The Last American Vagabond - Trump Blusters, Lies, And Fails... Again & The Impending Israeli False Flag

Starting point is 00:00:00 I frankly think that crisis initiation is really tough, and it's very hard for me to see how the United States president can get us to war with Iran. Which leads me to conclude that if, in fact, compromise is not coming, that the traditional way of America gets to war is what would be best for U.S. interests. Some people might think that Mr. Roosevelt wanted to get us into World War II, as David mentioned. you may recall we had to wait for Pearl Harbor. Some people might think Mr. Wilson wanted to get us into World War I. You may recall he had to wait for the Lusitania episode. Some people might think that Mr. Johnson wanted to send troops to Vietnam, you may recall we had to wait for the Gulf of Tonkin episode.

Starting point is 00:00:44 We didn't go to war with Spain until the U.S. – until the Maine exploded. And may I point out that Mr. Lincoln did not feel he could call out the Federal Army until Fort Sumter was attacked, which is why he ordered the commander at Fort Summter to do exactly that thing, the South Carolinians had said would cause an attack. So if, in fact, the Iranians aren't going to compromise, it would be best if somebody else started the war. But I would just like to suggest that one can combine other means of pressure with sanctions.

Starting point is 00:01:19 I mentioned that explosion on August 17th. We could step up the pressure. I mean, look, people, irredient submarines periodically go down. someday one of them might not come up. Who would know why? We can do a variety of things if we wish to increase the pressure. I'm not advocating that,

Starting point is 00:01:38 but I'm just suggesting that this is not either or proposition of, you know, it's just sanctions has to succeed or other things. We are in the game of using covert means against the Iranians.

Starting point is 00:01:55 We could get nastier at that. It starts with a simple question. and ends in objective reality. Reality, through our journey from there to here, we find one another and ourselves. And as the next 24 hours breaks free from our last, we gaze onward in reflection of the day.

Starting point is 00:02:27 Welcome to the daily wrap up. Welcome to the Daily Wrapup. Monday, May 4th, 2026. Thank you for joining me today. Definitely an interesting series of events around this Iran, whatever you want to call this. I guess it's not a war, but it is a war, you know, like how we started.

Starting point is 00:02:51 This absurd situation, lie after lie after lie. And I mean like visibly obvious. I've been covering it the entire time. I don't even need to remind all of you that watch this show every time. But where it's gotten is just, it's, you know, a special level beyond. I was even talking today with somebody about, There needs to be words created to define what we're watching right now.

Starting point is 00:03:10 It's like beyond just dishonesty. It's beyond cringy. And whatever the words you're using, it's something to another level. So what we're going to go through today pretty much is the update in regard to what happened over yesterday and today. Trump's new like just, I mean, again, if you watch the show, you already know exactly where this was going to go. This was the plan, it appears, to shift into another operation, act like somehow that invalidates the previous, I guess not really war power is applicable. point, but we're using the war powers to argue why that's okay, but it's unconstitutional. It's just, the whole thing is just nonsensical.

Starting point is 00:03:44 I shouldn't even laugh at it because these are very serious things, you know, and again, I understand why people might look at a lot of these things and wonder whether there's more coordination, for example, or a larger agenda. I think it's worth understanding that those things should be, those are valid questions. And it should not be assumed, but it also does not in, it doesn't have to invalidate, and it shouldn't in my mind, because I think we all can see what's happening in the world, the suffering is taking place. the revolutions that are being, you know, the pushing back against the authoritarian control structures

Starting point is 00:04:12 of the world today. But what's important to see, though, is that there are elements potentially anyway within other governments that may be trying to, you know, that may see an opportunity. You know, this is what, this is for, on an interesting side note, and I didn't even mean to start with this, but you see how Trump has been negotiating with this. One of the arguments for why they argue that some sort of a tactic and not just clumsy is that, you know, threatening to nuke a country might get them to decide to go well, you know, might take a certain action, or, you know, they might like decide to fall back the government that he's talking to, or there could be a group within that government, an unhappy part of the power structure that covets power. See, that's the

Starting point is 00:04:48 kind of people they aim at. They love to pretend they're the good guys and the freedom fighters. They're desperately looking for the people that have no morals, the people that will turn against the people they don't like and give them what they want. It doesn't help anybody, not the Iranians, not the Americans. But the point, though, is that that's what I think part of this is, is sort of putting these things out. So that group over there may go, oh, okay, well, I want that. I'm low on the totem pole and I'm not going to see my lifetime at that point.

Starting point is 00:05:14 So maybe I can work with Trump, work with the government. And those are like underhanded tactics. Now, that's not new to politics or any government, for that matter. But think about that in a lot of these different parts to the point of whether or not there's some kind of a larger play at, you know, at play. And I think that's important to think about because there's a lot of kind of divide amongst that kind of larger point. We do see a huge energy sort of transition thing happening.

Starting point is 00:05:37 We also see a very, very clear on the ground, just genocidal tactics taking place. Both of those things can simultaneously be taking place. Now, I didn't even intend to make that point to start. I just think it's an interesting, you know, to see how clumsy all this is and wonder whether there's other hands at play. And I very much think that there are. And on that note, pretty much the focal point of today's show

Starting point is 00:05:57 is going to be around, you know, not really focusing too heavily on the clumsiness of the U.S. part of the agenda, but the elements of this over the last couple of days that do demonstrate just whether they're lying or were misinformed or whatever it looks like, but overlapping that with what I clearly think, and you know I clearly think, and I think the evidence supports, but I'm not going to say I can prove it, what's actually driving this entire thing. And the worry, and this is not something based out of just hype or blind assumption or concern, but history, but precedent. And literally, as we're watching this play out, what Israel even seems to be insinuating, and that is the possibility of a false flag. Or if you somehow

Starting point is 00:06:40 have turned that word into something that it means like it's never possible or it's a conspiracy theory, an action taken by the government who has an agenda that wants that action to be taken, but doesn't want to be blamed for that action. So instead, what they do is take the action and make it look like it was somebody else. So avoiding the, you know, catch-all of the, you know, catch-all conspiracy theory. That's just, that describes half of the military actions we see in the world. I mean, I really think that. And what's crazy about it, though, is when you look into it, it's very historically documented. It goes back to naval ships and using other flags to trick people and carry out attacks so they can blame them for it. That's why I started with that

Starting point is 00:07:16 clip that I played a thousand times because it's relevant to always see, but to recognize that it's something they plan and talk about. And so even some of them see themselves as the good guy, so they act like it's not bad when they do it, but I tend to think most of them recognize what they really are. But the potential of tricking or, I mean, tricking the U.S. people, manipulating them into this position,

Starting point is 00:07:38 just either support it or just fall into it, but wondering whether or not we're watching the U.S. government play a role in this or be played into it. I still am not sure which way I lean on that and whether Trump, you know, the different characters within all of it, but I'm very much concerned about where that goes. And we should be wondering whether the U.S. is an active player in that potential role of creating something.

Starting point is 00:07:59 On another side note, don't forget things like Vault 7, for example. The WikiLeaks released are many different examples of showing how one of them was, for example, showing that the U.S. government, I think this was Vault 7. If I'm incorrect, correct me in the chat. But nonetheless, this was a release that came out that showed the U.S. government and other governments, Israeli driving it since it's this field that they're really driving more than anything. And that has to do with, you know, being able to conduct cyber attacks and leave the

Starting point is 00:08:26 fingerprints digitally of another government. We can prove they can do that. And yet today still you have Iran, so-and-so, or someone to, and they just, the media buys it, yells the narrative that the, you know, anyway, I digress. The point, though, clearly is that we should be on guard against this. Questioning what Iran has to say, too, every single step of the way. I just commented on something Laura Logan, for example, said, pointing to what the U.S. government was saying going, Iran said this, fake.

Starting point is 00:08:53 And literally something I can prove to you that is the truth. Not that we should trust what Iran has to say. But what I laughed about is I'm thinking, but Laura, you're in doing, her statement was anyone taking what Iran says the face value is blah, blah, blah, well, I agree. But the other half of that story is anyone taking it face value what the U.S. government says, fill in the blank, is the same exact thing. You're doing the same thing.

Starting point is 00:09:15 And I just found that very interesting. And so I don't know why people choose. I think it's more of a jingoism, like a choice to be on the side of the government that you think is the good guy. However that works, I don't know how any journalist, though, can be in that position. but I think it's worth noting that we can see lies from both sides of this disconversation. Every war I've ever seen is like that. But that being said, you can still prove that the U.S. government is lying in ways that I think are embarrassing more so than I've ever seen a government act, if that even makes sense. But we'll leave it there.

Starting point is 00:09:44 But I want to get into this to start. That's the main topic for today. But I want to start with something around corruption that overlaps with both what's happening in Lebanon and Gaza still. but as well as Iran that connects to Israel that ties this back into the larger point of the concern today that actually stems back to what Neftali Bennett just said. But we'll go through all this today. And I think this is actually pretty important, not just for the worry of where it may go and being aware of the information in case it does actually happen,

Starting point is 00:10:12 but just understanding where we currently are. And both the positive thing that that is, as much as that may be confusing for some, recognizing how many people are calling things out that I'm not. ever would have expected people at this level this many people to be standing up and screaming about whether it's a two-party illusion what israel is actually doing the awareness of what our government at large left and right is doing it's it's inspiring but at the same time it's intense it's negative people are dying there's horrible thing if the power structures who want to maintain that control are desperate to make you suffer in my opinion to make sure that you support the

Starting point is 00:10:48 status quo so bear all that in mind so let's start with the corruption I mean I've been points about this here and there. I'd like to believe this is one of the most obvious things in this conversation. I'm actually blown away by both the brazenness of the corruption, but also as much as even I always point out that there's an illusion of the paradigm of left right, they're really one government. I would still expect even like the feigned action at this point. How is there nobody doing anything about the shoe sales and watch sales and buying planes? And I mean, my God, the amount, and we're going to get into the cryptocurrency scams. They're literally pumping dumps.

Starting point is 00:11:26 I called it that the first week that those other ones came out. And it was more than one. There was like the MAGA one. There was the World Liberty Financial, all of which they were connected to. MAGA followers who invested in Trump's meme coin, which, by the way, you invested in a meme coin. That's kind of on you in the first place because those things are based on nothing but the person you're staring at.

Starting point is 00:11:43 So that was, you know, you're, anyway, lost over $4 billion while president has made $600 million on it. And of course, you could argue that's just the way it went. He's an investor. They didn't know what they're doing. It's certainly possible. but of course read it if you want look at the information if you care about it

Starting point is 00:11:57 the reality of what this is is a textbook manipulation they rose they trumped it to the sky they made it sound like this was the biggest best thing of all time hype the new direction and who knows maybe they thought this was going to be

Starting point is 00:12:12 never ending incline but no anybody in business knows that's not what's like ever going to happen but ultimately it was my mind designed to fail they rushed in lots of money the people that knew what was going to happen like we're going to point with the oil as well are making their money because they know what's going on the rest of you if you got out you know if you listen to him by the way which was to stick it out stay with it pulled it

Starting point is 00:12:34 right that's what he was telling you as opposed to selling it when he knew what's going to change you guys all lost your money those of you that sold it because you recognize where it was going ahead of time well you made money but that's in contradiction of what he was telling you to do seems pretty interesting to me i would argue that's a straight up fraud from a president but eric trump's bitcoin now this was interesting to me and i i don't think i ever touched on in the show, but I was talking about this when I first heard about this. Essentially, the point was he was going to be the guy for you. Eric Trump's business was essentially saying, you know, you invest with me and we'll invest in the mining of these bitcoins. Okay. And the cost of

Starting point is 00:13:09 mining a Bitcoin is whatever they wrote, was it, $50,000, $52,000 per coin to mine it. And the price is $75,000. It's a obvious never-ending win, right? Well, sounds like, it sounds like, like it when you go, well, math, there you go, and just nothing but extra money. Unless a lot of things change, unless the price goes down, unless these people aren't honest, unless blah, blah, blah. Okay, well, bottom line, he added $90 million, but the investors believing this was a, quote, money printing machine, as he framed it, lost $500 million. These are just small examples. And I mean small. If you look at the real fraud going on, it's mind blowing, guys. But these, the reason I'm showing these are these are aimed at you. Average people out there, you know, working nine to five, who thought

Starting point is 00:13:54 you believed in this and literally got snowed. And you shouldn't feel bad about that guy. We all fall for things. It's about recognizing and learning from it. So Robert Barnes points out, same kind of conversation. Citizens for Ethics say Trump, Eric Trump, and Donald Trump, Jr. Keep investing in industries and companies, you know, that just so happen to be getting benefits or contracts from Donald Trump's administration.

Starting point is 00:14:17 It's almost like it's a coincidence. Drones, crypto, and now a mining company in Kazakhstan. This should be a scandal. I agree. And as the former supporter of Donald Trump, former very, very, very staunch supporter, who now calls it out frequently, Robert Barnes, to be clear,

Starting point is 00:14:33 I mean, it's amazing to be how many of those exact situations we have or Tucker or, you know, every one of these major influencers despite the ones that we've always seen as dishonest or now suddenly, I should even say it like that, but I think it's clear that most people see what's happening. Eric Trump and Donald Trump keep investing in all the industries that the Trump administration

Starting point is 00:14:51 end up, you know, seeing a spike in, let's say, whether that ends up going down, they invest, oh my God, we made lots of money based on something that Trump did after we invested. And as Robert Barnes says, to be clear, Eric Trump would like you to know that this is a complete coincidence. I mean, you know, we should absolutely be objective and say, you know what, maybe. And I genuinely mean that. It is a possibility that this just, the less just even going further. Maybe you like Trump's family. Maybe you think that Eric is just that insightful. Maybe he's not talking to his dad, but just look at the news like we do and kind of knows them, but even then you could argue he might have some kind of overlap. I don't agree with

Starting point is 00:15:24 any of that, though, whether you think he's smart or not. I think it's impossible to believe that these people who keep investing in exactly what Trump later does don't know something. But this is why these things are not supposed to be happening. Family or not, these are conflicts of interest all over the place. But that's my point is even people who use to support them or calling them for what they are. Recognize what we're dealing with here. Brian Allen says, breaking oil dropped below $100 a barrel, moment, Trump announced the U.S. would guide ships this straight, which we're going to get to. I'm even going to start with a brief moon of Alabama under points just in case you don't want to stay through for the rest of it because it's just this stupid. It's like everything else we've

Starting point is 00:16:02 talked about. We're going to do a special thing through the straight. Oh, my God. It's right. You know, all of a sudden, the prices get better. And then after that happens, oh, except we're not even doing that at all. You can go through. Just be safe. Basically. And then it goes back up. It was almost, I think it was like $19 a barrel for us. Or I mean, $119 a barrel for a I think it's about 113 last time I checked. It's a big deal. So what's interesting is that these people keep benefiting off of this point. So he keeps saying things, you know, blah, blah, blah, oil, you know, good deals.

Starting point is 00:16:34 They better not or we will, you know, all these different points. And you can see the shorting and bet on either side of his statements. It's being called out by a lot of people that keep close watch of this stuff. And it says someone placed a $300, or excuse me, $760 million. short on oil before his last announcement, knowing that if he says positive things, that it jumps down and they make lots of money. The straight is opened and closed four times in two weeks. Well, again, we'll get to the open, closed dynamic, even more so interesting that we're coming to a point to Iran at the end of this is saying that we literally shut down the straight now because

Starting point is 00:17:09 of what the U.S. government has done, which again, we talked about this. It makes sense where we're getting to. And it also makes sense to understand that that's not how it started. We'll get to that case you're new to the conversation of the Iran war part that's happening now. And I mean, we'll get into it. Each announcement moves markets worth billions. Never stop connecting the dots. And Daniel McAdam says the criminality of this White House is unprecedented. Now, Daniel McAdams is, I mean, I don't want to speak for him.

Starting point is 00:17:35 I don't believe, I think he probably, I think he's libertarian. I think by, but I see him as pretty much nonpartisan. He calls out people any side of the paradigm that do things that he disagrees with. That's what honest people do. My point in saying that is that he's not someone you can say as a lefty who hates Trump. I mean, it's just being honest about the reality of the unprecedented nature of what they're doing in this administration, dishonesty, fraud, criminality. And I mean, I think I included it today. I pointed to something about Biden just making the comparison and said, look, this is insane what

Starting point is 00:18:04 they're doing. And compared to senile Joe Biden, that's saying something, right? Just to be clear that it's like, we're not saying one verse the other here. It is to that level. And even I was very careful with that in the beginning, you know, being very clear to say, well, you know, it's not unique to them, but it's definitely being pretty clearly seen. And at this point, it's well beyond that. I mean, like, well, well beyond what I've seen before, at least on the surface, which is also fair to say. Because for all we know, it's been like this every which way all the time

Starting point is 00:18:29 and it's just been hidden from us. Wouldn't surprise me. Now, a couple last points on this before we get into pretty much the Lebanon, Gaza overlap to Iran, and how this plays into the larger conversation before we get into pretty much Iran today. Michael Caputo and a lot of other people put this out. Here's the actual document. So you guys can read through it for yourself.

Starting point is 00:18:50 It says the FBI is spying. And this is from him. I mean, as you can see his name right here, could the Caputo search warrant, 2024. The FBI is spying on the Trump team today, it says, right now. And I saw this. I'm like, okay, well, what does that mean? That's interesting, right?

Starting point is 00:19:06 What's the implication here? Is this going to be something about some insider trying to, you know, I was curious how this is going to go. And there's a lot, you'll see a lot of interesting different takes about how they want to frame this. And you can come to your own conclusions. I'll give you my thoughts on it. He says, how do I know?

