The Young Turks - Glenn Greenwald Crossover! - March 3, 2026

Episode Date: March 4, 2026

Iran War Excuses Get Completely Debunked By Gov’t Officials. Trump Admits That Iran War Could Result In A Worse Regime. Trump Slams Kelly & Carlson For Criticizing The Iran War. Maga Outraged After Rubio Confesses Israel Provoked War. Mike Johnson Floats More Military Spending Amid Iran War. Netanyahu Insists That Israel Did Not Force The U.S. Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial today at [http://shopify.com/tyt](http://shopify.com/tyt "smartCard-inline") Just go to this exclusive web address right now to try ZipRecruiter FOR FREE: [http://ziprecruiter.com/tyt](http://ziprecruiter.com/tyt "smartCard-inline") Use less data, get paid by switching to Noble Mobile: [https://go.tyt.com/getnoble](https://go.tyt.com/getnoble "smartCard-inline") Hosts: Cenk Uygur & Glenn Greenwald SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE ☞  https://www.youtube.com/@TheYoungTurks FOLLOW US ON: FACEBOOK  ☞   https://www.facebook.com/theyoungturks TWITTER  ☞       https://twitter.com/TheYoungTurks INSTAGRAM  ☞  https://www.instagram.com/theyoungturks TIKTOK  ☞          https://www.tiktok.com/@theyoungturks 👕MERCH  ☞      https:/www.shoptyt.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Jane Cougar and Glenn Greenwald with you guys tonight. So, yeah, if you're one, hey, does Zana look a little different? No, it's actually Glenn. It's so great to have you here, Glenn. It's really great to be here, Jank, be back on the Young Turks. I was joking that I've been on so many panels, Pierce Morgan panels with honor that I can now channel her, I think, quite well. And I'm maybe even coming for her job.

So thanks for having me. I'm really looking forward to it. I appreciate that. Jocosota Dana, by the way, she retweeted it, knowing that her seat is the safest seat in media. I know that, we all know that. All right, so guys gonna host with me for the first hour. Second hour, Yasmin Olai Khan is gonna join us. In the second hour, we have an amazing story about how they're now preaching to the troops,

some of our commanders are, about how this war is so that Armageddon can come and Jesus can return. Nuts, former manager of the young Turks, Jonathan Larson, broke that story. We'll have that for you in the second hour. And the first hour, as you're about to see here, we're gonna dismantle the different cases that the administration has put out there, nonsense, justifications for the war. We're gonna talk about a little bit of the usual Maga Civil War, but on a very important topic, this is a war of Iran, obviously topic, and then Marco Rubio really stepped in it and accidentally let us know that this was for Israel.

There's actually now many, many different government officials that have actually told us that, and we're gonna show you some of that in a minute. Let's get started. Let's do the first story. So Donald Trump said that we were going to this war for, well, actually a lot of different things. And I'm going to show you a graphic in a second of all the different things that he said we were doing the war for, including getting rid of Iran's nukes and regime change, et cetera.

But now stories coming out, Wall Street Journal, Daily Beast, many other outlets showing, no, In fact, none of those things are true at all, and they're not backed up by the intelligence. So let me quote the Wall Street Journal here to begin with. U.S. officials and lawmakers with access to classified information, along with experts who have spent their careers pouring over public data and government reports, say the administration's assertions are incomplete, unsubstantiated, or flat out wrong. So first, let me show you the different reasons that the administration is given, and maybe Glenn could add to some of them.

So before the war began, they said this was to destroy Iran's ballistic missiles, their nuclear program, ending their relationship with proxy groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, and regime change. Okay, now we're gonna break down each one of these and show you what's wrong with every one of them. Since the war has begun, they've actually added three, destroying Iran's IEDs, their roadside bombs, at usually impossible Israeli standard. How would we know if they're all gone?

Destroying Iran's entire Navy, that's now been added to the mix, and ending Iran's, quote unquote 47 year war against the US. And the way you end a war like that is that you start a new war. Oh, weird. All right, before I get to the rest of the intelligence, Glenn, what's your two cents on this one? I just think it's really a good reminder for people who didn't live through 2002 and 2003 or for people who did and don't remember. This is exactly what this was like. All the same arguments, in most cases, all the same people.

