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He is fantastic talking about, you know,

what he thinks about what's going on in Iran, what happened,

what is possibly coming our way. Really important.

Also, I talked about what does a win look like? We have to define that.

But in the last hour and you should listen to the whole expanded version

if you want to get the whole thing, but we have a piece of it here in the edited podcast.

I spent the weekend wondering what I was going to say to you.

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Because I don't know. I don't know how this ends.

But I know what my principles are.

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Is this in our national interest?

Is this just, and if we're doing this because of, you know,

all of the people that are being enslaved or killed, why aren't we in Sudan?

I had to answer all those questions as we can just so I know what I believed.

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Jason, you have any more charts to show us?

So I've got what it took in the Venezuela compound.

And it's really interesting when you think about what the kind of hardware

that was used to harden Venezuela and Maduro versus later an upgraded version of that for Iran.

I want you to take a look at this, producer Matt, throw this up really quick.

So I think this goes to this goes to my point on, you know, a bigger vision.

What is Trump's bigger vision?

And that is Crink, China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Crink.

And when you understand his bigger vision of building a more peaceful, robust West

and reducing the power of Crink, this strike over the weekend really makes an impact.

And this is just one of the impacts shown what happened in North Korea,

then how they upgraded everything in Iran and how well that worked.

I think you met Venezuela, not North Korea, but in Venezuela, sorry, yeah, Venezuela.

So in Venezuela, they had multiple, so we were just talking about this, the insiders,

and I were about, this is one of those areas that was considered,

producer Matt, throw that back up really quick.

This is one of those areas.

It was supposed to be so hardened that it was basically untouchable.

Now they did this.

The Venezuelans, they hardened it.

It's a surgical strike.

It's not a shock and all.

We're just taking out everything.

It's very specific.

Now they did this, or the Venezuelans tried to repel something like this,

with Chinese, a service-dare missile system called the HQ-9 and the Russian S-300 system.

Now they're specifically designed to thwart stealth technology.

That's the entire reason that you get them is because of that.

Well, that was proven ineffective.

So the Iranians, what they decided to do was, and I'll throw this back up again,

was to harden this unhittable area with upgraded versions of what was in Venezuela.

So they got the HQ-9B from China.

They got the S-400 system from the Russians.

These were supposedly designed to go after stealth aircraft and to make their area

the hardened of hard areas to where you cannot do anything about.

Well, now we have seen both models of that.

And this stuff is being sold and used all over the world as completely ineffective.

Completely ineffective.

So now, everybody all across the world is wondering what an actual guarantee of safety

from nations like China and Russia, what the heck does that even mean this morning?

Pretty much nothing.

I think that's why you are seeing the typical fence-citters,

the people who are friends, but not friends, and they kind of play India is one of them.

They kind of play the middle ground.

They play us off of Russia, etc., etc.

I think just militarily speaking, and there's a lot of other reasons for it,

but just militarily speaking, we have, through Donald Trump and his use of the military

and Pete Hagseth, and the way he has put this together with our joint chiefs of staff,

they have demonstrated the US military has prowess over the rest of the world,

unlike anything I think we have had.

Well, since World War II, and I think we might have been, we are more ahead

than we were in World War II from the rest of the world.

The only way it put us way ahead was a nuclear weapon.

We had to use that twice, and that was just so deadly.

That's not what's putting us ahead, not some big deadly weapon,

although we may have one of those.

It's the way we're skirting around everyone else's technology,

that is making us a mofo,

and the world is figuring that out, and that's got to be freaking the people

in Russia and China out, just for the sales.

Imagine being a rep that is going to these big defense seminars and these big conventions

where people are selling national defense, and imagine the US booth,

and then the China and Russia booth that is selling all the stuff we've just

defeated in two different places, I mean, spectacularly defeated.

I don't think we need anything except just a little screen behind us showing what has happened

in Venezuela and Iran. Can you imagine trying to sell that stuff against us?

I mean, there's no guarantee of any of that, any of that.

I want to take you through this list, thank you, Jason.

I want to take you through this list of things that I went through this weekend.

Is this America first?

Is this a just war? Is this part of a bigger strategy?

What do we have to look out for if things go well, and what do we have to look out for

if things go horribly, and the things that, even if it goes well, we saw what's going to happen.

We're going to have things like we had in Austin yesterday, a shooter,

who was just a crazy man, but he gave his life to Aula and enjoy those virgins,

buddy, enjoy those virgins, but he gave his life for Aula and killed three people

yesterday in Austin, Texas. Those people are here, and we have to have a conversation with that.