Starting point is 00:19:20 I caught them. Here's the secret search warrant they filed against me, Caputo saying, and that's the document you can read. A Trump staffer, Donald Trump, after President Trump won in 2024, they continued spying on me until December 10th, 2025, one year into the new Trump administration. Now, you could argue last time, you know, because I'm sure people will make the arguments, but despite him having plenty of time to do whatever he wanted to do with his own personnel, which he did, that this is somehow holdovers, different FBI, fine.

Starting point is 00:19:55 The point is they are still spying now based on, and this has been pretty widely reported, I think this is worth following up on and getting, you know, deeper looks at. My point, though, I mean, look, we should question this, like anything else. What's interesting to me is that if that is the case, and I think it's quite obvious, that we know this is happening, like in a broad sense. That's what I think the FBI is literally for is, you know, it's an anti-American institution. If you want to, we've talked about it plenty of times in the past. What's interesting. What I think this feels like, and it's, please, do not take my word for it. Come to your conclusions with what we're going to talk about today. That to me

Starting point is 00:20:31 feels like what we're finding out. This feels to me like what we're all starting to uncomfortably understand about what's happening in this country, that there is something else, not Trump, not Biden, not the U.S. government, not some U.S. controlled FBI, but something else that is monitoring this administration through Cash Patel or whoever actually runs that into the FBI right now through that FBI and spying on both the last administration, apparently Biden through and to Trumps. Now, there are some that will want to make this, and maybe they're right about a left thing against Trump. Who knows? Even though I'm of the mind that it's pretty much all one thing when it comes down to the real agenda. that's not to say that there couldn't be individual agendas, but I still, my opinion,

Starting point is 00:21:14 you're looking at Israel spying on your government. And this is coming out in an uncomfortable ways during Trump's administration through allegedly Cash Patel's FBI. How else do you make sense of that unless you're going to suddenly turn around and say one of two things? Cash Patel is a traitor and he's been spying on Trump for somebody else or two, that there's a Biden holdover or something like that that is doing this and somehow we just weren't able to see this for what nine years i just to me i think we all sense what this likely is and i find

Starting point is 00:21:48 that to be insane and you're i doubt you're going to get a lot of conversation about this and milo of course which is you know mylo yeah uh unopoulos i believe is his last name right he says dazzled anew on the daily by dan bonchino and cash patel just you know making fun of them essentially but i mean think about how in the world you can be dan bonjino and cash patel and be in the fbi and be in the fbi and not know this. Again, you either didn't actually know because you weren't actually in charge or you knew and you didn't say anything for any number of reasons. One, I would argue, because this is the real agenda. And Trump is being handled. I'm telling you, guys, it feels very, very logical with what we see going on today. But please question it because it's just an opinion.

Starting point is 00:22:29 Now, Stephen Ratner also points out, foreign contributions to political campaigns are banned. Trump, of course, found a loophole, which shouldn't surprise anybody. In fact, I'll grab this before we keep going. Oops, more one. And this is only one, one aspect of this. And it's the most popular reported on, but it's also the most influential and it ties directly back to what they're currently doing in the West Bank and everywhere else for that matter. And this was in 2024. Trump is desperate for Miriam Adelson's cash.

Starting point is 00:23:04 What was she asking? West Bank annexation. You know, the thing he allowed then stood up and goes, I don't want that. That's it. I just want to yell out to the world that I don't agree with that. but then you go ahead and keep doing it, though. I just wanted to make it look like I didn't like what you were doing, but go ahead, you paid me, keep doing it.

Starting point is 00:23:20 Because it's not stopping. They're going worse than ever, guys, and we'll talk about it in a second. So that's $200 million, right? But there's plenty more elements coming in, and it's through things just like this. Speaking about crypto scams, talking about why that was a scam, not just taking money from you.

Starting point is 00:23:37 The loophole was cryptocurrency, allowing Donald Trump to rake in hundreds of millions of dollars from foreign regimes simply buying influence. But you know what? He realized it was such a good money. moneymaker, let's just make it public, right? Give me a billion dollars. You can join my new globalist organization, right?

Starting point is 00:23:51 Hey, give me a million dollars. You can get my national security briefing. This guy literally sold out this government publicly. You know what's funny? What just jumped in my mind? I would argue that the most logical thing right there is that that is an effort to hide the real problem with real criminality. Think about that for a second.

Starting point is 00:24:11 This is something I keep considering with where they are right now. that I do believe that they're in a bad position, that ultimately you use something that might be problematic for you that you would otherwise never point to, but just in order to stop them from seeing the bigger problem. So if we're all going, we're controlled by Israel, maybe it's about going,

Starting point is 00:24:25 Trump's like, look, I'm a criminal. I don't know. Because the only reason I'm even considering these kind of theories is because this is all so obvious, but none of us seem to know for sure exactly what is the real driving force. You know my opinion, obviously, but I'm never going to argue I can prove something that I don't think I can prove. But I would bet on it.

Starting point is 00:24:44 And this is, this was a clip, of course, from Morning Joe or his Morning Joe clip, doesn't he, or rather chart. Doesn't mean you, I mean, the idea that people would dismiss this because Morning Joe is ridiculous, which I agree is stupid. Just like it's stupid to dismiss it because Fox News is ridiculous. Or, you know, whichever way you want to look at it, guys, the point is that it's information that we should be scrutinizing because it comes from ridiculous clowns like Morning Joe, but recognize that the information is accurate and understand that it means something. Now ask not why, you know, we're at the question at always, right? But recognize that there is an interest here. Corporate media puts out truth all the time because they have an interest in framing in a certain way or being adversarial, whatever it is. But look for yourself.

Starting point is 00:25:29 Don't dismiss it because of where it comes from. Check the information. Okay. And the reality is we talked about this quite a lot. There's a whole thing going on here around this administration. We talked about one real major part of it that would have exposed a lot of this that nobody seemed to care about left or right, which was that at this moment we can still prove that Trump's administration had tons of missing ethics pledges. The reality of what they were supposed to sign their name to and say that we don't have conflicts of interest,

Starting point is 00:25:54 we're not being paid by a foreign government. And the person who was literally involved with this, as I've told you every time, said on the record before, they could very well be being confounded by a foreign government. We wouldn't know exactly. Swing that back around to where we are. This was 2025. And of course, the New York's, the new ceasefire agreement, ours Israel, already plans to break. And we were right, by the way.

Starting point is 00:26:14 But you have this flowing in funds from other places. It's basically buying influence here. But overall, whether it's this, whether it's the first part we talked about, there is a lot going on here that is corrupt. And that's one of the reasons why, at least on the record, it's not being acknowledged. Trump and the Zionist technocrats are building your new society, whether you like it or not.

Starting point is 00:26:36 Now, in regard to Gaza first, then Lebanon, and then how this will tie together. And really just make sure you understand this is still happening. okay this is just horrible to me that we that this has gotten such little attention I mean even though I mean right now what's going on in Iran it seems to be the focal point for a lot of points but it's it we need to make sure we're not losing sight of something like this because whether or not it's got attention they've not been held accountable for what everyone in the world knows is a genocide the phrase limping monuments

Starting point is 00:27:09 is something that they just used to describe gossans who have had legs blown off not Hamas, but Palestinians who suffered because of their pinpoint targeting of the ledge of the bad guys, but which we now know is just carpet bombing of everybody in Palestine, is calling them limping monuments because it's a testament to what will happen to people if they fight Israel. Think about that for a second. As she writes, it's so nauseating that it's hard to find words, that that's what the military occupation does. Complete dehumanization.

Starting point is 00:27:41 And now there's a senior commander expressing it in ways that, leave no room for ambiguity. Here's the article from Heretz, which you can confirm for yourself, because it does translate to English and you can read it for yourself. These people don't even hide what they are. And this is not about Jewish people. It's about Zionism, about what they are in Israeli government and what they're actively doing in the world. As Jasper Nathaniel writes, the IDF chief calls maimed Palestinians limping monuments, living reminders in every community of Israel's brutality, a form of deterrence. That's what they do, like mowing the lawn is policy for them, which is in writing.

Starting point is 00:28:17 You just murder everybody in these buildings that you can find. You mow the lawn down, you let them know that you're there. That's what they write. It's sort of like understanding that our own government has all sorts of written policies. They're absolutely horrifyingly disgusting, but they just lie about it. You know, normal for governments. I'd like to believe that people in the world are starting to break free from this ridiculous spell that we're under from governments around the world.

Starting point is 00:28:39 But as Corey Archibald points out, in case you're confused about this, for all these ridiculous screaming morons out there that just keep yelling the false information because I guess they think that works today and maybe it does every single group that you could pop I mean any group that has standing in the conversation has come out and said this is genocide the Limkin Institute I mean you go down the list guys and that's what she's highlighting here amnesty human rights watch bett selom the leading Israeli group human rights watch United Nations I mean ever ever Lincoln Lincoln Institute is right there is genocide it's genocide it's genocide I mean they're classifying this as genocide oxfam But yes, please keep telling us as this Mary Hurabell for Congress sits down and says,

Starting point is 00:29:18 what's going on in Gaza's heartbreaking, but it's not a genocide. Based on what? Your opinion? That's fair. You could argue you disagree with the opinion, but you have to state everyone anywhere withstanding says that by a legal definition it meets it every possible way. Right. But I disagree with that.

Starting point is 00:29:34 So that would be a fair statement. Not to say it's just not, and we know that. That's not true. That's a bunch of lying people that are desperate to hide what Zionism is doing. world. And failing, by the way, despite how influential all these Zionists are and that they continue to scream and dominate the conversations in corporate and mainstream alternative media, the world sees it. Too late. It's there. And as the squirrel points out, this is what's blowing my mind is that even while they know we see it. The only way this makes sense to me is that Israel

Starting point is 00:30:04 wants this person to say this. Because as a U.S. politician with people around you that go, hey, that's inconvenient for U.S. politics. Hey, that's going to lose supporting support for the midterms, for the Republicans, for this administration, right? What we're told politics is? No, you get people like Huckabee who come out and say every single lie that we can literally prove is a lie from October 7. And I'm not talking about some dispute in independent media. I'm talking about what herets and the IDF had admitted were false.

Starting point is 00:30:34 Beheaded babies. Babies on a clothesline. Babies in an oven. You know, all these very horrifyingly disgusting things they made up about infants and toddlers and we shouldn't, you know, totally not reflect on what that says about their disgusting group. And I'm talking about the people in the government, Zionism that did these, not every Jew or even every person in Israel. Let's read this. This is what the squirrel wrote. Mike Huckabee, the U.S. Ambassador to Israel just posted a deranged screed wherein he repeats all the debunked genocidal atrocity, propaganda hoaxes.

Starting point is 00:31:01 The same thing that Biden said out loud and Trump. Take a second and reflect on that. 40 beheaded babies in ovens, rapes, claims all on video. None of that is true. Not on video, not true, but admitted by everybody. No such video exists. And I shouldn't be hyperbolic. Anybody in regard, like outside of like Netanyahu, Trump and Biden and people that are lying on Twitter,

Starting point is 00:31:25 even the guy who claims he's the one that said it ultimately walked it back and said I was emotional and I might have been mistaken. I've covered all this. Even the UN covered it. The rape conversation of the woman. the one they used in all the billboards. You realize she came back. She said she wasn't raped. Her ankle was bleeding on the back of her pants,

Starting point is 00:31:43 and we all argued that was likely based on what we knew. And they were lying about it. And they'd lied about every single thing, every single one of them. I mean, it's just mind-blowing to me. All the people that have come back and told you how well they were treated. That's not my statement. That's Israelis saying that about Hamas.

Starting point is 00:31:59 Well, are they still drugged, apparently? Is the argument? Now he did the classic mistake with his regurgitation of the Hasbarah scripts, because he added the 40 beheaded babies in ovens burned a live hoax alongside the others, which proves all of it is a fabricated atrocity propaganda hoax, as even Israeli media police records have confirmed that no baby was beheaded. That's a fact. I've covered it myself. And there's no, of course, no video of that or any rape or burning anyone alive in a wheelchair

Starting point is 00:32:25 or whatever deranged lunacy was implanted in that crazed freaks mind by a Zionist handler. And guys, if you genuinely are saying that's not true, those are... Prove it. Send it to me. I have done due diligence on this every single time, like 11 times, how disgusting that is, because of how many times it kept rising up and the information coming directly from their government and their intelligence and their media showing you that they were lying. It's not debatable. He also adds the original twist that Blinken and Biden loves so much in front of their parents. That's what they're arguing. No, if there's anything that happened in front of their parents, it was when Israel bombed them inside of their own homes.

Starting point is 00:33:05 Here's the actual post. It's right here. It's still there. The New York Times did extensive interview with Tucker Carlson. It says, the stubbornness of Hamas to release hostages and who murdered their own citizens and intentionally put them in front of military assets. Oh, human shields. Not a single, provable example, post-October 7th.

Starting point is 00:33:26 And anything you want to argue from before that, it's not even worth going into at this point because we're only going into it. We can prove forward. but we should be wildly skeptical about all these claims that go back to groups that have been lying this entire time. But like I said the entire time about that, I'm not going to dispute that they are capable either side of doing that. What we need is evidence in the moment. They made a bunch of claims. Amos didn't do it.

Starting point is 00:33:47 Everyone says they were being kind to them. What you do have is about seven provable examples post-October 7th of Israel publicly, even as they accuse them publicly, tying them to the front of their cars, using them on the front of their, I mean, literal human shields. And then, of course, I can play the clip, but I can get into the own documents of how they have stated policies, mosquito procedure, neighbor procedure. But yeah, we're all crazy conspiracy theorists, literally procedures where you use children

Starting point is 00:34:11 to go into buildings because they're Palestinian, written down. Right? But this guy either knows he's lying or is just this fanatical, the lost in the narratives, which I'm not even sure with this administration. But, of course, blame them.

Starting point is 00:34:26 Massacre and mutilation of 1,200 women. Are we still playing this game? 1,200 women? The number is under 1,200, the total, by the way. But babies, elderly people, butchered. No, no. That number went down very early. And then it's also been proven that the vast majority of that were killed by Israeli bombings,

Starting point is 00:34:42 according to your military, Israeli military. But again, rape, torture, starvation. Starvation? Of who? The people that you let go that were fatter than when they went in? I mean, it's mind-blowing. I shouldn't say that about every single one of them. There was very clear examples, but that's not the reality.

Starting point is 00:34:59 And if anybody was starving in their detention or, you know, whatever we call them, they're not, they're not hostage or they're technically not hostages since they were all IDF. So let's be fair about that. Accurate. But if they were starving, it's because Israel and the U.S. were blocking food. You know, anyway, I don't even need to go through all this. But victims of October 7, including the rape of women in front of their children, beheading of babies. I mean, it's a cartoon that we're living through, that these people are in the leading positions in this government. government, and this is the kind of thing they're still putting out.

Starting point is 00:35:32 Either, I mean, really, again, either willfully lying about this disgusting thing or not even aware of that. I'm not even sure what alarms me more. Okay, well, just to finish this segment, here is the Israeli military. We are killing like we haven't killed since 1967. He literally said in a public address. This is an Israeli West Bank commander defending a policy allowing soldiers to shoot palace. for stone throwing while sparing Jews due to sociological implications.

Starting point is 00:36:05 Follow the record, you read for yourself, he publicly discussed it. The idea is that he's not talking about one location. He's talking about since the Nakba. We are killing like we haven't killed before. Yay! Now look, this is not every Israeli. There's plenty of them that are more every day, I argue, that are calling some of this stuff out. But their society has been manipulated by this ideology.

Starting point is 00:36:25 And it's disgusting. I mean, look, you may like shock yourself at that statement, but like you could look back at other historical things, like the classic we talk about, Nazis and Germany, are we going to pretend that it's insulting to say that that ideology was infiltrating and manipulating what the people were doing? No, we look back and go objectively wrong, disgusting, racist, whatever. We can see what Zionism is doing. It's not even debatable at this point.

Starting point is 00:36:50 And exactly like I told you, they lied about what's going to happen in Gaza, because it's the same model. They lie, they manipulate, and they do what they want. They do it every single time. U.S., Israel, even the U.K. I've watched their tactics for a very long time. Sky News, 59% of Gaza is now under Israeli control. The ceasefire line has been moved steadily forward.

Starting point is 00:37:09 I believe it's more than 60% by the way. The point is it's been increasing. And like I told you, they're going to be moving the yellow line. Not because the argument was about some sort of a, like a buffer zone, hypothetically that one side of it was what they've secured and the other side was what they were going to scare. That's not what it is. Because they're shooting people on either side of the line.

Starting point is 00:37:29 And the reality is it is that they're encroaching the line. And eventually it'll be all of Gaza. And what that will mean is they feel they control all of Gaza. It's just a matter of time unless people stand up and do something about it. And now they shift the focus of the genocide to Lebanon. As Kenneth Ross points out, Israel is transferring its Gaza tactics to southern Lebanon, flattening entire villages as they've publicly posted, shouldn't even be debated, than laughing about it, using the pretext of fighting Hamas and Hezbollah.

Starting point is 00:37:59 Targeting civilian infrastructure, as Trump openly tells you, or destroying it without a valid military justification is a war crime. And even then, a valid military justification for civilian infrastructure is a stretch. Like that's the argument of literally proving that it's been taken over by a foreign power and there are no civilians present. It's like with Gaza. They just know they're breaking the law and they use the manipulation of their powers in the world to get institutions to lie to you about it.

