Investigate Earth Conspiracy Podcast - Iran War Latest: U.S. Troops or Nuclear Strike On The Table?

Episode Date: September 22, 2026

The Iran war continues to escalate as tensions grow between Iran, the United States and Israel. In this episode of Investigate Earth, we break down the latest attacks, the growing danger around the Strait of Hormuz, American military casualties, the Houthi escalation, threats against U.S. forces and what could happen next.We also look at the impact this conflict is already having on oil, fuel prices, shipping and the global economy. With U.S. troops spread across the Middle East and both sides warning of further escalation, the situation remains extremely volatile.Tonight we separate what is confirmed from what is still being disputed and take a close look at where this war could be headed next.Our Merchandise

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Like, get out sleep, but I'm dead. Hello, and welcome back to Investigator of Podcast. I'm your host Chad alongside my beautiful wife, Sherry. Tonight, we're taking a look at the latest developments in the war involving Iran, Israel, and the United States. This situation continues to change fast with new threats, new military moves, and grow in concern over how much further this. could escalate. We're going to break down where the things started tonight. Then what happens next

and how all of this could eventually hit Americans here at home through oil, fuel prices and the economy. Guys, welcome to the show. It is September the 21st, 2026. Name of this song is When the Dust Settles by Nick Caution. We are back again. It seems like we've been taking way too many breaks lately. So we do apologize for that, but we are certainly back. There's a lot going on. and this episode is specifically going to be covering the latest developments of the war in Iran with the United States and Israel. And then our next episode is going to specifically be talking about the potential upcoming oil and gas crisis. I think it's about to get way, way worse. I mean, yes, we're seeing high prices at the pump right now.

I think in South Carolina, the average price is around 425 or so. Also, diesel is hitting like $6 or $7 a gallon. and then obviously in other states like California, and the states where gas prices are already high, it is just astronomical. And so the next episode we do is going to be talking about this crisis because I don't think everybody realizes, like it's not just about how much it's going to cost you

to fill up your tank of gas. Oil and gas affect everything in our lives from grocery stores to the things that you go to Walmart and buy. I mean, there's just so many things. And we're going to be talking about that on the next episode because I feel like probably sometime around November, December, January, it's going to get really bad. And I'm just very surprised by that, especially considering the midterms coming up in

November. You know, you have people like J.D. Vance, Pete Hegseth, that have Jake Paul and Logan Paul to the rescue this time going to the White House today or yesterday, I think it was. And they kind of spent the week in there meeting with Pete Hegseth and J.D. Vance. And they were posting all of this on their social medias because now Trump and J.D. Vance no longer have the podcast bros, you know, the ones that have the best. biggest reach, the Joe Rogans of the world and the Theo Vons and all of these guys, they don't have them anymore. Those guys have checked out. They're like, nope, we're not helping you this midterm.

So now they're having to get Logan and Jake Paul into the White House. And so we'll see how influential that they are. But either way, we're going to talk about it. Guys, so we are back. We are glad to be back. I want to also briefly talk about this for a moment on, I think it was not the exact last episode, but the episode before that I had talked about my stomach. a lot of you've actually sent me messages personally and on X and various other platforms saying how you hoped I was getting better and you shared your experiences of certain things. I do want to say I appreciate each and every one of you. That means a lot to me because like I said, it has been hard, but I'm getting better.

And I am actually having, I don't even want to say what I'm having right now. It's a girly drink. I'm having a white claw, okay, guys. Back off. Don't say anything. Billy. I had to mention Billy. Yeah, of course.

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You can also get on video if you want. Some of our listeners do. And we just talk about everything from what's upcoming, what we're going to be talking about, what we have talked about. But anyways, and then sometimes we make fun of each other. And so including Billy and his white claw. Yeah, and you guys call each other gay a lot. Oh, come on, dude.

Anyways, we don't call each other gay a lot. But actually, I don't think Billy is, I think Billy is not drinking a while. So congratulations to him. But, yeah. So this situation is pretty crazy. And, you know, I expected that the war would escalate. And it's just, it's funny to me because, obviously, for those that know us, we voted for Trump multiple times, three times to be exact.

And obviously, this fourth time or the third time, I mean, you know, 2024, we felt like we needed someone like Trump in the White House to what we believe save America, or at the very least, just turn America around on the right direction, right in the, the direction is supposed to go. and it seems like that most of what Trump has done since he has got into office was absolutely not what we voted for. It is not what he campaigned for. Obviously, when he says no new wars, that was a huge one. He said that at every single rally, I mean, it seemed like most of his supporters really love that line because they're like no new wars.

Absolutely. We do not want wars because we remember conservatives out there. Those conservatives, you remember when the Biden and Harris administration was sending. billions of dollars to Ukraine. And to the point, actually, that all the Democrats had the Ukrainian flags in their bio. If you went to their Facebook or Instagram or their Twitter, they had Ukrainian flags right next to their little American flags. And sometimes they even had the Ukrainian flag before the American flag. And you might ask yourself, oh, they're disloyal to America. No, it was just they were making millions of dollars in the back, you know, by whatever

they voted for, however they voted for sending these weapons to Ukraine. And it was funny because all the conservatives and the Trump supporters were always completely against this. This is one of the things that we hated. Not in the beginning. I think when the war first started, we felt sorry for Ukraine. A lot of us did. I don't know about you, but I did. I was like, oh my gosh, this is awful, this huge country going against this little tiny

country, you know. And for me, it lasted about two weeks. Yeah, maybe. But Trump also campaigned about ending the Russian Ukraine war within one day. Yeah. Do you remember that? Yeah, he used to say that a lot. He's like, I will end this war in one day.

It's only going to take one day. I'll end it. We all know. I'm the greatest. Yeah, he absolutely said within 24 hours he could have the Russia, Ukraine war over. And by the way, the reason why I 100% knew that this whole thing with Russia of Ukraine was bullshit was because all of the propaganda. When I started seeing the propaganda and it literally only took about a week or two,

you started seeing video game videos that even the mainstream media was pushing, saying how brave and amazing Ukraine was. And then you started seeing these supermodels dressed in Ukrainian uniforms that made all of the girls that was, you know, enlisted in the Ukrainian military looked literally like they were Victoria Secret models. Super models, yeah. Yeah. And so it was all a massive sciop to get you on board with the fact that we were about to send billions of dollars of our tax money to this place. And I guess they thought, well, look, if all the guys think, hey, we're sending our hard-earned tax dollars to these supermodel Victoria's secret soldiers, you know, I mean, I guess, I guess we can do that.

I mean, that's literally sometimes how shallow guys are. And so it works on a lot of people. It does. But I want to just say, too, when Trump said he could end the war, I believed him. I really did. I'm like, you know, he's in good with Putin. They could probably have a talk, a discussion, and he can come to the table and make a deal. You know, he's the art of the deal.

And he can make deals and he's good at it. And I really thought he could do that. And then after a week, two weeks, there was no deal. I was like, oh, God, what is going on here? Because I knew that Trump could end it. Well, and the thing is, though, is that I think that especially since we have seen over the past two years that Trump has been in office, it's like a lot of the things that he has said,

even about the Iran War, about the fact that, yeah, we took out their nuclear facilities, and then we didn't. And now we're having to go look for nuclear bombs again. And it's like when reporters are asking, well, what about the oil shortage that's about the gas crisis? what about Americans paying at the pump? What about the fact that food is about the skyrocket? And all these things are about to happen because it's war.

And he's like, well, you know what? I think Americans will be fine with it because, you know, at least Iran's not going to have a nuclear weapon. You know, and it's like supposedly you already took out their ability to have a nuclear weapon. And the war was already over. Like a year and a half ago. Yeah.

I mean, you've continually said like every two weeks that, oh, well, yep, it's over. They have no defenses. They have, you know, we've completely defeated them. We've won the war. And yet here we are. what we're going to talk about tonight. It's about to show you that it's not even close to over. And to be honest with you,

I think that we might actually have some troops on the ground very soon. And if not that, I believe also Trump either is going to have troops on the ground, as far as boots on the ground to supposedly get rid of the Houthis, or he is weighing options to completely take out and destroy Iran, which we've heard for the past year as well. But apparently they've been meeting over the past three or four days, talking about their, I guess,

their possibilities on what to do next in Iran. Yeah, when everyone was called to the White House and were like abruptly left wherever they were, went to the White House, everyone was speculating that it was going to be something about the Iran War. And to me, I was like, yep, I bet it's going to be boots on the ground. Yeah, who knows. So let's just give you a little update as far as American deaths. The Pentagon's public casualty accounting currently works out to 18 U.S. military deaths

associated with Iran conflict and subsequent overseas operations. However, a September 18th Washington Post investigation citing six U.S. officials familiar with internal casualty data reports at least 22 U.S. military fatalities, meaning the intertural count may be far higher than public tally. And so when the Washington Post says at least 22 from what some whistleblowers are saying inside of the Trump administration is saying it is likely a lot more. And so they're lying to us. We know that for sure.

There was also, I think it was a widow of one of the soldiers when they arrived to, I guess, meet their loved one that was coming off the plane in a casket, a flag-draped casket. And, you know, she had heard, just like everybody else, I think at that time, supposedly only six deaths. And she said that the amount of caskets that came off that plane was far more than six. So she was wondering, like, what the hell? who are all of these other people that are coming off this aircraft. And even some of the reporters that had seen this.

But the interesting thing about this was when they brought this airplane in, usually it's a pretty big public spectacle. They allow media to be able to see when the caskets are coming off. And this was, I think, the first wave. Right. And instead, they actually lined up the snow plows for the airport, like in a line to where anybody that could possibly see what was coming off of the aircraft, couldn't see, because it was all lined up with.

with snow plows. So they're hiding the numbers. And because what the Trump administration doesn't want is they don't want America to know what the actual casualty rate is and what the actual numbers are because it just makes the entire war look even worse. He already knows, regardless of whatever he says on mainstream media, whenever he's asked by reporters, that this is absolutely not popular with his base, period. Now, there's obviously going to be the loyalist, the cultists, that are going to support

his decision and support no matter what. it doesn't matter how many soldiers it takes to be killed over this Iran war because of Israel, they're going to still support him. I mean, that is just the way it is. And we have people on both sides of the fence. They did the same shit with Biden. And there are people on the right that are going to still do the same thing with Trump no matter what happens. Wouldn't you think, though, the people of Iran or the military would try to come out and tell Americans the truth about the numbers of deaths?

Well, Iran doesn't know. Even if they did the like the Lego like videos or something to tell us something. No. I mean, Iran doesn't really know. I mean, that's the thing. And when they do hit buildings with their missiles or whatever the case is, they don't exactly know what the tally of deaths are. The United States keeps that very low close to their chest.

And, you know, unless Iran hears it on Main Street media, they're not going to know. I mean, that's just a reality. It's not like they have inspectors going in after they blow up buildings in our U.S. military bases to see how many people have died. And they have no idea how to know. I'm sure they have intelligence. No, they don't have intelligence like you think they have intelligence. It's not like they have people inside of these military bases. So they have no way to know what their actual casualties are from the U.S. side.

And, you know, also keep in mind, though, in war, there's casualties. I mean, not casualties. There's propaganda. That's just the way it is. And there's propaganda on both sides. It's just like Iran is doing all these Lego videos. And they've been doing really well with their social media post. And it's something that has kind of made America look.

kind of like shit of court, you know, and these videos are going viral in large part because of X. And they're not just talking about the war. They're talking about Trump and the Epstein files and they're talking about all of this shit. And they're using Lego AI videos to do so. On the U.S. side, propaganda on this side is just simply mainstream media completely lie into your face, like they always do. And they're also getting the social media influencers involved to also lie to your face, to post on a constant basis, telling you all these things that are just not true. And exactly what I said in the beginning of this show. That's why they brought Jake and Logan Paul in because, you know, they're like, shit, we got to, we got to start somehow getting influencers in.

