on purpose.
And this was the design.
And this was the desired outcome of the people who did it.
There is some other stuff that I do need to cover.
A bunch of videos actually come out sort of about the same topic.
But I want to ask yeah, I'm going to go to data centers here.
We are building at this moment in America no less than 3,000 data centers.
3,000.
I looked it up yesterday, couldn't believe it.
The question is why?
What are they going to do?
There's a lot of talk about data centers.
I haven't heard a single reason they need to be built, why they need to be built by the thousands.
What is this going to do for Americans?
I honestly want to know.
Do we really need 3,000 server farms that are bigger than you can possibly imagine?
In fact, crew, go into yesterday's folder.
There's a video about the farmland in Florida that's being taken over for the new Meta Data Bank.
It's like unbelievable.
The person's driving for like five minutes, and it's just all of this farmland is going to be turned into a server farm.
There are 405 operating in Texas, 442 being built.
Is it going to improve your life?
Is your life suffering from a lack of computational power right now?
Is it worth it?
Because the question isn't, you know, these aren't small things.
These data centers require like billions and billions of gallons of fresh water.
They require acres and acres and acres of farmland.
They require billions upon billions of dollars.
They require so much energy, it's like impossible to even describe.
One data center, a super data center in Ohio, requires as much energy as nine nuclear reactors.
So, think about all of the resources that we are and plan to pour into data centers all of the fresh water, all of the land these are things that we shouldn't be wasting, all of the energy, more energy.
Than our cities currently use all of this investment, all of these resources being poured into data centers.
How is it going to improve your life?
What is it going to be used for?
Can you tell me?
Can anybody tell me?
Seems like right now we've got plenty of computational power to handle 99.9999999% of technological necessity.
What is the point of these?
Why are we spending so much?
I mean, would you not rather have like a brand new airport?
Would it not benefit you to have like your roads repaved and your elementary school refurbished?
Why are we dedicating so much to these data centers?
What are we doing it for?
It's all for AI, but like, I can't even figure out.
What the purpose of that would be.
Obviously, we have plenty of computational power right now.
I mean, yesterday I was doing research with AI.
I had every type of AI open.
I'm searching in Claude and Gemini and Grok and all these other, all totally free.
Doesn't seem like there's like a big crunch of computational power if I can be operating 10 of these systems at once and not pay a cent for it.
Seems like there's plenty out there.
It's like, no, we need more to do more.
To what?
Create more AI abomination images?
Like, what are we talking about?
All of this is, I don't really want you to answer.
I know the answer.
The answer is they're building the prison around us.
That's what this will be used for.
It's the only thing this stuff could be used for.
It's the only reason you would have to build thousands of data centers right now.
It's not that we're just, you need somewhere to keep all of our photos and we're constantly all running out of iCloud space.
It's not for us, it's to enslave us.
And it's our money and it's our resources and it's our fresh drinking water that's going towards it, but it is entirely and completely.
The infrastructure of control.
That's all this is for.
So we'll go to a few of these because, again, it's not like this is some brilliant upgrade where it's like, oh, we're spending billions of dollars and all this fresh groundwater on, we're getting rid of the coal power plants or replacing with nuclear and we'll never have to get coal ever again and they'll run forever and power everybody and electricity will be free.
It's like, okay, then I can understand the resource dedication to something like that.
We're going to pour all of these resources into all of these data centers, and it's only going to make our life worse.
Do you understand what a big deal this is?
Which one should we go to first?
Let's go to clip 33 first, because this is just another side effect.
The main thread of this is that it's literally the prison walls being built around you, and the side effects are your electricity bill going up and literally a digital Panopticon.
Being erected so they can know everything about you at every second of the day and surveil and censor and control you.
That's like the real big threat.
But along with this come a whole host of other minor inconveniences.
Let's watch.
This is the noise you're hearing from the data center in Michigan.
Blessings, isn't it?
One resident says the noise has made him unable to open his windows in the summer and he's worried what that will do to his property value.
The company, Hyperscale Data, is planning to expand.
And the summertime, like I said, we like to have our windows open, and it's hard to when you're listening to that all the time.
Yeah, I'd worry about that, the property values, because who's going to want to, if we want to resell the house, who's going to want to buy the house with that noise?
Guys are like, yeah, no one's going to buy my house now.
Not only like it's lowering my house value, like, It might have lowered it to zero.
You think they're going to pay for it?
You think the data centers with the trillions of dollars on hand will be able to spare the $200,000 this dude's property is worth?
Probably not.
