Badlands Media - Geopolitics with Ghost Ep. 90: Israel, Iran, and the Media’s Narrative Machine - 3/6/26

Episode Date: March 6, 2026

On March 6, 2026, Ghost digs into the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran, breaking down the claims, counterclaims, and media narratives shaping how the world interprets the unfolding situation. He examines the reported strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, Israel’s justification for the attack, and the broader geopolitical consequences now rippling across the region. Ghost analyzes statements from world leaders, reactions from Russia and China, and how the language surrounding “preemptive strikes” and “self-defense” is being used to frame public perception. The conversation also explores how rapidly developing information, conflicting reports, and political messaging make it increasingly difficult for the public to understand what is actually happening. Throughout the episode, Ghost urges listeners to think critically about how information is presented during wartime and to question narratives that appear too neatly packaged. In a conflict where perception may be as powerful as military force, understanding the story behind the headlines becomes essential.

of the badlands explain those badlands that's a hell of a name good afternoon everybody welcome to geopolitists of ghost i'm your host gordon mccormick the ghost of base patrick henry uh yeah having some camera issues so we're going with the uh default camera so it's a weird camera situation um but today is march 6th 2026 This is Badlands Media. Again, I'm your host, Gordon McCormick, the ghost of base Patrick Henry. Welcome to the show. So I guess we will just jump right into it.

We're going to be talking, I guess, in the beginning of the show, we'll talk about updates on the Iran situation, the Iran War. and then we will get to other geopolitical news. So I guess let's look at the most recent news on this is this news story. The White House will need four to six weeks to meet our war objectives. Iran's Navy is combat ineffective. Let's see. White House Trump defines unconditional surrender as Iran no longer post. threat to the U.S.

We can watch, let's read Trump's true social post and we'll look at Caroline Levitt's comments. So from the president, there will be no deal with Iran except unconditional surrender after that and the selection of a great and acceptable

leader. We and many of our wonderful and very brave allies and partners will work tirelessly to bring Iran back from the brink of destruction, make it economically bigger and better and stronger than ever before. Iran will have a great future. Make Iran great again. Miga, thank you for your attention to this matter. Okay. And then as far as the commentary from Caroline Levitt.

President Trump means when he says unconditional surrender is when he as commander-in-chief of the United States military and the leader of the free world determines that Iran could no longer pose a threat to the United States of America into our troops. and our personnel in the Middle East. That is, again, the ultimate goal of Operation Epic Fury to annihilate their Navy, to take out their ballistic missile threat, which we have largely done in the course of just six days, and then, of course, to ensure they can never obtain a nuclear weapon

to significantly weaken their proxies in the region that have killed and maimed hundreds of Americans throughout the years. We've seen the Houthis and Hezbollah have hardly put up a fight over the past six days. So we're already well on our way to achieving the objectives of Operation Epic Fury. and when the president determines that Iran no longer poses that threat, that's when that unconditional surrender will take place. As for the next leader of Iran, the president has said, of course it's in the best interest of the United States to have a leader that is no longer chanting death to America, that is no longer conspiring behind our backs and lying to the American people

and to our government about proliferating a nuclear weapon, which Iran has been doing for decades. It's unacceptable to the president. That's why he decided to launch this operation and that's his goal and it will continue to be moving forward okay so i guess my question is if the goal was to curb hatred toward the united states and animus towards the united states within within iran is a bombing campaign the most effective way to do that i don't know that's just a simple observation but we will uh wait and see i guess um let's look at at some other other headlines um this is from yesterday iran threatens to hit dem uh demona nuclear site uh if israel in the u.s try to topple regime

u.s says working on plans to secure straight of hormones to prevent iran from restricting free flow of energy through vital waterway Washington mulling roll and post-war Iran. It says Iran will target the Israeli nuclear site of Damona if Israel and the U.S. seek regime change in the Islamic Republic, semi-official ISNA news agency reported Wednesday, citing an Iranian military official. The Iranian threat came five days into an intense joint U.S.-Israel air campaign against Iran. Both have said the aim is to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear bomb and to destroy the Islamic Republic's long-range ballistic missile. program. Israel has also actively encouraged Iranians to overthrow their regime while the U.S. has indicated it would welcome such a change. The Shimon-Perez-Nague nuclear research center near the city of Demona is believed to be key to Israel's long-suspected atomic weapons program.

Uh-oh. They have atomic weapons? Israel does not confirm or deny having nuclear weapons, of course. The site located in the Nigev southern region of the country is among the most protected locations in the country, with measures believed to include the full range of Israel's air defense systems. In response to the campaign, Iran has fired missiles at regional countries hosting U.S. bases and at Israel where the attacks have killed 10 people. Three missile attacks overnight Wednesday sent millions of Israelis scrambling to bomb shelters but caused no injuries. The UN nuclear watchdog IAEA says that facilities housing nuclear material in Iran have suffered no damage in the recent fighting and there is no risk of radiation leak. Meanwhile, the U.S. is working on plans to secure the Strait of Hormuz. Amid the war with Iran, U.S. or White House official, I'm sorry, White House spokeswoman Caroline Levitt said,

Leavitt said during a press briefing that Operation Epic Fury, the U.S. moniker for the campaign, will ensure that Iran will no longer be able to restrict the free flow of energy through a waterway that controls roughly 20% of the world's oil supply. Quote, and as the Department of War said this morning, we expect to have complete and total dominance over Iranian airspace in the coming hours, Leavitt said. Defense Secretary Pete Hegsa said earlier that the U.S. and Israel would have to have. total control of Iranian skies within a week. Leavitt added that the U.S. has destroyed more than 20 Iranian ships, doubling the number from two days ago, asked about the reports that the U.S. is considering arming Kurdish fighters against Iran. Leavitt denied this is the case, saying that the U.S. President Donald Trump only spoke to Kurdish leaders recently about the American military

base in northern Iraq. Media reports have said that the U.S. is in a talk to the Iranian Kurds to fight against Iran's security forces to enable a popular uprising against the regime that in January brutally suppressed anti-regime protests killing thousands. Depending on who you ask. I mean, of course, I think maybe the protests are being led by Mossad and the CIA by the admission of Mike Pompeo. While Leavitt didn't rule out the potential for U.S. ground troops in Iran eventually, of course, She said that they are no part, they are not part of the plan for the operation at this time, but Trump is discussing with his advisors what role the U.S. could have in Iran after the military campaign.

U.S. intelligence is monitoring, monitoring reports that Majtaba Khomeini, the son of the Iran's slain supreme leader, has emerged as a frontrunner to secede him. She said, quote, we've seen those reports as well, of course. and this is something that our intelligence agencies are looking at. The truth is we'll have to wait and see. She told reporters. Yeah. So, and then it just goes on to give more background on that.

Well, what about the fact that Israel has nuclear weapons? Are we not, are we just going to, we're just going to gloss right over that? We're going to, we're going to start a war with Iran because they might have nuclear weapons, maybe. which they legally, I think, are allowed to have because they signed all the non-proliferation treaties and they followed all the rules according to international law regarding enrichment of uranium. But Israel hasn't done any of those things, of course. And whatever they do have was illegally stolen from the United States, but we're not going to pursue any of that because pursuing justice against that unlawful theft and possession

would be what? Nobody can fill that blanket. Nobody can explain to me why we go along with that criminality, why we embrace criminality, why we justify criminality. Some criminality is acceptable, but other forms of criminality are totally unacceptable, says the moral relativist. And the moral relativist, of course,

is the Satanist, that is the person who rejects God and rejects truth and rejects the one meaning of the word. truth and the universal truth that is God and embraces instead the devil's interpretation of truth, which is my truth is not your truth, his truth is not her truth. I'm just kind of over the whole moral relativist worldview. I think that it's a really sick, perverted, twisted worldview. And for too long, we've allowed our politicians to embrace it. And for too long, the politicians have led us by the nose into war because of it. And I think maybe we should look at this post. So this is a post that's been going viral. It was put out by David Sheen,

who is a Israeli journalist. And so of course, there's a misconception on the internet that this is Ittemar Bingavir saying this. This is not Ittemar Bingavir saying this. That's Ittemar Bingavir in the background. You can see him clearly right there. I'll go ahead and play the video. then we can talk about what is happening in the video. It's in Hebrew, so I'm just going to, I'll read what it says. It says, if you listen to the news, then you've heard that Muhammad is the most popular name in the United Kingdom, right? So we want it to be the most popular name in the United Kingdom. There should be lots of Mohammeds in Britain, in Sweden, in France.