We also need to see what's happening with our own Congress. Congress has shut off

the funding for the Department of Homeland Security. That means TSA.

That means lines are going to get longer. It means that scanning will go down. There will be

holes in the system because we're not paying the people, and if they don't show up,

they don't show up because they're having to work for free. I don't know if you've noticed this,

but those aren't the rich people in our society. The people who are working there are clearly being

paid a livable wage, and that's about it. For them to work without income is asking an awful lot,

but what are you going to do? The Democrats don't want to fund it. The Democrats should,

the first thing they should do when they return to town, I think, on Wednesday. They're not

even working today. When they return to town, the first thing they should do is fund the Department

of Homeland Security because agree or disagree with the war. This is going to make us very vulnerable,

and we need all hands-on deck right now. By the way, it also defunds the Coast Guard.

Don't worry, but nothing comes in on our beaches, nothing at all.

But let me take you through one thing of this long list of mine, and that is what does a win

look like, because that's where you have to start. You don't take any action unless you say,

okay, well, what does it look like? We do all this stuff before we even start planning it,

before I ask any other questions, what does it look like in the end if we win?

I don't have a grandiose version of what it looks like if we win. I guess I do in some ways.

It's stable and free and supports the West. That would be nice. If it were returned to the Iran

of 1975 and it was stable and Western and the intellectuals were there and it became a powerhouse,

that would be Utopia. Be great. I'm not expecting that. I'm not expecting that.

I would settle for a couple of things, and I've got three different versions of what a win

looks like. Best, better, or yeah, best, better, best. Right? No. I don't remember. How is that?

How is that phrase? Do you know what I'm talking about? Good. Great. Greatest.

It may be. I don't remember. Anyway, here's the greatest. That it would be stable. It would free

and it would be Western and they would be our allies and they would, they'd start to rebuild

themselves. We're not there rebuilding it and they unleash this pent up intellectual power and

they become the Persian people and the Iranian people that they've always been without the oppression.

Okay, that would be great. But I will take a stable and more free non-hostile.

But what each of these must include when I say what does a win look like? No nuclear program.

None. Period. We take all of the cascading. What do you call those things?

We're the enriching uranium. I just talked about it a minute ago. We take and we get rid of those

and we destroy them. Okay. So they don't have they cannot enrich in uranium. We take away all of

their ability to produce missiles and enrich uranium and make a bomb. That is if we can't get that

in the end, then we've completely lost. No nukes. This isn't still in my the best version.

Stable free non-hostile. No nuke capability. No oil to China. No drones to Russia and no terror

proxies. That's I would walk away going, wow, what a success. It's stable. It's free or free-ish.

Maybe not America, but in their own interpretation of that. It's standing on its own two feet.

No oil to China. No drones to Russia. No nukes and no terror proxies. That's an absolute slam dunk.

But I would take stable and more free, but still in an Islamic state, I guess if we have to,

but no nuclear program and reduced terror proxies.

But all of this also has to happen with something else. And this was Donald Trump's bigger vision,

I think. This is why, you know, when I was looking into, is this a just war and looking at the

just war theory? You have to have a plan of success and peace and part. So that's what has to happen

in Iran. But you also have to have a more united Middle East. Donald Trump, you remember when he,

but his thing out with all the hotels and the golf courses and you're like, you're going to make

a Trump resort out of Gaza. What are you? That wasn't about that. What that was was to show the

Middle East. Look, you can either keep bombing. You can either keep fighting. You can either keep

pouring money and lives down the drain or we can show you how to make this very, very prosperous.

And we don't even really have to show you. You've already done it. You've done it in, you know,

UAE. You've done it in Dubai. You've done it in Saudi Arabia. You know how to be prosperous.

And what happens when your country is prosperous? It's prosperous because it's stable. If you make

this a stable region, Egypt, UAE, Saudi Arabia, all of you, all of you can actually be wealthy and

prosperous. And your people can get out of this cycle of death, adding a ran to that and actually

having this coalition actually hold together is a huge, huge win. Okay. You also will still have,

you'll still have Qatar. I don't care what anybody says. Qatar is not our friend. And soon,

within I predict within six to eight months, you're going to see some stuff come out about Qatar

that will make that so clear. Anybody who is trying to tell you now Qatar is good. You won't have

to worry about them because it's going to be so clear to every American how bad Qatar actually

is to us here in America. But you'll have Qatar, Iraq, that's going to be real trouble.

