March 1, 2026 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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James Edwards and Patrick Martin dissect the Israel-Iran conflict’s Purim-linked escalation, with Martin predicting Iran’s resilience via Gulf of Hormuz strikes, drone swarms, and hypersonic attacks already hitting Tel Aviv. They highlight U.S. military’s 50% CSA enlistment while questioning Jewish participation due to left-leaning politics and Vietnam-era disparities—270 Jewish fatalities vs. 500+ from "janissary" surnames. The war may revive Southern nationalism, they argue, as white Southern men feel historically overlooked in conflicts like this. Economic fallout looms: gas prices could surge to $6–$8/gallon, debt double to $76T, and U.S. military supply chains—reliant on China’s rare earths—face collapse, risking the dollar’s reserve status. [Automatically generated summary]
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For the second consecutive week and the third time this year, former government contractor Patrick Martin is back, and he's going to provide a comprehensive, up-to-the-minute update on military actions that have been taken thus far.
That is to say, within the last several hours.
Of course, Patrick Martin holds two master's degrees, including one in Islamic studies.
He has worked in 78 different countries on behalf of the United States government, spending the majority of his time in the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Middle East.
Padrick, I know, as a married man, how precious and valuable Saturday nights are.
You've given us three of them so far and two in the last seven days.
Thank you for being back with us tonight.
The prediction you made last week, others were hoping otherwise.
Unfortunately, you were right.
You said last week we'd be at war by now, and so we are.
Nostradamus.
Hey, Keith, you know, I don't think it was so much Nostradamus.
I think it was looking at the calendar.
This was a weekend in which Jews enter into the holiday of Purim.
Purim is a symbolic holiday.
It comes from the Book of Esther, in which the Jews wind up overcoming an oppressive Persian overlord.
And it happens to be that this is the actual weekend it starts, that Purim starts.
So the symbolism of this happening at this time made a lot of sense to me in general.
I thought that when you had three converging naval fleets in the region, something was going to happen, especially the number of F-22s that had gone into Israel.
The Chinese had been issuing small alerts throughout the region regarding, because they have their own base in Haifa.
For those of you who are not aware, the Israelis used U.S. tax dollars to build a naval base for the Communist Chinese in Haifa.
It was supposed to go to the U.S. Navy in December, sorry, in March 2020.
It went to the Communist Chinese instead.
It was decided in December 2019, Bibi Netanyahu decided to give it to the Communist Chinese instead.
And so you've had this ongoing, you know, sort of putting the pieces in place for some kind of military strike.
And again, the symbolism of Purim, which is a 2,500-year-old blood libel issue with Iran, well, with Persia, but Iran, as it pertains to the Jewish people, is a, was just a kind of a matter-of-fact scenario.
I think it was going to happen no matter what, but especially with Purim emerging, it just made sense that it would happen this weekend.
And so it was, you know, you look at the whole, the total spectrum of what's happening here.
And again, I don't want anybody who's listening right now to think that in any way, shape, or form, I am rooting for the death of American troops, especially we have so many southern boys who are on those ships right now.
They're sitting ducks in the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Hormuz, as well as the Mediterranean.
In fact, the Eastern Mediterranean is closer in striking distance in many ways for some of the missile silos that happen to be firing out of Iran than some of the ships that are in the south to Iran, especially as it goes into the Gulf.
So there's a lot happening right now, as we are all aware, and it's moving.
It's a very fast-moving military exercise, and it's something that I think that the United States is not really ready for.
They don't really understand Iran.
They don't understand the, you know, right now there's a celebration of the killing of the Grand Ayatollah Khamenei.
Ali Khomeini was the leader after Rohola Khomeini in 1989.
He's been a leader for quite some time, but he was an 87-year-old cleric, one of the members, only one of 12 members of the Supreme Council.
And the fact that they killed him, they also reportedly killed his daughter, his son-in-law and his granddaughter as well, in a bombing at his home.
That this is really what you've done is essentially opened up a can of worms with regard to 10% of the world's Muslim population without actually having any material effect on the day-to-day operations of Iran or its overall apparatus, its military apparatus.
It's more of a symbolic kill, so to speak.
So that's where we're at right now.
We've got a lot of young men in harm's way.
And you have an Iran that is, again, I don't think the average American truly understands the strategic paradigm within which we operate.
This is a country that is, from a population perspective, almost four times larger than Iraq.
To put this in perspective as well, Iraq was very sectarian.
It had three different areas.
You had the Kurds in the north.
You had the Sunni, sorry, Shiite marsh Arabs in the very south.
And then the Middle West were the Sunni Arabs.
