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We got two of them now. 12 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:39,399 Speaker 2: The full interview I think is dropping at some point today, 13 00:00:39,439 --> 00:00:43,320 maybe in like another hour or something. But it highlights 14 00:00:43,399 --> 00:00:48,000 the the in fighting that is occurring inside of the 15 00:00:48,079 --> 00:00:51,520 Republican Party or I don't even know if it's MAGA 16 00:00:51,719 --> 00:00:55,719 world or not, but this fight has been has been 17 00:00:56,200 --> 00:01:01,759 percolating for a while because you have people who I 18 00:01:01,799 --> 00:01:08,079 think believe themselves to be the standard bearers for MAGA 19 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:12,719 because their audience is MAGA and their audience tells them 20 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:16,840 that they are so awesome, and so they have now 21 00:01:16,879 --> 00:01:23,400 sort of adopted this posture that they speak for Magaworld. 22 00:01:25,359 --> 00:01:31,120 And it is quite it is quite the development to 23 00:01:31,239 --> 00:01:38,599 hear people that hitched their wagon to the Trump train 24 00:01:39,799 --> 00:01:47,159 and now call themselves more Maga than Donald Trump, to 25 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:49,920 the point where Donald Trump was even asked about this 26 00:01:51,079 --> 00:01:56,799 and he said, like, I created this, No, I am this, 27 00:01:56,959 --> 00:02:00,000 I'm the leader of Maga, which of course he is, 28 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:05,840 of course he is. It's so bizarre, but it ties 29 00:02:05,879 --> 00:02:08,000 into this thing, this woke right. 30 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:09,800 Speaker 1: Fight. 31 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:13,560 Speaker 2: That that's what I mean by it's been percolating. That's 32 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:18,199 there's an element on the right that doesn't actually believe 33 00:02:18,479 --> 00:02:21,120 in the Mega principles. 34 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:22,840 Speaker 1: They believe in other. 35 00:02:22,639 --> 00:02:28,719 Speaker 2: Stuff, and they use the tactics of the Marxist dialectic, 36 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:33,560 they use the modern Bailey tactics. They use these things 37 00:02:34,319 --> 00:02:38,639 either for grifting purposes or you know, to gain influence, 38 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:42,840 or in some more nefarious cases, in order to splinter 39 00:02:43,439 --> 00:02:49,879 the Mega movement. And so they they've now had this 40 00:02:50,039 --> 00:02:54,319 is their line in the sand, apparently, is the Iran 41 00:02:55,960 --> 00:03:04,280 attack by Israel and Trump's roll in it. I said yesterday, like, 42 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:09,159 I do not want Iran to have nuclear weapons, and 43 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:14,000 I am with about eighty something percent of Trump voters 44 00:03:14,759 --> 00:03:18,240 and like seventy percent of Americans, Iran should not get 45 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:22,400 the bomb, and I've heard some really stupid arguments over 46 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:26,039 the last forty eight hours coming from quote unquote conservatives 47 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:30,520 and libertarians about it, and I have to say, the 48 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:35,280 dumbest one I think is that, well, you know, Nantan, 49 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:39,680 Yahoo and Israel. They've been saying that Iran is you know, 50 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:42,400 close to getting a nuclear warhead. They've been saying it 51 00:03:42,439 --> 00:03:47,719 for twenty years or thirty years. Yes, they have been. 52 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:52,960 They've been saying that, absolutely correct, and the critics point 53 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:57,319 to this as proof that those are lies, and they 54 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:02,639 ignore all of the things over the last thirty years 55 00:04:02,879 --> 00:04:07,400 that Israel has done in order to thwart the nuclear 56 00:04:07,479 --> 00:04:15,319 program in Iran. Right, Here's here's a riddle for particularly 57 00:04:15,719 --> 00:04:20,040 Democrats that are now making common cause with a lot 58 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:24,279 of these woke right folks in opposing Trump, because that's 59 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:26,519 what it's about. For people on the left, it's about 60 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:28,879 just you know, opposing Donald Trump on anything that he does, 61 00:04:28,959 --> 00:04:32,040 even if they agree that Iran shouldn't have a nuclear weapon. 62 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:34,399 And by the way, Democrats did agree with that until 63 00:04:34,399 --> 00:04:37,439 about a minute ago. You know how I know that, well, 64 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:44,680 because they backed the Obama regimes jcpoa agreement which should 65 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:47,160 have been a treaty, but Obama didn't and run around 66 00:04:47,199 --> 00:04:50,800 the Senate in you know, conflict with the US Constitution. 67 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:53,360 I would submit and did argue at that time, but 68 00:04:53,759 --> 00:04:56,240 Democrats said, no, no, no, it's you know, this agreement 69 00:04:56,360 --> 00:05:04,560 is going to put a pause on Iranian Uranian enrichment aspirations. 