Not here, not here. That's what we want. Now, the guy, let me just back it up a little bit, so you can clearly see his face. You can clearly see this guy's face right here. Okay? That is not Itimar bin Gavir. It's Amar bin Gavir, the Israeli national security minister is the guy standing directly behind him. The guy speaking into the microphone that's attached to his head, you know, where he's wearing a microphone, is actually Binzi Gopstein, who I've been talking about Benzegovstein for three years.

This is Benzegovstein right here. He's the leader of the Lahava movement in Israel. clearly that's him right there you can clearly see us when everyone to get get get a good glimpse at this ugly demon this guy has a really really ugly face you can clearly see this guy's ugly mug right here okay that is binsey gopstein and then let's go back to the video you can clearly see that's benzy gobstine even it's not really great resolution but it's obviously not it tomorrow bingavir who when he leans forward you can see bingavir's face in the background there he is right there behind him. There's been

Gavir. And so Binsey Gopstein of course was arrested in 2015 for incitement because in an interview with Slate magazine he said that Christians were blood-sucking vampires that they were the mortal that they were the

mortal and historic enemy of Jews and that they should all be driven physically driven out of Israel with violence and that all churches should be burned to the ground and because of that he was arrested in Israel for incitement to violence. He was formerly charged and then he went to court. And when he went to court, of course, I have pictures from that incident.

That was in 2020. Here's that picture. The defense attorney who represented him in court, of course, was none other than lawyer Itamar bin Gavir. the guy standing behind him in that video, who is now the national security, I'm sorry, the national security minister of Israel. He's also a Jewish supremacists. These are all Jewish supremacists. It's very important to understand that. These people are all absolute supremacists when it comes to bloodline and their view. And just to prove what I'm saying, here is the mind map

where I document all that, where I keep all this stuff documented, so it's easy to refer back to. And it's one of the first things I put on the my map. But I built the whole mind map really around Dan Gertler. But the other person that I built the my map around aside from Dan Gertler was Binzi Gopstein. And here is Benzie Gopstein right, right there. There's Bin Zipharin. They even name him right here. La Hava chairman, Binzi Gopstein on the right.

attorney, now member of the Knesset, Itamar bin Gavir, left at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on June 8th, 2020. That was when he went to court for publicly calling for the killing, the violent persecution of Christians in Israel, the burning of all churches in Israel, to make all non-Jews second-class citizens. These are all tenants of Maire Kahane's a political doctrine that was his political mentor and the people in the background, this kid in the background holding up with this vaccinated kid with the mask on, he's holding up a banner that says Kahana lives

and that's what their whole movement is, the Lahaba movement. So this is the reigning political doctrine in Israel right now, the people who are in charge of Israel, the people who are our closest allies, our strongest allies, our strongest allies, our best allies, who openly profess their hatred for Christians, who openly profess their hatred for Jesus, who openly profess their contempt towards us as Americans. And then we get on our knees and we grovel before them and we kiss their feet and we lick their feet and we prostrate ourselves before them because they are gods walking among us. We idolize them and they spit on us.

and that is the reality of our relationship with Israel. And if you don't believe me, and I'm sure plenty of people out there don't believe me, let's just play a few more videos because I have videos for us to watch. These are inconvenient, very inconvenient, but they're the truth. And we don't hide away from the truth here. So here is a video of a rabbi named Yosef Mitzra. Okay? Let's listen to what he says.

The Christians evangelists here in America, which almost all of them are Republicans, they probably all going to vote for... This video is not a great quality. It's not coming through very well. Let me see if I can... Give me one second. Let me see if I can pull up the raw video here. They're Republicans. They probably all can us... Okay, so I'm save that from that file here it is all right this should be a better better better quality for the sound shins evangelists here in america which almost all of them are republicans they probably won't have vote for trump and they are very poise right they are the ones that thanks to them

united states always been with israel in the last few decades if you take out of the picture what united states have to do with israel okay so just to be clear this guy's talking about christians Zionist in America. He says most of them are Republicans and they support Israel. But why did they support Israel? So right now he is referring to the people in America who love Israel, who think Israel's our greatest ally, who say that anything, you know, that we have a whatever, moral obligation to protect Israel and whatever. So if you're somebody who's of that mindset, who sympathize with Israel and thinks to our ally, he's talking about you. Listen to what he says about you. The only things they are helping us is because of religion reason.

But what a lot of Jews do not know is that they're not doing it for us. They are doing it only for themselves. Make no mistake. They all believe that once we will go back to the Holy Land and J.C. Penny will show up to redeem the world. He will put us all to be burning hell. That's what they believe. Because we never accepted it.

And we won't accept him. So why they want to help us to take over Israel, to win against the Arabs, make sure the Jews go, why they pay all these organization that sponsor Alia? A lot of the people who made Alia, it's Christian money. All their affair. It's all come from them. There's some reform rabbis who have connection with them. they get hundreds of millions of dollars donation for them.

Rabbis from an Aten from Texas. Why are they are so generous? Why are they donating money to Israel? What do they care about Israel? The answer is because they believe the Messiah would come. They just have the wrong identity of the Messiah. That's it. They believe that it's actually J-C.

They never watch my debate with a Christian professor. They would watch it quickly. I would dump all the Christian symbols, you know, well, because it would be so obvious that it's all fake. So, you know, he refers to Jesus as J.C. Penny, and everyone in the audience laughs. He says, the only reason these people are helping us, the only reason these Christian Zionists support us and send all this money to us is because they think that when the Messiah comes,

that we're all going to convert and we're all going to adopt Jesus as our Savior, And we're all going to be saved. And he's basically saying that's all BS. We're not doing any of that. So he's sitting here mocking Christians, Zionists, for believing that they're on the same team, that we're all in the same team and that we all believe the same thing. And ultimately, they're going to convert.

He's like, we're not doing any of that. It's a joke. And he's even making fun of Jesus in that moment. And they're all laughing at it. They're all laughing at J.C. Penny is what they call him. J.C. Penny. I don't think it's very funny But apparently there are a lot of Christian Zionists

You think that's pretty damn funny That making fun of Jesus like that is pretty damn funny Yeah I'm sorry I just don't see like a camaraderie here I don't see the I'm not feeling the love not feeling the love here Sorry Then we have So there's been a big kerfuffle That's led to Trump

Like jumping in the race jumping in on this commentary. I just listened to this podcast this morning. This is from Tucker. So Tucker Carlson's latest baseless conspiracy blames the Iran war on the Kabad movement. Far right

conspiracist claims Hasidic group is orchestrating global religious war. Jewish security organization warns of surge and violent anti-Semitic rhetoric online. new anti-Semitic theory surface this week this is funny it's funny they're saying it was a new theory I've been talking about this for years now

I've been writing about this in the news brief I've been showing the videos on my shows there's actually a lot to support what Tucker saying here I tip my hat to Tucker for for bringing this to a mainstream audience so that millions of people can be red-pilled on this because this is absolutely true

what he's saying here. It says new anti-Semitic theory surfaced this week after the outbreak of the Iran war with far-right commentators, blaming the conflict of the Kabab Hasidic movement as a Jewish security group warned about potential threats. The far-right media personality, Tucker Carlson led his Wednesday show with baseless claims that the war's aim was to destroy the Al-A-Aqsa mosque and rebuild the Jewish temple. The mosque is located on the temple mount. the site of the first and second temples, which were central to Judaism until both were destroyed in antiquity, quote,

there are key players involved in this war, the one happening tonight who believe that what we're seeing on our television screen, and on Twitter will usher in a series of events that will begin the destruction of the dome of the rock, Alaksa Mosque, and then the rebuilding of the third temple, Carlson said, quote, this has been ongoing a long time in public through in part, the efforts of a group called Kabad, he said. I think it's actually pronounced Habad, maybe, but Kabad has been pushing in a pretty subtle way,

unless you look carefully for the reconstruction of a third temple. Carlson said his evidence was a handful of patches worn by Israeli soldiers, showing the temple that he claimed without evidence had come from Kabad. Carlson framed the conflict as a global religious war, sparked by Jews and fought between Christians and Muslims. quote, Christians have been have a way of denying disproportionately. I'm sorry. Christians have a way of dying disproportionately in these wars, which tells you something about their real motives.