Starting point is 00:38:27 Howard Beckett points out, Israel is leveling southern Lebanon to the ground. Over 50 attacks in 24 hours, children being bombed, journalists and paramedics being targeted, over 1.1 million people displaced. They're just like what they did in Gaza, because the world, rather the powerful people in the world,

Starting point is 00:38:45 didn't do anything about it. There is no ceasefire, even though they keep lying about that, which, by the way, is a violation of the Iran conversation. Remember that? So no matter what we're talking about, the blockade from the Trump administration, the Israel bombing in Lebanon, and whatever else, if they've never fully met the alleged ceasefire that was supposed to go forward from what, like weeks ago at the very least. That's the point that keep telling you. That's the 10 point plan that Iran put forward after, I mean, weeks and weeks ago, they said we're done negotiating with you.

Starting point is 00:39:14 We are willing to discuss possible ends to this if you give us concessions. But other than that, we're not going back and forth. And Trump keeps pretending they're going back and forth because he will. wants to manipulate markets. He wants to make it look like he's not completely ineffectual right now. Iran is a pariah state inflicting, or Israel, excuse me, is a pariah state inflicting terror. He writes, sanctions against Israel now. Here is an Israeli leader, you know, right out of some Bond villain movie, by the way. This is Mosheedayan, commander and former foreign affairs minister of Israel. This is from 1974. Threatened to destroy

Starting point is 00:39:54 a good part of Lebanon and to displace southern Lebanon. Oh, weird. You know, before there was a Hezbollah. It's almost like they've been trying to take Lebanon because they coveted the land like they coveted everything else a long time ago. There's the clip. To say it in a very clear way

Starting point is 00:40:12 that if we cannot live at peace on our side, then eventually the entire southern part of Lebanon won't be able to live there. Eventually. So if we can't live in peace on our side, Now, this is the same story. Okay, the same story. Israel was trying to take territory.

Starting point is 00:40:30 This is where you end up with the blue line, guys. The point is Israel is trying to take territory that's not theirs. And they fight back. Okay, and the point is, then, well, if we can't live in peace, they can't peacefully steal from you, then you can't live in anywhere in southern Lebanon. And that's how it's been ever since back and forth. The same thing they're doing everywhere else.

Starting point is 00:40:50 The good part of Lebanon will be destroyed and deserted. Right. Okay. And deserves it. Yeah, it doesn't matter. We'll just get rid of most of Lebanon. If we just don't get what we want. Look, you can even argue that it's because they're attacking Israel. Okay, fine. That's not what I argue was happening. I think the facts back that up. The point, though, and not in the sense of there is back and forth. I mean, how it ultimately started. The point, though, regardless, is that bombing all of Lebanon would not be legal in any sense because of what you claim is happening. So they just go this thing. So we're going to break the law elsewhere. And it's okay, though. because they started it. No, it's not. It's just, they're all childish, to be quite honest, but that's what they do before Hezbollah. Here's a Saul Rod. Reuters, May 3rd, Reuters. Now, remember how this is very clear. Now, starting in the very beginning, fine, you could dispute that. And you should, question everything. How this started right now is not debatable. It's, we all watch it happen because Israel initiated against Lebanon once they started the war on Iran because they knew they had to make this move. There was not some on, there was a, there was

Starting point is 00:41:57 a ceasefire that Israel was violated. As Craig Murray and plenty of others were documenting for a month before we got to this point. Bombing, invading. They have conferences with Hebrew names on Lebanon territory in the South. It's all very public. And so they initiate further because they see the opening. Okay, that's what happened February 28th forward. So Reuters writes, Hezbollah's war with Israel since March has killed thousands of its fighters.

Starting point is 00:42:25 as Israel occupied a chunk of southern Lebanon, which had already illegally occupied and displaced hundreds of thousands of Shiite residents. Oh, and by the way, we're also threatening Christians and Drues not to help the Shiites because, you know, that's what good Christian and Jewish people do. No, no, that's what disgusting, immoral godless people do, is threaten and kill for no reason.

Starting point is 00:42:45 The reality here, guys, Hezbollah's war with Israel, before November 24, 2024, Israel carried out five times more attacks on Lebanon. during the quote ceasefire, Israel attacked every four hours and continued to occupy it. Now it's demolishing entire villages so people can't return. This is how you normalize ethnic cleansing. That's Reuters, New York Times, Washington Post. They love to give you the feigned resistance.

Starting point is 00:43:14 In some cases, they put out things that are good to see, like in regard, important, rather. But the point is, at the end of the day, where it matters, they all seem to pull their punches where it matters. That's important to think about that, guys. You know, it's just such a blatant misrepresentation. Okay, let's get into Iran and where I see this going and what's currently happening over the last couple of days. Now, I want to start with this. We already made this clear. And in fact, many of us talked about this.

Starting point is 00:43:41 I think it was, I figured it was drop site news or somebody else, but we reported on this coverage. It was very clear. I mean, running in the chat. Was that a week ago, a couple weeks ago, where basically, and this was before the CNN report, guys, that it was clear that they had bombed all these bases. Now, even going back a step further, right when they responded, we were, I mean, even Douglas McGregor, as I told you, discussed the base in cutter that was bombed, took out their eyes.

Starting point is 00:44:07 We talked about a lot of those bases. Now, I wasn't able to confirm plenty of them, but I reported to you the arguments, right, the reports of what bases they hit. But as I said then, Iran could be lying, right? Because that's how you report objectively. What's crazy, though, is that it's now all this time around, and for whatever reason through CNN,

Starting point is 00:44:24 which you should question it, but regardless of whether CNN reports this, I feel like this has been verifiable for a long time. I don't want to this go to the exact time frame and forgetting if it was weeks or over a month, either way. Because it all seems to blend together in a weird way because of all the kind of weird

Starting point is 00:44:39 up and down narratives of Trump. It's like they all just kind of mash together in your mind. But either way, oh, I just saw your comment. Yeah, get David Ike to reach out to me. I love talking with Davidike. Somebody in the chat just asked me to have an interview with him again. I'm sure we can make that happen. We always have good conference.

Starting point is 00:44:54 conversations. But let's talk. I just want to play some of these quick videos to see what they're reporting and just to see it for yourself. I mean, you know, obviously my point would be CNN or Fox News or whatever. They always have an agenda. And so whatever reason, the showing you this is aligns with what they're trying to accomplish. It's never in my mind because they want to give you the truth. I just don't believe that. And even if it is the case, it's in our interest to not, you know, to question them. But as Sean King writes, Iran basically destroyed 16 U.S. military bases. And it's just now making the news in the United States. Think about how wild that is. And just like we showed you Wyatt Reed, for example, landing in Iran and showing you all of the U.S. planes that were demolished, we reported that because we believe that was the reality based on the evidence and it was been confirmed.

Starting point is 00:45:37 This pilot that we alleged, no one's never found a name of that apparently doesn't exist, an AI image that Greg Abbott shares. I mean, to me, it seems as if they either use that person and never rescued them or never even had somebody to rescue and use that emotion to hide. their narrative to go into Iran and they got utterly destroyed, it seems. I mean, this is all, that's hard to define because they very well could be lies from both sides. But this is the same thing I keep saying about Trump's narratives that they better, or we're going to bomb them, or they're begging for a deal. At some point, a few days later, a week later, a month later, in many cases, not always, but you can look back and go, okay, just by deductive logic, we can now prove that he was lying,

Starting point is 00:46:19 or at least that he was wrong, right? So we can look back and see this. For many different examples, including this, but including their bombings, we can see that these kind of things happened and they've been covering it up. And the ship, the point was actually about the planes and the alleged rescue, is that we can look back now and we can look at the information and see that the planes were shot down, see that they never brought somebody back, see that they put out an AI image, they lied about it.

Starting point is 00:46:45 Now, you could still argue somehow within that, they just wanted to keep them secrets somehow, but all of the evidence speaks to a lie about the whole story. So in this reality, it seems the U.S. government got annihilated in regard to their response. And ever since then, we've seen this weird game of propaganda. Kind of makes sense, doesn't it? But question is too. He says 16 U.S. military bases, and it's now making the news. The U.S. has already lost the war.

Starting point is 00:47:10 I mean, I wouldn't say I can, I wouldn't say I know that for a fact. It very well could be that there's things the U.S. are holding back. It could be that Iran is hyping and things they don't have. But what's clear is that the U.S. government is lying spectacularly about what Iran is doing and capable of and wildly undermining or undershooting what they have and are capable of. I'm of the mind that whoever this goes, that it will go a lot longer if this continues. Because Iran seems to be in this for the long haul, like they said, like they plan for, like the evidence shows. Also a huge percentage of the world now absolutely loves Iran, he points out. Now, that's subjective.

Starting point is 00:47:48 But I think it makes sense. because we're watching a situation where this group, it's like watching the bully in the school, and some guy that you didn't expect, just walk up and knock him out. And you're like, yeah, you know, if you see that person as somebody who, you know, whether you agree with violence or whatever,

Starting point is 00:48:02 you know, you look at that person like, good for you, man, taking, you get the guy that's been bothering everybody. That's kind of what's happening right now, even for Western countries. So let's play this clip first and we'll play the next one. As in the region, there's a dilemma. In some ways, Iran's show of force makes the U.S.'s presence in the region even more necessary to Gulf security.

Starting point is 00:48:22 But there's a new reality here, which is that U.S. military installations, previously seen as formidable fortresses, have turned into sitting targets. As the Saudi source told me, the war has shown Saudi Arabia, that's the U.S.'s longest-standing Arab ally, that the alliance with the U.S. cannot be exclusive,

Starting point is 00:48:42 and it is not, in their words, impregnable. To get a sense of just how vulnerable U.S. facilities have... have become. Have a look at this. It's the war room at Qatar's El-Adeid Air Base. The theater command and control hub for U.S. air power across 21 nations. Struck not just once, but twice. And according to a U.S. source, causing significant damage. The base had been largely evacuated at this point and no casualties were reported. Now, whether it was destroyed or not, the point is that they evacuated a lot of these places because it seems they can't defend it. Now, that could be because of, and one of the

Starting point is 00:49:24 will point out, it might be this one, the idea that after they took out the main, like two things. One was their ability to see in regard to their attacks, but also their ability to, like, diminish what Iran was able to see? And so it seems as if they're aware that they had to get out of the way because there was no way. So what does that speak to? It either speaks that they don't have the munitions they need interceptors or whatever or that they just aren't able to defend against it. I mean, this is embarrassing for a most powerful military in the world, right? So that's why you wouldn't want this stuff to be heard if that is the reality. The visibility over its targets has never been clearer.

Starting point is 00:49:57 In 2024, according to the Financial Times, Tehran secretly acquired a Chinese satellite, known as the T-E-E-O-1B, a massive upgrade from its own satellites. That means that Tehran went from looking at images of this quality to this. This is the first time America has fought an adversary with satellites that capture high-res imagery almost as detailed as its own. As the scale of the damage comes into fire, focus, many will wonder whether America's presence once a protective shield in the Middle East has turned into its Achilles heel.

Starting point is 00:50:31 The real question is, was it ever really a shield? Because what we're seeing is not that we're just a new time, but that's never really been tested, not really. And what have I been saying the entire time about the Iron Dome and the, it's not that they don't have some level of function, but that they're largely theater. Here we are. That's what it seems like. And it's not, again, it's not that, and you may well argue that they thought that they were better than they were.

Starting point is 00:50:56 Either way you look at it, it clearly is not, you know, they were either, either they weren't prepared, they weren't effectual, they weren't, you know, had the effect they wanted. Or there's some third option, like let's say they're just letting this happen for some strategy. But my mind, I think is clear. I think that they're failing. But Iq Blawi, CNN, London. All right, responding to CNN's findings, the Pentagon official said the defense department does not discuss damage assessments, but U.S. forces remain fully operational with the same readiness and combat effectiveness. CNN also understands from its sources that the vast majority of U.S. troops evacuated their positions in the Middle East with many working from the relative safety of hotels and departments in the Arabian Peninsula.

Starting point is 00:51:43 Yep. I remember you heard that from us and many other independent platforms quite a while ago. Breaking news on CNN, right? It's the same old story. But it's important to think about, right? And hold on, it was the other part. Right up, allies in the region, understands from its sources that the vast majority of U.S. troops evacuated. Oh, well, that's what I was going to say. Just the funny thing of them saying that, that nothing's diminished and we remain in our battle readiness.

Starting point is 00:52:09 It's like, okay, just say no comment. It's like, we don't need your bluster. It's just so funny that even if it's the case, it's like we don't, you know, nobody's going to take that at face value because you're going to say that regardless. It's kind of funny. And it's also, in my opinion, not actually the reality of where they are right now. So as Glenn writes,

Starting point is 00:52:26 whether you agree with journalism in using that term for CNN, but basically this is a good work covering the reality of this, of course, way, way late. And it says, but again, those who under whose understanding of the Iran war comes from Fox and the White House and Trump influencers have no idea what's happening. I agree. That's not a partisan point in my mind, whether he means it that way or not. It's just the current thing. Right. So if it was, when it's turning COVID and it's the same thing, you wouldn't trust, you know, It's the same thing in any kind of partisan driven agenda, which I think is part of the larger due party illusion game, right?

Starting point is 00:53:00 But there's people right now that are listening to the, I mean, it's actually wild. If you watch what Fox News says, half the time they're saying things that not even Trump is claiming, just like this, it's just insane. It's embarrassing. But same as CNN at its peak when they're the one on the side of the Biden administration, right?

Starting point is 00:53:15 But his simple point is that they're now showing you these things have been largely taken down. Daniel Dale, a reporter reminded Trump yesterday that he'd said the night prior that the U.S. might be better off, not even make it a deal with the wrong. Trump said, I didn't say that. And then he showed him that he said it on camera. Essentially, it's a point of this. And it's like whether Trump's just lying or not, it's just this, it's a constant game. I actually think it's because he just says anything he needs to say.

Starting point is 00:53:43 And at the time, he's not even, it's if you, like, I've said this exactly so many times. If you lie about everything, eventually you're going to say something will contradict. a previous lie. Like if you're just a constant sociopathic narcissistic liar, well, eventually, you know, the thing that they don't want to be the case today because the narrative change, well, I didn't say that even though you very clearly did because it was needed then. But either way you look at it, it's just the embarrassing flow of how this is all gone. And it isn't very embarrassing. And one example of what I call all flash, no substance, the most incompetent administration I've ever seen. And after C&I.L. Joe, that's saying something.

Starting point is 00:54:20 Trump comes out and everyone's made this. It's just hilarious to me. And it seems like everyone recognized why this was stupid except for the White House and Trump. Maybe that's the point. The White House put this out. And again, it's just the true social post. It's two things. It's both that I'll explain why that's really dumb and that they don't even know how to meme, apparently.

Starting point is 00:54:41 But also the fact that this is what the White House is putting out. It doesn't have any meaning. It effectively is Trump's the man. He has all these. opposite. That's all it is. It's just hype and propaganda. That never used to be with this, you know, let me put it this way. These groups left, right,

Starting point is 00:54:59 White-Hissac, White House account, rapid response, they've always been trying to manipulate the way you view things. My experience in the past, it was through some sort of like, you know, active, you know, the decorum and official, you know, like acting like that they're the only person you can trust. And that, that worked for a lot of people. Now, this is definitely a different tact.

Starting point is 00:55:18 I don't know why they think this will work, but it's, you know, I get why they were losing in that other way because people don't believe them anymore. But this is just, you know, you've basically just dressed up in a clown suit and doing the same thing. It's just crazy. Now, the point, he says, I have all the cards and shows wild cards in Uno. Of course, if you ever played Uno, the point is to lose all your cards. And so everybody made fun of them. Well, clearly he does not how to play Uno, right? And then, of course, it got even more ridiculous when Iran trolled him for it.

Starting point is 00:55:48 and literally said, yes, we have less cards. They literally troll. I mean, they are absolutely annihilating the White House in regard to their propaganda game and their meme warfare. I mean, that's pretty embarrassing. Yeah, you have all the cards and you're losing. That's exactly the point.

Starting point is 00:56:05 But of course, even if you want to try to lean into the analogy and be like, their wild cards, it doesn't change anything, guys. It's just funny to me. Anyway, the point is overall, they're not in the position they're claiming. So let's get into that. So first, here is the mood of Alabama article

Starting point is 00:56:21 that I think is actually just well, was just quickly broken down, pretty much the whole thing anyway. It's very simple, guys. And I'll even just skim the basic points here for you to understand this in case you have to go. I want you to understand how simple and stupid this is. And it used to stay tuned.

Starting point is 00:56:36 There's plenty of more information than just the obvious thing that they're lying about. But yesterday, Donald Trump comes out, like we all predicted, what's going to be the case, and announces a new military, operation. Because remember, the whole game was that somehow that was going to, you know, we've 60 days has run out. So we have to start a new operation. That's not how that works.

Starting point is 00:56:55 It's still wrong. You're still doing this. Same thing. No one's confused by that. So all you did was just illegally try to sidestep by the way, something that you never actually even met. You never actually, that you proved yourself. This was not an imminent threat with an eye. Side joke for somebody else out there. there. They feel like I say it wrong every time. And I know the word I'm saying, but I guess it does sound like with any, but I'm talking about the eye word, you know, be the imminent threats right now it's about to happen. Their statements have proven that's not the case, right? You can't get past that. So if we know that, well, then there was never an allowance for the War Powers Act because it's

Starting point is 00:57:34 the only way that works. So this has just been illegal aggression. That's it. But so for him to then go, well, the 60 days are up means that you're pretending like you met that that you didn't, but then even and then acting like you now have a new 60 days, where was the imminent threat? Where was the imminent threat? There was no threat. If there was, it was the ongoing dynamic that you already started from before

Starting point is 00:57:55 and that would apply to the previous 60 days. They are just drowning in their lies, guys. And they used to have people like Barbara Barnes, for example, as a lawyer who would try to make it make sense. Now he's going, these guys are ridiculous. They're lying and they're wrong and he's calling him out. Good. So just to understand that.

