WEBVTT

1
00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:03.080
<v Speaker 1>Edward. Welcome to the other side of Midnight.

2
00:00:02.799 --> 00:00:06.200
<v Speaker 2>Edward Walter, it's always a pleasure to be here. Thank

3
00:00:06.280 --> 00:00:07.480
<v Speaker 2>you for having me on again.

4
00:00:08.080 --> 00:00:12.039
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, well, you're a great you have a great source

5
00:00:12.080 --> 00:00:18.120
<v Speaker 1>of information about world affairs, military world affairs. Edward is

6
00:00:18.120 --> 00:00:21.079
<v Speaker 1>a marine. I almost said former marine, but all marines

7
00:00:21.120 --> 00:00:24.600
<v Speaker 1>are always marines. He has a unique perspective on the

8
00:00:24.640 --> 00:00:28.960
<v Speaker 1>situation in the Straits of Harmus in the Middle East.

9
00:00:29.079 --> 00:00:31.160
<v Speaker 1>And you keep saying this phrase to me over and

10
00:00:31.199 --> 00:00:34.159
<v Speaker 1>over again that I think we should share, which is

11
00:00:34.159 --> 00:00:37.119
<v Speaker 1>that we're fighting for wars. Is that correct?

12
00:00:38.439 --> 00:00:42.079
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that's correct, Walter. And it's I mentioned a week

13
00:00:42.159 --> 00:00:44.280
<v Speaker 2>or so ago that as soon as I feel like

14
00:00:44.679 --> 00:00:48.240
<v Speaker 2>I'm watching a fief of soccer match with twelve nations

15
00:00:48.439 --> 00:00:52.200
<v Speaker 2>teams on the field at the same time. It's very complex.

16
00:00:52.840 --> 00:00:55.799
<v Speaker 2>But all of this craziness is affecting us here in

17
00:00:55.840 --> 00:00:58.240
<v Speaker 2>the US and around the world. I mean, maybe see

18
00:00:58.280 --> 00:01:01.679
<v Speaker 2>prices going up and all those kind of stuff, economics

19
00:01:01.719 --> 00:01:03.479
<v Speaker 2>and what have you. So so yeah, I know it,

20
00:01:04.319 --> 00:01:05.480
<v Speaker 2>you know, I don't want to go up into the

21
00:01:05.519 --> 00:01:07.159
<v Speaker 2>weeds there. But there's a lot of stuff happening with

22
00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:10.400
<v Speaker 2>Iran right the last over the last a few days

23
00:01:10.480 --> 00:01:16.959
<v Speaker 2>and it started, I think with Friday with with Trump

24
00:01:17.079 --> 00:01:20.680
<v Speaker 2>saying that he wanted to declare the straight up mus

25
00:01:20.719 --> 00:01:23.599
<v Speaker 2>the territory of the US. And he said that in

26
00:01:23.640 --> 00:01:27.799
<v Speaker 2>New York at a Republican function supporting candidates here, and

27
00:01:27.879 --> 00:01:30.959
<v Speaker 2>then news picked that up. And I think he wants

28
00:01:30.959 --> 00:01:34.920
<v Speaker 2>to do a you know, a Venezuela or you know,

29
00:01:35.280 --> 00:01:38.400
<v Speaker 2>something like that. Who knows, really, but this has been

30
00:01:38.439 --> 00:01:42.719
<v Speaker 2>on his mind since Greenland, you know, in Canada and Venezuela,

31
00:01:42.840 --> 00:01:46.879
<v Speaker 2>and now he's talking about making the Strait and the

32
00:01:46.959 --> 00:01:48.959
<v Speaker 2>territory of the US. But who knows?

33
00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:53.400
<v Speaker 1>I mean, so which No, listen, I think it's hysterical. Frankly,

34
00:01:53.519 --> 00:01:55.760
<v Speaker 1>there's no way in hell that would ever happen that

35
00:01:55.799 --> 00:01:57.480
<v Speaker 1>he was that anybody is going to make it a

36
00:01:57.599 --> 00:02:01.200
<v Speaker 1>US territory as a body of water. I don't know

37
00:02:01.239 --> 00:02:04.879
<v Speaker 1>why it hasn't happened with Venezuela or why not. We Uh,

38
00:02:05.719 --> 00:02:09.400
<v Speaker 1>we're still challenged in managing our territories, the ones that

39
00:02:09.439 --> 00:02:11.120
<v Speaker 1>we have are still challenged.

