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Speaker 3: Our top focus on beyond Adasabo Crane has launched one
Speaker 3: of its widest waves of long range thrown in art
Speaker 3: Ludi attacks on Russian territory, killing at least eight people
Speaker 3: and striking targets hundreds of kilometers from the front line.
Speaker 3: According to Russian authorities, Belgarude, Saratov and Oudmotia regions in
Speaker 3: Russia had reported their deadliest incidents. Three people were killed
Speaker 3: in shelling in Belgarud, near the Ukrainian border, while two
Speaker 3: others died after a drone strike at a residential building
Speaker 3: in the Saratov region. In Russia's Oudmotia region, more than
Speaker 3: a thousand kilometers from the battlefield. Three people were killed
Speaker 3: when a drone struck as civilian vehicle. Russian authority is
Speaker 3: also reported that Ukrainian rones targeted a Wildbury's warehouse in
Speaker 3: Samara Region, which is eight hundred kilometers from Ukraine's forward positions,
Speaker 3: triggering a fire. No casualties were reported from the strike
Speaker 3: in the warehouse. Meanwhile, Moscow said that its aerotophone systems
Speaker 3: has intercepted six hundred and thirty five Ukrainian drones overnight
Speaker 3: and described it as one of the largest drone attacks
Speaker 3: carried out by Ukraine. In recent months, Ukraine has increasingly
Speaker 3: expanded its long rain strikes on Russian military, energy, and
Speaker 3: economic infrastructure. Ukraine an authority state that such strikes are
Speaker 3: a legitimate response to continued Russian aggression. Keave maintains part
Speaker 3: the continued strikes will increase pressure on Moscow to return
Speaker 3: to negotiations. While these escalations come as diplomatic efforts show
Speaker 3: tentative signs of revival, US President Donald Trump recently reversed
Speaker 3: course and he approved a Patriot air defense manufacturing license
Speaker 3: for Ukraine. Meanwhile, you as Secretary of State Marco Rubio
Speaker 3: told a leading American news network that Washington is actively
Speaker 3: exploring opportunities to restart peace talks between Russia and Ukraine,
Speaker 3: even as fighting on the ground continues.
Speaker 4: Unabated efforts over the next few weeks to see if
Speaker 4: we can't restart talks between the two sides and bring
Speaker 4: this war to an end. But we also understand that
Speaker 4: both sides have some pretty strong red lines, and until
Speaker 4: we can bring those red lines a little closer together,
Speaker 4: we're not going to be there yet. But we're ready
Speaker 4: to go in the press, and it's told his team,
Speaker 4: if you see an opportunity to be a force that
Speaker 4: brings about some momentum behind peace talks, let's do it.
Speaker 5: Welcome back to the Robbiners Show. We're live on Worldview
Speaker 5: two and our X basis Simulcastle. It's more War Monday,
Speaker 5: and war is still unpredictable. Getting the peace well, people
Speaker 5: are trying right now. It looks a whole lot like
Speaker 5: more war. You just saw Ukraine hit a key strategic
Speaker 5: Russian bomber base. I think it's called Ingles too. That's
Speaker 5: got bears and Blackjack bombers there, which are used to
Speaker 5: drop christmassiles on Ukraine, a direct strike at the heart
Speaker 5: of Moscow's long range airpower. It's bold, it's risky, and
Speaker 5: it's a reminder that this conflict can escalate in a heartbeat.
Speaker 5: President Trump cancels canceled the planned weekend strikes on Iran,
Speaker 5: citing diplomacy. Is this a genuine off MP or just
Speaker 5: a pause while the region keeps boiling over because Israel
Speaker 5: is having to conduct fresh self defense strikes in Lebanon.
Speaker 5: Of course, there's a ceasefire there supposedly, but Hesbelah doesn't
Speaker 5: really acknowledge that ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese government.
Speaker 5: What else do we got here? And we've also got
Speaker 5: a drone attack on a US floating gas storage facility
Speaker 5: in Egypt, and that has put the Suez Canal itself
Speaker 5: under threat. The entire map looks like it's powder keg.
Speaker 5: It refuse is lit from Southwest Asia to Moscow. And
Speaker 5: to break all this down with no spinning, no filter,
Speaker 5: as a man who's been there and here before, retired
Speaker 5: Special LITS pilot CDM Press president and CEO, patriot and
Speaker 5: fearless fruit teller El Todd Wood, who just got back
Speaker 5: from Lebanon. I believe God.
Speaker 2: Welcome back, Oh Rob, thanks for having me on. Really
Speaker 2: appreciate it.
Speaker 5: It's just like you know, live TV, folks is like
Speaker 5: ducks on a pond where you see Todd and I
Speaker 5: nice and calm. Here we're both aviator background. But there's
Speaker 5: been some fierce pedaling going on because of my buffoonery
Speaker 5: this morning. I appreciate baked all right, So let's start
Speaker 5: with the Ukraine. Your team and you cover this, I
Speaker 5: think better than any media outlet that's out there. So
Speaker 5: what are they using this? This air base is like
Speaker 5: a thousand kilometers out past the Urals right ural mountain range,
Speaker 5: isn't it?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Thank you. The issue is they're using technology that's
Speaker 2: been supplied to them by NATO essentially. I don't know
Speaker 2: if the US is involved or not, but there's definitely
Speaker 2: some technology, long range strike technology being provided to the Ukrainians.
Speaker 2: I find that very disturbing. I'm going to speak blunt
Speaker 2: with you. I want this war to end. I've been
Speaker 2: streaming for it for five years. It needs to end
Speaker 2: because you saw this week Ukraine is trying to combine
Speaker 2: the Iran and Russian wars. Because that's a way for
Speaker 2: them to keep in business. And you know, they struck
Speaker 2: a Russian tanker in the Caspian Sea and you know,
Speaker 2: apologize for it, but then there's other stuff going on.
Speaker 2: They want to combine these wars because they see that
Speaker 2: as a way to continue to speck it for weapons
Speaker 2: flow for support. I happen to know because I have
Speaker 2: some sources inside, that President Trump does not want that
Speaker 2: to happen. He wants the Ukrainie War to end. He's
Speaker 2: trying to find a way to end it. I think
Speaker 2: he has to be bolder myself. But you know, who
Speaker 2: am I to give the directions to the president. But
Speaker 2: I would just say we're done with it, and NATO
Speaker 2: you have it and that's it. And Russia attacks you,
Speaker 2: We're not going to support you as an Article five
Speaker 2: because you're providing weapons that are attacking muscle and various
Speaker 2: strategic targets inside the Russian Federation. So I'm not pro
Speaker 2: Russian pro Ukrainian. I'm pro peace, pro humanity from Christian
Speaker 2: These are two Christian nations fighting each other. It needs
Speaker 2: to end, and that that's my story and I'm sticking
Speaker 2: to it. Rob.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I think you and I are on
Speaker 5: the same page the president is on. He's always said, Hey,
Speaker 5: this war wouldn't have started had I still been president, Yeah,
Speaker 5: because he would have got them together and worked things out.
Speaker 5: Uh and uh. And just because they're in a war
Speaker 5: doesn't mean we should be contributing anymore to it. Do
Speaker 5: you think that they warned us about the Caspian Sea strikes?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I you know, I don't know what's
Speaker 2: going on. I know the m I six in the
Speaker 2: UK are very involved in this and are driving this.
