Badlands Media - Breaking History Ep. 139: Iran War

Episode Date: March 4, 2026

In this episode of Breaking History, Matt Ehret and Ghost dive into the rapidly escalating war involving Iran and Israel and the global implications that could follow. The discussion opens with the latest developments from the conflict, including Israel’s invasion of Lebanon, rising civilian casualties, and the growing fear that the situation is spiraling beyond control. The hosts reflect on their earlier expectation that war might be avoided and examine why that assumption proved wrong. Matt and Ghost explore the ideological motivations behind the conflict, including the role of prophetic or end-times thinking in geopolitical decision making. They examine historical narratives surrounding Israel, long standing claims about Iran’s nuclear ambitions, and decades of warnings from Benjamin Netanyahu. The conversation expands into the strategic implications of the war, including U.S. involvement, the possibility of escalation, shifting global alliances, and the broader economic consequences such as disruptions to shipping and maritime insurance. Throughout the episode, the hosts analyze whether the current conflict could reshape global power dynamics and what it may reveal about long term strategic planning in the Middle East and beyond.

of the badlands explain those badlands that's a hell of a name all right welcome everybody to this week's episode of breaking history gordon how are you doing i'm great man how are you well not great i'm fighting off a man flu but other than that i'm fine yeah well you know it's always a weird question be asked right how you're doing when uh when a war is waging you know it's never an easy straightforward answer. But we got a lot to talk about. We have a hard stop, or I have a hard stop. You can keep going if you want at 1 o'clock.

I got to jump into something. So the world's given us a lot to speak about, I guess. The war began on the 28th of February. As far as I could tell, most recently Lebanon has been invaded. There's a ground invasion. There, 500 civilians of the last count in Lebanon have been killed. And it's looking so far like the trajectory is not awesome. But we're going to talk about that after a few words from today's sponsors, starting with

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That's badlandsgold.com. Okay. So as of now, things seem to be spiraling a little bit out of control. I'd like to know. I know you and I were talking about this. The last episode we did was on Wednesday. We discussed our hopes, the evidence that these were the words promoting the concept of a strike on Iran was maybe smokescreen, betraying perhaps another maneuver that was being set up in the background. That would be much more reasonable and cogent. that's not what happened. So how are you feeling?

How are you thinking about your analysis at this point? Yeah, I mean, just owning what I said last week, because I was very certain we weren't going to get a war. I was absolutely not thinking in these terms necessarily either. I think both of us were seeing that there have been a, there's been a trend over quite some time under Trump where terrible things will be said and then relatively reasonable actions will be taken. pretty consistently.

So we, you know, we just sort of extrapolated that trend into our analysis there. So far, yeah, so I get that. Yep, yep. So now, now we just analyze what we see as we go. Yeah, I mean, disappointed to my initial knee jerk reaction to it, as I've been saying this week is just disappointed that the neocons and the Zionists got their way on a, pretty significant, like one of the bigger foreign policy issues of Trump's era, like the past 10 years. So that is disappointing. So we'll see what happens. We'll see how this all unfolds. There are some developments with this that are interesting that we'll definitely talk about.

But yeah, the initial reaction hearing about this on Saturday was disappointment that, you know, the warmongers got there, ostensibly got their way. Yeah. I got to. a little clip I wanted to just show, well, two, two short clips that I thought were relevant, because I do sense that at least a certain faction of decision making, both in Israel, but also in corridors of Anglo-Zionist, Christian Zionist, influence maker, or, you know, policymakers in the West, do seem to have an eschatological sort of way of thinking, which transcends conventional ideas of self-interest in short-term geopolitical. you know, maneuvering. And there's this strange speech. Somebody sent me this thing where Pete

Hexeth said something recently in regards to the evils of Iran as being a, you know, it's a Shia largely dominated by a 12er philosophy, the 12ers being those who believed that the 12th the mom, the follower of Ali, has been a, has been an occultation for over a thousand years. And we'll reemerge now as, you know, I guess this is tied to the al-Madi concept. to fight with, you know, restored Jesus against, against Satan at the end times. So he's criticizing this, this eschatological paradigm in Iran, but I'm going to just compare it to something he did or said in Israel in 2017, just for the sake of shits and giggles. So here's, here's the most recent thing.

President Trump has also been very consistent. Crazy regimes like Iran, hell bent on proficient. prophetic Islamist delusions cannot have nuclear weapons. It's common sense. All right. Prophetic regimes with delusions should not have nuclear weapons. Okay, well, let's just compare that to a country that does have nuclear weapons that he was speaking in in 2017. Here we go.

We had a chance to go see the western wall of the Temple Mount, the western wall tunnels, so much of the old city. and as you stand there, you can't help but behold the miracle before you. And it got me thinking about another miracle that I hope all of you don't see too far away. Because 1917 was a miracle. 1948 was a miracle. 1967 was a miracle. 2017, the Declaration of Jerusalem as the Capitol was a miracle. And there's no reason why the miracle of the reestablishment of the temple on the Temple Mount is not possible.