And the Sunni Arabs, the Baathists, were the primary concern for the Americans when we went to Iraq.
That was only about 67 million people that comprise that one particular cohort, demographic cohort.
Here, we would be fighting almost all 92 million Iranians if we decided to go and boost the ground.
They're only a very small group that's actually involved or thinking about any kind of regime change.
It's got a much more cohesive identity, a much more cohesive religious identity, ethno identity.
About 65% of the country is Persian, 25% is Azeri.
Regardless, they both combine for a Shiite identity, Jafari school of Islam specifically.
This is an identity that goes back to the 7th century.
It is a grounding principle of Iran.
And when you look at it from a geographic perspective, you've got Balochistan, which despises the West.
In fact, the Pakistanis warned the U.S. that they would fire on any aircraft that comes across its airspace.
But you have Balochistan, which is part of Pakistan to the east, to Iran's east, that is.
You have Afghanistan to Iran's east as well.
That's a part of the Hazara community, also a Shiite group that's based in Herat.
Afghanistan, obviously, is not friendly to the United States.
You've got landlocked Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, and Armenia, three countries that are relatively friendly to the United States, but are very difficult to get to unless you want to make friends with Russia all of a sudden.
Or you could get Turkey, and Turkey has no interest whatsoever in getting involved.
And then, of course, you've got Iraq to the west of Iran, and you just killed one of the great leaders of the Iranian, well, sorry, the Jafari school of Islam, the Shiite faith.
You just killed one of their great leaders, in which you've just enraged about 12 million more Iraqis in the south.
So Iraq's out.
And then, of course, you have the cliffs.
And the South has already talked, Padrick, about Turkey being the next great enemy of Israel.
What's the religious makeup of Turkey?
Turkey is mostly Sunni Muslim.
Turkey is interesting because Turkey had a historical hold on the vast majority of the Middle East at one time.
In fact, modern Hebrew is not anywhere near the Aramaic Hebrew that would have been spoken at the time of Jesus Christ.
The Hebrew of today has much more greater linguistic ties to Turkish because of how long the Turks, A, how long the Turks have been in power there, but B, because the vast majority of the Jewish community in Israel are Ashkenazi Jews from the Khazar Region, the Caucasus.
They intermixed with Turkish, Turkic invaders that came from, at one time, had come in from the northeastern regions of Asia.
And when they swung through, they swept up into these Khazar areas and a hybrid version of Hebrew was embraced.
That's the modern Hebrew today.
So they actually speak a Turkic version of Hebrew to this very day.
That's what Hebrew is.
So.
Patrick, one more quick question before we start to scattershot this thing.
And again, it's impossible for a commercial talk radio program to ask every question and cover every angle.
This is unfolding in real time.
There is just a flood of information and, as I said in the first hour, misinformation as well that we're trying to cipher through.
We're going to ask the best questions we can of Patrick Martin this hour, and then we're going to get to Sam Dixon in the next.
But Patrick, you put forth a pretty hard-hitting gab this morning that cited your appearance on the program last week.
With about a minute and change remaining this segment, is there anything else from that missive you'd like to cover before we open it up to questions from the audience, which have been flooding in all day?
Yeah, absolutely.
To point out, I use Gab very much like my own personal blog.
I love the platform.
I think Torb has done a great job with it.
As it pertains to Gab, my Gab host, of course, I cover the strategic reality of Iran, but there's another part of it too.
You know, we went to war in 2003.
We got stuck in Iraq for more than a decade.
You know, you go into Iran today, the United States is not the same anymore as it was in 2003.
We're 20% less white.
The people that have replaced the white race in the United States are now mostly antithetical to the Israelis at best.
We have a great deal of civil strife going on right now.
The left and right are both opposed to this war, but from different angles.
One's this sort of Marxist, anti-colonialist left, and then you have the right that is much more America-first isolationist.
But one other aspect as well about all this is that, you know, the U.S. has a certain standard policy of killing its own sailors to get into wars.
I mean, you saw this with the USS Maine, you saw this the Gulf of Tonkin, you see this with Pearl Harbor.
You know, you've seen these wars that are started when there's a naval attack of some kind.
And it tends to be that for whatever reason, these naval attacks occur, and then we get sucked into a war, and one aircraft carrier would be worth two Pearl Harbors in one five minutes.
So many questions.
Mark Weber and Patrick Martin so far tonight operating at a high efficiency, if I do say so myself.
We'll be right back.
So much more to get into.
And we thank Patrick again for his time.
He's with us the rest of the hour.
Stay tuned.