40
00:02:11.560 --> 00:02:11.680
<v Speaker 2>Uh.

41
00:02:11.840 --> 00:02:16.639
<v Speaker 1>Therefore and and oh yeah Greenland. Yeah, anyway, listen, what

42
00:02:16.639 --> 00:02:19.520
<v Speaker 1>what are the four wars that we're battling right now?

43
00:02:19.560 --> 00:02:21.439
<v Speaker 1>Can you sum it up? What are the four battles

44
00:02:21.479 --> 00:02:24.800
<v Speaker 1>were focused on right now where we are. Yeah, you

45
00:02:24.879 --> 00:02:27.360
<v Speaker 1>think and what you, as an expert think is going to.

46
00:02:27.400 --> 00:02:33.439
<v Speaker 2>Happen, Well, you know, it's the US, It's US Iran war,

47
00:02:34.520 --> 00:02:39.759
<v Speaker 2>it's the Israeli has ball of war in Lebanon. Uh.

48
00:02:40.400 --> 00:02:44.159
<v Speaker 2>You know, you have the Hooties that are right now

49
00:02:44.360 --> 00:02:49.520
<v Speaker 2>engaged in war with with Saudi Arabia and they've blocked

50
00:02:49.520 --> 00:02:53.800
<v Speaker 2>their street on the other side, the Red Sea side,

51
00:02:53.800 --> 00:02:59.599
<v Speaker 2>they've blocked their street attacking Saudi Arabian ships, and they're

52
00:02:59.639 --> 00:03:02.400
<v Speaker 2>at war with the country that they've got half of

53
00:03:02.439 --> 00:03:05.199
<v Speaker 2>which is Yemen. So that's those things are going on.

54
00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:09.680
<v Speaker 2>And then lastly we've got the Gaza situation is still

55
00:03:09.719 --> 00:03:13.479
<v Speaker 2>not settled, you know, and it doesn't look like it

56
00:03:13.560 --> 00:03:17.080
<v Speaker 2>will be because Menta Nahoo just does not want to

57
00:03:17.120 --> 00:03:21.800
<v Speaker 2>go along with Trump's boarded peace plan. And I have

58
00:03:22.800 --> 00:03:24.759
<v Speaker 2>good reasons why I think he doesn't want to do that.

59
00:03:24.840 --> 00:03:27.719
<v Speaker 2>But those are the four main areas. So you and

60
00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:30.159
<v Speaker 2>Iron's fingers are in all of this because they ran

61
00:03:30.319 --> 00:03:35.319
<v Speaker 2>Is financing the Huti's, they're financing the Hesbalala in Lebanon,

62
00:03:35.520 --> 00:03:38.919
<v Speaker 2>and they're financing hamas and you know what they did

63
00:03:38.960 --> 00:03:45.319
<v Speaker 2>and TODs Israel over particularly on October seventh. So this

64
00:03:45.400 --> 00:03:48.280
<v Speaker 2>is what's happening. And then there's some fringe stuff going

65
00:03:48.319 --> 00:03:53.240
<v Speaker 2>on in Iraq, which the Iraqi militia is closely a

66
00:03:53.280 --> 00:03:57.639
<v Speaker 2>militia is closely aligned with with they're on and they're

67
00:03:57.680 --> 00:04:00.360
<v Speaker 2>acting up every now and then shooting at Syria. There's

68
00:04:00.439 --> 00:04:03.599
<v Speaker 2>a lot of stuff going on. But yeah, that those

69
00:04:03.639 --> 00:04:06.400
<v Speaker 2>are the four and I don't see any of those

70
00:04:06.479 --> 00:04:11.159
<v Speaker 2>really coming to fruition in the near term. I really don't.

71
00:04:12.240 --> 00:04:15.560
<v Speaker 2>You know, each side is pretty hard nosed about where

72
00:04:15.599 --> 00:04:16.240
<v Speaker 2>they are right now.

