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In the world of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

It's the David Knight Show.

As the clock strikes 13, it's Thursday, the 5th of March, your of our Lord 2000-26.

Well, Trump is the blockchain president, folks, and I'm not talking about only crypto.

We know he loves crypto and he's making a lot of money off of it personally, but he

is again blocking supply chains.

As he did in the lockdown in 2020, as he did last year with tariffs, he's not 3D chess,

he's 3C chess, chaos, conflict and collapse.

The problems in the straight of her moves are leaving the world in dire straits, over

not just oil, but over all supplies.

Trump has assured the shippers that the U.S. Navy would protect the ships, and what could

be seen as him not even having confidence in his pronouncements.

He offered to ensure the ships just in case the Navy couldn't do it.

The Navy has now said there's no escorts available.

It puts them in literally a very tight spot to maneuver if they get into the straight

of her moves, and it really increases the risk to the lives and the ships of the Navy.

How do you ever think about what he was doing with any of this stuff?

But of course, he did think about what he was doing with regulatory capture.

We're going to take a look at what's going on with the FDA regulatory capture, and especially

with glyphosate.

So let's begin with the dire straits that he's putting the world in now, yet again.

Whether it's trade policies or the COVID-19 nonsense that he's doing, this always goes

back to locking everything down and creating chaos and collapse.

So the biggest shipper, Merisk out of Denmark, has now halted cargo bookings across the

Gulf.

As we said, it's 20% of the world's oil, but there is a lot of other things that are

being impacted by this as well.

It's not just the stuff that's going into the Middle East, but it's just transiting that

area.

So they've suspended cargo booking acceptance across much of the Persian Gulf region.

An operational update issued on Tuesday, the Danish container shipping company said it's

temporarily suspending cargo bookings in and out of the UAE, Oman, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar,

Iran, and parts of Saudi Arabia until further notice.

They're allowing exceptions for critical food medicine and other essential goods, but

they're adding that the situation remains, quote, highly volatile.

That's a diplomatic way to put it.

It's actually hit the fan.

The disruption extends far beyond the well.

The pharmaceuticals from India are affected, semiconductors from Asia, petrochemical products

like fertilizer and plastics produce in the Middle East all we lie on shipping routes

that pass through the region.

Cargo ships are now either stuck inside the Persian Gulf or rerouting thousands of miles

around Africa, dramatically extending delivery times and of course fuel charges.

And if this doesn't get cleared up, you're going to see big increases in fuel charges

everywhere.

This is really causing some major impacts within the global supply chain.

Shipping data from Clarkson's research institute estimates about 3,200 vessels, roughly 4% of

global shipping tonnage are currently idle inside the Persian Gulf.

Great job, Donnie.

Epic folly, isn't it?

I don't think that's what guard Goldsmith's Liberty Conspiracy called it, but they're

going to see some epic fuel charges as well, I think.

Another 500 ships are waiting outside the Gulf near ports off the coast of the UAE and

Oman.

Even relatively small disruptions can cascade through global logistics networks.

The supply chain is kind of like a long train with a lot of cars, said the general manager

of C-A-R-U containers.

If one car gets derailed, it can very often have a domino effect to many others.

So in other words, as I said, he's the president blocked the chain, the supply chain, and

we saw this happening with a foolish lockdowns that he pushed on everybody in 2020.

But this is literally, as he's pointing out, the Trump regime, folks, is literally

a train wreck, especially when it comes to supply chains.

And it's time for people to get off the Trump train for good, for our own good.

Maris said it was also rerouting some cargo already in transit to temporary storage locations

within or near the region to prevent bottlenecks at major ports.

Remember how this all got bunched up?

And when they finally started opening some things, remember how bunched up everything

was in LA and other places trying to handle the backlog of all this stuff?

Truly is insane.

And he keeps doing it.

The man doesn't know anything.

Or he is deliberately an agent of chaos.

And I kind of lean slightly towards option number two.

I think he's pretty stupid, but I think he's also an agent of chaos by design.

So for shipments already loaded, but not yet booked, but not yet loaded, the company

is urging customers to explore alternative ports or to routes outside the affected ones.

Air freight networks are also under pressure because several countries in the region have

closer air space, forcing airlines to cancel or to reroute flights.

Although air freight represents less than 1% of global cargo by volume, it accounts for

about 35% of global trade value because high value goods like pharmaceuticals, electronics,

and perishables rely on fast delivery.

So it is a mess anyway you slice this thing.

The reduced flight capacity is already pushing up costs.

And then if they're going to take detour routes, if they're going to go around the tip

of Africa, the longer routes are going to add time as well as fuel charges and higher

costs.

The shipping companies are increasingly avoiding the Middle East altogether.

Mariske and other carriers are rerouting vessels around the Cape of Good Hope and Southern

Africa, a detour that can add 10 to 14 days to shipping times.

And roughly $1 million in additional fuel costs per voyage.

And that's with the current fuel cost.

Because if this persists, the fuel costs are going to go up significantly.

Everybody went up significantly in anticipation, but then the Trump administration comes out,

there's no problem, no problem.

First of all, we'll protect you with an avian then.

If we can't protect you, we'll ensure you who gets to pay for that.

We'll like it's put on the national credit card that all of us will be paying for at some

point in time.

And then when you have somebody doesn't want to participate with this madness that he's

involved in, like Spain, they don't want to join the war, well, Trump goes back to his

not geopolitics, but his ego politics.

And he keeps using this one tool that he seems to think that he's got, you know, he's got

one tool, a hammer, right?

He's going to hammer people with the tariffs.

And so everybody looks like a nail.

And now Spain actually said that we can't use their bases and that's how we don't, we

could use that basic way what we could just fly in and use it.

Yeah.

Just invade Spain next.

But we don't have to, but they were unfriendly.

And so we don't want to, Spain has absolutely nothing that we need other than great people.

They have great people.

We have great people, right?

As a matter of fact, it was Jeffrey Sachs who was talking about the Trump administration

said, what an epic failure this guy is.

And he called him, the administration called him a gangster administration, which is what

I've been saying.

I said, he's a mafia don.

That's the only thing you understand is because that's the environment in which he grew

up.

He grew up in New York City with wheeling and dealing in that center of organized crime

at the top of it, certainly if you look at the people and the movers and shakers there.

But yeah.

And then literally in the casino industry, this guy lived in the mafia world.

And that's the way he interacts with everybody.

The specific situation that's happening is pretty unprecedented, they said.

But the industry has been dealing with disruption for years now.

Yeah.

Since Trump did this stuff, right?

The lockdowns, the tariffs, now the war, disruption after disruption after disruption.

And I guess there's your 3D chess, right?

You do the disruption three times.

So yeah, it's all because of Trump, you know, Trump really can't make up his mind.

The guy is totally two-faced.

I thought this was pretty good.

Somebody did with AI, they replaced, remember the argument that Zelensky had with Trump

in the Oval Office?

And what they did was they replaced Zelensky with Donald Trump.

So the Trump is arguing with Trump.

You're right now not in a very good position.

You can't be a very hard thing to do.

You're gambling with World War III, you're gambling with World War III, the American people

to see what's going on.

So yeah, what would you say if you could talk to your younger self, like a year ago or

whatever, right?

Well, that's where we are right now, the Trump precedents.

And insurers are keeping ships away from the straight-of-war moves.

They're not buying Trump's guarantees.

Just south of the straight-of-war moves, marine maps show what looks like a traffic jam,

dozens of ships clustered near each other.

Beyond the straight and the Persian Gulf, there's another snarl of maritime, perhaps the

straight-of-war moves, which is 20% of the world's oil passes through in natural gas.

It is now more dangerous than it has been for decades.

It's already affected oil prices and global shipping.

Now they're recovered because of the tweets that Trump put out on his Ministry of Truth

Social.

He's making promises.

You think about it, he's writing promissory notes that he can't cash.

But that was all the market needed.

You know, this is the way the markets.

That's why I can't be an investor in the stock market, because it's just, I can't get

my mindset into the way these people are, it's such a herd mentality.

They hear something and it's like, oh, okay, that's good, that'd be good if that's true.

So it's all pretend that's going to be true.

And they react to that and then they keep reacting to it for a little while and then

they start to really wait a minute.

That's not true.

And of course it couldn't be true from the very beginning.

So then they overreact in the opposite direction.

The fools all rush in and then the fools all rush out and that's the way the market flows

and then you add to that a large level of manipulation that is there to fool the fools.

So for global shipping, the straight-of-form is the only route out of the Persian Gulf

is as important as the Suez Canal.

And the canal has reached some problems, offer a taste of what's to come.

In November 2023, Uthi Rebels attacked the Galaxy leader, a ship traversing the Red Sea,

which began a series of attacks.

By February 2024, container traffic in the Suez Canal had plunged by 82%.

Suez had recently begun to recover, only to hit now by turbulence from this new war

that Trump has put out.

Now a similar fate has struck the straight-of-form moves right on a run-store step.

So again, you have a situation like Suez Canal when there's violence and people are

avoiding it.

It takes a while for the stuff to get back and then when you're talking about the ports

that are there, once traffic starts moving, you've got this massive backlog and bottleneck

of stuff as well.

Meanwhile, you have the Lloyds has said, the big insurer has said that they've been told

that the US Navy tells industry officials what industry would that be shipping and insurance.

Because industry officials, there is no availability for naval escorts.

The Trump talked to anybody before he put this stuff out on Truth, Ministry of Truth

Social.

Yeah.

He just makes this stuff up.

It's like his reaction to the killings by ICE in Minneapolis and Kristi Nome's reaction

to it as well.

They don't bother to even look at a video.

They don't bother to pick up the phone and say, you know, hey, can we get some escorts

out there?

Well, Mr. President, if we were to put our ships in the straight-of-form moves, we would

be in dire straits and at great, great risk we can't do that, Mr. President.

That would risk the fleet or whatever, right?

He doesn't bother to do that.

Instead, he makes this pronouncement.