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So we're with Patrick Martin, who, well, again, I mean, his work as a government contractor has been very well noted.
You can tell his grasp in command of the issues here, but he is also a southern nationalist, and I want to focus on that in a moment.
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But first, I almost laughed, Patrick, when you mentioned earlier in the hour, a few minutes ago, that this isn't the America of 2003.
One of the questions I had for you tonight, and we've had a lot of questions come in today via email that we'll try to get to.
But I was going to say, you know, if people believe that we, and I say we, I mean, this is Zog.
I just live here, right?
I mean, we, as in the United States or the occupied United States, however you, you know what I mean.
Yeah.
That we can just turn the switch and turn on the war machine and turn on this industrial manufacturing based economy.
Like World War II.
This is not the America of 1942.
You said it wasn't the America of 2003.
I was saying it's not the America of 1942.
Is there a universe where Iran can just basically survive this initial blast of ordinance and wait until it runs out?
Is that possible that America, the America that defeated a very formidable Adolf Hitler, cannot do this again?
Of course, empires don't survive guerrilla wars.
We know that.
Yeah, and so this is, in fact, the basis of my thesis back when I was a young idealistic grad student was Iran's use and deployment of non-state armed groups.
I actually stayed in Iraq and in the West Bank, in Gaza, in Lebanon, southern Lebanon, and studied the supply chain systems that Iran used to support Ghulzak Hamas and Hezbollah, as well as Skiri, the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq at the time.
So I know this very, very well.
And the short answer is yes.
The fact here is a lot, there's a multitude of issues right now, not just the U.S., of course, is not the same as 1942.
Obviously, 2003 as well has changed a lot.
We've changed even since the Vietnam War.
We have had multiple changes, demographic shifts, cultural shifts.
The U.S. is really a Blitzkrieg type.
It's really designed for Blitzkriegs.
We like to go in, hit hard, and leave.
And that's really not the way you fight in the Middle East.
You hunker down.
Like I've said before about Iran, Iran is structurally built to bend, not break.
And so what it'll do is it'll bend until the point at which it gets snap back.
And that's exactly what they're going to do.
Kind of like Afghanistan.
Very much like Afghanistan.
The only difference here is that with Afghanistan, you had 12 ethno-linguistic tribes that you can exploit to come at each other.
And as was the two largest ones being the Pashto's in the south and the Tajiks in the north, Tajik speakers in the north.
We were able to exploit that and hold together for about 20 years or so, 20, 25 years, a pathetic piece at best.
Iran is unified.
And so you have a country that is designed to do just what we're talking about here.
And they wouldn't even have to do any kind of terror attacks, for instance, on the U.S. All they would have to do, and they know this, is they can just take out oil fuels they could take out.
Again, the Gulf of Hormuz has just been taken out.
They can put the price of gas at $6, $7, $8 a gallon and get the U.S. to begin fighting itself internally.
And knowing that the U.S. right now is divided so deeply, not just between left and right, but even within the right and within the left.
And so you have this sharp divide that would tear itself apart.
And Iran knows that.
And Iran could sit back and get it.
It's not a manufacturing base anymore.
That's correct.
Yeah, we basically can't produce.
If the Chinese and others stopped giving us product, we'd run out of ammo very quickly.
It's astonishing to really consider that, Patrick, right?
I mean, again, I know it's been a long time since 1942, but they started cranking out those tanks, those vehicles, those planes.
But you're saying that that just absolutely positively cannot be done now and that we will run out.
We, again, we, in air quotations, we, the United States and Israel, will run out of bombs and missiles.
Yes.
Yeah, so our rare earth elements capacity is very short.
In fact, coming into this weekend, most military, this is open source military documentation, but also in congressional areas as well.
We had about 10 years' supply roughly of rare earth elements coming into the weekend.
We don't have the material, the raw materials necessary to fight a war.
Now, the only source for those raw materials to fight a war right now that stands, that has not really been tapped into by any other power, is Greenland.
Greenland is the only place in the world that has the ability to support our U.S. military at this time.
Greenland.
You have to go through a mile of eyes to get to them, too, right now.
We do, but they do have the extraction of materials.
There's a group called Greenland Mining.
It's originally Australians that are based out of it who had a license to get those rare earth elements.
They began doing it, extracting it.
And then in 2021, the government of Greenland took a massive payout from the Chinese Communist Party to impose an environmental restriction stopping the extraction of those rare earth elements.
So he took a massive amount of money, billions of dollars from Chinese government to stop, to cease the mining of rare earth elements.
In fact, the Australians are right now in court in Denmark trying to fight for the right to get back into those mines.