Starting point is 00:58:12 That's why he's going to do. I think it's, I'll point it out a second, Operation, something, I don't know, about freeing the stress rate of Hormuz, even though it was open before they started this. Literally, don't forget, guys, there was no toll, there was no, there's no guidance through the stride. I mean, at the end of the day, it's like every other straight and canal in the world. There's tolls and there's navigation paths, right? It wasn't like that before.

Starting point is 00:58:33 It wasn't even like that after the first engagement after they bombed them. Then after they bombed their negotiations and killed Comenian, and then one thing after that, they said, we're done. And then they went back to that and they said, we're sticking this all the way. Right. So for them to say we have an operation based on opening the straight as if that means they succeed, they've set the win to be right back where they started. In fact, worse.

Starting point is 00:58:57 As I said a long time ago, if they let's just say they get the straight open, whatever that means, even though technically it's not entirely closed or at least it wasn't before today, the point is that Iran will control the navigation. Iran will make the tolls going through. and even they'll argue that they demand reparations. So imagine all that, and Trump goes, we open the street, we won. I mean, that's just sad, guys. Nobody except the screaming idiots that always cheer for them will be saying that

Starting point is 00:59:24 because everyone will know that, one, the war shouldn't have started in the first place because you promised it wouldn't. But now we're moving to Cuba, which we'll talk about a second, but it just shows you it's a lie after lie, right? And that all you did was redirect an endpoint to make it look like you didn't actually fail. Like, you can't even be honest about the fact that you didn't succeed. that's just the weakest person in the room, guys.

Starting point is 00:59:44 Okay. So he says to announce the new operation, for the good of Iran, they write, the Middle East and the United States, we have told the countries in the area that we will guide their ships safely out of the restricted waterways so that they can freely and ably get on with their business.

Starting point is 01:00:01 Even they say restricted, by the way, which I find interesting, because that's all it really has ever been. As I'll show you for the 100th time, Iran says non-hostile ships can pass through the straight. And they have been doing that. It's all the lies about mines and the claim about, I mean, basically what the U.S. and Israel have done to all this with the insurance dynamic.

Starting point is 01:00:21 And their ships are just waiting for some, like this is what they've created. Iran from the very beginning was saying, you can go through if you're not one of the groups fighting us. And all that would have done was hinder those groups and their transit. But they made it everybody else because I argue the U.S. and Israel were expecting Iran to shut the straight down. They did not. and so they needed to keep this the way they thought it should be to make the world turning into Iran.

Starting point is 01:00:44 It's blowing up in their face. I think that's very clear. It says this process. Oh, there it is, Project Freedom. They're just not original at all, it seems. We'll begin Monday morning. Okay, so that was yesterday. Monday morning.

Starting point is 01:01:01 Now, I thought about jumping on yesterday when I saw that, even though I had limited time, but I figured, you know, and I'm glad I didn't, right? Obviously, because it would have been a bunch of theorizing about whether or not, right? So here we are. and within hours, this thing fell apart. That says if in any way they threatened, this humanitarian process, which is not what it was, is interfered with.

Starting point is 01:01:25 That interference will unfortunately have to be dealt with forcefully. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Okay, that was the U.S. government. Now, a stark announcement from Central Command, adding to it, U.S. military support to Project Freedom will include guided missile destroyers. Over 100 land and sea-based aircraft, multi-domain unmanned platforms and 15,000 service members. Man, that sounds like a whole damn thing, right? Okay.

Starting point is 01:01:51 Well, Iran stepped up yesterday and said they warned foreign navies against entering the Strait of Fremuz to escort commercial vessels. Iran's state media reported. And Iran has been very public about this. He said any such presence that goes against what we argue is the current standing because the U.S. drove us here and we're still waiting for them to act. we asked to our 10 points that any such presidents could escalate tensions in the strategic waterway through which significant share of global oil supplies passed. They're just making the point.

Starting point is 01:02:20 If you do that, you will disrupt the flow of oil. The warning comes after U.S. President Donald Trump announced a naval mission dubbed Project Freedom to guide stranded ships out of Strait of Hormuz. Okay. So Iran is simply saying, this is what I was saying from the four, even before the 28. Iran went to the U.N. and was saying, look, they're going to bomb us. We know it.

Starting point is 01:02:38 It's illegal. and we will respond against the belligerence. It's all on the record. And they turn around and act like those responses prove they're terrorists. It's just wild. It shows you who the real terrorists are in the situation. And overall, Iran saying, if you ultimately go through this area without adhering to our navigational lanes,

Starting point is 01:02:57 without adhering to the toll or whatever else we're putting forward, then we will respond. Like any other location in the world would. You think you can just go up to the Panama Canal and just blaze through? No, there's a process, guys, like anywhere else. else. You may disagree that Iran should be the one having this process, but that doesn't change the reality where we are. And so even if you disagree, but they can do it. The point is they've established it. Okay, because they're in a war footing. So what's where we're at is they're saying

Starting point is 01:03:22 we are willing to, if you give us these 10 demands, this can go back to a normal passage and everyone will be allowed to go through with these navigational dictates, like anywhere else, like the Strait of her moves, anything else. And then they tried to go through. And they forced it anyway, and Iran responded. But so this is where it comes to. And now we're going to get into the response, which is the U.S. claiming they went through and we win, which didn't happen based on GPS.

Starting point is 01:03:49 And coming to find out that what essentially happened, there's dispute on what actually, you know, how direct, but that Iran fired on these ships. Some say they hit them. Some say they got close. The point is the U.S. ships turned around. So, by the way, that would be a violation of, you know, any number of things we talked about.

Starting point is 01:04:06 But, again, the claim of a. ceasefire is gone. Iran made that clear the day it started because the U.S. Israel violated it. So after that little embarrassing kerfuffle, the new effort, which Trump dubbed Project Freedom, is a process through which, this is the U.S. government speaking, countries, insurance, companies, and shipping organizations can coordinate moving traffic through the strait, according to a senior U.S. official. He that adds, it doesn't currently involve U.S. Navy warships escorting vessels through the strait, of course, because that would be crazy. Oh, okay, so a sudden shift in the narrative, even though you literally scream that out and we have the tweet.

Starting point is 01:04:41 Okay. And then he adds, Moon of Alabama, adds no sane owner. And this is what really comes down to. Like, so that you have, you have the Iranian government saying we'll let you go through if you're not one of these people. But then you got all the rest of the world who may not even understand, like the buy-in to the State Department narratives about what Iran is. They're fraudulent at the mouth, monster, terrorist like Assad or whatever else they do. Now, whether you think good or bad, that's just not the truth about what they are. So you have people out there that are worried they might do something.

Starting point is 01:05:08 But they also worry that the U.S. and Israel might treat them negatively because they're not adhering to what Trump and Israel want. So overall, and on top of that, then you have the argument that go through the straight, Trump is saying, this is what I thought was the reality here. Go through. We don't need to guide you. It's open. We told you it's open, right? Then they go through without adhering to Iran's dictates. And then potentially something happens.

Starting point is 01:05:31 Now, is that Israel and the U.S. trying to set up one of these ships to get attacked? thinking Iran would just attack them for no reason, as opposed to just guide them back to the port and turn them around, which is what they were doing. I think this might have been an effort to get them to attack something to then justify their response, which is already happening, by the way. We'll get to that in a second about Nephtali Bennett and them saying they did this. That's the war. We're back at war. That's where Israel was already saying it is. Even though the U.S. is the one that initiated this confrontation in within the, like not February 28th, but recently the last couple of days, today, in fact, what we're talking about.

Starting point is 01:06:04 about. Now, he says no sane owner of a ship, no insurance company will allow ships to sail through the straight right now with the U.S. coordination, which means just we'll watch, apparently, while Iran opposes it. No one is going to do that. Now, it's not because they, in every case, think they're going to get bombed, but they recognize that this is a war footing. And that Iran is saying, do not do that. We're in control. Don't do that. And Trump is going, go ahead. It's free. It's open. You know, it's a, I think a clear design. Now, he says one might speculate that Trump really meant to open the strait and was instead pulled back by the Navy, which is opposed to the bloody mess, any attempt to open the strait by force would cause. It still did some testing and, you know, tried and got shot back, right?

Starting point is 01:06:52 But it says during the last hour, a U.S. Navy ship apparently tried to enter the strait near Jask, but was diverted after the Iranian military fired two missiles at it. Now, this is why I find hilarious, and this is why I want to include this first if we go through it, is that they're claiming it didn't happen. The U.S. government is going, that's fake, Iran lies. That's what I was saying before about Laura Logan and people going, if you're trusting the Iranian government, then you're, I'm not trusting any of them. I question both sides. However, there are evidence points that you can look at and pretty clear what actually happened.

Starting point is 01:07:17 One of the most important ones, sentcom seems to have confirmed it when they literally claimed that, quote, no missile has hit. Okay. Well, if no missile has hit, well, then obviously missiles were fired. And so what they're actually disputing is that Iran fired and they turned around because there is real Trump's claiming they went through the straight. So if they, which they did, and that's the reality, Iran fired at them. And so either you could also argue that sent com trying to deny that they were hit by saying they just didn't hit them, but it was fired. Trump's team is saying it didn't even happen.

Starting point is 01:07:50 And then you get the people like I'm talking about that come out and go, what the U.S. said. How dare you listen to the other side? Because bad guy. It's just, it's a, it's manipulation framed as logic. You need to question them all, guys, and look for the facts and the evidence. Within a few hours, the latest attempt by Donald Trump to somehow change the situation in the straight has failed. He's left with three choices.

Starting point is 01:08:12 And I agree with this. Keep up the blockade, right? While the global economy deteriorates and people will blame Trump. Use, and of course, there'll be a propaganda push throughout that to try to shift the frame against Iran, right? Use again military force against Iran, life of the same outcome or worse. I doubt that's the example, but I think that's what Israel is pushing, declare victory and leave. Now, I genuinely think that's what he's trying to do.

Starting point is 01:08:39 He's trying to find a moment where that can feel like it's barely enough and leave. And then remember, Israel's not going to stop. Israel's going to keep going. He's going to claim it's not as the, but it doesn't matter because Iran has made it clear. You're both involved in this. If one of you keeps going, you're both involved. So Trump has trapped himself, guys, and you have to see that by now. Now, let's get into what they said.

Starting point is 01:09:00 Let's go through this. this is honestly not going to take all that long it's it's not that much it's just wild how embarrassing this is so here's what they put out on the third this was 6 p.m yesterday sent com u.s military supports launch of project freedom and straight up her moves of course is that funny u.s. military supports the launch of this like as if it's not their entire agenda and nobody else is even involved right it says u.s. central command forces will begin supporting project freedom may 4th to restore freedom of navigation to the shipping lanes. Yeah, do you mean restore what was there before you guys started your legal war?

Starting point is 01:09:35 The mission directed by president will support merchant vessels seeking to freely transit through the international trade corridor, except that's not what you see, except that the next day you guys said, never mind, a quarter of the world's oil trade at sea in significant volumes and fertilizer, which is why the worry about the supply chain and actually food production is already on the table, no pun intended. Our support for this defensive mission is essential to regional security and the global economy as we also maintain the naval blockade. Right. I love how stupid that is.

Starting point is 01:10:05 He realized that they're the ones that have maintained the blockade. Like up until today with what Iran is reinitiating, it was clear that they were willing to reopen this entirely. Maybe it's a little bit fuzzy. And my opinion is that ultimately it was with the current reality of their chipping lanes. I don't think that's even up for debate for them anymore. But either way, they would have reopened it for the U.S., for everybody. if they had agreed to that and stepped back.

Starting point is 01:10:30 But Trump apparently or Israel apparently said no, because they refused to acknowledge their civilian nuclear program. Well, guess what? As I keep telling you, on the 28th, they were willing to give it up. They were willing to give up their program and their rich uranium, but they've never offered that before and you bombed them instead. As always, I'll grab that in case you want to read the article because it was the 28. That's important, guys.

Starting point is 01:10:53 I just think about how wild that is. And so now when they say, you better, too late, you love, you, you, you, you, you, you, you blew that deal up literally on purpose. So the point is they want to be able to claim they don't want to do it. But you see, as always, the point is that they claim they never, they refused to say, no, they've said it many times. So instead of saying we think they're lying, they just lie to you about what they actually claim, which shows you that they know, I would argue that they mean it.

Starting point is 01:11:18 And my point was that the blockade that the U.S. has maintained is what they're now saying they have to reopen? Like, I think about how dumb it is that over the last week, the U.S. has been the one, maintain the blockade, but your entire mission has been built on reopening the straight? No, it's about control, guys. It's about making sure they control this. They don't care. This situation could be exactly the same as long as they dictate the situation.

Starting point is 01:11:40 They will be okay with it. It says last week, the U.S. Department of State announced a new initiative in partnership with the Department of War to enhance coordination and information sharing among international partners. The maritime freedom construct aims to combine diplomatic action. They're sprawling. They're flailing. This is about anything that can get the world involved to be used against Iran. That's what I read this as.

Starting point is 01:12:04 It's not working. And again, we have all land-based aircraft, 15,000 service members that we then just ignored. Or rather that ultimately was not used in some kind of process. So before that, this is still the third, 5.11 p.m. This was the, what was it again? Hold on. I believe he's the head of national security commission of the Iranian parliament. he says this. Any American interference in the new maritime regime of the Strait of Hormuz will be

Starting point is 01:12:34 considered a violation of the ceasefire. Now to be clear, they've already made it undeniably, or made it many times over clear that they have already violated ceasefire. And that ultimately it doesn't even exist. Nonetheless, the U.S. and Israel pretend like there's some kind of a, they do it everywhere. Despite 700 killed, the ceasefire continues in Lebanon. What are you talking about? Israel killed 700 people and you're claiming it's still. So the ceasefire shakily continues. Like it's just, it's insulting. So either way, the point is, I think they're just simply highlighting that you claim it's there.

Starting point is 01:13:04 Well, if you do that, that would be a violation of the thing you say is there. And what he's pointing to, I believe is right here. Hold on. I'm going to grab it real quick. I'm going to come back to it. I want to show you the, come on, there it is. Saeed Mohammed Morandi posted this, which, by the way, is already pretty much what we've shown you, but with more detail. Just simply showing you that Ron declared the new navigational pathways and the situation for the straight.

Starting point is 01:13:35 And that's all they're saying is that it's not a problem. You guys can go through as long as you're not fighting us, but you have to maintain the navigational path that we've set out like every other waterway that's controlled. So what he's saying is no matter what you want to talk about, new deals and new programs and new operations, this is the status quo. If you violate this, then you will have justification. The Strait of Roos and the Persian Gulf would not be managed by Trump's delusional posts. That's what he's saying.

Starting point is 01:14:03 No one would believe blame game scenarios. Now, Alex Ward on the third 512, one minute later, post, President Trump did not announce an escort mission just now. U.S. officials say, okay, Project Freedom earlier called the Maritime Freedom construct as a coordination cell. Well, let's be clear again, though, guys. He literally verbatim said that they would guide vessels through the strait. both through social and then what they posted on Twitter. But it says it'll tell U.S. flagships and others the safe lanes to navigate straight to four moves. Okay, take a second and think about how dumb this is.

Starting point is 01:14:40 Oh, just where was that again? Hold on. I want to show you the, okay. So Iran puts this out and says, well, here are the navigational lanes that you can use. And if you don't use those, then we will have a problem. And the Trump literally comes out and says, we're going to guide through the straight. But then just goes, well, here are the navigation. lanes will make sure you're safe go that way and so all he's doing if this is going to happen is take the lanes that iran is suggesting but we're going to frame it as we are the ones doing that

Starting point is 01:15:06 follow trump's direction through iran's guided path they've outlined i mean you you really have to see how embarrassingly ineffectual like like uh like desperate you you you i mean not even that like uh god there's again new words guys like i mean the idea of somebody who sees that happen If you wanted a straight open and actually just wanted this to go away, you would take something that would change that back. But instead, you're so small person that you have to make it look like you're the one that's making the thing happen because you need to be seen as the one making all these choices because that's how insecure you are.

Starting point is 01:15:43 That's the best word for it. That's how I read that. I mean, think about how stupid that is. And it's just you can read the article from Wall Street Journal. But no minds, again, I'm of the mind that there, I'm of the mind that there haven't been any in this circumstance. Again, I've shown you this a thousand times. Now, realize there is a choke point here, especially right now.

Starting point is 01:16:03 But overall, what I'm highlighting when I show you this is there's general traffic. Not the tankers. Like right now, it's actually much more clear than usual because what we're going to get to. But my point is these kind of ships. Like, not the tankers and the transit, but like just the random, many different types of ships. And what I've been showing you since February 28th forward is they've been going through the straight. There's been tons of ships traversing. But there's been moments where tankers go through as well.

Starting point is 01:16:26 I'll show you in a second. know the U.S. is lying about it. But also, Iran never claimed that. And there's never been any evidence of it. And they've already had claims of where they were going through. To me, it seems near impossible based on what's been happening. There are random mines floating through the Strait of Hermose. It just doesn't line up from you with what Iran would do, with their agenda, with what they've been doing. But of course, it's possible. But then you take all that we've seen and what the U.S. is doing, it screams that there's, the point was to get people to think there was a mine threat. So they wouldn't go through without the allowance of the U.S.

Starting point is 01:16:56 in Israel. I'm telling you guys, they manufactured this, even if there are mines, but I don't believe there are. So here, again, in case you missed it, so Trump is simply going, no, no, no, we'll show you, we'll guide you. That's the path right there, right there it is right there. Because I didn't time it right? It's right there. Just go right along the red line that I drew for you. No, no, that's, didn't Iran draw that? No, no, that's Trump's map. Trump made that. That's sad. So Daniel McAdams highlights this, and this is what I want you to think, keep this in mind. throughout the rest of this and we'll end with this as well. Brett Erickson says, in my opinion,

Starting point is 01:17:31 this is on the 4th, 7 a.m. Washington made a catastrophic decision by going all in on the, I love this, by the way, 13 days to flatten Iran's oil. It is so, see, I'm telling you, more than you realize, see the overlaps of this to, not just the COVID connection, but like the great reset change. Just different framing.