70 00:05:05,079 --> 00:05:08,680 And of course it did not, because they really really 71 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:11,439 want the bomb. They want to be able to murder 72 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:14,480 as many Jews and wipe Israel off the map. That's 73 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:18,000 what they have said. That's what everybody knows. Everybody knows this. 74 00:05:18,319 --> 00:05:20,600 Like I said, Democrats used to know it too. Most 75 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:23,959 Republicans understand it, most MAGA world understands it. Donald Trump 76 00:05:24,079 --> 00:05:26,439 understands it. Donald Trump has been saying it for like 77 00:05:26,519 --> 00:05:29,519 a decade and a half. They can't get a nuke. 78 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:36,480 So Israel like has obviously been planning all of this 79 00:05:36,519 --> 00:05:43,199 stuff out from the initial response to October seventh, then 80 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:49,639 the hit on the Hesbala terrorists in Lebanon, and now 81 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:55,439 going after the command structure and the facilities that produce 82 00:05:56,240 --> 00:06:01,040 not just the nuclear centrifuges and the bliss Stick missiles, right, 83 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:07,240 but also the weaponry that has been deployed through their 84 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:11,160 proxies through the Iranian proxies against Israel, but also American 85 00:06:11,199 --> 00:06:15,199 troops when they were in Iraq. Hundreds, if not thousands 86 00:06:15,639 --> 00:06:19,560 of American deaths are at the hands of the Iranians. 87 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:22,639 They don't like us, they call us the great Satan. 88 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:26,959 They chant death to America. Now you can choose to 89 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:29,759 believe that that is not true. You can choose to 90 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:32,720 believe that they didn't mean it, or that's just for 91 00:06:32,839 --> 00:06:37,879 domestic consumption, and oh, you know those Middle Eastern countries 92 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:41,600 over the top rhetoric and all of that. See, but 93 00:06:42,639 --> 00:06:44,800 I remember nine to eleven, And because I remember nine 94 00:06:44,839 --> 00:06:46,360 to eleven, I say, yeah, you know what, I'm going 95 00:06:46,439 --> 00:06:52,000 to trust them. Radical Islamists really do want to kill 96 00:06:52,399 --> 00:06:58,519 non Muslims, particularly Israel and America. They really really want 97 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:01,399 to do it. And they can't find other Muslims to 98 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:03,680 murder a little bit closer to home, but like if 99 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:07,639 they can travel, they definitely they definitely like to kill 100 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:10,040 a lot of Jews. They like to kill a lot 101 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:12,720 of Christians. Africa is a good example of that. I 102 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:17,399 think I just saw there was another slaughter of Christians 103 00:07:17,439 --> 00:07:22,360 in another African nation at the hands of Islamists. They 104 00:07:22,439 --> 00:07:26,920 really like doing this. It's their jam, Okay, they are 105 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:30,759 compelled by their radical ideology to do it. So when 106 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:33,720 you have folks like that running a country and they've 107 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:37,680 made these promises, I think we should listen to them. 108 00:07:37,759 --> 00:07:40,399 I think we should believe them. And I think Donald 109 00:07:40,399 --> 00:07:44,879 Trump has actually Like I've made jokes for years about 110 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:47,680 whether or not Donald Trump is playing six dimensional chess 111 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:50,800 or whatever, and for the most part, I have rejected 112 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:55,240 that idea. It doesn't seem like he is playing these 113 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:57,920 these you know, deep level games. 114 00:07:57,560 --> 00:07:59,079 Speaker 1: And stratagem and all this stuff. 115 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:04,199 Speaker 2: On this it definitely seems like he is playing a 116 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:07,720 different game than a lot of other people, particularly in 117 00:08:07,839 --> 00:08:11,680 the magasphere that are detractors of him now and his 118 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:14,959 approach to this. How dare he stand by Israel? How 119 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:18,399 dare he support their action? How dare he participate in 120 00:08:18,439 --> 00:08:23,040 the deception that allowed Israel's surprise attack to be so successful. 121 00:08:24,399 --> 00:08:27,519 I think it's actually brilliant on the part of Donald Trump. 