I don't know how it would happen. You don't know how it would happen, but I know that it could happen. That's all I know. And a step in that process, a step in every process, is the recognition that facts and activities on the ground truly matter. And that's why going and visiting Judea and Samaria, understanding that sovereignty, the very sovereignty of Israeli soil. I can't. I can't do it. I'm sorry. It's too much. It goes out for another minute. It's too dizzying.

Let me just stop this thing completely. But the psychodynamics going on behind the eyeballs when you hear words like that being spoken. And then you know what these miracles are of 1917 and 1948 and 1967 that he's referring to. They're not miracles at all. these are atrocious occult British imperial maneuvers to create an artificial synthetic state that could be weaponized for the entirety of the next century, right? So do you like right now it seems like Israel is going full hog greater Israel. It seems like there's celebrations and bunkers all over Israel, all over Tel Aviv. They're like getting drunk with happiness.

But it's a weird thing to celebrate, consider. how many people have to die, including your own Jewish people, for that sort of thing to manifest. But right now, I mean, how do you, I heard that Benjamin Netanyahu is doing a weird, he's celebrating it a weird way. He got the hell out of there with his kids, right? He just, like, got on a plane and flew over to, like, Cyprus. And they basically told him, no, you can't land here. You're not welcome. And then he's like, okay, we'll go to Germany. Who is that? Netanyahu.

Now, yes, I saw his plane flew to Germany. Was he, like, I didn't know if he was on the plane or not, but, but yeah, I mean, I definitely saw this plane, like, they moved his plane out of the, out of the country. Yeah, yeah, yeah, because Sipras said no. And so he basically went to Germany as far as I last checked. And his kid and wife went down to Florida. So there's a certain lack of authenticity to say the least from, I don't know how the people actually living in Israel. are receiving that kind of information from the person who has been committing to, yeah, this all-out war for so many years, really since the 90s.

Like you see some of the videos of Benjamin Netanyahu saying, we have to strike Iran because actually I've got a little video with that too. I just put out a little article. And people have probably seen the video where Benjamin Netanyahu has just been saying for how many, since 1993, that Iran is on the verge of, of a nuclear weapon. They're just months away. And this is a little article

where I just embedded this crazy video where this guy seems to finally gotten what he wants. I don't know if you could hear this. Oh, the video's not available. That's scandalous. Never mind. Which video is it?

Oh, it's the one where it's like a little one-minute montage of him saying Iran is just three months away from having a nuclear weapon. Yeah, I can find. I find that I'm going to really um oh I got it I got it I got it it was not embedded but I was able to get it by simply clicking on it in in YouTube um so let me just I'll just share the YouTube video instead and that should work okay I think share a screen and then here it is here's this asshole uh is it flying I don't think you added it

the stage was that i don't think you added it to the screen oh i've been playing it i thought i did i'm sorry uh sorry i thought you were still loading it yeah yeah there you have you just been started all right here it is stopped iran could produce a nuclear weapon in a very short time it could be a year it could be within a few months they have the wherewithal the stored up preserved knowledge to make a bomb very quickly if they wanted to do it. Iran is so dangerous. Weeks away from having the fissile material for an entire arsenal of nuclear bombs. They're very close. They're six months away from being about 90% of having the rich uranium for an atom bomb.

Iran is gearing up to have to produce 25 bombs, atomic bombs a year, 250 bombs in a decade. Ladies and gentlemen, time is running out. Iran will be capable of producing alone without importing anything nuclear bombs within three to five years. Atara is the IT painkiller. Remote monitor. Oops. Yeah. So I got to say he's got a great radio voice.

It kind of rolls like butter. And it's impressive since, you know, we want to be optimistic. I want to say something nice about somebody before slander, before punching them. he's got a lot of conviction it's really amazing to see that since the early 90s he was able to say those exact same words from the script with an emotional intensity that seems so authentic and that's got to be that's got to be challenging to do that to be the broken record but yet to still speak with meaning consistently and again it what do you think about like what he was doing right before he began this script when he was meeting with uh rabbi shn Miersen, right? And you show me that video. You're the first person actually introduced this to me way back when of chastised by the famous Rebbe of the Chabad Lubavish saying, hey, you're not, you're not fast enough in bringing about the Messiah. I think it's here here. This is the here. Here, it's the, this video here, where he's the, the late Rabbi Schneerson. 1990, Benjamin Nanjahu got near political power at that point. Well, he was, I believe he was the foreign minister at that point. Oh, he's the foreign minister. Okay, right.

Yeah. Soon after entering Israel's parliament for the first time, Netanyahu paid his respects to his mentor. You're just starting in your role. I came to... You with the start. And I tend for a turn too many time. The rabbi says you will have to struggle with 119 other others in the crisis.

Truly won't be intimidated. Mute the video. Oh, okay, I should do that, eh? Yeah, yeah, that way. And then we can hear your few overdubs. Oops. Here we go. Gamma overdubs.