Starting point is 01:17:51 It's all it is. But so he went all in on the 13 days to flatten the Ron's oil pipe tree. and now are rapidly realizing how disastrously it overpromised and underdelivered. As a result of this, the Trump administration is now being put in a position where if they look like the aggressor again, they will face severe domestic backlash. For this reason, and this is classic thinking, but I agree, this is a logical thing to consider right now. For this reason, he says, where was I? For this reason, they are attempting to bait the Iranians into attacking U.S. vessels so that they have the cover of defensive measures, which again, I mean, they've never even seemed to need that.

Starting point is 01:18:30 They just go, well, we see them doing things, therefore preemptive self-defense. So it's like, why would they now? Well, his logic makes sense that they've worked themselves into a position where that is, you know, most Americans are very unhappy with where this is. He says to restart this conflict because they know their current strategy has failed miserably. Whether or not a U.S. vessel was struck or not this morning by Iran, which we'll get into in a second. Well, that's one of those points to, but there are others will point. out a second too. So whether or not Iran hit him or they just warned them away, it is clear that

Starting point is 01:19:02 the U.S. is trying to find a way to restart the conflict without being at fault. Because they know this is a waiting game that they have been playing until Iran shuts in their oil wells and explodes their oil infrastructure was promised on a down, downright ridiculous timeline. Now, where was this? Whether or not the U.S. vessel was struck, it's clear the U.S. is trying to find a way to restart the conflict. Okay, well, so with that point, couldn't you argue that right now they have that? Yes. But what I'm not seeing is Trump and the U.S. administration jumping on this and going, we know it Iran's the one. They're the bad guy. And then rolling this right back into an aggressive front. What I am seeing is Israel pushing that. So it makes me wonder whether there's a schism, like I keep

Starting point is 01:19:50 talking about the Charlie Kirk problem, you know, whatever you want to think about, whether Trump is recognizing there's something pushing him but he doesn't want to be pushing him. Or it's not even his decision. You know, whatever it is, my point is, it's interesting to think about this and where we currently are. So keep that in mind. Because what Daniel says, the best description of today's events I've seen thus far. This is this morning.

Starting point is 01:20:13 Now, Robert A. Pappi says Trump's announcement announced escort, which is very quickly never changed to not being an escort. But he says that it upships through the Hormuz who recalls the famous. 1964 Tonkin Gulf incident that Patrick Lawson, the opening clip was referencing as something that they engineered, a manufactured pretext for the United States to massively escalate military involvement in the Vietnam War, prepare for escalation against Iran. Everyone seems to sense this right now. This is a moment when this historically happens.

Starting point is 01:20:46 That may well have been one of the things that was kind of lined up and that we were paying too much attention. And so you have to realize historically, whether U.S. government or any other. There's always multifaceted plans. And ultimately, if you start something, it's very clear that everyone's attuned to what you wanted to do, you can easily shift. Now, it's also possible that wasn't the plan in the first place. Never assume, but consider that that's possible. So in this case, he's sensing the same thing. Now, Jeremy Skehill puts this out, and this was on the third, actually, 640 p.m., so yesterday, he says, Iran warns Trump against any U.S.

Starting point is 01:21:19 military action in the Strait of Hermose. Actually, I think it's out of place, but I'll read it anyway. response to President Trump's announcement, the U.S. plans to guide merchant ships out of the Strait of Ramos and an operation sentcom says will involve guided missile destroyers, and we read all that. And it says, Trump's action, quote, is primarily intended. Oh, so this is right, the right place. I should have just put it first because I like, I tend to like to keep things in chronological order, chronological, excuse me, order typically. I think it works better. Anyway, the point is yesterday he's highlighting what he thinks this is going to do. Trump's action is primarily intended to provoke Iran, citing drop-site news rather, into taking an initial step toward confrontation, thereby creating a pretext for escalation and enabling him to justify further military action in response to an Iranian initiative.

Starting point is 01:22:08 I mean, this is basic stuff. Like, this is very easy to see in a war footing, especially when you're failing or need momentum. I'm only saying that because it's not like realized this is common tactic stuff. so it should be like a possible in your mind, not just some extreme conspiracy type of thought process. And so what he's basically saying is that they might use what's happening to make it look like Iran is the one that drove them. And Trump did this with Syria in his last administration.

Starting point is 01:22:33 We're going to get out of Syria. What I say? Probably not. I know I was ready for it. And all of a sudden, oh, what I did the thing. And now we have to stay because he did a gas attack. You know, one of the many that we've later proved were not actually what he did.

Starting point is 01:22:46 But that's how they do that. So in this case, is that what's happening? We should be asking that. He says, our definitive position is that any commercial vessel attempting to transit through designated Iran said this, designated restricted routes, without prior coordination, we'll be promptly intercepted by Iranian forces. That's all we're talking about. Those two paths that Trump's kind of pretending were the ones he's pointing to now are saying, you go here, you coordinate with us, you're good. And people who don't, well, we're going to deal with that. Now, they shot at the U.S. ship because they're on a war footing.

Starting point is 01:23:17 with the U.S. ship. But as we're going to get to the others, they're simply turning them around and bringing them to port. Now, there are some that appear, we're going to end with the points of some that were shot, drone attacks, and so on. I'm very skeptical of where that's coming from. And it goes on to say, should U.S. military vessels respond, such actions will be met with immediate and corresponding response from Iran. I mean, it's very clear that they're the ones dictating this entire situation at this point. You can't deny that. Like, it's obvious that they're the ones who have put their foot down. And Trump keeps trying to throw new things against the wall and seeing if they just react differently, but it's not working.

Starting point is 01:23:51 Quote, the U.S. military vessels are far from the corridor area. If commercial vessels attempt to move, they would be engaged well before reaching any American ships, the official added. Trump has effectively turned them into bargaining tools in his political game. That's what I think. That if they do that, that they can say, you know, anything they do against them, which, by the way, I argue Iran will not take the bait. They'll probably just turn them around.

Starting point is 01:24:14 They love to make it. It's almost like they really buy into what they think Iran is. and even if they are that Iran's too smart to fall for it doesn't do it anyway. You know, you could take it whichever way you want. At the end of the day, they're playing them very well, Iran, against the United States government and Israel. Now, on the fourth, 545 in the morning, Jason posts this, the president wants action. Now, this is just a laugh at, quite frankly, because here we are, after all the things we've

Starting point is 01:24:38 seen, they're begging for a deal, you better not, are we going to bomb you. They're begging for a deal, you better not, we're going to bomb you over and over and over. How many times he can say, you better do this or we're going to do this, or we're going to do this and they don't do it. How many times until it just becomes embarrassing? One, probably. And here we are again. After what we just saw, after the claim of we're going to go through the vessels or the straight with the vessels and make sure that we can, you know, ensure their passage. If it very quickly it turns into, that's not what we said. Well, here's what he says today. The president wants action, a U.S. official told Axios, you know, the platform that literally just

Starting point is 01:25:12 is like the leading platform for lying about what's going on with these negotiations. He doesn't want to sit still. He wants pressure. He wants a deal. It says Trump was presented with a plan on Thursday night to send naval vessels through the Strait of Ramos by force. At the last minute, he opted for a more cautious approach. Or was that what happened? Or he was hoping that the claim that they were going to do that would get Iran to go, oh, no, and change direction. And they didn't take the bait. And so you just called your bluff. Yep, over and over. A source close to the president described this as the beginning of a process that could lead to confrontation with the Iranians. What are you guys talking about. You're literally in the midst of a conflict. And that by the president described this,

Starting point is 01:25:50 what they're doing is the beginning of a process that could lead to confrontations while you're in confrontations with Iran. Like, you can't laugh at this enough. It's insane. Quote, it's either we're looking at the real contours of an achievable deal soon, or he's going to bomb the hell out of him. You know, like you said a hundred times and not actually done that. I mean, what do you mean the real contours of an achievable deal? You mean like was on the table that they accepted and you bombed them? You could prove all of this if you care to. And I have on this show if you watched.

Starting point is 01:26:24 Now, this is, so what I see there with what he did and the statements are just, it's just propaganda. It's bluster. It's like, it's what I keep talking about. Saying the things, really just to get some people to think you're not failing and then maybe to influence the global conversation. But you also get stuff like this all over the platform. and on a quick side note, one of the new tactics that I keep seeing,

Starting point is 01:26:44 this platform, I swear. I almost wonder whether it's like training them on what to do in order to make these things work. But, you know, like all of a sudden, they all started doing like the split screen with the video and the image. Why? Some handbook somewhere we're missing, right? They all do. And, you know, the red light breaking, washing news, holy cow.

Starting point is 01:27:02 It's like even Jesse Waters. Same thing. So what we get now, what you're going to see is this very weird dynamic. Hunter, we'll see how many views he has now. 167,000 views. And guess what? It's a video that has no audio. Yeah, there's no audio.

Starting point is 01:27:18 Check it for yourself. Download it, check it, check with the people. No audio, right? So they're intentionally posting an old video with no audio. I mean, you can literally read the bottom that says Trump has delivered record tax to refunds. And they lie about it. So there's no, so what you're actually seeing, first of all, anyone that's sharing this, they're not looking.

Starting point is 01:27:36 They're sharing from Word they see on Twitter, which you should remember. we all, you know, we've all done it from time to time. My point is that people that are constant, you know, you could see the ones that aren't checking what they're sharing, right? In this case, it says, Scott Bassett just said the U.S. is opening this rate. This is 820 May 4th. He officially confirmed that the blockade is officially stopped. No, no, not. What they're hoping is that this influence is something, I would argue.

Starting point is 01:28:03 And so this is an old video of Basset talking about tax returns, or rather refunds. check for yourself. And so they're doing this and you're finding all of them doing it now. A video with no odd, not necessarily the larger ones, but we'll see if it ends up going that way, but video with no audio and then misframing it as something they said that you want, you know, like a video of Rubio talking about what he did yesterday and saying Rubio says war is on or whatever. Telling you guys, this platform is, this is what it's designed for, in my opinion. They're promoting these things.

Starting point is 01:28:35 These things are being pushed in front of us. Now, here's what U.S. Central Command said at 7.15 a.m. today. U.S. Navy guided missile destroyers are currently operating in the Arabian Gulf after transiting the Strait of Ramos in support of Project Freedom. Now, think about how embarrassing it is for them to like knowingly lie about that. I mean, you must realize some that people know, like the commanders of these shit are going to be like, well, that didn't happen. I mean, you know, your war is propaganda, whatever you probably rationalize.

Starting point is 01:29:06 but how embarrassing that must be that you apparently you have to lie about it why wouldn't you like as a military wouldn't you feel ineffectual that you're not doing it you're making it up either way and this is not meant to be just i guess insulting or diminishing to anybody other than the administrator the government and the administration because they're just doing what they're told but in this sense the account operator i guess american forces are actively assisting efforts to restore transit didn't happen that's the first step. Two U.S. flag merchant vessels have successfully transited through the strait. And our head is safely on their journey. Well, as far as I can tell,

Starting point is 01:29:46 there's no GPS record of this. There's no evidence of that. And of course, the ones that tried to go through the Iranian ships fired on. Everyone seems to be calling this out. This one says, caught red-handed. Sentcom is feeding you pure fiction. Satellite imagery confirms absolutely zero ships passed through the straight. All right. This is continually happening. Robert Barnes came out on yesterday at 436 p.m. and regard to this, President Trump said he will launch this effort, Robert Barr, and said that vessels, you know, basically the trips had gone through. He says, chances are no U.S. ships actually entered the strait.

Starting point is 01:30:21 Look at that. You know why he's guessing, because we hadn't happened yet, right? Well, because it's obvious they're lying. And anybody who continues to see how obvious it is is going to go, well, they're probably going to lie again. Likely just Trump's seeing if he can trick markets into thinking the straight will open up soon. Sure enough, that's what they did.

Starting point is 01:30:38 as we showed you in the beginning, people bet on both sides of it. Okay, well, let's read the Washington, the Wall Street Journal, excuse me. Iran defies Trump and tightens its grip on her moves. Now, that's why I want to start with kind of the brief breakdown of how it went down, so you understand that before we get into the kind of mainstream framing of this, because as I keep showing you, even they, the groups that are supposed to be adversarial to Trump will gaslight for it when it's about Israel and war. And sure, there are other targeted things as well.

Starting point is 01:31:07 I think that's just pretty much the whole thing. Yeah. Now it says Iran on Monday said ships going through the straight of Formos without its permission face serious risks. Hours after President Trump announced the new initiative to help stranded vessels get through the stroke point. Okay. So this is just like before the 28th, just like every other point, guys. Iran comes up and publicly says, you can't do that.

Starting point is 01:31:30 And if you do, then we're going to respond. And nobody seems to report it. What Wall Street Journal does. I mean, you understand. and they keep doing this. And then they go, like the mines, like the street being closed. Have you seen almost any of these platforms? Like, I mean, in a real way, not some bottom of the article lasting, like, you know,

Starting point is 01:31:50 some are like a report on Fox and CNN where they say Iran says publicly, everyone can go through except the ones they're fighting. Have you heard anybody say that? Now, even if they say Iran claims this, but we disagree or we think they're lying, none of it. They just ignore it. There's an obvious reason for that. And so my point in all this is in this article, it's the same kind of thing, right?

Starting point is 01:32:10 You get this effort to sort of gaslight for certain things. And one of those is like whether it's shut, one of those is whether or not, like you'll see as we go through it. Now, this is Ron on Monday said ships going through the street without his permission, face serious risks. Trump and now, that was the first point anyway, was that ultimately they made that clear. And then the ships, they attacked a ship or something and they act like it's terrorism and their response. Well, they just told you. They just said, if you do this, then we will respond legally. But nobody makes that clear.

Starting point is 01:32:39 And then you get all the average people that have never even heard them. And it doesn't, and you get where it goes. And this is a deliberately dishonest thing they do. Trump announced a new initiative. Ship owners said that they were unwilling to risk crossing, given the threat of attack from Iran. Now, where are they thinking that's coming from? Is Iran going, we're going to bomb everybody everywhere? No, they're not.

Starting point is 01:33:02 In fact, they made it very clear. As I said before, non-hostile ships can go through. Now, again, you could argue they're lying, but the evidence shows they are, in fact, allowing that. So why is the Wall Street Journal saying, or I guess this specific point, that the ship owners believe that Iran will attack them? Are they working with the U.S. military?

Starting point is 01:33:23 Are they working with the Israeli military? It's because they're either being lied to or they're being threatened not to. That's my opinion. And a lack of clarity around how the new American operative, will work. That's really what we're talking about. They're not going to risk what Trump says just because Trump says it. Not today anyway, because Iran won't let it happen. So they're waiting. And I think, again, the point is made that I think part of this was about setting this up to cause some kind of conflict so they could blame Iran. U.S. Central Command, which oversees the Middle East,

Starting point is 01:33:52 denied a report by Iranian state media on Monday that said Iran had used missiles to strike a warship, then to the straight. Now, again, we can pretty much prove that's ultimately what happened. And whether they hit or not is the point. Remember, Centcom said that none of the missiles had hit. So it's pretty damn obvious that they fired on them and they turned around. They're just embarrassed by it, guys. Oil prices jumped following the claim before pairing their gains. The price of Brent Crude, the international benchmark, was trading at around 112.

Starting point is 01:34:20 I'm usually referring to Brent Crue, but I've referenced that. Went up to like 119. The next time I checked it was 113, you know, 14-ish. We'll show you again a second. the developments have renewed uncertainty around the fate of the world's most important energy shipping lane, which Iran closed after the U.S. and Israel launched their attack on the country. That closed is inaccurate. I'm always going to point that out.

Starting point is 01:34:42 They restricted it to their enemies. Millions of bear, I mean, I'll let me just do that really quickly in case I don't come back to it. You know, this is just one report, and this has just been happening numerous times. I've got one today of a couple of ships. But this was from April 22nd, 34 Iranian 10th. 34 Iranian takers have slipped past the alleged blockade. Now, there is a blockade, understand. At least the presence of it to suggest that people are at risk to go through.

Starting point is 01:35:08 But in regard to whether they're actually, you know, even competent enough to stop Iran from doing so, apparently not. Or you could argue they're not even trying to stop them. But I do believe the idea is that the world is being presented with the idea that it's either Iran or the U.S., either way, you can't go through. And I think that's because the U.S. and Israel want that to be the reality. So continuing on the Wall Street Journal article, the U.S. has responded with a blockade of Iranian ports and intercepted sanctioned ships in the shadow fleet that is moving Iranian oil,

Starting point is 01:35:42 which again seems to be failing, at least to some degree. Oh, wait, that says, no, okay. Continuing, it says Trump's new initiative wasn't enough to break the impasse. And there was, which, I mean, the initiative didn't even go anywhere, didn't even have legs. It basically just, you know, was feigned and stopped, at least so far. It's not, you know, I'm sure it won't stop yet. And it says, and there was a little sign of increased traffic to the straight on Monday.

Starting point is 01:36:08 Well, today. Right now, quote, we are not seeing anything. A ship tracking analyst said, people are waiting. That's my point, though. They're there. How much you want to bet most of them could go through because they're not actually war with Iran? Ship owners said they would only resume normal operations when there are clear assurances from Iran. They won't attack civilian ships.