No, they'll just destroy your life, destroy your neighborhood, take all of your tax dollars and your groundwater and your electricity so they can inconvenience and enslave you.
You know, same thing like some of the.
Major League Baseball stadiums now.
They got rid of concession stands.
Now there's just big vending machines with touchscreen operation.
The beer still costs 20 bucks a pop, 20 bucks a can for beer.
You'd think you fired all these people, you're saving all of your major costs for running this operation.
You'd think maybe you'd pass some of that down onto the consumer, especially since now we're taking on the labor and burden of doing the work that your cashier used to do.
We check ourselves out now.
But the price only stays up.
That's the data center mindset in total.
They will ruin your property, take all of your resources, and then at the end of the day, you don't even benefit.
You don't get anything from it.
Nothing about your life improves in the slightest from all of these inconveniences.
That's the deal we're making.
You give us all of the most precious resources in the world at a time when the country is collapsing and everything's failing.
We're going to dedicate infinite resources to building these things.
And in return, your life just gets worse in every possible way.
Thanks, guys.
Thanks for the deal we've made.
Let's go to that Florida video so we can see just how much land is being given over to these data centers so they can build our prison.
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I'm taking this video so that people can understand.
Like, this is the video prior to the video.
This is like, this is the farmland that you're driving through until you come to the AI data center.
Like, it is nothing but just super rural.
Homes, beautiful homes.
Like, we're rural, very rural.
And then, like, just to give you an idea, so, like, that's literally just so rural.
And then, here we go, we're about to pull up on it.
intrusive because you're just it's literally like 30 plus miles maybe more of nothing but just beautiful rural farmland So, again, this is a woman in Florida, Atalia Bloom's on TikTok, I believe, maybe Instagram.
And she's just driving.
Oh, anyway, it goes on.
She just drives past field after field after field, and it's all been demolished to create these massive data centers that just go on forever and ever and ever.
It's a scary time because people are willing to blow people up with fucking drones and missiles, and they're shooting into apartment buildings and blowing up schools.
Guys, make sure clip 11 is censored and we'll go to that.
In the meantime, I'm sorry.
I know we're jumping back and forth here.
But I.
I want to play a few more videos having to do with the data centers.
So let's go to this Wall Street Apes video.
I think it's clip number 36.
Three top leaders in Lackawanna County have now been removed from their post because, and I think that this was a different place than the video that we just saw, but this is the thing.
It's literally happening everywhere.
They're building data centers.
The citizens are going to their town council meetings saying, we don't want the data centers here.
But then they're getting the data centers anyway, because the data centers come along with millions and millions of dollars worth of investment into the community that the city council members would like to tax in order to fund their projects.
So they're willing to sell out their own towns to pay for subsidies for foreigners, probably, if I had to guess where our tax money goes.
It's never to us, it's always to these projects.
And again, you just think about the data centers and like the fact that they're probably being built by foreign labor anyway.
Just literally none of this benefits Americans, even in the slightest.
But all over the country, these big data centers are being built.
People are outraged.
City councilors don't care and are doing it anyway.
Three members of Archbold Council were ousted tonight after months of pleas from the community to reshape the borough's government and the old council's handling of data centers.
Former Council President Dave Moran, Vice President Richard Gouman, and President Pro Tempor Marie Andreoli.
A surprise vote Wednesday stripped the three of their leadership.
The vote stems from months of pushback from members of the community, many of whom felt they were going easy on data center developers.
Council member and new President Pro Tempor Aaron Owens initiated the vote, but others backed to reasoning.
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I believe our government right now is fractured, it's broken, and I don't, I pray that it could be fixed.
People living here are hopeful that the change is a step in the right direction, but say that the fight against data centers in Archbold is far from over.
Like, it shouldn't be on Americans to constantly having to be defending ourselves against the encroachment of these scumbags.
We really need a holistic change.
I feel like this has gone on too long at this point.
And I understand we have a brand new report from Alex Jones himself.
This is an update to one of the aircraft downed by Iran today, the A 10 Warthog.
This is an infantry support.
Aircraft, meaning it's not used for big long bombing runs or aerial dogfighting.
Usually it's used to kill infantry troops so that your infantry troops can move in, which hints that this A 10 Warthog being downed probably means we're about to do a big ground invasion ourselves.
As you know, an F 15 has been shot down and now an A 10 Warthog.
And the A 10 Warthog was shot down over the Strait of Hormuz on the Iranian side.
Those are the first planes they're going to send in to soften up the defenses before a U.S. invasion of Krog Island or other areas, which Trump has been advised against.