The markets react to it as if that's for real.

And now they're finding out that it's not going to be for real.

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So is the world headed for another energy crisis as kick-co?

Well, that's a rhetorical question, of course.

And when we look at what happened the last time, this has the potential to be much, much

bigger than the OPEC oil embargo, as I pointed out many times, you know, the OPEC oil embargo

when that happened was directed only at the United States because we had supported Israel.

It was not directed at Europe or the rest of the world, but only at the United States.

And we only imported 19% of our oil.

20% of the oil today goes through the straight of her moves.

If you were to shut that down, that'd be 20% of the global supply, not 19% of the U.S.

And so it is a potential much, much bigger event than the OPEC oil embargo,

the Trump oil embargo, we should say, or Trump blocking the chain of supply.

Meanwhile, Scott Besson said, don't worry, everything's fine.

We got a series of announcements to stabilize well, and we're going to have 15%

tariffs kick in next week.

So there you go, problem solved.

Tariffs are the answer to everything, didn't you know that?

Especially if your tax and spend Democrat, I imagine Scott Besson is as well.

He gave money to high-profile Democrats in the past.

He worked for George Soros.

It's funny, you got the Trump administration as I pointed out yesterday.

The very first thing they did was to punish some law firms because they had connections to Soros,

or they had a lawyer who, when he was not working at the law firm, but then later went to work

for the law firm, had gotten involved in the election disputes on the opposite side of Trump.

And so he wants to punish that.

I mean, you just have Soros as a client, and he wants to put you out of business.

These big law firms with hundreds of lawyers.

But if you were Soros' partner in terms of breaking the Bank of England as Scott Besson was,

that's fine, I'll make you treasury secretary.

Maybe you can break the Bank of America, not Bank of America with the Federal Reserve.

I hope he does.

I'd like to see that go.

Of course, there's going to be consequences for that as well.

But Trump's 15% global tariff will take effect sometime this week, said Besson.

And just to remind everybody, it was after Trump lost at the Supreme Court and rightfully so,

then he imposed in a tariff tantrum.

He imposed a 10% tariff on the world.

I'll show them.

And then within 24 hours, he bumped it up to 15%.

The guy is, as I said, taco.

But it really should stand for us.

Trump is always capricious and odious.

He's always changing orders.

I think capricious and odious is probably the best way to, you know,

to do it.

Is somebody please going to impeach this guy or use the 25th amendment as crazy as he is?

Whatever you do, just get him out, please.

But Besson confirmed that the new rate would be introduced sometime this week and remain

in place for 150 days.

It's my strong belief he said the tariff rates will be back to their old rate within five months.

Global energy markets, meanwhile, have been highly volatile since the Iran war.

Whoa, what'd you expect?

With crude oil and natural gas prices rocketing on fears of supply disruptions,

the president calmed the oil market down on March 3rd with a phony

pronouncement on ministry of truth social.

Again, we're going to escort ships and protect all the ships.

And then we'll pay for everything that gets destroyed.

And of course, that part will happen.

That'll be added to the exploding debt.

Trump said the White House would offer naval escorts and guaranteed political risk insurance

for commercial oil and gas tankers traveling through the Strait of Hormuz.

Now notice, it still doesn't do anything about all the rest of the products that are backlogged

and blocked going through there.

It's still going to be incredibly disruptive and incredibly

not just disruptive, but it's going to be hurting a lot of businesses all up and down the supply

chain. It is a train wreck. The Trump train is a train wreck.

So again, he can't protect these tankers that are going through the Strait of Hormuz.

But he can't blow up the deficit again, just like he did with the COVID war,

along with the tankers that are going to get blown up.

So again, everything that the man does has been stupid and destructive.

So when we look at this thing, it's stopped here.

Sorry. Again, the Lloyds Fund said there are no escorts available.

The cavalry is not coming, folks. You're on your own.

So the US Benchmark, which is West Texas Intermediate, fell by a half a percent.

So in other words, not much of a change. People didn't really buy into what he was saying

that heavily. As a matter of fact, we look at the international benchmark, which is the

Brent crude. That remained unchanged. So Trump's pronouncement, don't worry. We'll protect all

the ships and we'll ensure you if we fail at that. Didn't even move the international market price

of oil. People don't believe it. I didn't believe it. All prices retreated after news that the US

will ensure safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz, they said, a half a percent.

Easing fears of a major global surprise shock. Market watchers had worn the risk of all prices

reaching $100 were very high if the narrow waterway were closed for an extended period.

The precious Dow Jones industrial, remember that was the response. Why are you giving me so much

grief about this pedophile network connected to the same people who gave us this war?

Masad and the CIA, the same people who gave us this war, folks, gave us the Epstein pedophile ring.

Think about that. I've seen some pictures as actually somebody hung up a sign on a overpass in

Boston said war crimes don't excuse pedophile crimes. But understand, both of these things are

coming from the same institutions. Masad and the CIA, that's what they do. That is their essence.

Wars, coups, a cultic mind control stuff, and of course coming after children,

focusing on them. And so I guess if the Dow Jones industrial drops below 50,000, can we then

investigate this? Well, of course not. She will never investigate this. And she knows where her

paycheck is coming from. We're going to take a quick break and we will be right back. By the way,

before we go, I've got a couple of comments that Travis has given me here.

Khan, thank you very much. Appreciate that. It says 10 million Mexicans on welfare in exchange for

Stephen Miller. It's not a fair deal. I don't think that Mexico will go for it. Well, again,

do we have to be on one of these two teams or the other? And it really is the welfare magnet.

That is the way that this should be approached. And the welfare magnet should not be there even

for legal immigrants, but it should be there for American citizens either. But let's just start

with the immigrants. You want to come here with the understanding that you're on your own. You

want to talk about the stature liberty and the Ellis Island experiment experience. Well,

that's what it was like. Many people came with nothing but the clothes on their back because they

wanted freedom, not free stuff. So let's go back to that. That's typical in most countries.

I mean, even in third world countries, like Belize, for example, I remember because I was looking

at one point in time after the, after Ruby Ridge and Waco and quick succession, I thought,

well, they're going to kick it off now. Things are going to get really bad pretty quickly.

And they slowed the pace down, but they're still heading the same direction. Anyway, I was

of a mind to try to get at least something else outside of the country. Venturi had decided

against it. I'm just too American. I don't fit in anywhere else. But the, even if you're going to

someplace like Belize, they would require that you have a certain amount of liquid assets and you

have to have it income as well and show that because they're not going to put you on welfare and

Belize. But we just tell everybody in the world, come here, we'll give you a free education,

we'll give you free everything. And if you come to the citizen or whatever, but you don't

have to become a citizen, you don't even have to go through any legal process. Just get in here

somehow and then everything is free. Could a being has gifted five subs on Rumble? Thank you very

much. I appreciate that. We'll be right back folks.

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Well, one person not worried about it. We're apparently is warpete. He is pumped up and excited.

I mean, people are dying everywhere. What could be more exciting than that? I just love

lethality, right? His lethality, Maxer. This guy who says that he's a Christian, hates peace.

He loves killing. Everything that he does is about going. I've seen some people on social media,

I've never, ever seen a Secretary of Defense or Secretary of War that talked so much about killing.

When you look at this, I remember the quote from Robert Lee, as he looked out over the battlefield,

they said, it's good that war is so horrible or we've become too fond of it. In other words,

there was this this poll of the game, if you will, right? Moving little soldiers around like you're

playing a game and the strategy game, the chess game of the war and that aspect of it.

But then the reality came home for him. I mean, he was there up close and personal. He wasn't

conducting this war from the other side of the world. He saw this stuff up close. We do war at a

distance. And Pete Hexeth has been able to distance himself pretty well against this stuff.

So the US, he says, is winning decisively against Iran and will achieve complete control of air

space within days. Then what? You said your goal is regime change. You can't change the regime

from the air. You really can't. And the other aspect of this that is starting to come home

is the attrition of ammunition. And as I point out before this all happened, Dan Cain that

shared the joint sheets of staff and many others were saying, we don't have enough anti-missile

missiles for this that we need and other aspects of that. And so in terms of the missile war

and things like that, there is essentially a depletion race, an arms race on the other side,

I guess, an arms build down as both sides are expanding ammunition. And nobody really knows because

the fog will warm because nobody knows exactly how many the other side has and they're not going

to tell you what they've got either, truthfully. So nobody knows who's going to run out of

missiles or interceptors first except that we need to have two to three times the number of

interceptors that they have of missiles. And so that is a factor that everybody's looking at.

So how long is this going to go on? If they're saying that it's going to go for four to five weeks,

now they're saying eight weeks. As you extend this and run it out, which is the way these things

typically go, but that does is start to lower the possibility that you were going to be able to

do this in a quick way and win it. Iran's missile capabilities have been drastically diminished

in the four days of fighting and the nation's top leadership positions remain vacant, he said.

Well, the big advantage that Iran has and all this is that they have spent a very long time

in terms of trying to decentralize things. Their missile batteries, for example,

operate more or less independently of each other, whereas we have centralized command and control.

Everything that we do is about complexity and it's about centralization. That does not serve us

well when it comes to politics. It really does not serve us well when it comes to war either.

Decapitation strike is much more damaging to us. For example, it's been reports and we don't have

enough time for this before. Tony joins us, but reports that a one of the attacks that was able

to get through took out communications network that was very central to a large region there,

central to the operation of these anti-missile systems. I've got that footage,

actually, Chefkin. Anybody see that footage of marine protesting the war? Only to have his arm

broken by a senator and the police? Yeah. As a matter of fact, why don't I put that on and we'll

get Tony on in a little bit here. The reason for this war, America does not want to fight this war

for Israel. Let's go. Come on. Let's go.

America does not want to sound as sudden as the war for Israel. Your inability to name that

showed you as emptiness as leaders. That's how much they appreciate your service, isn't it?

All this stuff is shunned. Thank you for your service.

And now go fight for Israel.

Oh my God. Oh my God.