The reason there's no clarity about the reason for the war is because this is a senseless war. That's why there was never really a clear reason for Iraq, for Libya, for Syria, either. And I think the parallels are so clear. Yeah, the parallels are striking. We're going to talk about that in a minute. First, let me give you some more from the Wall Street Journal. They explain some lawmakers and U.S. officials say Iran was nowhere near capable of building a nuclear weapon, even if Tehran seeks one. They also say there's no evidence to support Trump's claim that Iran could rapidly develop a missile capable of striking the U.S.

and the accusation that Iran would preemptively attack U.S. targets in the Middle East, arrested on either Israel or the U.S. moving to strike Iran first. So if they don't strike first, there's no way Iran could have hit us. And mind you guys, this is a Wall Street Journal owned by Rupert Murdoch. So this is fascinating that they have an excellent article breaking down every lie and misdirection that has led us to this war, even they're writing about it. So then they explained no evidence was found at Tehran's effort to field intercontinental missiles able to reach the U.S. was closer fruition, according to a lawmaker familiar with assessments. Recent U.S. intelligence assessments had concluded that Iran couldn't develop dozens of missiles for at least a decade. Okay, now we go to another theoretical explanation by Sunday administration officials had walked back their initial claim that Iran would launch a preemptive attack on its own.

So when they said that, that was just a flat out lie and it was wrong. So Caroline Levitt came out and clarified, as did Marco Rubio earlier and Tom Cotton as well. She said, quote, the United States understood that Israel was going to strike Iran, and when they did, Iran would attack the United States. So that means, yes, we were pushed into this war by Israel. Thank you for the confession. We appreciate it. They go on to say that officials analysts note that Iran does have uranium that could be enriched around the one-week time frame to make it usable for a nuclear weapon. The issue is Iran appears to have no enrichment facility where cascades of center features are assembled to enrich the material to weapons grade.

Iran also would have to get access to the stockpile, which would very possibly be tracked. And even if Iran did get weapons-grade uranium, it would still have to assemble scientists, produce uranium material. and build it inside a nuclear device, all without being caught doing so. Now, almost all of the claims of the administration has been knocked down. And then, of course, you have to remember the cost of this war. We'll talk more about the costs a little bit later in the program, but there's, of course, the very clear cost of lives lost, and already six Americans have been lost.

By the way, our consulate in Dubai just got hit by the Iranians earlier today, a little bit before the show began, because they continue to attack everywhere where there are American bases. People continue to say, like, I don't know why they're doing that, including Donald Trump's saying, I don't know why they're because we attack them. So they're hitting us anywhere they can, which is usually our bases and our consulates and our embassies. But Donald Trump acknowledged that there would be American lives lost. He said, quote, we have a virtually, oh, and that the war would last forever, basically. He said, we have a virtually unlimited supply of these weapons.

Wars can be fought, quote, forever and very successfully using just the size. supplies. So, okay, so don't worry, this war will last forever, even though it's based on absolutely nothing. So Glenn, let me bring you back in. Let's discuss the reasons they gave before the war. So regime change kind of reminds me of Iraq a little bit. False evidence of weapons of mass destruction. In this case, oh my God, they're going to have a nuke any second, reminds me of Iraq a little bit. we've got to end their relationship with the proxy groups, Hamas and Esbla. Saddam had relationships with Hamas and Hezbollah, and we were told about that. But a new one that they did not have the temerity dimension in the Iraq war lead-up,

which is destroying all of their missiles. So let's start there. What's your take on their initial reasons for the war? I'm Dr. Christina Chen, a geriatrician at Mayo Clinic, and host of Agent Ford, a podcast highlighting unique topics in geriatric medicine and the science of healthy aging, helping all of us live longer and fuller lives. Whether you're a caregiver for someone or learning how to care for your own health, we're here to help you feel informed, inspired, and empowered.

Mayo Clinic's Aging Forward, new episodes every other week, wherever you get your podcasts. You know, I actually think, and especially as you went through all that, that the lies that are being told, all of them, to justify this new war with, with Iran are even more transparent and brazen and insulting to the public's intelligence and the ones that we heard in 2002 and 2003 with respect to Iraq. Maybe in part it's because we have the insight retrospectively to understand the way in which governments lie to us about these exact issues because the script and the playbook is almost identical. But I think it's beyond that, Jank, like what's really maddening to me, it's driving me crazy. And I don't know if you

listen to Trump's press briefing today when he was sitting next to the German chancellor, Frederick Mertz, who was basically more or less in support of this war. But Trump was making up just absolute fabrication saying that Obama did a deal with them that allowed them to get the highest grade nuclear weapons that had we not attacked back last June. They were about a minute away from getting a nuclear weapon. They would have used it against Israel and other countries and maybe even the U.S. Wild, wild claims.

