The Glenn Beck Program - Oil Prices, Iran, and Radical Islam: How Trump Is Targeting ALL of It | 3/9/26 | The Glenn Beck Program

Episode Date: March 9, 2026

Feeling overwhelmed by the current news cycle but needing to provide answers, Glenn takes a different approach when discussing the conflict in Iran. Glenn talks about what went wrong when America went into Afghanistan, which cost the country trillions, alongside the deaths of citizens. So what’s the strategy of going into Iran? Glenn explains the difference between regime change and regime containment. Oil prices have skyrocketed to their highest level in four years. What’s happening? Glenn analyzes the belief system of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) and the radical Islamic worldview he’s pushing. What is the red-green alliance? Glenn warns about the ideology of radical Marxist Aleksandr Dugin and the worsening of the red-green alliance. Glenn further analyzes the oil price spike and explains what President Trump’s strategy may be. Glenn answers a question from one of his Insiders regarding America’s ongoing relationship with NATO. What is the benefit for America if Cuba’s regime falls?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And she said, what do you mean? I said, you know, I always have this. I leave on Friday and I have a day or so where I pretty much don't think of the news. But I always, it runs 24 hours a day. So I always have to kind of pay attention. But then on Friday after or Saturday, sorry, Sunday afternoon, I've really got to get back in and see what I've missed and everything else. And with everything that is going on in the world, it's just, it's very daunting.

And more so because I don't feel like anybody, I've been watching the news since the war began. What a pile of crap that is. How do you get anything out of that? How do you get anything useful? And then we have all of these problems internally with our own side just fracturing. And everybody is playing this game of, you know, who's the biggest traitor in the world? Who's for this war? Who's against this war?

You're a traitor. No, you're a traitor. Oh, my God. So let me try to do something different. Because I think there's a question that I know I'm asking myself. I don't have the answers. I'm searching just like you are, but my job requires me to come up with an answer. So let me give it a shot.

First of all, you're not crazy. If you're asking, wait a minute, wait a minute, I thought we were done with all these wars. I thought America first meant no more endless wars in the Middle East, no more disasters. Why are we involved with Iran now? Boots on the ground. Did I hear the president say boots on the ground? Does that mean body bags are coming home? gas prices are now exploding. Is this a 20-year war that no one can explain again?

You remember how it started in Iraq? So do I. I've been watching the news and it is absolutely worthless because it's just about politics. But this is principle-driven. What is actually happening? Not which answers is going to make me more popular or a traitor to one side or another. What's actually happening? What does it mean? Because not only do you, you deserve to understand what is actually happening. You're an American citizen. You have to understand this. So let me first recognize what you're feeling.

For 20 years, for 20 years, the United States did something that we all know now was a huge mistake. I don't care what side of the aisle you were on. Maybe unless you're Lindsey Graham, we all know that was a mistake. And what was the mistake? Was it going? was it trying to punish Afghanistan for 9-11? What was it?

Here was the mistake. We tried to replace governments. We didn't go after the bad guys and then just knock them out. We went into Iraq. We went into Afghanistan. And we nation-built. And the theory was really, really simple.

Remove the dictator, build democracy because everybody loves democracy. and that will stabilize the region. But it doesn't work that way. And toppling a regime is super easy. But building a stable country afterwards is almost impossible, especially if you're a bunch of guys from a think tank in the West and you're going to a tribal state in Afghanistan.

And that lesson cost us trillions of dollars and thousands of American lives. So when you hear the word Iran and war, every alarm bell in your head goes off. And frankly, it should. Because Iraq was bad. Afghanistan was bad. We should never ever do that again and especially do it again and expect different results. That's the definition of insanity. So what is this? Is this not Iraq or Afghanistan again? Is there anything different that we're trying? What is it? What's the strategy? Let me try to explain this. The strategy that appears to be unfolding right now is not regime change. It is something else entirely. It's called regime containment. And those two things are night and day different. Regime change means this. You drop bombs, then you send troops in, you invade, you occupy, you occupy. You occupy. You overthrow the government and then you try to put a new government in and you rebuild the country. That's Iraq. That's Afghanistan. And the American people know. Donald Trump knows. No, we're not doing that ever again. Well, wait a minute. I know I said that. You said that. He said that. Why are we doing this then? What are we doing?

Do you remember about, it must have been about 2004, maybe 2003, we got into a race. rack and it starts going poorly and we're like, why didn't we just go in and kill the bad guys and then leave? Why didn't we just go in and kill Osama bin Laden and the people that were responsible for it, teach them a lesson, hit them hard, kill them, kill them quickly, and then get the hell out. Remember that? We didn't do it then because the old thinking is, you break it, you fix it. You break it, you own it. Well, that doesn't work. So the new thinking is, what if we just break it? Contain it, disable it, and go home.

What happens if we just go over and kill the bad guys, wipe out their ability to destroy other things, wipe out their military, and then leave? And that's what's happening. Containment. Containment is not nation building. Containment is different. containment. We went into Venezuela. Do you remember thinking, wait a minute, we just let the vice president who's just as bad as the other president, Maduro, we let her just stay in. We're keeping the regime. What? Yes, that's called containment. And I guarantee you, here's how that conversation went. Guess who the next president is? You are. And you know what? You don't do what we need you to do on these particular issues. Get the hell out of bed with China and Russia. You're not to let anyone, any terrorist organizations like Hezbollah into Venezuela to train. You're getting rid of all of that stuff and you're stomping out your drug trade.

And you know what? Congratulations. Mrs. President, you'll be president of Venezuela. You don't do it. It's a red line for us. You're next. That's containment. Now we've let her do it.

And guess what happened this weekend? She was singing the praises of the United States. Isn't that weird? You break the regime's ability to threaten the world. You destroy the military capability. You target weapons programs. You stop nuclear development. But you do not invade the country.

You don't occupy. There's no boots on the grounds. You don't try to rebuild it. You let the people inside the country decide their own future, even if it's a future you don't really love. that is a very different doctrine. And we've used it before. We've used it before. It's successful.

It's called the former Soviet Union. We didn't invade Moscow. We contained it until the regime collapsed under its own weight. Boots on the ground? None. Now, Trump has said this weekend, in a very specific way, he said, Yes, there will be boots on the ground. Wait, wait, what?

Boots on the ground. What does that mean to the average person, boots on the ground? That means guys with guns go in and they're fighting in the streets and they're trying to, what? I don't even know what. What did we do in Afghanistan? Nation build. No, no boots on the ground. But you didn't listen or the media didn't listen or if they did, they kept this from you

because they're only about fear. And by the way, I want you to know, you should be afraid of this. This is war. It's not just war. We are both now engaged in a holy war. Iran's been engaged in a holy war since 1979. We're the big Satan.

They're coming for it. We're going to kill all the Americans. We're going to kill Israel. We're going to kill all the Jews. We'll wash the world in blood. everyone who's against us will burn in the fires of the Islamic fury. That's a holy war. We just denied it and never engaged.

Well, we've engaged and we're in a holy war now. Okay? How do you deal with a holy war? How do you deal with a holy war when there's nuclear material on the ground? You know, when we went in and we bombed, what happened? We bombed. We said we got all their nuclear, you know, facilities. Did we?

I don't know. But we said we got them. But you know what we didn't get? What we didn't get is the uranium that's been enriched. Okay. I just want to ask you, I want to ask you before I go any further. I want to ask you this. What would happen if we would have done nothing?

To me, here's the most likely thing. We would have bought maybe a year, maybe two, maybe five, maybe, I don't know. We would have bought time. But if we did nothing, Iran would eventually become a nuclear power. The Middle East becoming a nuclear powder keg overnight because they are fighting a religious war. These are not you. They're not me. They're not China.

