Geopolitics with Ghost Ep. 101: Weather Wars, Syria File & Lebanon Ceasefire - 4/24/26

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this is Badlands Media, April 24, 2026. Happy Friday.

Kind of went down a strange and crazy rabbit hole that earlier, that kind of like threw off my entire

agenda for the show because I kind of like wanted to just start there. It's actually really wild.

And honestly, after I started looking into it, my timeline started getting flooded with a lot of

this information. And so that makes me a little suspicious about it. But you know, it's just

information. So we'll go ahead and just share it and we'll see, you know, we won't marry

ourselves to anything. But it is compelling. It's definitely compelling. And there's definitely

supporting facts to... There's definitely supporting facts to support it. So let's see. Let me just

pull up the post that I saw that kind of made me start to go down the rabbit hole.

Where is it? Stand by for processing.

Right here.

Okay. So there's a post I saw earlier that is this one.

And again, we have like, there's a, you know, my theory of the case has been that

I think that this war that's being waged in the Middle East to whatever extent it's actually

being waged. I do think both sides probably are taking damage to some extent. But I do think that

the real war is being waged. I think against the Israeli regime with Iran kind of being the proxy,

right? Donald Trump's proxy. And Trump is kind of pretending, right, to be on Israel's side

in order to kind of bait them deeper and deeper into this conflict. And the whole purpose, of course,

is to thwart and subvert the greater, undermine the greater Israel project.

Okay. So I saw this post, interesting post, it says from Mavi Turk,

so with the Turkish flag, it says,

Iran, what happened after the US Israel war, what happened in three months?

And to give some bullet points, it says, Turkey's dams which have been

sounding the alarm for nearly 15 years have begun to fill up. Iran's dams which have been

sounding the red alarm for half a century have begun to fill up. Iraq's dams which have been

sounding the red alarm for a quarter century have begun to fill up. The Tigris and Euphrates

rivers have begun to overflow. Lakes dried up by drought have come back to life. Lost creatures

have started to return. And the reason was the radar base that Iran destroyed.

And then there's videos, or actually, I'm sorry, it's one video, but it's four different

video, you know, it's four different squares in the video, inlaid,

showing dams just like water just flowing through dams. And it's Turkey, Iraq, Iran in

Dekle Verat. Look up where that is real quick.

I think this is Kurdistan. So I think that's somewhere in either eastern Turkey or northern Iraq,

maybe northeastern Syria. Interesting, it's an interesting thing. And then the follow-up post,

which is not from the original poster, but from a second from another person,

scape boy 77, Thrashe 77, says this is a translated the Iranian post from Arabic to English. It was

long. I apologize. I had to break Grocks translation up in the screenshots. Eight images in total

in addition to the first four shown here. Please see my own comments to this post to continue

it's worth it. And then he goes on to say I could never, I never said I could verify the post.

I just presented a post I saw for consideration. Then he goes on to talk about harp. Yes, harp

has been perfected in Alaska for years. Why develop the technology just to continue using it there?

Why not? Would it not be something to be exported and used elsewhere desired once proven?

And then he goes on to say this is just a theory. He's like I'm just presenting information and

obviously people are getting upset about it. Here's what he translated. So he translated the

the post that I just read like the original one. And then he went and grabbed some data. It says

when Iran hit the secret cloud seating in cloud pulling center in the UAE, which is on April 13,

2026, it wasn't just targeting a base. It struck the very heart of the weather control system that

had been deliberately drawing out Iraq and eastern Iran. The result was a sudden and rapid climate

shift. And then there's some bullet points to Ron. Rain returned to Iran in Iraq after three

after years of drought. Temperatures dropped by as much as five degrees Celsius.

Floods returned and partially saved the agricultural season. Wind patterns changed and clouds

came back to the region. The next image says this is the exposure of the secret climate

conspiracy that had been operating in the shadows. The secret cloud seating and cloud pulling

center in the UAE was part of a global weather control network. It's declared goals was to increase

rainfall in the UAE for agricultural and agriculture and tourism, reduce heat and hot areas.

It's hitting goals was to pull clouds from Iraq and eastern Iran toward the Gulf, the UAE Qatar

Bahrain deliberately dry up rivers and wells in Iraq and Iran, destroy agriculture and livestock

to create famine and a demographic crisis. The next image, the last image says also the

week in Iran and the Iraq and to turn them into deep ends of the Gulf states in America. The

mechanism was catalytic spraying chemtrails, including aluminum oxides, silver iodine, potassium

partial rate over the skies of Iraq and Iran, directing harp type waves at these materials to

heat the ionosphere and prevent cloud formation, altering wind paths to divert moisture toward the

Gulf, leaving Iran and Iraq, it wasn't nature, it was systematic engineer destruction when Iran

destroyed the center of the operations stopped abruptly. Okay, so basically the theory that's being

laid out here is that that radar system that was destroyed in Qatar and I believe there is another

one that was destroyed in the UAE was not just a radar system and this is something that's been

confirmed, I mean by all media, like Western media, I think Biz talked about this. The allegation

is that their radar systems, I think the official narrative is that the radar systems that were

used by the iron dome to detect missiles flying over the Persian Gulf from Iran and other

places potentially toward Israel, right? And that was like an early warning system, that's what they

said. And now, and what this theory is saying is that the radar towers were also part of this

harp weapon that was being used to weaponize the Middle East. Okay, so that's the theory,

and in order to kind of substantiate the theory or debunk it, we kind of have to go and look at

data. Is there actual data to support this theory? It's a fascinating theory, and it would

potentially support the idea that this conflict was necessary in order to liberate the Middle East,

because if parts of the Middle East are being intentionally destroyed via weather patterns,

by weaponized science, then taking those systems out, especially if those systems are under the

control of nefarious entities that would be affiliated with like the Western military industrial

complex, then taking those systems out, I think would be necessary. So let's start with,

let's just start with the basics. Let's just go look at geography. I think geography is always

the best place to start, right? So here is a map that I produced, that I had AI produce, of the

Tigrisu Fradi's river basin and watershed, okay? And it shows topography, it shows the rivers,

you know, here is a legend that kind of gives you, you know, a key that kind of shows you where we're

looking, we're looking at this area that extends from the Persian Gulf up the Turkey, right? The

Tigrisu Fradi's river rivers. Actually, this little key isn't totally accurate because it doesn't

capture the Eufradi's river entirely, but maybe it does. There's another river down here that I

think it's not, it's not grabbing. Yeah, yeah, it has it right here in the map.

But you can see that the like the brown is obviously the highest points in the mountains,

the lowest points are the light blue and the blue on the land that would be like the low sea level,

the green would be right at sea level, right? And then so the Tigrisu Fradi's of course being

a river system that is considered the cradle of life. That's what this is where civilization began

along with the Nile River, the Indus River Valley in Pakistan, Slash India, and the Yellow River

in China. But this is where this is called the considered like the fertile crescent, you know,

extending from Basra down here in Iraq, going up towards Mosul and then turning back towards

like the Levant, that's considered the fertile crescent. This is where agriculture first was

developed, right? And people started nomads and Bedouins started settling down and making farms,

they started cultivating methods of farming, right? Domesticating animals. That all started around here

as well as down the Nile. And so the allegation, of course, is that the reins have dried up here.

So the first thing that we can establish to substantiate the theory is that in that original post

it listed Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Kurdistan, Kurdistan being between Turkey, Iran,

in Iraq, in Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria, it listed those basically four places. Iran, Turkey,

Iraq, and Syria, it seemed as places where these dams were overflowing with water. And that would

that would line up with the Tigris Euphrates River system. Now, Iran is not necessarily part of

the Iranian mountains obviously feed into the Tigris Euphrates, but these Zagros Mountains,

but like Kirkuk, this is the border, basically, as I believe, we're looking at the border

down here at Shat al-Arab. These mountains are technically in Iran, but they are feeding this

river system. So there could potentially be dams there. So that part of the theory, I think,

we could say substantiated, that geographically, this makes sense. If the theory is that Iran

and Iraq were the ones suffering the most, Syria was also suffering, those are all part of the

Tigris Euphrates watershed and the river basin. Okay, so then the next question is, have these areas been

experiencing historic drought, and if they have, what is the time frame? The time frame.

And so here is a map that I had produced based on a bunch of articles that I found. I'll pull

the articles out. We can kind of look at them individually. And we'll want to validate the data that

the AI has put in here, but this is just a visualization tool to help us kind of understand

high level what is being asserted here. So the Middle East rainfall recovery map,

and let me see if I can make this a little bigger for you all to see right here. There we go.

Okay, so green and light green would indicate much above normal, right? And then yellow would be near

normal, orange would be below normal, red would be much below normal, and gray is no data.

And this is the updated per May of 2026. That's a little goofy because it's only April, but maybe

there's some projections here. But it goes country by country and it says, so let's do the country

summary. And then we'll go look at these articles that I have. It says in Turkey is recovering.

It says it's wet. Oh, they had a wetter winter and spring reservoir levels improving in many

basins. Iraq is recovering heavier rain since late 2025. Rivers and dams have risen significantly.

Iran is experiencing a severe drought rainfall is down 40 to 45 percent below normal in 2025.

So they're saying in 2025, it's they were down up to 45 percent of what they normally get.

Reservoirs at critical levels water crisis is continuing. Syria is still in a drought.

Below normal rainfall severe drought impacts persist recovery will take several wet seasons.

Jordan Lebanon in Israel is mixed. So it says with some wet periods brought relief in places,

but overall rainfall below normal drought ongoing. Saudi Arabia is mixed rainfall mostly near normal

with local wet events, drought easing in some regions. Saudi Arabia is a different case study.

I can talk a little bit about that, but they have their own irrigation project going on that is

resulting in more green space developing in their deserts. Egypt is mixed, but that's kind of

beyond. That's definitely not the Tigris Euphrates River System, North Saudi Arabia. Yemen is not,

I mean, Yemen in the Gulf States, they're not really part of this. North is Afghanistan.

So let's go look at some of these articles that I pulled up.

So this one is Leimonde. It's a French outlet. It says Iran, this is from November of 2025,

so back in November. And it says Iran faces its worst drought in six decades, considers evacuating

to Iran. The country is experiencing its sixth consecutive year of drought with reservoirs

supplying several major cities, including the capital at record lows.

This unprecedented situation is linked to climate change, but is also the result of poor water

management. So this is a familiar story because remember we saw this in LA. Remember LA,

the Palisade fires, and that was blamed on the fact that the city had mismanaged their water

water resources. There were allegations that maybe harp was used to dry up those reservoirs.

The city wasn't running the water or that family that owned that pistachio farm.

I think it was that they had like control of the water and the water wasn't being released

for the fire department to use. There was a whole scandal about that and actually

Karen Bass and that whole story seems to be coming back coincidentally in the past few days.