73
00:04:17.240 --> 00:04:22.240
<v Speaker 1>Edward Jones, expert on military situations the Middle East, a

74
00:04:22.680 --> 00:04:28.240
<v Speaker 1>former current marine. What about the price of gas.

75
00:04:29.000 --> 00:04:31.319
<v Speaker 2>Well, gas prices, you know, I was on last Monday,

76
00:04:31.319 --> 00:04:34.720
<v Speaker 2>a week ago, and they're still continuing this slow trend up.

77
00:04:34.759 --> 00:04:38.319
<v Speaker 2>And what alarms me a bit is is that, you know,

78
00:04:38.399 --> 00:04:42.000
<v Speaker 2>they had reached their lowest prices around the end of July,

79
00:04:43.240 --> 00:04:46.480
<v Speaker 2>and now they've recovered all that lost that ground. They're

80
00:04:46.519 --> 00:04:49.240
<v Speaker 2>backup to where they were beginning of August. And so

81
00:04:50.199 --> 00:04:53.399
<v Speaker 2>the Brent crude, which is the major market indicator, is

82
00:04:53.600 --> 00:04:58.199
<v Speaker 2>eighty eight seventy and eighty nine dollars a barrel regular

83
00:04:58.279 --> 00:05:01.680
<v Speaker 2>gas is four h seven over the last two weeks,

84
00:05:01.680 --> 00:05:07.000
<v Speaker 2>that's gone up about six and seven cents. The mid range,

85
00:05:07.040 --> 00:05:09.920
<v Speaker 2>which we laugh about a little bit, that's four fifty

86
00:05:10.120 --> 00:05:12.240
<v Speaker 2>I'm sorry, you have four point fifty seven, and then

87
00:05:12.279 --> 00:05:15.160
<v Speaker 2>the premium is almost five dollars. It's four ninety six

88
00:05:15.279 --> 00:05:18.839
<v Speaker 2>right now. Diesel is at five forty five. So this

89
00:05:18.920 --> 00:05:23.199
<v Speaker 2>is national average gas prices Walters. So regions such as

90
00:05:23.240 --> 00:05:26.879
<v Speaker 2>New York, you know, California, of course, you know region

91
00:05:26.920 --> 00:05:28.839
<v Speaker 2>are going to see see higher prices here and there,

92
00:05:28.879 --> 00:05:35.000
<v Speaker 2>depending on some retail conditions. But yeah, that's what's going on.

93
00:05:35.279 --> 00:05:38.959
<v Speaker 2>My sister who's out in Long Island. My Bell weather

94
00:05:39.360 --> 00:05:42.720
<v Speaker 2>person said, well, what about heating oil, and I said, well, yeah,

95
00:05:42.920 --> 00:05:45.279
<v Speaker 2>heating oil is that's something I started to take a

96
00:05:45.279 --> 00:05:48.720
<v Speaker 2>look at. And heating oil right now, you know, in

97
00:05:48.759 --> 00:05:51.639
<v Speaker 2>this area anyway, Northeast area is about four twenty seven

98
00:05:52.639 --> 00:05:57.360
<v Speaker 2>wholesale a gallon, but you know, retail is up around

99
00:05:57.720 --> 00:06:01.279
<v Speaker 2>four point fifty five for seventy five a gallon, and

100
00:06:01.319 --> 00:06:05.199
<v Speaker 2>that's trending up. Also the economy, I just want to

101
00:06:05.199 --> 00:06:08.759
<v Speaker 2>touch on this too, because oil and gas are used

102
00:06:08.879 --> 00:06:12.399
<v Speaker 2>in many, many, many products. I mean, uh, you know,

103
00:06:12.800 --> 00:06:18.759
<v Speaker 2>everything every every plastic, everything from from detergents and the

104
00:06:18.800 --> 00:06:21.439
<v Speaker 2>detergents that can contain us for in the plastics, the

105
00:06:22.360 --> 00:06:25.480
<v Speaker 2>rubbery things, the tampons. I mean, all of this stuff

106
00:06:25.560 --> 00:06:28.279
<v Speaker 2>has been going up and they're going to continue to

107
00:06:28.279 --> 00:06:33.879
<v Speaker 2>grow go up. Groceries have gone up nationally three percent

108
00:06:34.680 --> 00:06:38.560
<v Speaker 2>in the last the last year of h to where

109
00:06:38.560 --> 00:06:41.000
<v Speaker 2>we are today. And yes, so all of these things

110
00:06:41.000 --> 00:06:45.319
<v Speaker 2>are are just going to keep keep pushing inflation. And uh.