They're not Russia. They want to wash the world in blood. They don't care. Why do you think they're hitting all of their neighbors? Because they need a holy war. If they would have got nuclear material, then Saudi Arabia needs to go nuclear. Turkey would go nuclear.

Egypt would go nuclear. Israel would respond. Now, suddenly you have the most unstable region in the world with five or six nuclear powers, all of them, or damn near all of them, bat crap crazy! That's a nightmare. So stopping that before it happens

is not an endless war. You're preventing a larger one. Now, should we have waited longer? I don't know. I don't know. I don't get the problem. briefings. So I don't know. And quite frankly, neither do any of these boobs that are telling you they do know for sure. None of them do. I'm so sick and tired of people like me telling you they know for sure that this is what's going. I have no idea what's going on. And I have pretty good access.

I have no idea. I have no idea what's right, what's wrong. I have no idea. I have principles. And I'm trying to hold on to my principles. But what do you do? when you've bombed a country and you have enriched weapons-grade uranium, you send scientists in, but you can't send a bunch of nerds in by themselves. Where's the enriched uranium? They're not going to do anything with it. They might find it, but you're going to need protection and military-grade aircraft to lift it out. That's what he means by boots on the ground.

scientists with guys with guns and airplanes able to go find that stuff and get it the hell out of the Middle East. Now again, let me ask you, what are the other options? If you let somebody else do it, who are you going to let? You know, you're going to trust the people in Europe, not me. The Middle East, not me. Do you know how many dirty bombs this could make, let alone, I think it was, what was it, four nuclear warheads? Do you know how many dirty bombs that could make? By the way, Alexander Dugan is saying that Russia should provide any nuclear technology

to anyone who will fight against the West. Yeah, we live in a very dangerous world today. But here is the most important difference between this moment and the wars Americans remember. There is no American invasion plan. There is no 200,000 troop occupation force. There is no nation-building fantasy. You leave that to the Iranian people.

And millions of them hate the regime that rules them. They've protested. They've risked their lives marching out in the streets. Women have cut their hair in defiance. I mean, it's pretty clear. Students rising up, entire cities, pushing back. The real future of Iran, not going to be decided by American soldiers. There's not going to be any parades like there were in France.

in World War II for us. It's going to be decided by the Iranian people. And the strategy appears designed to avoid crushing that possibility with an American occupation because once we're there, it's over. Now, that doesn't mean there aren't risk. There are. Absolutely are. And I'm going to go into that in 60 seconds. First, let me tell you about our sponsor. Our sponsor, this half hour, is the International Fellowship. Imagine something just for a moment. You're sound asleep when the siren rips through the night. Not a car alarm, not an ambulance, a missile siren. The kind that gives you just enough time, about 40 seconds,

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And I'm sure world wars have other factors involved, but it's usually a miscalculation. What happens if China steps in? Did we miscalculate or have they? Russia escalates, conflict spreads. You probably don't know this because, again, the news media is worthless. But that's why the president asks the Kurds, please don't get involved. They have really good reason to get involved.

Can't get the Kurds involved. He's asked the same thing of Azerbaijan. Nobody in the media has told you this that I know of. Did you know that Iran bombed Azerbaijan? Azerbaijanis were like, what the hell have we done? bombed them, they're on the border, they struck a school. Everybody was talking about the school we struck. Nobody talked about the school that Iran struck. Okay. And Azerbaijani started to mass their troops on the border. They were going to go in and the president called and said,

stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. Please don't do that. And they didn't. The next several months, weeks, I don't even know. There are three things to watch for. First, does Iran's military military start to collapse. It looks like it is, but have we seen mass defections yet? I don't think so. Two, soon, we should start to see protests. Are they going to begin to grow again? And third, does China and Russia stay out of direct involvement? Those two are huge. I would think Russia will for a while, although they said this weekend they're not neutral on this. They're not They can't be. You know, they get all the drones from Iran, okay?

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Glennbeck.com slash torch. It's Monday. I want to continue our conversation about Iran. And this is kind of the theme of the show today is just making sense of the world. I'm going to go take you to New York and what happened in New York this weekend. But it's all, it's all tied together. And that's the thing that I think everybody is missing. This is all tied together. And if you listen to today's show, you'll understand.

And now, if we're going to do something we've never done before, I'm going to continue the stream for the insiders. If you belong to the torch, glenbeck.com slash torch, I'm going to continue the stream and you're going to hear my meeting that we have after the show every day. It's going to be kind of an abbreviated one because I have a podcast to record. And next week, we are doing a special on the blueprints of the Islamic Revolution to take down the United States of America. in the entire west. There is a blueprint. And I'm going to show it to you. I'll show you exactly what's happening. I'll show you the people involved, everything else. And we have done months of research on this. And there is a guy named Bill Cloud who has written a new book out, and it's really, really, really good. It's all about the spread of Islam and how biblical prophecies

have shown all of this. And what is the Bible saying about all of these things? By the way, did you notice that the name Haman is in Kameney? Isn't that bizarre? I mean, just interesting, at least. But it seems like there are signs everywhere. We're going to get into the 12ers. Who these people in Iran actually are.

When you say you're in a religious war, uh-huh, you are in a religious war, with people and an ideology that must be, wiped off the face of the earth. I'm sorry, but if you're a 12-er, 12ers are so crazy and dangerous that even the original Ayatollah Khomeini, the one in 1979, said 12ers cannot be a part of this government. They are too dangerous. That's who's running Iran right now, 12ers. And they believe wash the world in blood, create a global war to wash the entire world in blood. That's why an If you heard anybody talk about this, why are they hitting their allies? Why do you think?

They're 12ers. They know this is their last opportunity to wash the world in blood. They've got to create a global war. That's what they're going to try to do with their very last breath. That's why they have to be wiped out. Anyway, right after the show at noon eastern time, if you are part of glenbeck.com slash torch, you will hear this podcast that I'm recording. It will be released later, but we're going to do this live.

And the reason why I want you to hear this now is because I think it puts everything into perspective. I think it's really important. And, you know, I know this is not, you know, mass mainstream kind of stuff. Because there's going to be so many people that don't get it. They're not going to see what we're in. But I've told you for a long time, we are in World War III. we are going to fight an Islamic holy war at some point, whether it's us or our children,

it's already begun, whether it goes hot, I don't know, but it's going to happen. And I do believe, at least the 12ers are part of the army of absolute Satan. Maybe I'm wrong. I hope I am.

Glennbeck.com slash torch. If you're not a member, join us now. It's coming up right after this show, only on the torch. All right. Let me go over a tweet that Charlie Kirk tweeted in April 2025 that's going around making the rounds right now. I want to try to give it some perspective. Here's what he tweeted. It's going unnoticed because so much other news is happening, but the war drums are beating again in D.C. The warmongers worried this is their last chance to get the white whale they've been chasing for 30 years. An all-out regime change war against Iran. The new Middle East war would be catastrophic. Our military. stockpiles are depleted from three years backing Ukraine. Our effort to reshore manufacturing

has only just begun. It will take years to bear fruit. War would worsen our already immense deficit and national debt. Iran is larger than Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan combined. A war would not be easy and could easily become a calamity. Thanks to President Trump's restraint during his first term, America has a golden opportunity to pull away from the Middle East quagmires for good. We shouldn't throw that opportunity away. So some D.C. has been. can feel tough by sending young men to die yet again. So everybody's tweeting this going, well,

look, Charlie Kirk knew, you know, before his wife killed him. And, yeah, Charlie Kirk, this,

Charlie Kirk did know, April 2025. Where was Charlie Kirk in April 2025? Most likely joined to the hip with Donald Trump. Okay. They were inseparable. And when Charlie disagreed,

he called the White House and talked to President Trump about it. Okay? That's just the way it was. This wasn't written in a vacuum. He's not in his underpants at, you know, Club Med. He's writing this. I can guarantee you this is part of the strategy with Donald Trump at the time. Okay.