But hopefully a win looks to me that you have now made this more united Middle East to where

they're policing their own area. We don't have to be the policeman. It's not us and we're not

nation building. That's to me, that's a win. It doesn't have to be perfect. But it can't involve

nukes. We have to reduce the terror proxies and we also have to unite the Middle East enough

to where they're taking care of and policing their own area so we don't have to because I don't

want to be there for more than a few weeks. And I don't want any troops on the ground and I don't

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to the best of the Glenn Beck program. I come to you today and I want you to hear me clearly.

I am not trying to sell you on anything. I have been down this road so many times over the

last 30 years and I have seen things that I absolutely believed were happening that were not.

I think we have been betrayed by our government over and over again and I believe too many people

I shouldn't have. I started this weekend with why would I give my trust to Donald Trump?

Donald Trump is not the Donald Trump of 2016. Donald Trump did not do this in 2016 but Donald

Trump ran and said no more of these wars. Okay, so I want to get into that here in a second.

But when I say Donald Trump is not the Donald Trump of 2016, Donald Trump came in and he just

kind of, you know, he's got such a good gut on him. He was like shooting from the gut and you

like, I want to do this and I'm going to do that. What Donald Trump has done in the last year

has been remarkably coordinated and consistent. Now you may not agree with it and that's fine.

You may not like it and that's fine, but you should understand it before you make a judgment on it.

And I have, it's my job to try to figure out what the hell is happening and then tell you my

opinion on it. I'm not going to give you, well, I guess I will give you my opinion because I'm

going to show you how I thought of this, but I don't want to give you my opinion so you follow my

opinion. That's not my goal. My goal is to help you think this through because we all, you cannot

just glob on to somebody else's opinion. Okay, you're going to get lost. If you do that, you're going

if you do that and you do this about feelings or winning or my team versus their team, you're

going to get lost and you cannot afford to get lost. So let me start with principle number one.

Can you hate war and still fight one? Yes, and in fact, I believe that is the only moral way

to fight a war. I despise war, but this must be done. Okay. There is a difference between loving

war and accepting that sometimes you have to fight a war. And I'm not saying this is one of those

times I'm just explaining, can you hate war and fight one? Yes, a surgeon does not have to love the

knife or cutting people up, but he does it because he has to. A nation doesn't love war. If it does,

it has already become something dark and evil, but a nation that refuses to act when evil calcifies

into permanence is not peaceful. That's not that make you peaceful. That makes you negligent.

So yes, being pro peace and being willing to fight can coexist. In fact, I believe they must.

And I saw that everywhere. I thought you were pro peace. I thought you were against war. I am.

I am. Can we be adults and have an adult conversation?

The deeper question is not are you for war? The question is, what kind of peace are you trying

to secure? And there are places where you go, I'm going to accept that peace. And maybe this for

you is one of those places. But you can't jump to conclusions. Instead of just reacting like I saw

everybody on TV this weekend reacting. Can we think like an adult for a second? First, what is the

objective? This kind of goes into the just war theory. And I spent a lot of time on the just war

theory. I want to know, is this just is this right? When do we have to step in and when do we not?

Why do we step in here and not in Sudan? Okay? First, is the objective conquest? No. Is it regime

change? Not sure. Is it humiliation? No. Is the objective the removal of a destabilizing

terror sponsored nuclear seeking command structure that has choked its own people and threatened

an entire region? Yes, I believe that's it. But not only that. And that's really important.

If the aim is limited and strategic, disable the head of the system that fuels regional chaos,

then it is categorically different from marching divisions into a country to rebuild that country

in our image. Iraq was nation building. Okay? This appears at this point to be decapitation and

deterrence. You'll notice that he has not dictated that this will not be an Islamic state. Did you

notice that? This is not the same as Iraq. I'm not saying it's better or that you have to agree with

it. I'm just please understand. I'm not trying to convince you of anything. I'm just trying to help

you think it through. And I imagine there's going to be a lot of people that disagree with me. And

that's okay. My job is to help you think it through. Not agree with me. Second thing was peace

attempted first. This one matters enormously. You can't just rush into war. And in the past,

we have rushed into military action without creating a regional structure capable of sustaining

peace afterward. Okay? And maybe we haven't exhausted the road to peace. So this one is different.

First of all, beginning at Jimmy Carter, we have exhausted peace. I mean, 49 years of peace talks.