Okay, well, we're going to take a break here. We're going to get Tony and what

Tony talked about this as well as what's going on with the economy and with the war. We'll be right back.

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Well, not joining us just yet is Tony Arterman, but he will be joining us.

We're having some problems with audio. We're trying to work out whether it's on his side or

our side, but we had Tony set up to go, but we went to talk to him. We couldn't do it. I think he

doesn't know sign language. Wait until he got audio here. But let's continue talking a little

about Pete Hegseth. As I look at this guy, he's looking more and more like some delusional

Colonel Kurtz out of Apocalypse Now, where the original novel Heart of Darkness by Conrad,

he is just so into death and destruction. It truly is amazing. More bombers, more fighters are

arriving just today. He said, and now complete control of the skies. We'll be using 500 pound,

1,000 pound, 2,000 pound laser guided precision gravity bombs, of which we have nearly unlimited

stockpile. He said the US had used its more exquisite standoff munitions. He's talking about

quiet death. And how wonderful that is, you know, the torpedo strike, sinking ship,

and we have quiet death. We're going to rain death and destruction from above. This guy is a

true psychopath. And fixing their leaders and their military leaders, flying over to Ron,

flying over Iran, flying over their capital, flying over the RGC, Iranian leaders,

looking up and seeing only US and Israeli air power every minute of every day until we decide

it's over. And Iran will be able to do nothing about it. B2s, B52s, B1s, predator drones,

fighters controlling the skies, picking targets, death and destruction from the sky, all day long.

He likes that. That's for keeps. Our war fighters have maximum authorities granted

personally by the president and yours truly. Our rules of engagement are bold, precise,

and designed to unleash American power, not shackle it. This was never meant to be a fair fight.

And it is not a fair fight. We are punching them while they're down.

Yeah, we've seen you do that before. How it should be.

I've seen him do that before. Yeah, you punch people when they're down. When you blow up a ship

and you don't have the authority to do that or the reason or the morality or the legality,

no authorization for that. You go back and you murder those people. That's punching them when

they're down. This guy is, you know, he talks about mission, you know, we're always worried about

mission creep and everything. How about creeps on a mission? That's what we're seeing with

this guy. He doesn't understand what his mission is. His mission is, that's why he wants to change

it to war, right? He doesn't want to defend. A just military would be there to defend the

United States from attack and to try to neutralize the attacker if that were to happen. Instead,

he sees his mission as creating wars and killing people and he revels in that. It's disgusting

to see him do this. I had put on Twitter. I said, where are the people? They have a church plant

from Doug Wilson's church in Idaho that has been put in DC. And it's like, well, you got Pete

Hegseth coming there. And this is what you see frequently with celebrities who go to a particular

church or whatever. They don't usually get the kind of care and assistance and help that they

really need. Everybody diverse to them. As a matter of fact, there was a recent convert. I think

it was Jelly Roll. I saw his wife who had been a Christian and he was not and she helped him.

And then she was wise enough to say, all these people are looking up to us because we're celebrities.

I mean, he's had this horrible life in the past. And she said, you need to understand,

we're just baby Christians, right? We don't really have this all worked out. And people are so

deferential. It might be to the pastor or it might be to celebrity, especially to celebrity.

Or if you're going to go to Washington, DC and you got the Secretary of Defense coming to your

church, well, that we don't want to drive this guy away. Let's not criticize anything that he does

even when he needs criticism. The wounds of a friend are faithful, right? And so they need to

tell him this because this guy is getting so caught up in killing people. That is not following

Christ. I got to say that when I see what Pete Higgseth is doing, when I see what Huckabee is doing

and these other people, we have to speak out against this and say, that's not us.

And the same way that when I see what the what the federal government is doing,

have to say, that is not us and that is not the Constitution. These people don't follow Christ

or the Bible. Anymore, they follow the Constitution or even their own rules. Pete Higgseth

violated the Pentagon's own rules for war. He violated the Geneva Convention,

which is put up to try to minimize the brutality of war. So we still don't have Tony yet.

Okay, we're real close. Okay. Well, he's getting closer and closer. But meanwhile,

he was glaring also about the fact that they sunk a ship for the torpedo. And he says,

quiet death. This guy is a psychopath. What was not quiet was this kind of death where they're bombing

nine million civilians in Tehran. That's not such quiet death.

And what it reminds me of, again, as I said before, they used to be that

and countries that were based on Christian morality, we did not, we tried to spare civilian life.

And that's why they would have the kinds of rules of engagement,

another would wear uniforms and that type of thing. And it was considered to be a war crime

if you targeted civilians. And so you would get very harsh punishment, perhaps execution,

after the war was ended, if you did that type of thing and rightfully so. Unfortunately,

the Germans, the Nazis decided they would target London. And then we turned around and became

the monsters that we fought. We did that to Dresden. And then we did it to Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

And probably the destruction in Dresden was worse than the two nuclear bombs. And of course,

the first bomb that they did, Nagasaki, ground zero, was the only Christian church in the city.

And hardly any Christians in Japan, anyway, only about 1%. So let's vaporize them. I think we

got Tony ready to come on now. Tony, are you there? I'm here, sir. Great. Great to have you on.

Thank you. Sorry about the problems that we had. Glad we got that together. What do you make

of all this stuff? I mean, looking at the economy, I mean, what, you know, the stock market has been

reassured by Trump saying they're going to protect the ships and then ensure them as well.

Now the Navy has said we can't do that. We can't operate in that straight.

Well, these are wars of choice. That's first and foremost.

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war is the health of the state. And fiat currency is the lifeblood of that unconstitutional

and moral activity of the deep state. And we are inside of the death throes of the military

industrial complex, lurching out as the American Empire starts to rapidly decline. One of the headlines

that I always seem to find these headlines that should be front page everywhere, but

gold surpassed the dollars the world's reserve asset is held by central banks because of the price

of gold. Massive gold accumulation by the central banks over the past three years coupled with

the price increases has now surpassed the dollar. And I had to go verify that because it's not on

any major network anywhere and talk about that. So matter of fact, you know, what we saw was

over the weekend, Bitcoin started going up really quickly. I get these notifications on cash

app. It just went up by 5% then later that day. It went up by 5% again. So I was seeing it jump

making all these different jumps. Now I thought, well, I don't know what gold is doing, but of course

the markets that kind of close over the weekend for the most part. But it did go up significantly

at the beginning of the week. And then it started to move back down a little bit and still up

from where it was a week or two ago. But not as much as I thought it would be up. And so I guess

the question is, you know, what is going on? What is the mindset of these people? As you point it

out, war is a lifeblood of the state and the rather the fiat currency. War is the health of the

state or whatever. And the currency is the lifeblood. So maybe that's the mentality that war is

somehow good for the dollar. I just don't see that because I don't see the war is good for the

empire. Well, I think in the short term, that's what you're seeing. I think there's a bit of euphoria

on war profiteering, defense stocks, activity, money printing, when whenever there's a war,

which is, I guess, always now a perpetual war for perpetual peace. If we have that, then there's

going to be central bank currency injections. And we're going to continue to do that. That's

going to ramp up. So I think some of the stock market likes it when they print money.

It's not market likes that. Oh, that loves it. It feeds on. It's not, it's not about making

profit anymore. It's about creating currency and your proximity to the central bank. So yeah,

when this, this kicked off, I think there was a over the weekend, you saw gold from low five

thousands to 53, 5400 at some point. And then it's come back down somewhat. There was some profit

taking on on Monday. Yeah. No, but we're, this is short term. What you really need to watch

your couple of things. One, the central bank holdings, that's surpassing the dollar. And then

the price of crude oil, price of crude oil jumped, like it's from 61 at the beginning of February

to $77 for a barrel of crude. And I think that's only going to, I think it got up to 85 at some

point. I think it's come back. That's where it is today. Yeah. The futures went up to past 80.

And it's down at 77 as of this this morning. I'm just watching that very closely because that's

going to, that's going to determine a lot here in the, the next couple of months. And I think

all bets are off. It's tough to say exactly what's going to happen with, with pricing. But we've

never, this has never really happened before. We just launched a major war without any real lead-up

or any real warning. There's no debate. There's no, there's no leadership. There's no leadership.

It's like, I have this stuff. And it's like, well, I don't know if we got enough ammunition for

this war and that. And I don't really care what happens to the shipping markets when they close

off the straight to her moves. They're reacting to this stuff. And it's like, didn't you guys think

about this before? Evidently not. And that's why when I looked at it, I would, why I'm surprised

that gold hasn't gone sky high because I'm looking at what happened with the OPEC oil embargo.

And we all know what that kicked off. This massive inflation actually, stagflation and gold went

through the ceiling with that eventually. But I guess I'm getting ahead of things. You're thinking

too much. I'm looking at the trend down the line. It's like, okay, I don't see how they're going to,

I haven't seen the US have the wisdom to get in and get out on any of these wars. The kidnapping,

a Maduro really wasn't a war. And so I don't really know what they're going to do if they want to do

regime change. You know, what's that going to look like? And of course, then as well it was just

the US government's operation. This is Israel. We're doing this for Israel. And they want to eradicate

Iran just like they want to eradicate Gaza. So I don't see this as being a short term thing.

And if it goes long term, it's going to go in the way of the OPEC oil embargo in terms of

just the economics of it. And so that's why I'm looking at this and thinking, why aren't people buying gold

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Well, you can see some of the other corresponding moves that the bricks

nations are making. As a matter of fact, I talked about several times. I talked about how

significant it was that China is trying and I think succeeding in becoming the world's gold hub.

I mean, they're the largest producer of gold and hold, I mean, not necessarily holder of gold

on paper. We don't know exactly how much gold they have, but they've got the Shanghai exchange.

But more importantly, they're pushing this Hong Kong, not only exchange, but gold holding

place to store it as for international hub. And they've got, they want to get like 2,000 metric

tons over there. They're going for this is the long-term thinking that the Chinese are doing,

that others are doing. And we're just, you brought up a great point. There's no leadership.