This is what's happening. Donald Trump is saying we cannot let the Lindsay Grams of the world get us into another war. Okay. Will he use the Lindsey Grams? Yeah, he'll use the Lindsey Graham. But not for, what did he say, regime? change. An all-out war against Iran, regime change. That's not we're doing. We're doing containment that is different. Whether it works, that's another story. But it's, it is not regime change and not what we had in Iraq. And I got to tell you, Lindsay Graham and these, what did he call them,

DC has-beens, that's exactly what they would have done. They would have gone in for another, they wouldn't have learned anything. They would have gone in exactly the same way. Donald Trump is trying to get us out of these Middle East quagmires for good. That's why he built what he built, that peace, you know, that peace mechanism over in the Middle East. That's why you're seeing Saudi Arabia and Egypt and the UAE and everybody coming together and condemning Iran. They're not neutral this time. That's not happened before. That again is part of the strategy for, for this particular action with Iran. And it's very dangerous.

Don't give me wrong. I'm not cheerleading. I'm not downplaying. I'm just telling you, let's have some perspective on it. It may not work, but that's what we're trying to do. Now, one of the things that's going to hit you on this is oil,

gas prices. they've hit $102 a barrel. Brent crude is what? What is it now? Jason, do you have a number? 104? I know it hit 110. It just dropped back below 100, so it's at 99 right now.

Okay, 99. It has spiked up to 119. This is not good. Our economy is built for under $120 a barrel. Anything over that, we begin to really start to hemorrhage things. Remember, I told. you this in 2008, $120 a barrel, it hits this, it's going to be a problem. Well, we were at 120 plus, I think it hit 147 from April to August in 2008. So it has to be a sustained number. If we hit

a sustained number over 120, 130 for three, four months, you're going to see massive problems with the United States. And everyone knows that. But fear comes first. Okay. Now, what? Why is this happening? Because the Straits of Hormuz are partially shut down. Most important 21-mile stretch in the world. Because that's where a lot of the oil comes from, from the UAE and Saudi Arabia and Iran. And so they're trying to shut this down. 20% of the world's oil supply comes through that every single day. Now, the tanker traffic has dropped dramatically. And Iran hit an oil tanker this weekend and set it on fire with a drone. some Gulf production has halted or reduced. So we don't actually have a shortage.

This is the thing that really pisses me off these speculators. The market's not pricing oil right now. It's pricing risk. And what the speculators are doing is really clear. The traders are paying huge premiums because they want the oil delivered right now. Future prices are lower. But right now, it's about 30% higher. That's a pretty steep price.

And so the traders are starting, I think it's such a good name for them, traders. The traders are saying there's going to be a physical shortage here soon. This is not going to go well. So the speculators are betting. And here are the bets that they're laying. Scenario A. Straits of Hormuz stays disrupted. and the price goes from where it is now to $120 to $150 a barrel.

That would be catastrophic. Banks are already warning of this level of disruption. Scenario 2. Partial naval reopening and prices stabilized between 90 and 110, and I think that's the most likely. Scenario 3, a full reopening. And that would bring prices down to about $70 to $85 a barrel. But what, why, why?

Not because we're getting more, because the risk premium disappears. Okay, this is the real problem. You don't want to go into Iran. Okay, fine. What is the risk premium you're willing to pay? Here's, here's some of the things that happen. the real problem is the shipping insurance. Insurance companies have said,

nope, too big of a risk. I'm not insuring all of that oil and that ship. So, nope, I'm out. And so that just leaves them in dock or out in the sea, and they can't move because they no longer have insurance. So don't move. Stay in place. And the insurance company,

and this is the part media misses. The straits not blocked just by missiles. It's blocked by the insurance markets. War risk insurance has gone up by 300%. That's about one and a half percent value of the entire shipment. No insurance means you just can't sail. So even if the straight were open right now, because of the war, nobody is affording the insurance. So Donald Trump is looking at some like 1980s Ronald Reagan style solution here.

he's saying we're going to escort the tankers with our Navy. The insurance risk will collapse overnight. And if not, then you know what? We'll back the insurance. Okay. Government will guarantee the shipping losses. I don't love that, but I like that better than high prices over here,

because we're going to pay for it one way or another. If Iran is neutralized, this is the big win, the scenario completely changes because the risk changes. The price of oil right now pays between $20 and $40 per barrel in risk alone because of that 21-mile stretch right there with Iran. So oil could be down to, I've heard as low as $40 a barrel. If the United States would get back to a World War II position where we controlled the Straits of Hormuz,

oil could be as low as $20 a barrel. You know what $20 a barrel? You know what $60 a barrel does to Russia? Russia collapses. It collapses. That's what that means. So risk disappears, insurance drops, shipping cost falls, China loses their leverage.

Russia probably collapses. I mean, it's a good scenario. We just have to make it through there. And you either trust that our Navy can control that 21 miles straight or not. Donald Trump is betting we can control that 21 mile straight. It's just going to take us some time, but we can control it. If we can control it, then all of this changes dramatically. And you're not looking at California prices for oil or gas.

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So thank you for being here. Thank you for paying attention. Our nation is in real trouble. You know that. But what is your job as a citizen? I want to put everything that is happening this weekend from Tehran to oil to the price of groceries, to what happened in New York City over the weekend. I want to put it all into perspective for you and show you what it actually means.

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expensive that is. You are dealing with issues of affordability and job stability. I mean, AI comes in. Do you even have time to think about AI? It's just the beginning of the things you have to worry. We are people now that we have to start juggling many things at the same time. You know, we have to, you know, the old saying is, I can walk and chew gum at the same time. Well, that would be nice. Walk and chew gum plus play tennis, maybe bowling night, have a parent-teacher conference so teachers can't put your kids on gender hormones, fight your way through an antiphate protest, you know, so you can vote to stop Sharia law. Okay. That's what you're doing every single day. I just did it an hour or a minute ago

on what this means when Donald Trump says, boots on the ground, boots on the ground to this a holy war and oil prices. What does all that mean? It's so much easier when you realize everything is connected. One of the things that, you know, as I've tried to find out, figure out, how does AI do what it does? Nobody really knows, but we do know this. We've put all of our lessons, all of our work, everything into an AI system. And what it does is it looks for patterns. and then it puts them together. That is the, that's the definition of intelligence, being able to spot patterns and then put them together.

So if you're looking for something intelligent, let's look for patterns. Do you remember when I was at Fox? I told you this prediction. And it wasn't really a prediction. I knew it to be true because I looked at the patterns. Do you remember this chalkboard? I put this up and said, radicals, Islamists, communists, and socialist

will work together against Israel, against capitalism, and work together to overturn stability. There are radicals, globalists, Islamists, all working together. Radicals, Islamists, communists, and socialists will work together against Israel, work against capitalism, work together to overturn stability. Let it be my tombstone.

I was hammered for it. Radicals, Islamists, communist, socialists, all working together against Israel? This has nothing to do with Israel. This has everything to do with freedom. And they all said that they would never work together. That chalkboard is everything you need. Except there's one thing that I left off that chalkboard that I'm going to add today.

But let's start here. All of the players, their motives, their objectives, if you miss this one giant chalkboard dot, you're going to be lost. And let me show you. Something happened this weekend in New York City that, you know, should have stopped the entire country dead in his tracks if you knew the chalkboard. Outside Gracie Mansion, the official residence of the mayor of New York, protests, two of them,

collided. One was protesting what organized called the Islamification of the city, and the other counter-protest was against them. Okay. In the middle of that clash, according to the New York Police Department, a man lit and threw an improvised explosive device, an IED. When's the first time you ever heard of an IED? Oh, that's right. That's what Iran created to blow up our soldiers. Police later confirmed it was not a smoke bomb or a hoax.

