April 5, 2026 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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Patrick Martin joins James Edwards to discuss Confederate History Month, arguing secession is a human right against globalist oppression while critiquing the Southern Baptist Convention's embrace of Jewish dispensationalism. They analyze Iran's strategic victory in destroying U.S. Navy logistics and isolating GCC allies, attributing President Trump's stance to Christian Zionist influence that prioritizes Israel over other nations. Martin warns the petrodollar collapse could trigger a 35% economic loss, near-40% unemployment, and 20% interest rates, suggesting this trap stems from Israeli influence before Edwards wishes him a happy Easter. [Automatically generated summary]
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Secessionist Movements Rise00:11:00
You're listening to the Liberty News Radio Network and this is The Political Cesspool.
The Political Cesspool, known across the South and worldwide as the South's foremost populist conservative radio program.
And here to guide you through the murky waters of the political cesspool is your host, James Edwards.
Special week it is when Easter and Confederate History Month merge here on TPC.
Welcome back to our live broadcast.
It's Easter weekend.
We celebrate the resurrection tomorrow and we kick off Confederate History Month officially now, right now, this hour.
Last week at Dixie Republic, a soft launch, if you will.
If you can call it soft with 200, 300 guys there.
But now Patrick Martin is back and he'll be wearing dual hats.
You know him, of course, as the former government contractor who has been with us several times already this year to talk about.
Iran.
He's going to be delivering his latest analysis on that ongoing conflict later this hour.
But first, right now, we'll remind you that Patrick Martin is also a Southern nationalist.
He is the co editor and contributing author to The Honorable Cause of Free South.
That was a book that came out three years ago this week.
In fact, Patrick, it was three years ago this week that we were once again at Dixie Republic for the official book launch.
Had a line of people there to get signed copies.
And I appreciate you so much.
For putting that book together and for giving me the distinct honor of having written the opening chapter.
How are you tonight, my friend?
I'm doing great, James.
Thank you very much for having me back on the show.
That was an amazing weekend three years ago.
We had quite a crowd that came to meet the authors and launch the book and really make the argument that it was an honorable cause, both.
The South's desire to secede was an honorable cause.
It's still an honorable cause.
And I think it will remain an honorable cause right up to the moment at which it happens.
It becomes more and more important as time goes by.
You know, I'm amazed how I come to the conclusion how right our ancestors were that we need to be two nations.
Well, you know, Keith and Padrig, it's interesting because I received word that Alberta is the province of Alberta in Canada is entertaining secession.
And prior to the Trump. Era, many parts of the country, not just the old Confederacy, were looking into and inquiring about the idea.
There are several secessionist movements afoot right now.
If the radical left comes back into power in 2028, I think you're going to see interest in this skyrocket once again.
And so let's talk about that.
We're going to talk to you about this for a couple of segments, and then we're going to get into Iran again.
But so this book, of course, Patrick, you wrote a foreword.
And concluding thoughts.
Neil Kumar contributed, Dr. Michael Hill, who you'll hear from folks this month, of course.
Yours truly.
Several contributors.
There were 12 of them in total.
But Ann Wilson Smith, the daughter of Professor Clyde Wilson and the author in her own right of Charlottesville Untold.
Rebecca Dillingham, dissident mama, as you know her.
Of course, Patrick.
That was a special book.
That was a very special project to have worked on.
Why?
Why, Patrick, are we still talking about the Confederacy in 2026?
Why are we still revering these heroes so long since past?
I think self determination is just a human right.
And that's something that I think is deeply ingrained.
And by the way, Keith, I'm sorry, but hello.
How are you doing?
It's good to hear your voice.
Yeah, I shouldn't introduce myself.
Going back to it, I think secession in general is a human right.
It's okay, buddy.
It's good to hear your voice, sir.
But yeah, it is a human right.
So what you have is, throughout the world, really, The idea for self determination is important, and we are now.
