Panic Sets In As Iran War Expanding

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Daniel, good to see this morning.

Good morning Dr. Paul, how are you this morning?

Very good, thank you.

Good, all right.

But there's still a war going on.

There is still a war going on.

Yeah, all you have to do is look at the evening news and you can tell who's winning and who's losing.

No, it depends on which station you turn on.

Of course, our message is out there and people are agreeing with us very often.

But the mainstream media, that must be the only thing that the members of Congress look at.

Because if it's out there, it seems like whatever they say, they'll do it.

So that's a problem because the war continues.

But I noticed a shift in some of the news coming out and there is that all of a sudden they're emphasizing that this is a defensive war.

And a speaker who's second on line to be president makes the case.

It's a defensive war and he goes on and on.

Here's a little statement made about the House Speaker Mike Johnson is defending the Trump administration's military actions against Iran's.

As necessary in assets arguing that the strikes do not require prior congressional authorization.

He characterized the operation as limited and legal under presidential authority.

But he didn't add, but it's not moral.

And there's a technicality there overlooking to call that the legal war after the fact.

But they're right on one thing by the House in the Senate.

It was politically speaking, it gives the pro-war people some cover.

Because if they were against the war, they were against this money.

But they continue to vote for the money.

And of course that's a distortion of what the law is.

They can say there's a law that's controversial and you can read it different ways.

And they can forget.

They never say, I know we're very circumventing and we're not obeying the Constitution.

But under these circumstances that's what they're saying to themselves.

It's a shame what's going on there.

But I think this whole thing about it's a defensive war.

There was a clip on a television today.

It said that, you know, Iranians all they want to do is kill Americans.

That's that's that's serious.

You have to do something about that.

Why are they killing American?

Why did we go how many thousand miles away from our home?

Do let's and want to metal in their affairs and somebody gets off with us.

Well, you know, it doesn't make any sense to me that if you go looking for war, you get trouble.

But you could argue, Daniel, that yeah, it's bending the rules a little bit.

But it's so important that we do these wars to spread democracy and spread liberty.

And just look how much good we, oh no, I can't say that.

How much good have we done, you know, with these little wars that are big wars in the last decades?

It makes no sense whatsoever for me to see the American people endorsing this.

And yet, I believe that those numbers aren't real strong.

And it's just amazing that the Congress doesn't respond to some of that polling.

But I have a suspicion that maybe that has a religious element to promote this war regardless.

Yeah, absolutely.

Well, you know, the interesting thing about doing this, and we remember it from the Iraq war,

but it's even more pronounced now because we really do have more of an independent media available.

Back then, the alternative media was Fox or something like this.

It was the non-three networks, but they now have become the mainstream media.

And you have to really go digging and getting increasingly difficult.

Even on X, the algorithms are burying a lot of things.

So you're going to have people that will look at our headline and say you guys are out of your mind.

In fact, we, one of the comments right now when we're live on X is basically stop the fear mongering Dr. Paul.

But the fact of the matter is, if you rely on the mainstream media, you're going to get the same.

And you mentioned that this morning when we were talking in your office, the war is going great.

We are winning.

We are knocking out so many of their missiles and so many of their buildings, they're going to cry uncle.

And of course it does remind me of the story that you always tell from the Vietnam war.

We never lost a battle, but that is irrelevant.

That's it.

But that is the case.

And so obviously the objective was a fast quick win.

We take them out.

They say uncle, we put in a new government.

It's just like Venezuela.

Well, as a lot of people warned, it's not going like Venezuela.

And even Venezuela probably won't go like Venezuela.

But we put this first clip on this is hedge, which has a good sort of roundup of what's going on in support of the thesis, which I think we both shared, Dr. Paul, which is this war is expanding.

It's getting out of control.

The destruction is far beyond what we were told we'd be seeing.

And so here's zero hedge.

Zero hedge, Iran war going more international as EU ratchet response.

Tehran's missile cities a threat.

Trump told Axios in an interview Thursday he needs to be personally involved in selecting Iran's next leader, just as he was in Venezuela.

The Illusional at least 1,230 Iranians have been killed since Saturday in actions increasingly described as a regime chains operation as the war widens into Lebanon.