It was a real device. It was a jar packed with screws and nuts and bolts and a fuse. And if it would have gone off, it would have caused massive injury and death. Two suspects were arrested. Federal authorities have opened a terror investigation. Thankfully, it failed to detonate. But that's not the troubling part of the story. The most troubling part is what happened afterward. The new mayor of New York condemned the protest itself as hateful and racist.

But he avoided acknowledging the ideological context behind the attack on the other side. At the same time, there are reports circulating that the mayor's own wife had a previously liked social media post celebrating the October 7th Hamas attack against Israel, post ranging from the breach of Israel's border to describing it just simply as resistance. Okay, so why does any of this matter? Well, because leadership matters, tone matters, and what leaders excuse or refuse to confront often becomes what a society learns to tolerate. But that's not enough.

America today is facing a problem that many of our political leaders refuse to even describe because they're cowards. Mom Donnie's not a coward. He's different. There is this growing ideological alliance between two movements that have historically had two very different worldviews, radical Marxism and radical Islamism. At first glance, if you're an idiot or a boob that has studied this the whole time and then you get on and you're like, I'm Bill Crystal and I know those two groups never work together. Okay, Bill. One is secular.

One is revolutionary. One is religious. One is authoritarian. Or are they both? Because history will show us something really, really important. When movement share the same enemy, that enemy being Western civilization, capitalism, or liberal democracy, which when I mean liberal democracy, what I mean is that people choose. choose their own future. These two groups always form a temporary alliance. Okay. Notice I said temporary alliance. Political scientists call it the red-green alliance. And the most important

example of that alliance happened in Iran in 1979. When the Iranian revolution happened in 1979, I was a kid. I barely remember this, but it wasn't just the clerics that were protesting the Shah. Who else was there? And people were. played a maximum role in that. It was students and Marxists and communist and secular revolutionaries, and they banned together with the Islamic clerics, and they all marched arm in arm hand in hand. Left-wing guerrilla groups and communist parties helped destabilize Iran.

Then the Islamist networks mobilized all of the mosques. So this has been talked about over and over and over again. It is the red-green alliance. And intellectuals have gone into it with all kinds of, you know, all kinds of books and everything else. This is really well known, but nobody will talk about it. And together they overthrew the Shah. And then something predictable happened.

Once the Islamist consolidated power under the Ayatollah Khomeini, they turned on their former Marxist allies, the communists were imprisoned, the revolutionaries were purged, they were executed, and they were tortured. Hmm. Wait a minute, I thought they were partners in this. Glenn, you just said they worked together. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. I did.

To destabilize the Western world. I didn't go into what happens after, did I? I was just trying to say, look at these people. they are connected. This is a connected movement. And that was that nobody could understand that at the time because it was 15 years ahead. But now you can see it. They are connected.

So now it's time to add something else to the chalkboard. History recorded this lesson very clearly. Temporary revolutionary alliances often end with one side eating the other. And the pattern didn't end in Iran. you can see the echoes of it in a whole bunch of other places, parts of Europe, particularly France and Great Britain. Analysts have warned about the political cooperation between segments of the far left and the Islamist activist movements inside urban political coalitions. Do you know who just controls the Green Party now in England? Who just took over?

The radical Islamists. The Green Party is now an Islam. Party. But they're also Marxist. See, they'll work together. These alliances form around the shared opposition to the West. Israel, capitalism, and national identity. The left provides the political shield. The Islamists provide the mobilization and the grievance narrative. And together, they build a coalition powerful enough to reshape our institutions. We're watching versions of this emerge in Western cities today. Look at the map in the United States, New York, Dearborn, Minneapolis, parts of Texas, and those are just a couple of them. These are places

where radical political movements and radical religious ideologies are marching under the same banner. And when the violence happens, the first instinct is not to confront the ideology. It's to silence the discussion. That's what's going to get us all kids. killed. And anyone who raises the concern is either a conspiracy theorist or a bigot or whatever. But refusing to talk about the ideology and what's actually happening does not make it disappear. It allows it to grow. So let me say something really super clear. I don't have a problem with Muslims. There's a lot of Muslims in America that want to live here. moved away from that crap.

They know exactly what it is. They're Americans. They work. They raise families. They want the same thing that you and I want. And they don't want any of that crap. But it's happening. America should always remain open to immigrants who want to become Americans.

It's one of our greatest strength. But the Islamist and the Marxist are shipping people here that don't want to be an American. And that openness cannot mean blindness. because among the millions who cross our borders or enter our political institutions, there are a lot of them now that want to not join America, but change it into something else entirely. And when these people openly celebrate terrorism, justify violence, throw bombs into crowds,

you have to have the courage to say, enough is enough. Enough is enough. This isn't about your religion. It's not about your race. ideology matters because history shows that civilizations don't collapse from a single attack. They collapse when they lose the ability to recognize the attack for what it is. Iran learned that lesson in 1979.

Europe is learning it right now and America is seeing the early warning signs. The solution, of course, is not hatred. Hatred destroys nations. The solution is also not naive or stupid. compassion. Look, look away from the danger. No, no. We can chew gum and walk at the same time. We can see the danger and also not hate. Welcome those who come here to be Americans the right way and remove those who came here the wrong way and those especially who have come here to change or harm America. And that means deporting the individuals who openly support terrorism. That means refusing to. to tolerate violent ideological movements, period, no matter what side. It means having the courage to discuss the problem honestly, even when it's uncomfortable. Because the most dangerous moment any civilization ever faces is not when the extremists appear,

because the extremists have always been here. They've always existed. The most dangerous moment is when leaders and citizens convince themselves that speaking about the threat is worse than the threat itself. that's how societies drift into disaster. And we cannot. It's not too late to pull back on the reins, but it is growing late. The stakes are not politics. It's not.

The stakes are the survival for the American idea. The idea that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights. You know that there are Marxists now and there are those. I'm going to get into the fraction on the right here today. There are those in the right who are saying the problem is liberal democracy. The problem is that people have too many rights. Nope, that's not the problem because you know who gave me those rights?

God. So how are you telling me that God is against me having rights? Doesn't really work, does it? Satan. Oh, gosh. Let me add one thing to this. the Islamics, the socialist, the communists, the radicals will work together to destabilize Israel, Europe, and the entire Western world.

Then, here's the addition, then the most vicious will kill, torture, and imprison the others. Marxist, you think you're so smart. Mamdani, I'm not sure if he is a Marxist or a Islamist. I have my own view on that, but I don't know what's true or not. But I will tell you this, he's the nexus. He's the nexus. He's the one that can put them both together. Half of that crowd is going to be very, very disappointed when they're being tortured and killed in the end.

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Right now, we are having a fight inside the American right. not the fight that you see on TV, not Republicans versus Democrats, but what it means to be a conservative, what the conservative movement actually is, what America First actually means. And I want to approach this really carefully, and I'm not going to bring names into it,

because it doesn't matter. It's not about names. It's about principles. And I don't want to accuse people who I think some, some few, but some might be acting in good faith. many people are just drifting into this conversation and are doing so because they love the country, they love their families, they can feel something in the world is profoundly wrong. They don't really know what it is and they're worried about the collapse of our culture,

the loss of national identity, the erosion of faith, chaos in politics, a system that feels totally rigged, and all of those things are real. And if that's you and you feel that way, you're not crazy for feeling them. But when you just been hit the face over and over again, which this country has been hit in the face over and over again, you know, you're a little disoriented and dangerous things can happen because you can be drawn into circles that are giving ideas that sound familiar and good at first. Let me start with, let me start with the most obvious one. And yet he's not obvious to a lot of people. One of the people whose ideas are increasingly echoing in certain corners of Western politics is a guy. that we've been talking about for almost a decade or two,

and most people have never heard of him, his name is Alexander Dugin. And if you've heard that name before, you know because he was called Putin's philosopher for a while, Putin's brain. And, you know, there's a simplistic,

you know, thing that he starts with all the time, but it is actually real. And let me get into that. He is a Russian political theorist who has spent decades, now developing an ideology called Eurasianism. And at first glance, when you listen to what he says out in the public at first,

or you read any of his books, the first chapter you're going to be like, this guy is really good. I agree with all of that because he talks about protecting tradition. He talks about resisting global elites. He talks about defending national culture against technocratic power. And you hear things you're like, well, I agree with that. I mean, his book was, you know, I've read a few of them. The first one I read was so disturbing because I think I was two or three chapters in before it started, before I started going, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, what does that mean?