That's interesting, but it says Iran is currently in during its sixth consecutive year of drought

prompting authorities to consider evacuating to Iran, the Iranian capital, and its suburbs,

an area home to more than 14 million people. Another dry, after another dry scorching summer,

autumn has brought exceptionally low rainfall to this country with a continental climate,

and the nation's main dams have dropped to critical levels. According to Sadiq Zayyani,

Director of the National Meteorological Forecasting Center, quoted by Iranian news agencies on

November 8, rainfall has decreased by nearly 86% nationwide since the start of the hydrological year,

beginning September 23, and by 96% in Tehran, where only one millimeter of rain has fallen,

a phenomenon that has not been seen in a century as the average annual rainfall for 1991 to 2020

was 220 millimeters. That's insane. So Tehran between 91 and 2020 was getting 220 millimeters,

I'm sorry, millimeters on average, and in 2025, they only got one millimeter. That's wild.

This is on November 6, Hashim Amini, Director General of the state owned a company in charge

of drinking water and wastewater management, acknowledged that reservoirs and five dams

supplying the capital are at their lowest point in 60 years. A quote unquote, a situation we have

never seen before, he said, stating, according to the state company, the dams are filled to know more

than this is archived. I mean, this is behind a paywall, let me see if I can archive it.

Says according to the state, the dams are filled to know more than 11%

of their capacity. So they're at 11%. This is back in November of their capacity.

The videos show on social media. Videos posted on social media show the bottom of the

Latian dam, completely exposed wild authorities and outboards province where the

Karaj dam is located, confirm it now holds only 7% of its capacity. The state of surface water

resources is critical and extremely fragile, added Amini, and Tehran, the majority of the cities

supplied now depends on groundwater whose levels are dropping dangerously.

According to MosinR.Khani, head of the Tehran province water and wastewater company,

residents have already reduced their water consumption by 10 to 12% over seven months, but a 20%

reduction will be needed to cope with the ongoing drought. He estimated that only then could the

city maintain a stable supply network for another two months. And it goes on and on, but I think

you kind of get the point that this crisis appears to be real in Iran. Now, I think later in

the article, it looks like this is a French outlet. They are blaming climate change. They're

also blaming the IRGC and the mismanagement of water. Here is the dried up Khan River,

west of Tehran. On November 9th, you can see that picture. I mean, this isn't a river. It's

barely even a creek. Okay, so that there's one. So now we can, let's see. Here's the center for

strategic and international studies. This is a thesis. This is a think tank for sure, like a

Neocon think tank. That is absolutely nefarious. So we should be aware of that as we read this.

But it says the future of the Euphrates River in Syria, a cradle of civilization,

Christ for help, that's the title. And it says the Euphrates River is at risk of drying up due

to climate change. Here we go. Temperatures in northeastern Syria have risen by one degree

Celsius compared to 100 years ago. And an average rainfall has decreased by 18 millimeters per

month per century. Remember, according to that ex post, it says that and it looks like it was a

screenshot of an AI that had aggregated some data for him. Since this radar system was destroyed

of 10 days ago, 11 days ago, it says that the temperature has dropped five degrees Celsius in those

areas. It says average rainfall has decreased by 18 millimeters per month per century. The Iraqi

Ministry of Water Resources warns that the country could be dry by 2040. Human impact in

the environment could be driving the Euphrates, a cradle of civilization to destruction forcing

people to leave a place they have called home for thousands of years. And then there's a video they

have. The banks of the Euphrates River in Syria are reaching history. Together with the Tigris,

the rivers formed the fertile crescent and gave rise to the earliest civilizations and cultures.

But today, similar to rivers around the world, human actions are threatening the future of

this unseen waterway. The modern Euphrates runs through three countries, Syria, Iraq, and Turkey.

It is a vital source of water for over 23 million people who live in its basin.

The Euphrates has been this lifeblood to not only Syria and Turkey and Iraq, but to really an

entire region. It continues to be of critical importance to not just farmers, but people who need

clean water in a relatively dry country like Syria. The Euphrates River runs through a hotbed of

regional conflict. In the late 20th century, Turkey built several dams to secure its access to

water from the Euphrates and to generate electricity. This limited the flow of water downstream to

Syria and Iraq. So they're showing that right here, I just want to point it out, they're showing

the before and after. And to generate electricity. They're here in 1983, the Euphrates River, Turkey.

So this is the Euphrates River up in Turkey. And then it jumps to 2022. So 19 years later,

you now have these large reservoirs, you know, you have the rivers are much, much larger,

and that's because of the dams they've built to dam up the water.

Downstream to Syria and Iraq. Later, during the Syrian Civil War, armed groups such as ISIS

so to control the Kyriva infrastructure in Syria to gain a strategic advantage in the region.

Syria really stands out for the complexity of the conflict. There are so many actors,

there are domestic actors, there are regional actors, you look at Turkey, Iran, the US,

all of the neighboring countries have an interest in what's happening in northeastern Syria.

So Syria is extraordinarily complex. And then you add climate change.

Drought, brought on by climate change, has significantly decreased rainfall in the river

basin. As a result, the water levels in the Euphrates are fallen to historically low levels.

The problem with climate change as it relates to the Euphrates and in much of the world is that

the new normal is volatility. And if you're a farmer and you live next to a river and you rely on

some sort of predictable rainfall, if that predictability goes away, then you're going to be facing

one crisis after another. Without crucial access to water for irrigation, hydration and sanitation,

local populations are at risk of disease and displacement. Interventions from regional and

local partners is necessary to prevent the Euphrates, with its rich history and present day

communities that rely on it from drying up entirely. Yeah, so this is obviously like a,

this is an emotional blackmail and they're basically talking about, oh, this is so tragic,

because of humans, of course, humans in Turkey built dams and because they built dams and then

ISIS took over dams. This is so terrible, and then plus climate change, oh no, oh no,

like what a disaster. So if you really stop and you think about it, if you stop and you think about

it, the like the campaign to destroy Syria, which is what the Syrian Civil War is all about,

and then started this mass migration crisis in 2011, 2012. That was the creation of ISIS,

biobama and Netanyahu, right, to work together, they did that, but also in partnership with NATO

and partnership with the Gulf states, the Gulf Arab states. If the purpose was to drive as many

people out of Syria and Iraq as possible, it would make sense to me that they would also

like use weather, right, weather manipulation to dry up the river basins and make, and you know,

make less food available, make less water available, you know, make the countries like the

less inhabitable, and that would push more and more people. The people in the cities, I think,

were the first, the first to flee because that's where ISIS goes into and they're taking over

these cities, but then the people in the country who might be more inclined to stay, if they don't

have any water, like they might be forced to leave, right? It's like, because you're going to die in

the desert if you don't have water. So yeah, this is, it would make sense that that would be like a

a two-prong approach or three-pronged four-pronged everyone to look at it of how you would attack

this region if you were strategically trying to destroy it. Let me see, there's a few more articles,

there's a video that I want to play, but before I do that, there's a few more articles that I want to

show you. So here's one from Prevention Web. From November 21st, this was published a week after

the other one that we just read, and it says November 21st, 2025, human-induced climate change

compounded by socio-economic water stressors increased severity of five-year drought in Iran

and Euphrates and Tigris Basin. And so this is saying the exact same thing that the other one did,

it's presenting more data. We have heat maps, we have weather maps here. This is a much more

scientific presentation in terms of the analysis, and there appears to be much more technical data

with like temperature measurements. It's showing climatology between 1981 and 2010,

US Global Drought Monitor. So here's some charts and graphs showing how the rainfall has decreased.

There's less water in it. Here's the, this data set it looks like is estimated return periods

of water in over Iran and the Tigris Euphrates based along with the respective changes in

probability ratio of magnitude associated with a 1.3 Celsius of global warming. Because remember,

they said, oh, the like the temperature has gone up one Celsius, right? And so the data sets are

showing that these changes in magnitude, and this is like over eight-year period, over a four-year

period, over a six-year period, over a three-year period, and all of them are looking, the first two

looks like is Iran and these are extreme. So these are listed as extreme droughts, right? And then

these last two are the Tigris Euphrates. And one of them is extreme and the other one comes back

as exceptional. And I think these are measurements of like the drought, right? Let's see, we have,

this is February 25th. So this is from Rudol. I'm not familiar with this site, but this is,

looks like in a Middle East media outlet. So this would have been three days before the

Iran War began. And it says, water levels of Tigris River Triple as Iraq enters key storage phase.

It says, an advisor to Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani said Wednesday that

countries experiencing a significant improvement in water levels this year, with the Tigris

rivers flow tripling compared to last year amid increased rainfall and full water releases from

Turkey. Okay, so I think right there that last part is the is the keep is the key element is that

Turkey is releasing a lot of water. And that's coming down the river and allowing the river

in Iraq to rise. Toronto Moofty, the Iraqi Prime Minister's advisor for water affairs told Rudol

that the combination of these releases with this year's rain and snow has increased the water

level of the Tigris River threefold compared to last year. Okay, so it looks like maybe Iraq and Syria

have seen improvement in the last year. Since what's his name? Jalani took over. Remember,

he takes over from Assad. He ever throws Assad in December 2024, right? And all of a sudden now

Syria and Iraq is having a much better rainfall. That's interesting. And again,

like this data that is being presented here, it says for the past three weeks Moofty said water levels

in the Tigris River and at Mosul Dam Iraq's largest have been in a very good state. The Euphrates

River is currently at a good level, but he expects further improvement in the coming spring months.

Iraq relies heavily on the Tigris Euphrates rivers, both of which are both of which originate in

Turkey. However, large scale Turkish dam projects, including the southeastern Anatolia project,

have significantly reduced downstream water flow, exacerbating drought desertification and

environmental degradation. In November last year, Iraq and Turkey signed the implementation

mechanism of the framework water cooperation agreement. A deal officials say aims to provide

sustainable solutions to Iraq's worsening water crisis. So there you go. There you have the

cooperation between the governments to improve the water situation in Iraq. And again,

what is being presented here aligns with the map that we saw here, because remember this map

which is supposed to be somewhat current based on the data that I asked the AI to consider.

It shows Iraq and Turkey in the green, right? So Iraq and Turkey are recovery. They're in a

state of recovery. It says Iran is in the severe drought and Syria is still in a drought. So

Syria is still struggling and Iran is in a really, really bad situation as of right now.

So again, the data appears to be supported so far. It is supporting that.

Okay. So here is another article from Nordic Monitor. This is from March 20th, 2026. So from

about a month ago, Turkey unveils water strategy tightening control over rivers feeding the

Middle East. Turkey has unveiled a sweeping 10 year national water strategy that will shape how

rivers flow into the Middle East are managed as Ankara moves to reduce domestic consumption while

strengthening control over water resources that originate within its borders. The national water

plan for 2026 to 2035 entered into force after being approved by presidential decree and published

in the official Gazette on March 14th, prepared by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.