I think it's become even more important because you see this sort of globalist, in my opinion, demonic alignment of folks who are trying to shove an agenda down the throats of individuals who really just want to be left alone and want to speak their mind and speak their peace and worship God and live their lives.
And instead, what they have are these ever increasingly more interconnected and I think more oppressive governments than ever before.
So in 1861, you know, obviously the South was looking to cut, you know, cut itself off from what the Union had become.
It was not working for them.
Actually, for years prior to that, the fire eaters, those Southern nationalists who had been writing about secession for two generations prior to the election of 1860.
So the idea that, well, Lincoln just comes along and now all of a sudden the South just wants to secede because they want to keep their slaves, that's clearly not true.
This had been going on even when the North still had slaves of their own.
So, the idea of secession and breaking apart.
So, this was a concept that had been building up, and a lot of that was really self determination, very distinct peoples.
And now I think this is really beginning to, you're starting to see this amplified in some ways.
So, the more we as individuals try to carve out just a little piece of our own peace, so to speak, here on this earth before we go on to heaven, we have governments that are increasingly.
That are encroaching upon those very liberties.
And you see that happen in the European Union with regard to countries, how they treat countries like Hungary, how they treat countries like Romania.
They overthrew an election in Romania.
You see that happen in the United States where the government clearly, the COVID, the pandemic had occurred that wound up having a devastating impact and very distinct differences between the way the South approached it, especially states like Florida and Georgia versus states like New York and Illinois.
And now you see this, you move on.
You look at what happens during the Biden administration.
The deep control of censorship that occurred throughout social media.
The idea that free speech for us is a paramount right in the South.
It always has been a paramount right in the South.
Patrick Henry, the very words of Patrick Henry, the very words that came out of those early Virginia Cavaliers that had really made the American Revolution possible.
But the fear that they would also be an ever encroaching government.
And sure enough, that has happened.
So you see this as part of this distinct need.
Of human beings to be able to carve out their own path and getting crushed by an ever increasing leviathan of globalist government.
Clearly, a government in the United States, D.C., is concerned, doesn't share any of the values of your regular people, does not, even with Trump involved, a lot of folks are very happy with Trump.
You see this happen a lot.
And Dr. Hill, who is, I think, an amazing man, Dr. Hill made a statement years ago, probably about 10 years ago, he said, or maybe 10 years ago, he said, you know, the election of Trump.
It's going to have Southerners drop their guard and don't do that.
You know, you really can't drop your guard.
Just because it's Trump, Trump's not going to be able to save you.
There's no saving.
There's no refining.
There's no taking this union and making it better or improving upon it.
I have to interject very quickly on this and then toss it to Keith.
And then I want to have you in the next segment reconcile our faith and heritage as Southerners before we move on to Iran.
But, you know, Michael Hill, he's going to be on to close Confederate History Month later this month.
But I was with Michael the first Saturday of.
After Trump's reelection.
So, this is going back to, of course, the first Saturday in November of 2024.
And we were at a meeting together.
And he had voted for Trump.
He voted for Trump every time.
So, he voted for him while also saying that.
And, you know, I fall into that category as well.
And it's, you know, it's an interesting thing.
I at once agree with everything you just said in quoting Michael Hill, but also in voting for him, even as Southern nationalist, because, I mean, Why wouldn't we have?
Keith?
Well, we can't find anybody that wants to represent us.
We thought that Trump was going to represent us, and we see now that he represents Jews over everybody.
Well, at least on this issue that people are.
Yeah, about Iran.
Well, basically, you know, money talks and BS walks, as they say, and that's a lesson that we keep learning.
But let me tell you.
Well, you've got to make more money.
Well, you know, everybody, every president in America since 1912 on has had to deal with them, and, you know, he's not unusual in that regard.
We've got to take a break.
When we come back, we're going to ask Patrick Martin.
Sorry for that interruption, Patrick.
I wanted to interject that because it's something I'm going to ask Michael about when he comes back, if he regrets those votes.