Because that's how they get you, okay? And it's how ideology spread quietly because everything sounds familiar and most people are on the surface. But when you go deeper, something very different and evil emerges. His worldview is not about liberty. It's not about the Constitution, and it is definitely not about individual rights. It is not about the Christian understanding of the dignity of the individual. I just have to say, we were all born and created our founding fathers declared, and I believe it to be true, all of us endowed with certain unalienable rights.

We were sent down here to choose between good and evil. We must have that choice. and anyone who is taking the choice of your individual freedom to make decisions for yourself, they're on the road to evil, if not evil itself. Dugan believes liberal democracy itself is the enemy. He believes that individual liberty is the problem, and he believes society should be organized around civilizational blocks ruled by strong centralized authority.

his model Russia leads to an Eurasian empire China leads in an Asian sphere and the West just collapses and liberal democracy disappears that's not what a conservative believes if if you believe any of that stuff you're not a conservative okay that's a form of authoritarian civilizational nationalism and it rejects the core of the American idea that rights come from God and belong to you the individual

Now here's where it gets really uncomfortable because some of the language used by Dugan for years now has started to echo in Western conversations and online in the form of people that you have formally trusted and may still trust. And it is in academic circles. It is in political commentary. Sometimes it's even in our churches and it does not arrive labeled. It arrives disguised as something else. concern about cultural collapse, concern about national identity, concerned about moral decay. All of these things are legitimate, but they also can become a doorway to something much, much darker. There's a whole bunch of scholars who have warned about this for years.

One of them is James Lindsay, who has spent a lot of time studying how ideologies infiltrate institutions. And his warning at the base is really simple. Ideological capture rarely begins with the extreme brain. version of the idea. It begins with a soft entrance, something adjacent, something that feels like it solves the problems you already see. But before you realize it, the conversation has shifted. And instead of defending liberty, people start defending power. Instead of defending the constitution, they're defending authority. Instead of defending individual rights, they start defending civilizational struggle. And that is the shift to watch for.

whole bunch of thinkers have thought about this for a long time and have been warning about it. I don't have time to get into all of it. Maybe I'll punish, I mean, I'll publish you with the publishing of this story. But I've done my homework on this. And there's a lot of people that have talked about this. But what's important here is how do you spot it? There are a few warning signs. and the first is when the language of liberty disappears.

When you hear people talk about power and dominance and civilizational conflict, but you no longer hear them talk about individual rights, something has shifted. Second warning sign, when a democracy itself is dismissed as weak or obsolete, America was never meant to be a pure democracy. It was meant to be a constitutional republic with checks on power, so you remain in control. But when people start saying liberty is, the problem. You should pay attention. The third warning sign is when grievance becomes the only

glue holding a movement together. You're seeing this on the left. It's grievance. That is nothing but a grievance party. Okay. And solutions are no conversations are no longer about solutions. Okay. They're they're just about grievance. And notice when you're talking, about Iran, how many of these are conversations are about solutions. You can disagree with the war in Iran, but have you heard somebody come out with a different solution other than, we shouldn't be there? Because this is called a matter. Okay, maybe I agree with you. Do you have another solution? What is your solution? If you don't start offering solutions and you have a reasonable conversation about them, then everybody is an enemy and every institution is corrupt and nobody can be trusted and every

disagreement is betrayal. And suddenly the only thing holding the group together is resentment. That's not a healthy political movement. It's an emotional trap. Once you start dividing and saying that person is a traitor, that's why I don't want to talk about anybody. I don't want to talk about names. I want to talk about principles. You wake up one day and you realize the only thing I have in common with all these people is we're all angry, not faith, not principles, not liberty, just anger. That's it. And when anger is the foundation, it can be steered anywhere. And history again shows it clearly. The American experiment is the only one. France did it with anger. We didn't. The founders believed that human beings were flawed, which meant power

just had to be limited, not concentrated. They believe liberty required self-government, not strong men. They believe the dignity of the individual that came from God, not the state. Those ideas are super fragile. And we only survive if we defend those, even when we're frustrated, when the world feels chaotic. Be careful, please. I am prompted to tell you, if you do not have the spirit as your constant companion, you will not make it through these days. you will end up being on the wrong side. You won't even notice it.

Things are going to become so fuzzy, so murky, so easily sold. Be careful. Because you're going to be tempted by the promise that somebody strong can just force everything back into order. Because once liberty is traded for order, it doesn't come back. Let me end where I began here on this. the problems that you feel and the problems that you and your family and maybe your sons and daughters and college and everything else, everything that everybody is feeling right now about the world, it's all real. It's all real.

You have a reason to be very concerned. Cultural confusion, institutional collapse, loss of trust. We have to confront all of those things. but we cannot do it without abandoning the principles that made this country possible in the first place because the cure for a failing republic is not authoritarianism. The cure for a renewed commitment to the ideas that built the republic are liberty, faith, responsibility, self-government. That's the line we cannot ever, ever cross.

and if somebody is only giving you anger, question them. Question them. If they are only giving you an analysis that is saying, you know what the problem is? Honestly, Ricky said to me today, before you start that monologue, you might want to reintroduce why you're talking about this because I just assumed you know what the problem is,

but a lot of people don't. and so I had to make sure that I started the monologue with okay here's what's going on in the world but I just assume you know what the problem is I think what you need what I need what I'm desperate for is to be able to listen to somebody who says okay here's a solution I disagree with the war or I agree with the war or whatever it is and here's what we have to watch for here's what we should be doing. Or I vehemently disagree with this war. But that's because we missed this opportunity.

We should have done X, Y, or Z. And it's not too late. Where are those people? I'm so sick and tired of hearing it's Trump's fault or it's the Democrats' fault. I don't care anymore. I don't care anymore. I just want a solution. But when you get to that point, somebody will come to you with,

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Yeah, well, Senator Chris Murphy had an answer here. Here's his answer. Cut one. What I disagree with is that an aerial military campaign or even the insertion of ground forces can permanently dislodge Iran from having a nuclear weapon. Again, you were talking about knowledge. That can't be bombed out of existence.

So how do you stop it? A diplomatic agreement. We had a diplomatic agreement. Barack Obama negotiated agreement in which Iran was more than a year away from getting a weapon. We had daily inspections, scouring the country. It was working. Donald Trump's advisors told him it was working. He threw that agreement into the trash, which precipitated the crisis that we are in today.

This is a place where diplomacy probably is the only. only true path to make sure that Iran doesn't have a nuclear weapon. Okay, well, that is another look at it. Barack Obama, his strategy was working in Iran. Oh, okay. All right, let's send him some more pallets of cash. Let's see how that works out. You know, maybe, maybe.

Don't think so. You know, maybe it's just me. No, it's not me. It's also the UAE. It is also Oman. It is also Saudi. Arabia, Egypt, and Israel. Uh, that would disagree with that one, but, okay.

