Judging Freedom - Kyle Anzalone : 5,000 U.S. Marines Deploy to the Middle East. What Is the U.S. Preparing For?

Episode Date: March 23, 2026

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Undeclared wars are commonplace. Pragically, our government engages in preemptive war, otherwise known as aggression with no complaints from the American people. Sadly, we have become accustomed to living with the illegitimate use of force by government. To develop a truly free society, the issue of initiating force must be understood and rejected. What if sometimes to love your country you had to alter or abolish the government? Jefferson was right? What if that government is best, which governs least? What if it is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong? What if it is better to perish

fighting for freedom than to live as a slave? What if freedom's greatest hour of danger is now? Hi, everyone. Judge Andrew Napolitano here for judging freedom. Today is Monday, March 23rd, 2025. Kyle Anselawn will be here with us in just a moment. Is it 5,000 Marines or is it 50,000 Marines? And what are they going to do? But first, this. Don't you just cringe when people say, I told you so. Sorry. I told you gold and silver would reap the benefits due to excessive money printing, inflation, and global uncertainty. It's here. It's happened. Gold and silver reached all-time highs. Did you call Lear Capital? and buy some, it's not too late. Experts are predicting higher prices ahead. Why? Nothing has changed.

Geopolitical chaos, cost of living crises, and a weaker dollar are driving central banks to boost their gold reserves. Forecast suggests gold could hit $6,000 an ounce and silver $200 in ounce. Even Morgan Stanley ditched the 6040 rule for 60, 2020, putting 20% into precious metals. medals. They're getting educated, and you should too. Call the best in the business and the people I trust, Lear Capital, get their reports, get the facts, get some gold and silver. Tell them the judge sent you and get up to $20,000 in bonus gold or silver. Call 800, 511, 4620, or go to Lear judge's nap.com. Kyle Ansela, welcome here, my dear friend. Whatever became of Israel's plan to foment a mass revolt in Iran and overthrow the government? Well, it didn't materialize. I think they planned on different groups rising up,

particularly the Iranian Kurds, which is about 10% minority. It's in northwestern Iran, but they didn't rise up the Iraqi Kurds, the Peshmerga. They tried to coach them into going along with it, at least providing some support to the Iranian. Kurds and they didn't go for it either. So it doesn't seem like we're going to have any internal uprising in Iran. I know they're trying to rally the supporters of the former Shaw and encourage other minorities sets to uprising, things like that. But the regime, the Iranian government, seems to have very good control over the population. Judge, I saw this morning, before Donald Trump called off the attack on the Iranian power plants, that there were actually Iranian

civilians who are going to the power plants to stand around it and then act to protect their infrastructure. So rather than abandoning the government, they are showing very strong support for it. I guess the murder of the Ayatollah may have aroused sympathy and united them behind the government as well. That was a calculate. It was a monstrous act, but it was a miscalculation. Absolutely. And the Ayatollah was aging 86 years old. There were reports that he was dealing with several health issues and maybe had battled prostate cancer a few times. And so there were some analysts who are saying that in his declining health, as he, you know, dies slowly, this is going to create a lot of tensions among the Iranian rains of who's going to take over as, you know, different people try to position themselves and play polis. politics. But now you've cemented his son. He's 30 years younger. He's in his 50s. As the Ayatollah, assuming he survives this war, he'll be a wartime leader who got the country through an aggressive war waged against them by the Israelis and the Americans. However, many protesters and other

violent rioters were killed by the Iranian government in January. Well, those aren't his sins. Those were the sins of his father. And so he's moved past that and kind of gets a fresh start and on a positive note because, again, it seems Iran's going to come out of this war in some ways being able to declare victory. Trump claimed this morning that his real estate agent negotiators are secretly negotiating with somebody in the Iranian government and it's going very well. Did he offer a shred of evidence to support this outlandish claim? Absolutely not.