It's an interesting topic.
We'll be right back.
We're going to reconcile faith and heritage with what's going on next.
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First, restart, restart.
Every single
one of these songs tonight.
tonight.
I can sing by heart.
This is how I grew up.
It was a wonderful experience.
I marinated in those pews every Sunday morning at a little Southern Baptist church.
Maybe on a good Sunday, it ran 80 people.
Maybe.
Wonderful expression of the faith.
And Patrick, that's what I want to come back to here now reconciling our faith and heritage in an apostate era.
Our friends Bill and Ruth Ann Holly in Tennessee, listening tonight, dear friends of the program.
And she sent me an email this week referring to the South and our independence as a just and righteous cause.
Reconciling Faith and Heritage00:12:10
She also mentioned, Patrick, that the South is Christendom's last stand.
Throughout the mother continent of Europe, you see these beautiful cathedrals.
You see, they're so beautiful, they're breathtaking.
They're turning into moss.
Well, I mean, they are museums at the very best.
I was in Germany.
I was in.
The city where Martin Luther was tried about 20 years ago.
And there's a beautiful cathedral there.
You pay money, you tour it.
Nobody goes there on Sunday.
Here in the South, they still fill the churches.
There are churches everywhere in our beloved Southland.
She also sent me this quote The South stood against the twin demons of communism and unbridled industrialism, both promising an increasingly mechanized and dehumanized America.
If the South is to survive, if Our people are to survive if the faith is to survive.
How attached is it, Padrig, to the American South?
I think it's a great question.
First of all, one thing that's very important is when you're a Christian, Christianity is probably the most individualistic faith there is.
There's no more individualist faith than Christianity, being that you can only become a Christian, and this is my Belief if you have personally chosen to accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, that's it.
That's the only way you are a Christian.
You can tell me you're a Christian every which way possible, but if you have not actually said that Jesus Christ is my Savior, you're not a Christian.
That's just that I just believe that.
And that requires your membership by being a member of a particular race or a particular nationality.
Yeah.
Absolutely right.
Yes, sir, absolutely right.
And that's the thing to think about here.
So, when you look at it, for instance, you look at everything.
Judaism is a matrilineal line, it requires your mother to be Jewish in order for you to be Jewish.
Otherwise, most Jews do not believe you can convert to Judaism.
You have Islam, which can be compelled.
You can be compelled to embrace Islam through threats, harassment, taxation, et cetera.
Shintoism is dependent upon your ancestors.
Hinduism is dependent upon your previous life.
Every other aspect, every other faith in the world believes in some other link to God that is outside of the individual's control.
Christianity is the only faith that says Jesus is in my heart.
The Holy Spirit has filled me and he is in my heart.
Now, think about this for just one moment.
Where in these United States do you see the strongest concentration of Christianity?
The South.
The South is, by definition, a society.
Very right, it doesn't even get close to it.
And by definition, the South is an individual society, it always has been from its very inception.
This comes from an Anglo Celtic belief in the idea that the individual should be free to achieve their ultimate possibilities, that they are responsible for their own deeds, they're responsible for their own acts, they're responsible for their own words, and they are responsible at the end of the day for their own salvation through the acceptance of Jesus Christ.
That does not, you cannot find that anywhere else.
That is a unique Southern society.
It cannot be broken.
And that is why, you know, again, and I'm sorry I missed the name of the individual you're talking about, but she's right.
They are right in that I work with Europe every single day.
And I like them.
I like the Europeans a lot.
I like the French.
I like the Italians.
I speak with them every day.
I'm on business meetings all the time.
But at the end of the day, they're just not us.
And they have lost that sense of Christian identity that one time propelled them to great heights.
And I've seen folks who've said, Well, you know, Christianity was a handcuff.
It's not.
Sorry.
Let me ask you this.
No, no, no.
Let me ask you this.
I appreciate what you're saying, and I love the faith of Europe.