And so Jake and Logan, for whatever reason, signed up to go into the White House to do this. Now, we have not been listening to Joe Rogan like we used to. We used to be like loyal fans of Joe Rogan. Is he still talking about the war? Yeah. I mean, he talks about it here and there. I mean, like I said, I've seen clips as far as, you know, when he brings guests on and they talk about what their, what their thoughts and opinions are. But no, he, I don't think he, he's definitely not a Trump supporter. He's definitely

not the way he was leading into Trump's election in 2024, just like so many of us are. You know, I mean, that's why Theo Vaughn the other day he had a podcast that was just himself. I think it was like an hour and 15 minutes. And, you know, he took 15 or 20 minutes out of his entire show just to talk specifically about Israel and, you know, the casualties that they're causing in Gaza and Lebanon and and wherever else. And so he's continually using his time to do that. Joe Rogan's doing the same thing. I mean,

with many guests talk about the situation. And he also talks about like, it's kind of the biggest bait and switch we've ever seen. It's like a lot of people feel like they've been lied to. And just like we've talked about, I think we, I think we have. But we're also seeing influencers on the other side that are not getting

canceled and influencers that are getting canceled. And what I'm talking about is this whole saga with this McElmore guy. and Ed Sharon. What is going on with all that stuff? Well, McElmore was going to be opening for Ed Sharon. And apparently on one of the shows, he had used a moment to talk about Palestine. And, you know, Free Palestine is what he said. I think he said some other stuff.

But it wasn't, I mean, honestly, it wasn't anything crazy. And as I've said on other shows before, I'm not a McElmore fan. I don't agree with his politics. I never really have. We're definitely on the other side of the fence as far as what I believe and he believes. He's also been one of those guys that have, you know, ring out his support for all kinds of crazy other groups or riots or protest or whatever in the past. So I've never really been for him on any of that stuff, obviously. But in this particular case, obviously, what he said about Palestine and Israel, and he didn't even really talk about Israel, he definitely didn't really talk about the Jews at all.

Because everybody, whenever you talk about Israel, everybody always wants to say, oh, you're talking about the Jews. No, we're not. We're talking about Israel, the nation of Israel. because the reality of it is, by the way, guys, is that Zionism will not survive without anti-Semitism. And what am I meaning by that? Without them being able to say you're anti-Semitic, if we talk about Israel or Zionism, it can't survive. On its own, Zionism and Israel are very unpopular right now. I mean, especially after their response after October 7th, you look at the newest polls, and this is even among Republicans, I think like 57% of Republicans do not agree

or that we should be standing or supporting Israel anymore. This is the highest number in U.S. history as far as the, you know, just what Americans believe about supposedly our greatest ally. And so the polls are shifting. And so all, you know, all of this came on McElmore. And this was, you know, Robert Kraft, which I think was one of the big shows that Ed Sharon was about to go, I think it was the next show at Gillette Stadium, which is where the newly New England Patriots play.

And Robert Kraft basically said, look, if you have Macklemore opening for you, then you're not playing at my place, right? Gillette Stadium. And not only did Robert Kraft say that, he called all of the other owners of the stadiums that Ed Sharon was going to perform at and basically got all of them to say, nope, you're not coming here either. And I don't know if you know this, by the way, but Robert Kraft in Gillette Stadium, they have an entire section of this stadium devoted.

It's called the war room, but the war room is devoted to anti-Semitism. And they have all of this shit up. And, like, they monitor social media posts. And they have, like, a map of the United States where the highest rates of anti-Semitism is. Or, I mean, they'll literally, they send all this data to the FBI and all this to try to get arrest made because of anti-Semitism or hate speech. And they have an entire section of that stadium, Gillette Stadium, dedicated to hate speech or anti-Semitism. So, and then obviously, if you think about it, like Robert Kraft's support of Trump, you know, I never really knew who Robert Kraft was, but leading in the 2024 and Trump and Robert Kraft has been friends for a while. That's the guy that, you know, got caught with the prostitutes or whatever.

But they've been friends for a little while. And, but leading in the 2024, Robert Kraft apparently gave Trump a lot of money. He was a big lobbying, a guy, you know, he and he's also a big lobbyer and supporter of APEC. he's heavily entwined with that whole Israel lobby. So you just never really know. And then so obviously as the Ed Shearman debacle starts happening and McElmore says free Palestine, that's when Robert Kraft's like, well, you're not performing at my stadium. And then he called all of the other owners that Ed Shearren was on. Now the fallout since then, as Ed Shearne did release a statement basically saying after the fact, because Ed Shearin started getting shit.

Because obviously they were like, look, are you not going to stand up? Yeah. Yeah. Are you not going to stand up and say, well, then fine, I'll cancel my tour. And instead, he didn't. And he was like, well, okay. And then so Ed Scheran's entire band says they're not going to play with him. All of his opening acts also quit besides McElmore for the entire tour. And then so Ed Schering came out with a statement that basically said, look, you know, October 7th was horrific. What happened that day was absolutely awful. I'm not a political guy. But just the same. So is what has happened in Palestine and Gaza. And what's happening in Lebanon. That is also disgusting. That is awful.

Nobody should die that is innocent in war and all the stuff. You know, it's kind of one of those things that obviously as PR people came and I was like, look, you got to say something. And, you know, now you got both sides of the fence pissed off at you because it's like a no-win scenario. And that's not a place that anyone wants to be. No, it's kind of a no-win scenario. When you talk about this stuff, I mean, especially if you're a conservative, you know, if you're a conservative that don't agree with, you know, the Israel stance or how

Israel has responded based on October 7th and ever since, then there's a large group of conservatives that are going to, you know, that think Israel is the holy land and, well, it kind of is that area. But what I'm saying is they think that they are the chosen and they are God's people. And how dare you say that if they want to kill mass amounts of people? You are not allowed to say that they're not allowed to do that. You know, that's, there's that group of people. But then there's also a lot of people that are awake and there's like, just can see reality. And be like, look, no, there should not be hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians that are dead.

They should not target journalists over 148 journalists now that have been killed. They should not kill 30,000 children. You know, that should be just kind of obvious. And so speaking of that, Thea Vaughn actually responded to this on a show. I want to play this clip real quick. Here you go. Clymore lost his job because he spoke up, right? Because he said something, right?

I mean, it feels like this is probably the biggest atrocity that we've witnessed. in our lifetime on our phones, right? Seeing the killings and the people getting murdered and the children getting killed and the weaponry. And we had a doctor on who was talking about children getting shot right down through their bodies from drones. It's like the Israeli government, and I want to say the government, not the people of Israel.

I'm not talking about them. I'm not talking about Jewish people. But the Israeli government has turned Gaza into like a video game, basically, for killing people. You know, it's like, it's just, it's, it's this first person shooter. They have all this technology and, and, and more specifically, the killing of children, right? I mean, the killing of children. And every time that it's like, Hamas is hiding.

That's Hamas. And it's like, that's a four month old. What, how can he can't even walk? He couldn't even walk into a Hamas office and sign up, you know? They're like, he's hiding or something. Like, what is he, he's hiding behind what? His own tears because his mother is missing? Like, what are we even talking about sometimes?

Yeah, so that was the Avon's response to the whole McElmore situation. It's actually a 20-minute segment. You guys can go on YouTube and listen to that. Especially when he's like, how is this four-month? You're old going to walk into the office. Like, he's not walking. And, you know, before we get into the situation unfolding with Iran, I did want to mention this because this is also something that like when we go on telegram,

we talk about stuff like this. And it was something actually that Jake Paul said after he had visited the White House and, you know, and this is true because I was thinking about this, you know, a year or two ago and to where we need to figure out the Second Amendment. And what do you mean by that? Well, just like he's talking about, you know, Israel is using drones, just like all countries are using drones. I mean, if you look at the situation in Russia and Ukraine and they are killing these shit

out of people with drones. And now they have specialized groups. that are coming into Ukraine and Russia that are trying to train these soldiers how to evade drones because, I mean, it's killing more of their soldiers than anything. And so whereas when you think about this battlefront, you know, the front lines of troop movements, you know, or they're more worried about the drones that they're about to encounter than they are other soldiers, the other side, because these drones are everywhere. And we're talking about hundreds of thousands of them that are just out there.

And actually the show Lioness did a pretty good, I think it was the first episode. And it makes it out like they go to Ukraine or something like that. And they have to run from one place to the next. And when they go out, there's like hundreds of drones in the sky. And they have to somehow evade these drones to get to this next building. It reminds me of the Arnold movies a little bit. Yeah. Absolutely.

Terminator movies. Yeah. I mean, it's, well, yeah, I mean, movies like that, you know, from back in a day that kind of showed you a picture or a snapshot of the future. that is the world we live in today. And whereas you look at it from a standpoint of, you know, Ukraine, Russia, Israel, Iran, all of that, you know, the Second Amendment, for example, we, the entirety of the reasoning behind the Second Amendment was to protect yourself and your family against tyranny against your government. The reality also to that is that, you know, it's no longer about your government only has

guns to come and fight you that you could also fight back with. our government is so advanced and so complex now with their weapon systems. It's insane. Like your AR-15 that you have in your house, if you think that the government becomes all the sudden tyrannical, that you're going to take an AR-15 or whatever gun you have and you're going to go fight the government. Good luck. It's just not going to happen.

No. I mean, we have discombobulators. We have mind control weapons. We probably have lightning weapons. We have lasers. We have space weapons and teleportation. there's been also in this recent wave of attacks over to past four or five days between the United States and Iran and in Israel, there has been a lot of people seeing some of these

missiles that are leaving Iran that are literally disappearing in the sky. So instead of it actually making it to his target, there's something that kind of connects or connects to it and then it's just gone. It disappears. Like it teleports. Like a wormhole or something. Yeah. It's almost like they're teleporting these missiles now.

Have you seen saying that and about the drones and all these missiles and stuff? I read a People's Magazine article, I think, two days ago. And I think it was just yesterday or a couple days ago, there was a UFO spotted above Iran. And it looked like a half moon with all these different lights flashing. And people are like, where are these drones or was this a real UFO? Or what in the heck is that thing? It's probably one of our advanced weapons systems. I would assume, but, you know, I think it's funny because I saw the same video you saw

and the caption on it was, is UFOs protecting Iran? Like, no, that thing is probably bombing the shit out of Iran is what is probably doing, right? It looked badass, kind of. Yeah. It looked like a half moon and it had, like, lights all in their front. And what UFOs have, like, different color lights, like in the 1970s, when we used to watch movies like that, that was their way of communicating with. us yeah so do they have those lights i don't know so um i also want to get on to the pentagon

public data cited as of september 18th showed roughly 832 wounded in action across operation epic fury and newer overseas operations category combined the pentagon separated the casualty accounting after july 7th so um so i would say more than 800 wounded is probably the the correct number there sentcom had confirmed seven americans killed in action by march 8th six more U.S. airmen were killed March 12th. When a KC-135 tanker went down over Iraq, an incident CENTCOM says was not caused by hostile or friendly fire, which who knows, it probably was, but they're obviously going to say no. CENTCOM said earlier this month that more than 50,000 American personnel were deployed across the Middle East. The Congressional Budget Office estimates the warhead cost the United States about 38 billion through August 1st alone, with costs projected to increase to roughly 3 billion per month if operation continue at the same level.