And what's so frustrating about it is back in June when the United States did that one-day bombing campaign along with Israel, in the middle of Israel's war on Iran. President Trump did what he always does, which is he tries to claim that he was just responsible for the greatest victory in history. Nothing like it has ever been seen. And a lot of reporters were saying, well, how do you know for sure that you've actually totally obliterated their

nuclear program? How do you know that we're not going to be back in a few months and hearing that we have to go to war with Iran again to obliterate their nuclear program? And he said, you're lying. This is fake news. You're disrespecting the pilot. And they're still up on the White House website.

A very boisterous document that says the United States completely obliterated Iran's nuclear program and any claims to the contrary are fake news. And now here we are nine months later with the main argument for why we need this massive regional conflagration that already has escalated and might escalate way further, that we have to go and stop Iran from getting nukes when we were just told 10 months ago that we did exactly that. And then just quickly on the ballistic missile program, ballistic missiles are conventional weapons. Most advanced militaries in the world have them. This is the ultimate proof that this is a war for Israel, because ballistic missiles cannot reach the United States. Even if they could, Iran is not going

to start a direct war with the United States. Even the US government couldn't claim that they were about to attack us. And that's why they had to admit that they would only attack us if Israel attack them. These ballistic missiles are a threat to only one country, Israel. Even Trump said last June when Israel attacked Iran, that the Israelis got hit extremely hard. Buildings were falling in Tel Aviv and elsewhere because of these ballistic missiles. We are at war if it's because of ballistic missiles. That is a war for Israel. Those weapons are a threat only to Israel.

They're really a deterrent is what they are to have to Israel attacking. Iran knows that they're going to have to pay a cost. So of course, Israel wants to get rid of those ballistic missiles so they can attack Iran at will with no price to pay. Why are our soldiers dying for that? Yeah, literally the only way that their ballistic missiles could hit us is if we start a war with them. So why did we start a war so we could get hit? That makes no sense at all.

The only way it makes sense is if you're doing this war for Israel. That is absolutely right. And Glenn, of the things that drive us crazy, you're right. And the media does this all the time. Collective amnesia overnight, right? All the facilities are destroyed, never mind, it's for the nukes, and we're barely questioning that. The other thing that drives me crazy about the media, so nowadays in online media, we're all over the place and they can't contain us, right?

But in television, I still see almost no opponents of the war on television. And these are the same guys, Glenn, that told us, lessons learned from the Iraq war, we're never gonna make that mistake again. And just by trumpeting all of the official government officials and politicians and the pro-Israel factions within the media, which is about 98% of the media, here they are doing it again, aren't they? Yeah, you know, Jank, I'm sure you remember this, but I do think that the largest part of the corporate media genuinely does hate Trump.

I don't think they hate the Republican Party or conservatives. I think they hate Donald Trump for all sorts of reasons, valid or otherwise. But the one time they actually stopped and praised him and refrained from criticizing him in the first term and even said, this means he's really our president, is when he bombs Syria. There's literally nothing that the corporate media loves more than when the United States goes to war. It's not just because they get higher ratings, which they absolutely do. And that is part of it.

And they become more important in our daily lives when there's actually a war that they get to cover and everybody tunes in to find out what's going on. And it's exciting for them. More exciting than covering, say, you know, a budget shutdown or just the standard of things that happen in Washington. But war propaganda is designed to trigger our most primal instinct. It's incredibly powerful. It's really a science developed over many decades, really many centuries.

We are tribal beings. And these journalists who live in Washington are around the people who are starting the wars, whose sources are all these generals and people inside the U.S. security state and inside the Senate, like Chuck Schumer, not just Republicans, although them too, who favor this war. They're in their ear all the time. And they're more drowning in propaganda in favor of this war than anybody else is. And so that's what they go on camera and transmit. It's like this perfect storm.

And you see how quickly that despite how much they hate Trump and still hate Trump, that gets instantly overwhelmed by the far more compelling imperative that they love new wars. They always have and probably they always will. And I do think that's one of the main reasons, Jenk, that they have lost the faith and trust of the American people. Certainly COVID and the financial crisis contributed that. But everybody knows that they lied the country into a war in 2000. 2002 and 2003 excluded dissent almost entirely.

And they're repeating, again, not just the same media practices now of excluding dissent and keeping war opponents off the air. The script itself is identical as you know well and as I know well. And anybody who lived through that period and paid a lot of attention to it or wrote about it or studied it or reported on it knows well. It's shocking that they're not even bothering to change it even like as a pretense, even trivially. Yeah, I couldn't agree more. But don't worry, later Jay Tapper will write a book. No one could have known this was for Israel. Okay, or the same thing.