Well, this is what makes, now Trump's position on Greenland is beginning to make a little sense.
Yes, because I mean, if you go into, and by the way, the Iranians know this.
So right now you're looking at for every one of these THADS, these tactical, high-altitude aerial defense missiles that go out there to try to stop these ballistic weapons.
They cost about $15 million per THAD.
And those rare earth elements get drained.
And Lockheed Martin simply does not have the manufacturing capacity to keep going with that.
What's worse is that we send so many Thads to Ukraine that we don't have them for ourselves and we don't have them for Israel.
So what's the Iranian doing?
Iran is very smart.
They know this.
They're bleeding out all of them.
They're essentially taking out all the triangulating signet intelligence, signals intelligence centers in the Middle East that were supporting the U.S. military in Kuwait, in Riyadh Airport, and in UAE.
They've struck all three.
They've wiped those out.
Those THADS have been drained.
Qatar.
They've been able to strike Qatar.
They've been able to strike Bahrain.
All of these have had, they have THADS that are there to protect them.
But they have limited amounts of Thads.
So you've seen more successful strikes.
The Israelis, on the other hand, have had significant numbers of THADS, but that has been dwindling, especially after the summer of 2025.
Lockheed Martin has not been able to keep up with it.
And worse, even if they were able to manufacture these weapons, we do not have the sea lift capacity to move them from point A to point B.
The air, by the way, air capacity is just so limited in terms of its overall efficiency for the movement of THADS and other forms of ballistic missile defense systems that right now they're just draining, draining, draining.
So if you're the Iranians, what do you do?
If you know that, and if Iran knows that, what is Israel thinking?
They're thinking the same thing.
Israel's looking for a kill shot as quickly as it can because they have a limited time.
They're clockwise.
When's the other shoe going to drop, Padrick, about those basically sitting duck aircraft carriers?
When are they going to go after those?
So I think right now the overall Iranian thought is, let's keep this focused on Israel, number one, the massive attacks it is.
But number two, and more important for them, is the U.S. Navy is so heavily dependent upon ground support systems for their intelligence gathering and for signals intelligence.
You knock out those ground support systems at Riyadh in UAE, in Qatar, in Bahrain, in Kuwait.
You now give, now the United States is blind.
The U.S. Navy is blind.
It's got to rely upon its ship-based systems only.
That does not give them the kind of strategic knowledge to know what's coming.
Now, of course, we have satellites involved.
We have other systems involved.
But clearly, all these strikes have not been able to diminish the ability of the Iranians to strike back at Israel.
We've seen this.
So we know that somehow, some way, the Iranians are able to have hid their weapon systems successfully enough so that they continue to strike Israel and strike these other locations.
Plus, the fact that they've got thousands of relatively inexpensive drones that can fly right towards a ship.
So what do you want to do?
You knock out these systems first.
You continue to fire upon Israel.
You get Israel to deplete its STAD systems.
Iron Dome begins depleting.
You begin to trick out the Iron Dome with a multitude of very inexpensive drones.
As they get tricked, eventually now you're able to use your hypersonic missiles almost at will.
And you saw this evening, by the way, only about a couple hours ago, you began seeing hypersonic missiles begin to strike at pinpoint range in Tel Aviv.
Thank you.
And yeah, you've got a commentary.
You add YJ-20 hypersonic anti-ship ballistic missiles that the Chinese have developed.
The Chinese themselves, about roughly almost an hour ago, came out and declared that the United States is the world threat and that they are considering military options to alleviate the pressure in Iran.
That's actually, I want to pick up on that after the next break.
It's our bottom-of-the-hour break.
It's our longer break.
I want to come back exactly right there then.
But first, a very quick question.
And this is just basically a recap and then a follow-up question from our friend Rich, who is on the mend tonight.
And Rich, we wish you the very best in that recovery process.
But it sounds to me, Patrick, that what you're saying is every day Iran can survive, the odds increase for them and decrease that Israel's objectives will be met.
You can agree or disagree with that.
Say yes or no.
And then Rich asks, how effective or ineffective is the Patriot missile system in this conflict?
The first question, yes, that's absolutely correct.
The longer the Iranians can survive this, the better it is for them, the worse it is for Israel.
As it pertains to the Patriot missile systems, the Patriot missile systems that we saw in Ukraine have ever-diminishing returns.
I think there was almost a 30% fail rate, if I'm not mistaken, in Ukraine.
The Iranians are closer to the mark here.
So I would imagine that you'll be looking at closer on a 50% failure rate.
Again, it turns out that the drones are capable of tricking out the Patriot systems.