The Pentagon told him, the head of the army who they just fired, the chairman, joint chief who they haven't fired yet, so many others, Eric Prince, not doves, hawks, but said, don't try a full invasion of Iran, don't attack Iran, period.
And the fact that that warthog is confirmed to have been shot down, they're trying to find the pilots in the ocean there, is a really bad sign because I said weeks ago, if you see the A 10s going in, that means ground invasion.
So we had sources a week ago, and I don't know if they were accurate, from inside the Pentagon, but also strippers and people saying the troops were telling them it was all going to start on Good Friday.
That's today.
I hope that's wrong.
And again, I'm saying all this about Trump, not because I'm a Qatari or Iranian agent.
Like these Israeli operatives are saying, with no evidence, it's because I don't want Trump to get us in a quagmire and have his agenda destroyed.
And again, it just came out that, I knew this years ago, but there's even more documents, that Salem Radio is owned by the Israeli government.
And all these talk show hosts attacking Tucker as a Qatari agent are literally on the Israeli payroll.
I mean, Israel's openly running our foreign policy.
And I don't even hate Israel.
I just want Israel running our country.
And getting us into forever wars.
This is crazy.
So I pray for the A 10 pilots and just everybody because if there is a ground invasion, it's going to be so bad.
This looks like it started.
Hopefully, this is a wake up call for Trump because we're like the Martians attacking Earth when it's from 50,000 feet.
But once it gets up close with close air support, the Iranians got a lot of weapons.
And if this is a ground invasion, this is just the start.
So I pray for sanity.
I pray for President Trump.
And I pray for peace because this is such a serious situation.
Iran is not Iraq or Afghanistan.
It is far worse, and that's the facts.
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John has been regularly updating us about the Middle East for the last five or six years since I started doing the American Journal.
And we've basically been dead on about everything all the predictions, all the analysis, better than you can find anywhere else by miles.
And I'm not just saying that.
It's like, go back and look for yourself.
You'll see that I'm.
I'm being accurate.
However, we're not always exactly dead on, and sometimes things take longer than we expected.
Like we always knew that October 7th and the war in Gaza would eventually lead to war in Iran.
It all kind of started with an F 15 being shot down.
And usually the pilot will eject, and there's a GPS tracker in that chair.
And so it shouldn't be hard to figure out where he is unless it's just completely blown to smithereens.
But no one could, I mean, that's not really usual.
And so this F 15 pilot got shot down in Iran.
And then the search and rescue operation that the United States military deployed to recover him, dead or alive, no one really knows.
It appears that they don't know exactly where he is.
It's a wide area that they're searching.
They're kind of combing the area.
They're deploying Warthog, low flying, low speed, propeller driven, like Vietnam War era A 10 Warthog planes.
They're deploying Blackhawk helicopters.
And this is because they don't know where this pilot is.
And I guess Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump don't want to leave this guy abandoned behind enemy lines.
Which is a commendable decision as far as not leaving anybody behind.
But from a military standpoint, Black Hawk helicopters, low flying propeller airplanes over a place full of missiles, it makes no sense.
And so they're searching all over and they can't find them.
Next thing you know, we're five or six planes shot down in the last 24 hours now Black Hawks, A 10 Warthog on video, blown up in the air in Iran.
Other jets, It's just gotten from bad to worse really fast in the last 24 hours.
And again, totally predictable, right?
I mean, the A 10 Warthog is only effective in history against essentially infantry who have no means to engage an airplane.
And it's a cool airplane.
It can deliver like one bullet per square inch for a huge amount of space, like in an insane amount of time.
Like it's a flying gunship.
It is a really cool piece of equipment, no doubt about it.
But you don't deploy it.
Against people who have guided man pads, you know, man portable shoulder mounted heat seeking anti air weapons.
And of course, Iran has that.
Iran has much more than that.
And so it's like, I don't know if they're drinking their own Kool Aid or if they're just totally incompetent over at the highest levels of the Pentagon or if they just can't accept leaving one pilot behind.
But now there's going to be multiple pilots dead or captured as a consequence of refusing to leave that one pilot behind.
And again, I'm not saying we should have left that pilot behind, but.
You know, you definitely don't deploy Black Hawk helicopters and A 10 Warthog planes over Iran.
I mean, something is going on, like, and they just fired the three top generals.
So it's really confusing.
They didn't give any reason officially, as far as I can tell.
So it's, you know, Pete Hegseth should know better because when you see him talking in other scenarios, you know, he's like a war geek kind of guy.
He definitely knows about American equipment.
And that's the video right there.