Or based on lies. I go, I can't believe it. It was based on lies. Exactly. So now I'm going to, speaking of lies, I'm going to show you a Marco Rubio clip in a second. But I wanted to first go to the new justifications. We have to destroy their entire Navy. My favorite is we didn't start this war.

Hegs has said that yesterday. And now almost all of the puppets are saying, and Netanyahu himself, said it to Sean Henney, no, no, no, no, this war's been going on for 47 years. So my sense of that is because the reason they're bringing that out is because this is so obviously for Israel and Rubio and others have admitted that it was for Israel. Now they have to put out a new talk about. No, no, no, no, it is for America. It is for America.

Why? Because Iran started the war 47 years ago and we've been fighting that war and now Donald Trump's going to finish it, right? So that's my sense of why they do that. But have you ever heard a goal as absurd as knocking out all their roadside bombs? What is that? Let alone their entire Navy. This will be fun. Let's talk about first dates.

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Meet your match on ZipRecruiter. I mean, they, as you said, they need desperately to find, especially now that Rubio accidentally revealed the truth and that other officials and senators in support of the war did too, because again, Even for the way, even given how much you can lie in American discourse, especially about wars, nobody would have believed had they come out and said, oh, Iran was about to attack us. Like nobody would believe that the Iranian government would just decide to provoke and start a war with the United States. So in lieu of saying that, they kind of got twisted and they said, oh, well, the reason they were going to attack us was because Israel was going to attack them. So we had to go and attack them because of Israel, essentially, we couldn't constrain them.

We didn't try to constrain them. This is a war that we had to fight because of what Israel did and what Israel was going to do. And now they're desperate to change that narrative and try and convince, especially their own base, but the country at large, oh no, soldiers aren't dying for Israel. They're actually, this is a government and a country that was threatening United States. And you know, Jenk, they're going back like to 1979 with the hostage crisis or in the early 1980s with Hezbole bombings.

And now trying to convince Americans that this is a country that we've been at war at for 47 years, even though Donald Trump was president already for four years and never mentioned that we were at war with Iran. He bombed one general, but he certainly didn't treat Iran as that we were a country at war with them. He didn't run on a platform in 2024. Hey, by the way, we're at war with Iran and we're going to now go and bomb them. You would think if we were really at war with Iran for 47 years, this would have been mentioned

at some point before about three seconds ago when Israel decided it was ready for a new war and Trump jumped on board. I think, Jenk, I really do. You already saw that the polls for Trump have been plummeting. And the reason is, is that Trump won because of his argument that he was going to improve the material lives of American citizens, in part, in large part, by no longer devoting our resources and draining our resources into foreign wars, especially regime change wars of the exact kind that he's now pursuing.

And people believe that and they were waiting for these material improvements. Instead, the first term of the Trump presidency, other than closing the border, which you can say is a success based on what he promised, we've had bombing Yemen, insane focus on Israel and Gaza, constant focus on Russia and Ukraine. And now a major new war in Iran concealing the Epstein files. This has nothing to do with the lives of American citizens. And I think Republicans know that they're petrified, that this is the kind of war that has destroyed presidencies in the past. And this was a presidency that was already so fragile. So now they're just. groping around trying to say, oh, we had to do this war for you Americans, because had we not done so, you would and your families would have been endangered. And I just don't think anybody is going to believe it. Yeah, I've seen some online, some people online calling it Operation Epstein's Fury. And the reason why you would constantly change your rationale for the war is because you have a different rationale that you're not willing to share with the American people. That's why, right? So finally, we get to Marco Rubio today. He's in a bit of a panic.

And I think he makes a mistake here. Let's watch this. Let me explain to you guys this in simple English, okay? Iran is run by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics. They have an ambition to have nuclear weapons. They intend to develop those nuclear weapons behind a program of missiles and drones and terrorism that the world will not be able to touch them for fear of those things. And this is the weakest they've ever been.