They're able to, you could send thousands of drones, cheap, cheap drones to try to trick out the system and then just put a hypersonic missile right behind it.
And that's exactly what the Iranians are going to start doing.
Got one thing real quick before we go to break.
This is just some trivial knowledge.
During a political discussion years ago, Pat Buchanan notoriously claimed that, quote, kids with names like McAllister, Murphy, Gonzalez, and Leroy Brown are the ones who're going to fight American wars, unlike Jews.
Do you know how many Jews died in Vietnam?
We'll tell you when we come back.
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The White House says Iran's supreme leader has been killed in a military bombardment carried out by the U.S. and Israel.
In a social media post, President Trump announced that Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei is dead, saying his passing is the single greatest chance for the Iranian people to take back their country.
The president said the assassination is justice for the Iranian people, as well as Americans and others who have been killed or mutilated by the regime.
He said the U.S. and Israel launched combat operations to destroy Iran's long-range missiles and because of failed nuclear talks.
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Welcome back, everybody, with the great Patrick Martin.
I am getting text messages, emails.
I am getting messages by any means available to me.
You are a fast-growing fan favorite, Patrick.
I can't say you haven't been for some years now, but your commentary on this particular topic with your expertise in that part of the world is really par excellence.
Thank you again for being back with us tonight.
And also, knowledge about all these weapon systems.
Well, and we're going to get into that.
I really want to talk about the aircraft carriers, where they're positioned, and why, and what you see happening there.
But first, I want to go back, and I didn't stick the landing there in that last segment right before the break.
It wasn't good timing because I gave everybody five minutes to look up the answer.
The question was, how many Jews died in Vietnam?
Well, and that goes back to someone who was commenting on Twitter today that Pat Buchanan had claimed in an interview that, quote, kids with names like McAllister, Murphy, Gonzalez, and Leroy Brown are the ones who fight America's wars, unlike Jews.
And so the question was asked, how many died in Vietnam?
Now, of the people, you know, you can do anything with Grok now and AI.
Of the people actually named Brown, Murphy, McAllister, Gonzalez as Pat Buchanan Cited, there were over 500 people of those names, just those names that died.
Patrick already knows because we were talking about during the break, but the total number of Jews that died out of the 58,220 total U.S. fatal casualties in Vietnam, the total number of Jews, 270, 0%, 0.4%.
They were all in yeshiva.
So, and I don't know.
I mean, Patrick, we were asking you, and just very quickly because we have to move forward, but if, and not counting Israelis, of American Jews that would be enveloped in this conflict, do you think that the percentage would even be 0.4?
Even though this one much more involved with Israel's vital interest than Vietnam, absolutely not.
I mean, if you think about it this way, you know, if you got 2% of the population and say 1968 in the Vietnam Wars, the height of the Vietnam War, and you had a draft, the odds of about a 2% chance of the population getting 2% of them into military combat were at least there, you know, from some kind of draft.
This is a volunteer military force.
A guy like Shalomo Schwartzmann is not going to go join the Marine Corps on purpose.
And if he is, he's not going to combat arms.
So, I mean, let's be very honest here.
I mean, these are folks that typically they lean left anyway.
I think it's something like 75%, 80% of the Jewish community in the United States happens to be left-wing, left-leaning in general.
And the idea of putting themselves in line this way is there'll be a few.
I mean, I reckon there might be a lot of us as they're janissaries.
Yeah, I mean, that's exactly it.
We are southern bloodbags, and that's what we are.
And this is essentially, you know, we are the janissary class.
We're the fighting men.
We're the largest from a demographic region.
There's U.S. Southeast South, the former CSA.
I shouldn't say the Southeast because it's also Texas involved as well.
The former CSA, let me put it that way, is something close to around 50% of all enlisted members.
And even though the Biden administration tried very hard to try to change that demographic, and especially when you had young men that didn't want to join Global Homo, didn't want to have a transgender colonel telling them what to do, and certainly didn't want to take a COVID vaccine, that may have changed some things with regard to recruitment as we saw everything kind of dropped like a rock.
I'm going to talk about that.
Yeah, they would.
I want to talk about that right now.
So I put it on Twitter today, and of course, I'd been off Twitter for three years.
They never restored.
We had to start from scratch and haven't really cultivated it.
So we're still sitting there with just a lot of follow-up account.
Yeah, exactly.
Another feeling.
But as I put it on there today, I got active today after in light of today's actions.
And as I put it, Warhawks Feast, but Main Street pays the butcher's bill.
And that's Main Street, Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida.