This is an A 10 Warthog apparently being completely obliterated, and there's not gonna be any survivors on this one.
And that plane can have uh five or six people on it, usually.
And then they're claiming that they did rescue a pilot, and you know, I hope they did, but um, you know, they probably lost five, six, seven, eight, maybe 10 pilots to rescue this one pilot, so it's just getting completely out of control.
And then, well, everyone, you could predict what's gonna happen in the media next where they're gonna be running all these headlines saying, So Iran's air defenses.
So, yeah, the theory is that the Iranians were basically playing possum to a certain degree and just like acting like, look, it's kind of an obvious play for the Iranians to do is to.
Act like they don't have the capability to defend the air as much as they actually do.
And then, well, look, shooting out an F 35 is challenging, supposedly.
And then shooting out an F 15, that's not nearly as challenging because F 15 is not a stealth aircraft.
I'm sure it has the ability to accelerate really quickly and drop flares and confuse heat guided missiles.
It has certain capabilities of evasion, but it's not like an F 35.
F 35, you can't even see it, supposedly.
That's what we're told.
But then, An A 10 warthog that has no defense whatsoever.
That is just insane to deploy that over Iran.
And then a Black Hawk helicopter, I mean, it's basically a suicide mission.
And no, Iran's a giant country.
They're not going to have, you know, defense everywhere.
But if you give them enough time, they can move the defenses to where the search and rescue operation is happening.
That appears to be what happened because it took them some time.
But then, you know, boom, it happened.
And then this is coinciding with media, like people who are reservists in the Israeli military.
Kind of leaking to the media that they're not doing so good and that the Israelis, uh, Are trying to essentially recruit these guys who do nothing but study Torah.
They refuse to serve in the military, just kind of like ultra Orthodox religious guys.
And their manpower is short and they want to forcibly conscript those guys.
Those guys absolutely refuse.
They say at all costs, we must block the forced conscription at all costs.
And then on the other side, the Israeli analysis is that they're so short on manpower because they've conscripted all the reservists basically and they're extending their deployment, extending their deployment.
And these people have no more personal life.
Their psychological health is suffering and they're just getting killed in a long attrition type war.
And they're not really having any success against Lebanon.
They haven't been able to move forward more than maybe 12 miles deep.
And now they've kind of walked back their claims and their objectives.
They were saying we're going to ethnically cleanse like the entire southern 20% of Lebanon.
Now they're walking it back and they're like, okay, maybe we'll just take like, you know, two or three miles and make a buffer zone.
And what's that going to do?
You know, a little bit of it's important to read the specs.
It's important to understand the technical specifications of the equipment to bypass the spin and the propaganda and the emotional noise, right?
Because the hard physics is not spinnable.
So, according to the physics, according to the specs of the equipment, the Hezbollah equipment has an effective range that far surpasses the buffer zone that they're creating.
So, Well, and all of this together is kind of, I think this is what lends this chaotic atmosphere to it we're used to for decades, sort of Israel and America kind of being able to do whatever the hell they want.
And, you know, even if it's crazy, and obviously they failed to invade Lebanon times before, you know, they aren't superhumans.
They, you know, they have to contend with reality.
They don't win all the time.
But certainly with Gaza and, you know, for the past couple of years, it seemed like whatever Israel wanted to do, it did.
And whatever America wanted to do, We got it done, and there's kind of nothing that could stop us.
And now it's like everything's falling apart.
Our aircraft are being shot out of the sky.
Tel Aviv's being bombed.
You got Israeli soldiers.
We played the video I think you're referencing earlier, where he's talking to the French reporter saying, I've been deployed for over a year straight.
Psychologically, I'm collapsing.
It's going bad.
Is it really going this bad?
That might be part of it.
We're all going, Is this really going this bad?
Are they really that dumb?
Did they really think they wouldn't close the Strait of Hormuz?
Yeah, like again, you know, I have to go back to this Barbara Waters interview with Donald Trump from like 1988, where Donald Trump basically lays out his vision for how he would handle the Iran war.
And he says that, well, actually, the crazy thing about it is that what he lays out is bigger and grander than what we're doing now.
And then you combine that with Donald Trump's tweet or Truth Social from a couple of days ago, where he's lamenting the fact that the United States public doesn't have the stomach.
To truly go in and seize the oil.
You combine that with the Barbara Waters interview where he's telling Barbara Waters, what we really ought to do is go in and occupy essentially the coastal region of Iran.
And we're going to take, basically, it's like it's going to be a hard war, but it'll be worth it because financially we'll be compensated like many, many times over.