Speaker 2: So whether they won the US, I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 2: Trump is putting out a lot of you know, both
Speaker 2: sides of the coin, if you will. Yeah, I think,
Speaker 2: I think you know the intentional ambiguity. But the fact
Speaker 2: is that this could, as you mentioned, seriously, escalate very
Speaker 2: easily because you know, all this thought that we're going to,
Speaker 2: you know, wear the Russians down and the population will
Speaker 2: overthrow Putsen, the exact opposite is happening. Yeah, Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 5: I wanted to ask you because I keep I keep
Speaker 5: hearing it in the American media from the you know,
Speaker 5: the neo I have to use that phrase because it's
Speaker 5: easy to know who they are, even though I've been
Speaker 5: called one before. I'm not, but the Neocon talking heads,
Speaker 5: former generals usually are out there. They've all of a
Speaker 5: sudden started already kind of nuancing their discussion about well,
Speaker 5: Ukrainians could win this. Now have you noticed that?
Speaker 2: And oh big time? My probably Pete Blabur and I
Speaker 2: had we do a podcasts every week. He is a
Speaker 2: former Delta Force commander at all levels and where we
Speaker 2: have the same view of the world. And we've talked
Speaker 2: about that over and over. These generals that are captured
Speaker 2: by the Blob for lack of a better word, that
Speaker 2: want this war to continue, and this is NATO running
Speaker 2: this war, and this is you know, a whole I
Speaker 2: think the US has to look at our entire structure
Speaker 2: in Europe. I think Trump is doing that slowly. You're
Speaker 2: seeing a lot of moves. I think was it this
Speaker 2: week he turned over something in NATO to the Europeans.
Speaker 2: I forget the exact title of the office, but that
Speaker 2: is a process that's going forward. I think it needs
Speaker 2: to move faster because I don't think they have our
Speaker 2: best interests in heart, and we don't want to be
Speaker 2: the backstop for their bad decisions in their warmont green.
Speaker 2: I mean, we could have a peace treaty. We could
Speaker 2: go in and say this is the line. It's going
Speaker 2: to stay here. Maybe there's a little change on either side,
Speaker 2: you know, stop the fighting and let's work out a
Speaker 2: deal as to where the exact demarcation line is. I mean,
Speaker 2: that deal could be done, I think. But the problem
Speaker 2: is now you're getting strikes into Russia at very high
Speaker 2: value targets. The Russians are feeling it, they're getting angry, and.
Speaker 5: So along with that strike on the Bomber base, there's
Speaker 5: a refinery close to their oil refinery. That's pretty dramatic
Speaker 5: amount of production. The numbers.
Speaker 2: Put yourself in Putin's place or the people around him,
Speaker 2: you know, the Praetorian Guard. They look at further and
Speaker 2: further strikes into Russia. They say, we're winning on the
Speaker 2: ground in Ukraine. That is a fact. They just took Constantinoka.
Speaker 2: I mean, they are moving forward and the Ukraine is
Speaker 2: not taking territory. They can't stop the Russian advance. So
Speaker 2: Ukraine is lashing out at high value targets inside of Russia.
Speaker 2: If you were the Kremlin military planners and you said, well,
Speaker 2: all these things are being made in Poland or the
Speaker 2: UK or or Germany. We need to take these out.
Speaker 2: And that's we're getting close to that point. And I
Speaker 2: don't want that. And I'm not pro Russia. I'm just
Speaker 2: pro reality. That's that's what's going to happen. And then
Speaker 2: you've got World War three. And that's why we can't
Speaker 2: be on the hook to support Europe for their bad decisions.
Speaker 5: Yeah, last week a Russian it was reported anyway that
Speaker 5: some type of Russian asset, I don't know if it
Speaker 5: was a drone, a christmasile or one of their beadium
Speaker 5: range of calistic missiles was Poland. It landed in Poland, Uh,
Speaker 5: and detonated, I think, But it was in the field.
Speaker 5: It wasn't. That doesn't appear that it was targeted near
Speaker 5: anything financial. Uh. And that's happened before. Uh. But Uh.
Speaker 5: But when you have the dynamic of firing deep into
Speaker 5: Russia strategic targets like the bomber bases and oil refineries,
Speaker 5: you combine that with Okay, the Russian navy ship in
Speaker 5: the Caspian See that's a legitimate target. Uh. Even the
Speaker 5: Iranian UH cargo ship is kind of a legitimate target,
Speaker 5: especially from our perspective, it was bringing Russian stuff there,
Speaker 5: but but the Ukrainians aren't involved in the whole Iran thing.
Speaker 5: And mixing the two there and then combining it with
Speaker 5: the strategic thing, it just doesn't tell the truth about
Speaker 5: what's really happened. And you just did I was going
Speaker 5: to ask you about it, about what was still happening
Speaker 5: on the ground, and the Russians are still moving forward
Speaker 5: on the ground.
Speaker 2: Yes, I mean, and you see a lot of stuff
Speaker 2: on social media of Ukrainians and masks saying, you know,
Speaker 2: we're coming for Ron And I mean, what they had
Speaker 2: built in Ukraine is a mercenary army. It's turning into
Speaker 2: a robot army in a big way. It's going to
Speaker 2: be a very dangerous thing sitting in the middle of Europe.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's going to be used for good.
Speaker 2: They've depopulated the Ukrainian I mean. There's a video out
Speaker 2: this morning of the bounty hunters coming in to grab
Speaker 2: a guy in de Nepro, I think, and three women
Speaker 2: and the family come out to save them. They shoot
Speaker 2: one of the women, they run over the other woman
Speaker 2: with a car and they pepper spray the third one.
Speaker 2: I mean this is what we're fighting for, this is
Speaker 2: what we're supporting. I mean, that is evil, So you know,
Speaker 2: there's no excuse for that, and so that is happening
Speaker 2: over and over and over. So you're literally depopulating the
Speaker 2: Christian population in Ukraine on both sides, and I think
Speaker 2: that's the end goal and they're going to move in.
Speaker 2: It's going to be the first African European nation.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I had a question, but I lost him.
Speaker 5: The population in the don Bass that's primarily Russian. They're
Speaker 5: not all Russian, but there primarily are Are those the
Speaker 5: majority the young men? Are they being drafted into the
Speaker 5: army on the Russian side and fighting there they killed
Speaker 5: off already.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know the specifics in Danbass, but they
Speaker 2: are mobilized into the Russian forces. Yes, and Putin has
Speaker 2: been very i would say cautious on the mobilization because
Speaker 2: obviously that has societal impact. He's brought in North Korean's,
Speaker 2: he's brought in Africans, he's brought in Mercians too. I'm
Speaker 2: not saying he's not doing that, but it's not the
Speaker 2: level that Ukraine is. Ukraine is running out of people.
Speaker 2: They literally don't have the manampower anymore. Uh, And I
Speaker 2: think that's intentional. So they're they're creating. You ask yourself,
Speaker 2: if this massive army that wants a war with the Russia,
Speaker 2: it can look westward two you know. I mean, if
Speaker 2: if you look at what's going on with the EU,
Speaker 2: with all the censorship and all this, you could make
Speaker 2: the case that they're building some kind of enforcement mechanism
Speaker 2: in Ukraine for the rest of Europe. So yeah, I
Speaker 2: just find it very very dark.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're going to take a break, but when we
Speaker 5: come back, we're going to see a clip about the
Speaker 5: president canceling their RAN strikes. But I want to I
Speaker 5: want to ask you a couple more questions about the brain,
Speaker 5: especially the robotic autonomous force that we have just heard
Speaker 5: about being used. We'll be right back with l Todd Wood,
Speaker 5: CEO of cd impress.