What, what are, besides fighting, you know, on behalf of Israel, what are we doing?

That's right. And I don't think there is a plan. I think it's chaos for chaos sake at this point.

I agree. Really, there is no rhyme or reason. I think you brought up the fact that

when they're just assassinating these Iranian leaders, they're taking out moderates or people

that they might succeed, right? And they would replace them that they could deal with. They're just

killing. And first of all, you got a guy named Pete. I mean, he's just coming out and he's

killing killing people and getting excited about it. It really is truly disgusting. It's so,

as somebody who's served and has served in combat, I can't imagine myself speaking that way.

Yeah. You know, when you had this like this, especially, I wouldn't, I would have resigned.

I would have never, I would have never taken people to war over this. But I definitely,

that the, the hubris here, David, is staggering. And I mean, if you're betting, don't bet on this.

Like this is, you know, this is going to end badly. History does not bowed well for these

type of moves. And it's really sad to watch because, you know, we're, we're being druged along

with it. And, you know, kind of the, some of all fears, like stuff that you and I've been talking

about for years, and especially your criticism of Trump, all confirmed. Like this is completely,

like it, not that it hasn't been vindicated before, but this is so over the top. Like there's no

room anymore to try to justify or 40 chest this out or intentions or anything like this is

clearly the bifurcation point that you can, this separates everything. And I, you know, it's been

happening for a long time. But this, this, I think this was one of the, and you can see it in the,

the realm of influencers and others that are jumping off this ship. And they don't care, which is

probably the tell that something else is a foot because I don't think the administration or

the people in power care about their polling numbers or midterms or anything else. I think

we're way beyond that. They've, they've got an agenda in mind. And it doesn't include prosperity

for the American people. That's right. It includes artificial intelligence in a surveillance

state. And they have cleared the decks for that. It truly is the, the agenda that you couldn't do

a better job if you were trying to prepare the way for the technocracy and the global governance

in the surveillance police state that they've been desiring to have all along. And he's just the

guy to do it because he puts so many people to sleep. It's just amazing. The people who should be the

ones who are posing this are so connected to him personally. They don't want to see it. And we

still see a lot of that. And of course, when you got somebody like Trump and he, he does these

things and he gets away with it and nobody calls him on it and nobody opposes him on it.

You have one or two people that will stand up here and there and then he hammers them down and

then it, it just creates more fear for the other people to not stand up. And so when that happens,

he's obviously going to just get worse over time, which is what we're seeing.

It's a feedback loop of narcissism. It's an echo chamber and it's a cult. You get around it

just, just he gets told what he wants to hear. If not, you're out. So there is no dissent.

I don't know why anybody in the right mind would want to be a part of anything that he's doing.

If you, clearly, there's a track record too. It does not go well for you. Now there's,

there's the case to be made, you know, the political grifting that's happened. There's lots of

money that's been made. But that's all short term. I mean, you got to live with the

after effects of everything that's happened. And I just think that the US, not only foreign policy,

but the economic policy is absolutely disastrous. We have no strategy. The strategy is that there

is none. Yeah. And other than chaos, just kill everybody. Just got to kill everybody.

And you're talking about this. I don't know. He's been in the military. Did he have any actual

combat experience? I don't, I didn't look down. I should look that up from what I understand. He

was an Afghanistan, maybe a rack. I looked, this has been over a year since I looked at his

background. So I know that he does have some, well, he was there, but did he actually have any combat

experience with actually fighting or something? Right. Well, that's, that's always a, that's always

a question, Mark, because you can be in country. But, you know, you can literally never leave the

base and watch DVDs all day. If you really mean some, sometimes that happens so you can, you can

be in country kind of, you know, same thing with the, just because you're in the USO doesn't mean

that you bring combat. So if you go, so, you know, support the trip. But not to take anything

away from what he did, but I find that his language is absolutely unworthy of the Christian heritage

that we have in this country. Or the military heritage, either, right? I mean, aren't the

whole of the military is just, is not to just go out and kill everybody that you can, including

civilians, which is what gets him so excited. It's just absolutely insane, but especially not as

a Christian, but even the military, that's not their mission to kill everybody. No. And then,

can you imagine somebody like Eisenhower, yeah, you know, saying something like this, I mean,

or even MacArthur, I mean, I've read several biographies on Douglas MacArthur and you talk about

probably the greatest generals since Napoleon or Alexander the Great. And when we just happened,

he happened to be American. That kind of language really never came out of his mouth. I mean,

it was, this is something new. And I think it's probably indicative of a declining culture,

declining empire. And what makes it so much more dangerous, David, and what bothers me,

like when this kicked off, and we knew it was coming eventually by just thought, you know, maybe,

we would like go back to June of last year. Just by the way, the strike on Iran last year was

the anniversary is on June 22nd. It was the anniversary of Operation Barbarossa when the

Nazis invaded the Soviet Union. And I wondered why they, if they didn't look that up, but that was

when they we had the to take out all of their nuclear facilities. But I thought it was even more

strong workout to offer the Nazis either, but right. Well, that's the whole point like the

Blitzkrieg and preventive war or whatever, you know, the first strike never worked out.

It hasn't been like the momentum fades and everything else. And you don't have this just war

mentality is certainly not a defensive war. So really is, really is and said didn't work out

for the South either. And then here, you know, the Lincoln wanted the South to fire the first shots,

you know, that's it's just always imperative that there's for some reason that's the way that

it balances out whenever there's a there's a first strike. But it's right. Shopey foot did a great

job in his history of the Civil War in terms of showing how Lincoln maneuvered that to happen.

You're talking about Shelby foot. Shelby foot. Yeah, I went to maneuver the Fort Sumpter thing to

happen that he did. He go to the men to it. And I think they had like a it was an old like a

really elderly gentleman fire the first shot is just somebody was a firebrand. You know,

they didn't roughen. Yeah, he had been around. I think he was a supporter of John C. Calhoun. And

you know, this that was going on for a while. It was just building underneath the surface. Lincoln

wanted to strike. And so that set the tone. And what's really even more disturbing, you know,

I think is time goes on. It will see they had a deal. That what that's worth. It's supposed

that they had a deal where Iran would have never been able to obtain upon. There wasn't there

would be no stockpiles. You know, and again, I don't know how do you verify that you could use

the U.N. You could use the I.E.A. All that stuff. But but it was close and what people that

was how many thousands have died already. That's the other part of this Tony is the treachery.

We've seen that now multiple times. That is a tactic of Israel, you know, to pull people

in negotiations and then sneak attack them when you got their confidence. And to me, that is a very

unproductive way to go how many times can you pull that on people, right? You pull them and say,

hey, let's we can work this out and they can do a rug pull on them. And a sneak attack and you

show how treacherous you are with dealing with people. I just don't see I don't see that works out

to our long-term advantage. Well, it certainly doesn't. And I think the good news about any of this

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They're obviously doing it in the face of people right now,

but the repetitive re-election of people based off of this belief system,

matter of fact, one of the other silver linings to the last few days has been Dan

Crenshaw in the second professional district, primary doubt, which I didn't see come. He's an

approved veteran. He's one of the, because he really loves war. But he finally, it's hard to do.

You have to really work at it to lose, once you've been elected in a primary in a

Republican district in East Texas. You've got to really be bad at your job. Well, he's working

at that. Pretty hard. Yeah. Yeah. He was that bad. Yeah. So I think that's some of the things that

are happening. And I just kind of, I'm a, I like to study culture and trends. And I see that

this is, they reached their high water mark a while ago. And this may be, there may be why they're

just at a rush to get it done. It may not be about, you know, anything else other than they've

seen the riding on the wall. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, they've got probably the best present

they're going to have to help them right now. And Netanyahu has been his entire career as

wanted to destroy Iran. So here's his chance to do it. The thing I think is interesting is how

when Trump gave us the history of all this time, he goes back 47 years and he says,

47 years they've hated us and they've been chanting death to America and all the rest of

stuff. It's like, well, 73 years ago, you gave them the reason to hate America. And it is the

first, one of the first and one of the prime examples of the folly of American regime change

is Iran. And here we are trying to do it again. It's just, it's almost funny, except for the number

of people that are being killed. And it is just, it is truly disgusting. And I think people are

starting to get disgusted with this in large. A lot of Maga people, Karen was looking on her

Facebook and she, there was a poll there and comments. And there were a lot of people. I voted

for this and all this other kind of stuff. Well, you're one of the few people voted for this

because that's not what Trump campaigned on. You know, if you voted for Trump, you were voting for

what he said he was going to do. And he said he was going to do just the opposite of this.

So I don't know how you can come back and say you voted for this. It's just that you voted for

Trump. And that's what we get with Trump. Yeah, we were, we were lied to. We were deceived.

I mean, it's at some level you did it to yourself if you're

the second administration. But yeah, I mean, that was the whole point, right? It was to stop

World War III to get out of these wars, bring the troops home, bring the jobs back. Let's create

a stable economy. I mean, none of that was real, right? This is all on behalf of the

Neocons and that the Neocons absorbed whatever America first was supposed to be. Now,

that that consumption is complete at this point. So really sad to watch. But

well, of course, we've seen Charlie Kirk's organization. It came out really strongly against

Lindsey Graham and Israel's war with Iran just before he died. Now they're cheering it on.

This has been a complete 180 there after he's gone. It's probably the point. You know,

it's probably, he would have been a real problem. If you, no more I've learned about where he was

in the last few months of his life, he would have been a real problem in this scenario. So there's

there's a darkness that surrounds, I think, a real evil that surrounds this foreign policy and

what we're doing on behalf of Israel. It truly is just I want to be completely separated from it.

I've just said publicly many. I don't support this. I'm not going to get behind this. There's

there's a darkness to it. I think it's bad for your soul. I agree. I mean, you look at it. It's

massage and the CIA. Same people gave us the Epstein network, right? So it's like, I don't know.