And then a Pentagon Inspector General report found Iranian attacks damage or destroyed hundreds of buildings at American bases across the region and created significant pressure in U.S. munitions inventories. And, you know, this is something that I was talking about the other day. We're the United States right now, if you're China or any adversary, you know, Russia or China for that matter, but in particular, China, if you are China, you have to be looking at how vulnerable the United States is right now. I mean, if you ever want to attack the United States or America, now is the time. I mean, I cannot stress that enough. Go ahead and tell them now. No, but I mean, Sherry, they're a freaking country. They know.

They know this, right? And because we do, we are literally depleted in munitions. And we're talking about not just missiles and other hardware. We're talking about anti-aircraft fire, all of this stuff. And that's what blows my mind. I mean, there's an actual Pentagon report that came out that said that we were below half of what we were even six months ago now. And we can't make missiles and weapons systems fast enough to keep up.

And then on top of this, as I had mentioned in a previous episode, where we just literally sent Israel the largest munitions transfer in United States history, $2.6 billion worth of new missiles and bombs, including the bunker buster bombs, the 2,000 pounders. We sent them $2.6 billion of new munitions. Meanwhile, the United States is extremely vulnerable because of how low our stockpile is. And it just makes no sense to me. It's like if you look at it from the outside perspective, it's like someone wants America to be vulnerable. You know, I mean, that's what it really sounds like. It's like, hey, guys, we're completely depleted in so many ways. And especially if we start to send troops to, you know, to the Israel area, especially to fight the Houthis, which they have been talking about, we're going to get to in just a moment.

But then you also got to think about oil. The Brent crude recently pushed over $109, although it fell back to 100 a barrel on September 21st as traders reacted to the possibility of diplomacy and improving Saudi exports. A U.S. diesel had recently exceeded $6 a gallon in parts of the market, one of the most direct ways the energy disruption is reaching the American economy. And in Yemen, the renewed Houthi offensive is now displaced over 129,000 people, according to international agencies. who says 674 people have been killed in 2,998 injured since August 6th in the renewed Yemen fighting. So before we get into everything this happened, though, public Pentagon figures that put the number of American military deaths connected to the Iran conflict and operation, what they're saying is 18. And as we talked about the Washington Post as well, said that that number is probably far greater than 18. So one of the biggest escalations that happened was around September 5th through September 9th, and that's why we're doing this episode.

It was Iran's Revolutionary Guard, fired ballistic missiles towards American Navy ships operating in the region. And according to Cintcom, the missiles failed to hit those ships and no Americans were injured. The United States responded by going after Iranian oil tankers. On September 5th, Cynthcom said American forces destroyed or disabled three Iranian crude carriers after Iran targeted an American aircraft carrier and guided missile destroyer. And then on September 8th, after Iran again attempted to hit the American warships, CENTCOM destroyed another five Iranian crude oil tankers. So within a matter of days, the United States has taken out multiple Iranian oil tankers as retaliation for the attacks on American naval forces.

And Iran has responded. On September 9th, Iran said it had attacked 10 ships near the Strait of Hormuz. Merchant vessels were hit. At least one sailor was reported killed and another went missing. A tanker carrying around 2 million barrels of Iraqi fuel caught fire after reportedly being struck by a drone. And Iran also launched ballistic missiles towards the U.S. military base in Jordan. Jordan said it intercepted 18 of 20 missiles, and the remaining two came down in unpopulated areas. So American officials said all U.S. personnel were accounted for.

So this is just over the past few days. We're talking about the United States hitting Iranian oil tankers. I mean, you've got to think five oil tankers being taken out. I think there might have been six. We also have massive disruptions in oil refineries, and especially including in Russia. which on our next episode, we're going to cover that in detail. But then we also got Saudi Arabia and the pipeline that's down. And they're still hitting various other pipelines.

Not only Iran, but the Houthis are predominantly the ones that are doing this. And so now, obviously, as you said, the past three or four days, now that Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump and the entire cabinet have come together, they're trying to figure out how to stop the Houthis from hitting all these oil tankers. because they know Iran knows, the Houthi knows, the Houthis know everything. We're leading into November. And if these oil prices continue to skyrocket, there is a mass shortage in a literal oil crisis around the world. Like, how bad does this look for Trump?

It looks really bad. I know we're going to cover this on the next episode, but I just want to ask this quick question. What about Venezuela? I mean, we went in there and destroyed them and took all their oil. why are we not using their oil to provide for us? Well, we're going to be using their oil. You know, it is one of the biggest oil deposits.

I think it is the biggest oil deposit in the entire world. I mean, you think about Iran. You think about all these Middle East countries. But Venezuela actually has the biggest oil deposit anywhere in the world. So from what we understand is that we are going to be using their oil. But it's very strange because of this whole, the big picture here is although Trump and them say, well, we got the Venezuela oil. you know, and I don't know if you remember, but we also, when Trump was running in 2023 into 2024, where he was talking about, you know, we have more oil in the United States. We wouldn't even have to depend on anyone in the entire world.

We have it right under our feet. Open our own pipelines. But they haven't done it. And that's the weirdest thing about this entire situation. The Trump administration and whereas he fought so hard against the Biden administration as far as how many pipelines the Biden administration closed. and also would not allow various companies any new permits into these oil refineries or these pipelines. But yet we haven't done anything really on the backside. We've not opened new pipelines.

We've not even done a lot more than what the Biden and Harris administration was. So then we went to Venezuela to, I guess, get their oil. We kidnapped their president. And yet still, I guarantee you in the next year, because that's what we're going to talk about in the next episode, it looks very bad for the United States. Now, the United States might be, yeah, and Europe, especially Europe. The United States might be in a better position, obviously, than say Europe or other parts of the world, but we're still going to hurt. And especially because the diesel, most of the diesel comes from Russia.

And when you have no diesel or you have extremely high prices on diesel, that's going to translate everywhere. But it's still very strange, at the very least, the fact that we do have all this oil that we are capable of bringing into the United States. but for some reason, from everybody that's projecting what is potentially going to happen with this oil crisis is coming up, I don't think the Venezuela oil is going to help us for whatever reason. It makes no sense to me. I don't know if we're sending that oil somewhere else. If we're using it for something else and non-Americans, I don't know. Or if this is all a manufactured crisis.

Yeah. Or maybe those pipelines are all damaged and old because they aren't. Well, here's the thing about, you know, there's the Venezuela oil is not necessarily as easy to refine. and all that stuff, right? And so that will take some time. And also, obviously, all the companies we brought into Venezuela since we went in with whatever to hell that operation was called, Operation Get Maduro. But since we went in there, we are bringing in all these companies to basically set up in

Venezuela to refine the oil, get it pumped out, do what Venezuela wasn't necessarily doing. Although you remember, Venezuela was supplying a lot of oil to China and Russia as well. So now we're just trying, I guess, to refine that. You know, and the other thing is, like, every time the Iran hits one of our ships or attempts to hit our ships, the United States continues to hit Iran's oil infrastructure, not just the United States, but also Israel. And then Iran retaliates against shipping. And then every time that happens, the Strait of Hermuz gets a little more dangerous.

It's literally a constant back and forth. And that matters to everybody because this is not just a military checkpoint. It's one of the most important energy routes in the entire world is the Strader Moos. And we still have not got that under control because we're having to hit basically Iran's ships coming out. Iran is hitting our ships coming out or other ships that are coming out, not just coming to the United States, but also Europe and Russia and wherever else. Today, the traffic through the strait of Hermuz is at a fraction of what it used to be. Rooters reported today the only 17 commodity vessels passed through the straight over the past week.

So that's only 17 vessels that passed through. And this is one of the biggest shipping lanes in the entire world. And before the war, the average was about 125 vessels every single day. Oh, my God. Yeah. So, I mean, it's almost closed. Now, the caveat to that is because some of the tankers are moving with their transponders turned off. So there is more oil getting through than those numbers might suggest what some people are saying. That's at least what the Trump administration is saying, well, their transponders are turned off. And that's why we're not, you know, it's not that low of a number. But we don't 100% know for sure. Either way, it's a huge decline from what it used to be. And so that's why we've watched the oil market basically move back to $100 from where it was because propaganda, literally.

They're trying to propagandize the oil prices down by lying to you saying that these things are not really happening. And so when they say, oh, no, there's more ships passing through there. Don't worry about that. They're just, they have their transponders turned off. So what they do is they're literally playing the market. Right. And the Trump administration has done a lot of that. They literally, Trump said that he was going to sell people.

I think $100,000 per tweet early before he tweets something so that they can have a head start on the market. So if he tweets something and you pay $100,000 to get that information before he tweets it, then you can go and make a move on this stock, which, by the way, this is technically all illegal, but he's doing it anyway. And I don't know if he has officially done it or not, but they lobbied that and said, look, I think we can do this. I think we can sell our tweets for $100,000.

You get like a day in advance. you can go make moves on the stock market and then when I tweet it, you'll make millions of dollars. Meanwhile, he sold American people a $5,000 refund check that we never got. Well, no, but here's the thing. Yes, that's what he did before. Yeah, but now he's changed his tune a little bit and saying if you vote Republican, then you get the check. In November, yeah, and then you get the check. It's all ridiculous.

So, and then just when it looked like the straight was the biggest problem, this whole other thing exploded, which is Yemen. So the Houthis launched a major offensive against Saudi. backed forces. And over the last couple of weeks, they've captured territory along Yemen's Red Sea coast and moved into areas surrounding Bab al-Aib straight. If that name doesn't sound familiar,

it should because Bal-A-Bib is basically the other doorway into the Red Sea. So now you have Iran exerting pressure around the Strait of Hermuz, while the Iran-aligned Houthis are putting pressure around Balabib straight. So they basically are locking up both sides of this entire region as far as the shipping goes. which is why the Trump administration over the past three or four days has been meeting trying to figure out what the hell they're going to do. And one of the big ones is that Trump is floating is sending in troops to defeat the Houthis that are basically holding this Balabib hostage. Because if they're holding both of these places, this is horrific for the United States. It is horrific for United States goods, oil and gas, everything.

And not just the United States. We're talking about Europe. We're talking about Australia. We're talking about everywhere. and this was a huge chestpiece from Iran to wear and to get the Houthis to basically close up both sides. Well, do you think that we already have boots on the ground and we just don't know it? I mean, we definitely have boots on the ground. We obviously also have CIA guys, I'm sure, in Iran and also in Yemen and other places.

But do we have boots on the ground as far as like a full invasion type? No, we don't. But that could easily be done very quickly. And also, I want to point this out as well. because we have moved troops in the area and they're ready to go at any time. Yeah, we at least have 50,000 troops in the region. Now, a lot of those troops are already stationed at various bases and whatever. So we don't exactly 100% know how many troops we have sit over there since Iran conflict began.

We don't have numbers on that. And literally, they could be heading over there right now. A pretty good way to figure out if they are is be checking flight aware, look for C-17s that are coming out of the United States over to Germany. or that area. Those are the big planes, right? Yeah, those are cargo planes, but they also transport soldiers. They transport vehicles.

They transport all kinds of stuff. C5 galaxies. They're our biggest transport carrier. They usually transport machinery, tanks, whatever. C-17s can do it. But C-17s, in a lot of purposes, are better build-out for troop movement. You can also literally have Humvees and all this stuff inside and then have troops on both sides. Chris has been in a C-17 multiple times when he went.

to Afghanistan and Iraq. And so that's a pretty good way. What we have seen, though, over the past few days is we have seen large amounts of B-1B bombers that have been leaving Europe heading into Israel in that area. They actually, over the past 48 hours, we have seen multiple B-1B bombers, B-2 bombers, leaving from various bases across Europe. So what that looks like, and, by the way, B-2s and B-1Bs can be in the air for a very long time before they have to land.