122 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:31,519 Let Israel do what they're going to do, and then 123 00:08:32,919 --> 00:08:35,159 you can say, hey, come back to the table. We 124 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:37,759 offered you a sixty day window, you refuse to take it, 125 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:43,039 Like you've got maximum leverage now over Iran. All of 126 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:47,039 that being said does not mean that I'm advocating either 127 00:08:47,159 --> 00:08:53,039 a American troops boots on the ground in Iran nation building. 128 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:57,480 Speaker 1: None of that. Israel's doing it. Oh what about the refugees? 129 00:08:58,519 --> 00:08:59,159 What about them? 130 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:03,120 Speaker 2: People leave the country and the if the country falls 131 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:08,919 into collapse because of it, that's not our problem. Our 132 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:14,200 problem was the regime was working on a nuclear bomb. 133 00:09:14,279 --> 00:09:15,799 Speaker 1: Oh that's what they said about Iraq. 134 00:09:16,399 --> 00:09:20,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, except this is a little different because we have 135 00:09:20,399 --> 00:09:24,559 now like forty years of evidence and the evidence and 136 00:09:24,639 --> 00:09:26,360 this is like the Hillary Clinton server. 137 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:28,799 Speaker 1: But everybody on the left was like, oh, it's just 138 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:30,600 where's her emails? Oh, it's her emails. 139 00:09:30,639 --> 00:09:33,639 Speaker 2: No, no, no, The smoking gun is the existence of 140 00:09:33,679 --> 00:09:37,159 the server, and in Iran's case, because by the way, 141 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:39,320 you would not have the server unless you needed to 142 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:45,080 permanently delete emails, right, That's the only way you could 143 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:48,519 do that is to actually control the server. For Iran, 144 00:09:49,399 --> 00:09:55,399 the smoking gun is the enrichment levels. And nobody disagrees 145 00:09:55,480 --> 00:09:59,080 that they have achieved sixty percent enrichment. 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After successfully intercepting 169 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:24,519 more than two dozen missiles launched by Iran towards Israel 170 00:11:24,559 --> 00:11:28,840 in the preceding hours, over fifty Israeli Air Force jets 171 00:11:28,879 --> 00:11:31,480 flew to Iran, where they struck a facility in which 172 00:11:31,519 --> 00:11:36,799 centrifuges were manufactured to expand and accelerate uranium enrichment for 173 00:11:37,279 --> 00:11:41,960 Iran's nuclear weapons program, according to the IDF, the Israeli 174 00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:47,360 Defense Force. Okay, there is no reason to enrich uranium 175 00:11:47,519 --> 00:11:50,840 past three percent if, as the Iranians have claimed in 176 00:11:50,879 --> 00:11:54,960 the past, that they only needed for civilian energy production purposes. 177 00:11:55,720 --> 00:11:59,159 Three percent is what you need, apparently, three percent enrichment. 178 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:03,240 By blowing past that, getting all the way to sixty 179 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:07,360 percent and knocking on the door of the ninety percent threshold, 180 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:11,360 which is necessary to create the weapons grade nuclear weapon, 181 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:17,039 well then there is no other explanation for why you 182 00:12:17,039 --> 00:12:19,879 would do that except for a nuclear bomb. 183 00:12:19,919 --> 00:12:22,960 Speaker 1: Oh and by the way, last night is very weird. 184 00:12:23,919 --> 00:12:25,600 Speaker 2: Let's see here, what did I do with it. There 185 00:12:25,759 --> 00:12:28,480 was a I have so many papers in the stack 186 00:12:28,519 --> 00:12:36,159 of stuff. There was a here it is. There was 187 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:39,120 no There was a tweet that the Iyatola, Oh, I 188 00:12:39,159 --> 00:12:41,840 don't think I printed it did not print that. Hang 189 00:12:41,879 --> 00:12:44,799 on a second, let me pull it up. The Ayatola 190 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:51,679 put out a uh komeny put out a statement. Sorry, yeah, 191 00:12:51,679 --> 00:12:55,440 the Iranian state media quote, there is a surprise tonight 192 00:12:55,879 --> 00:12:58,559 that the world will remember for centuries. 193 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:01,960 Speaker 1: Okay, okay. 194 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:07,279 Speaker 2: First off, my initial response was, why are you announcing this? 195 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:10,240 That's not really a surprise at that point. That's like 196 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:13,919 inviting somebody to their surprise party and then yelling surprise. 197 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:17,200 You don't you say something is coming? 198 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:20,720 Speaker 1: You got this? Okay, Well, what was it? I don't know. 199 00:13:21,159 --> 00:13:24,039 Speaker 2: It doesn't seem there. It doesn't seem that there was anything, 200 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:28,360 unless it was the launching of two dozen missiles, which 201 00:13:30,039 --> 00:13:33,080 Israel successfully took out of the sky. Now, maybe one 202 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:35,799 of those missiles was some sort of a nuclear weapon. 