111
00:06:45.360 --> 00:06:48.480
<v Speaker 2>And again, as I said Monday, I just I continue

112
00:06:48.519 --> 00:06:51.600
<v Speaker 2>looking at this because the negotiations have stolled. And by

113
00:06:51.600 --> 00:06:55.279
<v Speaker 2>the way, today is a very very significant day, Walter. Uh.

114
00:06:55.399 --> 00:06:58.279
<v Speaker 2>Today the m o U, the is Alamabad mo o U.

115
00:06:58.439 --> 00:07:02.160
<v Speaker 2>That's the official title of that MoU. That memorandum of

116
00:07:02.199 --> 00:07:03.759
<v Speaker 2>understanding expires today.

117
00:07:04.480 --> 00:07:11.040
<v Speaker 1>Oh so the original thin memo of understanding expires today.

118
00:07:11.680 --> 00:07:14.639
<v Speaker 1>Haven't heard about that on traditional media. Very glad you

119
00:07:15.439 --> 00:07:18.720
<v Speaker 1>on this alternative media show was able to remind us

120
00:07:19.120 --> 00:07:22.600
<v Speaker 1>that the original memo of understanding between the United States

121
00:07:22.600 --> 00:07:25.839
<v Speaker 1>of America and Iran is over.

122
00:07:26.759 --> 00:07:29.399
<v Speaker 2>Yes, that's a fact that HiT's over. And maybe if

123
00:07:29.399 --> 00:07:31.879
<v Speaker 2>we just scoop some of these big guys again, I

124
00:07:31.959 --> 00:07:32.360
<v Speaker 2>don't know what.

125
00:07:32.439 --> 00:07:35.560
<v Speaker 1>Well they're useless. I'm telling you, you know, and I

126
00:07:35.639 --> 00:07:38.519
<v Speaker 1>know how big guys work because I hung around them

127
00:07:38.560 --> 00:07:41.720
<v Speaker 1>for much of my career. The way they all work,

128
00:07:42.279 --> 00:07:45.800
<v Speaker 1>traditional news media all work is they watch each other

129
00:07:46.519 --> 00:07:50.279
<v Speaker 1>and they feel they are successful if they have exactly

130
00:07:50.319 --> 00:07:54.399
<v Speaker 1>the same stories in exactly the same order. They look

131
00:07:54.439 --> 00:07:57.360
<v Speaker 1>at that each of the nightly news says, well, what

132
00:07:57.439 --> 00:07:59.720
<v Speaker 1>they have with it, and they watch it and they

133
00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:02.720
<v Speaker 1>believe that if they get exactly what the other guy got,

134
00:08:03.199 --> 00:08:06.360
<v Speaker 1>that's the success. To me, there couldn't be a greater failure.

135
00:08:06.399 --> 00:08:07.680
<v Speaker 1>But that's how they think.

136
00:08:09.199 --> 00:08:13.240
<v Speaker 2>That's right. You're exactly right, and you know, independence can

137
00:08:13.839 --> 00:08:16.560
<v Speaker 2>can get the sources that you know they don't have

138
00:08:16.720 --> 00:08:19.079
<v Speaker 2>and what have you. But I just want to quickly

139
00:08:19.120 --> 00:08:23.000
<v Speaker 2>say that this really occurred to me here Walter, is

140
00:08:23.040 --> 00:08:27.639
<v Speaker 2>something that's really I think striking. And to Trump's credit,

141
00:08:27.879 --> 00:08:32.320
<v Speaker 2>I really see this. He's out there. They're coming up

142
00:08:32.360 --> 00:08:34.120
<v Speaker 2>now with an idea that they're going to you know,