The plan sets out a long-term framework for managing the country's rivers, reservoirs, and water

infrastructure under the strategy losses and drinking water networks are expected to fall to 25%

by 2030. In the 10% by 2050, daily water consumption per person is targeted to drop to 120

liters by 2030 and 100 liters by 2050. Industry will also be expected to reuse more water. The

plan aims to increase industrial water recovery to 30% by 2030 and 50% by 2050. Agriculture remains

the largest consumer of water in Turkey. The strategy seeks to raise irrigation efficiency to 60%

by 2030 and 65% by 2050 as part of a broader effort to reduce water losses while maintaining

agricultural production. Basically, they're going to improve their farming methods,

improve their irrigation methods, be more efficient, use less energy, use less water,

and that should improve the amount of water that's been available for drinking and then downstream

to Syria and Iraq. I think I have one more.

Okay, so yeah, here's this is from the Famine Early Warning Systems Network. It says,

is this Afghanistan? This is Afghanistan and this is no good for us.

I think, yeah, it looks like this is Afghanistan, but it does say favorable

margin precipitation supports wheat planting. I mean, Afghanistan shares a border with Iran,

so if they had favorable margin precipitation, maybe Iran did as well. Let me see if I can pull up

Iraq. It looks like the most recent report was back in October and in October, they were saying

food security impacts of the drought in Iraq. They're talking about the drought in Iraq as well.

If I go to Iran, June 26, 2025, it basically just talked about the conflicts. They don't really

give any data. Okay, and then the other one is, yeah, Europe dried a drought risk,

Middle East is shifting the stormy and this is published on March 13, 2026.

And then right here, this is March 22, 26 from the World Resources Institute.

Iran War could worsen Middle East water woes. WRI, water expert Liz Sokosia explains how the

war in Iran could intensify water crises, potentially amplifying risks to food security,

energy, and stability across the Middle East. Okay, it says Iran was on edge,

I was on the already on the edge of a water crisis when the conflict began on February 28th.

After five consecutive years of drought and years of unsustainable water use,

Iran is moving toward what experts called water bankruptcy. Just last year, the capital

to Iran came close to running out of water. Farmers took to the streets to protest water shortages

and alleged mismanagement. Conflicts like the current war in Iran can worsen what these water

challenges not only nationally, but also across the region. Research shows that conflict can amplify

existing risks associated with water scarcity and transform them into larger security emergencies,

threatening food security, energy, and health. And then it goes on, why is Iran so water stressed?

It says the Middle East is the most water stressed region on the planet, about 83% of its

population is exposed to extremely high water stress, a figure expected to reach 100% by 2050.

Iran sits at the sharp end of this trend. I'm trying to, I just want to scroll through to see

what is the reason they're giving. Again, all of the globalists, like hegemonic,

uniparty, media apparatus, and NGOs, they're all blaming this on climate change, of course,

but they're also blaming it on mismanagement by governments that they don't like the Iranian

government. So they're saying that that is the reason. They're also saying that right here, it says,

in addition, let's see, Iran has also abandoned traditional water management practices,

it includes, in particular, the Kwanat system, a gravity-fed network of underground channels

that sustainably draws on groundwater in favor of increasing diesel-powered deep tube wells.

I'll explain to you what the Kwanat system is in a minute. This transition has caused salt water,

intrusion into groundwater, compromising already limited reserves, as well as land subsidence that

threatens groundwater restoration and higher pumping costs. In addition, widespread dam building

has increased evaporation, reducing freshwater supplies into Iran. So much water has been pumped

from aquifers that parts of the city are sinking by more than 10 inches a year, and then it gives

a map, and you can see the map here, says the Middle East and North Africa is the most

water-stressed region in the world, and you can definitely see the concentration in Iran,

extremely high, that dark red. You can see it's in Iraq and in Syria as well. Turkey doesn't seem

to be included in this, but it does go down to Afghanistan, extremely high. It goes down to

India, extremely high. Yeah, so it does appear that this is real. Here is from NASA. This is back in

2016. So this is 10 years ago. March of 2016, NASA finds the drought in the eastern Mediterranean is

the worst in 900 years. So again, whether or not that's true or not, that's what they're asserting.

10 years ago, they were saying that the Middle East was already in the worst drought it's ever seen

in 900 years. That could be fake news, but that's what they were saying 10 years ago.

And then here's September of 2025, often the AP, worst drought in decades. His threatening

serious fragile recovery from years of civil war. Here is, whoops, what do I just do there?

Here is Reuters from December of 2025, Iraq's dreams of wheat independence dashed by the water

crisis. Oh no, they can't grow food because they don't have any water. And then here's the Carnegie

endowment for international peace. I mean, this is about as deep state as it gets. The Carnegie

Institute says the looming the looming climate and water crisis in the Middle East and North Africa.

So again, just more of the same, like this is just evidence that we have

that the the the theory that that we looked at at the very beginning of the show, there's some

there's substantial evidence to demonstrate that there is a water crisis and has been a water crisis

in the Tigris, Euphrates river basin for the past several years. And it appears that goes back

decades, but it's gotten really bad in the past five or six years ever since basically Donald

Trump's first term. Okay. And certainly since the beginning of the series of a war in 2011,

and that would be also the Arab Spring. So now I want to play a video from my friend,

Kavork Almazian. I've done shows with him before. He is a Syrian, a Syrian Christian.

He's originally, I think ethnically, he is a Armenian, but he was born and raised in Syria.

His family was driven out of Syria in 2012 by ISIS. His brother was kidnapped by ISIS.

They moved to Germany and he's been living in Germany ever since. And he's been pod, you know,

he does what we do. He's been a podcaster in Germany, focusing on Syria and talking about the

problems in Syria for a number of years. But here's a video that he put out a year ago, where he

explained the trillions of dollars that were dedicated to the destruction of Syria and Assad.

Now I want to, I think this is a really important video to watch here. It's busy with the Ukraine war.

The former prime minister and former minister of Qatar, Hamad Ben-Jasem, dropped a few bombshells

on a national Qatar TV. A few years ago, I think two or three years ago, Hamad Ben-Jasem again

appeared on a Qatar TV and he described Syria as a prey. And he said that back then,

he mentioned specifically Saudi Arabia and Qatar, he said while we were fighting over the prey,

the prey has escaped while we are still fighting for it. Maybe also men President Bashar

Assad, but that's how he described it. Now, he's again dropping a few bombshells and he said clearly

that there were two operational rooms that anyone who followed the Syrian war know that there

were two military operational rooms, one in Jordan and one in Turkey. The one in Jordan called

MOC and the one in Turkey called MOM. And these operational rooms were consisted of delegations,

security and military delegations from the United States, from Saudi Arabia, from Qatar, from Jordan,

and also Israel, but they don't mention it, also other regional and international powers.

And the duty of these operational rooms were to coordinate the military support, the supply

of weaponry, the training, the vetting of the so-called rebels right. And we all know how it ended

up creation of al-Nusra Front, ISIS and other radical, jihadic groups in Syria. Maybe that was

the intention to begin with. In this interview, he says that Qatar was in charge of

the Syrian file in the first few months of the war. It was in 2013 when the father of the current

Emir, father of the Mim, he was in charge and he resigned. Also, I think that he was under

American pressure and he resigned to his son, the Mim. And when he resigned, the file, the Syrian

file has been moved from Qatar into the hands of Saudi Arabia. And during this period, also,

who came as the head of the Saudi intelligence was Emir Bandar Vensultan, or he's called,

or better known as Bandar Bush. Why is that? Because he was the ambassador of Saudi Arabia in the

United States forever. Okay, so this is really important. I just want to like, with his accent,

it can be a little hard to follow maybe what he's saying. And you know, these names may not be

familiar to you all. But I want to make sure that we're that we're tracking what he's saying,

because what he's about to explain is really, really important. This is like book of Trump kind of

stuff. Because we're talking about the 2011 to 2015 timeframe here. This would be pre-MBS,

pre-King Salman. So at this point, Salman, MBS's father in Saudi Arabia would be the Crown

Prince. His brother would still be would still be King. Okay. And because we're talking about

before 2015. And what he is explaining is he's saying that there is something called the Syria

file. And I think last year on this show, I'm pretty sure I played, I played, he put together a

show, I believe it was last March, March, 2025, where he, this clip of this of the former defense

minister from Qatar, basically what happened is the former defense minister kind of saw what was

happening in the zeitgeist. And he came out and offered to do a television interview in Qatar,

where he came out and he said, look, I see what's happening here. Like, like Qatar is about to get

blamed for basically everything that happened in the Arab Spring and Syrian Civil War. And I'm

probably going to get blamed as the as a defense minister. So I want to get out ahead of all this

and just kind of disclose that here's what happened. We had this thing called the Syria file.

We originally in Qatar were in charge of it. It was a $2 trillion slush fund, basically.

That the money was provided by the Gulf Arab States, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, as well as

Israel, the United States, Turkey, and NATO. So all of those entities, and I guess Jordan was

probably in there as well. All those entities were involved in this slush fund, basically. And

they all put money into a pot, $2 trillion total. And the sole purpose of that budget was to

overthrow Assad. So $2 trillion were spent on solely just a single military operation to overthrow

the Syrian government. And that was the creation of ISIS. A very large operation that involved

overthrowing Gaddafi in Libya, stealing his weapons, sending the weapons up to Turkey, walking

them into Syria, giving them to Al Qaeda and to other, you know, terrorist networks. And then

those terrorist networks rebranded as ISIS, the rest is history. I think it's probably reasonable

to assume that $2 trillion, you probably can buy a few harp systems, a few weather modification

systems for that. And if your intent is to destabilize this region, then I would think weather

modification with it being a desert would be a really critical cornerstone of that. And so

the Qatari Defense Minister, the former guy, comes out and he's like, I just want to explain

what's happening here, what happened here. We were all working together. It was the United States,

it was Israel, it was the Gulf States, it was Turkey, it was NATO. We all put money in. We all,

we all were a part of this. It wasn't just Qatar. And then in 2014 after, I think it was 2013

2014, after two, two and a half years of failure, what, what, what, what Kavork just explained is that

Tamim, Tamim's father, so this is Tamim, you know, Tamim is, yeah, this will have been 2013.

Tamim is Donald Trump's boy, right? He's Donald Trump's great friend. Donald Trump said,

in 2017, when Tamim came to the White House, he said famously, or at least to me famously,

the media is not going to believe me when I say this, but I've actually known you for a long time,

we're actually old friends. And I'm going to help you resolve this conflict with Saudi Arabia that

you're having right now, because they were at war, quote-unquote, with Saudi Arabia right after

MBS becomes the Crown Prince in June of 2017. And so Tamim, and by the way, the month before that,

the sword dance, Tamim and Trump meet in Riyadh, that was when Trump goes and gets the sword dance,

and Qatar, signs is the first country to sign a joint counterterrorist agreement with the Trump

administration, saying, we're going to share everything we know about the terrorist organizations

operating in our region, everything we have on terrorism, we're going to share with you,

and we're going to help coordinate with you to take down ISIS and to take down all these groups.