He said the Kabad movement based in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights is known for its warm outreach efforts to other Jews and is not a political organization. Rabbi Yakoff Behrman, a Kabad community leader in Brooklyn called Carlson's claims a dangerous blood liable. Quote, Kabad's focus is on encouraging mitzvose, good deeds, to bring more goodness into the world and hasten the coming of the Messiah. So there you go. Hasten the coming of the Messiah.

While living responsibly in the present, Berman said in a statement, adding the patches depicting the temple were unrelated to Kabad. Reckless rhetoric like this is dangerous and irresponsible. Bierman said, other Kabad, the community members, mocked Carlson for the claim. Candice Owens, another

prominent right-wing media personality with a history of anti-Semitism picked up on the claim stating, quote, Tucker is telling the truth about Kabad. You should absolutely be aware of, be aware of where the Kabad is nearest your home. These people are dangerous. They are a radical sect of mystic occultists that follow the idea of a war messiah and they harm kids. Owens posted on X. Owens on Wednesday also blamed Israel from 9-11 terror attacks, another baseless anti-Semitic conspiracy theory. So, and then, like, I'll jump down to Trump's response. Says U.S. President Donald Trump dismissed Carlson's claims or Carlson's statements on the Iran war earlier this week and again on Thursday. Quote, Tucker has lost his way, end quote, Tucker, Trump told ABC News, quote, I knew that a long time ago and he's not MAGA.

Maga is saving our country. Maga is making our country great again. Maga is America first and Tucker is none of these things. and Tucker is really not smart enough to understand that. Okay, well, so, you know, that's fine. Like Trump can say that and maybe he's, maybe this is all earnest. Maybe it's not.

I don't really care. Obviously, like the things that Tucker is saying now and the things that Tucker's putting out, the content he's putting out, which I think is a plus material. It's the same stuff that I've been putting out for quite some time. so I obviously agree with what he's putting out. I think that it's all based in good research, in solid research and solid reporting. But pulling up that specific,

some specific clips that Tucker put out, let's see. I can play the, there's two two, two and a half minute videos that I think are probably worth playing. that Tucker that are from this and they do have those elements of what

of what they're talking about so let's go ahead and play those which tells you something about their real motive but in any case there was a spate of stories suggesting that U.S. commanders told their troops they were doing let me verify that this is which tells you something about yeah okay doing this for some weird

anti-Christian reason posing as Christianity. But it's not just the U.S. side. Here's an IDF soldier, apparently an American by his accent, describing why he's at war. Watch this. They call this operation to swords of iron. But what are we really fighting for? We're fighting for the right of the Jewish people who exist, be Jewish, practice the religion, and be free. And one day our true leader will come and will be united as a very Jewish.

the whole Jewish nation so we can rebuild the Betama McDash. Bedha McDash, probably mispronouncing it. That's the Hebrew term for the temple, the third temple. We are doing this so we can rebuild the temple. Now, you'll notice he's pulling off patches on Velcro on his IDF uniform. These are not civilian clothes. This is the uniform of the government of Israel, of its military. And he has patches on that uniform, one of which is a symbol of the temple, the third

temple. So it just couldn't be clear. Why are we doing this to rebuild the third temple? Now, if you think we're just cherry picking this off the internet, one guy wearing an unauthorized temple patch paid for, by the way, a uniform paid by us, armaments paid for by us. The U.S. taxpayer pays for all this stuff one way or another. The U.S. taxpayer pays for the military of Israel. Boy, does it. If you think we're being unfair and just like found one guy, well here's a bunch of guys. It took us about two minutes on the internet to find this today. Here is a selection of IDF soldiers.

Let's put it on the screen. There you go. And all of them have the same patch. Look for me, look carefully at that. What is that? That's the temple. That is the third temple. And we'll get to a minute in a minute about how this might actually happen and what it would mean for the rest of the world.

And just to be clear, these are conversations. that most Americans, certainly me included, never wanted to have. All right. And then I have a second part of that. So let's play the second part. Temple. But it's not just Hasidic groups from Brooklyn and it's not just IDF soldiers. There are amazingly a lot of American evangelical leaders, Christian Zionists,

whose main point is rebuilding the third temple. Now, how could an American Christian or any Christian call for the building? of a temple whose presence, whose inherent presence denies Christ, who said clearly, and Christians believe this, it's a core point of faith. I am the temple. You want to speak to God? You speak through me. That's Christianity. That's the whole religion right there. So if you're a Christian preacher calling for the rebuilding of the third temple, you kind of missed the whole point. That's more than apostasy. That's like not even knowing what the religion's about. So it's hard to believe there could be any ordained Christian leaders pushing for the rebuilding of the Third Temple.

Oh, but there are a lot. There are a lot. And here's just one. This is pastor. Greg Locke. Listen to this. The Gaza strip, which has now been cut off by Israel. And rightly so, they should have cut them off a long time ago. I don't care how insensitive you think I am to that. There's six doors in this church and leave any time you want to. They've cut them off, you know, electricity. They've cut off the water. They should have. Now, listen, I'm not for, for hurting anyone that's innocent. But anybody that supports terrorism is not innocent. You stand now. Israel should make the Gaza Strip a parking lot by this time next week.

Destroy the whole thing. What they ought to do is evacuate up there on the hill and get a great big missile and blow that wicked dome of the rock plumb off of the spot where it's standing right now. we can get that third temple rebuild and us are in the coming of jesus boy it is it is embarrassing and shameful as an american christian to hear that and to know that videos from a few years ago it's been on the internet no one bothered to highlight it most people weren't even aware this was going on oh it's definitely going on these are very common views seems obvious that mike huckabee has them that a lot of the christians highness john hagi do you think just like israel they just like

Israel a lot you know these are clerics so their lives were informed by their religious views what are their religious views well you just heard it right there from pastor Locke who's quite a prominent Christian Zionists he's not some lone wacko and there he is with an Israeli flag waving behind him casual calls for genocidal violence just blow it up make it a parking lot well two million people live there what happens to them they're terrorist sympathizers that right there is the tell this is not Christianity Imagine Jesus saying, just kill them all.

They're terrorists. Is there anything in the gospel that suggests Jesus believe that? No, there's a lot to suggest, in fact, to tell us in very clear terms. He thought the opposite. Of course. But the last part, let's build the third temple and bring about the return of Jesus is a direct contradiction of core Christian theology. And even people without theology degrees who didn't go to some eminent Bible college can tell you what?

Jesus says I am the temple. That is not Christianity. It's not even a close facsimile of Christianity. It's clearly evil. And just so we're clear, because I know that there are some people who are going to deny what Tucker's saying here, we've covered this so many times. This is a website for what's called the Temple Institute. This is an actual NGO based in Israel, an organization that claims to actually have possession of,

of the Ark of the Covenant, as they clearly have depicted right here on this coin. This is an organization that, as I understand it, I believe Ted Cruz and his father are involved in it. I believe our friend Eric Rice actually was invited to a meeting that he went and attended, where Ted Cruz's father was in attendance, and they were trying to raise money among Christians in Texas to fund the reconstruction of the Third Temple.