Now is the time to go after them. The president made the decision to go after them, take away their missiles, take away their navy, take away their drones, take away their ability to make those things so that they can never have a nuclear weapon. That's why the president made this decision. It was the right decision and the world will be a safer place when these radical clerics, no law of them have access to these weapons. So it's interesting because he talked about how they're a religious cult and I'm like, well, a lot of the Israeli cabinet is a religious cult that believes that God promised them greater Israel. That's part of the reason for these wars. They're endangering the Middle East. No wait, Israel. is endangering the Middle East. But he said that at one point in our press conference there, that Iran is at its weakest

point now, and that's why it was good to attack. But wait, Glenn, we were told that Iran was so close to attacking, and they were at their maximum power, and we had to go right away. But now, wait a minute, all of a sudden they're at their weakest. So which one is it? I mean, I think Marco Rubio has been around Washington for a long time. He's usually pretty calm and, you know, like, so. and cogent as a speaker, that might have been the most kind of flailing and desperate I've

ever seen him be, where he was basically just throwing very emotionally packed adjectives around out of desperation that he doesn't have a coherent argument that wouldn't contradict a million things he said a million times previously. These are lunatics, these are religious fanatic. What has Iran ever done that has demonstrated, for example, the kind of suicidal willingness to just blow their whole country up to kill all of Israel or the United States. They've been incredibly restrained over the last decade as the United States and Israel have repeatedly attacked them, including in the last war and in the times that Israel bombed them before that. They purposely didn't use their most powerful missiles. They did everything to avoid

escalation. As you suggested, Jank, there is a lunatic, highly religious fanatical country in that region that actually already has nuclear weapons, a huge stockpile of them. And that is Israel and I think that is the country by far that the world fears most. And then right after that comes to United States, which, you know, has just continues to fight eight, nine, ten wars a year. And I think it's really worth contrasting it with China, which I am not a big fan of in terms of, saying, wanting to live there or their domestic policies. But it is amazing that China has not fought a single war since 1979. That is 47 years when we've been invading and attacking. And what did they have to show for it?

mass, you know, high speed rail and incredibly sophisticated cities and brand new infrastructure and the leading cutting edge of all kinds of research and science and technology, which is what happens when you pour your resources into your own citizens and into your country and not into these foreign wars for foreign interests. Yeah. So ironically, we could be a little bit better off if we did like Israel and took care of ourselves instead of others, let alone forget taking care of others. Just stop invading others and attacking others, especially on behalf of foreign governments.

Okay, we're gonna take a quick break here. When we come back, there's a couple of things we've got to tell you about. Yes, the Magna Civil War continues, especially on this all important topic of the war, but also some pretty devastating facts that lead you to believe that this war might go way worse than we realize. So hold for that. We'll be right back. Yeah, I read some of these comments blind. So everybody ring the bell, make sure that. You guys are helping us here in, first of all, you guys get to keep up with the show,

and then it does help our program, and it costs nothing at all, and it takes about three seconds. So if you can do that on YouTube. All right, now let's go to our members on tyt.com. Jenks got that bet all day long, right, so in these handles. Anyway, dang, I remember there was some beef between Glenn and TYT. When did that get squashed? It got squashed over us going back to agreeing. And the fact that we have a giant war, we've got to stop, right?

And so all good people, from my perspective, everything is forgiven if you're on the right side of this, right? And you're trying to help end the war and not throw up roadblocks because of personal ego issues. Anyway, our guy says, someone on the social is called it Operation APEC fury, genius. Ecclectic miscellaneous said this is all a big misunderstanding. Originally, it wasn't going to be Operation Epic Fury. It was going to be Operation Epic Fury with drones seeking and destroying human-sized litter boxes from schools around the country. Don't give them any ideas. They'll be doing that next.

But I like how you combine two stories. Old Dirty Pastor says the legendary Glenn Greenwald, nice to see Jenkin Glenn hanging together. Salvy Dragon says, getting rid of the roadside bombs like bombing Venezuela fishing boats to claim they were dangerous fentanyl cartels. Yeah, like just absurd, outrageous weirdo lies and goals and expectations so that those goals could never be met and we could just get dragged in that war forever, which by the way, might turn out to be a mistake, not just for America but for Israel, based on the story I'm going to tell you in a couple of minutes. Amber Jack O'9 wrote in, Mr. Optimism just went to break teasing things that can get a lot worse. Happy Tuesday. So yeah, I'm the guy who created Operation Hope. I'm the most optimistic guy you'll ever. meet and I'm telling you now, before I was telling you, no, there's a populist rebellion in the works and we got the populist rebellion.

And I think that populist rebellion will one day save us. But we're about to head into super dark times with this war, with the AI apocalypse, things are gonna get much worse before they get better. I'm sorry, I wish I had better news. Sabnock is a YouTube member and they say, Anna got a haircut, that's funny. Duncan, your mate, says America has the right to defend itself against Netanyahu. Helen DeVilla says Trump seems more lost than Biden. Great point. Michael Catalano says, I really hope there's a segment that includes Osso's speech that was, dare I say, it presidential.