143
00:08:34.240 --> 00:08:37.600
<v Speaker 2>bankrupt you know, I mentioned Secretary Treasury Besson to the

144
00:08:37.639 --> 00:08:39.240
<v Speaker 2>adults in the room there. You know, they're going to

145
00:08:39.759 --> 00:08:46.200
<v Speaker 2>keep lairing on sanctions, you know, blockade that they say

146
00:08:46.240 --> 00:08:50.039
<v Speaker 2>that they can maintain the naval blockade indefinitely, all to

147
00:08:50.399 --> 00:08:54.120
<v Speaker 2>create economic pain in Iran. So they closed all the

148
00:08:54.639 --> 00:08:57.399
<v Speaker 2>imports coming into the country. And now they're talking about

149
00:08:57.399 --> 00:09:00.639
<v Speaker 2>the land blockade. Walter, and this is where he gets interesting. This.

150
00:09:00.799 --> 00:09:04.639
<v Speaker 2>I'm fascinated with this because Trump is creating a NATO,

151
00:09:04.720 --> 00:09:06.519
<v Speaker 2>if you will. It looks like they're going in this

152
00:09:06.600 --> 00:09:11.519
<v Speaker 2>direction among countries that are surrounding in the area surrounding

153
00:09:11.799 --> 00:09:14.960
<v Speaker 2>Iran and some I'll just rattle off a couple We're

154
00:09:15.000 --> 00:09:16.720
<v Speaker 2>not going to go there, just to let you know

155
00:09:16.759 --> 00:09:19.360
<v Speaker 2>what he's building. He's building a NATO in this region

156
00:09:19.399 --> 00:09:24.200
<v Speaker 2>of the world, Okay, an even NATO like organization. And

157
00:09:24.320 --> 00:09:29.159
<v Speaker 2>you know these are countries Iraq, which we mentioned. Iraq

158
00:09:29.200 --> 00:09:32.360
<v Speaker 2>has the Kurdistan region where it occurred to love him.

159
00:09:32.519 --> 00:09:35.519
<v Speaker 2>They love us there, Okay. So he has Iraq, which

160
00:09:35.600 --> 00:09:41.639
<v Speaker 2>is on board the Kurdistan, Turkey, Pakistan, Afghanistan, by the way,

161
00:09:41.799 --> 00:09:48.240
<v Speaker 2>was hold on the side, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia. These countries

162
00:09:48.320 --> 00:09:52.440
<v Speaker 2>together would create an enormous land blockade to the north

163
00:09:52.480 --> 00:09:56.279
<v Speaker 2>of Iran. And this is what they're putting together, which

164
00:09:56.279 --> 00:10:00.000
<v Speaker 2>I think is really remarkable because you know the name,

165
00:10:00.080 --> 00:10:03.279
<v Speaker 2>don't folks the Europeans kind of turned the back, and

166
00:10:03.320 --> 00:10:05.799
<v Speaker 2>by the way, the Koreans turned the back on us,

167
00:10:05.879 --> 00:10:08.320
<v Speaker 2>and he's sort of hammering them now. He canceled the

168
00:10:09.360 --> 00:10:12.440
<v Speaker 2>military exercises with South Korea because.

169
00:10:12.200 --> 00:10:14.159
<v Speaker 1>And he said, now now that you're now that you're

170
00:10:14.200 --> 00:10:16.840
<v Speaker 1>mentioning South Korea, it's more than my brain can handle.

171
00:10:17.360 --> 00:10:19.960
<v Speaker 1>But I appreciate what I appreciate what you're saying. He's

172
00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:23.320
<v Speaker 1>forming a NATO in the Middle East, and that takes

173
00:10:23.399 --> 00:10:27.240
<v Speaker 1>quite the president. Edward Jones, an expert on the Middle East,

174
00:10:27.320 --> 00:10:31.600
<v Speaker 1>an expert on military operations, always makes things simple for

175
00:10:31.720 --> 00:10:34.440
<v Speaker 1>my simple brain. Thank you very much for being on

176
00:10:34.480 --> 00:10:36.879
<v Speaker 1>the other side of midnight