So they're on their way to blow up something. And they probably can get gas in the air too. Yeah, they can. Absolutely, yeah. Yeah, they can get fueled by the KC-135s. Oftentimes, by the way, for those that don't watch, you know, the flight radars very often, if you get a flight radar app and you go over to the Middle East or anywhere in that region, oftentimes you can see these KC-135s, which are the refueler aircraft, you'll see them

coming down from Europe or Germany and just kind of that area. and when you usually see those KC-135s, you'll see where they'll actually leave the military, whatever base they left. You'll see them leave. And then once they get on station, you'll see this just pattern of circles that they'll do over and over.

And they're just sitting there waiting on the fighters that come out, whatever they have to refuel, they'll do this circle. And they'll just circle and refuel whatever they need to refuel. Once they're out of fuel, they head back, then they bring out another KC-1-35. So if you want to kind of see where the action is,

look for the KC-135s on flight radar because that's where the aircrafts are going to be coming in to refuel. My point to this is that we have positioned mass amounts of aircraft over the past four or five days in the region, not only coming from the United States, we're talking about multiple bomber squadrons, tons of them. And they're all American? Yes. Are they European, too?

No, they're all American. Everything that we have seen is all-American-led, you know, bomber wings. the reason I say that in this All-American is because most of NATO has said, we're not getting involved in this shit. They've continually said this. We're not getting involved in the Iran War. And because they know this is for Israel. Like most everybody knows this entire war is for Israel.

And NATO feels like, look, we're not going to go and send our troops or our planes, all this shit into, you know, to do. And which is why also Trump has been saying, well, we need to pull out of NATO. Trump's been saying this forever. And, you know, it's funny because whenever you think, It's like, well, what if Russia hits Poland? And then we have to, you know, Article 5. That's on the board right now, too.

I know. But what I'm saying is, is that Trump has been wanting to pull out of NATO for years. Like, he hates NATO. He says the word of only ones that fund NATO. And that's all true. That's why. But that also weakens NATO because when you have a president that says, we don't even want to be in this shit anyway. And then you want their help for a situation like this.

They're going to be like, nah, we don't really want to help you. You know, you want to pull out of NATO anyways. It's paying like 10 percent. And America's paying the rest. It is a lot. I mean, we do prop up NATO 100%. But the reality is that especially now over the course of this Iran war, they don't want to get involved. I don't know to the depth of if they are involved at all.

I'm sure they are to some degree. But that's why I'm saying, like you go to flight radar apps, you're not going to see a lot of military aircraft from NATO that are coming to join the fight in Iran. But just because a country is in NATO and it's a European country, it doesn't mean that they don't want to fight because they're in NATO, right? Well, I mean, it could. I mean, it could have to do with NATO. It might just have to do with the fact that they don't want to get involved in a fight for Israel. I mean, that's just the reality of what it is. It's not just NATO, though.

No, it isn't. But, I mean, most of the NATO countries are who we talk. When we talk about someone that's going to help us, it's basically all NATO countries. You know, we don't really, I mean, yes, we have allies, but most of our allies are in NATO. I think all of them pretty much. So, including Australia. So it's just like, you know, you don't see Australia sending their aircraft either. The Houthis, we talked about.

that we believe they are the ones that hit that major pipeline in Saudi Arabia. And they've also started hitting Saudi Arabia again, just over the last 48 hours. They've launched drones and missiles at Saudi cities and infrastructure and attack on September 13th, completely disrupted Saudi Arabia's east-west oil pipeline, which is particularly important because the pipeline was one of the ways Saudi Arabia could move oil without relying completely on the straight of removes. That is now damaged. Saudi Arabia then had to shift more oil back towards the Gulf terminals.

and then the Houthis have been hitting those Gulf terminals now. And then think about the irony of that whole situation. Like they hit the pipeline. They started shifting to the Gulf terminals. Then the Houthis are hitting that. Plus they got basically both sides of the sea locked up. I mean, regardless of whatever anybody says, when Trump says to mainstream media, well, we've defeated Iran already.

You haven't because you have the Houthis. You have Hamas or I don't know what the hell is left of Hamax anymore. But there are various groups that are probably. for Iran throughout the Middle East. And I don't think people understand how big the Houthi movement is. I mean, we're talking about hundreds of thousands of troops that are, you know, like a small country's military. I mean, that's how big they are. In some cases, bigger. Now, the pipeline was designed to help Saudi Arabia bypass Hormuz if Hormuz got attacked. So to Saudi Arabia, they have to send more oil back through these other channels. And Houthis already know that. They started

hitting these, which is why Trump says we might have to send troops on the ground to take out the Houthis. Because the Houthis are causing a huge issue in the Middle East right now. I mean, obviously, you have Iran in that whole situation, but the Houthis are causing havoc across that area. And this is Iran's biggest card. This is like the King's Gambit. This is their biggest ploy against the United States.

They know, and obviously if you look at the fact that Trump had to leave early wherever to hell he was. I think it was Camp David to return to the White House. And they had an emergency meeting because the Houthis are moving very quickly on all of these fronts. And not only is it going to completely disrupt and cause an oil crisis, but also it's not just for the United States. It's for the entire world.

And it's going to drive prices way up. And then also on top of that, you know, it's funny because a lot of people are like, well, a lot of people believe the fact that we have destroyed Iran, like, 50, 50 times now. I mean, literally Trump and them have said 50 plus times we have taken out Iran. They have no defenses. They are weak. They are nothing.

And yet here we are. Trump's having to leave. Trump's having to leave Camp David emergency meeting because of what the Houthis are continuing to do. It's just not going to end the way that people think it is. And people that have Teslas, I don't think are going to be over the people that have gas driven cars because it does not just affect automobiles. It's going to affect our whole economy.

It's going to affect our grocery prices. It's going to affect the ability to get any of that. Well, and not just that. I mean, you've got to think of all of our goods that come across the sea, you know, and it's and it's just not just food. It's not just, you know, everyday household goods. You also got to think about the amount of things that are going to be disrupted as far as housing.

And we're talking about construction. We're talking about our tractor and trailers that move everything. Our farmers. Our farmers are getting killed. And most of our farmers in America use diesel. they depend heavily on diesel. And so not only are you going to see these prices go up in grocery stores because of how it's being transported and the goods are being transported, but you're also going to have to

see prices go up because of the farmers that are going to get killed by the diesel prices that, you know, that's the very first part of this problem is the farmers, you know, because they're the ones that are growing our food with the diesel and everything that they, you know, do. And not only that, since the Ukraine-Russia war happened, you know, Russia was one of the, you know, Russia was one of the biggest exporters of fertilizer. And fertilizer has also killed farmers over the past two or three years in the United States. And that's why prices also have went up in the grocery stores because of the fact that we

are can not only continue and to send billions of dollars to supposedly help Ukraine fight Russia, but it's just the way that the Biden and Harris administration handled the entire situation when it first happened and leading up to the Ukrainian war. We probably could have avoided it completely to never let that happen. but instead we instigated it, it seemed like, and now we're kind of doing the same thing with Iran. It's like we're just making sure that shit goes as bad as it possibly can, it seems like. But anyway,

Cintcom commander Admiral Brad Cooper met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on September 14th. Now, Saudi Arabia is pretty much demanding the United States do something to help them with the Houthis because, number one, this is America and Israel's war. And now the Houthis are attacking Saudi Arabia. and Saudi Arabia is like, you're going to help us somehow. Yeah, and they're destroyed all of our shit. Like, do something. Right.

So according to reporting at the time, the United States was providing intelligence and targeting assistance, although President Trump had not authorized a new direct American bombing campaign against the Houthis as of yet. And so the humanitarian side of what's happening in Yemen is getting bad pretty quickly. Nearly 130,000 people have already been displaced by renewed fighting. Hundreds have been killed and thousands injured. And so what started as U.S. Israel, war with Iran is now completely spilled further into Yemen, Saudi Arabia, the Red Sea, the Gulf of

Amman, and it's now completely affecting international shipping. And then supposedly there's a nuclear issue. On September 9th, the International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors voted to report Iran to the United Nations Security Council over alleged violations of its nuclear non-proliferation agreements. Iran responded angrily and said actions like that could push countries away from the nuclear non-polliferation agreement. all together. Iran continues to say it's uranium enrichment program is for peaceful purposes

and that it does not possess nuclear weapons. The United States and Israel has said weakening Iran's nuclear capabilities has been one of the objectives of the military campaign. And there is still a major question about exactly what condition Iran's nuclear program is in because international inspectors do not have the same access they had before the war. Now, hear that, hear that straight. Yes, hear it. And listen, you're not going to have to put this on speed dial today because The chat is like there. No, I'm just saying.

But also, I want to make something clear. The nuclear inspector said that before the war, they had way better access to Iran's nuclear program than they do now. They can't go in there now. They can inspect shit because it's a war. And number one is dangerous. And number two, Iran's like, no, F you, you're not coming in here. See your way out.

They're in wartime. Yeah. They're literally in wartime right now. So we don't know. We have no idea to know if they have any nuclear. They've completely denied it. for a very long time. I don't believe that Iran is even close to nuclear warheads. And if you listen to Trump administration, they've destroyed their nuclear capabilities

50 times already. So they shouldn't have anything left. But, you know, here we are. Now, I'm going to quit talking so fast now. And we're going to get to some clips because I have a lot of stuff I want you guys to hear. I think this is all very important. But this is Trey Yinks reporting on Fox News just yesterday. Trey Yinks has obviously been in Israel covering this war the entirety of since this happened. How long has it been now? Like a year? or longer, I think, now. This is what Trey-ink said about Trump and their meeting recently. Here you go.

With President Trump about the situation with Iran, he tells Fox News, he's in a deciding mode and that very big things are going to be happening in the not-so-distant future. The president described the current choices on the table as wiping Iran out, letting them rot economically or making a deal. He added, my question is, if and when do I blow the entire nation up? they better behave. So there you go. And that's what Trey Yink said.

Now, this is obviously Trump posturing again, saying, hey, we're going to blow them all up to the smithereens. We're going to. And by the way, what he's meaning by that is nuclear weapons. Make no mistake. That is what he wants to do. I think Trump is, wants to hit Iran so bad with a nuclear weapon to be the next president that that's done it. You know, obviously since Hiroshima, by the way, we've the only, we're the only country does ever use nuclear weapons in any wartime situation.

And yet here we are saying, oh, Iran's got nukes or, you know, we're always talking about North Korea. You remember for years we talked about the threat of North Korea? And I think it was because the United States wanted to take out North Korea. And we've obviously talked a lot about Russia and we've talked about China. And it's like anybody we hate, we always want to fearmonger the American people about their nuclear capabilities. But the reality of it is the United States is the only country does ever use nuclear weapons. and sitting currently, we are yet again threatening using nuclear weapons again. And, you know, if you think that Gaza and Palestine was bad, you know, you hit Iran with a nuke.

It's going to be bad. You're going to kill hundreds of thousands of people. Trump knows that. Would Trump do it? I feel like he probably would. I agree. I think so too. And there's many people cheering him on to do that.

Yeah. And I think that's, well, it's the Israel lobby. I mean, the Israel lobby wants nothing more than. either to get the green light to use a nuke on Iran themselves or both the United States and Israel, right? And we know, obviously, Israel is nuclear armed. They are the only country in the entire world that doesn't have to have the IETA come in and inspect their weapons.