I love the tradition of Martin Luther going back, you know, 500 years now.
I love all of it.
I even love the Borgia Pope.
I mean, I love all the way back to Peter, the rock upon which the church was cemented.
I love it all.
I understand the history there.
Europe is synonymous with the faith.
Europe is the faith, and the faith is Christendom.
But now, I mean, as far as actual factual believers, you know, fundamentalism gets a bad rap.
I mean, if you are a Christian fundamentalist, it means you believe in the fundamentals of the faith, as I do.
And it really only exists now sectionally in the American South.
Now, I want to ask you this because it is Confederate History Month, and we talked about how the Southern Baptist Church was born prior to the war between the states over a disagreement with Baptist.
At large and in the North, over the question of whether or not missionaries could be slave owners.
But the Southern Baptists is the largest Protestant denomination in the world still, even though they've, through wokeism, been hemorrhaging members for decades.
And they've done so much.
They have every Christmas something called the Lottie Moon Christmas offering.
Lottie Moon, named after Charlotte Moon, nicknamed Lottie, and her sister Virginia, Jenny.
Lottie Moon was a Confederate spy.
She is known to Southern Baptists for being a missionary to China.
But prior to that, she was a Confederate spy and courier during the war between the states, and she utilized her intelligence.
And her social status to assist the South.
Lottie gathered intelligence and passed through Union lines information.
She was born into a wealthy Virginia family.
Her family held pro Confederate views.
Her brothers served in the Confederate Army.
She was a spy.
This is Lottie Moon, who still to this day, the Southern Baptist Convention builds their entire Christmas missionary offering around her name.
She's associated with daring exploits in Virginia and Tennessee.
Stories suggest he used disguises to pass information and assist in transporting medicine and intelligence, so on and so forth.
You see this all the time.
You see it all the time.
This is just one example.
But as a Southern Baptist, I know, of course, I always remember the Lottie Moon Christmas offerings growing up.
They still do it.
This is not unique.
I mean, the South then and now is still the bastion of Christianity, not only here in the North American continent, but really in the world.
And you had, of course, the Southern Baptist Convention going back 10 years ago, and the convention president at that time, Steve Gaines, just died last week.
But the ones that expelled my church because my pastor wouldn't roll over on me, you know, this is their heritage, and they better square with it one way or the other because this is.
I hate to throw shade on the celebration of the South and its fundamentalist religion, but unfortunately, we have now embraced the greatest heresy of the age, I think, with Jewish dispensationalism.
Well, it.
Be that as it may, Patrick, going back to the day, if you were a Southerner, you were a Christian, and there is no conflict.
As Russell Moore said, Russell Moore said at one time, you could not have the Christian Bible and the Confederate flag next to one another without one setting the other on fire.
Well, he's been set on fire, and he is forgotten now.
All right.
But the Christians in the South live on.
But what can we do about how do we square this with this Schofield Bible history?
Heresy.
Just one minute to go, Patrick.
You can take it any way you want, but to say you are pro South, pro Confederate, and pro Christian is not something that is in conflict.
Yeah, that's right.
That is incredibly linked.
I think it's interesting because I go to a Reformed Baptist church that would previously be a member of the SBC, it was also kicked out by Mr. Steve Gaines as well.
It was kicked out of the SBC because the pastor endorsed a book written by Martin Luther.
And so I would say this you're absolutely right, Keith, and that dispensationalism is the anchor, in my opinion, to the full potential of Southern Christianity.
Dispensationalism has to be one of the targets.
Because what it does is it develops an idea that there's a co chosen people.
Both the Jewish people and the Christian people are co chosen.
And that just simply is not biblical.
There's only one way to get to heaven, and that is through Jesus Christ.
And Southerners have accepted this in a way that is just cannot be broken.
It's part of the Southern identity.
And that really needs to be reinforced in ways that I think even many Southerners have forgotten how important that is to their identity at many times and needs to be reminded of.
Absolutely.