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Speaker 7: President Trump is pausing massive strikes against Iran, at least
Speaker 7: for now, but the President cautions all this depends on
Speaker 7: how quickly a deal can be reached. ABC's Matt Rivers
Speaker 7: reports from Jordan Tonight.
Speaker 8: Tonight, President Trump backing away from the brink, calling off
Speaker 8: planned massive strikes on Iran overnight Saturday, posting on social
Speaker 8: media saying he canceled the attack subject to being able
Speaker 8: to rapidly make a deal, adding the perimeters of a
Speaker 8: deal had been agreed to, a far different tone from Friday.
Speaker 2: Put me hitting him very hard. You know, at some
Speaker 2: point they're going to say, we just can't take it anymore.
Speaker 8: But Trump saying that Iran and regional US allies alike
Speaker 8: had since asked him to hold off, claiming any deal
Speaker 8: would include reopening the Strait of horm Moves and address
Speaker 8: Iran's nuclear threat, but nearly twenty four hours later, no
Speaker 8: formal response yet from Iran's government, an Iranian state run
Speaker 8: media saying no such deal to reopen the strait had
Speaker 8: been reached. It remains effectively closed. Prior to Trump's announcement,
Speaker 8: Iranian media said the Foreign Minister had warned regional countries
Speaker 8: of harsh retaliation should the US follow through on its
Speaker 8: threat to target Iranian energy facilities after state run oil
Speaker 8: facilities were targeted in a drone attack earlier this week.
Speaker 8: The renewed Iranian threat sparked Saudi Arabia's leadership to publicly
Speaker 8: urge the White House to de escalate after Crown Prince
Speaker 8: Mohammed bin Salman spoke to President Trump. Those fears include
Speaker 8: not just a wider war in the Middle East, but
Speaker 8: increasing signs that the conflict between Ukraine and Russia is
Speaker 8: starting to overlap with the Iran conflict. Last week Ukraine
Speaker 8: attacking an Iranian cargo ship in the Caspian Sea it
Speaker 8: said was carrying military supplies. Lindsay many here in this
Speaker 8: part of the world assumed that they would spend today
Speaker 8: taking cover from new rounds of missiles being fired.
Speaker 5: That didn't happen, but it's still not.
Speaker 8: At all clear that an actual deal between the two
Speaker 8: sides is within reas.
Speaker 5: Welcome back to the Robina Show. It's more War Monday,
Speaker 5: August third, and that video was from August second. Just
Speaker 5: so you know, my guest today is el Todd Wood,
Speaker 5: the CEO of CDIUM Press, just back from Lebanon, so
Speaker 5: we'll hear from him on that specific issue in the
Speaker 5: next segment. But Todd, what are your thoughts on the
Speaker 5: President canceling the strikes again? This is the second time.
Speaker 5: I think.
Speaker 2: We don't have the land or ground forces to conquer
Speaker 2: Iran in the ground war. We just don't. I think
Speaker 2: we have to move to some kind of containment into
Speaker 2: phase two of this. We've heavily damaged them. Let's declare
Speaker 2: victory blockade the straight If you need to have escorts
Speaker 2: for ships if you need to keep it open, keep
Speaker 2: the oil flowing, build the pipelines across the desert, make
Speaker 2: it less of a threat as far as cutting off
Speaker 2: the oil and contain them. We contained the you know,
Speaker 2: the Russians for fifty years or long eighty years, whatever
Speaker 2: it was, you know, the Soviet Union. So I think
Speaker 2: we need to move to something like that. We're not
Speaker 2: going to get a victory in the absolute sense here
Speaker 2: because you know, it's a very disorganized, decentralized government. And
Speaker 2: my sense is we need to support, as you and
Speaker 2: I've talked to many times, support the people on the
Speaker 2: ground that can actually make change in Iran. And we
Speaker 2: know who they are, and let's let's just create the
Speaker 2: conditions for them to be successful.
Speaker 9: That.
Speaker 2: I think that's all we can do at this point.
Speaker 2: We can't have an absolute surrender. It's not going to happen,
Speaker 2: in my view.
Speaker 5: I don't think that. I think that's why it was
Speaker 5: never one of the objectives as far as I know.
Speaker 5: I mean, it'd be nice to have you and I've
Speaker 5: talked about that. It'd be nice to have has there
Speaker 5: have you heard about any Let me let me pause
Speaker 5: right there on the Iran think because I screwed up again,
Speaker 5: and I wanted to ask you about this report that
Speaker 5: I saw, but I couldn't confirm it, so I didn't
Speaker 5: use the video. I saw a video report of Ukrainian
Speaker 5: combat operation using a combination of robotic and autonomous surface vessels,
Speaker 5: subsurface vessels, air drones, that kind of thing, uh, and
Speaker 5: then this new one that was added to it, ground
Speaker 5: combat robots uh. And the reporting that I saw so
Speaker 5: that it was uh, they were networked together and the
Speaker 5: combat operation that they were involved in was successful from
Speaker 5: Ukraine's perspective. I couldn't verify anything, so I didn't use
Speaker 5: the video. But have you heard about that reporting? And
Speaker 5: have you been Your team's pretty good at doing verification
Speaker 5: on things, have you guys?
Speaker 2: Well, what I'll say is they are definitely testing and
Speaker 2: fielding all that stuff and building that capability. I don't
Speaker 2: know the specific instance you're talking about, I didn't see that,
Speaker 2: but that's they are. That is definitely happening, And to me,
Speaker 2: that's a big concern because in my view, you've got
Speaker 2: a very dark regime. I mean, he's not an elected president,
Speaker 2: he has no legal mandate. He's destroying the Christian Church
Speaker 2: he's you know, depopulating the country. He's doing whatever the
Speaker 2: globalists tell him to do. And to give him some
Speaker 2: kind of AI autonomous robot army that is effective to
Speaker 2: me is insane. And also, while we're at it, I
Speaker 2: don't think any licensing of US technology to Ukraine is
Speaker 2: a good idea either, because you know, they could flip that,
Speaker 2: as trum Trump said, you flip that back on you.
Speaker 2: You know, what is the purpose of that. I mean,
Speaker 2: let's just back out of that. If Europe wants to
Speaker 2: continue it, let it have it. And if they want
Speaker 2: to deal with the consequences of that war, let them
Speaker 2: have it. But We're not going to come save you
Speaker 2: again for the third time because of your stupidity and
Speaker 2: whatever this is, whatever agenda, whatever dark agenda this is,
Speaker 2: it's not good for humanity.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm glad you brought up the licensing thing. I
Speaker 5: thought I heard the President say we were going to
Speaker 5: license them to produce Patriot missiles that accuracy.
Speaker 2: He said that. I think, Look, there's a lot and
Speaker 2: I talked with someone inside as well, there's a lot
Speaker 2: of don't believe everything you hear. There's a lot of
Speaker 2: jocking for position, and he may have said that. Then
Speaker 2: he said, well, there's a problem with giving people weapons
Speaker 2: they could use him back on you. He's kind of
Speaker 2: being very strategic ambiguity there as well. I think he
Speaker 2: may have said we'll think about it, and Zelenski said
Speaker 2: came out and said, yeah, we're going to do it.
Speaker 2: You know. So I don't think it's a done deal.