They supposedly don't even have to answer the question of whether they're nuclear armed or not. They get the pass. They get the get out of jail free card because they are so special. We know they have them. I mean, everybody knows they have them. And honestly, a lot of people believe that Israel is. is one of the most nuclear stocked countries in the world.

And for it to be the country that literally just took out an entire region of people, and yet this country has nukes is a very scary thing. And it should be. And honestly, like I've thought about that a lot. It's like, you know, the United States, if they turned on Israel or they went against Israel, they realize what a lot of people realize, is the United States scared of Israel? That's the bigger question. You know, especially considering if you guys have listened to any of our episodes about Mossad

and how advanced they are and how good they are at what they do. They are extremely good at what they do. You know, is the United States scared of them? Are they scared of them militarily? No. Are they scared of them weapons-wise?

Maybe. They know they have nukes. And would they use them? Obviously, like if you look at Benjamin Netanyahu and Ben Gavir and all the crazy shit they say, you would think this country would absolutely use nukes. But also, I think you've got to think about the blackmail angle, the Epstein files.

And obviously, Israel's connection to the Epstein files. which is basically their operation. Jeffrey Epstein, Gislane Maxwell's dad, Mossad, you know, all of Epstein's ties to Mossad. That entire Epstein thing is Israel's. I mean, that's just the reality. You can ask CIA guys. You can ask even ex-Massad guys.

They know. I mean, we've played clips on this that these guys were ex-Massad guys for years that said the whole Epstein thing was Israel's thing. That is Mossads. So in my opinion, I feel like. like Trump got blackmailed. I think he did not come. Maybe it was a sciop.

I don't know. But I think he came into this thinking that he could be the American president that everybody wanted him to be. But all I know now is he is definitely sucking BB's lollipop. Oh, gosh. Well, yeah, I see tons of those memes, to be honest with you. It's pretty crazy. Marjorie Taylor Green actually posted this video.

I want to play this quickly to you real quick. Not really heard from her lately. Some people hate her. Some people love her. What I will say about Marjorie Taylor Green is, you know, all the Republicans loved her. All the MAGA people loved her leading into 2024. And it wasn't until Trump basically went completely against her because she started being like, are you seriously going to hide the Epstein files? You're going to say they're all lies and the hoax and all this shit.

And then Trump basically said you're a piece of shit, hate you. We want you destroyed. That's why she stuck down because she's like, well, I'm probably screwed now. just like Massey, they got all the money behind him. And I'm going to ask you about Nancy Mace. Who's like, where does she stand right now? Oh, just, I mean, completely for Trump. I mean, she's an A-PAC person as well.

She's gone off the freaking chain and she is cray-cra. She's always been crazy. I mean, that's just the reality of it. But here's what Marjorita Green said. Listen. MAGA voters, MAGA fateful, those that went to Trump rally after Trump rally, ending foreign wars was a big deal. What are we doing now?

we are embroiled in a war with Iran that is not slowing down. It's only increasing. And I think we're going to see it continue to increase. President Trump claims it's going to end after the midterms. All of his advisors, as a matter of fact, they advised him just last week with Vice President Vance in the room, with Secretary Rubio in the room. They told him that this war that Iran could sustain it well past the next presidential election in 2028. So why is President Trump claiming it's going to end after the midterms? Is he going to drop

nuclear bombs on Iran? Is that how he's going to end it? I think we all should be extremely concerned. But war was never what we voted for. We voted for make America great again. We voted for the regular man and woman in America working Americans for their lives to be good, for American family's lives to be good. We voted for safety and security. We voted for all of these things. We've gotten a president telling us that we've got to support data centers being built in our communities. No one wants a data center in their community. People don't want their land and water being used for AI and being used for massive buildings and the noise pollution that goes along with it.

We have a Republican Party supporting flock cameras and attacking you if you don't support flock cameras with them. And the president calling you ignorant and poor if you don't support data centers. We also had President Trump shockingly fight everyone over releasing the Epsine files. That's one I still can't get over. And you want to know here's another issue. The Epsine files still aren't fully released. Why is that?

What are they hiding? What is Donald Trump hiding? And who is he hiding? Who is he protecting? Yeah. And that's something we've talked about, right? I mean, the Epstein Files thing was the most mind-blowing thing. that is when I completely, I was done.

I mean, I was 100% done. It was before that. It was when he brought in all those tech people. Well, I knew where it was leading. Into the Oval Office. Yeah, I mean, you're talking about Oracle, Palantir, Open AI. You're talking about all of these companies that I knew what was what it was going towards. You know, when he was saying, all these guys, all these piece of shit people, because all of them are, I mean, you know, Larry Ellison, number one, with Oracle, his entire infrastructure, everything he's built his software on was for the CIA.

Basically, to spy on all Americans through, I don't know if you guys know this, but most of all of our computers that are in America today are the backbone and the infrastructure behind our computers is Oracle systems in the background running that can report, show the government anything they want to know. And that program was massively built for CIA. I mean, that's what it was built for. Larry Ellison has always been connected to CIA. Then you got Peter Till, which Peter Till moved out of the country. because he said he did not like the way the country was headed and all this. Like it was very weird why he left the country. You know, he fled, you know, in his bunker because he has a bunker.

He has a doomsday bunker. Just like, you know, Bill Gates and all the other elites, they've all fled. Many of them are not even in the country as we speak. They are literally sitting or around where their doomsday bunkers are because those people know something that we don't. And, you know, I don't know if you guys, if you think about this too, and we're going to going to get back to the Iran situation a minute. But, you know, what the Republicans and conservatives are now spinning or what they're

trying to get in your mind is they're trying to tell you that Trump is doing all of these various things because he's preparing for something big, something massive. And what are those things I'm talking about? Well, the Venezuela raid, number one, kidnapping their president, taking up, you know, killing all of his guards and then basically taking over their oil. the Iran War, the fact that we basically just took over Greenland, kind of, even though Trump tweeted this and he's like, yep, we have all of the rights now that Greenland security and they're basically everything. We made an agreement with Denmark. And that was majority China people living there, people from China.

I don't know. But either way, then this was fact-checked what Trump put on this the other day. And it said, basically, we're doing the same thing we've always done for Greenland. You know, Trump made this big deal about like, oh, we just strike a historic deal with Denmark and all this, that we're basically controlling Greenland now. But if you actually look at the deal, I don't even know what the hell he's talking about. It's basically the same thing. But either way, all the Republicans and conservatives are saying Trump's doing all this thing because we're preparing for something massive. Well, what is that massive thing?

Well, we don't 100% know. What I can tell you, it will be as a false flag, whatever it's going to be, it will be a false flag. It's not because China is necessarily going to attack us with nukes because a nuclear warhead. is going to cause another nuclear warhead. You know what I mean? It's like that's the reality of nukes, unless you're a country that don't have them. And, you know, Iran knew this, by the way.

Now, whether or not Iran was actually pursuing a nuclear weapon or not, I don't know. According to their religion and all this stuff, supposedly the Fatwa thing is what it's called, the Fada, Fatwa. That was something that was understood among their government. and because their government and religion are kind of one and the same, right?

And they operate their government based on their religion, based on the bylaws of not just the government, but what they believe in. And the fatwa is, was put in place that says we will never have nuclear warheads because they supposedly didn't believe that. Tucker has covered that in detail. But if I'm Iran, I'm damn sure going to try to be having a nuclear warhead. I mean, think about it. You know, you have the United States to hate you. You have Israel that definitely hate. you. And the fact that Iran doesn't have a nuclear warhead is showing you what happens when

you don't, right? Because they're about to be destroyed. They are about to lose their country. They're about to lose everything they've ever built or worked for. And it's because they don't have a nuke. If Iran had nuclear warheads, this shit wouldn't be happening right now. I agree to an extent. But I also disagree because before this war even started, we saw what was happening in the sidelines. We saw that Russia, China, and Iran were becoming great allies. They're doing the brick system together. They're doing all these things and like, screw America.

We're going to do our own shit. You know, we don't need the most powerful country in the world. We are going to become the most powerful country in the world. Well, and I think that, well, I'm just saying Iran is on the, um, coattels, I guess, of China and Russia right now. And I feel like they feel like they have the support of China and Russia. And that's why they are going all force into this war. But Iran doesn't really.

I mean, I do think that China and Russia are potentially helping them with targeting and some of this other stuff. And maybe probably also weapons. I think Iran does get a portion of their weaponry from China and Russia. Do we know like if China and Russia are supplying them or rebuilding their stockpiles right now? We don't know. I would doubt it. I don't doubt it. Well, I would doubt it only because, number one, the United States would 100% know that if they were doing that.

And if they did know that, the United States would absolutely, and especially Trump, would be calling that shit out on media every day if Russia and China were supplying them weapons. It would be something you would hear all over mainstream media. That's curious to me because when we're supplying Ukraine with weapons against Russia, we're basically being a proxy. So what's the difference? Well, there is no difference. I mean... Yeah. So, I mean...

If China and Russia are... We call it out. So why wouldn't they do that? Well, all I know is that from what I have not heard, at least over the past year, is any claims, at the very least, from mainstream media, that China and Russia are actively involved in supplying or resupplying Iran with weapons. They don't claim it, but they don't not claim it either. Yeah, I don't know. But I guess my point to that is, is that you would think if they were that we'd be hearing a lot about... that shit, 24-7 on mainstream media because we hate China and we hate Russia.

And it would be literally the perfect story, right? But I'm not saying they're not, Sherry. I would think that they would be. And I would absolutely think that Iran would be like, hey, dudes, if we're going to be like friends here, you're going to give us some shit. And that's why I think they're going full force. Yeah. I disagree with you on that.

I think that China and Russia are definitely helping Iran. Yeah. I mean, look, that's absolutely possible. I'm not saying I'm right. I don't know. I'm just saying that I would think if they were, that would be hearing a lot more about it. But here's the other thing, though, is that number one, depending on how this thing goes

from here, right, where it goes, you know, this really actually 100% could turn into a nuclear war or a World War III at the very least. I mean, I think there's already kind of a World War III going on, right? I mean, you think about Russia and Ukraine. You think about the entirety of the Middle East. I mean, there's just turmoil everywhere. everywhere. Yeah.

And if China and Russia is helping Iran and we're also helping Ukraine and then we're helping Israel and vice versa, like everybody's fighting right now. And this is what I guess blows my mind is the fact that Trump was like no new wars. And yet now we have more wars than we did before Trump came in. It's wild to me. But this guy, he said the consequences of the Iran war for Israel have only just began. I want to play this clip for you guys. Here you go.

Price of diesel has broke $6 and it's on its way to seven. Places are seeing the price of fuel jump 20, 40, 60 cents in a single day. And this is just going to keep going up until the straits are open. The SPRs are almost out. Our diesel inventories have hit rock bottom. Texas and Michigan are already now seeing gas stations completely run out of diesel fuel. This is only going to accelerate. Just like everybody with a brain fucking tried to tell you,

As long as the straits are closed, this is only getting worse, and now the Bob Alman Dobbs straight has been closed on the south side by the Houthis. There's been an entire paradigm shift in war here, right? Like, this is just like when they invented the musket, and that ended knights in armor on the battlefield. The drones and GPS guided ballistic missiles have rendered fighter jets in the entire way we fight wars completely obsolete. and they're all still in denial about it. The Houthis with just a couple thousand dollar drone shot down an F-15 from Saudi Arabia yesterday. And now Saudi Arabia is begging the U.S. to sell them F-35s.