203 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:40,320 Why do I suggest that. Well, last night the Iranians 204 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:45,919 released a seventeen second video and it's got some music 205 00:13:45,960 --> 00:13:51,480 playing and it says in I think, in I don't know, 206 00:13:51,519 --> 00:13:56,519 in two different foreign languages, maybe Israeli or why am 207 00:13:56,559 --> 00:13:59,480 I drawing a Hebrew drawing a black on their language Hebrew, 208 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:04,240 maybe Arabic or I don't know if it's Farsi or whatever. 209 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:07,600 Speaker 1: And then in English it says, maybe that's it. Okay, 210 00:14:07,639 --> 00:14:08,120 so that's all. 211 00:14:08,159 --> 00:14:10,960 Speaker 2: It says, your music playing, it says maybe, And it 212 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:15,360 shows this close up of a what appears to be 213 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:19,559 almost like a cartoonish nuclear bomb. It's like a little 214 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:23,200 missile with the radioactive you know, the little three legged 215 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:25,919 thing or whatever, that symbol the nuclear symbol that's on 216 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:26,519 the bomb. 217 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:28,000 Speaker 1: And so it's this. 218 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:31,440 Speaker 2: Close up of a nuclear warhead. But then there's a 219 00:14:31,559 --> 00:14:35,799 hand that comes in and the hand is like three 220 00:14:35,879 --> 00:14:37,960 times the size of the bomb. So that's when you 221 00:14:38,039 --> 00:14:40,639 realize the scale of this thing, that the bomb is 222 00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:44,720 actually just like a little toy. It's like a toy 223 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:49,559 nuke or something. It's really small. And you see this 224 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:54,440 hand and it starts petting the bomb. It's petting it, 225 00:14:55,919 --> 00:15:01,639 and it says maybe, So maybe that was the surprise 226 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:04,120 that we're going to remember for centuries to come. I 227 00:15:04,159 --> 00:15:06,759 don't know, I'm not sure what the surprise was, but 228 00:15:07,039 --> 00:15:10,919 they kind of left us hanging there and maybe like 229 00:15:10,960 --> 00:15:13,080 I said, maybe they've got a very tiny nuke. Maybe 230 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:15,159 they've got a really small nuke. They're gonna, you know, 231 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:17,320 pack it in a lunch box someplace and send it 232 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:18,679 into Israel or America. 233 00:15:18,759 --> 00:15:19,240 Speaker 1: I don't know. 234 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:22,480 Speaker 2: But see this kind of proves the point that they 235 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:25,799 are willing to use nuclear weapons, because that's always been 236 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:29,000 the deal about mutually assured destruction with like the Russians, 237 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:32,320 and I hear people talking about the oh, well, if 238 00:15:32,559 --> 00:15:35,360 you know, the Russians and we have nukes and mutually 239 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:38,639 assured destruction is okay for us? Why not Iran? Yeah, 240 00:15:38,679 --> 00:15:43,480 because like we weren't out there screaming that we're going 241 00:15:43,559 --> 00:15:47,159 to nuke you. Like that wasn't our official government position, 242 00:15:47,519 --> 00:15:51,200 you know, mutually assured destruction was we don't want to die. 243 00:15:51,519 --> 00:15:52,559 Speaker 1: You don't want to die. 244 00:15:52,879 --> 00:15:55,720 Speaker 2: So as long as we know that we can hit 245 00:15:55,759 --> 00:15:59,279 each other first strike, second strike, third strikes, whatever, then 246 00:15:59,639 --> 00:16:00,799 we're at Deatonte right. 247 00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:04,600 Speaker 1: There's gonna be no movement. It's just a stalemate. 248 00:16:05,559 --> 00:16:12,120 Speaker 2: But Iran doesn't care because again their religious ideology and 249 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:17,919 offshoot this branch inside of Islam that they believe that 250 00:16:18,159 --> 00:16:21,440 the only way to bring about the end times is 251 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:25,639 to kill every Jew in Israel and a nuke does that? 252 00:16:26,639 --> 00:16:30,480 Hence their desire for nuclear weapons since the very beginning. 253 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:33,039 This is not new, from the very beginning when they 254 00:16:33,039 --> 00:16:35,879 took over in the revolution. All right, So spring is 255 00:16:35,919 --> 00:16:40,360 here a time of renewal and celebrations. You've got graduations, weddings, 256 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:43,840 anniversaries and especial days for mom and dad. Your family's 257 00:16:43,879 --> 00:16:45,840 making memories that are going to last a lifetime. 