It looks to me like they're they're kind of staying the course. There are some things in America

where people do stick to their principles. And I guess you could say that the CIA of massage

and these people do stick to their principles. They're consistent. Operation Epstein fury is in

full effect. That's a good way to describe it. Operation Epstein fury. That's that's absolutely

true. Well, it's been a real chaotic week in gold and silver. I'm sure. And what do you see

happening here in the future? I mean, things of consolidate hasn't been as chaotic, for example,

as Bitcoin has been. But what do you see happening? What's going on with silver, by the way? I've

been following what gold is going to have been following silver. Well, I think prices have somewhat

stable. I don't want to use the word stable lines. They've leveled off a little bit.

But they they still whips off violently. So not things aren't back to normal as a deal. I don't

know if they're ever going back to the way that they were. I hope they do for the public's sake

because, you know, dealing with the movement of metals has become increasingly difficult

with prices, but we're doing it. Matter of fact, we put out a letter yesterday an email

to all the Wolfpack members and just saying, we're doing the best we can. A lot of the,

you know, products that used to be available or the weeks out, we can't get them or we can't source

like fractional silver. Although I did find a place yesterday and did my first deal with them

out of New Hampshire. It's a libertarian-minded, liberty-minded person who's got a small mint.

So we're going to be dealing with them directly. But I put out an email just saying, you know,

we're doing the best we can. We appreciate everybody. We're using fractional 90% silver for a lot

of the packages. And we do think that in the long-term 90% constitutional, also known as junk silver,

is actually one of the best bets you can make. Although it just got hammered in the last three or

four months because everybody's trying to sell it once. So there was a there was a premium drop in

all that. But I think just given the fact that we're watching in real time, like the supplanting

of the dollar, like the dollarization is not only real, it's almost complete, you know, with the

the world reserve holdings surpassing the dollar, again, should have been major headlines.

And you mentioned Bitcoin earlier, David. One of the reasons that the price started to

head north again is because of the Iranian regime being toppled. I believe their currency was

the real. Was that correct? Is that it's out there? I think so. Something like that.

Something like that. It's just plummeting. Same thing when we invaded Iraq, but these things

weren't available then. I mean, gold, I think when I was part of the Iraq invasion, gold was about

$250 an ounce. Something like that. Crude oil was about 50, maybe 40 dollars an hour barrel.

So a lot of price changes since then. But the Iraqi denar, I saw it go to zero like overnight.

You know, people were running out of the banks with boxes of Iraqi denar with Saddam Hussein's face

on them. So you think maybe people in Iran are taking whatever money they can and they're

able to get it into crypto. They can't necessarily get it into gold, right? Right. Because of the

movement of it. Right. And you're trying to cross borders. And that's where, you know, if you

that's where Bitcoin, at least in this current form, could be very beneficial because it's borderless.

Like you could put everything into a Bitcoin wallet as long as you know your seed phrase. That's

completely unhackable. And you could move across borders easily. And then you've still got your

at least somewhat you've got your retain your value. So I think that'll continue to push Bitcoin.

And we had an all time high of Bitcoin back in October of 2025. And it's cut that in half.

But I think there's a lot of accumulation of the things going on. This certainly has been an

uptick in Bitcoin holdings and Bitcoin usage. So we'll see about that. Gold and silver, tangible

hard assets are still supreme in my opinion. Through that. But the advantages of being able to

to have that digitized and walk across a border is also important. Yeah. And of course,

you know, we're talking about shipping. It's not just oil and natural gas, but it's a lot of

things that are being impacted by it. And that includes gold. And you know, when they're trying to

move that around as well. I saw an article talking about how that had been a hitch for some of the

large buyers that couldn't get the gold physically transferred because of the shipping issues

that are happening right now. Yeah. I think a combination of all three of them are very important.

I mean, I diversify. That's why we're wise wolf gold silver Bitcoin. I think that in the future,

these are these are three things that keep you outside of the system. If you retain ownership

without counterparty risk, very important. I noticed one of the other things that happened

was that Venezuela, their state-owned mining company, the state-owned mining company,

just signed a deal to supply the US with a thousand kilograms of gold for delivery.

So interesting, right? There's some things that are happening. You know, we're playing the

commodity boards. As a matter of fact, the US military is going to some mining companies for

rare earth minerals and things that would keep the war effort. We've outsourced so much of this

over the past 50 plus years because of free trade. Yeah. I saw some articles about

intimidating and big crush on that to try to get that for, you know, military supplies and things.

I remember there was a US senator back in the 90s. It doesn't matter if you make computer chips

or potato chips. We'll just get it, you know. And unfortunately, that's not how the world works.

We have to source, especially for national defense. Now, this isn't national defense. This is

national aggression or whatever you want to call it, but that's what we're funding.

And that's what we're supplying. So a lot of the policies that we made in the 80s and 90s

are coming home to roost and they're not brave. I think they're scrambling at this point.

Yeah, absolutely. Well, it is a crazy time. And as I say, you know, the Chinese curse me

live in interesting times. Certainly we live in interesting times. And it is a real juggling

act for what you have to do. I don't envy you your job at all, but you've been able to do it. And so

congratulations for that. And you should point out the wolf pack thing is very integral to that.

And it's one way that people can gradually start to get into something. It's going to be a little

bit more stable for their, for their particular economic situation in a time of great

instability and volatility that is going to only increase. I'm afraid. And we've been talking

about this. We're getting closer and closer to the fourth turning. They're going to step on the

gas. And I think this is, you know, Trump just put us in another, he just shifted it to a higher gear

right now. And I think we're going to continue to see this kind of volatility and chaos happening.

So that's one thing that people can do to prepare. I think it's gold and silver. It's very important.

Thank you so much, Tony, for coming on. Always great talking to you. And again, people can go to

David Knight, high gold. And I'll take you to Tony and you can get in touch with them and they

can help you with whatever you need to do. Appreciate you, David. And we'll see how this looks

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I try not to make price predictions too often, but things don't look good for the current system,

so yeah, just doing what you can do, and this is why we built my company the way it's designed

is for everyday people. Your audience might be interested. The Tucker Carlson just put out

an expose on gold companies. It doesn't look good for them, and I'm so glad that I've run my

business the way I have, because people have gotten really defrauded, the misled,

the way overpaying, especially when the gold IRAs and other things, I'm really proud of what

we've done. We've made people a lot of money. Instead of them realizing that their savings

aren't there, they have paid some crazy premiums. Thank you for allowing me to sponsor your show.

We're proud to do it, especially in these times. I really like what you do. I didn't see that

X was a, I usually get my Tucker Carlson stuff a second hand. Did he respond to the cutter thing

when he said that he's talking about what happened and the government and cutter just said,

no, that's not true. Did you see that I talked about that yesterday? No, I need to get into that.

Yeah, I've had so much going on with just following the supply chains that's taking up eating

up most of my bandwidth. I bet it is. Yeah, I know he had said something about, I think I talked

about it yesterday. I think it was something about assassination of, or something that Israeli agents

were doing in cutter. Yes. And they said, no, that didn't happen. And so it's kind of interesting.

I said before I said, Tucker can, I like his position on a lot of things that he's taking now,

but I don't trust him because I don't trust what he did during the pandemic. I don't trust what

he did during 9-11 and the aftermath of 9-11. He did a lot to shut down any consideration of what

it happened with 9-11. So he's got a long way to go. Yeah, he's got a long way to go to earn my

trust on these issues. But what was, so what was he saying about the gold different companies?

They just price gouging and things like that. Well, I think I think he, so he had something that

set off a red flag for him. People were, gold companies were approaching him and one offered him

like $20 million. Wow. To for a year sponsorship. And he said, how do you make that much money

selling commodities? And so, you know, what you find out is that, and I've seen this happen time

and time again with people who've contacted me a lot of the times. They have these call centers

on these big gold companies and IRAs. And they will put you in all the, it is approved IRA

metal. But you'll be paying for, you know, MS 70 graded American eagles that are, you know,

rare proof sets, you know, stuff like that. So you increase the price and say, let's go, let's say

gold's $5,000 an ounce. Well, you might pay an extra, you know, $800 for the privilege of owning

that. Well, it starts adding up, you know, to dollar for dollar when you cash it in, it doesn't

translate into your savings. Because the way that the IRAs go is that the way that they they

calculate the values, they say, this is how many ounces of metals you have. Yeah. Period. And

this is the spot price period. It doesn't matter about the premiums or the types of coins. That's

why I tried it. I actually get away from the premiums as much as possible. And I said, well,

I usually put people in something like Canadian maple leaves. You get four nine gold, which is,

I mean, not that, not that that matters that much. But there's no coinage whatsoever. It's approved

for IRAs. And the premiums are generally acceptable. And they're, they're good looking coins, you know,

so you can do that. And that's, it's also North American, which has always been my justification.

But these, these reports that are coming out in people are, you know, a lot of these call center

gold places. That's what they did. You know, that's how they made money. And they need to do

some, they had a massive marketing budgets. And we, we're just, I'm as big as I want to be. I

think we can serve people big or small and do any type of transaction. And I can source just about

anything. But I don't have any, I got a lot of the folks that have used me over the years have

done really well because we just look at retail and say, I don't, I don't think there's another

company out there like me either because we tell people what the competition selling stuff for.

It's usually what I, that's the first thing I do. So I'm glad that that it's probably why, David,

the way, it's probably why I'm not Secretary of Defense. Okay. So it's probably, I don't have any

power. This one's about, do you have a, you got your show following this show today? Yes,

our Arterburn radio transmission will be live on the X at Tony Arterburn and America unplugged

channel over on Rumble. That's great. Do come and join us. That's great. Well, thank you for joining

us, Tony. Always great to have you on. We're going to take a quick break folks and we will be

right back. Stay with us. Let's see, where am I right here? There we go.