Golf targets pounded and even Azerbaijan sees first Iranian drone strike.

And 36 hundreds of million sides are damaged.

Iran says and more missiles on Dubai.

Go to the next one.

Here's a couple more bullet points worth looking into.

Last night, disturbing Lee on a procedural vote, the Senate voted 53 to 47 to block an effort to limit Trump's operation epic fury following the campaign to continue.

I did not look at the vote.

I suspect it's centered a poll voted the right way and probably was the only one, but that's just my feelings.

Anyway, White House hopes for a quick victory fade.

You won't get that on Fox.

They fade as it widens geopolitically and economically with U.S. allies weighing involvement.

NATO intercepting a missile heading toward Turkey.

The evacuation operations underway across the region, European countries send naval assets to Cyprus.

Italy sends defensive equipment in the wake of Iranian-made drone attacks on U.S. base.

Iran's missile cities are a threat, but Wall Street Journal says U.S. in Israeli more planes and armed drones are circling.

Just almost done here, U.N. says 20,000 seafarers and 15,000 passengers are stuck in the Gulf as the State Department and others initiate evacuation plans.

And the Israeli military says it knocks out 300 Iranian ballistic missile launchers, but Tel Aviv also got pummeled last night as many projectiles made it through.

And to emphasize that last one, Dr. Paul, I do have three video clips.

The first two are what happened over Tel Aviv.

Now you will not see this on Fox News.

And in fact, with the censorship of the Israeli government, you won't even see it on X because they are arresting people, but there are a couple that got through.

If you can, we're going to do the first two are Tel Aviv, but then the last one is Tehran, which also got hit really hard.

But watch this. These are two interceptors you're seeing on the right.

They're up there to try to take out this missile, which evaded and hit Tel Aviv.

Let's watch this for just a second.

50, 50, 50.

Why?

What?

Now let's do that second one.

This isn't supposed to happen.

This, the Iron Dome is supposed to stop.

Please, let's hit that second video.

And then we'll do the third one after, sorry, for this long section, Dr. Paul.

This is another one. This is Tel Aviv taking a hard hit.

It's like, Tehran, Dr. Paul, there was some serious carpet bombing.

I can just do that third one really quick.

Serious carpet bombing of Tehran.

It looked to be almost indiscriminate.

It looks like they're trying to turn it into a Gaza.

Let's just watch a little bit of this.

What?

It's a popular optic, Dr. Paul.

That's a city of 11 million, 11 million residents.

So anyway, we don't have to watch more of it just to know that this war is not going as it's being portrayed on the US television.

You know, I wanted to do another quote from Johnson, because he's annoyed me.

Yeah.

The last couple days.

That's for sure.

And from that speech that he gave, he says, he was indicating no authorizations are needed.

As a constitutional authority, Johnson argues that because the actions are defensive and limited in scope,

they do not constitute a formal declaration of war requiring a congressional vote.

It's almost like amending the Constitution.

That's pretty simple.

And this whole idea that the Iranians are trying to kill American.

Well, if somebody was doing this to us, don't you think it would be it?

But it seems like they got it twisted around.

How can they justify this?

It's all defensive.

And we had to go a long way to become offensive.

But that's the way it's been going on.

So I'm always looking for the positive.

That's hope.

A few people wake up and take a close look at what's going on because it could have been,

and then there's going to be a vote in the House.

And it's not going to go.

Today, actually, yeah, today.

Yeah.

It's not going to go well because the people who are going to, the members of Congress have been intimidated.

And I don't even believe this.

I believe there's quite a few in there that are uncomfortable voting for this war and this money, especially.

And whatever you're just a monetary financial conservative, how much is it going to spend any money on this stuff?

Billions already.

And this idea, well, this is just going to last a couple of weeks.

But they never have to eat their words.

It seems like they get away with it.

It takes about 10 or 20 years of this.

People say, well, enough is enough.

I'm bringing a troop home.

But I just wish we had the facilities and the support for altering this course.

But it's been bad.

It's certainly not what was designed for us by our Constitution and declaring our independence not to be able to go this many miles away.