This is where they were bringing over that. They were getting the red heifers. They made the red heifers in a lab, these red cows. They sent the red heifers over there. They burned them. That was all part of the ritual that needed to be performed in order before they built, they reconstruct this third temple. Their videos from 2018 of Pete Hegeseth in Israel making a public address where he

openly says how excited he is about like the like the imminent reconstruction of the third temple um as tucker kind of started to allude to in that that clip uh he went deeper into it on his in his actual podcast but um jesus himself said not only did he say i am the third i am the temple you don't need to rebuild it i am the temple he also destroyed the second temple and this is where I think a lot of Christians don't know this. But the second temple that was in Jerusalem, Jesus is the one who said, every stone in this building on this building will be destroyed,

will be turned over. This whole building will be destroyed. And this town, Jerusalem, is condemned because of what the Pharisees did, of their rejection. Now, we have a actual historical depiction. of this from the chosen. I'm going to go ahead and play that clip that's based on scripture. But let's go ahead and watch what that whole episode looked like, what that whole scene.

One of the most famous scenes from the Bible. Let's watch this scene from the Bible. Let's keep it moving. What do you do? Why are you bringing food through here? I'm taking to the market. This is a shortcut. This is a place to worship the father. Not a short cut. Cut. Let me through. No. Let me through. Turn around now. I'm going to, uh, we're going to shut it down on YouTube because I don't want to get like a violation for the Badlands channel.

So if you're watching on YouTube, hit the thumbs up, jump over to Rumble, jump over to X to continue watching. I just don't want us to get dinged by like a copyright infringement. So I'm going to keep, keep it playing, but we're going to shut. I'm going to say goodbye to YouTube here. So, yeah, let me remove this. All right, so we are off of YouTube now, and I will keep this now playing. What are you paying? Three, three, one more, one. What are you paying with today?

This place used to be filled with the sounds of prayer and worship to my father. Father, now I can't hear worship because of animal sounds. All of you arguing over price. Which sound about the same. All right, so what are you paying with today? Next. My father's house is a place of business. No!

Start to my father's house. And of deeds. You are part of the problem. Please, please, please, no. You should not be here. Some of the temper guards. What's happened? And you, grew the vipers.

It's not hard to understand. hard to understand or see that why those people would have hated Jesus. It's not hard to understand or see why and of course they don't even get to the part where he is calling them out.

But it's not hard to see that when he does call them out and he calls him a synagogue of Satan and he says that they're a brute of vipers and he says they are of their father the devil. You know, it's easy to sit here and make excuses for why what they were doing in that temple area is just. When warmongers make war, why that's just, why all the things that happen in the world that are clearly unjust are justified.

But, you know, when you look at that scene, who is B.B. Netanyahu in that scene? I mean, I don't think Jesus is B.B. Net and Yahoo. I think Caiaphas and the Pharisees who were standing there scowling at him, shooting laser beams out of their eyes at him. That's Bibi Netanyahu. That's, you know, It Tamar bin Laden Gavsteen. That's Binzi Gopstein. and they're all mad because Jesus is ending their parade. He's ending their self-glorification. So when we're talking about rebuilding the Third Temple, which is what Pete Hegsef has talked about, he's talked about that publicly in Israel.

It's what these Kabad leaders have talked about. It's what the IDF soldier talking about. It's what Bibi Netanyahu himself has even talked about it. It's Omar Bingavir has talked about it. I think I saw that they were even closing the Al-Aoxa mosque area over the weekend because they said that it's a safety thing. You know, so there's speculation that maybe there's going to be a strike on the dome of the rock. You know, who knows? Who knows? We'll see. We'll see. We'll see if that actually happens. but

when Tucker says that Jesus said you don't need this temple this temple has betrayed God therefore it should be torn down and then it is torn down and it's torn down by the Romans 40 years later

after the scene happens he's right he's absolutely right and then he says you don't need to rebuild it because I am the temple Jesus is the temple you know because we have chosen to make religion, theology, geopolitics, that's where we are right now.

Everyone has decided that theology and geopolitics are inextricably linked because of Israel and everything surrounding Israel. We have to talk about this stuff. We have to talk about this dynamic. And the dynamic here that is being presented to us is a lie. the idea that building the third temple is somehow part of Christians' duty to God, it's just a it's a perversion of what Jesus himself actually said and actually did. And so again, because we Christians in here in the world are loyal to Jesus and we serve God and we are keepers of the Word, we have to stand up and say no I'm sorry sir I'm sorry

Bibi Netanyahu I'm sorry Mr. Mr. A-PAC leader whoever but you're wrong like we're not doing any of this stuff and whoever is going to be a part of this situation well we're going to say you're wrong too so we'll see what happens we'll see who actually chooses to participate in this farce the construction of the third temple.

There's no denying that this is happening. There's no denying that this is real. I've been tracking this now for years. The red heifers were burned last summer. The, the, the, that's part, that, that ritual was part of this whole third temple construction project.

Yeah, so it is what it is. But the idea that people who call this out are no longer part of MAGA, okay. I guess. I just think that we need to have a, we need to have a very open dialogue about this. And for whatever reason, there are people saying that we're not allowed to have this dialogue.

We're not allowed to have this discussion. And I question who those people are. I question their motives. I question who they work for. I question the money that funds them. I question what their true intent is. And I'm grateful to President Trump. for exposing all of this because now this is center stage i think trump has orchestrated and

facilitated this entire thing to be center stage so that we can talk about it at the highest levels this discussion is being forced upon everybody and as tucker says nobody wanted to have this discussion it's not just being forced into the zeitgeist but it's a very important discussion to have because it's at the very heart of the whole Judeo-Christian alliance, to whatever extent that's real. I'm not even sure if that's even a real thing. I question that as well. But because religion is now dictating our geopolitics and our foreign policy, and apparently we're going to forego the golden age and we're going to take a detour towards more war because I see people saying that the Iran war is a prelude to a

a war with China. I see people saying that we're going to go do Cuba next. We're going to go start more wars with more countries. This is only the beginning. Could it saw that coming? Oh, wait, I did see that coming. I did say that the neocons want to start all these wars and all these different countries. I didn't think that we actually were going to go start a war with Iran. But now that we have, everyone is salivating it, salivating at the idea of the next war, the war of China, the war with Cuba, the war with whoever, whatever.

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There's storylines we're going to look at that are related to Iran that are certainly connected. But yeah, so we'll just kind of take all that in stride. Okay, so here is... The energy crisis, the energy crunch, so Burning Bright and I pre-recorded the Badlands Blitz this morning. We spent a lot of time talking about this storyline, so I probably will only spend a minute or two on it here, since that's a lot of what the show is that will be put out tomorrow. But oil prices surge to highest levels since 2003. The escalating U.S. Israeli war against Iran is disrupting energy supplies from the Middle East. oil prices hit a two and a half two and a half year high on Friday as the escalating u.s

Israeli war against Iran disrupts energy supplies from the Middle East to global markets global benchmark Brent crude futures were up over 8 percent to over $92 a barrel while u.s. West Texas intermediate WTI rose over 11 percent to over $90 a barrel both the highest since September 2020 three commercial travel Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, a critical waterway between Iran and Oman that carries about one-fifth the world's oil exports, has come to a near-complete halt, according to Bloomberg. Iraq, the region's second largest producer, has had to cut output due to inability to export. Kuwait has reportedly begun cutting production at some oil fields after running out of storage. Iran's own oil exports have effectively ceased.

Goldman Sachs warned oil could top $100 a bear, if the disruption continues. Qatar's energy minister warned that oil could hit $150 a barrel. Russian President Vladimir Putin said the shipping disruptions could open opportunities for Russia to expand energy exports. A quote against this backdrop, we can look for new buyers who have lost supplies that previously moved through the straight, he said, suggesting Moscow could redirect oil and gas shipments to alternate alternative markets to replace Gulf flows. Meanwhile, the U.S. is granted India a leading crude importer, a 30-day waiver to purchase Russian oil. The move is aimed at ensuring stability at the global oil market,

according to U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Or U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Several EU politicians have stepped up calls to roll back Russia sanctions. In Germany, Sarah Wagenek, leader of the BSW party, has called for resuming imports of Russian oil to ease prices, while Alice Weidel, co-chair of the AFD, has urged an end to a one-sided reliance on the U.S. and the Middle East for LNG. Hungarian Prime Minister, Victor Orban, Slovak Prime Minister, Robert Fizzo, and Italian Deputy Prime Minister Mateo Salvini have repeatedly condemned the bloc sanctions on Moscow, saying they hurt the EU's economy. Yes, that's an interesting dynamic, that Europe is being forced to.

confront this. And also, at the same time, I believe Putin himself has said, you know, maybe we'll just stop selling oil to Europe altogether. Like, why wait for them to recognize their own mistakes? So we'll see. But that is certainly interesting. And yeah, the whole LNG thing is, uh, is. again, like we talk about this a bunch on the other, on the, the Balan's Blitz, so I'm not going to get too deep into it.