You know, understandably, white Southern men, young men, teenagers, who had been quite understandably skeptic about joining any sort of military involvement under the Biden regime.
You know, you have Pete Hegseth come in.
He makes it look a little more plausible.
I'm not talking about people who are in our camp, but, you know, good, God-fearing young people.
Trump turned around men who, you know, Hegseth appeals to them.
Our people love to fight, Patrick.
You know that.
If you've ever been to a meeting of Southerners, we love to fight.
We love to fight each other.
But we do love to fight above all.
But we haven't fought in our own interests since 1865.
Do you believe that if this is a protracted thing, it could breathe life back into Southern nationalism?
I do.
You know, this is just something to point out real quick.
And I think this is, honestly, I think this is something that people don't really wrap their heads around.
You know, Hollywood, Jewish Hollywood, takes propaganda and turns it into war from a Jewish-controlled Congress that wants those wars and a Jewish-controlled Wall Street that makes money on those wars.
But the people that go and fight this are young Southern boys for the most part.
And they join these military units and they go out there and they wind up dying.
They watch their friends die, but they don't die.
They watch their friends die.
They may get injured.
They then come back to these United States.
And what did they do for the last 20 years?
They came back to these United States to find that their statues to their grandfathers were torn down, that their culture was decimated, that they themselves were demonized for being white and male and heterosexual.
They were vilified.
They were spit upon.
Their culture was destroyed and rampaged.
They've had places where farmlands before are now condominiums to a rootless class of parasites that come and take their area and just depart.
They've got no jobs left anymore.
All those manufacturing jobs were sent over by that Wall Street that went to places like China that hate them even more.
And what do they get to do?
They get to work a minimum wage job at Walmart and hope that they can survive.
And the irony here is at the end of the day, they go home to their trailer with their American imperial flag flying above them and do not understand that they have a very hard time trying to equate what they are literally experiencing on a day-to-day basis.
Why there's 22 veterans killing themselves every single day.
They're trying to figure this out.
How can I give everything I have, my heart, my soul, my body, to a U.S. empire that has come back and taken down monuments to my grandfather, that have ripped down the flag of my ancestors, that have torn out from underneath me the very foundation upon which generations of my people were built, and then spit upon me for being a white male, demonized me for being a white male, and then asked me to go fight again,
to go fight this time for the very same Jewish class that has led these protests, that has led this demonization to me, that has led the removal of those Confederate monuments.
How dare they do that?
And yet at the same time, those young men every single day will fly that American flag.
They'll have those grunt-style t-shirts with the American flag emblazoned on the side of them, the very flag of their oppressor, and they'll go to work at Walmart and they'll come back and they'll open up their crappy beer with their TV dinners and do the same thing all over again.
And they never get out of it.
And they send the next generation of young men, their sons, to go fight for the same wars for the same people that die for the same reasons.
And one of the reasons we can't get ahead in the new America is because STEM is very important, science, technology, engineering, mechanical.
And because of the ruination of the public schools by Brown versus Board of Education and the civil rights movement, another Jewish-run and financed initiative, they want to replace us with Dodd Indians and Chinamen and whatnot over here for all the good paying jobs.
It's just, you know, when are people going to wake up?
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Well, I got to say one thing very quickly, Patrick.
That's a great question.
I mean, we've been waiting for that since 1865, right?
I mean, for them to wake up again.
But a comment here from a local listener, Todd, is listening, and he says, the guy you're talking to is a genius.
Well, he's not kidding, Patrick.
We're talking to you.
And, you know, there's a lot of people who have streams and podcasts and all the other things.
We're still the only ones that have ever done it on AM radio.
And for 22 years, we're done on AM radio.
And I know that the new media is taking center stage, but there are still people that put stock in so-called legacy media.
And we're glad to be able to stake out this position here and here on AM 1600 WMQM in Memphis and bring voices like Patrick Martin.
I mean, see, people stumble on to us on the AM radio and they get hooked.
They really do.
Oh, that's because of people like you, Patrick.
But then again, of course, you know, so many people listening online on the internet.
I mean, it has been a symbiotic thing.
I mean, we've needed both.
But nevertheless, that is a local listener.
And Todd, thank you so much for that comment.
And we will talk more about you, Todd, later.
But yeah, so, I mean, this is where we are now as Southerners.
It is what it is.
When we come back from this next break, we're going to be talking about the aircraft carriers that are over there, particularly the Gerald Ford, the USS Gerald Ford.
I mean, you know, again, I think that's actually symbolic, Padrick, in a way.
Because, I mean, could you think of a more mediocre man to name the flagship of your fleet after?