Speaker 2: I have heard from my sources that Boeing said no,
Speaker 2: so we'll see.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I mean he's doing a similar thing with the
Speaker 5: Turks and the F thirty five. You know, he folks,
Speaker 5: this is the PT Barnum of presidencies. That's who this
Speaker 5: man is. He's better than Pt. Barn So he will
Speaker 5: like he made a sales pitch, Hey, we're going to
Speaker 5: give him the F thirty five because they've done good.
Speaker 5: And then I saw a follow up report almost immediately
Speaker 5: he said, yep, and they've got to do these things
Speaker 5: and get rid of the S three hundred and four
Speaker 5: hundred and not allow any Russian advisors on their soil,
Speaker 5: which are the things that I talked about when I
Speaker 5: first heard report on this show and everything. So, I mean,
Speaker 5: that's just the way the president is getting back to
Speaker 5: the Iran war. Look, I mean regardless, Fortunately, we've never
Speaker 5: set a goal of getting the Iranians to capitulate. The
Speaker 5: only way to stop this, I have said it many
Speaker 5: times is the IRGC has to has to capitulate one
Speaker 5: way or another. And the only way for us to
Speaker 5: achieve our strategy, our ultimate strategic goal, which is to
Speaker 5: get the uranium, the enriched uranium and the capability to
Speaker 5: enrich it out of their hands so they can't develop
Speaker 5: or get a nuclear weapon, is for us to be
Speaker 5: able to go in and get it and get them
Speaker 5: to agree to do that. I mean, that's the only way.
Speaker 5: I mean, I think for a ground invasion of that country,
Speaker 5: it would take a million trigger pullers plus support. So
Speaker 5: you're talking about a couple of million people.
Speaker 2: Exactly car Island. Even if you put them on carg Island,
Speaker 2: you're going to need more than just that, because you're
Speaker 2: going to have that whole is a nest of vipers
Speaker 2: that you're going to have to deal with, and so
Speaker 2: they would just be shooting targets. So you've got to
Speaker 2: really that's got to be thought through, and I hope
Speaker 2: that doesn't happen. My vote is for containment and to
Speaker 2: find a way to declare victory and let's focus on
Speaker 2: the election and everything else.
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, let's talk about that. What would that look like.
Speaker 5: I mean, we contained Hussain, so I'm Hussein with the
Speaker 5: northern and southern no fly zone, so they couldn't attack
Speaker 5: the Kurds in the north and the Kuwaitis and the
Speaker 5: folks in the Marshes south by air or ground. We
Speaker 5: flop them on the ground using our aircraft and those
Speaker 5: kind of things. Why not put just establish a no
Speaker 5: fly zone over the entire country.
Speaker 2: Well, that's an option. Or you know, the Israelis have
Speaker 2: been very effective over the decades of taking out any
Speaker 2: arms coming into the country. You know, we could target
Speaker 2: Chinese shipments coming in or Russian shipments or whatever. I mean,
Speaker 2: you could keep the country degrad did militarily without you know,
Speaker 2: the deaths of thousands of Americans on the ground and
Speaker 2: the loss of much more treasure than we have to spend.
Speaker 2: So that's my vote for containment. And you know, I
Speaker 2: just think we're at that point. We need to we
Speaker 2: need to look at the election. We need to look
Speaker 2: at rebuilding our stores, our stockpiles, our capabilities, which I
Speaker 2: know the Department of wars focused one thousand percent on. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so that's that's happening. And uh, you know, let's let's
Speaker 2: get our house in order and and be able to
Speaker 2: deal with other things that may come down the road.
Speaker 2: You know, you and I are old enough to remember
Speaker 2: and we could, we could. We're ready to fight two
Speaker 2: wars at once. We're not that ware anymore, you know.
Speaker 2: We need to get back to that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we do need to get back to That's why
Speaker 5: the Secretary is asking for another half a trillion dollars
Speaker 5: to go along with the last year's defense budget. As
Speaker 5: much as I'm not a fan of increasing the defense budget,
Speaker 5: I'm more for cutting and make them, make them, make them,
Speaker 5: make it work. But we're we're not where we need
Speaker 5: to be in order to start doing that because we've
Speaker 5: let it go so long, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we're using all these you know, and this
Speaker 2: is changing too, but all these you know, high dollar
Speaker 2: prime contractors that you know, I saw something today, you know,
Speaker 2: three billion over budget. I think it was the B
Speaker 2: fifty two program. You know, that doesn't need to happen anymore.
Speaker 2: We have smart contractors now that can build things cheaply
Speaker 2: in scale. That is happening I know that's happening.
Speaker 5: So Andryl said they were going to produce seven thousand
Speaker 5: low cost cruise missiles in their first year of production. Yeah,
Speaker 5: next time, even thousand. We can't produce over nine hundred
Speaker 5: of regular cruise missiles.
Speaker 2: And looks what U CAN and Russia are doing. They're
Speaker 2: they're all being six hundred to night at each other
Speaker 2: different projectiles. So it's it's a numbers game, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: we ken be spending millions of dollars on each one.
Speaker 2: Just can't can't happy?
Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly. Well, we've got a question in the audience.
Speaker 5: Let's go ahead and take that sift. This technology will
Speaker 5: work this time. Go ahead, Yo, we have pat the
Speaker 5: hammer there. Make it real quick.
Speaker 10: I just wanted to ask you both, do you knowing
Speaker 10: that Trump's kind of an all or nothing kind of guy,
Speaker 10: at least he kind of comes across that way to me,
Speaker 10: do you think he would accept a twenty or thirty
Speaker 10: year complete cease on their nuclear program. I think it's
Speaker 10: good enough for containment. I agree with you. I just
Speaker 10: want to know what you guys thought.
Speaker 2: I think you would. What do you think Rob? I
Speaker 2: think you would?
Speaker 5: I don't know, I don't know, he's been really adamant,
Speaker 5: and it's part of the goals to remove the enricheranium
Speaker 5: and the capability to enrich from them so they can
Speaker 5: never get a nuclear weapon. That's probably in my mind,
Speaker 5: he will probably make that a red line. That has
Speaker 5: to be the red line because it's the most dangerous.
Speaker 5: It's the reason why we're there. The rest of it,
Speaker 5: they really can't threaten us, and we don't really we
Speaker 5: don't get any oil out of the straight or horror
Speaker 5: movies anymore like we did in the eighties. Uh and
Speaker 5: those kind of things. Uh and uh. Now the Allies
Speaker 5: are starting to build more pipelines so they don't have
Speaker 5: to use the uh the what do they call it,
Speaker 5: the Arabian Golf now, the Persian Golf, the Persian Gulf
Speaker 5: to get oil out for the Allies. Uh and those
Speaker 5: kind of things. So you know, I mean, I think
Speaker 5: you could let all that stuff go and with a blockade,
Speaker 5: uh and uh, you know, air containment, we could keep them,
Speaker 5: you know, suppressed obviously, and they couldn't threaten their neighbors
Speaker 5: other than just harassment type fires. Same thing with shipping.
Speaker 5: That's all they're doing now. It's just harassment type stuff.