But it is interesting with India because a month ago, Trump was wagging his finger at India saying India needs to stop buying sanctioned Russian oil because India was buying sanctioned oil at a big discount from Russia. He negotiated for India to stop doing that in exchange lowering tariffs against India. Now we are issuing an exemption, a tariff exemption, to India, so they can go back to buying Russian oil. This time they're going to pay fair market price, which is even better for Russia. So the net benefit of this entire situation is Russia. Russia is getting richer. They're actually getting new buyers for their oil. And Europe is now talking about lowering or lowering or even eliminating the sanctions that they impose on Russia from the Ukraine war.

So there are some benefits to this, it seems like, for the Sovereign Alliance and for Russia, and that's certainly notable. Here is, maybe before we get, we pivot away from that. We'll look at a few of these. Pivot away from Iran, I mean. There's this story, no justification for the U.S. Israeli war on Iran. This is from the Kremlin. Washington and West Jerusalem have described their strikes as preemptive measures to dismantle Tehran's military capabilities. There is no justification for the ongoing U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran, as the Islamic Republic posed no threat to either nation.

Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zokerova has said. Washington and West Jerusalem have framed their attacks on Iran as preemptive measures aimed at destroying its uranium enrichment and ballistic missile programs. the Islamic Republic insists that its nuclear program is peaceful, and as denounced the strike is entirely unprovoked, speaking to RIA, excuse me, Novosti on Wednesday, Zakorova said,

stated that although we are hearing claims from the U.S. and Israel, that they are even supposedly defending themselves, no one attacked them, no one threatened them. The Russian diplomat noted that Iran had always been willing to engage in the negotiations with the West, Moscow previously condemned the U.S. Israeli strikes as a premeditated, unprovoked act of aggression aimed at toppling a government that refused to yield to the dictates of force and hegemonic pressure. Commenting on the killing of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khomeini in the first wave of the attacks unleashed last Saturday. Russian President Vladimir Putin characterized it as a cynical violation of every norm of morality and international law. The Russian Foreign Ministry has similarly denounced the practice of political assassinations

and the hunting of leaders of sovereign states. According to Iranian authorities, aside from commanding, a number of senior commanders, at least 168 schoolchildren, as well as teachers and staff, were killed in the U.S. Israeli bombing of an elementary school in the southern Iranian town of Minab on Saturday. While the Pentagon has said it is investigating the incident in the New York Times, citing newly released satellite imagery, verified social media posts, and geolocated videos reported on Thursday that American forces were likely responsible for the attack. According to the newspaper, the U.S. military was targeting an adjacent naval base belonging to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. And then here's Dimitri Med or Dmitri, or I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Kareil Dmitriev saying that Western energy pressure on Russia has backfired.

countries that maintained ties with Moscow made a wise strategic choice. Western efforts to isolate Russian energy have proven counterproductive. Kremlin envoy Kareil Demetriev has said, noting that the pressure has only pushed Moscow to further to develop its own economy. Russian President Vladimir Putin said this week that the shipping disruptions as a result of the U.S. Israeli war on Iran could open opportunities for Russia to expand energy exports. we already read those quotes Demetriev was responding to a Wall Street Journal report that the U.S. is preparing to press China to cut its purchases of discounted Russian oil and encourage it to buy more expensive

American oil instead. Quote, probably not good timing, Demetriev wrote, stating that the Russian energy partners always win. And the funny part is that he's right. Historically, that has absolutely been the fact is that anyone who's continued to trade with Russia throughout the Ukraine war has found great buying opportunities where they get oil for as low as like $40 a barrel, sometimes

even cheaper. It's been pretty fantastic for India and China, have to say. Yeah, so we'll see. Okay. So before we go to Cuba, let's go. at this article. This is the RT newsroom. How the Iran war is

dividing Trump's team. The conflict has exposed deep rifts within the president's mega coalition. And again, I don't know how how much truth there is to this. So we're not really going to like read through this whole thing, but it's just pointing out that

ostensibly on the surface that there is mixed signal. There's suggesting there's mixed signaling coming out between some of the members of the cabinet. Let's just watch this video that they put together. To finally draw the line, it took the 47th president, a fighter who always puts America first,

to finally draw the line after 47 years of Iranian belligerence. He reminded the world, as he has time and time again, being an American means something unbreakable. If you kill Americans, if you threaten, Americans anywhere on earth, we will hunt you down without apology and without hesitation, and we will kill you. Okay. So rather than kind of like dig into the, uh, or try to like make sense of whatever,

whatever is that they're going to say these riffs are within the MAGA cabinet, um, all that could be k fab. Let's just look at the one thing that we can verify has happened, which is the firing. of Christie Nome as DHS Secretary. And this isn't a total surprise, actually, because there has been reporting of some issues over at DHS. And so, so yes, Christy Nome has been replaced by Mark Wayne Mullins. And it says, so I'm trying,

I'm trying not to, like, get into the, you know, the rumor and innuendo. But what we do know is that she has been reassigned to the UN team. And again, this follows, like, a long trend of, like, anyone who gets fired from the Trump administration, 2.0 ends up at the UN. The first was Mike Waltz, right, April of 2025. Then we got Tammy Bruce, July of 2025. She was fired from a state department spokesperson. person. She was sending over to be a UN envoy. Now we got Kristianneum. Christine Nome's going, getting sent over to the UN to work at the UN. And it just kind of goes to show the UN is kind of

the island of misfit toys. The UN is like political limbo for all of the washouts from the administration. And I think what's interesting about this is that, you know, Noam was one of those people that I had identified at the very beginning as someone who was a hardcore Zionist, like one of these hardcore Fox News

Zionist figures, right? And I wonder if we're going to see if every single Zionist figure we're going to see wash out like this eventually. I don't think that her dismissal really has a lot to do with like the Iran-Israel situation.

but I think soon enough we could see a lot more people get exposed over that so we'll see but certainly notable that she's being sent to of all places the UN I wonder maybe by the end of all of this the entire administration will end up working at the UN and that is just fine by me because I don't think that we really need a federal government the size that we currently have all right so let's Let's go to, let's pivot over to Russia, Europe. Hungary seizes millions in gold in cash linked to Ukraine war mafia. Vladimir Zelensky has issued an open military threat to Hungarian Prime Minister

Viktor Orban earning him a rare rebuke from his backers in Brussels. A Hungarian probe into money laundering has led to the detention of several Ukrainians who were transporting over $100 million worth a capital. cash and gold bars through the country and in operation the country's foreign minister, Peter Schizjarto, has linked to a Ukrainian war mafia. The detention, a move Kiev is described as kidnapping, was announced as Ukraine's Vladimir Zelensky issued an open threat to Hungarian Prime Minister of Victor Orban, which has earned him a rare rebuke from his backers in Brussels.

So how much cash and gold did Hungary seize? Ukraine's second largest lender, state-owned Oshkaz Bank, announced on Thursday that two vehicles with approximately nine kilograms of gold and some $80 million in dollars and dollars in euros, reportedly en route to Ukraine from Austria's Reficen Bank, had been intercepted by Hungarian officials. Quote, this year alone, more than $900 million, $420 million, and 146 kilograms of gold bars were transported through Hungarian territory to Ukraine, Hungary's National Tax and Customs Administration stated on Friday. Shkizjarto then blamed the Ukrainian War Mafia for the flow of extraordinary sums of cash and bullying through his country. Tension has risen between Ukraine and its EU member neighbor over Budapest's desire to critically assess military aid and unending loans to Kiev from the block, culminating in a spat over Kiev's refusal to ship key Russian oil through its pipeline network to Hungary and Slovakia and Slavinsky's open threat against Orbán. government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs said the intercepted Ukrainian transfer was being supervised by a retired security service of Ukraine, the SBU General and retired Air Force and a retired Air Force major as his right-hand man. All seven detainees will be deported, he added. GPS tracking placed the vehicles next to the office of a local law enforcement agency, which Ukrainian media identified as the Hungarian counterterrorism center.