Motherfuckers, it ain't going to matter. Like, this thing's going to fucking wrap up here. Like, things are going to get so bad, exponentially quicker, just in the next one month, two months, three months. Like, you can't build planes and get them over to Saudi Arabia in time for them to even make a difference. Iran's already been shooting down F-35s. They have fitted infrared heat-sinking, heat-sinking equipment onto these drones, and that's how they are defeating stealth. Stealth is now obsolete. Like, are people got to figure this shit the fuck out. We are led by fucking retards that are so greedy,

they have taken us to a place of the most expensive weapons ever and the most complicated, the most complicated shit never wins the day. Simple and reliable. is always what wins a war. That's how we won World War II with the Sherman tank. It was not the greatest tank. It was simple, reliable. We could crank them out. We have gone the complete opposite way

with our military industrial complex, into the most complex, overcomplicated, easily broken shit. They even say our F-35s, like, it's like one in four can be flown on most days because they're just always broke the fuck down. It's just, this is all the fuck out of hand. Trump's out there saying that he is going to meet

with the other Arab nations and decide how he should escalate this war. No, there is no escalate to this. Iran has now proven to everybody that they own the straits. They figured the whole fucking game out. They got the U.S., they got the world economy by the fucking balls. By the fucking balls. Over in Britain and Ireland, they are seeing diesel prices over $10. Like, now that don't matter much as much there as it does here.

Because, like, that's small island, right? you're not shipping shit that far. In America, the diesel prices here, there is rumors that the truckers are going to, like, start a strike on October 1st because of these fuel prices. I know truckers that are just, like, parking their trucks.

They're like, I'm not driving and paying this amount of fucking money to fuck drive. No, fuck this. Like, this is going to get so much worse. Groceries are the next thing that is just going to fucking skyrocket. It's going... The Iran War has to be stopped right now. now, even if it stopped yesterday, the damage that is being caused by the fuel prices, it's not

going to stop. Like, it's going to be six months to get the fuel and the oil back flowing. The longer this goes on, the longer it takes to fix. Even if they stop this shit today, the effects of it are going to go on for a year, just like Corona, and they're fucking two weeks to flatten the curve and their stimulus checks, and then how you saw, oh, everything fall apart and then fucking next year, that's exactly what is happening here. this is just the opening shots.

These are just the opening consequences of this retarded fucking war for Israel and their goddamn genocide and their murderous, lying, thieving fucking ways. Donald Trump has destroyed not only the American economy, but the world economy and the consequences of this are going to be so much worse than what is happening right now. And when I say prepare yourselves, moreover, I mean mentally. You need to mentally prepare yourselves. We as humans, we can get through a lot of shit, dude. There's always a way to get through it.

But if you fucking panic and do more stupid shit and make your own situation worse, like that's where shit falls apart. Don't fucking panic. Don't freak the fuck out. Stay calm. And you make your way through it, right? Like something's got to give here right quick. How, dude, you would think the military would step up at some point.

More Joe Kent's. But like they said, the fucking. military so goddamn corrupt. They're more, the generals are all more concerned with their million dollar contracts that they're going to get with the military industrial complex and weapons producers after they've retired. So they're not going to speak up. At best, we might get a colonel to come forward and say how stupid this is.

It's going to be a wild fucking ride in the next month. So buckle it up because this is just the beginning. There you go. Yeah. So he does cuss a lot. But he makes some great points. And it's basically what we've been trying to say. And, you know, it's true.

It's about to get way worse. Well, and like he was saying, even if this war ends today, we're still going to fill the effects for months, if not a year. Yeah. Maybe two years. We don't know. It's kind of like corona. You feel the effects immediately. But you also, as long as the war goes on, the effects are going to last way longer.

Yeah. And what he was saying with the panic thing. That's what Americans do. I just think about Hurricane Haleen, where we lived through that for, I don't know, two weeks without power or whatever. But during that time, everyone was panicking. The grocery stores were like gone. Empty. Yeah, I still got pictures.

Empty. Yep. The gas was empty. If you didn't have. No propane. No propane. No nothing. If you didn't have cash, you were screwed.

Yep. Yeah. And people panic. Yeah. And they went and they go and get as much shit. as they can to prepare their families and they don't worry about other families. Well, no, I mean, because you're, it's called instinct for survival. You're not worried about other families.

You're worried about yourself. And that's just the way it is. And unfortunately, that does hurt other people that weren't prepared. But that's why you should be prepared. And on the next episode, we're going to talk specifically about how you can get prepared and how bad it actually may get because I don't think people realize this situation. And, you know, I want to also mention something as he's talking about the retarrow. hearted leaders, you know, and maybe there's a colonel or somebody that might step up.

They already have Trump's own cabinet told him. This was six months ago. And we got this report from an insider. A whole article was written. It's the insider that follows the Trump administration. They report on whatever. And they reported. And Joe Kent was also one to kind of validate.

Look, we had been telling him the entire time not to do this because this was a dumb idea. Iran was not just going to back down. they weren't just going to, you know, be defeated in a week. This is just not Iran. Iran has never been defeated. They've always somehow come out of every situation they've been a part of. You know, and even when the, you know, in 19, what was it,

1978 after the Shah, after our guy that we basically put into Iran, it was actually Britain and the United States, put the Shah of Iran in. He was a more westernized leader. in Iran. But he was still very brutal. Brutal piece of shit guy. Everyone hated him in Iran. And that's when Salamani or not Salamani, whatever the leader's name was.

Anyways, that's when he came in. He was basically exiled. He was hiding out somewhere. And the entire country like was on the streets when he came back in 1978. I think it was 78. And it was like the biggest welcoming party ever. And this was the Islam. revolution. This is what started where Iran is today. And, you know, our Western media and

propaganda and, and mainstream media all want to tell you that Iran is this horrible, horrendous place that everyone is, everyone is, everyone is basically in open air prisons and the women are treated horrifically. And they want to tell you all these things. But the reality is if you actually talk to people that have been to Iran or watch videos of people going and in Iran or just talk to people that live in Iran. It's not necessarily that case. And yes, their country is led by, uh, from, from an Islam perspective. Right.

Their religion. It literally was the Islamic revolution that created, you know, came in after the Shah. Because the people in Iran did not want a westernized president. They didn't want a, a guy that was going to do the deeds for America and Europe. They wanted someone that was going to be doing the deeds for them, you know, and their religion. And that's what they got. And, you know, I'm not saying Iran is at all perfect. I don't know a lot, but as far as every situation in Iran, I'm just telling you, though, that what Western media wants to tell you about Iran is not necessarily the truth.

If you remember before this whole nuclear thing went on with Iran, what the conflict started with was when the Iranians were out in the street protesting. And supposedly they were killing their own people in the streets. And then Trump's like, I'm not going to allow them just to shoot their own citizens. We're not going to allow this to happen. This is what first started it. It had nothing to do with the nuclear weapons in the beginning. Yeah. Well, yeah, it didn't.

I mean, and I think they felt like that they had to have something bigger. They had to tell people something bigger because that wasn't working. And do you think Trump really gives a fuck about the Iranian people? Of course not. No. Because he's saying he's going to blow them up. He doesn't really care about him. He's just using these things as a reason to go in and do whatever they want to do.

Yeah. And obviously also, BB Nat, Yahoo already admitted that they had Mossad on the ground during these uprisings, right? These are all fabricated uprisons. What happened in Iran was exactly what the CIA did in Ukraine in 2014 with a maiden uprising where they wanted to take out the pro-Russian president in Ukraine and install a pro-Western president. This is what they do.

And this is what they wanted to try to do in Iran. They thought maybe that they could send their Mossad guys in, send their CIA guys. I don't know how many CIA guys or massage guys. But what they would do is they would start killing the civilians. I believe that intelligence absolutely killed Iranian civilians, blamed it on the government to hopefully start an uprising of all the civilians to say, we got to do something. They're killing our, you know, they're killing us. And this is what they tried to do.

And then America also said, don't worry, guys, you go kill them. We're going to be right there for you. We're going to help you. We're going to make sure we install a better government, you know, a government that's going to really care about. you, we weren't doing shit. We wanted them to take over their own government and try to kill as many of the leaders as possible. Yeah, and we killed so many of their leaders, but they have like 50,000 people in line to be

leaders. There's tons. Like, you're never going to get rid of the leaders ever, ever. And by the way, they're all ideological. They all are, you know, they're all Islamic. And they're not just doing this for like, you know, notoriety or money or whatever the cases. No, they do for their religion.

Yeah, they are. And so they're willing to die for it. And there's shit tons of them in line, like Sherry said, you know, over, I think it was like 50,000 potential people that can take up leadership positions. And they're so no matter how many you kill, it's like roaches, you know, they're just going to keep coming. Did Trump honestly think he was going to get this done overnight? No. And was he just lying to the American people saying, oh, yeah, we got rid of them. It's done.

The war's over two days later. The war's on. Two days later. The war's off. Well, but here's the thing. Like, it's Israel that keeps continually saying we're not going to allow, you know, Israel wants Iran done. They want Iran to be wiped off to face the map. And Israel's not going to stop.

And they're not going to allow America to stop until that happens. But I wanted to play this quick clip. And these are farmers talking about we are fighting for our survival right now. Listen. A piece of equipment on this farm runs on diesel. Every truck that brings a delivery to us runs on diesel. Every truck that leaves here with cattle, grain, whatever runs on diesel. And how much have your costs for diesel increased?

We're 100% from last year. I mean, we are double. But in the last 10 days or so, it's going up almost daily. Our fuel supplier called this morning, it had gone up a quarter overnight. It had gone up a quarter of the night before. The price that I was given this morning was only good to 4 o'clock this afternoon because it's going to go up again tonight. How does that affect your ability to plan? You can't plan a business around the unknowns.

These input costs that just continue to go up while our grain and all that remains stagnant, it's not going to work. How's this affecting the farming community? Well, everybody's like us. They're stressed financially, mentally, the whole nine yards. And at this point, we're all just in survival mode. We're just trying to survive. Are there some farmers you know who are not going to survive? Yes, there'll be quite a few.

this is whether it's their decision or the bank's decision, this is it for. This is their last story? Absolutely. What do you want Americans to take away from the situation you're going through? I do not want any American to feel sorry for the American farmer. I want the Americans to be mad that we have been putting in this situation. We are fighting for survival and we're running out of options. Are you mad?

I am very mad. Very mad. I think there's been some very, very bad policy that's been made. that has led things to get to where we are. We have cut the fat everywhere we can. We're just to the point now there's nothing left to cut. So could you go out of business? It's possible.

Every farmer in this country is on the verge. There's a fine line. Every farmer in this country is walking right now. What would you do if you weren't farming? I don't know. It's all I've ever done. Really? Do you love it?

Yep. Why? Money is not the problem. I could care less about the money, but we take a lot of pride in what we do. You can't put a dollar sign on that. But I can't stay in business under these conditions. Something has got to give. There you go.

And that was a farmer for Bell Farms, or one of the biggest farms in America. And as he's saying here, is that this is killing them and is killing a lot of our farmers. And look, guys, we've said this before. I mean, even during the Biden administration. Yeah, that's what I was getting ready to say. During the Biden administration, they were paying farmers to burn down their farms. Yeah. And I think, too, it's like whereas you look at this Iran situation and Israel and Russia and Ukraine and everything. And then our policies that we're making in America, which seems like it is asinine.

It is 100% what Trump was completely against. Like we voted for Trump because of everything that is happening right now, we did not want to happen. and yet it is happening double, triple what we ever imagine. And it's actually, it's going to be worse than the Biden administration as of right now. But the point I want to make to this is that you've got to start looking at the bigger picture here. And as we've talked about for years, the New World Order and their plans to destroy America from within and to take our food supply. How do you control people? Well, you control their food is one of the biggest things.