Speaker 5: This whole thing about the straight up of horror moves
Speaker 5: being closed is yes, it's not true. Uh, it's never
Speaker 5: been true. They don't have the capability, didn't have the
Speaker 5: capability before, and they definitely don't have the capability now
Speaker 5: uh to close the straight up hor moves. But they
Speaker 5: can do harassing fire. And I think the I would
Speaker 5: like to see before he pulls the plug on it
Speaker 5: and we fall back to something like full blockades, you know,
Speaker 5: on an air containment type thing. I would like to
Speaker 5: see him fulfill the entire ato, the whole target list
Speaker 5: at least once. And we've got done that still a
Speaker 5: little about twenty percent left. That's all the strategic bridges,
Speaker 5: the big power plants, all of that has to be
Speaker 5: destroyed at least once. So they have to get to
Speaker 5: work to rebuild the stuff and those kind of things
Speaker 5: to keep them busy. But in the meantime, a blockade
Speaker 5: and keeping the bridges around the perimeter, cut, blocking the
Speaker 5: Caspian seaport, those kinds of things so that they can't
Speaker 5: be resupplied with military stuff. I think that's doable. Now,
Speaker 5: is it politically due that's another big question. It would
Speaker 5: be if he gets the new material. Yeah, if he
Speaker 5: gets it, they would be politically doable in the short show,
Speaker 5: let's put it that way. Short term being a few years. Yeah,
Speaker 5: so you know, you know, give the Allies a chance
Speaker 5: to do what they need to do to make themselves comfortable. Well,
Speaker 5: we completely pull out, because there's a lot of us
Speaker 5: that have been calling for a pull out of the
Speaker 5: Middle East for quite some time now. The only things
Speaker 5: stopping us right now is yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Ran more to be honestly, Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 5: We'll get to take another break when we come back.
Speaker 5: We'll talk about the Lebanon and Todd's been there on
Speaker 5: a trip, so we'll be right back with Todd.
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Speaker 3: The Israeli military has said thoughts it askills several has
Speaker 3: full of fighters in southern Lebanon and that in Israeli
Speaker 3: soldier was angeled there despite sees fire being in place,
Speaker 3: But in a statement, the military said that it identified
Speaker 3: as Bulla fighters inside what Israel describes as a security
Speaker 3: zone and carried out strikes to quote and court remove
Speaker 3: the threat. The statement ad that the Israeli forces will
Speaker 3: continue to operate to remove any threat to its soldiers
Speaker 3: and it will not allow thee Az Bulla to Israeli civilians.
Speaker 3: This comes at a time when United Nations has expressed
Speaker 3: concerns over Israeli actions. The Office of the U and
Speaker 3: Special coordinator for Lebanon said that the scale of the
Speaker 3: detonations and demolitions taking place is deeply concerning, with the
Speaker 3: devastating impact on civilian infrastructure, cultural heritage and the collective
Speaker 3: memory of communities. This after the Israeli military carried out
Speaker 3: large detonations near a UNESCO listed castle in Lebanon. Israeli
Speaker 3: Prime Minister Mentorman Nathan Yahu's and Defense Secretary Israelcats said
Speaker 3: that the army destroyed terro tunnels in the Beaufort area
Speaker 3: using approximately seven hundred towns of explosives. Be Fordcastle was
Speaker 3: added last week to your ESCO's list of World Heritage
Speaker 3: in Danger. A US sponsor framework agreement signed by Lebanon
Speaker 3: and Israel in late June. It aims to end hostilities,
Speaker 3: with Lebanon's army to disarm Hiss Fuller and the Israeli
Speaker 3: military to withdraw from pilot zones inside Lebanon. Whe Lebanese
Speaker 3: forces were subsequently deployed, as well as repeatedly rejected the
Speaker 3: deal and refuses to disarm, while there is no timetable
Speaker 3: for Israel's full withdrawal.
Speaker 5: Welcome back to the Rod made a show We're live
Speaker 5: on Worldviewtube and our x Basis simulcast. My guest today
Speaker 5: is a former special ops helicopter pilot, president and CEO
Speaker 5: of CDM Press, El Toddwood, and a frequent traveler the
Speaker 5: parts of the world most Americans wouldn't go right now,
Speaker 5: and you just spent some time in Lebanon. Tell us
Speaker 5: about your trip first before we dive into the clip
Speaker 5: about the recent going on.
Speaker 2: Sure, we are working closely with the Christian population in Lebanon,
Speaker 2: the Christian sector, which is in my view, very important too,
Speaker 2: and we started this just to kind of be their
Speaker 2: bully pulpit to talk about their issues because nobody really
Speaker 2: is and the US has been a little bit nefarious
Speaker 2: towards them over the last few decades too, because they've
Speaker 2: been used as buffer zones or whatever, and nobody's really
Speaker 2: looking out for their interests. And so that's what we're doing.
Speaker 2: We're opening a media opening a media company over there.
Speaker 2: We're going to have a new online entity, mainly for
Speaker 2: the Lebanese diaspora because there's fifteen million of them and
Speaker 2: weirdly enough, they can all vote in the Lebanese in
Speaker 2: Lebanese politics, So it's a huge, huge, huge thing. And
Speaker 2: so that's what we're working on. That's why I was there,
Speaker 2: in addition to meeting a lot of people and sources
Speaker 2: and all of that. And so my main goal over
Speaker 2: there is to, i guess, be a mouthpiece for that population,
Speaker 2: not in a you know, foreign agent kind of way,
Speaker 2: but just as a good reporting kind of way. Just
Speaker 2: be there and and talk about what's going on in
Speaker 2: the ground on those with that community and the issues
Speaker 2: around it. Hesbela to the south is very ensconced and
Speaker 2: you know, people need we also need to understand the history, right,
Speaker 2: history is important and lean Lebanon has always been a
Speaker 2: refuge for minority communities and that's why the Christians came
Speaker 2: there in the mountains Mount Lebanon to get away from
Speaker 2: the you know, invading Arab armies and then the Ottomans
Speaker 2: and all that, and it was kind of a but
Speaker 2: the Shia Muslims also came in there, and so you
Speaker 2: have that sector, but you also have the Hesbelah element,
Speaker 2: which is you know, an Iranian proxy army obviously in
Speaker 2: the south, and so it's a very complicated situation and
Speaker 2: the Lebanese government simply doesn't have the power to disarm them.
Speaker 2: They just don't. It's forty percent of Lebanese armed forces.
Speaker 2: So the US, in my view, instead of knocking down
Speaker 2: the Christian community over and over and over again. For instance,
Speaker 2: during the Gulf War, bush One came in and said,
Speaker 2: you know, we'll let Syria come invade you if you
Speaker 2: join us against Saddam. Well, we didn't need Syria to
Speaker 2: join us against Saddam. I mean it was nice, I
Speaker 2: guess on paper, but the Christian community just got thrown
Speaker 2: under the bus. So that's if we focus on them
Speaker 2: and make them a lot stronger. I think we will
Speaker 2: find a solution in Lebanon because I think they will
Speaker 2: be able to work with the Shia elements in the
Speaker 2: country because they're not going away either. And there's a
Speaker 2: lot of Syrian and Sunni or excuse me, Shia and
Speaker 2: Sunni refugees from Syria in Lebanon that need to go home.
Speaker 2: That's another thing the US could do is bring them
Speaker 2: back into Syria the Syrian wars over, but there's a
Speaker 2: lot of NGOs keeping them there. I mean. It's very
Speaker 2: similar to what's happening in Europe and in the US,
Speaker 2: where in the Christian areas you're having enabled immigrant population
Speaker 2: come in and then paid for and all of that.
Speaker 2: So it's very I see it as diabolical. So my
Speaker 2: goal is to is to really sup just if you
Speaker 2: can empower that community in leban Nine, I think you'll
Speaker 2: see a good, strong Christian community in the U in
Speaker 2: the Middle East, and that will that will open doors,
Speaker 2: in my opinion, to solve some of these problems.