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Well, Mark Levin, like Lindsey Graham, many others, is real excited about this. This war is

exactly what he wanted. He says, US soldiers that had been killed in Trump's war with Iran have

died for, quote, a great cause. Really. That's what he said. And he actually said, push back against

this idea that Trump was promising that he'd not go to war. He said, the idea that Donald Trump

campaigned and allowing our enemies to build nuclear weapons and threaten to wipe us off the face

of the earth, that he shouldn't intervene in that, that he shouldn't confront that,

that somehow violates what Maga stands for. It's so idiotic, so stupid. And yet they push

this agenda that he's broken his campaign promises. Well, he had to do that, Levin, because

everybody was on to the nonsense and the lies of Benjamin Netanyahu that you've been telling

for people for 35 years about nuclear weapons. Any day now, we're going to have nuclear weapons,

right? Not stopped. Iran could produce a nuclear weapon in 2025. It could be a year,

it could be within a few months. They have the wherewithal 2018, seven years ago,

knowledge to make a bomb very quickly. It wanted to do it. Iran is so dangerous, weeks away

2015. This all material for an entire arsenal of nuclear bombs. They're very close. There's six

months away from being about 2012, having the rich uranium for an atom bomb, the 14 years,

up to have to produce 25, 2006, 20 years, 250 bombs in a decade. Ladies and gentlemen,

taking 96 running out. Iran will be capable of producing a load without importing anything,

nuclear bombs within three. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, we've heard that story so many times.

The Netanyahu that cried wolf over and over again. And Mark Levin is out there. So,

courage we have lost heroes and we lost three. Now six. And there may be more. And the president says

likely so because it's a massive military operation. Terrible thing. They gave their lives,

but they gave their lives for great cause. My country is real. Not America. That's why

you saw that marine Brian McGinnis who did that. And of course, the senator who was instrumental

and injuring him. And I'm not sure exactly the extent of it. He said, broke my hand and

other people said he broke his arm. I don't know what was done, but they got it. Look like they

got it in the door and did something to it. But that senator who did it is Republican. His name

is Senator Shihi. And I saw somebody put it there. Usually you see behind a congressman or a senator,

you know, they'll put in parentheses r or d depending on which party a dash and then the state.

So they have like a Republican Texas to be r dash tx. This guy they put r dash a pack. Because

that's who he represents a pack. He not only wants to send people to die for Israel, but he'll kill

you for Israel as well. Republican political strategist Tim Miller said Trump's war with Iran

is a total as a total betrayal of his own voters and obvious betrayal of his campaign promises on

Tuesday. So whether or not Mark Ben agreed with the campaign promises, that's what Trump did.

And so he may believe Netanyahu that Iran is just days or weeks away from a nuclear weapon it

has been in that kind of strange time warp going back 35 years or so that they're just any moment

now they're going to have a nuclear weapon. He may believe that that's true. The American people

don't. And Trump promised people what he would emit a commitment, but of course he also took

another constitution. It doesn't think too much about that. Marjorie Taylor Green reacted to

Trump's remarks by sharing a video of the fictional Lord far quad from Shrek remember that.

Some of you may die, but that's a sacrifice I am willing to make. And that is the way it always

goes. The murder of Iranian school children cannot be whitewashed. And Mark Levin is out there

talking about the wonderful precision munitions that we've got and so forth. And the precious

lives he goes those six lives were precious. And what about the lives of these school children

between 7 and 14 years old? Were those kids lives precious? Oh, not to him, right? They're not even

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Fourteen teachers were also killed in the bombing.

Seeing all too familiar to Palestinians, grief, stricken parents,

collapsing and sobbing at the side of their daughter's murders, clutching bloodstained

backpacks pulling out school books and personal items of their slain daughters.

Children's deaths covered in debris from the bombing. A child's shoe in the rubble.

Death where life had flourished. None of this is being conveyed in Western legacy media.

Only ghoulish gloating of the U.S. and Israeli bombardment of Iran.

And the murder of the leader, Kamani, and his young granddaughter and children as well.

Israeli foreign minister, I'm sorry, is Iranian foreign minister posted a photo of the grays

being dug and said, these are the grays being dug for more than 160 innocent young girls who

were killed in the U.S. Israel bombing of a primary school. Their bodies were torn to shreds.

This is how rescue promised by Mr. Trump looks in reality. From Gaza to Manab,

innocence murdered in cold blood. And as they point out in this article from RT,

if the bombed school had been in Israel or Ukraine, news of it would have been plastered

on the front pages of Western media for days, with widespread demands for retaliation or at least

for justice and accountability. But just like the untold thousands of Palestinian children killed

by Israel as well as the half a million Iraqi children that were killed by U.S. sanctions.

Remember, Madeline Albright, you know, you've had a half a million kids killed with your sanctions

in Iraq, starved to death and other things like that. She didn't contest the number. She just said,

it was worth it. That's their calculus. It's always worth it. Your life doesn't mean anything to

these people. So the Iranian children's lives don't merit Western media outrage instead. They

produce cynical reports and not only lack any semblance of empathy or sympathy, but suggest

that Iran is either lying about it or Iran is to blame for the murders. So if they didn't attack us,

the BBC reported, described the massacre as quote unquote a reported massacre.

And said Iran has blamed the U.S. and Israel for it, casting doubt on the standard for legacy

media, whitewashing for the U.S. and Israel's crimes. So the U.S. says, we're looking into

reports of this happening. Israel says, we're not aware of this. We don't care about it,

but it's merely reports that blame the U.S. and Israel. I wonder why they would blame the U.S.

and Israel? Would it be the bombs that they're dropping? And how Hague Seth is so excited to say,

we are raining down death and destruction from above. That was, this article was written before

he said that. That's even more damning. Even more damning. So the BBC then said, deep mistrust

of the Iranian regime however makes official reports difficult for many to accept. And some

Iranians directly blamed the regime for the attack. Yeah, that's not what Trump is doing

in terms of his justification for this. Mark Levin keeps going back to the nuclear stuff,

but of course Trump is not going to that. He wants to push into regime change, which tells you

they're going to be there for a while. The New York Times also got the memo, likewise,

omitting Israel from the headline and implying that Iran is lying. But when it comes to blaming

Iran for retaliation, the New York Times has no problem stating whose missile strike it was.

And there is no Israel says this or Israel alleges that CNN ran the headline. A girl's elementary

school was hit in Iran. Here's what we know. Notice how that works. We've talked about this.

There'd be a terrorist attack and they'll say truck kills X number of people at a German Christmas

market. We know that's a Muslim attack, right? But they don't want to say a Muslim did it. They don't

want to say who it was it did it. The truck did it. It's this type of thing. Somehow this was hit

by a missile. A missile did it. The US military's central command said they are looking into reports

of the incident. Israel said we're not even aware of it. I don't even care to look into it.

Even if you're set aside the actual culprit of the school bombing, legacy media reports are

devoid of any concern for the slaughtered children. The tone would be radically different

if it was Israel, Ukraine, or American. We would see the names, the ages. We would have stories

about their lives. They would be in other words, humanized. But instead, there is a policy of

dehumanization. Watch out for that. Watch out for that whenever war breaks out. As they say,

the first casualty of war is truth. Well, the other thing that happens is you dehumanize the other

people so that you can kill them and boast about killing them. Like war Pete, as are you doing.

Iran signals prolonged war as US strikes go deeper and Kurdish groups deny reports of an offensive.

And so you have Congress, actually the US Senate, the House hasn't done it yet, but the US Senate

looked at the War Powers Act and they rejected a war power's resolution. The purpose of that was

to force Trump to either end the aggression or to seek congressional approval from military strikes

on Iran. And so again, you've got Congress abdicating their power. You know, we were talking about

the tariff issue. What does the Supreme Court say? They said, well, they have tried to abdicate their

authority on tariffs to some degree, even with the IEPA stuff abdicated their authority for an

economic emergency. But clearly, this is our trade deficit is not an economic emergency. I mean,

you want an economic emergency, take a look at our budget deficit. But the trade deficit is

nothing that is unusual at all than that way for quite some time. And they said, this is a major policy,

a major question act. And so the Supreme Court has said in the past that Congress, although they

can abdicate their authority and pass these things on to the bureaucratic branch underneath the

executive, they can't do it on a major question. And certainly war is a major question. They shouldn't

be able to delegate this to the president. Shame on them for not doing their job. But the Supreme

Court should tell them that they can't do that either. But the Senate did not want to get into the

slide. And so these are 47. The nays are 53. The motion to discharge is not approved.

There you go. 47, 53. So what happened was you lost one Republican

on that in terms of Rand Paul voted to have the Congress do its job constitutionally.

And then you had Federman, who without it being a long partisan lines, you had

Rand Paul voted with the Democrats to enforce the constitution. Federman moved with the

Republicans to make sure that they're just going to have war for Israel. So that's how that worked

out. And of course, Thomas Massey had something to say about this and it's coming up for vote in

the House. Mr. Speaker, James Madison wrote to Thomas Jefferson in 1789. The Constitution

supposes what? The history of all governments demonstrates that the executive branch of power

is the most interested in war and most prone to it. It has accordingly with studying care

vested the question of war in the legislature. The Constitution is clear. Article 1, section 8,

clause 11 of our Constitution provides Congress initiatory powers of war. Article 2, section 2,

clause 1 of our Constitution gives the president operational powers of war to wage that war.

Even if this body were to pretend that the 1973 war powers resolution supersedes the clear

language of the Constitution, the president still has not met the conditions required by that law

itself. The 1973 war powers resolution states plainly that the president may only introduce

U.S. armed forces into hostilities pursuant to three conditions, either one declaration of war,

two specific statutory authorization or three, a national emergency created by an attack upon

the United States. None of those conditions exist today. Iran has not attacked the United States.

Congress has not declared war and Congress has not granted specific statutory authorization.

Beyond the constitutional question, here lies an even more important one. Why are we going to war

with Iran? We owe our military service members a clear mission. And American families of my

district want to know, how is this going to help them pay for groceries? How does this make them

any safer in their schools or in their neighborhoods? How does this help them pay for housing?