Okay? And what's different, why I believe Donald Trump did not take this on the first time

is because he hadn't done the work. He had done the Abraham Accords, but he had not done the rest

of the work that is needed. The Abraham Accords fundamentally altered the United of the Middle East

diplomacy. It brought key Arab states into open normalization with Israel. And for the first time,

major Sunni powers publicly aligned around coexistence rather than we got to wipe Israel off the

face of the map. So they kind of joined the Western world and went, we can kind of coexist here.

Also, Hamas' military capacity severely degraded since October 7th attacks and also the war in Gaza

that shifted the strategic balance in the region. Also several Arab nations and governments

have become stakeholders in stability rather than chaos. They're no longer standing on the

sidelines. They are now saying, we want peace. Okay? That's not a small shift. That is a tectonic

shift. Here's what we have done in the past. We have gone in and said, we're going to bring peace.

We're a freedom's on the march. And we're going to bring freedom to these people. You cannot

bring freedom to these people. I thought we could in Afghanistan, I even kind of thought we could

interact. That's absolutely idiocy to think you can bring people freedom. They must fight for

it themselves. They must want it themselves. So if we were going into nation build, I'm absolutely

dead set against it. If you remove a destabilizing regime after regional powers are economically

and politically invested in peace, the odds of a vacuum of chaos shrink dramatically. They don't

go away. It still could become horrible in the end. This doesn't guarantee success, but it changes

the probability curve. Okay? Third thing I asked myself. Can you be anti-war and still use force

effectively? Yes, look at Donald Trump. This one is key. This is not can you fight a war and be

anti-war. This is can you be against war and fight it effectively? During Donald Trump is not

pro war. I don't care what any of the other punits say that are now turned on Donald Trump,

and I am not here to shovel garbage for I'm not caring any weight, any water for Donald Trump.

He's a big boy. He can handle himself. Okay? I'm here just to tell you how I think about things and

what I have noticed. During his first term, Donald Trump authorized this the strike that killed

Soleimani. Okay? That was this is the guy that was the architect of the Iran Regional Proxy War.

This is the guy who was responsible for killing many US soldiers. Okay? When he did it, people said

going to set the whole Middle East on fire, but it didn't. Then ISIS. ISIS, we,

Barack Obama tried to fight ISIS for two terms. Couldn't fight it. Couldn't fight it. Couldn't

fight it. Hillary Clinton goes over. She actually helps create it and make it more powerful. I mean,

it was horrible. Remember ISIS was burning Christians in cages and we did nothing about it.

Donald Trump, they were killing our soldiers and Donald Trump said we got to do this and all

the general said it's going to take us two years and he said bull crap. It's going to take us to

is there anybody who has the less than a two year plan? That's what he found raising cane.

General Kane came in and said I can get it done in four weeks and he explained the plan

and Donald Trump said you're either crazy or you're my guy and he convinced him he wasn't crazy

and what happened? We wiped ISIS out. The control of ISIS collapsed almost overnight. Okay?

Far, far, far faster than even the most optimistic people predicted possible because Donald Trump

started surround himself with the people who knew what they were doing. We're not part of the

system of bull crap and we're fighting to win. Okay? And that's when the message was sent by him.

It was clear restraint does not mean weakness. There is a pattern here. He distains prolonged

occupation paired with a willingness to use unrelenting overwhelming precise force with a great

strategy. That's not neocon nation building. Okay? That is completely different than what we did.

This is coercive leverage. Fourth question. The capability that we have. Does that matter morally?

Yes, it does. I don't believe in a fair fight when it comes to war. I don't want a fair fight

when it comes to war. I want to be so overwhelmingly powerful that it takes the oxygen out of the

lungs of our enemies all over the world and they go, oh my gosh, don't ever mess with them. That's

the way to fight war. Now, one of the just war criteria is the probability of success. If you launch

a war that you cannot win, you are not moral. You are reckless. If this president had demonstrated

that when he uses force, it's targeted short duration strategically defined followed by negotiation.

Then the moral calculus shifts a limited strike backed by regional diplomatic architecture is not

the same species of action as open-ended occupation boots on the ground.

But in that how we all get into all these foreign wars, I ask myself, all these forever wars.

You're listening to the best of Glenn Beck. Need a little more? Check out the full show podcasts.