Well, and that's what, and I sort of hinted at that earlier because I mentioned the Barbara Waters interview and what we were talking about earlier in the day.
And, you know, that idea has just been sticking with me all day.
Did he make a plan in the 1980s that he's trying to carry out right now?
There was this Israeli funded Middle East research project where they would take clips from Middle East media and kind of show it to show how evil and bad the Middle Easterners were called memory.
Memory is supposed to make Middle Easterners look bad.
So, memory TV is actually supposed to make Middle Easterners look bad.
It's part of this whole like psyop that the Middle East is just basically backwards and should just be killed or destroyed or whatever.
And so, in the process of trying to make the Middle East look bad, inadvertently, a bunch of their videos that they uploaded started going viral because it made the Middle East look bad.
Hilarious, made the Middle East look cool, made the Middle East look like pretty clever and pretty advanced in certain ways.
So they kind of stopped the memory project and started taking down their own stuff.
But a lot of those videos, if you did spend your time keeping up with that stuff, it was breaking down in detail all the advancements of the Iranian military.
And Harrison, you remember I told you a while ago hey, if they want to go to war with Iran, the window of opportunity is really closing because when Israel, I mean, when Russia and their neighboring country, Georgia, had their little war.
The Israelis are the ones who sold all the drone technology to the Georgians.
All the drones in Georgia were Israeli drones that they were using against the Russians.
Now, the Russians sold the anti air missiles, SAM 300, surface to air missile 300, the S 300, to Iran.
And so the Russians and the Israelis did a deal back then where the Israelis gave all the specs and like frequency information.
So, the Russians could neutralize the use of all those Israeli drones in the Georgian conflict in exchange for the S 300s, the anti air weapons sold to Iran, being unable to target Israeli jets.
And that was an opportunity to do a huge war with Iran.
If they wanted to do one, that would have been a logical time.
Well, since then, the Iranians back engineered that equipment, discovered that Russia two timed them back then, fixed it, and made their own homegrown version that's far, far superior.
And now they decided to invade Iran.
Well, it's a horrible situation.
I mean, if you know anything about the situation, you know that their technology has advanced way beyond what it used to be.
I mean, I know it because you knew it, and you knew it because I assume you like read it on Telegram, right?
It's like, how are we more informed than the Pentagon?
Like, I don't believe that's the case.
It almost has to be that they're just lying about it and that they're getting us into a conflict that they know is not going to go well for us, which just begs the other question of why we do that.
But like, how is it?
That you and I were more accurate about the armament of Iran than the leaders of our country or Israel.
And that reminds me of that whistleblower, CIA whistleblower, John Kiriaku, who said that he was in the CIA.
He knew a lot of very qualified people who were higher ranked than him, career CIA guys who had amazing resumes.
And then John Brennan comes out of nowhere with basically no resume and just gets put right at the top.
And his whole agenda is like completely disconnected from what would actually be the proper agenda of a true CIA leader.
And they got their own deep state, globalist, antichrist, new world order.
Agenda and they're implementing that.
Well, who's making this decision to put this random guy in charge of the CIA who literally knows less and is far more morally compromised than the actual people who should get that job?
Same thing with the FBI.
They put people in charge of the FBI who have no business being in charge of the FBI.
The rank and file of the CIA, the rank and file of the FBI, they know what they're doing.
They're professionals.
Same thing with the Pentagon.
There's no doubt about it that, you know, that's what's going on.
There's no way that the Pentagon knows.
Less than we do.
There's no way.
So, what is going on here?
Well, I think that they are, I think that Donald Trump is extremely, you know, unfortunately hard headed and stubborn.
And I think that he basically made up his mind that America could do it.
And then he's lamenting the fact publicly now that the American public doesn't have the stomach to take the casualties necessary to achieve total victory in Iran.
And he's basically publicly admitting that.
So then, you know, you would ask yourself well, if the public support isn't there to fully commit to achieve this plan you've had since the 80s, then why would you do a half baked execution?
That is, you know what I mean?
It's just, well, obviously, he told a bunch of people he was going to do this.
And these people are probably in large part the reason why he's the president now is because he offered this deal.
But he is 100% on board with this.
He thinks it's, he envisioned that this was going to be glorious.
This is going to be great for the world and great for America.
He truly did believe that.
And Harrison, you know, you've known me since middle school, man.
We have seen this time and time again where the Jewish controlled media of the West, Maxwell, made the textbooks for America.
He's a Mossad agent.
Okay.
So this Israeli controlled or Talmudic Jew, you know, again, I have lots of Jews that we love.