And they've been trying to destroy our food for years now. On both sides, it seems like. on both sides. You remember when all the egg, egg, or not egg, the chicken farms. Yeah,

the chicken farms. Yeah, they were all being burnt to the ground. They were culling hundreds of thousands, actually millions of chickens. And then they've been also killing hundreds of thousands of cattle. There would be just cattle that turned up dead. And so now it's just to the point where you have these farms that are not going to be

able to stay in business because of the high fuel cost. And this thing has only just began. if this farmer is struggling right now, I can't imagine six months from now or a year from now. Well, it's just like this. The farmers have gotten a bad deal for the last eight years. I don't know if it's been longer than that, but they have gotten a bad deal with Biden and now with Trump. And you think about this. You think about people that are homeless, for example.

I didn't see that many homeless people around our area where we live. But when people are living basically paycheck to paycheck and they're barely surviving, they're barely paying their rent. And now you see the grocery store prices you see going to even like McDonald's, the gas, everything else. People are not making it. And I've never seen so many homeless people than I have in my life now. No, I agree. Yeah, it's nuts. And it's probably going to get a lot worse as time goes on.

I mean, as we said last time, during the Biden presidency, you have. had so many people become homeless, especially during COVID and what that did to the economy and people's lives, the people that were holding on were not able to after COVID. A lot of people lost their jobs. Prices went up. I mean, even now, it's like you. And they've not gone down. No, you go to the freaking grocery store and it's $100. You have like five things in your cart, right? You have like three, like three bags. You can carry them. You don't even need a cart. Yeah. It's nuts. And so this is what Trump told the media again just the other day about the situation and what you guys should think about it, listen.

Something that I'm very proud of. Iran will not have a nuclear weapon. Now, for that, people are going to have to pay some extra gas. I think most people, if they had a vote on lower gas prices or letting Iran have a nuclear weapon, I'd be willing to vote that it would be a massive landslide. People don't want to have Iran have a nuclear weapon. And you know what? They won't.

And the war is going to end soon. and when it ends, your gas prices are going to drop to a level that they were before maybe even lower. Okay. Okay. And that's the funny thing is like, there's already been polls about this Trump. I mean, they're on Twitter all the time, some of the biggest people. And including people that are propagandists for the Trump administration, they'll post these polls thinking that like, you know, their polls were going to be on their side. And they're not.

They're not. Like nobody wants this shit. Everyone is already feeling it. Yeah. The people that do want this are the people that are misinformed. They don't understand what's actually going on. And that's the problem, right? And it is ridiculous.

But this former CIA analyst had said this. And I believe he said this before the war happened maybe, or was this recently? I don't know. But he talks about like if the United States goes into a full-scale war with Iran. So, you know, like what does that really mean? Listen. Well, heard the expression. that a friend does not let a friend drive drunk.

Well, the United States has been driving drunk for quite some time, and that dangerous behavior has to some extent been encouraged by Israel and as many supporters in Washington. I also would not doubt that Israel, accustomed to behaving with impunity towards its alleged friend and patron in Washington, might manufacture a pretext to draw the U.S. into a new conflict. If the United States goes to war with Iran in the near future, it will not be because Tehran actually threatens America. It will be because Israel and its powerful lobby in the U.S. have succeeded

in creating an essentially false Casas Belli to mandate such action. While it is often observed that everyone spies on everyone else, particularly true if one is referring to our own NSA, espionage is a high-risk business that most countries are extremely careful when they are spying on friends because of fear of blowback. Israel, which relies on Washington for billions of dollars, in aid and also for political cover and international fora like the UN, does not spy discreetly, largely because it knows that few in Washington will seek to hold it to account. Israel, where government and business work hand in hand, has obtained significant advantage by systematically stealing American technology with both military and civilian applications.

The U.S. developed technology is then reversed engineered and used by the Israelis to support their own exports. The GAO concluded that Israel conducts, and this is a quote, conducts the most aggressive espionage operation against the United States of any U.S. ally. So the answer to the question, is Israel an ally of the United States is most definitely no? Is it even a friend? Well, I suppose there are all kinds of friends in the world. There you go. And that was a former CIA analyst.

One of the top guys that was that kind of knows the world stage. And this was before the war happened. He said, if we do go to war with Iran, it's because they succeeded. And they have. And I tend to agree with him as far as espionage. Espionage. Espionage. Sorry, espionage.

Espionage. I can't say it. Anyways, the reason why I tend to agree is because we've had. had many CIA guys on this podcast and they told us that when Israelis come into the White House or any government facility, they have to completely go through it and remove all the bugs. Yeah, absolutely. They put bugs in the copy machines. They put bugs everywhere.

They spy on us more than any other country and they're supposed to be our best friend. Yeah. No, I 100% agree. And I don't know if Sherry, you saw this. Tucker Carlson had Max Blumenthal on his podcast yesterday. And Max Blumenthal has been reporting on the Middle East and Israel for many years. Laura Lumer, when she saw that Max Blumenthal was on, had a freaking stroke. I'm sure. Because, you know, this is someone that, from what they're saying, that Trump basically, Trump administration now, from what is quoted, he's now detained by the Trump administration.

So they put all kinds of shit on him. He's had death threats. All kinds of stuff has happened to this guy over the past year. But this in particular is what his reporting on what Israel's big picture is here. Like what are they trying to accomplish? This guy knows it probably better than almost anybody. I want to play this clip and then we'll talk about it. You know, from an APAC congressional meeting.

It was a private off-the-record event. and someone who identified themselves as a 40-year veteran of A-PAC said, you know, the importance of our lobbying is we go down to congressional districts and recruit people right when they come into Congress. One of them was John Ratcliffe. He said, we went down to Dallas. We heard he was running. He was really good. We've loved working with him ever since then. Marco Rubio is another one.

And Mike Waltz is another one. These are our lifelines inside the administration, he said. and of course Marco Rubio's career has been sponsored heavily or advanced by Paul Singer's donations. Paul Singer being a major Israel First billionaire. So you look at the personnel in there and look at what happened to anyone who tried to resist their agenda, which was essentially Netanyahu and Israel's agenda. They're not in there anymore. They're like sitting at this, they come by this desk and talk to you. Look at what happened to you.

So it just simply follows that Israel will get more or less what it wants. What is the big picture goal? Because like I think any rational person assessing the facts as we find them right now in mid-September, 2026, sees the U.S. and the U.K. really is the last allies that Israel has in the world. And the populations of Bowell speak for my country, the population here is becoming aware of the cost, excuse me, of this relationship, and aware of the genocide in Gaza, et cetera, et cetera, like people are mad at Israel. It's just obvious and young people especially.

Yeah. So like if you're Israel, you're not stupid. You know that this is, this relationship is going to change, not to your benefit. What's your plan? What's their plan? What are they doing right now? You mentioned the UK being a key Israeli ally. I just wanted to mention something that recently happened.

Andy Burnham comes in and he recognizes where public opinion is in the UK on the Israel question. So he announces some form of sanctions or that they're not going to buy products from the occupied territories in support of a two-state solution, which is by this point dead. It was a symbolic move. Israel went bonkers. They shut down. He threw airport in two hours and 35 minutes. Well, there you go. So hours after his announcement, he throw airports air traffic control systems had a glitch.

Yeah. Coincidence? It was it? I don't know. I had family members stuck in the airport that day, so a couple of them. So I don't know. Was there any foreign software at work in that airport? You know, I don't think the UK is going to come out and say, we point the finger

at Israel and escalate the situation. I mean, they essentially, Israel essentially toppled the leader of the labor party prior to Kier-Starmer. They have a lot of power in the UK. What are they doing in the UK? They're destroying whatever's left of democracy there through the courts in order to prosecute activists from this group Palestine action. Which is, and this is this-

Correction terrorists. Terrorists. They are now defined as terrorists by the Trump administration because Israel told them to define these British activists as terrorists almost on the same day that Trump lifted sanctions on the leadership of al-Qaeda in Syria, which we can talk about in a second. So what they're doing in the UK is they're having these trials of these activists who have removed or stopped production of Israeli weapons at four state weapons facilities owned by Israel, Elbit systems in the UK. And what they do is they'll come in. in, they do direct action where they'll smash up the clean room, they will vandalize some

things, they try to avoid harming people, and then they go to court, and they go on trial, and they have been exonerated or let out in case after case by juries of their peers, because the juries sympathize with the argument that what these activists are doing is actually saving lives as Israel's committing genocide in Gaza, and that the harm. that they prevent is worse than the harm that they caused. And so this has become a real threat to the, not just the British system, but the Israeli project of essentially occupying Britain and its war machine as well. So now what's happening in these trials is the jury won't be told that they're terrorism trials. They think that they're convicting them or acquitting them on

criminal charges. And then the judge applies the terrorism charges after. The media is not allowed to know about that either. The media in Britain is, not allowed to report on these trials. So we've been reporting on them at the gray zone because we're American. And one of the barristers who's defended Palestine action has himself faced contempt of court charges because his defense was too effective. He was defending his clients too effectively. So they want to bring that system here. They want to, Israel needs to de-democratize Western societies in order to maintain control because the population is turning against. them. They need to brainwash youth and bring like Prager You curriculum into state education systems.

They basically need to jail journalists in our country who have interfered with their propaganda objectives like me and they will activate all their assets to do so. But what they ultimately want, and it sounds kind of extreme, but this is what I've had to conclude, they want. They want global control, as the world forms into a more multipolar world and U.S. Empire seems to be receding somewhat, Israel is still determined to gain control at the heart of Eurasia. And that's where Iran is situated. So imagine if they achieved regime change in Iran. There was a group associated with, I'm going to forget the acronym for it.

But it's like the lobbying group for Reza Pahlavi, the Potomac-Maryland-based self-proclaimed crown prince. And they put forward a white paper for like the day after in Iran. And the white paper, it said basically the Mossad will come in and help us purge the Islamic Republic, will carry out a mass purge. Israel will be assisting us in renewing the economy. And they're basically putting Israel at the center of everything in Iran post-Islamic Republic, post-Iatoll. So Israel gets control of this strategically located country that represents a 3,000-year-old civilization with control over the waterway through which 20% of the world's liquid natural gas passes. What do Russia and China do then? Certainly Russia would have to deal with Israel and China probably would as well.

And then Israel has the United States pretty much under its thumb through Trump or some democratic tool. like Joe Biden was. And they have Russia and China being forced to deal with them directly as they exist at the heart of this country that's being plundered as Venezuela is. What they're doing in Latin America? I mean, that's what they would do in Iran. So that's the objective. But do they have a plan? Did they have a plan?