Yeah, a couple of things based on what you just said.

The first one, and this is what you always say, it's going to be, it's a lot harder now for any member of Congress to vote to bring the troops home because the troops are out there in the field.

And that's by design, I think.

They don't want to have a vote before the war.

They want to wait till they're there and say, well, we can't do that.

I think that's the argument that Democrats are using right now.

We can't deserve the troops.

Yeah, exactly.

That's like the DioCov.

How convenient.

Yeah.

Where are the progressives when we need them?

Yeah, where are they?

Not many left.

But as to the other one, I would hope that our military defended us if we were attacked like Iran was attacked.

It was a sneak attack like after, you know.

So we need, like, if that happened to us, I would hope that we would be out there, you know, bruising the enemy as much as possible.

You know, but they wanted to forget the part that we attacked first.

And I think that the differences in diplomacy and how things can work out compared to the missiles of October 62.

Yeah.

If they actually talked to each other and they actually believed that their conversation meant something.

But now you hear rumors within and under administration.

You know, you don't even know if the administration is on the same page.

But I'm not sure what the story is, but I don't think the procrastination and the justification is not anything new for this administration.

And of course what people will say is all wrong.

It was an imminent threat.

And you know, I think Speaker Johnson said it too.

It's been an imminent threat for 47 years.

Yeah.

What was the reason?

Yeah.

And that's not quite an imminent threat if it took 47 years, right?

But he's twisting the Constitution and you're right.

He's saying it's not a war.

Whereas President Trump and his cabinet are saying it is a war.

So maybe we should have a Constitution.

Oh, we do already.

Here's a couple more things from the hedge because I think there's a couple important things.

And again, this is you have to read between the lines because you're not going to get it from General Kellogg on Fox News telling you how wonderful things are going.

Some of the most important latest developments at the Pentagon as well as sent-com headquarters come from fresh reporting from Politico.

Now, this is an indication that things aren't going well.

The Trump administration is scrambling to manage the fallout of the Iran war.

The Pentagon is requesting additional intelligence officers for at least 100 days suggesting the war could last for far longer than the initially suggested four week timeline.

Officials say planning was limited.

There's talk of quote through September.

State Department source said too few people were ready on the war plans which showed evacuation preparations and travel alerts which slowed them throughout the region critics say the response looked improvised with one former US diplomat calling it quote a completely ad hoc operation like they woke up on Saturday and decided to start a war.

That's how it looked to us too didn't it there was no planning there's no there's no explanation there's no attempt to explain it to the American people it is like they woke up and said okay let's do it.

Some of them are getting their duties extended.

When I was in the air force of where people had been redrafted they were in World War II but they were redrafted for Korea.

He goes on and on just because they're volunteers so to speak who knows what kind of pressures on some of these people to have to go into the military.

But I think that's you know a fallacy to think that that you know that they were signed up for two years and I'm going to leave unless there's some problems unless we've started another war yeah well look at those poor men and women on the forward they've been out for what 10 months or so they're almost supposed to be out for four or five months they've had been extended extended extended you don't see your family.

You got a newborn you don't even see him or her till she's walking this is really hard and the reason the military does this is because this is how families break up you know this is there are lots a lot of fallout.

You know I was thinking about the draft we so called don't have the draft but what if you join a state organization to be you know a national guard not even a national guard to be a military person to protect your state.

Well they they were called up they didn't expect that they would be called up and send over to the that was going on a lot of people going on happy with they were called up and they were reserved as they were supposed to be reserved in case somebody attacked us but that wasn't a case.

Yeah they spend many many years over there well here's a couple of other things that I picked and this is still from that but I'm going to have a couple of other backing things just to show that things are not going according to plan.

So I know nobody wants to hear that but it's a fact and here's another example of the expansion if you go to that next one most importantly something to really pay attention to the conflict has come to Azerbaijan for the first time.

Iranian drone strikes injured two people and damaged the terminal building of an airport near the Iran Azerbaijan border which marks the first time attack on Azerbaijan territory since the war began.