At least he had a solution. And it wasn't just, you know, we can't do this. All right. What should we do? I don't agree with that, because that's just standing around hoping for, you know, a better outcome doing exactly the same thing that we've done for, you know, forever. And it's gotten us here. But what?

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with a guy named Bill Cloud. He is going to really tie a lot of this stuff together. Something I've been talking about for a very long time, the 12ers, and how people who are Shia 12ers are the most dangerous of all of the Islamists because they believe their ideology, their religion tells them they have to start World War III. They have to wash the world in blood

to hasten the return of the promised one, the Madi. And Bill is going to talk a little bit about that. He's an expert on what's happening with the Islamization of the entire world and especially the Western world. And I thought it was very appropriate this podcast has kind of come out the normal way on Thursday, but I thought it was really appropriate that we just continue the show.

So in just under an hour, you will hear what my day is like afterwards. I get a post meeting on the show from all of our producers, and we talk a little bit about tomorrow's show, and then I prep for the next event. And so about 12.15 Eastern time, I will be starting that podcast with Bill, and you'll be able to hear that live. And it will not be kept anywhere. So this will be a live event, and then all of this stuff goes away.

And the podcast in its normal forum will come out on Thursday for torch subscribers. If you're not a torch subscriber, make sure you do subscribe now. I've got to tell you you've missed a lot. Jason has done an exceptional job. I haven't even had time to tell you this yet, Jason, but just an exceptional job. He was talking about the Red Green Alliance and giving facts that I just didn't have time to get to. the Chris Wright Energy Secretary, which I hope to get with him tomorrow, to talk about oil and going a little deeper than I could,

and manage decline, which we are now, that was our choice, managed decline. Is that what you want? Because what you're getting now is the opposite of managed decline, but it takes a very big vision. And I think that's what you're not getting from the press and podcast is a big vision on what's going on. So let me tell you about something else.

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All right, with the Shield of America, let me try to tell you what I think is going on and happening because if you're getting your news from cable television, you're seeing all of the pieces on the board, but nobody is showing you the whole board. okay, you're seeing Venezuela as one story. You're seeing Greenland as one story. Cuba, it's another story.

Mexico, another story. China, another story. Oil is another story. It's not. They're all one story. Okay? One story. And the story is this.

This administration, I believe, is trying to redraw the strategic map of the Western hemisphere and say very, very clearly that this side of the, world will not be handed over to the cartels, the Chinese government, Russians, or any kind of transnational elite management that treats nations like economic zones instead of homes for real people. That's the big idea behind what Trump has just launched as the shield of the Americas. Reuters reported he formally launched the coalition in Miami, March 7th, said 17 nations have entered the alliance now. You notice what he's doing? He is creating new alliances. He is saying NATO is not really something we should be a part of, but he's not saying we shouldn't be a part of a new strategic

alliance. He's saying all of the strategic alliances have changed, and we need to look for the ones that fit this century, not last century. So he's got 17 nations, and at least a dozen regional leaders were at the summit, and they signed the proclamation, you know, beginning it. Now, this is not just another slogan or another, you know, I'm going to send Kamala Harris down to find out what the problem is. We know what the problem is. Presidents will tell you what they believe with movement, not just words. President Biden told us who he was and what he believed by sending Kamala Harris, who really never went down to find out what the problem was when we all knew what the problem was. But I want you to look at the moves this president has made.

In Venezuela, the administration didn't posture, didn't talk about it. U.S. forces went in, captured Nicholas Maduro. Washington then moved quickly to shape the oil picture that followed, including announcing access to as much as $2 billion in Venezuelan crude and seizing the tankers. He said, and everybody was saying, were used to evade sanctions. So what was he doing? He was hitting China and also Iraq. ran. He was preparing for that. In Greenland, the White House openly treated the island as a

strategic security priority in the Arctic. And everybody was saying, that's crazy. What is he doing gas into another wall? But what was he doing? He said it was necessary to deter adversaries in the region. What adversary would that be? Russia. Also, to open new shipping lines in the Arctic Circle that we would control. Good idea for America first or bad idea. Cuba is in the news this weekend. Trump has just been tightening the vice. Okay. Trump threatened tariffs on any country supplying oil to Cuba in January. March 7th, he said, you know, guess who's coming to the negotiating table? And quote, Marco Rubio is at the end of the line. The people were rioting the streets down with communism. thanking America, blah, blah, blah.

Cuba's about to fall. Think of that. Mexico. What happened last week in Mexico? The pressure is no longer theoretical. Mexican special forces with our intelligence support killed the cartel leader El Mentiono. And what did that do? Oh, my gosh, that set Mexico on fire.

But exposed just how deep the cartel problem really. really is. None of this stuff is random. This is doctrine. The theme of today's show really is look for the big picture. None of these stories from the Warren or Iran to this story. None of these are disconnected. It is all one big vision. Now, if you want the old name for, you know, what he started this weekend with the Shield of America, or the Americas, it's the Monroe Doctrine, you know, but then, you know, the Monroe Doctrine, you know, wearing the tricornered hat, really, this is the 21st century version that sounds more like a Marvel movie. The original Monroe Doctrine said to Europe, the hemisphere is not your chessboard. This belongs to the West and new countries.

It's the new world. The updated version says to China and Russia and to criminal empires. And yes, even the folks in Davos, I'm sorry, sovereignty is not an inconvenience. This hemisphere is not open to hostile capture. This is a free zone. That's what this is. Okay, so why? How is this matter to you?

Why? Why? Can we just get gas prices down? Can we just fix the price of groceries? You have been taught your whole life that, you know, foreign policy, is something that happens over there. And couple that with, oh, my gosh, and foreign policy always means nation building.

So we're building somebody else without building us. No longer, is that true? Foreign affairs have come home. If China controls more strategic ports and infrastructure and debt and communications in Latin America, that's not abstract. China's trade with Latin America reached about $520 billion. in 2024. It extended more than $120 billion in loans in the hemisphere.

Why? Why would they do that? Because they have energy projects, they have ports, and other strategic infrastructure here in our hemisphere. They would control it. Also, we've been concerned about the Chinese-backed facilities in places like Peru and Argentina, as well as Chinese support for Venezuela. That can happen. If you want a secure nation, if you want to continue the idea that we are a nation in decline, then don't do any of these things. But if you say, we cannot be a nation in decline, the best still has to be in front of us for our children. If you don't mind the U.S. dollar no longer being the world's reserve currency, so we are essentially Mexico, then don't do any of these things. If Russia can keep anti-American regimes alive in this hemisphere through oil and shipping and intelligence ties or sanctions evasion, that's not abstract.

okay. If cartels, the next one on the list, can control territory in Mexico, and I mean a lot of territory in Mexico, they are the government of Mexico, and they can move fentanyl, traffic human beings, intimidate local and state governments, have their own private armies, that's not a border issue. That's a parallel state on our border. You know, Mexico described cartel retaliation as so intense that the roads were blockaded and businesses burned and flights were suspended. That's a parallel government. So when the president came out this weekend and said, Shield of the Americas, the real point is that it's not just theater. The real point is this. The United States is trying to lock down its near abroad before the adversaries that we have lock us out of it. And they were close because nobody paid attention. Give me 60 seconds and I'll come back and tell you the part that cable news and nobody else is explaining really well, if at all.

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economic space and multiple power centers are trying to shape the future for them. We must be America first. I hear this all the time. That's not America for it. Yes, it is. There's nothing more America first than some of these policies that he's implementing right now. Let me ask you this. If you were sitting in the Oval Office and you believed America had spent decades

bleeding treasure in the Middle East, while China built leverage in our own hemisphere, Russians are on our own doorstep. They're changing everything. The EU with the WEF is here. What would you do? What would you do as president? Would you say, well, okay, I'm just going to eat around the edges? Or would you say enough is enough?