Now, rewind back to 2013, and what happens is that his father, because his father was Hamad,

was the one who was in charge, and so when they create the Syria file. And so when Tamim,

according to Kvork, and I think Kvork is correct, he says that Hamad is pressured by the U.S.

and others to resign and step down and advocate his throne, which is not something that commonly

happens in the Middle East, but it does happen. There are instances of, you know, incompetence and

failure, and because these, quote unquote, royal families, you know, these kingdoms are governed

much more by meritocracy than you have in, you know, medieval Europe, medieval Europe operated

under the mantra of divine right, the divine right of kings, meaning that God had picked,

you know, this royal bloodline to rule over everybody else, and therefore, even when you have a bad

king, it's God's will for you to have a bad king, so you just kind of have to suffer the king

until he dies or is killed or whatever. In the Middle East, it's not like that. In the Middle

East, it's still a meritocracy, it's an oligarchy, and basically the families can pressure the

king to step down, or the Amir in the case of Qatar, they don't have a king, they have an Amir,

which is, you know, just like a word, meaning mayor, or like leader.

And so yeah, like they pressure Hamad to step down to meme his son takes over, right? This is

the guy in the picture right here. But at the same time, the Syria file is taken away from Qatar,

and they're basically like, y'all are failures Qatar, you failed to take this $2 trillion budget

in over the Assad, we're going to give it now to Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia now is in charge of the

Syria file. Now remember, at this time, 2013, in my opinion, the quote-unquote white hats

are not in charge of Saudi Arabia yet, because Salman has not become king yet,

MBS is still just one of his advisors, right? They're relative, nobody's. I mean, his father,

of course, is Crown Prince, but the CIA barely knows who MBS is at this point.

According to deep-state writings and literature and biographies,

and then as Kavorik points out in his other, in his longer video that he did on this subject,

basically he describes it as like an act of God, like it's like Providence, the fact that Assad

is able to buy himself only with the help of Hezbollah. So it's just Assad and Hezbollah

fighting against this $2 trillion budget that's been thrown at them,

because remember, when this whole thing breaks out in 2011,

Vladimir Putin is not president of Russia. Medvedev is, right? And then in 2012, Medvedev

revises the Constitution of Russia that allows Putin to come back and serve another term.

It basically eliminates term limits for the presidency. Putin comes back in 2012,

and then I believe it, but I believe it's not until 2015. I think it's 2015, if I'm not mistaken,

that Russia actually sends the Dagestani, the Chechnyans, to the Chechens, to Syria to help

and assist Assad. Putin waits a few years before he does this, and I think he's playing,

there's a calculus there. He doesn't want to escalate, he doesn't want to escalate, but he's

trying to like talk the west out of like the destabilization efforts in the Middle East.

So the point is, is that it's Hezbollah and Assad fighting this regime change operation that's

very well funded for like three or four years before Russia shows up and then fortifies their

defenses, okay? And remember, when Tameem comes in, he's no longer in charge of this operation.

The operation now gets passed off to Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia, the guy in Saudi Arabia,

who's running it, is Bondar bin Sultan. As Kvorkpo points out, he's often referred to as bin

Bush, son of Bush, because he's so deeply connected to the Bush family and was like clearly

involved in like the 9-11 stuff and like all the stuff that the Bushes did in the Middle East,

even before 9-11, that's their guy, one of their many guys in Saudi Arabia, one of the black

hats is this guy, Bondar bin Sultan. So he would be a cousin, a cousin of MBS,

an older cousin of MBS, so much older cousin. Okay, so let's go with that said, let's go back to

Kvork and let him finish. Very long time, and especially under the Bush administration,

and he was a close friend with Bush. There were family relationship between him and Bush.

And Bondar bin Sultan, according to Hamad, he called foreign ministers and defense ministers

and the directors of intelligence apparatuses of regional countries, such as Qatar,

such as Jordan, such as Turkey, the United States, he doesn't mention Israel, but I think they

were also there. And Bondar bin Sultan, he says that he asked for a budget that amounts to

two trillion dollars, guys, this is two trillion, we're not talking billions, we're not even talking

20 billions, it's two trillion dollars to remove or to overthrow the authority, the political

authority in Syria, and to remove Bashar al-Assal from power. But secondly, Hamad bin Jassim

also said in the interview that Bondar bin Sultan secured a huge budget. Later Hamad bin Jassim says

that Bondar bin Sultan also planned to assassinate President Bashar al-Assad and their plan was to

strike Damascus with missiles. It seems from Guta, Jobar, you remember Harasta, all these areas

were occupied by the so-called rebels. And he says that the plan was to strike Damascus heavily

with missiles and to create chaos inside the capital city of Damascus and then attack on the

palace of the people or the people's palace where Assad works, his office is, and to capture him

or assassinate. So the scenario was similar to what they did in Libya with Qaddafi. Later he says

the plan has failed. Okay, yeah, so later he says the plan has failed, and let me see, I think I have

to pull that down. Okay, and then I think I have, let me see, I think I have the other.

Okay, so here's the original, like, this is the original, let me see if there's any value in this.

Okay, so he's talking about military delegates. Okay, yeah, so it's only two minutes. So let me just

mute this, and I'll read to you what this guy says. So this is the guy that he was talking about.

Hamad bin Jassim, I guess he's the defense minister of Qatar during this time period, during the

beginning of the Syrian Civil War. And so what he says is military operations rooms, military

operations command have been established, and there were military delegates from Saudi Arabia,

Qatar, Turkey, Jordan, and the United States. He doesn't mention Israel as Qavork says, but it's

very much implied that Israel is just an extension of the United States.

Everything military support was going through this committee, whether here or there,

and then the interviewer asked a security committee, of course, he says, yes, a security committee.

He says, therefore, it came at a stage where Bondar

in the war.

Took charge of the Saudi intelligence and the Syrian file.

And the guy clarifies, you mean, you're Bondar bin Sultan, and the guy says, yes, Bondar bin Sultan.

And so they show a picture of him. That's his picture. He took charge of this file and began

planning how to end the matter, meaning how to take out Assad.

So the interviewer asked what matter, and then he says the matter of Bashar al-Sad on the basis

that he will overthrow the Syrian authority within months. Remember, this is still under Obama.

Was this the interviewer asked, was this the wish of Bondar bin Sultan? And he says, this,

and the, just seems, says, this was not the desire of Bondar in Saudi Arabia, but the desire of all

of us. This was the goal because there was a revolution in Syria that demanded the removal of Bashar.

This is no longer a Saudi demand alone. I mean, why were there two operations rooms?

This is because they existed for this goal. So he's basically saying, he's like, it's not just

Qatar. It's not just the Arabs, like us. He's like, the United States and Turkey. We're also

a part of this. Bondar bin Sultan asked for a huge budget in the range of $2 trillion.

And then the interviewer says, but you mentioned that you Qatar were in charge of a Syrian

file. And he said, no, we were in charge of a Syrian file for the first few months.

But after Bondar bin Sultan came, he wanted to take charge of the file, a dispute arose between us

and Bondar over how to manage the Syrian file. Bondar secured a huge budget that we did not

participate in. So he's claiming that Qatar didn't participate in that. So that's interesting.

If he's telling the truth, I don't know if he is, but if he's telling the truth that Qatar didn't

participate in that, then that would, in a lot of ways, kind of exonerate

to meme of involvement, right? I mean, assuming that this guy's telling the truth. And I'm sorry,

I did not have that added to the stage, but you didn't miss anything. This is just this guy

just speaking. So he's speaking, right? There's the interviewer. And then here is the picture of

Bondar bin Sultan. That's the Saudi who takes over, right? And then his claim here at the end

is that Qatar did not participate in that. So the two trillion dollar budget came once this guy

took over circa 2013. Okay. And so my speculation is that if this is all accurate, if like,

if this theory that we're looking at is bigger theory that that weather modification systems

were weaponized against this area, that was probably a part of this two trillion dollar budget,

right? All right. So everybody, please hold that thought. Hold the phone. Don't go anywhere.

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All right, welcome back to the second hour of the geopod of the george on the earth for the

pandemic. That's not the right. There we go. Grab the wrong control. Yes, so this is April 24,

2026. Badlands media. Geopod is the ghost and we're going to continue talking about this subject

with exploring this theory, which I find pretty interesting about weather control in the Middle East.

So I have a few more things I'm going to share and then we have other news and other subjects

obviously we're going to get into plenty to discuss. I mean, today should really be like a four-hour

show, but it is what it is. Okay, so where we left it, we confirmed that trillions of dollars were

dedicated to a military campaign in the Middle East that was targeting Bashar al-Assad to overthrow

the Syrian government and that led to a 15-year civil war, right? And that civil war ended,

culminated in December 2024, just a few weeks after President Trump was reelected.

And Assad is driven out of Syria and then we get this new guy, Jalani, right? And Jalani,

who is former al-Qaeda, former ISIS, comes in and everyone's really scratching their head,

being like, wait a minute, this guy's got a $10 million bounty on his head from the state

department. What is going on? And now all of a sudden, we get better rainfall last year

in Iraq and Syria. We get Turkey opening up its dams and releasing water to the Tigris Euphrates

River Basin. It seems like Turkey's, I mean, it seems like Syria is still struggling a little

more than Iraq, but Iran is definitely in like way worse shape than it was 12 months ago. That's

I think the definitive, we can definitively say that. Okay, so picking up from that point,

let's go to what happened in April of 2024. Okay, so in April of 2024, we get this story.

And let me pull up. I think this one's probably the best one to start with.

And guys, at the thumbs up while I'm pulling up this page, there we go.

I mean, only hit the thumbs up if you want to, you don't have to, but it'd be cool if you did.

So this is April 17, 2024. It says, what is cloud seating and did it cause Dubai flooding?

And then we get this picture of Dubai and the UAE and it is like, I mean, look, people are

up to their knees and water. I remember this specifically, I remember writing about this in the

Balanced News Brief because I had just started writing for the news brief, I think in March of 2024.

And I was like, well, this is weird. It says Dubai has been hit by record floods over the past 24

hours, sparking misleading speculation about cloud seating. So how unusual was the rainfall and

what were the reasons behind the extreme downpours? How extreme was the rainfall? The Dubai is situated

on the coast of the United Arab Emirates and it's usually very dry, but it, but while it receives

less than 100 millimeters, which is 3.9 inches of a year of rainfall and average, it does experience

occasional extreme downpours. In the city of Al Ayin, just over 62 miles from Dubai, about 10

inches of rain was recorded in just 24 hours. A cutoff, low pressure, weather system was

brewing warm, moist air, and blocked other weather systems from coming through was the main cause.