Now there is something more that happened in Azerbaijan that's actually even more ominous and doesn't vote well again the US is doing a good job and sort of the Israelis of of leveling of turning Tehran into Gaza but there's a different war that's happening while no one's paying attention go to that next clip now this is the islander who I do follow on X and I recommend people follow as well.

But the other thing that happened Dr. Paul is that Iran attacked the Baku to Blesi Sehan pipeline it runs through Georgian territory now you can see that map it runs through Georgian territory carrying Azerbaijan accrued across the Caucasus to the Turkish Mediterranean coast it was struck by drones that pipeline supplies 30% of Israel's oil.

So as the islander keep that up if you can please as the islander says Iran didn't close the straight and stop there it is now methodically severing every energy artery feeding the coalition that bombed it working outward from the Gulf across the region into the Caucasus toward the Mediterranean this is beyond retaliation it's a calculated siege Iran strategy is rationing carefully escalating energy pain.

In the sequence working outward from the straight to the Gulf so again as as Tehran's getting pummeled Iran is cutting off oil supplies to Israel it's either destroyed or damaged every U.S. base in the region and our carrier groups are pulling further and further out so things are happening that the media is not really reporting on.

There was one individual I don't know his name but he was in the administration he said we were a little bit surprised that this would be an oil issue and I think the president you know he said something along those lines we're surprised at the fact that start a war over there and when you think when you look at that map and look at the stress of her moves and all this stuff and it wouldn't affect the oil prices you follow what was the price of a gas should lead today.

I mean it's not a little it was two eighty nine yesterday now it's two seventy nine for unleaded so it's but it's still up there it was two nineteen before the started now there's pain at the pump there's definitely well he could go higher I yeah very soon it could well here's another I just have a few more things about why it's not going as well now this is reported this is a post what I've seen reported elsewhere that there are a lot of tensions now within the administration doctor Paul war secretary Pete hegseth and state department states secretary of state Marco Rubio

reportedly at each other's throats over deploying U.S. troops to Iran that look tells it all I think if you are viewing this rather than listening according to a source for Middle East I Rubio is opposed to sending American troops into Iran and fears a protracted engagement while hegseth is supportive of a potential deployment again anyone looking at a topographic map of Iran would realize that Rubio is a little bit sane here and hegseth is complete

instantly insane but here's another one the government has the White House has relisted has released a new set of objectives go to that next one they're making it up as they go doctor Paul but I'll go back I'll go back one please but now their new objectives are completely different remember it's it is regime change it's not regime change it's nuclear weapons it's not nuclear weapons well this is completely different now

destroy their missiles and raise their missile industry to the ground annihilate their navy

uh... insure the regime's terrorist proxies can no longer destabilize the region and world and attack our forces and no longer use ied's et cetera

and insure that iran can never obtain a nuclear weapon which we thought that operation midnight hammer had insured that but unfortunately I suppose it didn't so anyway

uh... you have

the cabinet secretary's are fighting

the white houses desperately trying to reframe the goals of the war because they didn't frame the pep properly in the first place

and while this is all happening doctor paul

go to that next clip

polling is showing an absolute decline

uh... this is a not recent national poll by interactive polls

president trump's approval rating is down to two thirty five percent the lowest rating of his term

want only uh... three and ten approve of the strikes on iran

less than uh... uh... twenty five percent would improve would approve of boots on the ground

uh... in iran so the american public is definitely not for this war and they're increasingly turning sour on president trump

you know sometimes things don't work out as they pretend or they're misled or or they're dreaming

in one of this is this new stuff

and you know there's been time not too long ago

where uh... it came at least to me came across

that there might be a door open slightly maybe but at least talking about it and working in a direction

but everything we have done now in this last year

or maybe even longer

it's increased the odds of

they haven't they have really a justification for having a nuke

because they're surrounded by how many how many of ours

are weapons and and uh... how much are they surrounded by and that they they have as much

as justification as anybody else

even though uh...

i you know there was a time in the in the reggae years there were some

movement in the right directions where there was

and they were dealing with with the sobias and the sobias now look like uh...