Anywhere you download podcasts. Jack Hart is with us. Jack is a military operator himself, best

selling author of the Terminal List series. He's also the executive producer of that series on

TV if you've never watched. You've never read the Terminal List you need to. But he is also the author

of a book, a nonfiction book called Targeted Beirut. He came out with this and this is really kind of

the genesis of how we got here. I wanted to talk to Jack about the operation that happened this

weekend and is still going on. Donald Trump just said the big wave is yet to come in war with Iran.

What he thinks about what's happening, what the things that happened maybe this weekend that the

average person might have missed and also ask him as a fiction writer the most likely way this ends.

But first let me talk to him about the setup. Why is this happening? If you look at Targeted Beirut,

Jack explain this situation in that context. Well they really was in our response to what happened

in Beirut in 1983 was so pivotal to everything that was going to happen afterward. Meaning we had an

attack on our embassy in April of 1983, killed 63 people, 17 Americans and then that led to the

October bombing of the barracks and headquarters building of our Marines there who were there

as peacekeepers that killed 241 servicemen. Now it taught Iran a couple of things in particular. It taught

them one that terrorism works and two that it works even better through proxies because in the aftermath

of that event the Reagan administration did a lot of tough talk but then in early 1984 they left

the region. So that taught not just Iran but and not just the region really but the world that

terrorism works. So how do we respond differently back then? The history moving forward from 1983

would have been vastly different because there is a direct line between that and September 11th 2001.

But I was not surprised to wake up on Saturday morning to host of text messages letting me know

that military operations had started against Iran and my first thought was really one of sadness.

Well it wasn't it wasn't unexpected of course because the the maximum pressure campaign against

Iran was really never going to work because the three things that were non-negotiable Iran acquiring

nuclear weapons the ballistic missile program and their support of terrorist organizations through

proxies any any acquiescence to any of those would make the regime look weak and they've really

been in power since 1979 through coercion fear threat of violence and actual violence on any

protest and we saw that most recently here in January so it may be sad because diplomacy has failed

also covert action it failed so any covert action we've attempted over the last year or through

in previous administrations over the past decades that has failed also and now we're in a full

scale military engagement with Iran. So you know I saw these people and I would love it if you know

if if we could have all come to the negotiating table and work something out but I saw people say

you got to give negotiation a chance 49 years Jack right and and it's the you know the the exact

definition of insanity follow me Jimmy Carter said this can't stand they got to stop Ronald Reagan

said they got to stop this can't stand HW Bush they can't it's got to stop we got to get to the

negotiating table Clinton said that W Bush said that Obama said that Trump said that in the first

term Biden said that I mean at some point you're like this is insane we've tried giving them

billions of dollars we've tried holding money back we've tried carrots and sticks and nothing works

it's just that this president is the first one to say I'm not kicking the can down to the next

president it's over exactly so each of those each of those administrations from both parties

had had the the same red line they've had the same policy pillar of our foreign policy in regards

to Iran the same one they had just had different ways of dealing with it and none of them effective

some of them actually helped Iran get either more powerful or gave them more options when it came

to building out these different weapons programs to to crushing any popular uprising or

protest so it is it I'm not surprised that we got to this point and we should have learned from

al-Qaeda when someone declares war on you pay attention al-Qaeda did it in 1996 1998

attacked the USS Cole of course and none of those things made us treat that terrorist organization

as anything other than a essentially a criminal enterprise and only after september 11 2001

where our hand was essentially forced to treat it as a military problem when people declare war on

you and tell you that they want to destroy you you probably don't want that person to have a

nuclear weapon or to have options that can lead to your demise so you know you you look at you

look at everything that has been going on and you know everybody's trying to make it about they

were close to a nuclear weapon I've heard that for 30 years I'll believe it when I see that

I think this is I think that this is much bigger than that this is about Trump redesigning the entire

world and going after crank to take the eye you know there is no eye in team well the

access team is crank and he's taking the eye out of that which hurts oil for China hurts money

through the oil for Russia also you know they've been Iran's been giving them all the drones etc etc

I mean it really starts to break crank apart and I think this is I think to look at this just as a

ran I think is you'll never understand why we did this do you believe that's true or am I wrong oh

I think you're 100% here and I've been up before dawn on shows in the last couple days just

been going all day so I haven't been able to to look or listen to or read your analysis so I was

really excited to hear your analysis of what's been going on but you're absolutely right with China

buying so much oil from Iran getting around sanctions from the United States from other allied

countries and then there's this four hundred billion dollar investment that China has in Iran and

part of that is technological meaning they are sharing well selling the the apparatus by which

they control their populace in China to the Iranians and that's really been propping up this regime

so without without that in play and it really allows us now well we'll see how this plays out but

to focus on the Pacific on China on Taiwan on the semiconductors that are built in in Taiwan

and then the Russian side as well so you're exactly right this is not just about Iran I would be

surprised if if we read something in the future that where someone makes that that argument down

the line because right out of the gate here I'm not seeing that this is definitely a re-shuffling

of the world order and really putting Russia and China on on a role right well bringing them

into this into this fooled realigning some of these alliances and allowing us to focus on Russia