Did Netanyahu actually have a plan? No. He marched right into the White House. Remember when he came in February? February 3rd. Yeah. I remember I was like, I was getting trying to get across town and they were shutting down traffic. It was like a presidential style visit. There were helicopters everywhere. We knew what he was up to,

but we found out the details later. He marched into, or maybe you already knew them, he marched into this situation room, sat at the head of the table, Trump sat to the side, which doesn't seem very Trumpian to me. And David Barnaya, the Mossad director at the time was brought in on a big screen. He's now the head of a U.S. weapons company, which is just absolutely, absolutely wild. Yes. He's he's not he's in the private sector now private sector um and and they give trump his marching orders you are going to bomb this meeting of the iatola and his advisors in tehran on february 28th we know it's taking place and trump just said okay all right boss i'll do it and no one was willing to stand up to trump he was surrounded by um a bunch of yes men and that was the plan and nettiniahu said

look what happened and i don't know if he said this but i know what trump was thinking was we just did look we just did in Venezuela. We're going to get an Iranian Delci Rodriguez. Maybe it'll be Reza Pahlavi. And it'll happen in four days. And he was also, he believed his own bullshit about the protests in January, which I can talk about, which were absolutely like a militarized operation, instrumentalized by foreign intelligence services, including Israel and the U.S. Very violent. But he believed that the Iranian people are going to come out into the streets and just sweep away this regime, and the opposite has happened. So Israel actually had no plan except to get Trump in the war to get the U.S. in a state of constant escalation with Iran for as long as

possible. That was their only plan. And look at the result. It has been disastrous for the U.S. economy. As you've been saying, week after week, it's been disastrous for Trump politically. He's at historically low approval ratings. There was a poll out today I saw that show that most people who believe that the war is affecting their pocketbook interests are going to vote Democrat, 64%. Of course. And the deficit is $40 trillion. This has a lot to do with the war. The war is going to cost over a trillion dollars.

Once you factor in in 10 years, inflation, the cost of paying veterans and the rising costs of weapons and so forth, the U.S. is expending munitions to the point where it's having to reposition dad batteries and pack threes from other supposedly more strategically significant locations. So it's been a blow to U.S. empire. The U.S. as a maritime power is being kind of exposed as a paper tiger. Like, its sailors can't reach land until they go to Thailand as they've been having food rationed because they were being supplied by bases that were put out of service by Iranian missiles. So it's been a total disaster because Trump followed Netanyahu's marching orders. And that was the only plan.

There you go. And that's Max Blumenthal. And by the way, I do encourage all of you to go to Tucker Carlson and listen to the entirety of this interview. They talk about the lies about October 7th. What was lied about and all the things about that. They talked about Randy Fein's blood, lust, and attacks on U.S. Constitution. Randy Fine, obviously, is a congressman. Israel first congressman.

He wears like Israel stuff all the time. You also, they all talk about the leaked APEC audio, very interesting Salem media and turning point USA, the assassination's attempts on Trump and what all that was probably about how the war will end with Iran if it ever does. But just I wanted to play that section because I want you guys to understand like, you know, when we hear what, you know, like I said, when the insider, when Trump's team in cabinet told Trump, Trump, this is not what we should do. Like, this is absolutely not what we should do.

This is not going to end the way you think it is. And a lot of the people walked out of that room that day. And this was actually the day that Bibi came in, what Max was just talking about, when it was like the presidential escort all the way through Washington, D.C., they shut down all the streets. They had helicopters flying everywhere. Bebe and Netanyahu came in there along with Trump's cabinet. Trump literally set to decide Netanyahu said the head of the table in the city.

situation room. I don't think this ever probably happened in the White House period. But, you know, Netanyahu gave Trump his marching orders after Netanyahu and them left. Trump kind of looked around at his cabinet. His cabinet said he's mostly full of shit. Yep. I remember that. He is full of shit. You should probably not listen to him. He's trying to, yeah, he's trying to draw us, supposedly even Rubio. But well, that's what they said. He's trying to draw us in. He's trying to get us to do their war for him. And this is not going to be good for us. We should not do this. And what does Trump do? Well, we're doing it anyway. Well, I don't think Rubio is full on board with Israel because if that were the case,

why did he come out in the very beginning saying that we were compromised? I don't know. Because of Israel. Well, no, he didn't say we were compromised. He just said that Israel. We had to protect our troops because of Israel. Yeah, supposedly. But that's what he wants you to believe because he don't want you to believe that we went to war for Israel, right? And so he has to say, well, we had to protect our interests because Israel struck first and we knew that they were going to retaliate. Right. So we had to do something.

You know, it's all just a mind game. It's all bullshit. And, you know. So you think he did that on purpose instead of an accident? I don't know if he did it on purpose or not. It seemed accidental to me. Yeah. I mean, I don't know.

It could have been. But at the very least, I think Max explains it very well. And you may not, you may not believe that. You may believe that this is, I'm sure there's a lot of people that still believe, for whatever reason, that we're in this war with Iran because of a nuclear war. head and we're not. It's the same bullshit they told us about Iraq with weapons of mass destruction, which by the way, also that intel came from Israel. And Israel has wanted to get us involved deeply into the Middle East. And then by the way, go back and listen to our last 9-11 episode.

Go back and listen to that one where we highlight the Fox News four-part series about who likely was actually involved in 9-11 and who was kind of pulling the strings of that. And back then they were allowed to say those things. They're not allowed to say that now. Well, they took that shit off. Not long. Yeah, they took it off. But now we're not allowed to say that because of who owns the media, the companies. Yeah. That's why.

But I want to ask you a question. I want to sidetrack for just a minute. It was just recently reported that Trump and Mandami were at the White House together discussing shit. No, it wasn't the White House. I think that they were at the New York mayor's mansion or whatever. What is all that about? I don't know. I didn't even actually watch the video, but supposedly they were together.

And talking about something, something about like New Yorkers and like the cost of this and that. Okay. So it had nothing to do with any of this. No. I was just curious about that. Nothing to do with the war. But, and you know what the thing is? And I'll say this last because I mean, we've been on here for an hour and 45, but we've been away for a while.

So it's okay. The interesting thing is I've been seeing a lot of post about these Muslims or I guess Muslim people of Muslim or Islamic religion that are. are getting elected in some of these offices, like whether it's mayors or whatever in various places across the United States. And, you know, that's to be expected at this point. Yeah, because people are going to go the opposite of what they thought was going to happen. So they're like, this is not working. I am not voting for this shit again.

Yeah, I'll vote literally the opposite. And that's what they're going to do. And there's going to be a lot of conservatives to vote literal opposite to Democrats this come of November. I think it's going to be a bloodbath for the Republicans in November as far. as they're going to lose the House, lose the Senate. And, but we've been saying this since the beginning. Like, we knew, like, once all this shit was going on, the way that the Epstein files were

handled, the way that this war situation was handled, even the JFK files, supposedly that were released, that was still mostly redacted. And the UFO files has been a bunch of BS. And it's just something to take your attention off of the Epstein files. Because I remember when the Epstein files, we thought maybe there was going to be transparency. and then all that debacle with Pam Bondi, which was a freaking disaster. And then the doubling down by the administration continually is calling you a liar if you think that there's anything to do.

And then you know, you had Dan Bongino and Cash Mattel come out and be like, yeah, he killed himself. Don't worry about it. We know for sure. I've seen the files. And you guys are liars or idiots. You're leftist if you think that we're telling you a lie. And that's why so many conservatives have actually stayed with the Trump administration

because they're so afraid that it. If they don't believe Cash Patel and Dan Bonino and Trump and what they're telling you about the Epstein files and the Iran War, then you're a leftist because it's literal messaging from the Trump administration. They are brainwashing you to believe if you disagree with them, the almighty Trump, then you are a far leftist and you probably go to LGBTQ rallies and go to BLM rallies and Antifa rallies. And so people just can't do that. People are like, well, I got to stay Trump because what's the opposite? What is the opposite going to guess? Does Dan Bongino even still have our career? Does anybody even listen to him anymore?

I don't know, dude. I never see his clips anymore. Like, literally every single clip that he posts with this bullshit. I see just 90% of people just talking shit to him. Because he really, he committed career suicided, in my opinion, by even taking that job. And they're still, like, I've looked at some of his posts and stuff. And it's funny because like a lot of the responses, like the good ones, like you'll find, and we've seen this for years.

but you'll see like 10 of the same type of responses. It's like, you know, they're body in his account to try to prop him up. And look, if you're a part of the system, if you're a part of the Trump administration or basically any political influencer system because the Democrats had it, Republicans have it, they're going to keep you propped up. You know, they're going to keep your numbers high. They're going to do all those things just to make people believe that you're still popular. Right. And they're going to try to drown out the bad comments. They're going to do all that shit with bot accounts.

that are propping you up and and they're going to try to also use bots to vote those comments up to where when you go on the on his post and you look at his comments there's like 50 maybe comments that all have a lot of likes they're all being upvoted and most of those upvotes are bots and then if you finally get past all that bullshit you'll see real people and what the real people are actually saying about that person right and and look that's what the government does i mean they spend trillions of dollars on stupid bullshit. Don't think they don't have bot farms that they're using for their most loyal supporters that they're paying to propagandize you.

And I'll be honest, there's someone that I was decently close with. We talked a lot back and forth. He has a huge ex account, not going to say his name because I think he still listens to our podcast. But we talked about so much. And then Trump came in and, oh, my God, it's so obvious that dude's paid. I mean, well, he literally travels with Trump now.

on Air Force One and like he's a part of the whole, you know, influencer media group now. And like when I look at his tweets and the shit he says, especially knowing who he was before the Trump administration, knowing that he called out the same bullshit that we did and, and everything else. There's like, I know he's a smart guy.

So I know that he's just not blind. I just know he's getting paid. And he has no choice at this point. It just sucks, though, that some people sell their souls for that. Yeah, but in the same sense, I think Trump is getting paid too.

and he sold his soul. I mean, he's making a lot of money. He's making a lot of money on the back end. Oh, for sure. Absolutely. I mean, that, you know, but they had his hook, line, sinker with the whole, oh, Trump didn't accept one dollar for being president in the four years. That was a great thing.

It's going to be a generational, like, riches for that family. Oh, yeah. I mean, it will as long as they behave, right? Yeah, as long as they behave and do what they're supposed to do. Because if they don't behave, you might get Charlie Kirk, you know, and that's just the And they gave him a little taste of that. Yeah, a few times. And, yeah, I still wonder if they actually meant, and I say they, I wonder if they actually

meant to kill him, like actually meant to kill him. But I don't, but I think they were going for him in Pennsylvania for sure because I don't think they're going to graze his ear. Yeah, that's just not that easy to do. No. Just, oh, let's just graze his ear and like make him scared. Yeah. Yeah, it's crazy.

I don't know, guys. Listen, we promised we're going to be back sooner this time. we will definitely do this very soon again. I think we're going to be, I think we'll have another episode out Wednesday. Sherry, you got your podcast tomorrow, Trouble and Truce podcast.

You guys want to go check it out. And we've got Andy Fancher on tomorrow with Fitz News. And he's been on our podcast on Investigate Earth. And he's coming on. And I just feel so privileged that he's coming on a little tiny podcast like ours. So thank you, Andy. Yeah. So that's Jerry's podcast.

But yeah, so we'll have another episode out Wednesday. They will talk about the old crisis unless something else happens. And we are still starting our YouTube channel. Like I said, go check it out, investigate Earth live. Just go subscribe. So then when we do go live, you will get notified. Make sure you press the little bell on YouTube to get notified because you want to be

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All right, guys, that's going to be it for us. This is When the Dust Settles by Nick Caution. Until next time, we love you guys. Peace out. Peace out. Yeah, yeah. Hey, I'm giving it all I can. can give, run up and taking my pick,

then bringing it back to the crib. Back to the crib. Yeah, you know how I go. So we just keep digging until we finally get it. Like, fuck it, I sleep, but I'm dead. Yeah, I gave you my word. Don't break it for knowing. You know I'm gonna keep what I said.

Ready for war, I've been deep in the trends. And stuff, but I'm squeezing the pressure we cover. Too much to accomplish. You know I can't leave it as a chance. Yeah, throw it in the bag. Throwing thoughts on Jackson Dart. I'm out of pocket playing tag. Catch me if you can.

Fee out the mag. Took the lead I rode a ceiling. I'm giving it all. When they say get the fuck on my