Starting point is 01:36:29 Oh, you mean aside from them literally continually saying they want to attack civilian ships? is that this is my point, guys. You could argue you don't believe them. You can say Iran's going to do it. We know they're bad guy. But what you're not saying that. What you're saying is they won't say it, aside from them constantly saying it.

Starting point is 01:36:47 And this is something I was saying, this is what I was just saying before. It's either that they don't know they're saying it because their media is so broken, or they just pretend it's not the case. Either way, it's like when they stand up and say, Iran refuses to give up their nuclear program. It's not true. That's my point.

Starting point is 01:37:03 On the Ful 28, they said they would. Or more specifically, because that's an important one to not forget, is that Iran says they refuse to say they won't seek a nuclear bomb. No, they've said that their entire life, or rather entire, they've said that my entire life recording on their situation. And the evidence shows they never have. So you can't say that they're, you can say them lying, but you can't say they've never said it.

Starting point is 01:37:29 It's always an important point. So what it shows you is that they are choosing to, misrepresent what they're actually saying. They're dishonest, guys. I know I'm wasting my breath on trying to convince you guys. They're dishonest, but there's always new people watching the show. So they'd only resume their, even though Iran says, go ahead, you're allowed to. If you're not fighting us, they are refusing to go through because they claim Iran hasn't given

Starting point is 01:37:52 assurances that they won't attack civilian ships despite doing that. The German owner of two ships currently stranded in the Gulf said he would only move them when the war ends and there is a convincing peace deal. right so see he's scared and i believe he's in that position because israel the united states have filled his mind full of all sorts of concerns that don't appear to be there unless you are fighting iran now i mean question all this this is my opinion but you know most of this is based on the reality of i mean some of that's my opinion some of that's provable facts the new mechanism which trump dubbed project freedom is effectively a coordination cell to move traffic through the straight

Starting point is 01:38:27 including countries insurance companies shipping organizations the plan calls for the u.s military to guide ships through the waterway. See? But U.S. officials said they don't currently envision U.S. wars just being used. Okay. American military support for the initiative will include guided, you know, all the stuff they said that apparently is not being used yet. Trump announced in regard to that operation. Trump's announcement comes as the war with Iran is transitioning from hot war into a long economic standoff in which the administration is attempting to break Iran's grip on the straight and push Tehran to make concessions on nuclear talks. Again, like they did before you bomb them. I'm going to say it every time.

Starting point is 01:39:05 Tehran reiterated its demand that ships use an Iranian-designated route through the strait in coordination with its forces. Quote, there has been no change in the management of the strait of Hormuz. So the spokesman, the maritime movements, contrary to the principles announced by the Revolutionary Guard

Starting point is 01:39:20 Navy will face risks. Violating vessels will be stopped by force. Separately, the United Arab Emirates on Monday condemned what it said was an Iranian drone attack on a tank used by the state-owned oil company of Abu Dhabi. Because this is where it gets interesting. Now, it's certainly possible that Iran would be doing this

Starting point is 01:39:40 because the UAE has clearly been involving themselves in the war against Iran. But I just wonder whether this would be in their interest right now. So consider whether this might be something else, and we'll get more into that. Two drones targeted the ship while it was transiting the strait. Oh, and in fact, this is a different case. There's more that I'm going to get to here

Starting point is 01:39:59 in regard to Korean ships and so on. that I'm glad I remember this one. So the point is two drones targeted the ship while it was transited in the strait, causing no injuries. Now, this is according to the foreign ministry. Now, the statement didn't say when the tactic placed. Now, they're screaming about it. What's interesting is if you look into the facts, I'm sure you already know where this is going to go. They were going through the strait without going through the revogational routes.

Starting point is 01:40:22 They either because Trump told them to and they believed Trump or because they thought they could anyway. And they were violating what Iran put down. Now, again, you can disagree. that they should be doing that. Doesn't change the fact that the UAE did this knowing, or at least not knowing because Trump lied to them, that this was going to cause a problem. And Iran stopped them like they said they would.

Starting point is 01:40:42 Now, that gets framed as Iran attacking ships in the three. That's not what's going on. They responded because you violated. Again, if you were to fly through the Suez Canal without actually going with the way they would stop you, like anywhere else. Now, this is probably a little bit more tense because they're literally at a war footing, okay?

Starting point is 01:40:59 But you have to understand this is a manipulation of the circumstance. And I'm of the mind with the UAE doing what it's doing, as we're going to get into more in a second. This was by design. That's my opinion. I feel that this was probably done, hoping Iran would do something more than what they did.

Starting point is 01:41:15 Of course, they just, it's more about restraint and deterrence. Nobody was killed, no injuries. Didn't sink the ship. Now, it says Iranian state media published a map Monday of the Revolutionary Guard area of control, which I showed you, of the strait that encompassed the UAE port of Fujara. The end of a pipeline that the Gulf

Starting point is 01:41:35 country uses to circumvent the blockage of the strait. As Trump in April announced that Iran had agreed to reopen the strait, only to have Iranian forces to declare it closed within a day while launching more attacks on commercial ships. Again, you know the truth, that story. This was not open in the first place.

Starting point is 01:41:51 It was in regard to there was still the ongoing back and forth of what Trump and Iran were doing. Trump said that like he just said yesterday. He's lying. He just wants the markets to manipulate. but whether they declared it closed within a day, again, is not the picture. It's restricted. But on top of that, more attacks on commercial ships.

Starting point is 01:42:08 I've gone through this. It's what I just described or one that is real attacked. I made this very clear. Is Iran capable of just choosing to bomb a ship for no reason? Of course it is. I would never claim otherwise. What I'm trying to do is engage with the facts that we can see in front of us and what I can see is lie after lie. And the reality is they've, I mean, you can't, this is why I keep saying about the days afterward.

Starting point is 01:42:29 when you can go back and look and say well look they came and said if you do this thing this is how we'll respond and then they do the thing and they respond that way what other way can you frame that as they responded what they felt was the legal situation whatever you want to frame it as not that they just are lashing out in terrorism and bombing whoever they want which is what this clumsy game is doing right now now it says in march trump said the u.s navy would escort ships to the straight when the time comes it's not going to happen military analysts said have said that any escort operation would be difficult and dangerous. Since military personnel would have only seconds to respond to incoming fire from Iranian forces positioned near the narrow passage, even if the U.S. was to launch military escorts for ships that would only allow a few to trickle through at a time far fewer than roughly 130 ships a day that transited the strait before. So it is essentially even if it worked, it could not solve the problem. So you see, this is an effort to cause a reaction.

Starting point is 01:43:29 agree with that. Now, the question is whether or not it's Israel or the U.S. driving that, or if there's a difference between the two. Because as I'm going to show you, I think this is real that seems to be reacting to this. But again, maybe as I'm doing this, you're seeing Trump screaming because he did have some press conference set up, some kind of new thing he was going to talk about. Maybe that's what he's doing right now. And then that would make it more sense of who's actually driving it. It would make it seem more coordinated. But drop site news says Iran claims missiles hit U.S. frigate near the straight. Iranian state affiliated. And this is, again, this was the post that Laura Logan was sharing.

Starting point is 01:44:01 Iranian state media claims the Iranian Revolutionary Guard hit the warships with two missiles. Truth, the U.S. account that's lying almost every day in my experience, says no U.S. Navy ships have been struck. U.S. forces are supporting Project Free. Okay, well, look, you look at the Iranian porting. Some of them simply say that they fired on them. So you could argue it's a manipulation within the narrative to say they claim it hit them. Well, what if the claim is just they fired and you turned back and didn't do what you said

Starting point is 01:44:27 you were going to do. It's almost as if they're trying to use the schism between whether it hit or not and saying that's false to hide from the fact that they just utterly failed in what they said they were going to do. And then you get certain people to come out and go, they're the ones, trust them. Well, says CENTCOM has since denied the claim. No U.S. Navy ships have been struck. Well, guys, you can see what just happened. On top of the fact that you can see the GPS data that shows they didn't go through like they said they did, but you know, whatever. It doesn't matter because they're going to lie like they always do. Now here's Al Jazeera, who is reported, that they did in fact hit them. Two missiles hit a U.S. frigate in the Strait of Pramu's

Starting point is 01:45:01 after it ignored warnings from Iran's Navy to halt. So even right there, you guys, this is my point. They went through the straight and didn't adhere to what Iran was telling you. And even if you don't think they should be allowed to, they're in a war footing. They're literally a military position going, don't go through it. We're going to fire on you. And you go through it anyway. And that's somehow their fault. It's just, this is so engineered. And you're going to see why it's even more important with the UAE point in a second. But, you know, at this point, obviously, guys, this is about trying to engineer that, but you should wonder whether the UAE was used, as opposed to playing a role. Now, Iran through their, what is this, Iran broadcasting account

Starting point is 01:45:38 says the senior Iranian military official told the platform that the U.S. claim about sinking several Iranian ships were false. Now, this is funny to me, in so many ways. First of all, wasn't the Navy completely annihilated three days in, Trump said like 11 times? Well, clearly not, as there Iranian ships that are involved. Not just tugboats and little speedboats. That's not what's happening. Now, they did sink ships, I think. I think you could prove that.

Starting point is 01:46:02 But it's just, they've been lying about everything the entire time. So what I think is embarrassing is one, that it's obvious they have ships and he just keeps lying about that because he needs you to think they're winning. And that speaks to that they're not, or at the least they're not as winning as they want you to believe. But on top of that, that as they actually fire back or whatever you want to think happened,

Starting point is 01:46:22 that they did not transit the straight, that ultimately their whole navigation ploy today just failed. And ultimately, the argument is they fired on U.S. ships. So instead, they come out and go, we sank Iran ships. Frankly, what I think is probably happening. That's how ridiculous this is. That you look stupid and so you just make up a narrative about how you did all these things and point to that instead.

Starting point is 01:46:45 Very, very U.S. government of you, very Israel propaganda of you. Now, Mike Cote, not familiar with this person, comes out and says, and literally, by the way, points to Mossad commentary. Account that's been caught lying more than just about anybody on this platform, I think. I mean, it's literally a cutout massad propaganda campaign on this platform. And it says, Trump launches Project Freedom to Break the Strait. That's May 3rd. That's yesterday.

Starting point is 01:47:11 A lot has changed since yesterday. Mike says, so when this operation succeeds, starting well, and it will. As Iran simply does not have the ability to stop U.S. naval transit to the straits. I mean, you know, you got to love when people think they know what they're talking about. And like, there is nobody, even the people that are like blindly jingoistic pro U.S. who believe that Iran could never stop them. All of the experts say that that's the choke point they have the best control of the, they'll fire from the islands and everywhere else.

Starting point is 01:47:39 And it's a very dangerous thing. That's what we were just reading. But apparently this history geopolitics war person self-proclaimed says that they have no ability to stop them to the straight. And will all the people, if this win it succeeds, will all the people who have been freaking out about this change, tune, or about this change their tune? Or will they just find another reason to this war as a failure?

Starting point is 01:48:06 God, you know, I frankly, I get the sense. This guy just believes this. It's sad. There's a lot of people that are misinformed or misled by people they think they can trust. Of course, I could be wrong, right? Maybe he's right. We'll find out, won't we? And I simply said, well, that aged wonder.

Starting point is 01:48:20 Whomp, womp, wom. I mean, it's just, you know, today already, you can see that that's not the reality, you know, and it's just, but they'll stick with it. Mossad will keep pushing it. Of course, you get people like Dean Kane. He's still in ice. How's that working out?

Starting point is 01:48:34 And he says, if you don't think the U.S. is winning in Iran, you're either stupid, deluded, or suffering from severe TDS or all the above. I'm like, you know, go back to your made-for-TV movies, man. Like, this is, you're out of your depth, man. This is what there's so many people that do this. And what's he pointing to? Of course, Mark Dubowitz, right?

Starting point is 01:48:53 Like, from the FDD, right? The, was it the future, what is it? Defensive democracy, or damn it? Off the top of my head, I'm trying to remember what is he. Anyway, these platforms are nefarious in regard to what they've been doing across just these wars, but for a long time. Lark, in particular, by the way. My point is just to recognize what they're tied to, but it's not even as relevant.

Starting point is 01:49:16 Just look at what he's been saying post-October 7th and all the rest of them. he says majority in the U.S. think America's winning the war. Guys, that's so stupid. That's not even remotely true. I mean, based on the fact that you can actually listen to the conservative movement that's telling you they don't support this, and that's the majority of the support. But, you know, or the main conservatives out there that actually call this out for whatever

Starting point is 01:49:37 reason, opportunism or not, and they'll tell you they're lying about that. But of course, even if you believe the polls accurate, polls lie all the time. The idea that you could look at what's happening right now with what Trump keeps doing and go, yeah, that's looking good. We were winning. I mean, that has to speak to some shocking level of stupidity that I didn't think was possible or not paying attention at all

Starting point is 01:49:58 in choosing the sport anyway, or a liar. I don't know. I don't know. I don't really know which way to look. That's just blowing my mind. But, of course, we know Trump derangement syndrome clearly is something that works in every direction. But you're watching it right there, I think. But of course, you get the, you know,

Starting point is 01:50:14 the real media out there today, who jumps in today and says, President Trump is, shoot a strong morning to Iran saying that if they target U.S. ships near the straight, Iran will be blown off the face of the earth. Oh, of course, he said that after they fired on him. Because that's what a strong person does, right? You get fired on, you, you fail in your agenda, you look weak and ineffectual, and then you run back home and go on Twitter and say, if you do the thing, we'll hurt you. Because they just did it, though. But again, though,

Starting point is 01:50:42 I mean, again, then we'll do the thing. No, you'll probably extend the alleged ceasefire. You'll, you know, I mean, come on. To do this after what just happened earlier is so incredibly embarrassing. And then he says, there have been multiple attempts on U.S. ships today in the Persian goal, trying to like fold in like a half-truth with his, I mean, this is Nick's order, just screaming whatever he's told because that's what they do. But the idea that you're going to come out and yell that blown off the face of the earth after, you mean like destroying your civilization, like attacks you've never seen before,

Starting point is 01:51:15 like all the different claims that have not actually, you know, and that they continue, you know, you get it. We should, it's worthy of ridicule, guys, it really is. Now, oh, I think this was just a redundant. I had in there twice. I think I moved it before. So the point was simply highlighting the straight and the lies of going through the straight like we just did.

Starting point is 01:51:37 Axios comes out and says two U.S. merchant ships cross the strait of Hermose under the new operation. Because of course they do, right? And this is my point, guys. That's 8.51 a.m. case you were missing what I was saying a second ago. That literally, after they fail to go through the straight, after they get shot back or whatever you think happened,

Starting point is 01:52:00 then they come out and go, you better not shoot at us or will blow you off the face of the earth. I just can't think of something more weak than that. Like, insecure and weak. So Axios comes out and said we, the thing that didn't happen. And as Daniel McAdam says, Netanyahu's mouthpiece repeats centcom propaganda. Exactly. Dropside news says Iranian supertanker evades U.S. Navy blockade, delivers 1.9 million barrels

Starting point is 01:52:29 to far east. So the question of to ask yourself is if this is some kind of energy control transition, then they're failing. They're effectively failing in what they're trying to do to Iran at the very least. But they are driving more people to utilize U.S. oil. and I see how that could be perceived as what we're worried about, some kind of like great reset energy transition. But I don't see how this continues that way. I think that's a momentary change and that when it seems they inevitably fail

Starting point is 01:52:57 on what they're doing, that that's going to not be that way anymore. So it's worth consideration. And I do, I see the same things. We have done a show about parts of it. And James Corbett and I talked about it. But I think there's too much, like I think there's far more than just that thought going on. Partly that part of the worry is that, that's not even fact what's actually happening.

Starting point is 01:53:15 That's what Trump saw us talking about and used to make you think that he had a bigger plan. I mean, we really need to think about that that may be where we are. That is Israel and conducting some kind of operation and Trump's just flailing about, trying to make himself look like he's in control. Anyway, you consider for yourself. I present you the facts that you can deduce, collect, come to your conclusions. A national Iranian tanker company, super tanker named huge, carried over 1.9 million barrels of crude, evaluated at $220 million as evaded U.S. blockade and reach the Far East,

Starting point is 01:53:47 according to tankers.com. And this is tankers tracker.com that you should check out on Twitter. Just simply showing you that these ships are making it through. Now, they're stopping some, it seems. But who's to say that those don't come back later and make their way through later, whether it's the shadow thing they're talking about, which ultimately is the way because they're sanctioning their legal oil transition, or transit, excuse me?

Starting point is 01:54:09 But as this is one of them as well, the Iranian L.W. LPG appears to have effortlessly exfiltrated the U.S. Navy Block A perimeter. That was 630 this morning. Non-hostile ships are still welcome through the straight, at least earlier before this morning, I guess. Now again, here's the straight passageway included. If you want to check it out, that's what they're telling you.

Starting point is 01:54:31 Like, you have to adhere to their control through that. And if you do, then there's no problem. Now, here's a clip real quickly that I might just read it for you. Yeah, it's probably best. This is just a quick, because honestly, is accents really thick. It could be, for some people might be hard to hear what he's saying. Drop site news says under maritime law, ships can pass through in other countries, territorial waters without permission.

Starting point is 01:54:53 If that passage is innocent, that means it doesn't threaten the coastal state security. It's a peacetime rule meant to keep global shipping moving. The reason it's being brought up is because many people, including around Trump, are arguing that that's why this is okay. Like that they're allowed to go through and Iran's breaking the law. It's not. The reality is that's for a situation where you're giving the benefit of the doubt kind of a thing. during shipping and massive, like, peak hours, kind of dynamic. This.