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Visit Creative 268 00:17:21,279 --> 00:17:24,119 Video today and let them preserve your legacy with the 269 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:28,039 love and care that it deserves. Creative Video Preserving Family 270 00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:31,519 Memories since nineteen ninety seven, located in mint Hill, just 271 00:17:31,559 --> 00:17:34,640 off four eighty five. Mail orders are accepted to get 272 00:17:34,680 --> 00:17:38,519 all the details that create a video dot com. This 273 00:17:38,559 --> 00:17:41,640 is from Karen. It's a Pete tweet. Karen says, I 274 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:45,519 don't understand why people cannot believe one Iran should not 275 00:17:45,559 --> 00:17:49,480 have a nuclear weapon. Two we can and should support 276 00:17:49,559 --> 00:17:52,960 Israel without American troops boots on the ground in an 277 00:17:53,079 --> 00:17:58,160 unwinnable ground war. And three the Iran Israel conflict affects 278 00:17:58,240 --> 00:18:02,680 US way more than the Russia you crane conflict does. Yeah, 279 00:18:02,759 --> 00:18:09,640 it's all perfectly reasonable. Again, this is Israel protecting its 280 00:18:10,359 --> 00:18:14,640 national interest. It is taking out a threat that has 281 00:18:14,720 --> 00:18:19,240 been attacking it in various forms for the better part 282 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:24,279 of forty years. And they had, you know, with Hamas Hasbala, 283 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:29,640 the UTIs, they have they have used their proxies to 284 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:31,519 bring the war to Israel, and they've been doing it 285 00:18:31,559 --> 00:18:34,640 for decades. And Israel says, you know what we're after 286 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:38,359 October seventh, We're done, We're done living like this. We 287 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:42,039 know where it's coming from, and we're going after all 288 00:18:42,039 --> 00:18:46,039 of the operations. And they just started with Gaza. They 289 00:18:46,079 --> 00:18:49,599 moved into Lebanon, they hit the houtis a little bit, 290 00:18:50,559 --> 00:18:58,079 and now they're going into Iran and it's their national interest, 291 00:18:58,119 --> 00:19:03,720 it's their call. And Iran has, you know, laid out 292 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:10,599 enough evidence against themselves for why a just war by 293 00:19:10,759 --> 00:19:15,640 Israel is allowable. That's why you're not like, where are 294 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:17,880 all of the Muslim country likes? Oh, it's going to 295 00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:21,559 spread into a regional conflict. What hasn't it already? Why 296 00:19:21,559 --> 00:19:26,680 hasn't it? Nobody's coming to Iran's defense so far? Nobody's sorry, 297 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:29,640 the hooties like we got your back, like Russia abandoned 298 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:33,160 them almost immediately. Where's where are all these other countries? 299 00:19:35,400 --> 00:19:37,880 Let me go over to Travis. Welcome to the program. 300 00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:42,240 Speaker 3: How are you hey, mister Pete. I just wanted to 301 00:19:42,319 --> 00:19:46,039 lay out what I see as the dominoes that kind 302 00:19:46,039 --> 00:19:48,880 of define where we are right now and setting up 303 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:52,480 where we're going where I don't think we've fully thought 304 00:19:52,519 --> 00:19:56,119 about where we're going at So the first domino is 305 00:19:56,240 --> 00:20:01,759 Donald Trump's negotiating with Iran, right and at some point 306 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:04,599 he must have received credible information that made him think 307 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:09,559 Iran is negotiating in bad faith, correct, and he began 308 00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:12,240 to work with Israel to you know, do what we 309 00:20:12,319 --> 00:20:12,720 do now? 310 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:15,599 Speaker 2: I so, well, well, hang on, Travis, I would say 311 00:20:15,599 --> 00:20:20,319 another another possible theory there is that he knew from 312 00:20:20,319 --> 00:20:23,039 the very beginning that Iran was operating in bad faith, 313 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:25,640 but wanted to try to do a deal and just 314 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:28,240 told Israel hold off. So he may have known about 315 00:20:28,279 --> 00:20:31,599 Israel's plans for a very long time and just said, 316 00:20:31,599 --> 00:20:33,599 you know what, I'm going to do this, And that's 317 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:36,680 part of the deception that he engaged in. 318 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:40,240 Speaker 3: Right, I mean, I think I think you would have 319 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:41,960 been happy with a deal, but I think you could 320 00:20:42,039 --> 00:20:42,960 easily be right. 321 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:43,880 Speaker 1: Yeah either way. 322 00:20:43,839 --> 00:20:45,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, And I don't know, like you said, like you, 323 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:48,160 I'm just like, these are different, different ideas for what 324 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:49,359 could we could have seen. 325 00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:53,759 Speaker 3: Well, the next domino on line is when you decide 326 00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:59,240 to strike nuclear infrastructure. You know Iran's going to respond, 327 00:20:59,319 --> 00:21:02,920 so you also have to take out their air capabilities 328 00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:04,960 and the military installations, right. 