Since we last met, many things have progressed. says the Rebbe to Bibi. Many things have progressed, says Bibi. What hasn't changed, however, says the Rebbe, is that the Messiah still has not come yet. So do something to haste in his coming. We're doing it. We're doing it, says Bibi.

Apparently it's not enough, says the rabbi. Since many hours have already passed today, and he is still not here. All right. Just absolutely bewildering. Bewildering. So going back to Pete, Pete Hanks, comments about prophetic like ideologues who are you know seem like like use in like in time

prophecy and dispensationalism to like impact their politics or geopolitics yeah and especially when you're talking about nuclear weapons i mean i mean was he describing iran or was he describing israel yeah you know yeah exactly especially with what we know israel has done to acquire those nuclear weapons legally and against the better interest of the United States with traders in the 60s, probably Satanists too. You know, you and I were just touching on it, but it does seem like a lot of Crowleyites, including Jack Parsons, the guy who was doing Babylonian, Babylon workings rituals with Elron Hubbard in the deserts following Crowley's, you know, program to usher.

These guys were directly tied into Israel. The same Satanists that killed JFK, like Louis Mortimer Bloomfield, who was working with the Haganah, that guy who's heading up the assassination bureau in Montreal, Permandex, which Jim Garrison, the district attorney, discovered to be at the heart of this thing with the highest noble families of Europe, which were all sitting on the boards of directors, right? This is the thing that was working with the ADL, with the Beny Brith, to establish the state of Israel. at the same time working with Satanists to kill our leaders and colonize the United States and transfer lethal weaponry, including nuclear, to Israel, who then destroyed in the miracle of 1967 that Hegset celebrated, a ship, the SS Liberty, that killed how many U.S. soldiers, right, that we never did anything about. We never 30 some deaths and then like 100 some injuries, something like that. Yeah.

And then some strange deaths after in the years following two of those who were trying to speak openly and bring congressional oversight into investigating what it actually happened. Died strange deaths before they could actually follow through in their promised testimonies. So you've got this strange disgusting thing. Now Iran finally, I got political back in 2006. And I remember lobbying in Congress. I was with the LaRouche organization back then as a volunteer, and we had a list. We were going to Congress in 2006, 2007,

to stop Dick Cheney from bombing Iran. And I remember in, I think it was November of 2007, he came close. All the propaganda was in play for a strike, and the thing that stopped it was that he had to go in for, like, heart surgery. And he was sort of out of play for like a week, at which point some analysts at the national intelligence, estimate basically went public revealing that Cheney had been lying and that there was no evidence

that Iran had been pursuing a weapon as Cheney and all of the media, the BBC, Fox News, everybody was in lockstep. And then these whistleblowers circulated or made public these documents, proving that any weapon of mass destruction program that Iran might have had was absolutely abandoned in 2003 when the fatwa against nuclear bombs was issued by the Ayatollah. And that took all the wind out of the sales of war. And at that point, that bought Iran a lot of time. So there's been, I remember that was what got me originally charged up because I was like, oh, that's a big deal.

Iran is the fourth biggest military at that time, at least in the world. I don't know what they're at today, probably the same. I think they've been for war since then. So they've probably got a lot more capabilities of military production, a lot more deals have been worked out with the Chinese, with the Russians, just apply the means of defending themselves. So, yeah, the implications are very big. Yeah, I would agree with that. And, you know, there's a few different things to consider that I've been thinking about a lot. And a few interesting developments that we should talk about as it relates to, like, the, the concept.

of the war and like what will end up happening, I think, because of because of the situation, which may or may not have been by design from Trump's perspective, but we'll see. So like the first thing that I've been thinking about a lot lately is what I would call the Israel paradox. So like if you go and you listen to the rhetoric and the musings of people like Jonathan Greenblat, the ADL, he's been talking about this a bunch over the past year. The recognition by the diaspora, which I say up the diaspora because, you know, it's across the political spectrum. Like Jonathan Greenblatt, it's not a right-wing guy. He's not, I mean, he's a Zionist, but he's not a right-wing guy.

I guess he'd say he's left-wing, right, left-wing progressive, whatever. But very much his value system aligns with someone like Bebeenad-Jahoo when it comes to Israel. politics, right? And like, like the agenda, the political agenda of Bibi Net and Yahoo, I think Jonathan Greenblatt and Bibi are probably on the same page for the most part. Yes. And I think it's probably many such cases when you look at a lot of these like left wing, left wing and right wing, like Israeli Jewish politics, right? So one thing that Jonathan Greenblatt has been talking about a lot is limit. And I mean, lamenting on one hand, but just recognizing an observation that every generation of Americans, the support for Israel has waned significantly, right?