I don't want to be, I don't want to make it sound like I'm anti Jew.
It's important for people to understand there's millions of Jews who live in Iran right now.
There's millions of Jews who are pro Iranian government.
And this is, so when they frame this as a religious conflict, That it's just that Iranians just want to kill all the Jews.
Nonetheless, we've got people like Maxwell who have put the Western man in a bubble.
You guys were not informed that Israel was defeated by Lebanon in 2000.
You guys were not informed that Condoleezza Rice and George Bush led a huge invasion to destroy Hezbollah in 2006.
That was a total failure.
You guys were not informed that ISIS was made specifically.
To attack the resistance against Israel and that ISIS is a tool using CIA created Wahhabi radical Islam out of Saudi funded mosques, and that they had Saudi funded mosques all over the EU, that they radicalized thousands and thousands of youths and sent them to jihad against the enemies of Israel all over Europe.
And all we hear about is the rapes in Europe, all we hear about is the terrorist attacks in Europe.
But you don't, well, we don't hear that the governments of Europe themselves are absolutely complicit in this and are using their own countries.
As a staging ground and a training ground and a radicalization hotbed to generate jihadis to jihad against the resistance of Israel.
They were 100% complicit in the creation of ISIS and that all of this was happening right under our nose.
And they don't tell you guys this in the West.
They want you to think that you're in a holy war against Islam when geopolitically the United States has been on the same page, on the same team as ISIS.
And the only form of Islam they don't like is the form of Islam that resists Israeli imperialism.
Look, people need to understand if America loses control of the Middle East, the petrodollar is dead.
If the petrodollar is dead, then it's going to be BRICS.
And BRICS means America is no longer the world reserve currency.
And when that's the case, the dollar will be valued like any other currency in the world, which is you take the number of dollars in circulation divided by the value backing it.
And that calculation is how every other currency is valued except the dollar.
As soon as you run that formula on the dollar, the dollar is worthless because they've been printing so many and there's so many dollars in circulation.
And what's backing it is not enough that the value per dollar will basically go to zero.
And the only reason why the dollar is not zero is because the world reserve currency, that international settlement of accounts, the swift monetary system is all based on the dollar.
But well, so on that note, because you're exactly right, I mean, is this maybe the Iran war not a necessary action?
I mean, if we need to keep the dollar as a reserve currency for our nation to continue to survive, I mean, You know, I know that is an argument some people use for the war in Iran.
Well, uh, they've only accelerated their own demise because, um, the I've been advocating for an uncomplete, a completely alternative strategy, which is that the United States needs to take the premier role in the hearts and minds of the world as the executor of international law, and then no one can supplant our number one position in the world.
If we go around the world and we treat everybody fairly according to international law, that we use our military.
To enforce international law, that when the UN says, hey, you got to stop doing something, we come in with our military and we make it have teeth.
Then we would be loved and invited by everyone.
If we go into countries and we help them, then we would stay as the number one power and we could be God's instrument on earth.
Instead, you have people thinking that China is a better partner than the United States, and that's entirely our fault.
And this Machiavellian concept of zero sum game that we need to take advantage of them and we need to put them down so we could be up.
That is the wrong mentality.
We need to really have a come to Jesus moment, understand that when a rising tide lifts all boats, you can't constantly come in and try to put people down.
And then with the rise of technology on the other side of this equation, trying to win by brute strength and brawn or financial isolation on our opponents is just not going to work.
And look, it's a product made to crumble.
The people in charge, the people who run this, Empire are publicly talking about that it's actually the modern day Rome and that they're going to collapse it and they're going to move their headquarters over to the other side.
And so the people running this empire are running into the ground intentionally.
And that's why we really need a groundswell of true American patriotism to come up.
And just like I always tell people, we grew up saying the Pledge of Allegiance.
What did we say?
Liberty and justice for all.
We swore a Pledge of Allegiance daily as kids.
Liberty and justice for all.
Does that not include Palestinians, Lebanese?
Iraqis, Cubans, Venezuelans, North Koreans, Chinese, Russians, Iranians, are they not included in for all?
Because you look at the way America acts overseas.
I used to say this all the time, and I still think it all the time.
It's just like, what did they do to us?
How did they do this to us?
Like, what have we become?
Because we are not the America that we should be at this point.
And we are being led around by people that do not have our same beliefs.
They believe in collective punishment, they believe in punishing the son for the sins of the father.
I mean, they are brutal, they are inhuman, and they are anti American.
Why are we serving them?
Why are we not enforcing our morality on them?
Ours is better.