Enough neglect. Enough pretending that this is normal. Enough letting criminal networks become shadow governments. Enough letting the strategic assets drift into hostile hands. Enough letting energy, shipping, migration, all of those crises becoming permanent. enough. That's what the president said. That's the pivot that you're watching. The hardest question really is Mexico. Mexico is much worse than we thought it was, and it's the key. You cannot have the shield of the Americas if Mexico is unstable. You can't have border security if cartel power

outruns state power. You can't have lower long-term prices, safer supply, chain, serious manufacturing, a renaissance in North America, if Mexico is a half partner, half hostage. It doesn't happen. So how does he get Mexico to move? Well, we've already seen the beginning of it. Pressure, leverage, results. Mexican officials are already seen as trying to appease Washington. And when Trump said, you know what, you need to step up. After, the El Mancho operation, or otherwise you're going to get tariffs, trade leverage, intelligence, cooperation, security pressure, joint operations, maybe. One brutal message. You can either be a sovereign partner of the United States that crushes this power of the cartels, or we will

build a coalition all around you and fence you off. That's not subtle diplomacy. But subtle diplomacy is not really what, you know, this administration's all about or what it requires. Cuba, same principle. Starve the regime of support systems that keep it alive. They have no power. They have nothing. We threaten tariffs on countries supplying Cuba with oil. Trump said this weekend, guess who's at the negotiating table?

I mean, it is close to falling. What does that do? If we don't have Cuba, what does that do to Russia? and China. What does that do about our security? America first, anybody? Venezuela, same principle. Break the regime's external lifelines. Now, notice they didn't do regime change because that's not what this president does. He's breaking it enough so they can fix it. And he'll break it some more if they don't fix it. But he rerouted the energy map. He separated Caracas from Beijing and Moscow and Tehran.

And now the Venezuelan oil flow severed all of its economic ties to China, Russia, and Iran. And now look what's happening. He did that right before he took on to everything there is a season. Everything has its place and timing is important. He did that and then he took on the oil regime of Iran. Greenland, same thing. Greenland seems completely isolated unless you look. look at the map. Greenland is not ice. It is an Arctic position, minerals, sea lanes,

deterrence. It's keeping China and Russia from dominating the top of the map while America tries to secure the lower half. Greenland is a national security priority and it is aimed to deter our adversaries in the Atlantic, China and Russia. So what is the big picture here? If this is successful, the Western Hemisphere completely change. It changes. China, you're not going to sell it to China. Harder for Russia to penetrate. Harder for cartels to dominate. More economically integrated around American industry and security. More manufacturing pulled closer to home. More supply chains running through North America instead of across the hostile oceans. More energy leverage inside our own fear, less vulnerability to distant choke points, more jobs tied to production here in America,

shipping, refining, logistics, defense, infrastructure, all of that. Over time, if it actually stabilizes the hemisphere, it would mean lower structural costs, not lower because Washington waves a wand, lower because what is he really taking on? What's he really taking on in Iran? chaos. Chaos is the enemy. I used to say this all the time on a fox. Chaos is the operative word. Anything that adds to the chaos, get away from it because the author of all chaos, you know who it is. Chaos. He is fighting chaos. Chaos in Iran by the straight of her moves is really expensive. Chaos at the border is really expensive. Cartel power. That's chaos, expensive. Chinese leverage over our ports and infrastructure. Expensive.

Fragile supply chains, expensive. War risk shipping, expensive, energy insecurity, expensive. Stability lowers cost. Order, lowers costs. Shorter supply chains, lower cost. You see how this is beginning to see. If you see the bigger picture, it's not happening because they have a magic wand and he can fix things overnight. He's trying to fix them not only for us, but for our children.

That's what's happening. this is all a long-term plan. He's got four years to complete it and convince you that it's the right thing to do. Not sure that can be done, but I hope people begin to see the bigger picture because it's the first plan I've seen that actually could work and save the Republic. International Fellowship of Christians and Jews wants to remind you that there's sirens going off in the Middle East and especially in Israel about 40 times a day. You know, you're helping your child with dinner, finishing homework. whatever, you're just sitting down after a long day, and then the siren goes off. And it's the 37th time of the day.

You don't have the luxury to wonder what it means. They know it means missiles. It means you have to move right now. Parents grab their kids, neighbors shout to one another. People head for the nearest shelter fast. But there are also people who can't move fast. The elderly woman who lives alone, the man who needs a walker, the grandparents who are doing their best just to get across the room before the siren.

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which is very appropriate for me because I've never really focused on things. Can you see if we can fix that? Okay. It's International Women's Day, which is very exciting to me. Honestly, it's very exciting because International Women's Day,

I've already put my tree up. I've got the gifts, everything ready to go, so it's beautiful. Anyway. I had Ali Bestucky on. She was our podcast this weekend. And she talked about progressive Christianity.

And I said, you know, there's a lot of talk about this, especially with James Tala Rico becoming the Texas Senate candidate for the Democrats. And she said this about progressive feminism. Listen to this. Well, I don't think that we need feminism. I think we need Christianity. And I think Christianity is what gives us this, what was seen as like a radical view of women, this radical respect of women, and that, you know, we see, we hear these critics of the Bible say,

well, the Bible is just compiled by these misogynistic men. And that's why it says the wives should submit to husbands. But if that's true, the writers of the gospels didn't have to include all of these beautiful moments that Jesus had with women, the woman of the night, washing his hair or his feet with her hair, the bleeding woman who touched him to be healed. We didn't have to honor Mary. We didn't have to hear about Mary Magdalene. We didn't have to know about the woman at the well who was brought to repentance by Jesus paying attention to her. But we did. And we hear about all of these women who played a part in the genealogy of Jesus and bringing the message of the gospel. And even in that passage that I

referenced in Ephesians 5, where it says, wives submit to your husbands. It also says, husbands love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her. Wow, that was different at the time when men, the patriarchs were given all of the rights, women were basically treated as property. And there Christianity comes in and says, no, no, no, she's also an image bearer of God. She also is a vessel of the gospel. You have to love her and cherish her to the point that you're willing to die for her, just as Christ died for the church. That was radical. That changed how the world saw women. Christianity changed how the world saw children. all vulnerable groups, I think we need more of that.

Feminism, while it may have had some good intentions, and some people say it had some pragmatic reasons, it's given us abortion. It's given us hormonal birth control. It's given us transgenderism. It's confused us about the difference between a man and a woman biologically, but also socially. I think it's done more harm than good.

It's killed our birth rate too. Right. This is an amazing podcast that you should listen to. I don't understand why it's so hard in women. thing. I just don't get it. I mean, you know, and I've, I've, you know, I've been married twice. So listen to me. I have twice the experience you might have if you've only been married once. Uh, it just doesn't seem that hard when you both respect each other. Um, it just doesn't see. I mean, Tony and I, we, we never really sat down and went, okay, who wears the pants on the family? There are times she wears the

parents of the family. Other times, you know, I went to a, I went to a car show. I, I have wanted to go to the Amelia Concourse Car Show, Amelia Island, forever. And I'm just, I'm really into, you know, I love going to see Jay Leno's cars on TV or anything else. I just love them. I love car shows. And so I went and it was just beautiful. And Tony was very, very clear. Nope. I mean, she wears the pants in the families. Nope. Yes, dear. Now. And sometimes her heart be changed? Yes, because I approach it with the spirit of the Lord. I just don't think it's that hard. Anyway, maybe that's just me. You can get this podcast. It was last week's podcast. And speaking of podcasts, I'm doing another one here and just about

just right at the top of the hour here. So noon Eastern time. I'm going to be doing a live podcast with Bill Cloud. And you don't, you really don't want to miss this, especially if you're wondering what is going on in the Middle East. I saw somebody tweet this weekend. Oh, well, Trump got us into a religious war. We've been in a religious war. Have you not noticed that? What do you think the World Trade Center was about?