Quote, this part of the world was characterized by long periods without rain and then a regular

heavy rainfall. But even so, this was a very rare rainfall event, explains Professor Martín

Abion, a meteorologist at the University of Reading, who has studied rainfall patterns in the

Gulf region. I think there's a, this is a news story. Yeah, here we go. So on a historic rainfall

event across United Arab Emirates on Tuesday, just take one spot, 256 millimeters of rain fell in

the space of just one day. That is well over two times what Dubai normally gets in the entire year,

and the average for April is only around eight millimeters. This is well above any expectations

for rainfall in the region at any time of the year, never mind in April. So what was going on,

where we had an air of low pressure centered towards the south of the Arabian Peninsula, and that

dragged in some moisture-laden air, warm moisture-laden air all the way through into the Gulf. And it's

that which felt the storm clouds, which pummeled not just United Arab Emirates, but from Bahrain

through towards a man, we saw widespread flooding. That all moving on now into parts of Iran,

Afghanistan, and Pakistan too. Now, that has been talked about cloud seeding as well, but forecast

models already put ahead of the event of seeing this record breaking rainfall a year at least

worth of rain falling in the space of one day. And with a warmer climate, we expect those clouds

to hold a lot more moisture, so we start to see more in extreme rainfall. But over the coming days,

the heaviest of the rain, as I said, it's going to be across parts of Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan,

and certainly to southern parts of Iran is where we see the greatest risk of yet further flooding.

Okay, so again, like you're seeing the uniparties, media apparatus run out to say,

this is not cloud seeding, it's not cloud seeding, it's not cloud seeding, it's not cloud seeding.

However, the scientific community had a different take. So this is a week later. We have

from Met Matters, which is the Royal Meteorological Society. They put out an article and they say,

Dubai floods in cloud seeding, that's the title of the article. And then they go, they start out by,

you know, laying out everything that that guy just said in the report about how much rain had fallen

and how unusual it was, and they have images of like the airport flooding. I mean, these airplanes

are literally just sitting in like these lakes of water now. And it says, they give some theories

for why this might have happened. Here is a time lapse. I can get this thing to

wise this. Some reason that that website seems to have frozen. Let me see if I can open this

video on X.

Weird. Well, anyway, yeah, there was a time lapse thing, but maybe it's a bad link. So let's see,

it says, so it offers some potential explanations for why this might have happened, even though it's

like seemed really, really far fetched. And then it says, what about cloud seeding? It says,

luckily, the storms were well forecast up to a week in advance showing just how important early

warning systems are. However, the intensity of downpours did spark stories about cloud seeding.

And it goes on to say, yes, the UAE does have an operational cloud seeding program, not a surprise,

given the predominantly arid nature of the region. Cloud seeding usually involves spreading fine

particles into individual developing clouds that wouldn't normally lead to rain, small planes,

burning salt flares fly through the developing clouds, hoping that the tiny particles produced

will act as a cloud condensation nuclei and trigger the formation of water droplets and eventually

rain. But in this case, the clouds were part of a larger weather, a large weather system advancing

across the region and already predicted to produce substantial amounts of rain across a wide area.

Any possible effect from cloud seeding would be it would be tiny in comparison. So the

tales of cloud seeding simply don't make sense. And our distraction from the most likely guilty

party climate change, the UAE National Center of Meteorology later confirmed that no cloud

seeding mission had taken place. Okay. And so I like you may recall this story coming out because

this was the first time that they actually admitted that cloud seeding was real. Up until this point,

it was complete conspiracy theory, even though there were images of planes that were clearly

outfit with something that looked like, you know, spraying mechanisms with tanks inside.

It looked like there were definitely mechanisms that on planes that were used to spray something

into the air at high altitudes. But this is them admitting that, well, yeah, I mean, we have

cloud seeding. And yes, like the UAE has cloud seeding, of course, it's a desert country.

But we promise, even though we were lying to you the entire time about this cloud seeding,

this time it wasn't cloud seeding. Okay. Got you. Then we get from prevention web.

This would have been, I think this is, is it four days later?

When was this article published? This article was published.

Yes. And I think it's a few days after this article that we just read through we get

April 24th, 2024, and maybe in the same day. The weather experiment that really flooded Dubai,

a reckless experiment in Earth's atmosphere caused a desert metropolis to floods. And now this

outlet's like, yeah, actually probably was cloud seeding. That was a story last week when more

than a year's worth of rain fell on a day on the Arabian Peninsula, one of the world's driest

climates, desert cities like Dubai and in the UAE suffered floods that submerged motorways

in airport runways across UAE and Oman, 21 people lost their lives. The heavy rain of Tuesday,

April 16th was initially blamed on cloud seeding, a method of stimulating precipitation by

injecting clouds with tiny particles that that moisture can attach to the those droplets

then merge and multiply as the waters received, however, a more disturbing explanation emerged.

And so then let's say Richard Washington, a professor of climate science at the University

of Oxford has seen the inside of a storm to confirm if cloud seeding really could breed record

breaking rain. He once boarded an aeroplane bound for a thunder cloud over South Africa,

Mozambique border. So of course, this guy must know what he's talking about. He's been on the

aeroplane before guys. He knows what he's talking about. And he says, no, this is this is definitely

climate change. He's like, yeah, I'm an expert in cloud seeding. Cloud seeding is definitely a

thing, but this wasn't cloud seeding. Okay. Yeah. So again, the allegation, like in this theory

that we're evaluating here is that cloud seeding was used to pull rain to the Gulf Arab states

away from Iraq, away from Syria, away from the Tigris Euphrates river basin, but also away from

Iran to dry out Iran. And so the point would be even if the rain fell in the Indian ocean, right?

It's like, at least it's not falling in Iran. And the point I think is to dry out as a theory

goes is to dry out Iran and have them suffer from suffer from severe drought. Okay. So then we have

this post, which is if I can, I'm just trying to find the right post that has thought I had it.

Yeah, here it is. Okay. So this is from an account TTXURR. It's an Arabic account. And it looks

like they have the, is that a Palestinian flag? See the Palestinian flag or the,

now, it's either Palestinian flag or the barbarian flag. But it says, as we previously pointed out,

that might be the UAE flag, because the, I think the Palestinian flag is red triangle, not a black one.

Anyway, as we previously pointed out, this is the, the post, and which some denied the truth became

clear today. Sorry, just lost my place. The American radar stations in, stationed in the Gulf

countries were like the accursed devil over the region, depriving the Arab and Islamic nations of

even drops of rain. And no sooner had Iran destroyed them than the merciful downpour poured forth.

And the earth became gardens with rivers flowing beneath them. The world has never seen anything more

vile or filthier than America and Israel. And even more heinous than that, the neighboring countries

that hosted the Satanic technology. God Almighty spoke the truth when He said, and when He turns away,

He strives to spread the corruption throughout the land and destroyed crops and progeny. But God

does not love corruption. And that, I think that's, I guess it's from the Quran. It says,

Iran, the sacred rod on earth, with which God disciplines the oppressors. Okay, so then it shows these

two pictures of two different radar stations. I assume this first one is in UAE, but this second one,

I'm pretty sure this is the one that's in Qatar. And let's see. I can then show you this article.

And this is from NTV, in DTV world. This is from March 3, 2026. Iran claims largest US radar

in Gulf destroyed all about a billion dollar machine. IRGC claimed that the radar was completely destroyed

in a precision missile strike. It was later corroborated by Qatar officials. And there's the

same picture of that same structure we saw. It says the radar was stationed at the al-Udi'id airbase

in Qatar. That's where Sint Com is based out of the attack by US and Israel on Iran has expanded

into a wider Middle East conflict and has not just cost lives, but saw the destruction of military

weapons worth billions of dollars. Several reports in the Iranian media have claimed that

ANFPS-132, the largest American radar in the Gulf has been destroyed, citing IRGC public relations

office Tehran Times and other outlets said that the radar has a tracking range of 5,000 kilometers.

Both US President Donald Trump and Iranian authorities have said the conflict will continue

for a long time. Radars, such as ANFPS-132, are indispensable for modern air defense systems

because they enable timely detection tracking and interception as per report in defense security

Asia. The early warning system is stationed at the al-Udi'id airbase in Qatar and has a unique

equipment designed for tracking ballistic missiles. It was installed by the United States in 2013

at a cost of approximately $1.1 billion. Okay? So that line right there is why I took all the time,

it takes me a side quest with Kavork and the Qatar Defense Minister because remember,

according to the Qatar Defense Minister, Tamim comes into power. His father, Hamad, the Qatari

leader, resigns or abdicates in June of 2013, Tamim steps in and Bondar bin Sultan who is in Saudi

Arabia takes over the file from Qatar and then he raises $2 trillion and says we're going to work

now. That same year that this happens is when this radar system is built in Qatar at a cost of

approximately $1.1 billion. IRGC claimed that the radar was completely destroyed and the

precision missile strike. It was later corroborated by a Qatar official representing a severe disruption

to U.S. surveillance operations that could be a blow to integrated air defense architecture,

protecting Allied Gulf states. The system was specifically tuned to monitor Iranian missile

activities building up to the attack which the U.S. named Epic Fury, Washington assembled its

largest force in Armada. And some of its most powerful weaponry among these are these B2 bombers,

the bat wing. Yeah, and then it goes on and talked about the B2 bombers. The list released by

U.S. Sinkcom on Sunday includes low cost unmanned combat attack systems, one-way drones according

to CNN. The drone is essentially a knockoff of the Iranian design, Shaheed 136 drone that Russia

has used in large numbers in its war on Ukraine. Then it goes on and talked about the Patriot

and FAD systems. Then there's another article from Defense Security Asia. This is the one that

it's citing where it talks about, you know, it corroborates this and says the same thing.

And then it shows a video of the smoldering.

So there's the burning rubble of the radar base. Now, what we don't have, so just a recap,

we have geographic, we can substantiate the theory that the geography makes sense, right? The

Tigris Euphrates River Basin, all of that, that all lines up with the theory, right? And then

these videos we're seeing all over the place of these dams like flowing water, right? We can

substantiate that there has been historic droughts in these regions for many, many years,

purportedly maybe the worst drought in 900 years according to NASA. We can also substantiate that

this trend is reversed in the past month or two in some places and over the past year in other

places like Iraq. So that doesn't quite substantiate the theory because if it was happening before

this radar station was taken down, then like what the hell, why, like does the radar station have

anything to do with it? I don't know. But the theory then is that the thing that we can't

substantiate or we can't provide any evidence for is whether this radar station had anything to

do with harp or weather modification. However, we can confirm that official sources have said

that the UAE does have a cloud-seating technology and cloud-seating system. And part of the theory

is that there is another radar base that was destroyed in the UAE and the UAE has taken the most

missiles of any place. I think that it's something like 2500 missiles and Israel is actually only

taken half as many missiles as the UAE. Now, just to play devil's advocate here, since seeing this

this morning, every time I open a new tab in X, there's like a new post from somebody talking about

this theory. So that makes me a little cautious because I'm like, is this like a sia up that's being

pushed, right? So here's one. It says I started to believe the Iraq's climate has been subjected to

destruction. Ever since the American radars were destroyed, the rains and clouds no longer leave

Iraq. The water levels of the rivers, marshes and dams have risen and the lands have turned green

again as if the earth has been renewed for the first time, but di-diala rivers swallows palm trees

and exceeds its natural natural boundaries. A di-diala river would be a tributary of the Tigris

river originating in the Zagros Mountains of Western Iran. So this picture that we're seeing

purportedly is in Western Iran. And then we have another picture. This is in Mosul, so this is from

that same account. It says Lake Zamar in Mosul. It disappeared from the map last summer.