So when you look at the support for Israel among like the baby boomer generation versus like Gen Z, the Gen Z side is like almost near zero is like is nearing zero in terms of like support for like political, like support for political Zionism, right? versus the baby boomer generation. So this is recognized by Greenblatt. And he has said, we are making significant steps to try to reverse this. This is like the crisis of our time. We need to address this because if we lose this, this is going to be a blow to the state of Israel and its security. So if you look at, if you accept that, I mean, if you accept that that trend is real.

Just quick, let me actually show a graph featuring that very true. that you are describing right now. That's actually a Gallup poll World Affairs survey showcasing the support of or the American sympathies in the Middle East situation between Palestinians in blue and Israel in green over the past 25 years. And you can clearly see exactly what you've been pointing out that for the first time ever it's crossed over to be more sympathetic to the Palestinians and Israeli support has just completely collapsed. Yeah. And so like that graph, I mean, as much as you want to believe or you can accept, you know, a single pole and a single graph, I imagine just looking at the numbers and like the data that is not very descriptive in terms of what the sample sizes or whatever, you would assume that's just everybody. That's just like a holistic.

snapshot of everything, right? If you were to break that down though by generation, which they have done in other charts and other like research, you know, the support is still pretty high if you, if you isolate just out baby boomers, right? But if you, if you isolate the like millennials or Gen Z, it's very different. Like it looks way worse than that graph even presents it, right? Because that graph is averaging out the baby boomers with, you know, the Gen Z. demographic. So again, like if you're looking at that and you accept it, like you accept, that's where the trend is. Now, can you reverse it? You know, can Jonathan Greenblatt and the ambition of his friends? That remains to be seen. That's a, that's a rhetoric exercise. That's

an exercise in persuasive rhetoric, persuasive argument, right? I mean, that's the crux of politics. But if you accept that that's the trend and they look at that and they're like, they're like, this is a real thing. This is very, very dangerous. And if you understand the rhetoric and the mindset of the Israeli national security policy, which is anything that threatens Israel is an existential threat. And anything that threatens the state of Israel and its existence should be destroyed or should be dealt with, right, in one way or another. Whether it's censorship or, or, you know, public, public rebuke, public ridicule, whatever. Like whatever it is, they have, you know, character assassination. They have different ways of dealing with these different threats. But if you accept that this is where the trend is headed in America, that America is trending towards losing support, political support for Israel, from their perspective, if they're looking at this from a survivor, like a survival standpoint,

there's two things. Number one, their time is short in terms of like squeezing out whatever they can from the United states, whether it's in the form of actual material support, you know, like aid, money, military aid, that sort of thing, right? The ability for them to persuade the Pentagon and the State Department to wage war on their behalf, right, in places like Iran, the Middle East, that door, like that window is closing. But at the same time, there's another thing that I would imagine they're discussing and they're worried about. And that is the very real possibility that in the future at some point, you know, decades from now, not only will they lose the support of

America, but potentially America could become a threat to Israel. Like if there's enough political animus toward Israel, like we're seeing right now manifest, America could actually flip and become a threat to them, the same way that they perceive right now, Iran being a threat or Turkey being a threat, or the Muslims being a threat, right? And so if they're long-term planning, which they do do they are very good at long-term planning when it comes to this stuff um maybe there maybe one way they would look at it is they say all right well we need to make sure that uh america is sabotaged to the extent that they that it can't hurt us 30 years in the future right like today we're not worried about the u.s military waging war on on israel but 30 years from now

who knows it could be it could be a very different world so how do we prevent us from being in a situation where if the U.S. military wanted to come after us because it's no longer sympathetic, you know, from a sentimental, epistemological dispensational standpoint, how do we stop that? You know, and then you look at some of the things that are happening in America with, like, cultural Marxism and like the decline of masculinity and like the decline of military standards. the you know it's almost like siphoning out all of the wealth and the value and the military prowess of America and almost transferring it to Israel and then you look at what Netanyahu's been up to lately he's pivoting to India he's pivoting to he's pivoting away from like dependency on the US he

wants he said he wants Israel to become fully independent in terms of like its military capability and developing its own weapons, developing its own military industrial complex, its own defense industry. Modi visited there last week, and there was a pretty significant speech you gave in McKenesset. But it's clear that Netanyahu is trying to diversify the relationships they have and not putting all the eggs in one basket of the United States, but trying to spread it out a little bit and hedging bets. And I think that might be part of what we're looking at is we're looking at, looking at this idea that if the concern from like Jonathan Greenblatt standpoint is that

30 years from now there will be no political support in America for Israel, would they then view America as a threat as a clear and present danger? And how would, and are they really going to wait 30 years from now to deal with that? Or are they going to start dealing with it right now? So like those are the things that I think about and I look at and I'm like, you know, these are these are the reasons that that faction would be pushing America in certain directions and trying to capitalize in this moment on all right, let's squeeze every last bit of usefulness we can out of this before that window totally closes forever. But didn't the U.S. need to do this?