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He will never, never leave me, nor yet forsake me here, while I live by faith and do his blessed will.
Oh, all of fire about me, I've nothing.
now to fear with this manna he my hungry soul shall fear then sweeping up to glory i'll see his blessed face where rivers of new life You know, here's the thing about it, folks.
I believe that Jesus Christ was the Son of God.
I believe he died on the cross.
I believe it all.
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But, Patrick, it has been a wonderful life to grow up as a son of the South and to grow up singing these songs and to grow up in this expression of the faith of our fathers.
You ever grow up listening to these songs, Patrick?
I mean, the things we're playing tonight, I mean, this was it for me every Sunday.
Yeah, so I did not.
I grew up in an Irish Catholic household, and my wife did.
My wife had a very, very strong Baptist background, most of her people in Alabama and Georgia.
And, you know, as a kid, my dad is Presbyterian, so a member of the Frozen Chosen.
So they didn't have any kind of spirit at all.
Neither my mother's faith being Catholic and my dad being Presbyterian.
And see, my mother was an English girl.
There was no oomph to it.
There were some beautiful songs.
Yeah, I was saying that my mother was an English war bride.
Yeah, it was you, her.
Yeah, and the nearest thing to the Anglican church was the Episcopal church.
So I wound up there, a working class kid among all these wealthy people.
Well, Keith's got his polo shirt on tonight with the Union Jack on the breastplate.
So he's always applying the standards here in Confederate History Month.
The South comes first.
If I could have had one with a Confederate flag on, I'd have bought it.
Indeed.
They weren't giving those up.
They're too valuable.
I got you one at Dixie Republic last week.
I should have done that.
You should have.
All right, Patrick, let's get to this.
Let's get to this.
So you are wearing dual hats tonight.
You are a Southern nationalist, but you are also a former government contractor.
I got to tell you, Patrick, I was crawling out of my skin during the month of March because, you know, March Around the World here on TPC.
We've got to interview exclusively people from abroad.
And I'm looking back on our broadcast calendar for this year so far.
You appeared with us on January the 10th to talk about the invasion of Venezuela.
You were back with us on February the 21st and February the 28th to talk about Iran.
So February the 28th would have been the last week going into March Around the World.
And then here we are now, the first week in April coming out of March Around the World.
That's how fast and how eager we were to have you back.
And thankfully, even though we are in Confederate History Month now, you can play that role too.
But now we need to talk about Iran.
So you are very well informed on the topic.
Since the last week in February, going now on 30 plus days, a lot has happened.
Trump has given an address to the nation.
According to him, we've won the war like 20 times by now, but yet American planes are still being shot down this weekend.
What's going on?
Give us a set of questions.
Tell us what is important, what's really important on it.
Yeah, so last time I was on the show, I'd said the longer Iran lasts, the better it is for Iran.
And I think that's accurate.
Again, Iran was a focus of my thesis.
It was a focus of my studies.
It was a focus of my work in the ground for the better part of 20 years as part of the GWAT.
I've worked a lot on Iranian proxies, especially Hezbollah.
So, I mean, this is not, nothing is happening that's really surprising me.
You know, if we want to intertwine this really with Southern history, almost everything that the South did, Iran is doing the opposite and is beating the Union, speeding these United States.
They are winning strategically.
And what I mean by that is the very first time a commodity was ever used as a bargaining ship was after the Industrial Age, that is, when the South decided not to ship its cotton, the King Cotton policy, to England and France, hoping that it would inspire them to enter the war on behalf of the South.
And it very nearly did.
Now, that was the very first time that a commodity was used in the industrial era to try to persuade somebody diplomatically to enter the war on their behalf.
Iran's doing almost the exact opposite.
Iran is allowing its oil to continue to flow.
In fact, it got to the point where even the United States had to release its own sanctions on Iranian oil.
And that oil that they are now allowing to go through the Strait of Hormuz, now they're charging a toll and so forth, they're allowing that to continue to flow because they know.