You can see it on the right. And then it says, but now, as seen in the video, it has returned to normal

and even more beautiful. So the allegation is that on the right, we're looking at one year ago,

and on the left, we're looking at the same lake now.

So here is another one. The Dar-Badan Khan Dam has returned to 100 percent capacity.

And the underground water sources have also started to overflow. Let's see, we have

I wanted to find the one at the bridge. I have one more at the bridge.

Okay, and then this is from the Iranian Embassy in France. So this is interesting,

because all of a sudden, we're getting these posts from these Iranian embassies and says,

in the east of Mazda Iran, which is north of Iran, the go-lord dam experiences its first spring

without filling restrictions. The completion of the infrastructure, including the largest

bridge in northern Iran, gives birth to new landscapes or water force and engineering

harmoniously blends. Suddenly, Iran is posting about water resources and dams.

Here is another one. The water volume in the Musul dam has reached 7 billion cubic meters of

its 11 billion cubic meter capacity. The Middle East has suddenly become blessed with abundance.

Do you think this is a coincidence? Daily news Iran posted the same thing, and then the one

that I really wanted was the Iran Embassy in Zimbabwe. They posted an interesting one today.

Where was it?

I thought they posted it today. Hold on. I'd send a screenshot to my friends.

Give me one second.

So this is from yesterday. They were posting this. So yesterday,

they posted rain, rain, rain after years of drought. Who knows? Perhaps it is a gift from God

for our resistance against the devil. And then there's a video of, this looks like Tehran.

I'm pretty sure, yeah, that golden dome, I'm pretty sure, is the mosque in Tehran

with the black flag flying over it and it's pouring rain. And so even like the Iranian government

is posting and saying, perhaps it's a gift from God for fighting this war. So that's interesting.

So again, like the theory, I think, is an interesting theory. We don't know if it's real or not.

I mean, we're just looking at data right now. But assuming it is true, like, let's just,

for the sake of argument, assuming this is true, this would support the idea like,

why would President Trump be doing this? Why would President Trump be like having this war?

Why would he be, why would he be allowing missiles to fly back and forth and destabilizing the

region? Well, I think there's a number of things that spin out from this. I think there's probably

potentially sites in Iran that need to be taken out. Like, I'm certainly open to that possibility.

But the thing that always kind of gave me a little bit of pause on that is just the idea that

of fighting an empire, right? And taking down empire. And it seems like

there are all these different countries that have been fighting against this empire, right?

That some people would describe it as an American empire. I don't think it's American at all. I think

it's something that's very, very different. It's, I think it's more Israeli than American,

but frankly, I think it's more transnational than just Israeli. I think that's an oversimplification

to say it's just Israel. But whenever I see these countries fighting back against the empire,

I sympathize with them. However, that doesn't mean that those countries themselves don't have

bad elements within them that need to be addressed. Syria could also be another potential example.

Because now, all of a sudden, we're seeing Syria come back to life. And the allegation was that

there was tons of corruption within the military ranks that were there before Bashar al-Assad even

came into power. And that, you know, that developed during his father's rule. His father was in

office for 30 years before he took over. And he only took over because his brother died. He was

he was a surge, an eye surgeon in London before that happened. Okay, so to that point, let's now go to

we may not even get to Lebanon today with everything happening, but I'm going to try to.

Okay, so this is a good post about this, but but there's there's more to it than just this. It says

the Hajjaz railway, the artery of unity against the sledgehammers of demolition, the historic Hajjaz

railway comes back to life, not just a railway track, but the great passage that connects the heart

of the Arabian Peninsula to Europe via Jordan in Syria, while the big players move to link

continents and build bridges of economy and sovereignty, the functional states and system

wallowing in the mud of fragmentation, a vast gulf between leaderships that open pathways of

development and entities addicted to embracing separatists and supporting militias to tear apart

homelands as we see it late, as we see today in Somali land, southern Yemen, and the afflicted

Sudan. And so the Hajjaz railway, for those who are not familiar, if you've ever seen the movie

Lawrence of Arabia, the train that they attack, and the train is still sitting in the desert,

it's become like a monument, they've made it like a historic monument, but the train that they

attack and they derail, that's the Hajjaz railway, so it's a train that you can see right here

from the Ottoman Empire that ran from Damascus all the way down to Medina, okay, this is what it

looked like in 1914 at the beginning of World War I, and yeah, like Lawrence of Arabia,

Te Lawrence from Britain famously went to Arabia, he rallied all the tribes and convinced them to

work together to attack the Ottoman Empire, and one of the big things they did was they took out

this train, and so now we're looking at the revival of this train, and that revival is going to

require cooperation between all the different countries, which under the Ottoman Empire,

you know, were being organized by the Ottoman Empire, so it was a top-down control,

but we haven't seen these countries really get along much ever since the collapse of the Ottoman

Empire in 1917, 1919 really, and so let me pull up that map, that is right,

where'd you go, where'd you go map?

Okay, right here we have this map, so Saudi transportation minister Salah Al-Jaseer,

this is from the Saudi post, we expect to complete the joint studies for the train connection

project between Saudi Arabia and Turkey passing through Jordan and Syria before the end of the

year, so this is the revival of the Hajjah's railway, right, going from Medina all the way up to,

this is not on Kara, that is Istanbul, so you want all the way up to Istanbul, right, and then

from Istanbul you can then catch a train anywhere in Europe, so this is going to connect Saudi Arabia

to Europe by train, and we've been seeing these deals last year, we saw a ton of deals happening,

connecting Trump is investing, four billion dollars in building trains in Kazakhstan,

Putin is investing billions of dollars in building out the largest high-speed rail network in Russia,

during the Biden administration, Putin and Iran and the other countries around the Caspian sea,

which is this sea up here next to the Black Sea,

Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, they built a railroad that goes all the way around,

the Caspian sea, that's part of the North-South Transportation Corridor, so yeah, so this appears

to be real, they're going to be building this Hajjah's railway, this is separate, remember we've

been looking at pipelines, pipelines coming out of Iraq going into Syria, pipelines coming out of

Iraq going into Saudi Arabia, now we have a pipeline going from Saudi Arabia through Syria to Turkey,

Damascus is the Damascus and Aleppo are going to be the two really major stops there, Aleppo is

a major economic hub, Damascus of course is the capital of Syria, those are both cities and

the two largest cities in Syria, so anyway, that is all connected to this, and then in addition to

that, because on that same vein we have

from Disclosed TV,

right here, Jolani,

we confirm our commitment also to the initiative of the four seas, and this actually focuses on

the importance of bridging Syria with Asia and the Gulf and Europe, what has been achieved today

is a good start to pay the way for the eleventh of the next month, where by which we are going to

inaugurate the very high VIP political dialogue with Europe, and we are heading towards this date

in order to consecrate the strategic role of Syria that wishes to integrate also the European

space and to foster cooperation and partnership with our friends. Okay, so this is at the Cyprus,

I am sorry, the Cyprus EU Council of the EU, Cyprus President of the Council of the EU,

okay, and he says you can see the President of the European Union right next to him,

and then I believe this is the President Cyprus, and then a few other leaders from I think Europe,

Europe in the Middle East, and what he's referring to when he says the four seas project,

I got to look into what I need to confirm this, but I think what he's alluding to, and this is

like, if this is true, I mean it is true, he's just said it, but this is like a devolution proof,

I guess you'd say like a Syrian devolution proof, because remember Matt Erett taught us all

about the 5C vision, right, so in 2004, 22 years ago, a few years after Assad came into power,

he came into power, I believe, in 2000 or 2001, he had this thing called the 5C's vision,

and because he wanted to focus on economic development and like partnership and kind of getting

economic entanglement between all the Middle Eastern countries, and so this is the map, it was a

giant railroad network, and the reason it was called the 5C's network, 5C's vision is because it

was going to connect 5Cs, the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea, the Caspian Sea, the Persian Gulf,

and the Red Sea. Now, my speculation is the reason they're calling it the four seas

vision at this point is because they're probably not doing the Caspian Sea, they're probably leaving

a run out for now, and it's probably just going to be the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea, the Mediterranean

Sea, and the Black Sea, but you can see really at the heart of this entire thing is Aleppo,

so there's Aleppo right there, that's at the heart of this entire network, and it connects you

not only to the Middle, it doesn't just connect the whole Middle East, it connects you to Egypt,

and then from Cairo, and then from Cairo, you can take a train to basically anywhere in Africa,

anywhere they have a railroad at least, but you can take a train from Cairo all the way down

to South Africa, the British, you know, that's what Cecil Rhodes built for the British, right,

and then they gave him Rhodesia as a reward for doing that. So this is Jalani resurrecting in a

sod like initiative from 22 years ago, and basically repackaging it as something that just

excludes Iran, but Iran has already built out its rail network with Putin, they were doing that

during the Biden administration, so you know, they already built out, like what is drawn right here,

which was drawn 22 years ago, they've built out, they've built out the railway from Tehran to

Bondar Abbas, Bondar Abbas is now a major port, right, part of the North South Transportation

corridor, I'm pretty sure they've built out from Tehran to Basra, so they have like, I think their

network is already in place, they're just not mentioning it as part of this other initiative,

they're focusing now on building out the rail network in traditional Arabia, and this is going

to be, I mean, if this is true, then this means that Jalani is a sod just without the name of

sod, he's a continuation of a sod basically, and this would align with the fact that MBS gave a

sod a big hug and brought him back into the Arab League in 2023 after Hillary Clinton kicked

a sod in Syria out of the Arab League in 2011, or maybe it was 2012, so this is a big deal,

this is a very big deal, and I think we're going to see more information and more news come out

that like confirms that this is what's happening and that this cooperation between all these

different countries in the Middle East that traditionally have not gotten along and they haven't

been able to cooperate in generations, right, really since the Ottoman Empire, suddenly they're

now working together, yeah, I mean, and at the same time their weather is improving, their rainfall

is coming back, their crops are going to be coming back, this is very encouraging, very, very

encouraging. Okay, so with the last like 15 minutes that we have, let's pivot to the big new story

of the day, which we didn't start with, and I'm glad we didn't because we would have spent

the whole time talking about it, and that would be the Lebanese ceasefire deal that Trump negotiated.

Okay, so Trump negotiates this ceasefire deal with Lebanon between Israel and Lebanon, right,

he announces it, let's go to the Badlands sub-stack, I think I have, I'm pretty sure I have the

post in the sub-stack, hopefully I'd put it in there.

No, but I do have videos that I want to play, so let me see if I can show the,

so yes, so Trump announces this deal, he's like Lebanon, there's going to be a three,

a three-week ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel, and what's interesting is that we get

this reporting from a journalist in Israel who I think is pretty solid, been a frame.