That was a religious war. When they say, we're the great Satan. Does that sound real secular to you? I mean, yes, yes, religious war. We're in one. And we're in a religious war with the most dangerous. I mean, you think it's, Islamists are all the same. They're not. The 12ers in Iran are incredibly spooky. And when you,

because they mean it, when you actually know what they believe, you understand why did they just hit Azerbaijan? Why are they hitting the UAE? Why are they hitting Oman? Why are they hitting Saudi Arabia? Why are they doing all of this? What, I mean, you know, poor Lebanon's like, what the hell have I done to you? Right? Azerbaijan, Turkey, all of them. What are they doing? They are trying to wash the world in blood. They are trying to start World War III because that's the only hope. Once that that is their, the, the 12ers believe that they have to wash the world in blood to hasten the return of the promised one.

I don't know about you, but I'd like to, you know, keep that can of whoop ass in the can for another hundred years or so. I wouldn't mind. I know, I'd rather, you know, Jesus coming would be really cool, but. I mean, if we could delay that, I wouldn't mind it because I don't know if you've read that book, but there's a lot of crappy stuff that happens between now and then. And I'd rather avoid that. So you need to know, however, what we're facing. And Bill Cloud is going to be joining me for this podcast in about 20 minutes, 18 minutes.

So you can get it right after the show. If you are listening to glenbeck.com slash torch, sign up now and grab that podcast. as we do it live. You'll see stuff you've never really seen before. Kind of the ugly stuff behind the scenes right at noon. So join us. We'll just roll right into it after the radio program at glenbeck.com slash torch. Join us now.

Ricky, what are the torch members been saying today? A student of Rush Limbaugh. Jason, what we really want to know is did Glenn buy a car this weekend in spite of Tanya? I don't think we need to go over that. I don't think we need to go over that is dough. I got another one if you don't want to answer that. Someone wants you to rip the bandaid off. Oh,

geez. If you're watching, I'm sorry, I'll, I mean, I got, look, if you're watching this show for good looks,

you're crazy. I'm riddled with face cancer and like I've got, I had a bandaid that keeps coming off. It looks like skin is coming off. It's not. It's just a bandaid that keeps coming off of my face. I am, I am a combination.

It's like if the port. Portrait of Dorian Gray and Phantom of the Opera had a child. That would be me. It's not going to get better as I age. Sorry, gang. I love that you're a man of no vanity. Look at me. Let's get back to some serious stuff.

Pawn Sniper. Is Greenland still in play? No, I think we have that lockdown. Wow. Why? Because I don't think Trump was fooling around with that. I haven't heard the final deal, but I believe that deal. is being made. He's not, the reason why that's not going to be in play, one way or another,

that's not going to be in play is NATO is over and he knows that. He knows that. Europe is going to fall and NATO is over. We have no reason to be in bed with NATO right now. They are buying their oil from Russia while we're protecting them from Russia. They are not defending the values that, you know, NATO is supposed to defend. You know, free speech. not authoritarianism, all of that stuff. They are way down that road. And we just don't need to defend them anymore. We've got our own thing.

Let's take care of our own thing. We're not enemies, but we're not going to get into a war with that. That's an old ally ship. And the thing to make sure that we could protect NATO is Greenland. And you have to have Greenland, especially if you're looking at the future for the next 100 years, which Trump is, that is the problem. He is doing such big things that most people won't even realize if we don't lose the next election, as if we lose the next election, a lot of this stuff is just going away and they'll,

I mean, it'll be horrible. But if we don't lose the next election, if this stuff can hold for another six to eight years, you won't be able to reverse it. And you will see the benefits of what he's doing. The problem is it's not a quick fix. He's not just giving you, because he knows this is structural. The reason why we're in decline is it's all structure. We have to change the structure to fix the problems that you feel every day at the gas pump in your schools and everything else.

And so these things, he's getting them done quickly, but it's going to take time to see the benefits. So I just hope that we don't change course before we actually get. to see the benefits of it. Another foreign policy question from a Torch Insider. Is Cuba going to be opened up to trade and free people? Yes. And I think it's happening soon. Jason and I,

you want to talk about buying cars. Jason and I, we got to get it. We got to get down there. As soon as that thing goes, we got to go, I want one for the museum. I want to find a Cuban car that is in perfect condition because they have

put it together with scotch tape and chewing gum for the last 80 years. There hasn't been a new car in Cuba forever. So they have all these 1950s beauties down there. I mean, the museum has to have one just because of the tail that it tells. But the people were out on the streets this weekend with signs down with communism. I mean, they are not afraid of this regime,

isish, they know that Trump is paying attention. And, you know, Marco Rubio, you want to put Marco Rubio on this one? he's going to he's motivated for regime change in Cuba. Okay, this is a question from me.

Why does it benefit us if Cuba's regime falls? They're kind of an isolated island. They don't really talk to us much. Simple. Again, I go back to what I said a little while ago. Chaos. Everything that he is trying to stop first is stop the chaos. That is a beachhead for Russia, for China.

for extremism. It's, you know, people are going from Iran to Venezuela to Cuba. I mean, he is, he is trying to stop all of the chaos from happening and this, this insidious network of some of these countries that were aligned with China and,

and Russia that don't wish us well. So the first thing that happens is, is the end. of chaos. That's going to depend a lot on what Mexico does and what we have to do to Mexico. But I think this is a great step. The other is it seems to be, maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to be a pretty easy fix for democracy, freeing people. Can you imagine? You imagine what happens if Cuba opens up, how that will just change the northern hemisphere? I mean, free people, all of the all of the investment that would go down there, you know, just think about your vacation.

What a great place to vacation afterwards. But, you know, it's all about ending the chaos, ending the suffering of these people, putting socialism, again, out of its ever-loving misery in a country that has had that since the 1950s. It doesn't work. And unfortunately, you know, it's not going to teach them. the left, the left any reasons. If anything, you'll have more people coming from Cuba that I'd like to hire as teachers and say, hey, can you teach the Spanish in these?

So you're there saying, oh, and by the way, I'm from Cuba. This was a nightmare. Stop with a socialism nonsense. I wouldn't mind that. All right, back in just a minute. Our sponsor is Relief Factor. If you know somebody you love and they are in pain, you do just about anything, you know, to get them out of it, right?

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Glenn Beck will be back after this. Can I ask what the definition of racism really is? I mean, I really don't know because I'm seeing so many things that are just so racist. And I'm like, wait, isn't that, isn't that what racism is when you just kind of categorize everybody as really, really stupid or, you know, they're the crime builders or whatever it is? Last week, was the last week of the week before, Newsom comes out and he says, you know, I'm just like you.

I was a dummy in school. I had, you know, I had an SAT score of, I don't remember what he said, 900. And basically what he was saying was none. And he said, I can't read either. So you're saying to a group of black people that they can't read? Okay. Wow, how racist is that? And then Joe Biden does the same thing except in the opposite direction.

Here he is at Jesse Jackson's funeral. Listen to this. If I told you all earlier when I was a kid, I had a cleft. palate or club foot none would have laughed but it's okay to laugh and stuttering I'm not being critical of you but think about it's the

one place where people think you're stupid oh really I'm a hell a lot smarter most of you you're all kidding aside no all kidding aside I am you're black I'm white I'm a lot smarter than you

oh my gosh these guys the arrogance check the whiteness at the door Uh, really. Check the ego at the door. What the hell did that have to do with Jesse Jackson? You know, I don't know, he might have said Jesse Jackson at some point. I just couldn't watch it. But you see Jesse Jackson Jr.? It excoriated Bill Clinton and Biden and Barack Obama for making the funeral about politics. Yeah. Uh-huh. Yeah, what would you expect them to do? Really.