And my red flag was up immediately when Trump said these negotiations were going on with Steve Wyckoff. Steve Wickhoff and Jared Kushner, Trump's envoy and son-in-law, of course, were leading the U.S. and were only the real representatives of the U.S. at the tots that were going on with Iran in January and February aimed at establishing a new nuclear agreement in averting this war. And it's widely reported now that the incompetence of Wickcoff and Kushner and their ability to negotiate and understand the Iranian position was one of the main reasons that Donald Trump decided a deal was impossible and chose to go to war. So I don't believe the Iranians would be

willing to negotiate through Steve Whitkoff after he botched the last round of negotiation so bad. They did understand the Iranians were giving Trump a better deal than Obama got with the JCPOA and couldn't relay that to the president. So there's no way they're going through Wickcoff for this. I think this was a lie put out by Donald Trump to boost the markets. You know, Donald Trump's war in Iran has two fronts. He's waging the war in Iran and he's trying to sell a prop he's waging propaganda war against the American people trying to sell us on the idea that this isn't really a war. He ran on being a peace president, not getting America into unnecessary entangling conflicts in the Middle East that end up costing us a lot of money. So he's doing everything he can to keep gas prices low.

He's doing everything he can to manipulate the markets and make the big investors think that this is going to be a short conflict. So we don't see the down sinking by 500 points a day. And we don't see the price of oil up around $150 a barrel. But, you know, as a libertarian, I've read, I understand libertarian economics, government intervention can only keep the markets where they are for so long. Eventually, reality will kick in. And then this is all going to blow up in Trump's face. Agreed. I mean, why would the Iranians have anything to do with Whitkoff? He tricked them twice in June when they were on the way to a negotiation session and the Israelis and the Americans attacked. And then the same thing on February 28th. Absolutely. I don't think the Iranians were responding to the American outreach. Again, I think this was just a lie by Trump for market manipulation. There's these reports that they are talking to some high-ranking person.

in the Iranian parliament. He personally went on ads and posted that this wasn't true. The Iranians say that what happened is the Americans reached out to the Pakistanis to talk to the Iranians. The Iranians received that message and just simply didn't respond because they have no interest in talking to the Americans at this point. I think the person that the Israelis claimed we were speaking with is the speaker of the. the Iranian legislature of the Iranian parliament, Mohammed Ghalefbaugh, who is also a military figure. Is that the guy? Yes.

He has denied this. Yes, he has denied it. And you wonder if maybe he was denying it because he's worried that the Israelis are going to try to kill him, as the Israelis have killed a lot of the more, you know, moderate people. within the Iranian government who would be willing to talk to and negotiate with the Americans at this point. Well, does Trump appear to have lost control of the war in your view? I do think so. I think if Donald Trump was in control of this war, it would have lasted three, four days,

certainly not over a week. And we're now looking at week number four here. So this war is clearly out of Donald Trump's control, our allies in the Middle East countries that have personally invested millions, if not billions of dollars into, you know, Trump's family businesses or businesses of members of the Trump administration, hundreds of billions of dollars into the American economy, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE are all burning. Israel has taken a lot of damage. This war is not going to plan.

Donald Trump has even said that the people they wanted to take over Iran post-conflict have all been killed in the second group of people that. the U.S. wanted to take over post-conflict have all been killed. And so this war is clearly not going to plan. That's why they're bringing additional troops to the Middle East, different-sized forces. The world's largest aircraft carrier, the Gerald R. Ford, is actually now in a Greek port because what apparently was a laundry fire caused so much damage to the ship, it can no longer be on the battlefield. Yeah, this war is not working out well for the Americans. What would five or 50,000? I don't know what the number is. Marines and airborne troops do.

Sides get killed. That's it. Very unfortunately, they're just going to present easier targets for the Iranians to hit. The Iranians have been very clear about this. That if the Americans conduct a ground invasion, it's just going to put more American troops within range of their firepower. They have a massive drone rocket artillery missile arsenal short-range missiles and so if the u.s tries to land on karg island and then our troops are bowed down and then we have to go in on land in iran to try to take out the Iranian positions that are launching missiles and drones at the u.s i mean it's not going to matter we had hundreds of thousands of american troops in iraq and afghanistan and those countries together aren't the population of iran so to try pacify a country of 92 million people, five or 50,000 Marines aren't going to make a difference.