Ours is the superior morality, and yet we are subservient to them.
It's ridiculous and it's shameful.
And it exists only because of this subversion and trickery that takes place.
Because if it was a matter of brawn, we wouldn't take crap from anybody, but we do, and we don't need to.
It's so frustrating.
And you and I have been saying this since October 9th, 2023.
America should be the referee.
We should be the one who comes in and goes, You sit down, you sit down.
If either one of you moves again, you're going to have to deal with me.
That should be our role.
I don't want to be the world police, but right now we are the world police, only we're on the side of the bad guys.
So it's like, wouldn't it be better if we did things to benefit the people of the world, benefit the people of the Middle East?
Because, and again, this goes to what you're talking about the mind washing, the brainwashing, the mind control that especially older people in our country have been saddled with.
And it really is one of those things where as soon as you Hear them say, you know, one of these slogans, one of these phrases, you just go, there's no hope here.
Like, we're, you know, if we're talking about the Iran war, we're talking about what's happening in Gaza, and the person just says something like, we know they chant death to America.
And it's like, okay, we're done.
We can't talk anymore because I can tell you have been radicalized to think that we are in a religious crusade struggle against the evil forces of Islam.
And there's nothing I can say to combat that, even if I agree with them.
Even if I say, I agree with you, we should be fighting Islam.
Here's why what we're doing is contrary to that goal.
It still doesn't matter.
The brainwashing is too deep.
Talk about that a little bit, John.
Just again, the brainwashing that people are under and how we talk to people who genuinely feel like we are in a religious war against Muslims and that if we aren't on the side of Israel, then we must be on the side of those darn sand people.
So the most obvious thing is if you go on Wikipedia and it has any analysis of any battle, any conflict, any war, it'll list the belligerents on either side, it'll list the flags and the countries of the people on this side versus.
The flags and the countries and the people on that side.
Just go look at that flag breakdown, and you're going to see the United States is on the side of many Islamic governments that are not good.
Saudi Arabia actually still crucifies people and is not a good place for Christians or even an atheist, or definitely not a good place for a Shiite Muslim.
And so, this idea that we're against Islam is part of their psyop for phase two.
They have multiple phases that they're planning.
If it's up to them, They would eliminate the Muslims that are not controlled by a central leadership out of Mecca, out of Saudi Arabia, and the Islamic cleric, Sheikh or Imam, or the Grand Mufti of Mecca, because he's the custodian of the holy site.
A lot of people don't know this, but it's like the Pope.
It's actually worse than a Pope, because in Sunni Islam, they actually teach that even in your mind, if you question for one second the teachings of this guy, then you're going to hell forever, which is the telltale sign of a Cult that they tell you you're not even allowed to question in your mind are going to go to hell forever.
And so these guys, this is the only form of Islam that they want to exist.
This is a Western controlled form of Islam.
And so the Shiites and the more moderate forms of Islam, they don't want that.
They don't want that.
They're actually working to eliminate that from the earth.
And so they have a plan for a global war of crusaders versus a caliphate.
And that's going to be the huge war to divide the people, then bring about the Antichrist who will make peace between these two factions.
That's really what this is all about they're trying to eliminate the loose ends.
That's the perfect phrase to explain to people what's going on here.
Why are they hell bent on destroying these certain countries and these certain denominations?
What's the deal here?
If they really cared about Islam, they would attack Saudi Arabia.
They don't care about that.
They don't care about that.
They love Saudi Arabia.
They love these other guys because as soon as the Antichrist comes, those people are lined up.
Ready to go.
They're going to follow exactly in line for one world government, one world religion.
The people who are not lined up for that are the traditional Catholics who the Vatican is not really cool with them.
I mean, right now, this current Pope doesn't seem too bad, but traditional Catholics have a lot of problems with their leadership.
They are being treated somewhat bad by their leadership.
Traditional Catholics are not likely to go with one world religion.
Traditional Orthodox are not likely to go with one world religion.
Real traditional Muslims are not likely to go with one world religion.
And real Jews are not likely to go with one world religion.
And those are the people they want to eliminate.
So, there is a religious aspect to this, but it's very complicated because it's about control.
They are using religion for control.
They don't actually care about the theology, except as far as will you be lined up for one world religion?
Will you be lined up for the Antichrist?
Now, God is the true judge.
God is the true one in control.
We have a friend named Conrad, who me and Harrison are hopefully going to have on and talk to.
He's interviewed personally a lot of people about World War III prophecies.
He's somewhat of a World War III prophecy expert.
And he.
Knows this stuff.