He did a solid post about the involvement that MBS had in basically, like,

piece of this whole thing together, optically we were told in the West that it was like Mike Huckabee

who did this, it was like Mike Huckabee and like the American on-boys who put this whole thing together,

but it actually sounds more like from all the reporting that's coming out of the region

that it's actually MBS who did this, and not the American on-boys. I mean, I'm sure the American

on-boys probably played like Kushner and Wickoff may have played a role in it. Here it is, so this

from yesterday says the driver behind the ceasefire in Lebanon is Saudi Arabia, MBS, pressured Trump to

impose a ceasefire in Israel and is deeply invested in the Lebanon track, his special envoy Yazid

Bin Farhan just landed in Beirut, Saudi Arabia is coordinating with both the US and France,

Saudi motivations go beyond Lebanon, Riyadh sees Lebanon as an opportunity to complete Iran's

disconnection from its Western arm, following Assad's fallen Syria, MBS marketed Syria's al-Shirat,

it's Jalani, to Trump as a potential wall of separation between Iran and Lebanon and is now trying

to build an axis of Syria and Lebanon free from Iranian influence, but that does not mean

necessarily working against Hezbollah. MBS is trying to start a new chapter with the current

Lebanese government, despite Hezbollah still being a part of it. The missing piece is Shia

Saudi Arabia is trying to recruit Nabi Bere, the 88 year old parliament speaker who holds the

Shia card to join the diplomatic process, Israel sees these diplomatic meetings as constraining

rather than helpful, but in this case MBS got what he wanted while Netanyahu did not, however Netanyahu

will be tempted to undermine this by restarting the war. And we got this new guy, this new president,

the Lebanese president, his name is Aon, and when he was elected last year,

like it was Joseph Aon, he highly touted as like, he's MBS's guy, like this guy, like even to the

point where the haters were all saying that he was a puppet of MBS, a puppet of Saudi Arabia.

He's a Maranite Christian, this guy right here, just Joseph Aon. He comes into office in 2025,

and then Joseph Aon comes out and says, because remember Lebanon and Israel met for the first time

last week ever at the White House to negotiate a potential ceasefire, they started this whole process,

and they both come out and they said, look, we haven't gotten to a ceasefire yet, however,

we can both agree that Hezbollah is the enemy, and we both want to see, this is like what the

Israeli diplomat was saying on camera, he said, we can both agree that Hezbollah is the enemy,

and we all want to see Hezbollah disarmed, so we can at least agree on that, that's the common ground.

However, then Aon comes out after the fact, and he calls the,

he calls, he accuses Netanyahu of war crimes, he says that Netanyahu has engaged in war crimes against

um against Lebanon by killing these journalists journalists, so it's not Aon actually, it's

no off salam, the prime minister, but the reporting is now that there's 27 Lebanese journalists,

I wrote about this today in the news brief, that have been killed, that have been targeted by

the Israeli military, by the IDF, this is this woman was the one that kind of like pissed off

everybody, because everybody claims that they they know her, all these people across the media

landscape, say they know this woman personally, and that she's a very good person, she's a very

nice person, um she is pro Hezbollah apparently, but um she's Lebanese, and they they intentionally

targeted her, the reporting goes that she was sent like a week ago or two weeks ago, a threatening

message on um like WhatsApp or like one of those messaging apps that basically told her to like stop

what she was doing, and stop reporting on this, or else she was going to be killed, and then she

was killed, they pulled her body out of the rubble, um they they then there's a list of other um

of other deaths, deaths of journalists, um let's see I put that in the news brief this morning,

including people's like their home is being bombed, it says the killing is it is the latest in

the string of attacks on media workers on March 28th, and Israeli strike on a clearly marked

press card, and Southern Lebanon killed Al Minar, corresponded Ali Shoab, um Al Mayadine reporter

Fatima Fattuni, and video journalist Muhammad Fattuni, uh Israel claimed Showeb or Showeb was a

Hezbollah intelligence operative, provided new evidence, Al Minar TV journalist Hussein Hussein

Hamud was killed in Israeli air strike on Nabatia, on March 25th, while Lebanese radio presenter

Gata Daik was killed when in it when in Israeli strike, uh when Israel struck her home and tear on

April 8th, so they're even like blowing up their houses, uh and so the Lebanese government,

which a week ago was like okay like maybe we can work with y'all is now accusing Israel of war crimes

because they're just indiscriminately killing journalists that are reporting on what's happening

and Southern and Southern Israel. Meanwhile we have um

let me pull at this one, meanwhile we have Bezalo Smotric, y'all know him, um coming out saying

that it's time for Israel to formally re-draw, so here's from the Middle East monitor 27 journalists

have been killed in Israeli attacks in Lebanon, according to their press union,

according to the Lebanese press syndicate editors, which is a group of like it's like a press union,

27 have been killed I guess in the past month, um and let's see the

so here, Israel is waiting for U.S. to green light to renew a wrong word, new targets marked

says Israel cats, uh it should come as no surprise that Netanyahu is from Tyler Durden at zero

hedges, it should come as no surprise that Netanyahu's government is not happy with the current

little me, a wrong war, as Trump's initially declared three to five days cease fire extension has

become more of an indefinite truce with the Hormuz straight still blockade still on, Israel is

now preparing for the possibility of a return to fighting the country's media is on Thursday reporting,

Israel's leadership has consistently stated that it wants to see regime change or else total

government and societal collapse, saying that only then would Iran be never more be a threat to

Israel. Fresh remarks by Israeli Defense Minister Israel cats have made clear that Israel is

prepared to renew the war against Iran, the IDF is prepared for both defense and offense,

the targets are marked, um but that's not the,

that's not the article it was, yeah so why Net, this is, I think, did we talk about this on

Tuesday, I don't know if we did or not, I don't think we did. So why Net, which is why Net

global, this is the largest online media publication in Israel, um, they reported initially when Trump

said, hey, I'm, I'm extending the ceasefire by three weeks, I'm extending the ceasefire right,

I'm extending the ceasefire between Iran and Israel, uh why Net comes out and says, yeah, we've

actually been told like, it is really official told us that a US official told them that,

that it's going to be only until Sunday. So Sunday, if there's not a deal, we're going to,

we're going to just continue the war. Trump has come out, first Caroline Levitt came out and

then Trump came out and said, no, that's not true, it's indefinite. We're not putting a,

a timetable on this because there's so much disarray among the leadership in Iran, um,

there's no, there's no centralized leadership. It's so decentralized that there is no leadership

in Iran. Um, and yeah, I mean, this audience understands what that means. That means, I think

he's referring to devolution, right? Um, but that is, that is, uh, the fact that Israel's coming out

and trying to say, oh, it's a three to five day ceasefire and then Trump and Caroline Levitt come

out and say, no, no, no, this is indefinite. We're working on getting a deal done. And then this is

the post I was looking for earlier, the president of the United States, Donald J Trump,

vice president of the United States, JD Vance, Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, ambassador to

Israel, Mike Huckabee, and ambassador to Lebanon, Mike Michelle Issa, met today with high ranking

representatives of Israel and Lebanon in the Oval Office. The meeting went very well. The United

States is going to work with Lebanon in order to help protect it itself from Hezbollah. The ceasefire

between Israel and Lebanon will be extended by three weeks. I look forward in the near future to

hosting the prime minister of Israel, BB Netanyahu, and the president of Lebanon, Joseph Aon.

It was a great honor to be a participant in this very historic meeting, President Donald J Trump.

And then we also have Tom Barrick, yet again, this is him yesterday, reiterating that Hezbollah

cannot be eliminated. The idea that you're going to disarm Hezbollah by force is just as silly as

the idea that you're going to disarm the American people by force. It's just not going to happen.

So get that idea out of your head. The only way forward is to negotiate a meaningful piece

that all sides can live with. So all sides can agree to put down the weapons and stop fighting.

So here's the US. This is Donald Trump's best friend, right? The guy that he's entrusted to be the

ambassador to Turkey and the special envoy to Syria telling you that this isn't going to happen.

We're not going to go disarm Hezbollah. We're not going to start a war with Hezbollah.

We're going to try to negotiate with Hezbollah. And then Mark Levin has been spinning out about

this guy and calling Tom Barrick a traitor and a terrorist sympathizer and the worst person to ever

live. And yeah, dude, you're talking about Donald Trump's best friend. So you might want to watch

your mouth. Okay. And the other story that I was looking for is Bezalo Smotrik, the finance minister,

would y'all are very familiar with him, of course. Coming out and saying that it's time for

Israel to go ahead and just like formally redraw its borders because enough's enough.

Wasn't there. It was right here.

I think the internet has frozen. It appears. At least this website has.

Yeah, here it is. All right. The website is wasn't responding.

Smotrik calls for new Israeli borders from yesterday labels Palestinians as access of evil.

Israel's far right finance minister Bezalo Smotrik has said the country needs wider and

defensible borders in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria describing Palestinians as part of what he calls

an Iranian access of evil. Smotrik said the 1967 lines were indefensible borders as they do

not take into account geographical insecurity considerations according to the Jerusalem post.

He also claimed the Palestinians and Gaza in the occupied West Bank are part of the Iranian

access of evil, dismissing criticism of settler violence as misleading campaigns. The minister said

settlers were among the least violent people adding that all measures taking in the West Bank

had been coordinated with the United States. He added that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

supports expanding settlements in the West Bank saying Israel continues its settlement activity

with full support in coordination with the US administration. Smotrik said that although

the US President Donald Trump has not yet backed applying Israeli sovereignty over the entire

West Bank, the Israeli government hopes to achieve this in the future. So they're like, yeah,

we're going to convince Trump of this. Don't worry about that. Let's just start the process.

Let's go ahead and just start the process of annexing the West Bank, annexing Gaza

enough's enough. And then here is from today Israel Katz, Israeli minister says army is awaiting

US approval for a potential strike on Iran. So they are locked and loaded ready to go. Just

waiting for that green light. I think we just looked at that on a different site.

Okay, and then let's round it out with,

because we can look at this article too, is Iran is ready for both talks and war according to

their envoy. Iran has never betrayed negotiations unlike Washington, according to Ambassador

Kazim Jalali. Iran is not seeking war, but it is ready to keep fighting. Iran's ambassador to

Moscow, Kazim Jalali has told RT in an exclusive interview arguing that the Islamic Republic has

never been the side to abandon diplomacy despite repeated stabs in the back. Put the general

policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran is that if the other side is willing to negotiate,

we will negotiate. If they want war, we will fight. So yeah, that's him telling you that

we're going to go ahead and do this. Now, I want to place a few clips of Trump before we close

down. I know it's 4 o'clock, but we're going to go a little over because I want to play these clips.

Hopefully, sub-stack didn't botch this.