Speaker 5: Yeah, historically Lebanon was the only majority Christian country for many,
Speaker 5: many centuries, correct, and then the Palestinian refugees wowed to
Speaker 5: come in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it started. They brought in a half million,
Speaker 2: and that started the civil War, you know, and it
Speaker 2: was downhill from there. And then you had the explosion
Speaker 2: in the Big Report, which many think was intentional by
Speaker 2: some group, and then you have a Color Revolution in
Speaker 2: twenty nineteen with George soils to destroy the financial sector
Speaker 2: and the currency in the central bank. And so it's
Speaker 2: been an ongoing series of attacks on them. And I
Speaker 2: think the best thing the US could do is up
Speaker 2: and say, you know this, this is where Christ walked,
Speaker 2: this is the first Christians, these are the descendants we
Speaker 2: need to We're going to make sure they stay in
Speaker 2: the levant.
Speaker 5: So so Leblond's government. The president. I think he's a
Speaker 5: Christian and a combat veteran wounded even remember right, Uh
Speaker 5: he is he's signed up to replacing Hissbola in the South,
Speaker 5: but he he doesn't have the capability to do that.
Speaker 5: How does he do that? Yep, I think we might
Speaker 5: have lost him, mister producer, can you hear me? Yeah,
Speaker 5: we'll see if we can get it back. Do you
Speaker 5: answer that question? I mean, that's that's that's been the
Speaker 5: rub folks, uh for uh for the whole time I
Speaker 5: was in the US military. Uh, all the way from
Speaker 5: when the US went in with the Marines and we
Speaker 5: got a bunch of people killed in the Baca Valley
Speaker 5: in Beirut.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 5: You know, we've had military officers kidnapped and skinned alive
Speaker 5: by these people Christians, you know, persecuted and those kinds
Speaker 5: of things. So Todd, you're back. Hey, I was asking
Speaker 5: you a question. The question was, you know, the president
Speaker 5: of Lebanon, he's he's a combat better and I think
Speaker 5: he's even been wounded, so he so he understands military force.
Speaker 5: He gets it. He has signed up to replacing Hesbala
Speaker 5: in the South, but how does he do that if
Speaker 5: he doesn't have the capability, we.
Speaker 2: Need to help that capability. And sorry, we have some
Speaker 2: construction going on and we had some power blinking out here,
Speaker 2: so that's what happened. But I think the US needs
Speaker 2: to support the Lebanese military. We really don't. They don't
Speaker 2: have the capability to disarm them at this point. You know,
Speaker 2: it's kind of like baby steps. There's two areas that
Speaker 2: the Israelis are going to withdraw from and these forces
Speaker 2: are going to go in and try to pacify those areas.
Speaker 2: I think there's a deal to be made, especially with
Speaker 2: Iran in a much weakened state. You see this with
Speaker 2: you know, the deal with Tamas in Gaza. I mean
Speaker 2: that there may be some progress there. It's a little
Speaker 2: hard to tell, but you could see a similar situation
Speaker 2: in the Levant, and I hope that can happen. But yes,
Speaker 2: Joseph Own is a combat veteran, and I know a
Speaker 2: lot of those veterans. In fact, I was staying in
Speaker 2: Beirut and the you know, the houses and buildings are
Speaker 2: very close together, and the one right across my balcony
Speaker 2: was pock marked with bullet holes from the Civil War.
Speaker 2: So it's very fresh in people's minds, and it was
Speaker 2: devastating for the Christian community.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I don't think the regular Lebanese people hate
Speaker 5: the Israelis either. I've never understood why the Israeli haven't
Speaker 5: brought been able to bring their capabilities to bear to
Speaker 5: help the Lebanese army too, because I mean they have
Speaker 5: every inch of that southern place up to the river
Speaker 5: at least and beyond I'm sure, and everything both above
Speaker 5: the ground and underground. I think they have a lot
Speaker 5: of mapping. Yes, of course, what they have struck an
Speaker 5: agreement with the Lebanese government. Any hope that that's going
Speaker 5: to be that because I think they're better than us
Speaker 5: in the humanity.
Speaker 2: Very intelligence, very good intelligence network, you know. I mean well,
Speaker 2: I mean Lebanon is not a sovereign country. I mean
Speaker 2: I was there and there's I put it on X
Speaker 2: a few times, there's an Israeli drone flying overhead the
Speaker 2: whole time I'm there, you know, eating dinner outside the cafe,
Speaker 2: you know, I mean they're surveilling constantly. So it is
Speaker 2: the Israelis have the capability. I think what there needs
Speaker 2: to be a way to give sovereignty to Lebanon, but
Speaker 2: also deal with the threats militarily. I'm not sure exactly
Speaker 2: what that looks like, but I do know that strengthening
Speaker 2: the Christian community is a big part of that. Because
Speaker 2: you're right, they're not anti Israel per se. They don't
Speaker 2: want to be used as a buffer zone and to
Speaker 2: accept like another million refugees. It's going to harm their
Speaker 2: demographics and their power structure in the country. But they're
Speaker 2: not anti Israel.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 5: As a rule, you mentioned the Sunni and Shia refugees
Speaker 5: from Syria. I would think that that Al Jilani, the
Speaker 5: new president of Syria, would want to get those folks
Speaker 5: back and strengthen his population.
Speaker 2: This is a big issue, and this is what the
Speaker 2: Lebanese are worried about. I'll tell you right now, there's
Speaker 2: two billion Sunni refugees from Syria in Lebanon because of
Speaker 2: the Syrian civil war that we're fleeing a sod regime.
Speaker 2: They're paid to stay there. They don't want to go back.
Speaker 2: Lebanon's a beautiful, very nice, sophisticated, you know, nice place
Speaker 2: for the most part, and so they don't want to
Speaker 2: go back. And one of the big things the US
Speaker 2: could do is say you're going back. We kind of
Speaker 2: control Galani think or Asura or whatever his name is.
Speaker 2: And but yes, you would think he would want those
Speaker 2: people back. And in the in the Lebanies are very
Speaker 2: worried about that because like the a lot of the
Speaker 2: Latins and other immigrant communities in the US, the Shia
Speaker 2: and the Sunni are embedded throughout all Lebanese society, you know,
Speaker 2: m cutting the grass, you know, doing things that need
Speaker 2: to be done. And because a lot of them are
Speaker 2: on the dole or whatever, and so it's it's it's
Speaker 2: it's a big problem. They're scared that that's essentially as
Speaker 2: Yahati network in country that needs to be returned to
Speaker 2: And I hope.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so those Hesbalah recruit from these Shia refugee populations,
Speaker 5: I'm assuming.