And when we talk to him, we're going to figure this out as far as what is God's plan in this?
How is God's vision actually what's going to happen in what's coming?
And remember, the prophecies, the Orthodox prophecies said that you'll be drinking coffee one day and you'll hear Israel hit the Iranian nuclear facilities.
Bam, it happened exactly like that.
Step two, they said Erdogan is going to be replaced.
Now, Erdogan has come out and taken a very strong stance saying he'll jump in the war on Iran's team in a heartbeat because they're activating the Kurds.
Against Iran, and this guy hates the Kurds.
He'd used them as terrorists, they're listed as terrorists in Turkey.
And so, he's like, If you guys activate these terrorists with big support from America, I'm done playing Mr. Night Guy.
I'm going to jump in on the Iranian side 100%.
So, Erdogan is uh biting the hand that feeds him you know, the people who put him in power, people who armed him, people who established him.
He's turning on them, but he's getting too big for his britches, right?
So, he's going to have to be replaced.
And so, that's exactly what the Orthodox prophecy says.
When he gets replaced, eventually.
He will cross the line against Russia and against Greece, which will trigger Russia to actually cause a huge World War III around Constantinople, now called Istanbul, the Bosphorus Straits.
And these are Orthodox Christian prophecies of World War III.
These plans, these futures that I'm discussing are not in the minds of the AI.
It is not in the minds of the elite.
It's not in the minds of the Pentagon.
It's not in their minds.
The God is leading them to a great delusion.
They cannot foresee the true.
Their vision of the future is a delusional vision of the future.
And if you have any doubt in what I'm saying, just remember that five aircraft fell down today, that they're flying Black Hawk helicopters and A 10 Warthogs from the Vietnam War era, right over the top of a country that has some of the best air defenses proprietary in the world.
And so, don't tell me they're not delusional.
They're absolutely delusional.
And even a basic, even a Vietnam War era general would have known not to do this.
A guy in his 80s from the gas station would know not to do this.
So, they're absolutely delusional.
As the Bible says, they'll be given over to a great delusion.
They do not know what the future is.
And World War III, they're not God.
It's important for people to understand they play God, but they're not God.
World War III is going to be a great humbling of the elite of the earth.
And it's going to be an elimination of their power in order to fulfill what the gospel says that the gospel of Christ.
Will be preached to the four corners of the world before the Antichrist will be allowed to take power.
Because spiritually speaking, it is once the Antichrist takes power and they have one world government, the prison planet is made.
They close the door on the prison planet.
The people born in that time, people born and raised during that time, will never hear about Jesus.
They will never have an opportunity to be saved and they will never have even the chance to even think about it because the system, the AI God that will run everything, would even be able to read your facial expressions and determine anybody who could preach the gospel will be eliminated.
In fact, you'll have to worship the image of the beast.
In order to participate in commerce.
And as soon as you worship the image of the beast, you open yourself up to demonic possession.
So they are planning on making Christianity 100% impossible to even exist, outlawed entirely.
And so, in order, spiritually speaking, for that to be allowed to happen to the earth, first, Jesus has to be preached to the four corners of the world, which has not happened yet.
There are millions of people, hundreds of millions who have never heard of Jesus, who have no way to believe in Jesus.
And God is not going to allow them to do their plan.
Which is to roll out the Antichrist in the prison planet as fast as possible.
It's not going to be allowed.
World War III is going to be a very short war, that afterwards there will be a boom of Christianity, a massive spread of people believing in Jesus.
And we will, according to the prophecies, have a 40 year renaissance before they actually can roll out the Antichrist.
Why 40 years?
Why is it 40 years in the Bible?
Probably because that's when people's memory fades.
That's two or three generations.
And then people can be fooled into worshiping the devil because they will have forgotten everything that God did for them.
In World War III.
Now, this is very complicated stuff.
This is very deep stuff.
We're going to have to have a whole episode or a whole thing about this.
I'm going over it really fast because we don't have a lot of time.
But I just want to remind people that God's in charge.
These people are delusional.
This is not being run properly.
And we need to take our country back at the end of the day, though.
Of course, it's kind of a misnomer, but because he's American, he was born in America, his parents are Lebanese, and he Pay attention to what goes on in the Middle East, as you can obviously tell.
He, of course, is my co host on Moonbase Live.
You can follow us on X at Moonbase Live or Moonbase.show.
We're on Rumble at Moonbase Live.
And we will be doing a big episode this week with Conrad where we'll be getting into all this.
Thank you so much for being here with us, folks.
Have a great weekend.
Happy Easter.
And we'll see you on Monday.
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