I mean, better.
Millard Fillmore aircraft carrier.
A little bit better than the USS Harvey Milk that's been sailing around for so many years.
But I mean, you know, the Gerald Ford, I mean, say what you will about Lincoln.
At least he was a wartime president.
Ford, this is supposed to be the gem, the crown jewel.
The irony about the Ford is that Ford was shot twice or shot at twice because you've been shot twice, but you shot at twice.
So who knows what will happen this time around?
Lincoln was hit.
Yeah, he sure was, wasn't he?
Well, we'll be right back.
We're going to talk about the position of the USS Gerald Ford and what Patrick thinks it means.
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We're doo-whoppers here.
In the early 60s, well, there wasn't that much of it then.
Peter Paul and Mary, yeah, that's the soundtrack of the Civil Rights Movement.
Well, that's mid-60s.
But nevertheless, that's Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction.
Now, I couldn't play the rest of the song because the later verses are all about how the white southerners were evil for trying to preserve civilization at the same time as Vietnam.
But nevertheless, Barry McGuire, interestingly, became a Christian after that and played Peter in a very popular passion play called The Witness that I had the opportunity.
My dad used to take me to see that in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
But anyway, the first part of that is certainly relative to what we are talking about tonight.
Just a quick question, a quick, quick, quick hit on this, Patrick, and I want to ask you about the USS Gerald Ford.
Last summer, when the bombs dropped, the markets were closed so far.
Now, here they are as well.
Do you believe that this is a weekend war, or do you believe that America is positioned now for the long haul?
I would say it's positioned at least for the medium haul.
Let's put it that way.
There's no question about it that it's going to go past through the weekend, and this week will be an interesting one, I would say, for the global bond markets more than anything else.
It's going to go on for a while.
Well, the thing is, though, based on what we've said, we can't go for the long haul.
Even the medium haul, we're going to run out of weapons.
All right, Keith, good point.
So, what would you say?
How long, and it's astonishing to believe you can defeat Germany in World War II, but you can't do the same here.
And now, there's a lot of different.
We know how much has changed and why it has changed and why that may be.
But how long do you think America can continue to provide ordinance for this cause of Israel's?
Honestly, I can say maybe about a month or so.
So, if Iran makes it a month, they're on the home stretch.
Yeah, we'll have to do what they did in Vietnam.
Remember the senator or something that told Johnson said, or not Johnson, Nixon said, what are we going to do?
How can we get out of this?
He said, just declare victory and get the hell out.
Well, that's what Trump did last summer.
We'll see how long it takes him to do it again.
But Patrick is saying basically, if Iran can hold steady a month, this whole thing turns on its head.
Also, relative to World War II, the U.S. has done Rich Wright's, our friend here still tuned in live.
The U.S. has done to Iran twice what we accused the Japs of doing in 1941, negotiating under false pretenses while they bombed Pearl Harbor.
Very good point.
Now, I want to ask you this.
This is, I want to read this with regards to the USS Gerald Ford.
I mean, imagine the morale of that ship.
How are you supposed to get excited when you're not?
You know, give me the USS Charles Martel.
Give me the USS Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Give me anything but Gerald Ford.
I mean, you know, I could even take one of our oppressors.
I mean, even the Lincoln is more inspirational than SS Tiny Tim.
All right, here it is.
Patrick, tell me if you agree or disagree with this.
This was sent in.
The USS Gerald R. Ford is not parked near Iran.
It is parked off Israel.
And nobody's asking the question that matters.
Why?
The $13.3 billion crown jewel of the U.S. Navy, the largest warship ever constructed, just positioned itself off of Israel, not in the Arabian Sea, where the Lincoln sits 850 kilometers from Iranian shores, loaded for offensive operations, not in the Gulf where strike range is opposite to the United States.
They want to attack it like the USS Liberty.
Off Israel, defending Israel.
This is not redundancy.
This is architecture.
Two carriers, two missions, two entirely different strategic functions.
The Lincoln is the sword positioned to launch the strike packages into Iranian airspace.
The Ford is the shield.
The missile defense systems creating an umbrella over Israel population centers against the retaliation that follows the first tomahawk.
So basically what this commentator is saying is that Iran cannot retaliate against Israel without engaging American naval assets.
The Ford's position makes it physically impossible.
The carrier is not defending Israel as a favorite.
It is positioned so that any Iranian response to American strikes automatically becomes an attack on American forces, triggering the full unrestrained weight of U.S. military response without a single additional political decision required.
It basically just says that any Iranian offensive will have to go over or through or into the Ford.
So I somewhat disagree with that.