Speaker 2: I'm told that's a spy network, right, because if you've
Speaker 2: got Shia throughout the communities doing, you know, embedded in
Speaker 2: the Christian community, because Christians have all the money, right
Speaker 2: because they're successful, they're entrepreneurial. The other populations don't. Now
Speaker 2: it's not that's not a hard fast rule. There are
Speaker 2: some very big oligarchs in the sh and Sunny communities
Speaker 2: in Lebanon. But for the most part, the Christians are
Speaker 2: the ones that are economically self reliant and successful. So yes,
Speaker 2: they're they're worried about that as kind of a spy
Speaker 2: network throughout their whole community as well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you don't think that there's going to be any
Speaker 5: plans to put U like US peace keeping forces uh
Speaker 5: in place. I mean the UNS tried that stuff in
Speaker 5: southern Lebanon for decades now. Is absolute failure. I mean
Speaker 5: HESWOLO puts their capabilities underneath their box hooles.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's I hope we are smart enough to
Speaker 2: not do that anymore. Look, you mentioned it the level
Speaker 2: the Christian they're they're fighters. I mean, they're they're fine
Speaker 2: and protecting themselves. They just got to make them stronger
Speaker 2: and stop trying to weaken them and stop trying to
Speaker 2: weaken their economy because you've seen if you look back
Speaker 2: through history in the seventies, there was there was no
Speaker 2: problem with a lot of this stuff when you had
Speaker 2: a strong Christian community. So you moved back to the
Speaker 2: when you started weakening the Christians, that's when all this
Speaker 2: other start started stuff started happening. So my sense is
Speaker 2: if you can make that community stronger, keep them in
Speaker 2: the structure of power in the government. That is, you know,
Speaker 2: you don't have to get all the power to them,
Speaker 2: but keep them in a majority power position. Then I
Speaker 2: think a lot of good things will happen.
Speaker 5: I think. I think. So it's just a matter of
Speaker 5: we just have to do it, have to get it done,
Speaker 5: all right. We got to take one more break and
Speaker 5: we come back. We'll see a little clip on the
Speaker 5: way back in the Egyptian port where there're a US
Speaker 5: gas holding platform was struck along with an Egyptian LNG.
Speaker 5: You look by natural gas transportship. Uh, they think by
Speaker 5: a drone. We'll be right back with El Toddwin.
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Speaker 14: When yesterday was so the headlines that thing has been
Speaker 14: hit in the port of Damietta, which is on the Mediterranean.
Speaker 14: I mean, the first reaction was like, it's too far
Speaker 14: away from.
Speaker 5: The conflict zone.
Speaker 14: It's far away from Iran, it's far away from Yemen,
Speaker 14: far away quite honestly from many places in the battle zone.
Speaker 14: But the significance of this development is immense. What was
Speaker 14: happening in the past six months when the US attacked
Speaker 14: Iran and Iran retaliated, was that the military actions have shut.
Speaker 5: The Strait of Hormus.
Speaker 14: The Strait of Hormus in the Gulf is the world
Speaker 14: most important oil evacuation route. It is responsible for roughly
Speaker 14: seventeen percent of global oil supply. Saudi Arabia was preparing
Speaker 14: for this crisis for many, many years, if not decades.
Speaker 14: Your Saudi Arabia strategically has built a pipeline towards the
Speaker 14: Red Sea. Saudi Arabia was able to reroot oil to
Speaker 14: the port of Yanborn Red Sea. From there it was
Speaker 14: sending tankers down south to supply Asian clients via the
Speaker 14: very narrow Babel Mandeb straits. Now the problem became even
Speaker 14: bigger when the Houthies said they would join the fight
Speaker 14: attack Saudi Arabia, and we've seen drons and missiles being
Speaker 14: fired at various tankers in Babel Mandeb. As a result,
Speaker 14: the only safe route Saudi Arabia was left with was
Speaker 14: to send oil up north in the Red Sea towards
Speaker 14: the Suez Canal in Egypt. So yesterday attack on the
Speaker 14: port dam Yetta Damieta is very very close to the
Speaker 14: Suez Canal. So everyone in the oil market has been
Speaker 14: asking what does it mean for the Suez Canal, And
Speaker 14: of course we've seen insurance and shipping rate spikes. Everyone's
Speaker 14: concerned that the next target might be the Suez.
Speaker 5: The rod Meine show, It's more warm Monday. We're live
Speaker 5: on Worldview two in our X Basis simulcast and my
Speaker 5: guest today is CEO of CDM press Entiformer Special Operations
Speaker 5: helicopter Pilot. Uh Todd would Todd? Uh yet? I don't
Speaker 5: think a lot of people really understand this but them
Speaker 5: yet is a port on the Mediterranean Sea in Egypt.
Speaker 5: It's not in the Suez Canal, and it's not in
Speaker 5: the Red Sea, and it's well beyond where the Huti's
Speaker 5: have been. So whatever hit this platform and that ship
Speaker 5: had to get past a lot of air defense capable.
Speaker 2: There. What do we know it was a projectile or
Speaker 2: could have been on a ship or something.
Speaker 5: We don't know. I mean, it's very fuzzy reporting.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 5: The Iranians, I couldn't find anything where they had taken responsibility,
Speaker 5: but they were getting a lot of blame for it.
Speaker 2: Hmm.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Well, the driveway reports is that I kept coming
Speaker 5: across when I was researching something interesting.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you talk with all the Promethean action people,
Speaker 2: they think that there's a much bigger conflict going on
Speaker 2: here of really redrawing a lot of the financial and
Speaker 2: resource allocation zones and routing across the world. So it
Speaker 2: could be part of that. I mean, I actually I
Speaker 2: don't know a lot about that situation. I do know that,
Speaker 2: you know, you could even make a cause in these
Speaker 2: whoever's doing all this is thinking long term. You look
Speaker 2: at the port explosion in be Rude. I mean, I
Speaker 2: don't think that was organic. I mean it was obviously
Speaker 2: they say it was due to some ammonium nitrate in
Speaker 2: the harbor, But there was a lot of funky stuff
Speaker 2: going on with that, you know, beforehand, so and I
Speaker 2: know other stuff, So I don't think that was organic.
Speaker 2: So you know, there is an agenda. I'm not quite
Speaker 2: sure what it is, but things are changing as far
Speaker 2: as who gets access to what and how it's moved.
Speaker 2: That I can tell you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And that stretch of strategic movement spots all the
Speaker 5: way from the mid out through the bomb balla bed
Speaker 5: I mess up to pronunciate the straight down where the
Speaker 5: human is in smolly Land. I mean that's coming under
Speaker 5: increasingly threat. Uh you know the Hooti's fired on a
Speaker 5: couple of Saudi ships and say they're going to blockade
Speaker 5: the Saudis from reaching their ports. Those kind of things. Well,
Speaker 5: we got to question the audience. Let's take that since
Speaker 5: we're in the last segment. Go ahead, jil.
Speaker 15: We have a j sir. Thank you, Shechelle, Thank you,
Speaker 15: Colonel mister Wood. It's always a pleasure, sir. My question
Speaker 15: pretends to Islamic. Look, every ron they are known to
Speaker 15: lose five hundred million dollars a day, and this is
Speaker 15: a massive financial bleeding. Desperate times call for desperate and
Speaker 15: my fear is that this is going to push them
Speaker 15: to try to purchase.
Speaker 5: A nuclear.
Speaker 15: Capability in the context of tactical nukes. What is the
Speaker 15: reality if you can contribute to this concern that I
Speaker 15: really appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Well. I think that's a possibility. I mean,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't put it past the Iranians. I think the
Speaker 2: President obviously knows a lot more than we do, and
Speaker 2: it's probably taken all those possibilities into account with what
Speaker 2: he's doing. The con network out of Pakistan is you know,
Speaker 2: shut down. But I'm sure there are other avenues. The
Speaker 2: Chinese are supplying them with, you know, man pads essentially,
Speaker 2: which is can be very effective against civilian aircraft, against
Speaker 2: our aircraft. So that is where the intelligence comes in.
Speaker 2: And I simply don't have my TSSC eye clearance anymore.
Speaker 2: So I don't know, but I hope that.
Speaker 15: Uh.