Starting point is 01:55:19 And that's why it's innocent. So since you're engaged in a war, since you're engaged in a war, what's the word for, a block A, which is an act of war. You're not innocent. So it's an invalid argument. But it says Dr. Floyd, Foyd-Izad, an associate professor at the University of Tehran, explained that why the rule no longer applies to the United States. He says, listen, we have read these laws.

Starting point is 01:55:43 We have PhDs. We know what's going on. We know the country's rights. We read English. Article 17 of the Convention Law of Seas. It says innocent passage. When you kill 3,500 civilians in a country, you are not doing anything innocent. Now, people probably dispute where they did that.

Starting point is 01:55:59 My point is that you're blockade is an act of war. Alone. Alone that makes that clear. But it says, continuing Article 19 describes what innocence is. And it says you should not threaten the security of a coastal state. Iran is a coastal state. United States, Romania, Japan are not coastal states in the Persian goal. These are very simple things.

Starting point is 01:56:19 The point is, their logic, or rather their lies, are coming apart at the seams. I'll include the straight of Vermeuse point again. You want to check out the actual traffic and see for yourself and go through these things. It's important to keep an eye on. And Jeremy Scale points to an article from drop site news. The quote is, we have succeeded in effectively transforming. It's from Iran saying this. succeeded in effectively transforming the unilateral pressure imposed by the Americans into a reciprocal one.

Starting point is 01:56:50 This is what we've been talking about. They've effectively turned what was their weakness against the U.S. and Israel. The Iran official said this of the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. has positioned itself as a destabilizing force for global economy. Now, remember, my point was I think they've designed this as a way to make it seem Iran was the one hurting everybody. Iran didn't take the bait. Like, it seems they've been failing that way in all their agendas over the last decade, as far as I can tell. They overshoot their abilities. They underestimate what they're

Starting point is 01:57:17 capable of on the other side, expect them to be what they always claim they are, and they fail. Now, in this case, they took, they took this great discussion. They didn't shut it down. They simply said, we're going to stop you in particular. We're going to let everybody else through. And that's why they've tried to contort this into some weird narrative that makes it seem Iran is doing the bad thing. And then it didn't work. So they shut the straight down. It's pretty clear. I think they've talked about a master class. They have literally turned this against them. Now, who's to say whether that's going to end in their success? It's hard to say.

Starting point is 01:57:46 China invokes blocking statute for the first time. Things like this definitely changed the game. China's Ministry of Commerce has for the first time activated its 2021 blocking rules. Ordering all Chinese firms and individuals not to comply with U.S. sanctions, targeting five independent Chinese oil refineries accused of purchasing Iranian crude. Beijing called the U.S. measures imposed under two executive orders and unjustified improper use of extra territorial law. In fact, guys, it doesn't even literally apply.

Starting point is 01:58:18 Executive orders somehow apply to foreign policy in foreign countries. It doesn't. The executive branch is the only thing that applies to. I've been saying that for a long time. It doesn't matter, though. They just need the semblance of some kind of process. The move puts multinational companies operating in both markets in direct legal conflict.

Starting point is 01:58:36 Compliance with U.S. sanctions now risks violating Chinese law. Now, that's a big deal, guys. So at the end of the day, China's taken aside and ultimately is saying that we are not going to comply with these anymore or allow anybody else to that has to go through our trans or our economic processes because essentially what you're doing. You know, like this is them taking a financial side of this, it seems. Or at the very least, recognizing that what the U.S. is doing is what's causing all the problem and is just tired of waiting for them to solve this. And it says global banks and firms with dollar exposure face secondary sanctions risk if they continue dealing with. the affected refineries. An analyst, excuse me, described the order as a significant step towards competing legal

Starting point is 01:59:18 frameworks for global trade, accelerating the path to potential economic decoupling between two powers. Now, if that's the way this goes, that is the fault of the U.S. and Israel for initiating a legal war and maintaining it at the expense of seemingly everybody, except Israel, it seems. Straight to Fremus completely closed again. Iran says, intention all ship. regarding the failure of the U.S. government to fulfill its commitment in the negotiation,

Starting point is 01:59:48 Iran declares the Strait of Hormuz completely closed again. Now, here's what's interesting to me. Oh, you know what? Damn it, I got the wrong one. Ah, that's very frustrating. So I had the other order, so I had it up, the newer one. Let me just find one real quick. What I was going to point out was the again,

Starting point is 02:00:07 which I don't think is the reality of that. Let me find, this is definitely being stated right now. So let me just find it real quick for you. That's two weeks ago. Here we go, 15 hours. Right there. See, Axios. Now, anyway, the bottom line,

Starting point is 02:00:27 just around waste time, is that right now what we're talking about is from the Ron side of it. And this is what I'm mad about is I actually had the, the, uh, what I guess, Farsi video of,

Starting point is 02:00:38 I think it was an RIGC element saying that. But because it wasn't translated, I was going to show you the article, talk about it. Of course, now I, I guess I missed it was the old one, because you saw the old ones right there. Anyway, the point was that right now, Iran is effectively saying, like, because of what they've done, they are, they've, like, created the situation where it is effectively restricted. Now, what I'm worried about is effectively them saying that they've, you know, stopped flow through this because of the U.S. government, but by tomorrow we'll find out, like we seem to find out every next few days after all of this, that there's a game being played about the actual narrative.

Starting point is 02:01:11 So we should wait to find out what Iran claims they're doing. We should wait to see the full narrative of what the U.S. claims is happening. and then, you know, find the truth is usually somewhere in the middle. And what I think is important, though, is to remember, like I said, this is where this is important, understand. It was open before this. There was no restriction whatsoever. There wasn't even any regulation like every other location.

Starting point is 02:01:30 They caused this by their repeated violations of even their stated agreements of diplomacy. And then they continue doing so. And they continue lying. So now what the point is where they've said we're going to initiate the straight control, the tolls, and you guys are restricted. Now there was moments where they said, okay, we can. open this if you'll stop doing this. And they said no. We even have the example of Islamabad where they promised all the 10 points and then lied about it. And Netanyahu called dance, shut it down.

Starting point is 02:01:59 So today, the question is, who's actually restricting this? Is Iran acting militarily because the U.S. is clearly trying to initiate some kind of problem? And is that closed or is that then momentarily restricted because of what they're doing? These are fair questions. But even if right now, it just suddenly gets closed, which by the way, this is why I'm skeptical. Ask yourself how that lines up with Iran's agenda, right? Look at what I've been saying this entire time. It's clear that there have been ships going through and they keep telling you that. So if they've been making it clear trying to that that's not the case, why would they suddenly do it now? Nothing's really changed unless they find there's a strategic benefit that we'll find out. I just think it's worth

Starting point is 02:02:42 wondering whether it's not that right now yet again, the effort is to get you to think this and by tomorrow the next day we'll find out that it wasn't really what they said. So be skeptical, guys. That's really important because right now they are like the U.S. government and the Israeli agenda, it's on a knife's edge. They are floundering on this. More so the U.S. because Israel's letting the U.S. government and U.S. people take the brunt of all this.

Starting point is 02:03:05 But to finish with the false flag overlap, which is where I think this goes. Back to the point, Brett Erickson simply saying that he feels this is about trying to set them up for response. Now, what we just saw seems to be that, right? We saw wrong. But this is what I think. I think they didn't actually hit them. I think that this was a hit to ward them away. Clearly it didn't sink the ship.

Starting point is 02:03:28 There were no casualties. So I think it was an effort of restraint and deterrence. You can't frame that as some kind of, you know, violent attack on them for terrorism, right? So it failed. Now, my wonder, though, is that whether Trump didn't want to take that bait. We should consider that. So let's talk about this, though. This is from the third.

Starting point is 02:03:49 I see something in all this. I feel like this is an effort either by all of them or just Israel, I think. It's my opinion. So the United Arab Emirates accuses Iran yesterday of attacking empty EDNOC oil tanker in the Strait of Vermoose. Okay, that's weird, right? So this gets almost largely overshadow because it comes into this idea of we're going to use this to go through and it will do it tomorrow. So allegedly yesterday that is reported at 7.16 p.m. an empty tanker feels suspicious to me in the first place,

Starting point is 02:04:21 but it's possible with what's going on. The United Arab Emirates will also just that it could be returning, right? But it says the United Arab Emirates on Monday accused Iran of attacking an empty crude oil tanker belonging to Abu Dhabi with drones. Now, remember, that was my biggest, right, right? The drone more than anything was something I was very, I've already seen examples where I think we can prove Israel did a drone attack and blamed on Iran. And even Iran argues that, but we should question. that, right? Maybe they want to hide their attacks. But we already saw many examples were,

Starting point is 02:04:51 or for example, the oil tankers that were bombed that later were proven to be Israel. They were trying to claim it was Iran. So the same thing here. Question it. But just as likely could be Iran. It says basically they were empty when it was attacked by these two drones. No injuries were reported. It says Iran is blocked entry and exit from the Gulf to most non-Iran ships. Well, again, that's Reuters doing the same thing. It's for any non-hostile. ships and Israel began attacking up every 28th. It says it has threatened to attack unauthorized vessels as they transit the strait for around the fifth of the world's oil. Well, it's funny, you start by saying non-Iran, but then simply say non-authorized, which is the truth of it.

Starting point is 02:05:31 So a random, and again, this story, if you look into the details, they were violating Iran's mandates. So they made it clear to the world. Go through these shipping lanes and you're all good. they didn't and that's why it happened. And apparently there was no casualties. It basically was just deterrence. So again, my question is, does this not feel like a setup? That you literally coast in an empty tanker from one of the groups that's very clearly stolen the side of the U.S. and Israel in hopes that they just bomb it because they kind

Starting point is 02:06:04 of claim they would. But instead, they just deter you and turn you away. I think that's important to think about. So maybe this was an effort yesterday to get them to do it. it didn't happen. Genuinely just considering that possibility. Could have just been a random occurrence. Now, today,

Starting point is 02:06:23 Korean-operated vessel reports damage in Hormuz. No casualties. A Panama flag cargo vessel operated by the South Korean shipping company caught fire following an explosion while anchored in the Strait of Hormuz. Late today. According to government officials, no casualties reported. It's like the same kind of story. The vessel identified as HMM. Namu was anchored outside,

Starting point is 02:06:44 the port limits of UMM al-Kuain when the incident occurred around 840 p.m. Now remember this is in their time. The ship had 24 crew members, so that would be what, like middle of the day for us, I think. The ship had 24 crew members on board, including six South Koreans and 18 foreign nationals. Now, the timing, it might be a little off, but generally speaking, that seems to be right about the same time frame this was all happening. The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries said an explosion was observed on the port side of the engine room with information relayed from a nearby vessel. The ship is currently on standby, with all crew confirmed safe as around 9 p.m. The authorities are investigating whether the damage is from an attack or a drifting sea mine.

Starting point is 02:07:26 Oh, okay, because it totally makes sense. These drifting sea mines will brush up against the port like that totally like, come on, guys. This is so silly how many times they keep making this argument when it doesn't seem that there's any evidence to back up that it's even there. And there's a lot of evidence to suggest that it's not even, like with how much we keep seeing in all the different transits and conversations, it just doesn't. make any sense to me. Well, certainly possible. My opinion, which I'm sure you see coming, is that this was another example we talked about. You got a vessel sitting on the port. You have

Starting point is 02:07:53 an empty UEV8 vessel, similar time frame. This seems like an effort to cause these things. This one seems like it might have just been attacked to claim it with them, all considerations. Now, today, 1047 a.m. UA.E's, and that was a little bit disjoint, yesterday, that last one was also today. UA.E's, for sure, says fire broke out at its petroleum complex after Iranian drone attack. So ask yourself with where they currently are, in which I would absolutely see a world in which this would line up with something they may think is in their agenda.

Starting point is 02:08:30 But logically speaking, strategically, why would this be in their interest? Why would attacking the oil discussion be in their interest? Well, maybe unless, maybe if they want to turn it and increase the oil problem and blame the U.S. but I argue that's a dangerous tack because it could just as well be blamed on them because they did it but also because the U.S. claims they're the one causing the oil problems.

Starting point is 02:08:51 I'm of the mind. This feels like a part of what we just highlighted. It's another example, all kind of simultaneously over the last 24 hours, all weirdly connected to UAE ships, two of them out of the three, and other ones that are at the port of the same location, just worth consideration.

Starting point is 02:09:07 And it says authorities in the location on Monday said a fire broke out at the oil industry, zone following what they describe as a drone attack from Iran. Yeah, it's certainly possible, guys. I just feel like it seems like a little bit suspicious. And of course, why Iran would see that in their interest when all it would do is make them look like what the U.S. and Israel say they are.

Starting point is 02:09:26 Because you realize that's technically not a military target. So we should very much question this. And I've already seen those examples. And even Iran has made the point that there have been attacks that Israel did that blamed on them. Now, Natali Bennett comes out and says this. 1135 today. The United Arab Emirates, our strategic ally, has just been attacked by Iran.

Starting point is 02:09:50 This is, in effect, a declaration of the renewal of Iran's war against the allies of the United States and Israel. Oh, you mean the war that you're saying is just the U.S. war that they won't fight, but when you want to, you say you're together and it's all of our war. They do this right in your face, guys. You have Netanyahu say it's America's war. You know, Americans are going to fight that war on the ground. not as girls, like we all told you. But then, of course, when you want to make it, the renewal of the war of our allies and our collective effort,

Starting point is 02:10:17 you know, come on. The point is the timing without even knowing what's fully going on and the argument that suddenly this renews the war, even though you guys have violated a hundred times over, what you claim is this whatever ceasefire? That's what he's saying. This is what reinitiates the war. You mean aside from the ongoing bombings of Lebanon,

Starting point is 02:10:39 You mean aside from the actual bombings in Iran that you actually did beyond that, aside from the many different things you're doing that violate the ceasefire, aside from the act of war blockade that also violates ceasefire? Think about that. So all those things would apply in the same way, but this constitutes the initiation of these, even though it doesn't make sense for Iran to do it right now. And even though it's your ally that seems to have coasted dead ships through it.

Starting point is 02:11:00 I mean, come on, that feels weird to me. I shouldn't even say it like that. That's the way I feel like it made. But, you know, an empty ship is what happened. But it says this regional alliance, is vital to our security and to the security of the modern partners in the Middle East and the Gulf. Iran continues to try to intimidate the region and poses a threat to our global security. In what world is that what's happening?

Starting point is 02:11:20 Continues to try to intimidate the region? How? Where? What is it doing other than defending itself against your illegal war and bombing those, by the way, that it told the UN that it would before the 28th, that we're working with them to attack them? And, and what, intimidating with the many bases you have surrounding their country, intimidating them with all of your illegal occupations and bombings? No, they're not doing any of those things. We stand with our ally. Oh, yeah.

Starting point is 02:11:45 Who needs enemies when you've got friends like Israel? Now, the cradle reports, Ronnie military source, an informed military source said Iran had no pre-planned operation targeting that oil facility, adding that the incident was the result of a U.S. military adventurism aimed at creating a passage for the unlawful movement of shire. ships through restricted routes in the Strait of Hormuz, and that Washington must be held responsible. Interesting.

Starting point is 02:12:15 The source also said U.S. officials should end the use of force in diplomacy and stop military venturism in the sensitive oil region, warning of its impact on the top global economy. Now, of course, this could be a lie. Like, there's many ways you could look at it. Maybe Iran did this on accident. Maybe they went to do something and made a mistake and they have to cover it up and want to blame somebody else. Or maybe they're everything you think they are and they bombed them because.

Starting point is 02:12:38 because they're just terrorists, and they blame the U.S. to cover it up. All those are possible. But with what we keep seeing, and again, like I'm saying, looking back, not guessing forward, looking back, you can see unquestionably that Trump has been lying to you, that they've been misleading you, that they've been gaslighting you about every part of this story. And you could also say we're on terrorism too. Sure, that's currently possible. But you can't pretend they're telling you the truth about what's going on. You just can't. They're lying. It's provable. Every day you could see it. So in this case, you should keep that in mind when you ask these questions. And with everything else going on, I think it's very clear that there is something being driven

Starting point is 02:13:14 into reality. Of course, Saudi Arabia stands up and it condemns in the strongest terms. Iran's attack on the thing that you all, totally not feeling coordinated, on top of the fact that you didn't condemn all the other illegal attacks against all the other Muslim countries. Why not, Saudi Arabia? Now, of course, the oil discussion. This was just the shot at the time. It was about 114. I believe it went up to about 119. for a moment. Was it one of these? I don't think so.

Starting point is 02:13:41 Oh, it was this right here. Brent Crude, it's $119 a barrel. After, after UAE says Erronean drone attack hit their facility. So this is what I'm thinking is that from Trump's personal perspective, it doesn't make much sense, unless this is about making lots of money

Starting point is 02:13:57 for those that predicted this would go this direction. It doesn't make much sense from my perspective for what Trump seems to want, that he would drive this into reality. So my gut tells me this is something Israel's doing

Starting point is 02:14:07 whether or not he's aware of it. Driving up the oil prices because that's what hurts. Both the U.S., by the way, which I think Israel's interested in collapsing and the larger Iranian agenda. Consider for yourself. Don't take my word for it. Of course, on top of all that,

Starting point is 02:14:23 U.S. oil exports hit a record 6.4 million barrels per day, and Barbara Barron says we're emptying our strategic reserves to help foreign nations, America first. Can't hide from this anymore. There is no way to make this look like anything other than at the expense of American interests for just about anything else. Now, I'm not familiar with this person. I just saw this and passing and thought it was interesting, so we'll see what happens. Melissa Francis or Francis probably.