China and Iran not just the Middle East as we have for the previous 25 plus years Jack we've

talked to each other for years and I've always loved talking to fiction writers because you can

be honest you're not playing politics you have to come up with a scenario that in the end

the end maybe more believable than actual reality because fiction has got to make sense.

And so you look at things and you're like, what makes the most sense? What is most likely

to happen if this, this, and this haven't? Have you had time to noodle this on what is

the most likely outcome of all of this?

I have. And it really becomes out of hope is not a course of action. Hope is not a good

strategy. And what we're seeing right now, and I'm going to be very curious to how this

plays out in the weeks, months, and even years ahead, is that if this is a decapitation,

a regime decapitation, if this is a regime alteration or the hope of a regime alteration

that brings Iran into the US camp and away from the China and Russia camp, if we had

or the Israeli side or some other entity had a primary, a secondary, a tertiary person

that we've been back channeling with who has the support of the military, who can purge

that military and intelligence apparatus of those loyal to the regime and bring then

Iran into the US camp. I would think we've done that and I would think that we've learned

from the past 20 years in Afghanistan and all our years in Iraq because we have people

in the administration who fought at the tactical level in those countries. But once again, I don't

know. And like you, I've, we've heard so much about regime change and weapons of mass

destruction and all of these things. So I'll be very curious to know what lessons they took

from Iraq and Afghanistan and applied to this present problem set. So is there someone

waiting in the wings that is going to bring Iran into the US camp or not? Or are they

just hoping that someone's going to step up? I'm very curious as to that.

You know, we have defunded the Democrats have defunded DHS. That means TSA. TSA, I think

ran out of money this weekend. That means the Coast Guard. And you know, I can't imagine

if I were in Congress, I don't care if I agreed with this war or disagreed with this

war. I would be worried that we were going to be hit internally because we have so many

people inside. You know, we already saw the crazy guy, you know, wearing the, you know,

owned by Allah t-shirt and the Iranian flag underneath that shirt. We saw shooters because

of this action up in Canada over the weekend. How likely is it? What should we be preparing

for here in the mainland? Because honestly, Jack, I have to tell you, I could come up with

a thousand scenarios that about 25 people could do that would put us on our knees within

a week. And I'm shocked that nobody has done them. I know, how, I know, how, why hasn't

that happened and how, how likely is it to now happen because of stuff like this?

Well, it is, it certainly takes the attention of people out there that are just looking

for a reason to lash out. So there's, there's different categories here. But the sleeper

selves are the ones that we typically talk about. And that's certainly possible, especially

with the wide open borders of the previous years. So we have that to think about something

that's really thought through the hits, multiple targets at any given time across the United

States. Or you have that lone wolf type person that's radicalized online, like maybe

we saw with with a Charlie Kirk or someone who wants to lash out and and it's been made

acceptable for them to do so because of the insane rhetoric that's floating around out

there on these platforms that really democratized free speech, meaning you don't have to invest

anything in what you say anymore. You can just say it or a bot can say it or an algorithm

can feed it to you. So we're in a very dangerous time. You have to invest nothing in order

to destroy or degrade what was once in an extremely proud country, the United States of America.

So it's, I don't have a good answer on that front. It just, it makes me sad for the future,

but these platforms are tools and any tool is a weapon. So I would definitely say that

we need to remain vigilant, but not just because of what's happening around. These things

can happen at any given time for any reason. So people really need to take responsibility

for for their really own protection and out of their families. Somebody said on TV, you

know, they they had enough material to make a dirty new can get it into the US. How difficult

is that? And not as difficult as one would think because it's really just a normal explosive

that one can can make with material on the open market and that's just placed near whether

it's a nuclear debris, weight, there's all sorts of ways to do it at all sorts of different

scales. So at that. And, but you probably kill more people in a bunch of other different

ways. That one just really uses the imagination of the public. Yeah. Yeah. Jack, thank you.

Appreciate it. God bless you. We'll talk again. You bet. Take care. You bet. Public.

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