That gives them a certain level of diplomatic leverage.
But there's another aspect as well they're doing, and that is they have destroyed the logistics capacity of the U.S. Navy.
It was pretty much so clear from day one what they were going to do.
They started doing this.
They wound up striking the bases, air bases in Bahrain, sorry, the naval base in Bahrain, the air base in Qatar.
They wound up hitting all of the regional signals intelligence facilities, whether it was in Dubai or in Kuwait.
So they've been able to very successfully knock out.
The entire really blind the U.S. in many ways, and also continue to knock out their logistics ability.
Which now, if you see what happened recently, the Ford had to leave the region and go to Djibouti to have Nessar Paris to his laundry room after a fire was started by apparently an anti war sailor.
They had to go to Djibouti.
Now, Djibouti is right within the crosshairs of the Houthis, who are allied with Iran.
And they were lucky, they were fortunate at that time that the Houthis did not have the ability to strike them that close, but they do now.
So if you're the U.S. Navy, you've not prepared at all.
You thought you were going to go in there and hit.
And we talked about this in your last show there's the YJ 20 hypersonic anti ship missile that the Chinese have developed that we do believe Iran has, and the U.S. Navy thinks they have as well.
So they're kind of staying, they're keeping their distance.
From the coast, you'll notice where the Navy is positioning itself is not to put itself in harm's way and has not gone into the Strait of Hormuz to try to test the waters, so to speak.
And again, keeping a safe distance from the Iranian shoreline.
All of this was predictable.
You know, again, if you want to look at it from a southern strategy to a modern strategy, Iran is using oil as a bargaining chip.
They are using access to that oil as a bargaining chip.
They are knocking out all the logistics capacity of the invading force.
To make it harder in many ways, it's sort of a scorched earth policy that the Soviets used against the Germans during World War II, that the Russians did to Napoleon.
When he came in, they burned all their fields.
It's very similar in many ways, in that they've knocked out all the ability for the U.S. to now park its vessels and get the kind of support that they need.
They need to leave the region to get their kind of support.
This has been, again, a very predictable strategy.
I'm kind of shocked that nobody told Trump at all to say, hey, wait, this was going to happen.
We did not have any of the intercepts necessary, not as many intercepts, I should say, necessary to take this war on.
We were not able to defend our regional allies.
We've lost many of the members of GCC.
It is highly unlikely that the Gulf State Cooperative is ever going to, ever going to embrace a U.S. military presence in the future.
So you've lost UAE, you've lost Bahrain, you've lost Qatar, you've lost Saudi Arabia, you've lost Kuwait.
So you've lost all these countries that in the past were working with the U.S.
They realized who number one was, and that shot them.
On their waters in the future.
I was about to say, they've learned who is number one in this conference.
We don't have a.
We have.
100%.
Well, even Saudi Arabia said that, right?
So we had.
We've ran out of the intercepts, and they had to move intercepts out of Korea into Israel to defend Israel.
And Saudi Arabia said, wait a second, where is that going?
Why are you sending it over to Israel?
They said that only about two weeks ago that Saudi Arabia was infuriated.
And I'm sorry, Keith, but I mean, it's very clear that Israel is who we are protecting and doing the bidding of.
And we have decided to ignore every other ally in the world.
In fact, even our East Asian allies have lost confidence to us because we've taken all of their intercepts and brought them over to protect Israel.
Let me ask you this to get down to the nitty gritty.
What about Domona?
Iran does not have an atomic bomb, but in effect, they have the equivalent of it.
If they put a ballistic missile into Domona, at the very least, it would get that reactor that they've got, and it would create a Chernobyl effect.
You know, Israel and Jerusalem is just 53 miles away from Domona.
On the other hand, if they have their actual 100 warheads stored there, that would be like a super nuclear attack when they don't have any nuclear weapons.
Can you, you know, comment on that?
It would seem like that would be a real strategy for the Iranians that, you know, It kind of begs the question about why they haven't done that.