I mean, I've been watching some of the messaging coming out of like Marco Rubio and others describing that they went into this as sort of a preventative. defensive strategy because they didn't, I guess there's the sense that they knew that Israel was going to do it anyway. So rather than having Israel just spark a fight with Iran that could result in massive chaos, they said, well, let's get in there first and preemptively strike Iran with Israel. Some people are saying that this is brilliant. I've encountered a lot of influencers out there saying that this is great, wouldn't it have been like just wiser to simply just step back and say, well, if Israel wants to go and risk its existence by starting this

fight, why don't they just go at it solo and take the repercussions? Like, why did the US have to get in there and get their hands bloody? Yeah, that's a great question. And, yeah, so let's play that video that you're referring to. And we will, let me see, right here. Yeah. Okay, so here's the Rubio, the Rubio clip you're referring to that kind of went viral the other day. You're all sure. Why now? Well, there's two reasons why now. The first is it was abundantly clear that if Iran came under attack by anyone, the United States or Israel or anyone, they were going to respond and respond against the United States.

The orders had been delegated down to the field commanders. It was automatic. And in fact, it bear to be true because, in fact, within an hour of the, of the, of the, of the, attack on the leadership compound, the missile forces in the south and in the north, for that matter, had already been activated to launch. In fact, those already been pre-positioned. The third is the assessment that was made that if we stood and waited for that attack to come first before we hit them, we would suffer much higher casualties. And so the President made the very wise decision. We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action.

We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces. And we knew that if we didn't preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties and perhaps even higher those killed. And then we would all be here answering questions about why we knew that indeed. Yeah. So, and that obviously triggered everybody on the internet to say, well, obviously, that means Israel led us into the war. So the point that I was just making a long-winded point that I just made was that that's the motivation from the Israeli, like, the Israel lobby standpoint of like why they would be pushing for this not just in the past month or two, but in, you know, for years and years and years, right? And I do think that there was like a major

momentum around this issue to lead to this moment that has very little to do with, you know, specifically Trump's presidency or specifically whatever's happening right now in the Middle East, right? I think this was always something that was on the agenda. It's something that I prognosticated years ago, three years ago, because I thought that that was what made sense, that, that, like, they would, what they would try to do, like, from a pragmatic standpoint. And so then the question is, all right, well, then how do you deal with it from the, from the American perspective, right? From the American patriot, like, earnest populist standpoint, how do you thwart this? How do you deal with it?

So what Rubio described right there was that Israel was pretty much going to move forward regardless of whether or not we, which is what a lot of the reporting out there was saying as well. It's like even if America decides they don't want a good war with Iran, Israel's going to go ahead and do it because they feel like this is their chance and this is when they want to take their shot and they probably won't get the shot again. So that's what all the rhetoric out there was, was that Israel was going to move forward. And so what Rubio was saying is we knew that. And so we wanted to go ahead and take the initiative away from them. That idea is a callback, actually, to Operation Midnight Hammer because that's kind of what Trump said was his thinking behind Midnight Hammer, which, again, I'm not even convinced that that was something that actually happened. There was just a story that was told. But that was Trump basically saying, all right, I did the thing that everyone wanted to happen.

So now we can stop fighting and the war is over. 12-day war said and done call the planes back it's done um so then you get before i played these other clips uh you get trump asked about this yesterday during his meeting with the german prime minister merr's and he said something that i thought was like really really interesting um really kind of um changes that dynamic significantly No, I might have forced their hand. You see, we were having negotiations with these lunatics, and it was my opinion that they were going to attack first. They were going to attack if we didn't do it.

They were going to attack first. I felt strongly about that. And we have great negotiators, great people, people that do this very successfully, and have done it all their lives very successful. And based on the way the negotiation was going, I think they were going to attack first. And I didn't want that to happen. So if anything, I might have forced Israel's hand. But Israel was ready and we were ready. How do you read that?

Powerful impact. Well, so the way I read that is there's a number of things. Number one is I went over on my show yesterday. You may recall that back on January 18th, when the neocons were all banging on the table being like, we got to go start this war with Israel. Like, I mean, with Iran, like, what's the hold off? Right. Netanyahu came out and actually asked Trump to slow down. He was like, hold up. We're not quite ready to defend against like a response from Iran yet.

Let's make sure we have all of our ducks in the road before we move forward. Now, what he meant, I think specifically was that you don't have enough assets in the region to protect us if you do this. So let's get more assets in the region. Let's get our like some aircraft carrier strike groups in the region, which they didn't have the time. they do now. So I think that's partly what he meant, but it's interesting because we also got this commentary from, and by the way, Pete Hegstaff came out and reposted that video. Let me show you.

Like, I like screenshot of this and then send it to everyone and like send it to John and all them because let me see if it's on this account. Not the Solomon Temple video. No, no, no, no. It was, it was Yeah, no, no, it was the video that I just played of Trump, of Trump saying, of Trump saying Israel didn't lead us into this. We actually forced Israel's hand. And then Hegstv reposted it and said, this is 100% correct.