329 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:08,839 Speaker 1: And the launch pads for their ballistic missiles. 330 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:12,359 Speaker 3: Yet and when you do that, now we get to 331 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:15,480 the domino where I don't think any of us really 332 00:21:15,519 --> 00:21:19,200 could be expected to know because at this point came 333 00:21:19,279 --> 00:21:22,960 to the weeds of Iran. Right, But inside Iran, you 334 00:21:23,119 --> 00:21:26,319 have what's called Blakistan, right, it's the Blocki people, and 335 00:21:26,319 --> 00:21:30,039 that's a region that borders that spans the border of 336 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:36,000 Pakistan and Iran. You have the curves in the northeast, northwest, 337 00:21:36,039 --> 00:21:39,880 sorry northwest, and you have some Arab communities in the southwest, 338 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:44,880 and all of those have militant separatist groups that no 339 00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:51,039 longer have to worry about helicopters or Iranian air force 340 00:21:51,359 --> 00:21:54,559 taking them out. And I've seen that the Bloki nationalists 341 00:21:55,079 --> 00:22:00,640 are starting to up their attacks on Iranian installation. And 342 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:03,440 what's interesting to me about that is that on the 343 00:22:03,599 --> 00:22:09,279 Paki side of Blakistan, China has invested a lot into 344 00:22:09,319 --> 00:22:13,200 the port of Guadar. And right now Trump is meeting 345 00:22:13,359 --> 00:22:17,559 with one of the top ranking officials of the Packing military. 346 00:22:18,279 --> 00:22:23,319 So who are the Blocking nationalists? Will they end up 347 00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:25,880 being kind of a Chinese proxy in the area or 348 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:31,240 they seem the extremists? Who's rising next? And that's not 349 00:22:32,039 --> 00:22:36,440 I'm happy to see Ran collapse, But what what's happening now? Yeah? 350 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:39,000 Speaker 2: No, And this is the problem with any kind of 351 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:42,839 toppling of a dictatorship, right, whether we do it, Israel 352 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:45,240 does it, or it collapses on its own, it doesn't matter. 353 00:22:46,039 --> 00:22:51,480 In the aftermath of these dictatorships, particularly in the Middle East, 354 00:22:51,559 --> 00:22:55,559 you end up with a lot of these blood feuds 355 00:22:55,599 --> 00:22:58,920 that have existed for you know, decades or even hundreds 356 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:03,000 of years prior, and they then get into the score settling. 357 00:23:03,079 --> 00:23:06,640 We saw it in Iraq right where you had the 358 00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:08,880 different militias that rose up and they were fighting each 359 00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:12,960 other in the neighborhoods and such. Yeah, like, nobody knows 360 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:16,640 what happens in collapse of a dictatorship. It's just there 361 00:23:16,759 --> 00:23:20,480 are too many variables. And I make no predictions about 362 00:23:20,519 --> 00:23:24,759 that either. But that being said that, it seems like 363 00:23:24,799 --> 00:23:29,720 Trump has a limited goal, which is what Israel's limited 364 00:23:29,759 --> 00:23:33,920 goal was, which was destroy the nuclear capability. And if 365 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:38,160 you do that and Iran says, okay, fine, we won't 366 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:41,720 pursue nukes anymore or whatever, and they can remain in power. 367 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:43,000 Speaker 1: I think that. 368 00:23:43,319 --> 00:23:46,839 Speaker 2: I think both Israel and America allow them to stay 369 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:50,240 in power. I don't like Trump has made no argument 370 00:23:50,359 --> 00:23:53,519 or no assertion that we're going to you know, topple 371 00:23:53,519 --> 00:23:55,240 that regime and we're going to go in there let 372 00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:58,119 alone and then nation build. That's not even on the table. 373 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:01,039 I don't think Trump is interested in doing that at all. 374 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:06,200 Speaker 3: I'm I would be interested to hear any Indian listeners 375 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:09,039 to your podcast who might or your show who might 376 00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:14,359 have insight into Blakistan because that I agree that we 377 00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:17,119 don't know where we're going, and I'm curious to know 378 00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:19,000 where we're going. I don't think we're going to engage 379 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:21,119 in nations phil This is not Iraq two point zero. 380 00:24:21,119 --> 00:24:22,519 We're not going to repeat that mistake. 