Hungary's national tax and customs administration said Friday that, I'm sorry, Hungarian official, wait, said Friday that the detention was part of a joint investigation with the T.EK targeting a major money laundering channel. Since November, Kiev has been shaken by a series of corruption scandals involving longtime associates of Ukrainian leaders Vladimir Zelensky. Hungarian officials denied claims by Ukrainian foreign minister Andrei Sabiga that Budapest has failed to provide explanations saying Kiev's consular services had been immediately informed. Sabiga called for EU intervention describing the incident as Hungary's as Hungary taking hostages and stealing money. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban who accuses Zelensky of trying to trigger a fuel crisis ahead of key parliamentary elections next month has warned that he may use. use force over Kiev's refusal to resume Russia's oil, or Russian oil transit. He has already suspended supplying of diesel to Ukraine and blocked a $90 billion, or

90 billion euro EU loan to fund Zelensky's government. Zelensky responded with a personal threat saying that unless Orbán backs off, the Ukrainian military will be given his address and speak to him in their own language. Brussels has since condemned Zelensky's outburst. Yeah, so now we're seeing like a pattern here emerge. In Israel, they deal with this kind of stuff through political assassination. They've been very open about this, very flippant about it. They have no problem killing people who politically oppose them, whether it's Hezbollah leaders, whether it's Iran's leaders, whether it's Hamas leaders, whoever it is.

They will fire missiles into neutral cities like Doha, Qatar. and they have no problem getting whoever, you know, getting their hands dirty and getting whoever involved. We see the same thing in Kiev. They have no problem, uh, threatening to assassinate people who are, I mean,

that's what Zelensky's doing here. He's threatening Orban that they're going to assassinate him, speak to him in their own language. Uh, yeah, like, these people are thugs. They're obviously, like, they're mafioso types. I mean, that's what Zelensky is. That's what, Netanyahu is. That's what the entire regime in both Tel Aviv and in Kiev, they're one and the same. It's the same thing. You know, you can call them Kazarian Mafia. You can call them Jewish Mafia, like whatever it is, but they don't operate with the light of God. They don't operate with the teachings of Christ. That's not really their worldview, right? It's not their politics. It's not their religion.

It's not their ethics, so to speak. So it is what it is. But we'll see what happens there, but that is certainly interesting. But we did get a response from Orban over this. So Orban response to Zelensky's death threat. The Ukrainian leader recently took aim at the Hungarian PMO's refusal to unblock a 90 billion euro loan for Kiev. Hungarian Prime Minister, Victor Orban, has said, quote, threats to his life made by Ukraine's Vladimir Zelensky will not deter him from breaking Kiev's oil blockade of his country, Zelensky issued a thinly veiled warning to Orban on Thursday over Budapest's ongoing refusal to lift its veto on billions and EU-backed loans for Kiev.

In a mid, excuse me, a row with a row over Ukraine's blocking of oil supplies to Hungary via a pipeline from Russia. The Ukraine leader suggested that Orban should not impede the new EU funding for Kiev. Otherwise, he would pass the address of this person to our armed forces so they could speak to him in their own language. So again, a loan coming from the EU for $90 billion is being blocked by Orban. And Zelensky is basically like, if you don't lift your veto and give me the money that the EU is promising me, I'm going to send my thugs to kill you. basically what he's saying. I mean, this is banditry at its finest. This is what throat-cutting thieves do. They cut people's throats. They take their possessions. They adopt their identity. They take

their wares. They take their home. So we see the IDF do all the time with the settlers in, you know, the settlers rather do this with the backing of the IDF. in Palestine. We see this with the Jewish Nazis in Kiev. It's just there's a ruthlessness to these people that is hard to kind of like fathom. But it's just what they are. They're a mafia. And they have real political power. And for whatever reason, they have the ability to steal all of our money, the U.S. taxpayers money, through our, Our Congress literally votes to send these people hundreds of billions of dollars. And it's hard to understand why. Is it because the politicians work for them? Is it because the mafia threatens the politicians? We're not really quite sure. But for whatever reason, our money is being stolen from us and sent to these thugs in places like Kiev and Jerusalem.

And we can't stop it. And it's really frustrating just to watch it happen. and for nobody to kind of stand up for the American taxpayer is absolutely infuriating. And you know, you can't sit there and say, well, you know, Maga's going to stop it. Maga's not stopping it. Maga is like part of the heist now, right? Maga is earnestly sending money to these people. I mean, I'm sorry, has the money stopped flowing to Ukraine since MAGA took power? No. Maga's continuing to send money to Kiev, right?

Sorry, but that's the truth. There might be MAGA spokespeople who are claiming that they don't want to do it, but, you know, where is the callout in Congress against this stuff? Where are the MAGA leaders who are standing up and saying Congress should immediately stop this? Let's expose all the congressmen who are compromised by these criminals. Where are those investigations? Where is that call out? Like where is that public argument happening? I'm not saying it.

Okay, so now let's go to the next place that we're expected to see violence. There's a promise of violence, rather. That would be Cuba. Cuba regime change is a question of time. It says President Trump. The U.S. could target Havana after military operations in the Middle East are over. The American president has said regime change in Cuba is just a question of time. U.S. President Trump has said renewing threats against the island governments,

the island's government and suggesting Washington could turn its focus on Havana once the war in Iran ends. Speaking at the White House on Thursday, Trump praised Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, the Miami-born son of Cuban immigrants for doing a fantastic job on Cuba. The U.S. has stepped up sanctions on the island's economy, effectively imposing an oil blockade that has compounded severe fuel and food shortages. Quote, what's happening with Cuba's amazing, Trump said, during a visit from the inter-M Miami soccer team. quote, we think that we went to fix, finish this one, Iran first, but that will be just a question of time, he added. Trump made the remarks after touting the ongoing campaign against Iran saying the U.S. and Israeli forces were continuing, totally demolished the enemy. The two countries launched the massive airstrikes on Iran last Saturday, citing an alleged need to prevent Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

Iran insists its nuclear program is peaceful. the strikes killed Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Kameini and several senior military commanders along with hundreds of civilians, including some 160 schoolgirls and a strike contributed to the U.S. by New York Times. The comments on Cuba follow earlier signs from Trump and his supporters about the Caribbean nation, quote unquote, Cuba's next. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said on Sunday in an interview with Fox News after the strikes on Iran began, of course. in a separate interview with political on Thursday, Trump predicted that once Iran's government is toppled, Cuba is going to fall two. So there's something interesting that's happening here with these

that I think we need to highlight and point out. So if I pull up the Balan's substack, the Badlands News Brief rather, and I can do that, and I'm reminded of this because we, again, I just remember, recorded this show with Burning Bright on this morning. And Burning Bright's the one he reminded me of this.

This week has been a very long, a very long week, right? I'm reminded that I wrote this take on Monday in our news brief about the friendly takeover of Cuba. And so Donald Trump suggested on February 27 that the United States could very well have a friendly takeover of Cuba, a phrase he used while speaking to reporters, outside the White House, but did not further define.