And then, like, Ezra Kohn-Watnik, like, reposted that comment. And so there's like, again, just consensus among a lot of these Trump administration officials that it wasn't, it wasn't Israel who forced us into a, war. It was us who forced Israel into a war. And then if you look at right now, what's happening in Tel Aviv, which is hard to discern, because there's AI like nonsense all over the internet.

And then Israel was very tight-lipped about what they let out in terms of information. They're like arresting journalists on the street who were covering this stuff. There's videos of that. But like if you go and you like you know I was listening to Bannon interview somebody yesterday and both Bannon and the guy who was interviewing both said look spoken to many many friends in

Tel Aviv they're getting pounded right now like they're getting pounded in a way that they didn't even they didn't think was going to happen and they and even Netanyahu's caught off guard on how significant the Iran Iran's responses uh and according to Iran according to Russia this is only the beginning like they have even broken out like the the biggest stuff they have yet. So, you know, I can't help but wonder, Matt, if that's what is going to happen here. Like, Trump has made it very clear he wants a short wind, like, he wants a short little he wants a special military operation, not even a war. He wants, he says four weeks. But do you believe, though, that, that, uh, that they're, they're serious when they say

that Iran would have attacked American bases if, if Israel had gone alone during the peace negotiations with the Americans in Oman that right in the middle of the peace negotiations and Israel strikes Iran, that Iran would have immediately have started attacking all of the U.S. assets in the Middle East. Is that? Yeah. Does that make no sense? Yeah, it doesn't really make a lot of sense.

And it's, yeah, I mean, it's, it's hard to say. Like, I think from Iran's perspective, they don't think Israel is going to do anything without the backing of the U.S. because they want the U.S. military doing this, doing most of this, right? Or at least protecting them. So would they believe that, I guess the question is, would Iran believe, even if Israel did act alone without the U.S. involvement, would Iran even believe that? I don't know. Maybe they would.

Maybe they wouldn't. I think they could conceive of that, but would they actually believe that officials in the U.S. government, because I do think there are plenty of neocons. so bopping around did they actually not want a war with Iran? I mean, I think Iran probably thinks they do. Well, based on the evidence that I've seen, because I know when Soleimani was killed in January 3rd of 2020, Trump got on the phone and called the Iranian leadership straight from the Oval Office, remember that? And he basically said he had a back and forth all day bypassed the State Department. And I think it was through the Swiss embassy where they have this old school like a landline. or a fax line or something that they were communicating with that bypassed the five eyes.

And they basically, he basically communicated with them and got them to have a very, to basically tone down to not retaliate. He explained that things are out of control inside of the, the US administration, but they, they negotiated some sort of a tit for tat, you know, like you, you could do a retaliatory revenge strike for the optics,

you know, give us some for notice, which they did. American military were evacuated from a certain base, I think, in Iraq. And the Iranians struck that. They declared victory and revenge was done. You know, and we all kind of went back to relative norm. It seems like Iran has shown evidence that they understand that there are these battles within, you know, the U.S. establishment and are open to working with that fact.

So it doesn't strike me that right in the middle of what seems to be the most successful peace negotiations that we have yet seen, that they would have necessarily have struck or believed that the U.S. was behind Israel's decision to go and sabotage the peace negotiations, which, again, according to the Omanian foreign minister, right, Iran had agreed, Al-Alarjani's people had agreed to full verification cross. to the IAEA. They agreed to no stockpiling to to downgrade it to to ensuring that they would they would not enrich uranium beyond a certain percentage. Like everything was agreed upon on top of the fact that you had the offers from Russia to do a lot of the enriching and then send that the enriched uranium for civilian use. So all back to Iran. So a lot of these it was like the biggest success moves ever. And then just, I don't know, I just don't think that Iran would have believed

that the US was culpable for any strike that Israel would have launched at that time. So to have, I don't know, it just seems like either a blunder or a deceit, one of the two that seems to be behind the decision making to go in and the first thing as well, for me the optics are so bad. The optics and the morality,

because one of the first things that were struck wasn't, I mean, yeah, they killed Kaminé, the guy who put the fought, or who supported most, most vigorously the fatwa against nuclear weapons mass destruction and his daughter and his granddaughter and the defense minister and the chief of staff and, you know, Ahmadinejad, who's now, Ahmadinejad, who is maybe a bit, he was pretty unhinged, you know, like his, his rhetoric was quite fiery back in the day and very useful for the neocons and Netanyahu to say, look, they want death to a, America, look at what Ahmadinejad is saying.

But now Ahmadinejad, who was retired, he's been killed. So now he's a martyr. Now they're turning him into a martyr figure. And you could see, like, you can't put that genie back in the bottle in the girls' school. Like, that was again. And like, why have all the things to target? Would you pick a school of seven to 12 year old children to bomb? That was a, and I think, I think as, as,

Iran reported that actually was like in his like that was Israel's attack. I think Israel attacked the girls' school, right? Yeah. Yeah, because it was because they specifically blamed that on Israel. They didn't, they actually didn't blame it on the U.S. They blamed that on Israel. Well, that's good that they could make that differentiation. But that showcase is again that they do differentiate that the U.S. is not in control.