They're just going to end up coming home in caskids. And it's going to be really unfortunate that Trump got so many Americans killed unnecessarily. Here is Trump earlier today saying he's not saying who his real estate agents are talking to because he's afraid the person would be killed. Watch this. What is Steve Witts up speaking with, Mr. President? A top person, don't forget. We've wiped out the leadership phase one, phase two, and largely phase three.

But we're dealing with the man who I believe is the most respected and the leader. You know, it's a little tough. They've wiped out, we've wiped out everybody. Is that the Supreme Leader? No, not the Supreme Leader. We don't, well, nobody's ever, nobody heard of the second Supreme Leader, the son. Mr. President. Mr. President, I know you've deployed.

I don't want them to be killed. Okay? I don't want them to be killed. Mr. President. Killed by the Iranians for betraying them or killed by the Israelis because they like to kill the Iranian leadership? Well, not just because they like to kill the Iranian leadership because they don't want Trump to have an off-ram. That if these thoughts do end up turning out to be something more than just a Trump fantasy and that he really is trying to negotiate an exit to this. war. The Israelis don't want that. The Iranian state hasn't been sufficiently destroyed. They want this country in the middle of its own civil war. They want to turn it into Syria or Libya.

And we simply haven't gotten there yet. They need to bomb the civilian infrastructure, made the people suffer, made the country poor. And so Israel wants to dread this conflict out much further. It's also interesting that Trump says there that he's had no contact with the Iranian supreme leader. And yet he's saying that we're close to an end of this conflict. Even if we are negotiating with, you know, even the leader of the Iranian parliament, who knows if he has sufficient control or influence in Iran for his negotiations to matter if we're not actually talking to the country's leadership. How badly has Israel been damaged of late by the Iranian missiles and the now of degraded Israeli defenses?

In large part, it's hard to tell because the Israelis have such a tight censorship crat down on where the Iranian missiles are hitting, how much damage is getting done. We've heard of a couple dozen Israelis being killed and then a few hundred wounded. But other than that, we get some limited amount of video of the damage being done. But that limited amount of video does show a significant amount of damage. particularly Iranian strike that I think occurred Monday or Sunday on the Israeli city at Damona, which is where Israel's nuclear weapons program is based in the nearby base. So that is a pretty significant Iranian strike.

And they seem to be continuing to fire off not just missiles, but advanced missiles and different style missiles. Wow. We do have a clip of Prime Minister Netanyahu walking through this. damaged the area. I mean, you can't tell that much from the cliff, but it must be pretty serious for him to risk his own safety going to the ground and talking to the locals. Chris? If you want proof that Iran endangers the entire world, the last 48 hours have given it. In the last 48 hours, Iran targeted a civilian area. They're doing that as a mass murder weapon. Luckily, no one was killed, but that's due to luck.

Not their intention. Their intention is to murder civilians. Second, they are using, they fired on Jerusalem right next to the holy sites of the three monotheistic faiths. The Western Wall, the Church of the Holy Sepulch, and the Alaksa Mosque, and by dint of a miracle again, none of them were hurt. But they were targeting the holy sites of the three major monotheistic religions. Third, they fired an intercontinental ballistic missile on Diego Garcia. 4,000 kilometers. I've been warning all the time. They have now the capacity to reach deep into Europe. They already have fired on the European country, Cyprus. They are putting everyone in their sights. And fourth, they're stopping a maritime international route, energy route, and trying to

blackmail the entire world. What more proof do you need that this regime that threatens the entire world has to be stopped? somebody else for committing mass murder on civilians when he's a wanted war criminal for that. Yeah, it's just almost humorous to see a bully like Benjamin Nand Yahoo get punched in the face and then cry about being the victim so quickly. You know, all the things he's talking about Iran doing, Israel has done, they've destroyed churches and mosques in the West Bank in Gaza. They've hit holy sites in Iran. They've killed a lot of civilians in Iran. And so again, this is a war that Israel started by, you know, the Israeli U.S. launched a joint attack on Iran in the middle of negotiations. It was an unprovoked war. It was an aggressive war. Now Iran is fighting a defensive war.