Trump said Secretary of State Marco Rubio was involved in high-level discussions with Cuban officials and described the island nation as experiencing severe economic difficulties in seeking American assistance. The remarks came amid continuing tensions in U.S.-Cuba relations following recent U.S. actions in neighboring Venezuela and pressure on Cuba's oil supply. Though Trump did not outline any formal plan or mechanism for such a takeover, the Cuban government has denied engaging in high-level talks with why. Washington. So this is where it gets really interesting because what the story is when you dig into it is that Marco Rubio has been having quote unquote secret discussions with Raulito Castro. And that would be the favored grandson of Raul Castro. Raul Castro being the brother of is it the brother? I think Raul Castro, if I'm not mistaken, is the brother of

Fidel Castro. But Raou Castro is the, is the, technically the leader of the old man who's now the leader of Cuba. But his favorite grandson is this young guy named Raulito. I think his nickname is El, what is it? El Congrejo, the crab. I've seen reports that they call him that. I've actually seen it written out that they call him that because he has a deformity with his hand but I've seen I've I've gone out excuse me I've gone out and I found pictures of him

here's one of them this is him in the middle right here and I've seen pictures of his hand his hand doesn't look deformed at all I'm very disappointed by that I would have loved to see like a deformed little meat pincer but I don't think he has a meat pincer I think he has a normal hand his hands look totally normal that's very disappointing to me but I love the nickname the fact that this guy comes with a trumpet mania nickname already go ahead and just plug him in as king of cuba um but this is going to cause a lot of the neocons in the republican party to spin out to crash out because they hate the castro family and the demand universally has been that the castra family needs to be expunged from cuba but every indication

now is that is that uh marco rubio is speaking to the grandchildren, specifically this guy, Raulito, who is probably going to take over as the leader of Cuba. So the castros, I think, are going to remain in power in Cuba. That's what it looks like right now. And this follows the Venezuela model where, you know, the entire Maduro government was just kept intact. Maduro was just removed from the, from the situation. And because that like one figurehead was removed, Trump was like, everything's cool now. we can all be friends.

Delcia Rodriguez is fantastic. We love her. She's the best. I think that's probably what's going to happen here is we're going to see, you know, the grandfather Castro removed from the equation, the grandson brought in. And, you know, I don't think the American public knows anything about this guy. I mean, I barely know anything about him. We're probably going to be introduced to him.

And he's probably going to come off as some charming, you know, nice young, nice young man. And they're going to say, yep. We can do biz with this guy. This guy's a nice guy. We can do biz with him. That's probably how this is all going to go down. And so I think that this, I think the Republican Party is going to crash out over this. I think they're going to flip out when Trump does this.

That kind of brings us back to Iran. Because we have this story from Iran. So we can like where you can kind of go and wrap up where we can kind of wrap up where we started. Because as Barack Ravid reported on Wednesday, Netanyahu asks White House if secret Iran talks are happening. Huh? Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked the White House for clarifications earlier this week. After learning Trump administration officials might be communicating with the Iranian regime, two sources with knowledge of the issue said.

Netanyahu's outreach suggests that the Israeli government is concerned about a scenario. area in which the U.S. pursues a ceasefire before all of Israel's war objectives have been achieved. The sources said Israeli intelligence obtained information earlier this week that raised suspicions. Some kind of communications had taken place between Iran and the Trump administration to discuss a ceasefire. On Monday, Netanyahu called White House officials and asked if such talks or exchange of messages happened. Quote, the White House told Bibi that the Trump administration wasn't talking. to the Iranians behind his back, one source said. A U.S. official said special envoy Steve Wickoff said in Trump's advisor and son-in-law, Jared Kusher,

talk almost every day to Netanyahu to the director of Mossad, David Barnaya, and to other Israeli officials, and that regardless of ups and downs in the past, the coordination of the last month has been very close. Quote, they know we are not talking to the Iranians, the U.S. official said. Okay, well, that sounds convincing. Israeli embassy in Washington declined to comment. The White House didn't respond to a request for comment. A U.S. official and another source of knowledge said the Iranian sent messages to the Trump administration over the last few days through countries in the Gulf and other countries in the region. But the U.S. didn't respond.

Quote, we treated these messages as bullshit, the U.S. official told Axios. The New York Times reported on Wednesday that operatives from Iran's Ministry of Intelligence, reached out indirectly to the CIA through a third country spy agency with an offer to discuss terms for ending the conflict. Quote, Steve Wickoff or Jared Kushner, haven't had any conversations with Ali Larajani. That's the guy, by the way, running Iranian devolution. Abasa Raqqi, that's the foreign minister,

or anyone else in the Iranian regime since the war started, a U.S. officials said in the briefing with reporters on, Tuesday. President Trump also ruled out any talks with the Iranian regime in comments Tuesday. Quote there, air defense, air force, Navy, and leadership is gone. They want to talk. I said too late. Trump wrote on true social. Yeah. So that's pretty interesting. I mean, there's a number of ways to read it to read this. Number one. So trouble in paradise here, BB, like BB doesn't seem very secure here in his like, relationship with Trump. He's sitting here, you know,

how did Israeli intelligence get this information? My guess is that they are spying on Trump and they're reading his mail and they're reading his text messages and they're going through his garbage. Is that really what like your best friend? Is that what your best closest ally does? Does your closest ally go through your garbage and read your mail and read your texts and spy on you? Or does that is that what like a crazy ex-girlfriend does who, you know, is worried that

that you're cheating on her with somebody new, right? Cheating on her. I'm in quotation marks. Ex-girlfriend. Yeah, that's what this feels like. This feels like some insecurity creeping in, some uncertainty creeping in to Netanyahu's mind. And so the way that I kind of wonder that this may go based on what I'm seeing out in the zeitgeist, out in the zeitgeist. from um from um

Iran is that I wonder if we're going to see Trump negotiate like a ceasefire with with with Iran he's like all right like we're cool we accomplish all the things we wanted to accomplish uh Kamani's dead I personally think Kamani's been dead for a long time I think this is just like a like a convenient opportunity to make him a martyr and kind of like tell the public that he's dead tell the Iranian public he's dead but Trump's like, okay, yep, everything's good. We're cool.

Like, we don't need to fight anymore. And then Israel doesn't join in on that. You know, like when Trump says, I need an unconditional surrender from Iran. And then Iran's like, all right, we're, you know, agreed. Like, here, let's negotiate. But then Israel is like, no, we don't accept Iran's negotiation. We don't accept Iran's surrender. we want to keep fighting and then Iran which again I would encourage everyone to go listen to the

to the clip or the clip the podcast that that Tucker just put out about the third temple because about an hour of the hour and a half podcast or maybe like 45 minutes of it is him interviewing Brandon Weishart who seems to have a pretty good handle on the situation I'm I've seen him in multiple segments over the past few weeks on Bannon's War Room. Pretty impressive guy. But as Weishard explains, Iran, he's talking about Iranian devolution without talking about Iranian devolution because he talks about how the command and control structure of the entire RGC has been decentralized, where, as he describes it, all of the missile,

commanders have been given autonomy to proceed at the very beginning of all this. It's all like, as he explains it, it's almost like Iran anticipated that their top leadership was going to get taken out. And so therefore, they told all the lower level missile commanders, you don't need to come ask permission. You know what targets to go after. Find the targets. Fire the missiles.

Keep, keep going. And so because of that, despite however many times we, we. hit our targets and we take out their leadership, they keep firing missiles back. What suggests that they are basically prepared to continue fighting no matter how many people get killed in their leadership because, again, devolution. They've devolved there. They've decentralized their command and control structure. And so what that means is that missiles are just going to keep flying at Israel indefinitely.

and while Iran seems to be in a situation that they are prepared to absorb damage and they're prepared to take losses, I don't think, I'm not confident that Israel is prepared for that. I think it seems like Israel might get into a situation where they're going to be screaming uncle and they're going to be saying eventually forced into a situation where they're actually going to have to surrender, like unconditional surrender is going to need to come from the. Israel side. And I wonder how long before we get there. We'll see. But right now, as Brandon Weishart and many others actually have explained, there is a very serious shortage of these interceptors. And I think Mark Rubio was talking about it in a interview, or a press conference he was holding, where they have way more missiles than we have interceptors. And so on a long enough timeline, eventually you're not going to have any interceptors left.

You're only going to have missiles. And if we get to that point, and it sounds like we may already be at that point, that means that Iran can basically just fire missiles at will at whatever targets they want and take out whatever they want. And that's going to force Israel into a situation where they're going to need to do unconditional surrender. So I wonder if that's where we're going to arrive, if we're going to arrive at a point where Israel is forced into an unconditional surrender. And the net effect of that whole thing is the warmongering ends. And the seven front war or eight front war, however many fronts the war is now, stops. Because as of right now, we have a war with Lebanon that has been resurrected,

where now they're just in full-blown warfare with, in southern Lebanon against Hezbollah and the Lebanese army. We have calls for a ground war with Iran, which is going to be a total disaster if that's allowed to happen. And of course, like the whole situation with like Gaza and Palestine, which remains unresolved. So yeah, like these warmongers in Jerusalem need to be brought to heal. How do you bring them to heal?