So I really don't think they would have. I think Trump and Higsteth and Rubio are wrong when they say that the U.S. was feeling insecure. I think you're right. But consider this. So consider this. Yeah. Trump says he wants a short operation and done. And I mean, is that realistic?

I don't know. Like, is it realistic to say, hey, we're going to do three weeks of war and then we're done. Like, time out. Like, we're good guys. Game over. Like, let's all go. Let's all go out for ice cream now. Maybe, maybe not.

I mean, Trump certainly has demonstrated in the past that he can do like a limited operation and then just stop. It's worth pointing out that that that's, this is exactly what. what's his name, Cheney called for with Iraq. He was like, oh, yeah, it'll be a couple weeks, a couple weeks, and then we'll be done. But here's what's interesting. Israel doesn't want a four-week war. Israel wants like a four-year war. They want this thing to keep going and going and going and going and going and going because they've already said, when we're done with Iran, we're going to Turkey.

They've already started a war with Lebanon. They started that war. You have this. Pull my screen back up. I don't know why. Oh, here, I got it. here it's okay there it is thank you um yeah so here's benny gans from a few days ago i think eventually there'll be a need for boots on the ground i would not include it for

those reasons or other but we'll have to see how it goes and will that include israeli boots on the ground do you think i exclude nothing uh we've been waiting for 47 years and uh we came to a point but every every necessary means should be taken in order to achieve our goals what we're seeing from. Okay, so now he's talking about boots on the ground in Iran, which like all the experts and analysts for years have said there's just no way that the IDF is even considering this because it'd be too insane. I've actually been saying that for the past year that I think this is what the goal is. I'll get to that in a second. Here, I just saw this as I was pulling up these clips.

This is, I'm watching this for the first time myself. Here's James Comer now from today saying the exact same thing. the people have cards close to the vest on this, but we've already lost six groups. The president says she does expect more. A lot of Americans and military families want to know if their loved ones are about to be deployed to Iran for this.

Will there be boots on the ground? The president has yet to rule that out. I certainly hope not. If there are boots on the ground, I hope they're not on the ground any longer than the boots on the ground were in Venezuela. But I think that that's something

the president knows that, members of Congress certainly hope doesn't happen, but sometimes that's unavoidable in a situation like this. And you mentioned six troops have lost their lives, one that's been from Fort Knox in Kentucky, mountain states. So, you know, we're devastating. And obviously, our thoughts are with the families of anyone that's been lost or wounded thus far. So now you have an American politician saying, yeah, you might need to put boots on the ground on Iran. And then here, but let's go back to this.

This is my appearance on John Harold Show April 10th of last year. Why Israel wants Syria. They want this thing that's called the David Corridor, which this southern portion of Syria is controlled by the United States. So they can access, this is the Euphrates River. East of the Euphrates is Kurdistan. And so the Kurds are allies. All of these are U.S. bases. All the U.S. bases we have in Syria are over here.

The IDF wants direct access on land to these bases and to Kurdistan. I think, and this is my speculation, so that as a staging ground for an invasion into Iran and a war with Iran. So they want to create this corridor on the southern border called the David's Corridor. And that's what I think this is about. And Turkey could potentially be the forcing function to stop that if cards are played right. So I think that that might be what the play is here, is to stop, to stop the idea from doing that.

The state is trying to make peace with Iran. Where does that put, where does that put things when Israel eventually tries to make that move, you know? Yeah, exactly. So, so it seems to me what potentially might happen is we might see a situation where, where Trump is like, all right, we're done. The Iran war is over. Israel's like, oh, we're not done.

Like, we're going to keep going. and and because they're going to try to maybe do it a land invasion, which may or may not work, but they're going to keep getting pounded. They're getting pounded right now. That's what all the reports are. Are they going to be forced to surrender? I wonder if Netanyahu put himself in a situation where he's now been given everything he could possibly ever want. He's like a kid on Christmas morning.

He's been given everything he's ever asked for. He'll war with Iran. But I think he's bitten off more than you can chew. I think this is going to end up actually being way more than what they can handle. Well, you see it already. They're stuffing so much in their mouth already. They've got the invasion of Lebanon. You know, Hezbollah is just saying they're the era of peace is over.

Now we're entering a new era. And Aoun who's been trying to de-weaponize, you know, disarm Hezbollah is freaking out because he's kind of a puppet. And he's trying to like have, have, you know, have nice playtime with Israel. But Hezbollah is pretty well organized. So now you've got to go. an invasion of of Lebanon. Body count is growing very fast.