Okay, so remember like Mark Levin and a lot of these other Mossad media influencers have been saying,

Trump, go ahead and use nukes. Mossad Levin has been saying this for weeks now. Go ahead and

just nuke Iran. We just need to nuke them and get it over with. Trump came out the day after

Easter and said he could potentially annihilate the entire civilization in one night if he really

wanted to and everyone took from that statement that he meant nuking Iran. So here he is yesterday

in the Oval Office. Why would a stupid question like that be asked? He was asked, are you going to

use nukes against Iran? Because your guy, Mark Levin has been saying this non-stop on X.

Why would a stupid question like that be asked? Why would I use a nuclear weapon? We've totally

in a very conventional way decimated them without it. No, I wouldn't use it. A nuclear weapon should

never be allowed to be used by anybody. Yeah, so there's that. And then there is this one down here.

I thought this was an interesting statement. Israel has to, I mean, we're just talking about it.

Israel is going to have to depend itself if they're shot at and they will. I would never say that

they can't be nice if they wouldn't have to bother with that. But if they, if something happens,

they're going to have to defend themselves as you know. But they're going to do it carefully and

they're going to be surgical as opposed to beyond surgical. And there's a lot they can do.

But Israel is going to have to defend itself. Yeah, so I think people are going to hear that

and they're going to say, well, this is just, you know, Trump, you know, letting everyone know

that Israel is going to keep fighting because, you know, they got to keep fighting. I take that,

I mean, listen to, I want you, I'm going to play it again, but I want you to listen to what he says.

Israel is going to have to defend itself. Like if you, if you write that out in a written

statement and you read it, you're like, all right, so he's saying Israel is going to have to defend

itself. The United States is not going to defend Israel for it, right? The US big brother is not

coming to little brothers rescue. If little brother gets attacked, little brother is going to defend

itself. Israel is going to do what it wants to do. And he said, it'd be nice if we didn't have to

do any of it. Like it'd be nice if they didn't do that. But Israel is going to do what it has to do.

We're going to play it one more time. Israel has to, I mean, we're just talking about it. Israel

is going to have to defend itself at the shot at and they will. I would never say that they can't

be nice if they wouldn't have to bother with that. But if they, if something happens,

they're going to have to defend themselves, as you know. But they're going to do it carefully and

they're going to be surgical as opposed to be unsurgical. And you know, there's a lot they can do.

But Israel is going to have to defend itself. Yeah. And so

again, in my opinion, what we're looking at is we're looking at Trump

encouraging Israel to keep fighting. He's like, yeah, go ahead, keep fighting. That's cool.

As he is heading for the, he's heading for the door. He's leaving the party. He's telling Israel,

yeah, stay out and keep drinking. Okay, stay out and keep having fun. Keep partying.

While he, he's in the Irish goodbye. He's going to, he's going to leave. He's going to make peace.

Israel's going to keep fighting and they're going to be left all by himself. I think that's what's

happening because look at these headlines. This is from today from Israel cats. Israel threatens to

bomb Iran back into the Stone Age. Defense Minister Israel cats made the comment following the

indefinite extension of an ongoing truth by the US. This was in response to this headline.

From Trump, no time frame for ending the Iran war. The US president has rejected claims that he

is rushing to end the conflict ahead of midterm elections. It says the US president is not

setting any deadlines for concluding the war against Iran. The remarks contrast with Trump's

earlier claim made shortly after the US and Israel launched attacks on Iran on February 28th.

The fighting would last four to five weeks. He also repeatedly said that over the past month,

the war would be over very soon. But again, the no time frame is not for ending the war,

but no time frame for the ceasefire. He's like, the ceasefire, meaning the US is not going to

bomb Iran anymore. We're done bombing Iran. We're just going to negotiate with them now. That's what,

that's what, I mean, might take away from it is. Okay, and then let's pivot to Putin and Russia

real quick and then we'll, we'll round this out. Trump would like to see Putin at G 20 in Miami.

This is from today. The Russian president, the Russian president's presence would be very helpful.

The US leader said, US president Donald Trump has said that he would like to see his Russian

counterpart Vladimir Putin at the G 20 summit in Miami, but expressed doubt that he would actually

come. The Washington Post reported on Thursday that the White House intends to invite Putin to

the G 20 summit December, while a senior administration official said Russia would be welcome at both

ministerial meetings and the leader summit. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksandr Pongting

said that there was already an invitation for Russia to participate at the highest level,

but it is too early to say who will attend the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov,

likewise said Russia will decide closer to the to the date who will represent Russia.

So it sounds like somebody is going to represent Russia. It may or may not be Putin.

Trump said he knew nothing of any official invitation yet, but added that if he came,

it would probably be very helpful. I'm of the opinion that you talk to everybody. I'm not one of

these guys who says, oh, let's not talk to him. Trump told reporters at the White House on Thursday,

if you're a smart person, you have control over your emotions, I'm somebody that believes in talking.

I don't know that he's coming. I doubt he'd come to be honest with you, referring to Putin.

And this is scheduled to be the summit is scheduled to be held in December.

In Miami, with Trump set to host it as Doral Golf Course. He's literally going to host the G20

at Dorao at his golf course. That is hilarious.

Okay, and then let's see. Let's finish out with Italy and Russia,

because I think I think it was on Tuesday. Tuesday, we talked about that connection between Israel,

I mean, between Israel and Russia, like the Israel Iran conflict and the Russia,

Ukraine conflict via Italy and how those guys were, the Mossad guys were arrested in Milan.

Okay, so look at this. This is interesting. Vanese, Biennale, I think is how you pronounce it.

Jerry locks out Russia and Israel. The judges have cited disputed war crimes,

charges against the country's leaders as the basis for their decision.

Pajury of the Venice, Biennale and annual international cultural exhibit will not give

awards to artists from countries whose leaders are facing charges of crimes against humanity.

According to the statement on Thursday, it affects it. Russia and Israel, whose leaders are subject

to international criminal court arrest warrants. Something both countries have rejected.

And so this is something they hold either annually or biannually every other year. It's different.

There's like an architecture one. There's like an art one. I think there's like a performance

theater one. They hold this in Venice. Every country has its own like building,

like its own permanent pavilion where it presents its art, like whatever it's presenting.

And it's put on, I think the art one is put on every year. The architecture ones put on every

other year. And so they're saying that there, here's the Russian pavilion right here. Here's the

Israel pavilion right here. And they're saying that they're not going to even recognize any artist

who bothers showing up from Russia or Israel. That's, you know, is what it is. But the other one

that I wanted to end on was this story. This is kind of funny. This is, I think this was like hours

after our show on Tuesday, maybe even like Wednesday morning. It says Italy responds to shameful

U.S. offer to replace Iran at the World Cup. So for those who don't know, Trump put out a

post saying that says Italian officials have rebuked a U.S. proposal for their national football

team to replace Iran at the upcoming FIFA World Cup. Italy lost the chance to participate at the

World Cup for a third successive time after a humiliating penalty shootout defeat in Bosnia

in a playoff last month, triggering widespread backlash at home and leading to the resignation

of the head of the National Football Federation. However, an American proposal to give Italy a

run spot at the World Cup, which will be co-hosted by the U.S. Canada and Mexico this summer sparked

indignation in Rome. The proposal was impossible and inappropriate sports minister Andrea

abodi told the Italian news agency La Press stressing quote, you qualify in the pitch

economy minister Giancarlo Georgetti called the idea shameful. The possibility of a swap was raised

by Paolo Zampoli and an Italian American who heads the Office of Global Partnerships at the U.S.

State Department and who described his lobbying efforts to the Financial Times in Korea,

Delicera. Zampoli argues that Italy not Iran should go to the World Cup and says he would be

disappointed if he couldn't see Italian players on home soil. The U.S. War on Iran is cast on

certainty or the Islamic Republic's participation in the tournament. Iranian officials have issued

mixed signals with some calling for the team's matches to be relocated from the U.S. to Mexico.

FIFA president Gianni Infatino, who is a Swiss born and also holds a tie in citizenship,

has maintained that Iran is expected to compete in the U.S., the International Association referred

to his remarks when asked about Zampoli's pitch. The media described the envoy's lobbying as an

attempt to repair newly strained U.S.-Italy relations. Tensions escalated after president Donald

Trump criticized Pope Leo and later Italian Prime Minister Georgy Melloni, who rebuked him for

targeting the pontiff. According to Korea, Delicera, that's a newspaper, I believe, securing the

participation of Italy who are four-time World Cup winners could also carry domestic political

benefits for Trump, potentially boosting Republican support among Italian-American voters ahead of

a repub on November's midterm elections. Separately, media reports last week stated that Trump's

special envoy for combating anti-Semitism, Rabbi Yehuda Kaploon warned European officials they

could face travel restrictions during the World Cup in retaliation for alleged lapses in addressing

the issue. Yeah, this is just like one of those goofy Trump mania things. Trump first was like

putting out posts a while back saying, you know, Iran should be careful about coming to the U.S.

Like they may not be safe in the U.S., which is a silly thing for the U.S. president to say,

like inferring that his own country isn't safe for foreign tourism, even countries that you're at war

with. And then this guy's amply from the State Department comes up with this weird idea to just

kick out Iran and just gift, you know, just allow Italy to come in because there's such a historic

champion of the World Cup. They've won it four times, which I think is, I think Brazil's probably

one of the most Brazilian Argentina, but I mean, that's still a lot of championships four times.

And so Trump was even talking about that. He was like, oh, yeah, that's kind of a cute idea. Like,

maybe I'd think about that. And then Italy comes out and was like, yeah, we would never do that.

That's like, we don't believe, I think Maloney came out and said, we don't believe in participation

trophies. Thanks, but no thanks. So just goofy stuff, but like, you know, it's just this weird

thing where they're, you know, Trump is kind of like pretending to not get along with Maloney.

It's all really goofy and silly, but I don't know. Just wanted to mention that.

All right, guys, hit the thumbs up. I think we'll land it there. We actually got to a lot more

than I anticipated today. So happy about that. We do have some badlands boost to read.

So if you're listening to this on replay, you can go to badlands media.tv slash boost.

It's like, it's like leaving a rumble rant anytime. And we will read it on the show.

So we have a couple from Thomas Times. First one is Hey Ghost. Thanks for all the geography

with your shows. I love maps so much. I know my wife while watching TV, even fantasy shows,

because I get so much more out of the story when I understand the geography I play. I totally agree.

I think when you understand the geography, it's just, it makes the show more compelling. It makes

anything more compelling, whether you're talking about works of fiction or, you know, geopolitics,

but yes. So the other one, Thomas Times, it's actually the exact same post, just a second time.

So thank you for posting that twice. I don't know if you meant to do that, but

appreciate the the rants, the boosts. Another one from Eileen Meshad 17. I've been following

Mark Levin on truth. And he is getting hammered on his Israel takes. Clearly, people are waking up

to BB sabotaging Trump and not really wanting peace. Thanks G for keeping us off the cliff. Yeah,

I mean, I think that's my read on it. But I think that Trump is also like feeding their hubris

and like encouraging them just to keep going, you know, while he's heading for the door. So

yeah, yeah, I think I would agree with all that. Let's

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