they made more sense than some other people i know yeah

well nobody is talking about a regime change against kim jong un right

because he has he has uh... you know but uh... he has nuclear weapons that can reach the us

so that's the message and that's probably a message that iran is going to get

because despite what the propaganda here says we've talked about it

on the show before uh... it will accompany

was not a hard liner he was actually a relative moderate

now his son who's apparently been

elected to replace him as closer to the revolutionary guards and is known as a more

hard liner he may

uh... he may do away with the thought while it says no nuclear weapon

understanding that that's the only thing that will that will guarantee the

survival of the state you know so this is this is a

problem that the u.s. has created you know making them want to get a nuclear

weapon yeah

did the opposite yeah the opposite so but they didn't think that through

but i think uh... their goals aren't admitted to and they don't they don't

tell you exactly who's pulling the strings

ten and uh... negotiating or insisting on what trump does

yeah he has he has some pressures that he has to deal with

and uh... that i think has a lot to do with this mess

no absolutely um... now we're getting a little close on time do you think we should

skip over to the third uh... thing we're going to do about the trouble yeah this

is interesting this is psychology yeah it is psychology go to that clip

white house says u.s. launched war with iran we're gonna skip a few of those

other ones where there's just so much to cover here

um... i know we've got

we'll get here we go now this is david camp wrote this up

uh... but uh... i do have a video of her saying this but white house says u.s.

launched war with iran because trump had a feeling they were going to attack

white house press secretary carol and levit set on Wednesday the u.s. launched

the war because trump had a feeling that errone forces were going to attack first

i don't know about that oh well maybe he has access to some fancy

technology that is superior to feelings or something

he gets his feelings from something else but i think maybe that tells us a

whole lot i feel like i'm going to shoot somebody today to bar i

decide to go off with him yeah exactly that sounds like trump you can be

president but it is crazy but you know the first thing that i thought i know

you did too is well that's why the framers that's why the founding of our

country where so had so much wisdom people like

like maddening's madison because they didn't want to have a system where

a monarch kid get up and have some feelings and take us to war based on his

feelings that's why we have a congress that has to

declare war you know and this is a perfect example it's this emergency

stuff and the uh... war powers resolution is just confused it to a degree

and it did it but but the bottom line is the distortion i mean if you had a

little bit more respect for you know the natural law

and you should be lying you shouldn't you know distort what was intended

and they know they're doing this because you hear you hear the

people who are opposed to what we talk about non-interventions policy

they they really do deny that part of the constitution that way they're

misled and i i think there was some of the other day talking about a

constitutional convention coming from the left that's the kind of thing they

want to clarify that they're not like the president you would have a lot

more power go to war when he plays it all this obstruction with those

libertarians every once in a while you get libertarians in a

congress and pointing out that that you're supposed to look at this stuff

you know it's not there they it's a mess yeah there they

well this next one this is from the same article now i clip this one dr.

Paul because it shows that they cannot get their story straight as to why they

launched this war on saturday morning if you do that next clip here

um president from a similar comments a day earlier when he was asked about

Marco Rubio who said the one reason we launched the war is because

israel was planning to attack president denied that idea uh the idea that the

US attack because of iran mean because of israel's plans suggesting that he

may have forced israel's hand because he thought iran was going to attack

first um but that Pentagon told congress that there's no indication that the

Pentagon that the iran was planning to attack

and then on Wednesday he came up with a new reason for starting the war

making the clearly false claim that if he didn't attack iran could have

acquired a nuclear weapon within two weeks

despite his insistence that the june air strikes of last year obliterated

the program he said if we didn't hit within two weeks

they would have had a nuclear weapon which is blatantly false

but he didn't say it anyway so he can't he can't get straight in his

administration can't get straight why they started the

biggest war probably since the first Gulf War it's not Vietnam it's good that

this got into the press yeah you know it wasn't like it was hidden and denied

and all that and the uh the weird thing is is

when you have this killing and bombing people uh in the uh the neo-cons sort of

compete for my ideas are better because we can kill people uh

less cost you know and they argue dumb things never

the justification from a war point of view or the constitution

they just want to go when they have ulterior motives there's no doubts about

everything from profiteering and and what else in religious beliefs

that's motivated a lot of people to be involved in that area of the world

yeah absolutely well i'm going to close out now where we probably could go for

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