Legislation has already been passed in the, in the Israeli Knesset since July of last year, sanctioning the annexation of the West Bank, as well as a big territory in Jordan. We have,

it seems like the, they're budding off, like you said, more than, more than, more than they could choose as an understatement. Yes. Now they haven't, unleashed we know that there's probably well over a hundred nuclear warheads that israel has with some peculiar things like the samson doctrine which is makes any i think any rational person is very uneasy about how that that will be used then against whom exactly um a lot of the arab countries

don't officially have nuclear warheads they Israel does to what degree will they use them to what degree will they use them against their allies as we've also heard certain officials make the point that that's also a policy doctrine. I don't know. The other thing, too, is that Iran, you brought up India playing a very dangerous game, meeting with Netanyahu, meeting with Carney for moving away from the bricks and towards the, you know, the India, Middle East Europe economic corridor. That was what Modi had discussed with Netanyahu right before this war began.

Well, also, there's an idea of a NATO-like structure. with Israel and India playing a key role in the Middle East and a few other friendly Arab countries would be a part of that as well. That was also floated. I forgot the name I-2J2 or something. But people are wondering like, well, I know that a lot of good people are confused and have been listening to some of the reporting by, you know, but like a lot of MAGA influencers out there, like the Promethean Pack, Barbara Boyd, Susan Kikinda Crew, they've been putting out messaging saying that actually this is great because Iran was evil and Iran is actually the city of London and NATO.

Yeah, you saw that too. It's crazy. My stomach turned. And it's like, no, actually, when you look at what Iran is, they're like the linchpin that makes the erasian program of the Belt and Road initiative. That's what people are looking at there is the upper image is the core artery of the new Silk Road, the Belt and Road initiative that goes through Iran. A big chunk of it was supposed to go through Syria, but that's been overturned.

So that's not going to happen. Syria is now supporting Israel under ISIS control. But a big chunk of that involved trade routes going from China through the Middle East into Europe through Iran. The other one is the north-south, below it transportation corridor. And that's featured on that graph where, again, Iran clearly plays the key node in the India to Russia transport corridor. It's 9,000 miles long. It's been 20 years in the making. They're a key part of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

That's Iran. They joined that in 2021. They joined the bricks in 2024. It's like they rejected Rothschild private central banks from the city of London. They're one of the only countries that have successfully staved off the implementation of a Rothschild private central bank in their country. So for people who are saying that, no, that this, they're a city of London, Rothschild, British, Empire colony and that's what's being attacked by the good guys. People, I got to just say for those listening, you're being hypnotized.

That's not true. It's a hypnotic induction to get people to transfer over their idea of Iran is actually not Iran. It is the city of London. And thus, it is good to destroy it. That's a hypnotic induction. I'm not speaking to you, or I'm speaking to anybody in the audience who might be a little confused because this is being amplified by alex of,

a lot of influencers currently across the board. It's quite astounding. Even some of our friends have started chewing on this, on this narrative. And it's just so, yeah. Yeah, because people have been sending me their stuff for a while now. And one of the things that they put out right after Maduro was arrested was they were, the assertion that Maduro was a MI6 asset and he was working for the London bankers. And that's there's just so much.

evidence to suggest it's the complete opposite of that. And you prove that so well in your presentations. He's been actually working to destroy the entire narco banking network. Absolutely. I got to get ready to go, unfortunately. It's at the top of the hour, and I had another big interview. Last thing you should look into, as we break, the Lloyds of London stuff. Oh, yeah.

So the shipping industry is like the insurance for shipping has been totally brought to a grinding hole because of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Every ship that leads port for those listening, you get an insurance policy on it in case it doesn't reach its destination for any reason. And they have what's called a war clause. They have like a war risk. So if there's a war and things that close down because of that, the insurance company pays out because of it.

So all these ships are now trapped because of the Strait of Hormuz is closed. Those insurance companies are going to have to pay out all these premiums. And apparently the entire like insurance industry is now threatened because of it. Trump now put out an executive order saying he is now going to, like the U.S. is going to now start providing insurance and basically take over the insurance industry, like with the U.S. Navy backing it. That's interesting to me. Like, let's see what happens because Petro said they're going after the big cartel guys, the leaders, which are like the bankers, the financiers, insurance industry, right? So let's see what happens.

That's an interesting little subplot to keep track of. Yeah, well, there's a fight over maritime control over the world. So that's that's very interesting. Okay, cool. Well, that's interesting. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you need to sign off, there's some rants. I will do the rants if you need to sign off.

Cool. All right. Enjoy the rants. Thank you, everybody. And I'll see all probably on Monday for the typical movie night. And then next week we'll jump back on breaking history. Oh, wait, hold on, hold on. Streamyard kicked me out, like logged me out.

So I can't I don't live. I can actually shut down the show. Oh, no. Here, just do this. Let's just end the show. Guys, I'm going to save all the rants and we will do all the rants next week. So I'm going to save them and put them on the mind map and then we will do all the rants next week. But yes, sub stream yard has like logged me out.

This kind of stuff happens every few weeks. Stream yard's been getting on my last nerve. All right. All right. Next week we'll tackle all these comments. All right. Bye, guys. All right.

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