Yeah, they did attack the Mona about a week ago.
But just the outskirts to show that they could get it.
They run out.
And it was at the.
That's right.
That's right.
Oh, hello.
And I think that as you begin to see these intercepts begin to get worn down.
I know we have a little bit of a delay there from our end to yours, and we will continue to navigate that into the fourth and final segment tonight.
We'll let Patrick pick up right where he's leaving off.
We have a question from a listener about the Strait of Hormuz.
It's all coming up next.
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This was one that came in, Patrick, from a listener in South Carolina, Steve in South Carolina, quoting a commentary from Ron Uns.
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Ron Uns writes, If Trump declares victory and goes home, the Strait of Hormuz will be in the hands of the Iranians, who are allowing cargoes to pass if they are not priced in dollars.
For more than 50 years, the Gulf monarchies have priced their exports in U.S. dollars, which they then invest in U.S. assets, including low yield treasury bonds, which allow the U.S. to service enormous debts.
Without the petrodollar, the U.S. government will be insolvent.
The petrodollar system was based on a quid pro quo use American dollars in exchange for American protection.
Iran has demonstrated that America cannot and will not protect the Gulf states.
Given a choice between protecting the Gulf states and Israel, Israel will always come first.
Iran is fully capable of destroying the Gulf exports, rendering the area inhabitable and sending the global economy into the fourth world.
Ronans continues.
That's clearly Iran's Samson option.
If, for example, The US and Israel actually do topple Iran's leaders or use nuclear weapons.
The doom of the petrodollar was sealed recently when Vladimir Zelensky signed deals with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates to help secure them from Iranian drone attacks.
Jordan and Kuwait will probably sign agreements as well.
Ukraine has spent the last four years perfecting drone warfare technology and tactics in their own war with Russia, which is using Iranian drone technology.
Why should we expect the Gulf states to continue using dollars when America?
Has brought them to the brink of destruction and they have been forced to turn to Ukraine for help.
So, our friend again, Patrick in South Carolina, Steve, writes that this is very worrisome to him.
The collapse of the dollar ends life as we know it.
Is this a forecast that you can agree on?
Again, that's from Ron Uns.
I'm reading it to you.
Thank you, Steve in South Carolina, for sending it to me.
And we just talked to Ron last week.
Patrick, putting on your government contractor hat, 78 different countries you worked on behalf of Uncle Smule.
What do you think?
He's right.
The U.S. economy would lose about 35% of its overall value in about a year.
The projections on the loss of the petrol unemployment at near 40%.
You would have your inflation skyrocket.
The interest rates themselves would have to go into the low 20s, and you would have.
In general, your gas prices, your diesel prices will be closer to around $10 or $15 a gallon.
It would be a catastrophic event.
And the reason is simply this: that we have a $40 trillion debt.
So, because we have a $40 trillion debt, anytime we have interest on that debt, right now we are barely at 110% of GDP.
Put this in perspective: we went into the Iraq War, we were at 56%, our debt was at 56% of GDP.
Today it's 110%.
Nearly every dollar that we get in revenue now goes to servicing the debt.
So we're just borrowing money to put more money into the debt.
We are in what's called a debt trap.
And that debt trap right now would only exacerbate if our U.S. dollar lost its current positioning because the treasuries would have to increase their overall yield.
We would be forced to do so in order to attract buyers of our debt and buyers of our treasuries.
We had the worst treasury sales, by the way, two weeks ago in 46 years.
About two weeks ago in a single day, the worst treasury sales in 46 years.
Prior to that, We had never had a lower day of debt sales in U.S. history.
And that just happened two weeks ago.
And nobody's paying attention to this.
This was a strategic trap.
It was a strategic trap of Israel's making.
Iran is right.
It's taking the absolute correct strategy.
You're going to isolate the GCC, which they've done.
You've shown the rest of the world that the United States is not capable, it's not invincible, by the way.