First of all, anybody, if you look at the way the, I agree with you that it's likely that there is some level of attempted defense of Israel, that does make sense.
But it's also, if you look at a map in general, it's actually closer to fire from off the coast of the Levant to get to some of the strategic locations of western Iran, where a great deal of their weapon systems are, especially in the Zagros Mountains, which are used as a protective barrier for the Iranians.
So if you look at that western periphery of Iran, there's a Zagros Mountains there.
It is easier to strike from the Mediterranean and Eastern Mediterranean than it is from the Persian Gulf.
So there is a strategic purpose for longer range attacks, especially with the F-35's limitations.
And the F-35 also has not just limitations with regard to its total distances that it can travel, but also its limitations as it pertains to what it can carry.
And the idea here is that you can use strategic bombers from the Air Force that may be based in St. Louis, Missouri.
That would, like a B-2 bomber, for instance, that can get around the world and actually do some major strategic strikes at that level.
But at the end of the day, if you really want to hit these ballistic silos and really, more importantly, the drone encampments, which are dispersed throughout Iran, you really got to get low to the ground.
You've got to be able to find them.
You've got to see them.
You've got to strike them.
And that requires you a different type of war-fighting machine.
And that warfighting machine needs to be able to carry a payload capacity, not only capable of reaching that western periphery of Iran, but also to be able to get back to its ship in a safe manner.
And so that's something that really cannot be launched from the Persian Gulf.
It requires you to be in the Eastern Mediterranean.
All right.
So that having been said, and that now being understood, what do you think will be the repercussions here, felt here, at least, by the American citizens?
You mentioned gas prices could go really whatever Iran wants them to go.
$6, $8 a gallon, even here in Tennessee now, $6, $8 a gallon in California is one thing we're paying $2 and change here now in Tennessee.
Do you believe that sleeper cells will be activated?
What do you believe will manifest in the very near term, the next days?
I understand that in California, they have a big Iranian population, and Gavin Newsom is trying to monitor the situation.
Yeah, I don't think the, to be honest, I don't think there's a sleeper cell major dynamic in the U.S. There might be a few folks.
The biggest area, of course, of concern would be the New York area because having U.N. diplomatic immunity, the Iranians are able to bring in just about anything they want into the airport and bypass U.S. security, and they have a 50-mile range in which they can travel on that diplomatic immunity.
So therefore, if somebody really wanted to strike, New York would be the most logical target simply by virtue of its location, its proximity to the United Nations.
Now, that said, and the California Iranian community is primarily a diaspora community that came as a result of the overthrow of the Shah.
So I'm not really too concerned with them, but I would look at New York, but even sleeper cells.
I think the bigger issue is this.
Every time we've gone to war, we've essentially doubled our debt.
We are right now at $38 trillion in counting.
We're at 101% of our GDP.
When we went into the Iraq war, we are at $6 trillion in debt and only 57% of our GDP.
We are now paying more money in interest payments to pay our debt than we are paying our military budget in general.
That's called a debt spiral.
That's exactly right.
So this is what killed the British Empire.
And this is why we no longer have the British pound as a reserve currency running over the U.S. dollar.
If you want to kill the Americans, you kill their reserve currency status.
That's the way you do it.
And the way they do it is through suicide.
The Americans go in, they try to go, if they extend this war, the debt will rise.
Let's just say it rises only 25%, 125%.
Well, at 125%, that's one problem.
The second problem is if gas prices rise, say $4 a gallon, which Trump has done a very good job, excellent job at not only reducing the gas prices, but understanding that gas prices because of transportation costs have a direct correlation to inflation.
It reduces the cost of goods in general.
In order to fight inflation, what do you have to do?
You really have to constrain your dollar through the use of higher interest rates.
So what happens next?
You find yourself in a situation where your gas prices are $4 or $5 a gallon because oil has been disrupted significantly around the world, which Iranians can do with the Gulf of Hormuz.
You now have a U.S. A country that's at $4 a gallon.
Well, what does the new Fed chair have to do?
He has to raise interest rates.
That not only stops your housing boom that Trump was relying upon for the fall, it winds up raising inflation again, just like it did under Biden.
The American population goes into inflation.
Now, all of a sudden, you've got $25 McDonnell Big Mac meal is $25.
You begin having this reverberating effect throughout the overall economy.
Worst of all is that as you go, the worst of all is that your payment on your debt winds up exceeding the amount of intake that you get in from taxes.
You destroy the U.S. economy from within, and you ultimately take away the U.S. reason to be the world's global reserve currency, as what happened with Britain after World War II.
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