381 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:25,000 Speaker 1: No, there's not. There's not support for it. 382 00:24:25,039 --> 00:24:28,799 Speaker 2: And Donald Trump made you know, a lot of comments 383 00:24:28,839 --> 00:24:31,400 about the Iraq war for years. He is not a 384 00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:34,440 fan of that project. And so you got us out 385 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:37,279 of out of Afghanistan for the same reason. So, like 386 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:40,079 I genuinely believe when he says that he does not 387 00:24:40,319 --> 00:24:43,640 like war, he wants peace. I believe him. And this 388 00:24:43,759 --> 00:24:46,160 is a this, but it's peace through strength. And when 389 00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:51,359 you have an enemy that is weaponizing uranium, developing, you know, 390 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:53,720 on one track and on the second track, developing the 391 00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:57,599 ballistic missiles and cranking them out in production factories and 392 00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:01,160 is threatening to nuke Israel and hit America with an 393 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:05,160 intercontinental ballistic missile, well you know what, I'm sorry but 394 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:07,680 the world is governed by the aggressive use of force. 395 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:10,880 And Donald Trump as an America First guy, the founder 396 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:14,039 of the movement that's America First, is to protect America 397 00:25:14,079 --> 00:25:17,000 from that kind of aggression. So if we can take 398 00:25:17,039 --> 00:25:19,920 out their nuclear capabilities, you've got a unique opportunity to 399 00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:23,519 do it by letting Israel do it. So that's what 400 00:25:23,559 --> 00:25:27,000 I think he's doing. I think it's very straightforward. Yeah, 401 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:30,160 you too. I appreciate the calll Travis. Yeah, there are 402 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:33,680 there are a bunch of different factions inside of Iran, 403 00:25:33,759 --> 00:25:38,000 no doubt about a different ethnic groups. The Persians are 404 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:40,440 the biggest. They're like sixty one percent of the population. 405 00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:49,279 There's he mentioned Blukastan or Balakistan b A l o h. 406 00:25:49,599 --> 00:25:57,200 They represent two percent of the Iranian ethnic composition. You 407 00:25:57,279 --> 00:26:02,200 got the Azerbaijanis they're about sixteen percent, Kurds at ten percent, 408 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:10,039 and then everybody else's single digits, Gilocks, Mezzanderani's two percent, Arab, 409 00:26:11,079 --> 00:26:16,480 Turkmen and Turkic people at two percent. So the vast 410 00:26:16,519 --> 00:26:19,759 majority sixty one percent are Persians. All right, if you're 411 00:26:19,799 --> 00:26:21,559 listening to this show, you know, I try to keep 412 00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:23,359 up with all sorts of current events, and I know 413 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:25,839 you do too, and you've probably heard me say get 414 00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:29,799 your news from multiple sources. Why Well, because it's how 415 00:26:29,839 --> 00:26:32,440 you detect media bias, which is why I've been so 416 00:26:32,519 --> 00:26:36,160 impressed with ground News. 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The line spot feature shows 425 00:27:01,319 --> 00:27:04,160 you which stories get ignored by the left and the right. 426 00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:09,039 See for yourself check dot ground, dot news slash pete. 427 00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:11,799 Subscribe through that link and you'll get fifteen percent off 428 00:27:11,799 --> 00:27:15,079 any subscription. I use the Vantage plan to get unlimited 429 00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:18,400 access to every feature. Your subscription then not only helps 430 00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:21,240 my podcast, but it also supports ground News as they 431 00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:25,720 make the media landscape more transparent. So I guess I'm wondering, 432 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:30,319 is Trump a neocon or maybe he's just being conned 433 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:32,839 by the neocons? Is that the deal is that what's 434 00:27:32,839 --> 00:27:37,640 happening here that got to him somehow. He's no longer 435 00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:41,160 the leader of MAGA because the neocons of condom or 436 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:43,839 he's been a closet neocon this whole time he lied 437 00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:47,240 about not getting us into any wars. Because this is 438 00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:51,720 what a lot of people, the influencer, the MAGA influencer 439 00:27:52,759 --> 00:27:58,319 crowd is saying. And I think it would be different 440 00:27:58,839 --> 00:28:05,319 if we had launched the attacks on Iran, right, but 441 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:10,160 we didn't. Israel did, and we're backing their play because 442 00:28:10,759 --> 00:28:15,920 their goal eliminating Iran's nuclear program is Trump's goal and 443 00:28:16,079 --> 00:28:22,079 has been America's goal for fifty years. So why wouldn't 444 00:28:22,079 --> 00:28:27,359 we back the efforts to achieve our goal? Why wouldn't 445 00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:30,079 we support that. People are making a lot of this 446 00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:33,799 comment that Trump made about how you know they used 447 00:28:33,799 --> 00:28:36,079 our equipment to do it. Of course they used our equipment. 