And as a result, You now have a loss of confidence in the long term economic prospects of these United States because U.S. invincibility, American invincibility, is tied directly to its diplomatic and economic power.
So, you have a situation now where we're entering into a deep economic uncertainty at the same time that you have a young population wondering what's going to happen with AI?
What's going to happen with my jobs, my future that's going to occur when all of a sudden you told me to work on becoming a broker or become a software fella, or what have you, and now they may lose their jobs.
Well, the big question.
This is an incredibly bad scenario, and this was very predictable.
Well, the big question.
Is this, why is Trump doing this?
Is he being blackmailed?
Is he just, you know, totally committed to Israel?
Is he totally, you know, a brainwashed minion of Netanyahu?
Is he worried?
Does he think his life is in danger?
I think.
What is it?
I thought a lot about this, Keith, and I thank you for asking that question.
I think it's a narcissistic messianic complex that Trump has, and this is my opinion.
My personal thoughts.
I mean, I really don't know what's going on in that man's head, but I think here's what's happened Trump is 80 years old.
Trump barely survived the lawfare that came against him.
And for everybody that supported Trump, I completely understand it because we were watching him.
He was sort of a microcosm of everything that happened to us.
They were attacking him in every which way, they were bringing and dragging him to the courts.
So there was a certain feeling that he wasn't being prosecuted, he was being persecuted.
And so you have this kind of feeling in your mind.
You're like, man, this is just unjust.
And so as a result, he was unjust.
Now, he also barely survived by about a half an inch.
Right.
It wasn't just 100%.
And he barely survived about a half an inch to the left.
He'd be dead.
You know, that bullet goes a half inch one direction or the other.
He winds up dying on a stage in Pennsylvania.
And so I think that there's a part of him that believes that God's got a mission for him.
He survived because God's mission.
And I think there's a group of people that are around him that are feeding into that, that are primarily Christian Zionists.
They're dispensationalists.
They believe that Israel is the ultimate.
They really are, they are probably the least Christian Christians that you can find because they elevate the Jews above your average Christian, let alone believing that they do not have to accept Christ.
He's better than Jesus.
They ignore the words of Jesus about the synagogue of Satan and focus on them.
Well, you know, and what do we notice?
We see he starts this attack on the eve of Purim, which comes out of a holiday, a Jewish holiday, comes out of the book of Esther, when it was the Persians versus the Jews.
So, this is all part of this idea.
He's already, we already know he's a narcissist.
We already know he's got a big ego, a huge ego.
And I believe that some, there are people whispering in his ears for the last year, two years God's got a plan, God's got a plan for you, God's got a plan for you.
There are a lot of evangelicals who say this.
You know, they'll say God's plan was to have Trump go back in the presidency.
And as a result, they've been feeding this, feeding this to him.
And Bibi Netanyahu and the Jewish elites in Israel were able to exploit that to say, that plan was for you to take out Iran.
And he believed it.
And he believed their intel and he believed their synopsis that all he had to do is knock out, kill an Ayatollah, and the country would fall apart and people would rise up.
I don't think Trump's a very deep thinker about this kind of stuff.
And so when he was told this was going to happen, apparently, allegedly, he has locked out everybody that said, Don't do this, have been kicked out of the White House.
They have not been part of the briefings.
And again, I think it's part of his narcissistic, messianic competence.
All right.
I tell you what, how bad a hybrid to take us into Confederate History Month while also putting on his equally capable hat as Fort McGovern.
As modern Nostradamus.
I mean, Patrick, you played all the hits tonight.
You were definitely checking all the boxes.
Patrick Martin, thank you so much, my friend.
Friend and happy Easter to you, and happy Confederate History Month.
And we'll see what happens.
I'll tell you when we get out of April, we'll talk to you again a month from now.
Where will we be by then in the Middle East?
Where will we be by then at the gas pumps?
Where will we be by then?
We'll find out when Patrick comes back to break it down in a few weeks.