And then Yahoo is saying that even though no civilians were killed here, you could see the Iranians are monsters because they hit civilian targets. When, you know, the civilian infrastructure of Gaza of Lebanon, of the West Bank of Iran is all in rubble because. of Israeli bombs. So this is just a complete joke that he would complain about this. But I guess he was just trying to go on TV to dispel any rumors that he might be dead or out of the country. Right. But why would

the Iranians attack the Alaksa Mosque? It would be like right to lifers attacking the Vatican. I mean, it's absurd. I'm sure it's absurd. I guess it's possible there's a lot of interceptions going on over the skies of

Israel that an Iranian missile intercept over Jerusalem could fall near any of these religious sites. And that's one of the reasons that, you know, waging a war in a historic city like Jerusalem is just a really bad thing to do. But Netanyahu took Israel, which includes the country of Jerusalem, to war with Iran. I also, it's possible that there's people in Israel who would like to see some destruction happen in the historic city, particularly the Alatska mosque. And so if they have the cover of of an Iranian missile, oh, it does some damage, then they get to take down the whole site and rebuild the third temple. There's a lot of people in Israel who want to do this. So it is potentially

saying the stage for that as well. Why is there no anti-war movement in the United States? That's a great question, Judge. I wish I knew. I wish I knew how to get more people to check out anti-war.com and things like that to really build a massive anti-war movement. I do think generally among the American people, we are more resistant to war. You know, I see all the time that Professor Sats will go on your show, Professor Mearsheimer, Larry Johnson, all these great people will come on and give essentially an anti-war or a very realist message. And it gets hundreds of thousands, if not millions of views.

People eat up this content. They absolutely agree that these wars need to end, that they don't benefit the United States of America. But I think a part of it has to do with Americans. just don't see them being able to have any influence over their own government. If Kamala Harris was in office, I think a lot of people see a similar outcome to all of this, that no matter who you vote for, you end up with John McCain. There really is, you know, no peace candidate that you could, even if you vote for the peace

candidate, you end up with a warmonger. Right, right. Maybe it's because there's no draft. I mean, the massive anti-war movement of my youth, when I was a college student as I was motivated largely because of the draft. I've heard a lot of people make that argument. I think Colonel Wilkerson has, and it's a very good argument. I do hate the draft, so I hate to make that argument that that is what may be

a knight, a real anti-war movement, because, of course, conscription is slavery. They're taking away your life and forcing you to go fight. And also you have the potential of if you don't end up with a massive resistance to the draft. Now they just have millions of more young men to pluck out of their homes and go send to some foreign country anywhere in the world to fight a needless war. Right, right. Kyle, thank you very much. A great conversation, as always, my dear friend, who do you have on the Kyle Anselaun show this week? Oh, I have a really great lamp that I'm excited about Larry Johnson today. I've been talking to him about every week during this war.

but former Congressman Jimmy Duncan is coming on the show Wednesday. Rob, he's fabulous. Fabulous. I wish he were still in the House of Representatives. He's terrific. I agree. We need more of him, Thomas Massey, and Ron Paul. And in this country would be a much better shape. Please give Congressman Duncan, my best, Kyle. All the best to you. Thank you, my friend. Absolutely. Thank you, Judge. Sure. Coming up tomorrow, Tuesday, at 8 in the morning, Ambassador Chas Freeman at 9 the morning, Professor John Mearsheimer at one in the afternoon, not sure where he is, but we'll

find him, Pepe Escobar, at two in the afternoon, Aaron Mate, at three in the afternoon, Karen Kutkowski, at 3.45 in the afternoon from Moscow, Scott Ritter. Judge the Paletano for judging freedom.