Speaker 2: I hope the president knows what's going on there and
Speaker 2: would deal with it. What do you think wrong?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know you forgot, well you didn't forget, but
Speaker 5: you didn't mention the North Koreans too. So they're friends
Speaker 5: with their friends with four nuclear powers. I believe the Russians,
Speaker 5: the Chinese, the Pakistanis UH, and the North Koreans as
Speaker 5: far as I know, I mean, this is just all
Speaker 5: open sort stuff. I don't have a clear let's see,
Speaker 5: I clear city wore either or anything else, uh for
Speaker 5: that better that would relate to this stuff.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 5: But you know, all of those entities have gone in
Speaker 5: and out of Iran, uh. And of all of the
Speaker 5: ones that I would not put it past them, it
Speaker 5: would be Pakistan or the North Koreans.
Speaker 2: That's what I was gonna say. The Russians and the
Speaker 2: Chinese wouldn't do that, but it's possible, I would say,
Speaker 2: primarily the sometime of Arab route or Central Asian route
Speaker 2: that did happen.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we got to remember Pakistani's hid Osama bin Laden
Speaker 5: in a villa a stone's throw away from their their
Speaker 5: national military academy. Uh you know, uh you know, and
Speaker 5: uh uh Fortunately for the Pakistani's, the nuclear side of
Speaker 5: their operation has been kept in.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't say they're they're completely non religious bands, but
Speaker 5: they're not in Islamic fundamentalist bands.
Speaker 15: Uh.
Speaker 5: They're nuclear force or not at least so far anyway. Uh.
Speaker 5: But but the land route from Pakistan via Afghanistan and
Speaker 5: into Iran uh is famously uh difficult to uh surveil,
Speaker 5: difficult to defend. I mean, we we had the we
Speaker 5: owned the airspace uh there, and we could not stop
Speaker 5: them from resupplying through those mountains, uh consistently down into
Speaker 5: the Taliban and the al Qaeda uh work the county
Speaker 5: network and all that I mean, because I mean they're
Speaker 5: using mules a lot of them, and backpacks they want,
Speaker 5: they don't care, they don't they don't carry a cell phone,
Speaker 5: whether you contract your signal every day. They have some capability,
Speaker 5: but you got to be looking for it to find
Speaker 5: their signals. Uh. You know, the terrain is just massive terrain.
Speaker 5: I've flown in a day and night at low altitude
Speaker 5: and high speed and it's just very, very challenging. I
Speaker 5: just I don't think most people understand todd uh that
Speaker 5: don't study this stuff and aren't professionals in it. Uh,
Speaker 5: just how challenging the Earth is as a as a system,
Speaker 5: as a machine, you know, from the weather obviously the
Speaker 5: climate change nets. I think that bands activities can affect
Speaker 5: the weather.
Speaker 2: Systems at night in the mountains in bad weather. As
Speaker 2: a young man's game.
Speaker 5: Yes it is, Yes, yes it is a young man's game. Uh.
Speaker 5: But but it's like finding a needle in the haystack
Speaker 5: unless you've got like like a spy sitting on the
Speaker 5: guy that's carrying the backpack with the bomb in it,
Speaker 5: you know, because I mean that's literally what what what
Speaker 5: they would have to do and the capabilities are there
Speaker 5: around the world, so so is it possible? Yeah, I
Speaker 5: mean they're fanatics. I don't think they'll ever stop trying
Speaker 5: to get a nuclear bomb of some sort. The question
Speaker 5: is do they have them now where they just hadn't
Speaker 5: been able to mate it to deliver a reliable delivery
Speaker 5: system that was accurate enough for them and we disrupted it,
Speaker 5: or or are they going to buy one, or are
Speaker 5: they planning on buying one for Korea and transitting through
Speaker 5: Pakistan and Afghanistan. I mean, there's a lot of big
Speaker 5: questions in that, but they're all possible to do.
Speaker 2: Sure. Yeah, I don't think there's any doubt about that,
Speaker 2: of course.
Speaker 5: Yeah. So so with this hit on the LNG platform,
Speaker 5: the US Woman and the tanker out there, the Egyptian tanker,
Speaker 5: the Hooties have never fired anything from their range past
Speaker 5: Israel that I'm aware of. Have they ever been?
Speaker 2: I don't know. Yeah, I don't know they would be
Speaker 2: I guess the likely source. But other than any other
Speaker 2: kind of ingress or out, you know.
Speaker 5: I'm more devious than that. See. I think it's probably
Speaker 5: a container either at a dock at a dock or
Speaker 5: on a ship somewhere close enough where it would be
Speaker 5: underneath all the radar.
Speaker 2: I would think you're probably right, Yeah.
Speaker 5: Because these things are just so easy. That's the other thing.
Speaker 5: You know, what's your take real quick before we get
Speaker 5: to the end of the last minute here, But what's
Speaker 5: your take on our drum own capability. It's been about
Speaker 5: I think probably six or seven months since we talked
Speaker 5: about that, or our drone defense capability. Have we seen
Speaker 5: any improvements in actuality on the ground in the combat
Speaker 5: zones or are we still pretty much where we were at?
Speaker 2: I think we're playing catch up, you know. Unfortunately since
Speaker 2: the lawsuit with the New York Times and the Pentagon
Speaker 2: Press Corps, we haven't been able to get in the
Speaker 2: building for months now, and so we're kind of frozen out.
Speaker 2: So I haven't had the same kind of access to
Speaker 2: people as I did before. So my sense is, though
Speaker 2: we're catching up and building new capabilities, but we're still
Speaker 2: probably you know, in the catchup mode. Yeah, that's kind
Speaker 2: of where I think.
Speaker 5: Is there any news on the lawsuit thing? I thought
Speaker 5: that there was a decision that turned.
Speaker 2: Out there was, but I haven't. I mean, the Pentagon
Speaker 2: went quiet. I mean I used to get fifty emails
Speaker 2: a day. I might get one or two. Now I
Speaker 2: think they just said, well until we've resolved this, you know,
Speaker 2: and I can't even I have credentials, but I can't
Speaker 2: even go into the buildings so unless I'm scored it. So,
Speaker 2: you know, it just doesn't there's no briefings. I mean,
Speaker 2: they shut down the room that we've worked in. Okay,
Speaker 2: so it's kind of been quiet and there's no trips.
Speaker 2: I mean I was you know, I flew out with
Speaker 2: hexeth that shut down too. It's unfortunate.
Speaker 5: It is unfortunate because there was some good reporting going
Speaker 5: on that people were starting to get confidence back, both
Speaker 5: in the institution and in the institution of the press
Speaker 5: that was being allowed to do their business. Well Todd,
Speaker 5: I appreciate it. Uh, hopefully they'll overcome that soon. But
Speaker 5: I just got reports before we came on the air
Speaker 5: that this the war plan for Iran was leaked. That's
Speaker 5: the real reason why the president delayed any operation. But
Speaker 5: we'll see how that whether that turns out to be
Speaker 5: true or not. It's not verified. Ell Todd would folks,
Speaker 5: thanks my friend. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Anytime. Tell your audience go to CDM dot Press, but
Speaker 2: it's in your scam. Would help us a lot.
Speaker 5: I bet he's got a lot of international and domestic
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Speaker 5: el Todd Wood and tomorrow Joshua Isaac who is an
Speaker 5: author of Humans and he's got a new book out
Speaker 5: because he's from Ohio and he's writing on the Haitian
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Speaker 5: to be really the Heat Interview. I'll see you then,