Starting point is 02:14:53 Of course, she's got two red lights. So that's how you know it's important, guys. She says, according to my sources, which who knows if they exist, the UAE is expected to lead in an Arab coalition to overthrow the Iranian regime within 48 hours. 24 hours, excuse me. Israel and U.S. expected to participate. Well, I mean, I'm in no way am I giving it any credence. Who knows who this person is? Who knows? I mean, it looks like it's CEO, sale fish productions, profit in the theaters. I don't know. It's a random person it looks like. But my point. Her sources say, we'll find out, I guess. And if it turns out to be the case, maybe we should look closer to who this person is their sources. My point overall

Starting point is 02:15:29 is that the UAE leading a coalition over to Iran. And it's an interesting thought because I find it hard to believe, frankly, for a lot of reasons, but I can see a world in which that might be where they drive this. And then, of course, look at the UAE things we just talked about. It's almost like it's all falling into place if that does actually make sense. We'll find out tomorrow, won't we? Or whenever we do, we'll be covering it and we'll let you know when things develop. Also, let's not forget that they lied about how much they're spending, and the reality seems to be probably even over 50 billion. Iran's war's true cost, closer to $50 billion, not $25, like they told us. The simple point is just they testified to this,

Starting point is 02:16:07 telling you they lost all kinds of things like we talked about. The 24 MQ9 Reaper drones that Robert told you, $30 million a piece. Yeah, Ron shot them all down or the 16 U.S. bases they destroyed while they're asking for $1.5 trillion in the next military budget. But yeah, tell us again about the lower cost and less spending and all of that. Israel Hohm reports the U.S. and Israel are considering strikes on Iranian missile energy facilities in retaliation.

Starting point is 02:16:37 over the UAE conversation. This is all happening breaking the right before I'm live. I'm just getting these breaking news alerts. So openly threatening war crimes. Like always, it seems. Energy facilities are, that's your targeting war. That's a war crime.

Starting point is 02:16:51 And even if you want to say Iran did this, so it doesn't then make it legal for you to do it back. It's also a war crime. So it just shows you these people are so willing to do everything they claim is the terrorism they're fighting. And then you should genuinely ask whether that's even what Iran did. My gut tells me it didn't. happened like that. Just my gut. I could be, I've been wrong before. The point is that I don't see

Starting point is 02:17:12 why that makes sense with their agenda. It just doesn't. It's especially right now. They were in, they basically had the control of the situation. They just had to let them flounder and keep lying. And I think they would have wanted, but that doesn't seem to line up. But maybe there's something I'm missing that does happen. Overall, feels like it's something there, doesn't it? It feels like there's an agenda around the UAE false flag dynamic. Donald Trump says Iran has no Navy, the ships we saw. No Air Force, no radar, no leadership. Adding, we're doing very well. Yeah, sure sold that, didn't he? I mean, you can, you know, you're watching the Navy ships out there from Iran, tell people they have to get off their ship. I mean, he just keeps saying that.

Starting point is 02:17:49 I mean, how embarrassing. You think he doesn't know that he sees them or radar, leadership? You mean, aside from Kamini, who's been the guy there ever since you killed their religious leader, the equivalent of killing the Pope in this country, or rather for Christians, I mean, it's insane. It's insane. It's insane. Keep saying it. Doesn't matter. President Trump has announced that United States will be taking control of Cuba almost immediately. Now, to be fair, I mean, who's to say, actually? If you watch the whole thing, he doesn't say it like a joke, but everyone laughs when he says it. So you can pretend he's trying to like play into that that's what they say about me kind of a joke thing. But are we really going to pretend like they're not literally doing this? They are going after Cuba. It's, I mean, Lindsay Graham and Ruby have been drooling about it. And Trump has, there's momentum. It's happening. Now, who's to say whether they pull back or not? Because it's unpopular. popular, but my God, talk about no new wars again. How about that? This is just, they're just fulfilling the globalist technocrat, or rather in this case, globalist sort of authoritarian wet dreams. Just taking over. This is the greater Israel, greater North America. My point, though, is like the technocratic elements are very much involved

Starting point is 02:18:56 in all of this. They're probably just salivating about their new freedom cities they're going to create. Last, Ryan Rosbiani, this is from the third, U.S. planning a ground attack on Iran. Israel media confirms American ground forces. That's very nice of the Israeli media to confirm that U.S. troops are going to be going into Iran. And it says for any possible wrong ground operation are now all in the Persian Gulf, they're saying the U.S. troops are there. Well, they just told you that. For some kind of operation, straight of Ramos, oh, maybe not. Now it says this does not confirm that they will execute the attack, but the ceasefire bought the U.S. time to install them. You know, the ceasefire they violated every day. But think about it for a second. Israel,

Starting point is 02:19:39 media is pushing this out. Now, I'm very much of the concern, have been concerned. Well, first of all, let me say this. I believe that Trump would very much risk American lives for a larger agenda, like they all have. But I'm much more concerned right now that there's some kind of disconnect between whatever Trump thinks he's doing and what's actually being said to the military. We saw Hague Seth and the rest of them. I mean, guys, we got like a hundred complaints for military people saying they were being told this was being fought for Armageddon. I didn't see left or right media anywhere talk about that. How is that possible? I think you know why. And that's insane. They're literally saying we're fighting for the end times. That's for Israel. My point is that you have

Starting point is 02:20:18 Trump acting like the commander in chief and then you got Hegg Seth at the top. Who's to say he's not just relaying things from somewhere else? And then we get into all the conversations about the idea of coups and lack of ethics pledges and all this different stuff, guys, you have to be aware of where we are. I mean, for crying out loud, even ridiculous people like Alex Jones are now telling you that this is an occupied presidency. You know, while simultaneously telling you to support his choices in the midterms, while simultaneously saying he hope he pulls through because we need him, you just got to laugh at the stupidity of these blind partisan manipulators. End of the day, guys, we should be asking whether this is some kind of coordinated drive

Starting point is 02:20:57 and maybe not even involving their decision-making process. Here is Israeli media. This is from, this was the middle of April, I think. It simply says the IDF is preparing for a rapid transition to a state of war. It understands that all that is missing is, I can't receive it, the thatch or a misunderstanding between the parties in order to collapse the feast fire. Basically saying that we can create that. This is the kind of false flag dynamic, guys. Might as well just play that clip on the way out too.

Starting point is 02:21:29 The IDF preparing for a rapid transition to a state of war. war. Well, here is Neftali Bennett telling you that he thinks, well, you better get on our side or you might have another 9-11. Said Muhammad Mirandi says, beware

Starting point is 02:21:49 Zionist regime may be planning to carry out another 9-11. Here's what he said. The reality is that Israel is a democracy. Is the best ally America can have. NATO's not helping.

Starting point is 02:22:11 Imagine for a moment we don't exist. Okay. Now, pay attention to his mannerisms, his eyes. Like, there's something very, this is obviously subjective. It always is, no matter how obvious it may feel,

Starting point is 02:22:25 and sometimes it is obvious. But, you know, from psychological, tab, like, you know, sociopaths, there's certain tactic. Feel free to look this stuff up that these people emulate,

Starting point is 02:22:35 or rather they, they, you lies, I guess. But just look at the body language, look at the way he's talking. And I mean, let's be clear, guys. If you don't know this by now, what he's saying is he's lying. He's lying about everything. Whether you know, talking about October, say these people are just vicious liars over and over and over.

Starting point is 02:22:55 It's what they do. Let me preface these remarks with I never, never, ever believe Israeli figures. I've been in the government too long to know that the Israelis are patent. liars in their intelligence community, in their propaganda community, certainly, and in their leadership, they are inveterate liars. Let me say that again. They are liars. That's so weird. So, back to the point, Nephtali Bennett wanting you to believe that you better get in line with Israel or the evil Muslims are going to come take over your country. is a democracy, is the best ally.

Starting point is 02:23:42 Not even Israelis think that, by the way. It's not true. And neither is the U.S., by the way, but different point. America can have. NATO's not helping. Imagine for a moment we don't. And why would NATO help with an illegal war? Right.

Starting point is 02:23:54 The facts not matter to these morons? Like the idea that literally it is about if you're attacked, then they all join. You attacked Iran. You see that they know this. They're just hoping other screaming idiots will lie for them or be wrong for them. and the people that know what they're talking about could shout it down, right? Because the fools and fanatics

Starting point is 02:24:12 are always so certain of themselves while wiser men full of doubts. It doesn't exist, okay? And you've got the Middle East festering with jihadists and al-Qaeda type in ISIS and Hezbollah. All right. Just so we're clear,

Starting point is 02:24:27 we're talking about all the groups that you're involved with, right? Say for Hezbollah. Every one of them, ISIS al-Qaeda, the funding, you know, the groups that attack Iran. Literally the groups that attack Iran. Iran or the group that attack Israel and apologize for attacking Israel.

Starting point is 02:24:41 And somehow that means that they're the ones controlling them? I mean, how do you even possibly make that make sense? We know what will happen. They're going to hit the Twin Towers, 9-11. You were in New York when it happened. I was in Manhattan when it happened. I saw those buildings on fire. That's what happens.

Starting point is 02:25:00 When you say the Middle East is in our problem, we don't care. So the radical Islamists will come to the big Satan to Manhattan. Oh, the big Satan. Right. Like that's just, you realize that what he's trying to do there is pretend that's what they call you as the American people. What's incredible to me is the way he says that, not saying that, like he's saying that almost like he's calling it that. I just don't want to argue here what I believe is the obvious reality is the entire push around this comes from the way that they frame it. incorrectly. You understand, I've just played that clip for you recently. He's made this point

Starting point is 02:25:39 a thousand times over about what they're actually fighting. They're fighting authoritarian. They're fighting colonialism. They're fighting the occupiers. When they say the great Satan or they say death to America, it's a language translation. And what they're talking about is the American government. Zionism when they're talking about Israel. Now, of course, you can call them liars all you want. Maybe you're right. But the reality of their actions continue to show you what they're talking about, that you could go to Iran, you can talk to Iranians and find out how many of them, not the, not Shaw supporters, but people who are actually of the country of Iran and believe, and I shouldn't even say it like that. I guarantee there are people to support their

Starting point is 02:26:15 Shah in Iran. My point was people that believe in the Iranian government, just for that category of conversation, who love Americans, who absolutely love America. I still can confounded by that, but I think it's because they understand like we do, I argue as most Americans, that we are not our government. So these kind of monsters are so, and this is what you see in this administration, the Steve Miller's of the world, people that are trying to drag you down to the most lowest common denominator, the lowest vibrational measure. So you just are full of hate and negativity as they pretend you should be positive on Twitter.

Starting point is 02:26:50 Like it's just this confounding situation. That's who these people are. I mean, if you don't understand by now that what they're doing is knowingly committing genocide while acting to be the ones fighting it, you're not paying attention. These are villains, even if you think Iran is too. To California, to America, but with nuclear ballistic missiles. Oh, you're right, the missiles that they don't have. So literally, he's just trying to make this argument that somehow these terrorists and caves

Starting point is 02:27:17 are going to be having nuclear missiles when they come to America. Yeah, you mean on jets? Or what do you, I mean, you want to walk me through that there? You see, he's speaking to dumb people, guys. Anybody who we've understood, that's like, first of all, what are you talking about, like a fat, like the kind of. the thing we know that they would be capable of making sure they actually get to 90%, which they're not, and then be able to make that into the materials needed to make the bomb,

Starting point is 02:27:38 and then make the bomb, and it would be like a fat, but boy World War II style thing that's gigantic. Look it up. And somehow you're going to tell me they're going to come to hear what secret motive. I mean, we could laugh all day about this stupid argument. The only way that would even make sense is if somehow you're talking about Iran using that militarily. But then why would you frame that as some sort of secret jihadist, which is not even what's going on? Guys, this is embarrassing. These people have lost so utterly their propaganda campaign the last year, two years.

Starting point is 02:28:09 This is what you get. It's like watching new corporate media when you've woken up from it. It's like watching literally being in the circus. They know it, though. They know it, but they're floundering. What are they going to do? They're going to stand up and go, you got me? No, they're going to keep lying.

Starting point is 02:28:23 Lying to the end. Deny, deny, deny, sue, sue. That's what they're doing. By having Israel, you do not hold and I actually want to take this back and I'm going to play it all the way forward. This killed me. So what he's saying is, you know, you're letting them fester and getting bad. And if we don't, then they're going to come attack you. I saw those buildings on fire.

Starting point is 02:28:44 That's what happens. When you say the Middle East isn't our problem, we don't care. So the radical Islamists will come to the big Satan, to Manhattan, to California, to America. but with nuclear ballistic missiles. And by having Israel, you do not need to send hundreds of thousands of boots on the ground because we Israelis are 10 million boots on the ground. Oh, okay.

Starting point is 02:29:18 Well, I don't think you thought that one through, buddy, because right now, because of literally what we're living through. You don't need Israel or because, because, We'll be there, but forget what's happening right now. Go ahead and go after Iran because it's not our war. But because we're here, that's not going to happen, even though it's happening right now. I mean, guys, you have to see how insecure, it's the wrong word. I've jumped into my head.

Starting point is 02:29:45 They're off their footing. They're off balance. Like, it's so ridiculous. You're really going to tell us right now the reason we need to support Israel is because if we do, that we don't need boots on the ground to fight. other bad things while you're literally just like trying to push the U.S. to put boots in the ground that's and not Israelis. It's just it's insulting to our intelligence and they know what they're doing. It's painful. Always here. This aircraft carrier called Israel is not going anywhere. We're here to

Starting point is 02:30:17 stay. We're not asking and we never asked America to fight for us. Oh my God. We're fighting right now in the air together. Oh my God. I mean, you just said this is not even your war. You know what I mean? And on top of the fact that you play it both ways, guys, that's why it's so insulting to people. Like, for example, a Charlie Kirkpoint.

Starting point is 02:30:38 People that are like, you know, who fight for Israel. And then at some point go, hold on a minute. Okay, whether Israel or not, whatever this is, is not, I'm not stupid. You're telling, you're gaslighting me right now. You're telling me it's only for us to do, but then claiming credit for doing it. Like an honest person is going to go, whoa, whoa, whoa, okay, that guy is a liar. Like that guy is so, and then you look around and go, wait a minute, like I can see Israel. I can see people in Israel.

Starting point is 02:31:02 I can see even if you want to believe it has something to do with Judaism. Sure, you're wrong, but okay, then you see the Zionism part of it. And if you see it, you can't come back from that. And that's what Charlie started to call out. I think we know that I think that's, the argument is that's why he was killed. That's what I believe happened. I think the evidence is pretty damn obvious. And so I think Trump may be going through a version.

Starting point is 02:31:23 of that of recognizing israel versus Zionism and understanding that these people are dishonestly using him and maybe he thinks they're working together and then wakes up and goes whoa they're they're tricking me right now who knows maybe he's a part of it maybe he's being gas maybe he's being blackmailed overall I think individual people

Starting point is 02:31:39 come to terms with this when they finally see it you can't go back so is something going to happen is this guy literally saying that if you don't play ball that something's going to happen it's what's happened before if you understand the reality Well, breaking news to the finish, journalists brought into the briefing room at White House and made reports of shots fired at the White House.

Starting point is 02:32:01 Now, it seems it's already ended. It seems like there's, you know, people were locked down and stopped. And I guess it was some kind of confuffle between a secret service and another guy. But I wasn't able to follow up because we were going live. But, you know, just throwing it out there. It's like, who knows? Anything like this could be just rushed into some kind of agenda. We should be aware of that. We should be aware of how often this has happened in our own past.

Starting point is 02:32:22 U.S. is liberty kind of situations, right? 9-11, even, if you understand. the reality and know where this takes us and know that we can push back guys i'm not talking about violence i'm talking about being aware of where you are and being aware of you know not only just the like the moving parts of how it's happening but being able to like i talk about not just being able to discuss these but being able to explain why these things are the way they are talk to other people walk them through why it's so obvious at least give them the tools to see what you see and maybe they disagree with you and that's okay but what's so important is that we do something, stand up and try to make a difference because there's an opening, as I've been saying

Starting point is 02:32:59 for, I don't know, a while now. So please take advantage because people need your voice. They need all of our voice. They need people to stand up and do something they care about. These people, to me, seem like they don't care about anything. I thank you for tuning in. I love you all. As always, question everything. Come to your own conclusions. Stay vigilant. I frankly think that crisis initiation is really tough. And it's very hard for me to see how the United States president can get us to war with Iran. Which leads me to conclude that if, in fact, compromise is not coming, that the traditional way of America gets to war is what would be best for U.S. interests. Some people might think that Mr. Roosevelt wanted to get us into World War II, as David mentioned.

Starting point is 02:33:53 You may recall we had to wait for Pearl Harbor. Some people might think Mr. Wilson wanted to get us into World War I. You may recall he had to wait for the Lusitania episode. Some people might think that Mr. Johnson wanted to send troops to Vietnam. You may recall we had to wait for the Gulf of Tonkin episode. We didn't go to war with Spain until the U.S. until the Maine exploded. And may I point out that Mr. Lincoln did not feel he could call out the Federal Army

Starting point is 02:34:17 until Fort Sumter was attacked, which is why he ordered the commander at Fort Sumter to do exactly that thing, which the South Carolinians had said, would cause on attack. So if in fact the Iranians aren't going to compromise, it would be best if somebody else started the war. But I would just like to suggest that one can combine other means of pressure with sanctions. I mentioned that explosion on August 17th. We could step up the pressure. I mean, look, people, irredient submarines periodically go down. Someday one of them might not come up. Who would know why? We can do a variety of things if we wish to increase the pressure.

Starting point is 02:35:01 I'm not advocating that, but I'm just suggesting that this is not an either-or proposition. It's just sanctions has to succeed or other things. We are in the game of using covert means against the Iranians. We could get nastier at that.

The Last American Vagabond - Trump Blusters, Lies, And Fails... Again & The Impending Israeli False Flag

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