Have we learned nothing from the laundry list of wars and regime change experiments? We

sparked across the Middle East that have racked up a total of at least $8 trillion of debt in Iraq,

Libya, Syria, Afghanistan. A sustained war with Iran will not stabilize the region.

It's already ignited the region. It will radicalize new generations of terrorists and it will send

more swarms of refugees into Europe and the United States. Iran is not Venezuela.

The Ayatollah was not a president. He was a religious leader from a region notorious for radical

Islamist. And the United States and Israel turned him into a martyr. And in the process of doing so,

we've already expanded billions of dollars and more solemnly, six American families must now

lay to rest their sons and daughters. And for what? This administration can't even give us a

straight answer as to why we launched this preemptive war. The president says we had to strike

first because an Iranian strike was imminent. Meanwhile, the Department of Defense conceded there

was no evidence of an imminent Iranian strike. Some told us this war was about nuclear weapons,

but six months ago we were assured our last strike on Iran decimated their nuclear program.

So which is it? I think the most candid answer came from the Secretary of State,

who told the press that Israel forced our hand and dragged us into this war again.

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And that truth is the very reason why it is Congress that must decide war. If American

lives are to be risked and American blood is to be shed, that decision must be debated and

voted on by the representatives of American people. And that debate is meant to be arduous.

And that vote is meant to be hard. I have a theory. I think my colleagues don't want to go on

record because we have a terrible track record of meddling in the Middle East. They don't want

their name associated with this when it doesn't turn out well. But Congress cannot be bothered with

its constitutional duty because for many in this chamber, it's easier to simply allow someone

else's sons and daughters to be sent to combat without their vote. And to be clear, we aren't

even here to declare war today. All we're voting on is a war powers resolution to reassert the

Constitution that Congress must decide questions of war. And if Congress wants war, then the speaker

should hold a vote to declare it. Sunset Congress authorizes war when we pay for it, when we pass

the budget bill. Here's the problem. We haven't taken on the hard work of defining the mission

for our sons and daughters who are going to fight. That's not in the budget bill. It never is.

And to the men and women who are engaged in combat, I sincerely thank you. And I pray for your

safety. It is for you that I wrote this resolution. It is for you that all of us are here on this floor

working so hard to force this vote so that you will have a clear mission that you deserve. So that

you will know when you achieve it, you can come home. Fortunately, he's wasted in a corrupt

institution like the U.S. House. He needs to be president. And so why are we doing this? Well,

of course, we know why this is happening. And we know what the objective is, the objective is to

fully and finally destroy Iran. That is the fool's errand that Netanyahu has co-opted

us on. He asked the White House. If a Trump administration is secretly talking with Iran about

a ceasefire after Israeli intelligence suspected possible communications. So think about this.

You've got the, as always, you've got the Israeli intelligence spying on us.

And then questioning the president, how dare you talk to them? I've got to tell you we've been

watching you. You better not talk to them. The White House denied any talks and said the U.S.

has ignored messages that were sent by Iran through regional intermediaries, said Axios.

So there we go. Let's say, no, no, no, Netanyahu, BB, I'll do whatever you tell me. Please,

I haven't betrayed you. It's pathetic. Really, it's pathetic. Meanwhile, Turkey says a ballistic

missile fired by Iran was destroyed by NATO. A lot of people were saying, well, is this going to

be the thing that's going to draw NATO in? That's not going to help. I mean, it would widen the war,

but it would not really help. I mean, the U.S. is for all practical purposes, NATO, beginning

and end. Recall that in 2002, Bush's then Defense Secretary Rumsfeld declared of impending Iraqi

operations. Rumsfeld said, five days or five weeks or five months, but it certainly isn't going

to last any longer than that. It won't be World War Three, he said. Well, that was the only thing

that he got right. Hegseth, for the first time on Wednesday, suggested eight weeks. Again,

they've already doubled it. They were saying four to five weeks. Now they're saying eight weeks.

Well, U.S. losses stand at at least six service members killed, but hey, for Mark Levin, it was worth it.

With several critically wounded, Sint Com has yet to issue a new Wednesday casualty update.

You can't trust any of these numbers when they come out with it. War Pete says that

War with Iran could last up to eight weeks. U.S. and Israel expect to achieve

uncontested airspace over the country and under a week. And to unleash, as War Pete says,

death and destruction from the sky all day long, all day long. Yeah, that's what they're

very excited about. Again, sorry, they hit the wrong button here. But yeah, reigning death and

destruction down from the sky all day long. As a matter of fact, Mike Johnson, you know, we look at

what a justified war is. It's when somebody else attacked you, as we've talked about this many times,

maneuvering the other people into attacking in a passive, aggressive way. That has been the

pattern we've seen over and over again. Either that or a falsified attack that it may not even be

a real attack. It could be something like the Gulf of Tonkin. But Mike Johnson had the audacity

to talk about American embassies being attacked as if Iran had initiated that.

Iran has attacked three of our U.S. embassies in the last couple of days. Those are

sort of U.T. territories of the U.S. They have declared war on us. I don't believe in the

semantics we've talked about the language this morning. We're not at war right now. We're if four

days in to a very specific, clear mission, an operation, Operation Epic Fury, which has two components,

as you know, that we have articulated over and over. The president has the commander of joint

chiefs. Everybody is explained. Isn't that amazing that you can have somebody that could be

that much of a liar. Just look at you and lie in your face. And these people stand behind him.

You got Tom Emmer and Steve Scolise, stay behind him. I would never stand behind that liar. I

would never want to be associated with him in any way whatsoever. Well, they declared war on us.

They attacked our embassies. That's American sovereign territory. Well, you know, Iran is sovereign

territory for Iranians and you're killing schoolchildren with your precision bombing. But we

shouldn't pay any attention to that. We shouldn't complain about that as well. And so how is this

all working out for us? Well, there was a base that was hit and it's a pretty significant hit.

And this is the type of thing that can always go wrong in a war. I struck out a air base. As I

said, the biggest American base in the region, we don't know much more. No casualties reported as

of yet. Again, we don't know what we don't know. But we do know they are saying it was a ballistic

missile. It's obviously a significant development. And as that is coming in, we are learning that the

CIA is also working to trigger some sort of an uprising inside of Iran. Now, this is a major and

potentially explosive development in the war. So let me tell you what we know here with these

breaking details. Multiple people familiar with the plan are telling CNN that the Trump administration

is working to arm Kurdish forces who they then expect to take part in a war. Yeah. So we want to

widen the war. We're going to create a civil war there in Iran because that is what American

foreign policy is always about. You know, we have known, known, we have known unknowns. We have

unknown unknowns. We have the people in the Trump administration. Don't know nothing, right?

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wherever you get your podcasts. The New York Times is detailing. With satellite and open-source

image analysis that the Pentagon's sophisticated radar and comm infrastructure around the Persian

Gulf is being steadily reduced and decimated by Iran. They write Iranian strikes conducted

over the weekend and on Monday, damaged structures that are part of our near communication radar

system on at least seven US military sites across the Middle East. They're not just attacking

embassies, they're attacking these communication sites. Visuals show damage on or close to

mechanisms used to track incoming ballistic missiles, satellite dishes and radio domes,

which are weatherproof covers that protect sensitive equipment used by forces to communicate

over long distances. US military communications and infrastructure is highly classified,

making it difficult to determine which exact systems may have been affected. But the targeted

locations appeared to indicate that Iran was aiming to disrupt the US military's ability to

communicate and coordinate. Iran has attacked the US military's communication capacity as recently

as last June when it struck a Qatari base and a hit again over the weekend. Strikes potentially

affecting these systems also occurred on military facilities in Bahrain, Q8, Saudi Arabia,

and the UAE. And then there was a longer post on social media going into more detail about this.

The New York Times, which is this person points out, this is not a telegram channel,

it's not a Russian state broadcaster, but they published satellite imagery confirming what Iran

said it was doing while Washington was busy telling you that it wasn't working.

Every major US base across the Gulf systematically and methodically attacked. Bahrain 5th Fleet

headquarters, the nerve center of American naval power in the region, the base in Qatar that

they were just talking about on Saudi Arabia, already missing its $1.1 billion radar system.

And then another camp in Kuwait, then Ali Asselam, Pence Sultan, and Saudi Arabia,

the UAE facilities, SATCOM terminals destroyed, radomes cracked open, satellite dishes gone,

missile tracking infrastructure, the radar systems that coordinate every patriot, and every

sad battery in theater. These were targeted with what the imagery confirms was not luck, but was

architecture. Iran didn't just strike the US bases, it mapped the communication and coordination

layer that makes American missile defense function as a unified system, and then it peeled it apart

based by base. This is not retaliation, but doctrine. 30 years of studying exactly how the American

military machine sees, communicates, and coordinates, and then when the moment came,

giving straight going straight for the eyes. The interceptors are blind, the magazines are depleted,

the Navy can't guarantee escorts in the straight. Raytheon is being summoned to emergency meetings.

South Korea is sitting exposed, and the New York Times just put the satellite pictures on the front

page. Washington built the most expensive military architecture, and it's highly centralized,

folks. That's the other key part of this. Highly centralized and expensive military architecture

in human history. Iran just showed you the blueprint for how dismantled it. This is not going,

according to plan, assuming that there was a plan, which I'm not convinced that there was.

They continue by saying that the radar that was destroyed was not just a target, but the nervous

system of every one of these patriot batteries and every fad launcher, every layered air defense

architecture that the US has spent four decades and several trillion dollars constructing across

the Gulf. Every interceptor and theater just went partially blind. The backbone of American

missile defense and the most fortified US base in the Middle East, taken out by a single

Iranian strike while they were busy stripping South Korea's defenses, summoning Raytheon to the

White House and requesting $50 billion in emergency funds to restock magazines that were already hollow

before the war began. The air defense shortages worse than most imagined. By the way, with Trump

blaming Biden for this saying, well, he didn't leave us with enough missiles, anything. He's

been president for a year. If he was going to go to war, he didn't plan for it, and he didn't

produce the material that he needed for it. A cutter claims to have intercepted 101 missiles.