448 00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:40,960 They buy our stuff. That's what the military aid is for, Like, 449 00:28:41,799 --> 00:28:46,480 they buy our stuff. So it's actually like the money 450 00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:49,440 that supposedly like that goes to Israel, it goes to. 451 00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:51,079 Speaker 1: Our defense contractors. 452 00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:55,160 Speaker 2: Because they buy the military stuff from us, they make 453 00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:57,240 changes to it and they upgrade it and they do 454 00:28:57,359 --> 00:29:02,400 various things to it. But that's like, that's now supposedly 455 00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:07,480 evidence that we're involved in it. Okay, but I mean, 456 00:29:07,519 --> 00:29:11,359 if we're selling military equipment to Israel, why wouldn't they 457 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:12,119 use our stuff? 458 00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:15,559 Speaker 1: Now? I think the real question that. 459 00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:18,839 Speaker 2: Trump has to decide on is well, I guess he's 460 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:22,759 got two right. One is if Iran, as has been reported, 461 00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:25,720 is now interested in coming back to the negotiating table, 462 00:29:26,839 --> 00:29:29,920 does he entertain that? Does he try to do that? 463 00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:33,559 But he sent out a tweet yesterday that said unconditional surrender. 464 00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:36,200 And that is one way to go about doing this 465 00:29:36,279 --> 00:29:39,799 if you're Iran, is to say we give up. We're 466 00:29:39,799 --> 00:29:42,319 not gonna we're not gonna leave power, but we'll give 467 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:45,359 up all of the nuclear ambitions. We'll stop doing it. 468 00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:47,880 Just make this all stop. That's one way they could 469 00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:52,039 preserve their regime. I don't know if Israel would allow that, 470 00:29:52,079 --> 00:29:54,039 but maybe Trump negotiates that kind of a deal. 471 00:29:54,079 --> 00:29:54,519 Speaker 1: I don't know. 472 00:29:56,559 --> 00:30:02,039 Speaker 2: The other is do you make available or actually run 473 00:30:02,119 --> 00:30:05,480 the flight itself with American service members? With that, I 474 00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:09,640 think you would have to to drop these bunker busting 475 00:30:10,039 --> 00:30:15,559 bombs on four doh, which is there the Iranian nuclear 476 00:30:15,559 --> 00:30:20,640 facility that's buried, you know, ninety meters deep into a mountain. 477 00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:23,319 And by the way, that's also a smoking gun. Like, 478 00:30:23,359 --> 00:30:26,880 you don't do that if it's for civilian purposes. You 479 00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:29,799 do that after the Israelis have taken out all of 480 00:30:29,839 --> 00:30:34,240 your your centrifuges and your factories and stuff over the years, 481 00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:36,039 and now you're like, we need to harden this target. 482 00:30:36,079 --> 00:30:38,400 We need to make it impossible for them to stop 483 00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:42,359 us from enriching uranium to weapons grade levels. And so 484 00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:45,119 that's why you build a facility deep in a mountain 485 00:30:45,319 --> 00:30:51,279 and encase it in concrete. So do you if you're 486 00:30:51,279 --> 00:30:56,240 a Trump do you give the bunker Busters to the Israelis? 487 00:30:56,960 --> 00:31:00,720 Do you give the b two bombers with the Aunker Busters? 488 00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:05,440 Do you let the Israelis borrow them? Do you fly 489 00:31:05,559 --> 00:31:10,640 the mission ourselves? Like what, I offer no advice on this. 490 00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:13,720 I'm curious what you think because that would be like 491 00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:18,200 that would be definitely involvement. That would be more involvement 492 00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:20,960 if we're actually flying, if America is flying the flights 493 00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:24,920 in dropping bombs on four dough now, I mean it's 494 00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:28,400 definitely not on the same order as like, you know, 495 00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:31,680 flying drones and whacking American citizens and foreign countries like 496 00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:33,480 Obama did it totally different. 497 00:31:33,799 --> 00:31:37,119 Speaker 1: This is just a facility, all right. 498 00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:39,519 Speaker 2: That'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much 499 00:31:39,519 --> 00:31:41,599 for listening. I could not do the show without your 500 00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:44,400 support and the support of the businesses that advertise on 501 00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:47,240 the podcast, so if you'd like, please support them too 502 00:31:47,279 --> 00:31:48,920 and tell them you heard it here. 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