Well, maybe you bring them to heal by giving them every single. thing they've always asked for, which is a war with Iran. You wanted the war with Iran? Trump gave you the war with Iran. Can you handle the war with Iran? I don't know if they can. I don't think they're actually fit out long term to actually fight Iran. So we'll see what happens.

But it seems right now to me that maybe they were given everything they asked for, and it's not turning out the way that they thought it would. and the fact that Netanyahu is running around accusing Trump of having secret conversations with Iran behind his back suggests that maybe he's not secure in how this whole thing is going. Like maybe this thing is not playing out the way that he thought it was going to play out. And that is interesting to me because I'm looking for the like the little signals in this and how this whole thing is going to unfold. and again, there's a lot of question marks. I have a lot of questions about the whole thing,

including why it had to happen in the first place. Maybe it had to happen in the first place because it was the only way to bring Israel to heal because otherwise Israel was just going to continue to pursue this crap forever. They were just going to say, we want war, we want war, we want war. Okay.

have your war they're having their war now is it going the way they wanted it to go i don't know we'll find out okay so that's pretty much all the stories that i had in the queue today but let's go to the chat and see what the chat's up to because it's been a while since i've really hung out the chat and let's see if they have questions oh and you know what i actually do have i do have a few um rants from the that I did not get the chance to read. So let's read those rants. And then if you have any new rants, we will read those too.

Okay, so the first one is actually from a few weeks ago, I believe, and I apologize that I didn't read this before, but I just realized when I was storing some rants from breaking history on Wednesday that I didn't get around to reading this one. So I'm waiting for the mind map to load. Where are we?

Here we are. All right. German Patriot 93. This is from a few weeks ago. So German Patriot, I appreciate the rant, and I apologize, I haven't gotten to this sooner. $5. Hey, Ghost, much respect for you. You do great work. However, I disagree on one point. As a European who has seen society change and had many experiences with Muslims, I do not believe Islam is peaceful. This is a great question. It's a great question. And it's one that is timely now to address because of the video I played earlier of Binzi Gopstein talking about how they need to, the Israelis need to import more Muslims into Europe. And this goes back to like a core thesis of something that I've been looking into for a long time. Who has brought these people to Europe and to the West? Like who brought all the Muslims to Dearborn Michigan? Who brought all the Muslims to Texas to build that big city?

They're talking about building. And, you know, according to Charlie Kirk, it was Jewish billionaires. my own research has shown that it's like Jesuits in France there's a lot of Jesuit organizations in France the Rothschilds have a number of people who work for their banks who are raised in Jesuit families and then they basically are sent off to Cairo to study Arabic they come back speaking Arabic and then they suddenly adopt like a Muslim framing and then they're the ones who are running for office as politicians in France and calling for the dismantlement of churches

but the reality is that they were actually raised in Jesuit families so I've seen that countless countless examples of that by the way if you're looking for someone who is

a Jesuit of African descent Emmanuel Macron his family's Algerian and they're Jesuit so he's an Algerian So he's an Algerian and a Jesuit, and he's the president of France. So that would be a – and he also worked for the Rothschild Bank in Paris. So that would be like at the very top of that list, I would put Emmanuel Macron.

So German Patriot is a fantastic question. Who brought the Muslims to Europe? Who bombed their homes? The better question is who bombed their homes in the Middle East? who dropped the bombs on their heads that then necessitated them, you know, drove them to one actually leave their home and go live somewhere else? Well, the IDF would be one group that dropped bombs on their heads. Another group would be ISIS, which was created and funded by CIA and Mossad. Another group would be Al-Qaeda, also created by Mossad in the CIA.

another group would be these proxy groups that operate in the Middle East that more often than not are trained and funded by Mossad and the CIA. So when you say Muslims are, that Islam is not peaceful, we've actually seen a lot of examples that the earnest Muslims operating in the Middle East are peaceful.

Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey. The people who are basically put on buses and airplanes and sent to the United States and sent to Western Europe, are they the best and brightest that the Middle East has to offer, or are they like the rejects, you know, that come from the asane asylums, that come from the prisons and stuff that Trump talks about. My guess is that's probably what you're getting. You're probably getting the bottom of the barrel. Just like here in America, we're getting the bottom of the barrel of central and central.

South America, you know, the MS-13 people, like that stuff. So it's a great question. And I encourage you to do that research and run that down. All right. So we will save those comments for when I'm with Matt, these other ones, these other rants. Let's look at the chat. We have Tomcat 01 in J.

Gordon mentioned Ted Cruz's father earlier, not Raphael. of Dealey Plaza JFK fame. Yeah, it's a good question. I don't know. I mean, because I mean, Ted Cruz's father is definitely like a Canadian, if I'm not mistaken. He's like a Cuban Canadian. And I

believe he's connected to Castro somehow. I know that what's his name? Justin Trudeau, he's connected to Castro. So that is interesting. That is definitely interesting. So let's see. Any other questions, any other topics that y'all have in the chat?

I'm scrolling through and see and see that there's conversations happening. So I'm trying to skip over the conversations between y'all. Villas 34. I live near the Muslim city in Texas, Epic City, and they just keep building every day new construction. Yeah, I would really encourage y'all because I don't know. I don't know the answer here. Who started Epic City? like they're going to be building permits there's going to be um p o d's plans of development like whose name is on that who signed it who like who who

commission the first designs for like the land development like all that stuff has a paper trail and it all should be public like there should be public filings there should you know the way that they do p o d's where i live is that there's like opportunity you know they hold public hearings where people can come in and give comments and um do feedback and all that stuff is public. I would encourage all of you to go look in, like dig in. Don't just wait for like your local media to go look into it. You go look into it. Go, you know, do a request for information. Go, uh, go to the state filing committee, you know, to the state commission and,

and pull the, uh, POD plan, pull the paperwork. Um, who signed for it? Who paid for it? I mean, thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars worth of fees are going to be associated with that stuff. So who's paying that stuff? Like who's paying the fees? Who's paying the filing? Who's signing for it? You can figure all this stuff on your own. You don't need to have like a security clearance or you know resources or anything. All it takes just time and effort, but you can go look into this stuff and figure it out. I would be really curious to know who started all of that. Maybe it was Muslims from Syria. But there's also a really good chance that it was somebody else, that it was Jesuits from France or the Rosals. childs or I don't know somebody else the so you know George Soros whatever but um all that stuff has a paper trail and it can all be traced back to an origin point find the origin point but it wouldn't surprise me if that the Zionists are the origin point of it all and the purpose of it of course going back to the the video of Benzie Gopstein the reason that they want to

bring Muslims to the west and force a clash of civilizations is so that then in the West, you cultivate an appetite, a hatred of Muslims, so then you support the idea of going to war with Muslim countries like Iran. That's the whole point of it. So again, run down who brought all these people to Dearborn, Michigan, who brought all these people to Epic City, Texas, who brought all these people to Germany, to France? because what they want is they want you to hate Muslims. That's the point.

And it wouldn't surprise me if you're actually going to learn that a lot of these Christian Zionists are the ones importing the Muslims to your neighborhood so that then they can point to the problem and say, look how awful these people are. Don't you hate them? You should hate them if you don't. Just saying. All right, guys. Well, I appreciate to everybody being here. please hit the thumbs up i think we've done all the rants and boosts uh i'm just i'm just gonna check real

quick to see if we have any boosts if you're listening to this on replay you can get a balance media at tv slash boost or just uh click on the boost at the top of the screen um and i think we're caught up it looks like yep we are called up sweet all right guys we'll hit the thumbs up um and we will be back Monday evening on the book of Trump. We'll be doing the Crimea War. And then we'll be back here on Tuesday with Badlinus Daily and geopolitics with Ghost. So today is March 3rd and that is our two. So thanks again, guys.

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