They also claimed that two of them got through. So they got 101 out of 103. One of them hit the

only target that mattered. This is asymmetric warfare distilled to his purest form. Iran has

succeeded once. The US has to be perfect every time, and of course they weren't. And now the US

Navy, the force that Trump promised would escort Gulf shipping through the strait, has announced

that it cannot provide escorts in the straight of her moves. No escorts, no timeline. But even if

they do, they're setting ducks for Iran's coastal defense forces. No Iranian Navy presence is

required. They're very excited that whatever Iran had of a Navy, and I can't imagine it was much

of anything. So they had like 10 ships or something. They're all gone now. We destroyed all them.

So what? That really doesn't matter. It's the other missiles and the drones that matter.

The petrodollar runs through the choke point that the US can no longer credibly protect.

Defended by interceptor systems that are now operating without their primary radar,

restocked by a Raytheon production line that can only make 37 THAD interceptors a year.

3200 ships are setting idle. European gas is up by 50% and climbing fast. A global recession is no

longer a forecast. It's a Wednesday. The Gulf monarchs who rented their soul to Washington are now

watching their ports burn and their pipelines get threatened. And the Navy says that it needs more time.

Well, I don't revel in seeing this kind of destruction, but certainly because it disturbs me to see

access, cheering the destruction of anybody. I don't want to see war. It's the sort of thing when

you look at the reality of it. It's one thing to have some kind of an abstraction that you lie to

yourself and lie to other people. It's what they do all the time with abortion. By the way,

plan parenthood, defunded by Trump and March, then quietly reinstated in December.

Same thing with the United Nations. And of course, with the United Nations, you had

Melania went to United Nations and was speaking about of all things as they're bombing and killing

160 kids. She goes to the UN and hypocritically talks about how they're going to help children in

conflict. The provisional agenda for this meeting is maintenance

of international peace and security, children, technology, and education in conflict.

The agenda is adopted. Yeah, we've got children in conflict everywhere.

And so the question is, and somebody put up a clip of Galen Maxwell talking to the UN as well.

It's like, how do these two Epstein girls, how do they get to the point where they get to talk to

the UN? That's a rhetorical question, right? Supposedly, she knows six languages. She can't even

speak English well. She had to have a translator when she went to France and when she went to Italy.

All of this stuff, folks, is a lie. Trump cuts the funding of the UN and then he reinstates the

funding to the UN. His wife gets to chair the security council meeting. How does that work out?

But just remember, don't forget. Trump is against the UN. He's against the

globalist. He's against the world economic forum, even though they keep inviting him to speak

and they keep giving him standing ovation when he does. Yeah, just tell yourself that he's the

guy that you needed. He's your savior. He's going to do all that. He is as adamantly opposed to

you as he could be if you're an American. He is adamantly opposed to America first. Everything

that he does is against our interests. When will people wake up? So the IAEA, the International

Atomic Energy Agency, said satellite imagery showed no damage to facilities containing nuclear

material in Iran. Therefore, no radiological release risk at this time. You hear that, Mark Leven?

You whining little traitor? Yeah, it was never about the nuclear stuff. Never about it.

He keeps throwing that out just like Benjamin Netanyahu. The US Joint Chiefs announced

an Pentagon briefing with Hegseth. They stand ready to strike deeper into Iranian territory

and that forces are shifting to there from large to more precision strikes.

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wherever you get your podcasts across Iran. So as all this stuff is happening,

they are trying to permit a civil war. They're talking about going deeper. They're doubling the

amount of time. Oh, this isn't going to be a quagmire at all, is it? Now, we're there to get rid

of the nuclear weapons that Trump said he destroyed last summer. We're going back again to finish

the job that he now says, well, I did it, but the real belt rebuilt it all in six months because

you know those people, I got to say, if they are so good at rebuilding this stuff, you haven't

got any chance of ever stopping it anyway. So either you're lying, or these people are kind of

superhuman in terms of what they are going to create. Israel and the US are noticeably blowing up

border installations. This appears to be in preparation for reported CIA Israel plan to back the

Kurds were being prodded to permit civil war in Iran. Some Democrat lawmakers blasted Trump's

justification for the strikes warning the US risks sliding into a ground invasion and an open

ended engagement with no end in sight. Israel continues to get hit hard and Iranian ballistic

ballistic missiles. Some reportedly being hypersonic continues to surpass air defenses.

Israel's finance ministry estimate economic damage from the war could reach three billion dollars

per week per week. Well, let's take that out by eight, right? So 24 billion dollars, I don't know

what their budget is or their GDP, but that's a lot of money by anybody's standard. There's been

widespread criticism and questions surrounding the administration's emphasis on protecting Israel.

Trump just said that if your cost of living goes up because he's bombed Iran, that's worth it

to make Israel safe. Just like you put Argentina ahead of American farmers. What was initially

touted by Washington as an attack that would be limited is now metastasizing across multiple

theaters, including Gulf Energy Routes, Eastern Mediterranean shipping lanes, NATO airspace with both

sides signaling that they're prepared for a long fight. Well, it's already been a long fight.

The fight's been going on for 73 years, and that's the reality of what is happening here. Jeffrey

Sachs says Trump is an utter disgrace to our nation. He lied to us. He points out. And he says,

this is a long-term plan. This is a massage CIA plan. You know, the Epstein people.

For American control of the Middle East and Israeli military hegemony in the Middle East,

it's been underway since 1996. This is madness, and it is a murderous delusion.

And of course, Pete Hakeseth is the guy there to bring us the murder.

He points out a series of U.S. backed or U.S. involved conflicts across the region from Libya to

Sudan to Somalia and the ongoing crisis in Gaza's evidence of a consistent pattern aimed

ultimately at confronting Iran. He says it has involved wars across the Middle East.

This left rivers of blood from Libya to Sudan to Sudan, Somalia and the genocide in Gaza.

Netanyahu's goal since the mid-1990s has been the destruction of Iran. He says Trump

is an utter disgrace to our nation. An utter disgrace. He lied to us. Every word about America first,

and he did exactly the opposite of what he said. Well, again, he was a lying traitor,

all of 2020. It's just one lie after the other. He masterminded that, he funded that,

and yet people made excuses for him. He's playing 40 chess. No, he's saving us from the really

bad vaccine from Bill Gates. This one is not bad at all. It's just going to have some aluminum

mercury. You can uncheck that. Can you do that for Trump, right? It's sugar water.

Sugar water. The US doesn't negotiate. It cheats. Now they kill you because if you negotiate,

it means that you're weak and stupid. This is the way criminals like Trump always think,

and he is a mafia figure, that if they can come up behind you and, you know, blind side you,

right? Get you a sucker shot because you were dumb enough to trust them. Oh, they

shouldn't have done better than to trust me. They had it coming, right? That's the way petty criminals

think, and that's the way Trump thinks, because that's what he is. And that's what people like

Stephen Miller and his ilk think as well. Well, if you're weak, then you don't deserve that

territory. We can take it from you. And he's actually said that out loud. You can't fight,

hold on to your territory. You don't deserve it. You deserve to have it taken from you.

This is like, you know, the rules of the asphalt jungle in New York or whatever. And this is the

approach as well of Israel. Sacks connected the country's infrastructure challenges to the

enormous costs of overseas military engagements. He said, why do our roads not work? Why are our

bridges falling down in the United States? It's because we spend trillions of dollars in war every year.

China just completed its 50,000th kilometer of fast rail because China doesn't go to war.

We're in the hands of gangsters, he said. That's exactly right. Gangsters, and I would say terrorists,

we're not in the hands of a constitutional system. You know, I saw an interesting

article on Daily Mail and they were talking about how Dave Smith went on a program with

Pierce Morgan. And I think, you know, looking at the picture, they had like six or eight people

that were arguing and debating the war on different sides. And Dave Smith was talking about how

criminal this is and that we didn't have a reason to go the war. And one of the people that was

there on this Pierce Morgan panel was a guy who does a podcast with Ted Cruz and goes, so

you think it's not worth it to take out a major terrorist country? And he says, oh, come on.

He said, and we got to stop the nuclear weapons that are there. He goes, stop trying to sell that.

We've heard that so many times. Nobody buys that nuclear stuff anymore. BB has cried wolf for

so many times. It just doesn't, you know, you can come up with something better, can't you? Well,

they're terrorists. And he said, let me tell you who the worst terrorist state in the Middle East is.

It's Israel. And the worst terrorist state in the world said Dave Smith is the United States

government. And I saw that and I told Karen, I said, the two of us are the only ones to say that

out loud. He's got a bigger platform there on Pierce Morgan show to say, good for him for

saying it. He's absolutely right. Absolutely right. When you look at the rules and how they

define terrorism, that's exactly what we're talking about. Threatening people creating fear.

You think they're not fear mongering as well as when they're war mongering, creating fear about

terrorism threats from Iran, fear about nuclear threats from Iran. And so we got to, we got to be

more like them. They might attack us first. So let's attack them before they attack us. That type of

thing. And these people are ruthless. So let's be ruthless with them. Let's kill their civilian

population. Let's reign death and destruction down on them. Because I know that if they had

their opportunity, they'd do the same thing to us. Well, they will now. Right. That's the way these

things are. You ramp it up. Get the Hatfields and the McCoys. They just keep stoking both sides

of this. But it really is when you're going to use violence, the threat of violence and fear

to achieve your social political goals, your geopolitical goals as well. Folks, that is terrorism.

Trying to use violence, actually using violence, using threat of violence to terrorize people to

create fear. That is our foreign policy. That has been the foreign policy of the United States for

a long time. We are a terrorist state. And the guy said, well, then take down that American flag

behind you. He said, well, I love my country. I hate my government. That's what I am right now.

I despise this government as much as I despise people like Pete Hagueceth who revel in murder.

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intelligence is changing the business world and our lives. So each week on Big Technology,

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