Interesting. We got Ruben Gallego that we'll be back. That's kind of nasty. Thank you, Glenn Greenwald, with you guys. CDN. Norddog, thank you for gifting your membership. Chris Chatter. Thank you for joining by through hidden join button below the video. I want to tell you guys about two quick things. Number one, the primaries have begun. We got a great rebellion pack candidate, Richard Ojeda in North Carolina nine.

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I don't know because he ran on anti-war. He ran on America first, and this looks like it's Israel first. So lots of anger out there. But Trump says, no, no, no, no, you don't have to worry about that. Megan Kelly's wrong, Tucker Carlson's wrong, Marjorie Taylor Green's wrong. They're not right-wing enough. Really? He says, quote, Maga wants to see our country thrive and be safe, and Maga loves what I'm doing, do they?

Every aspect of it. I do some, every aspect of it. This is a detour that we have to take in order to keep our country safe. and keep other countries safe, frankly. And then he says, I think that MAGA is Trump. Maga's not the other two, referring to Tucker Carlson and Megan Kelly. So, Glenn, you're two cents on this. Hey, Ontario. Come on down to BetMGM Casino and check out our newest exclusive.

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It's a cult of personality. That's different from America first, which is about fixed principles that we all thought we were supporting. Yeah. And I thought it was interesting that he admitted this is a detour to help keep America safe. But frankly, he said frankly, to keep other countries safe. Okay, so it is a detour from MAGA. Yeah. It's a detour from everything you promise is we just,

discussed and I think every American can see that. This wasn't what we were told we were getting. Yeah, no question. And yeah, yeah. All right, so now let me show you the rest of the influencers, and then we'll come back to Glenn and talk about the overall state of affairs among Trump voters, okay? So what are a lot of folks really mad about Marco Rubio's accidental confession yesterday? Let's show you that. The second question that been asked is, why now? Well, there's two reasons why now. The first is, a It was abundantly clear that if Iran came under attack by anyone, the United States or Israel or anyone, they were going to respond and respond against the United States. The orders had been delegated down to the field commanders.

It was automatic and in fact it bear to be true because in fact within an hour of the initial attack on the leadership compound, the missile forces in the south and in the north for that matter had already been activated to launch. In fact, those already been pre-positioned. The third is the assessment that was made that if we stood and waited for that attack to come first before we hit them, we would suffer much higher casualties. And so the president made the very wise decision. We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action.

We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces. And we knew that if we didn't preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties and perhaps even higher those killed. And then we would all be here answering questions about why we knew that and didn't act. That was an enormous mistake because he accidentally admitted what is true. He said Israel was going to attack either way. And if they did it without us and we weren't prepared, even if we are prepared, we were to lose a lot of American soldiers.

So we had to join the attack to make sure that we would be ready for Iran's counterattack once Israel launched. Now, of course, the other thing you could have done is said, no, you're not the boss of us, we're the boss of you. We've given you over $300 billion. You're asking us to spend billions upon billions of dollars on this war. No, you go when we tell you to go. And that's what Donald Trump is pretending today. I mean, I boss them around. I told them nonsense. Tom Kahn's admitted, Marco Rubio's admitted it. Caroline Levin has admitted it. Israel was going to go, and they seem to have used that as a threat against us. We're going.

And a lot of your troops will die if you don't come with us. So now you say, well, Jake, yes, but you're a progressive and Glenn's on here. And I don't know what he calls himself these days, but he's certainly been anti-war his whole life, right? But how about the right wing? Well, let's take a look. I mean, Matt Walsh is definitely right wing. He says, so he's flat out telling us that we're in a war with Iran because Israel forced our hand. This is basically the worst possible thing he could have said.

That is very true. And Matt works at the daily wire, at least for now. So that is a hell of a thing for him to say. Sagar and Jetty, one of the hosts of breaking points, says three days ago is an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory to say Israel was dragging the U.S. into war with Iran. Today the secretary of state said Israel was going to strike no matter what and that the U.S. had to join the war. So the noticing continues.

Now we go to Turning Point USA. Interesting. Savannah Hernandez says, crazy to hear Marco Rubio say that Israel. Israel knew that if they attacked Iran, the United States and our servicemen were going to pay the price, but they didn't care and force our hand leading to the death of Americans infuriating to hear. That is certainly true, but if you think she's infuriated, get a load of Marjorie Taylor Green. What is happening to the man that I supported, you supported, the man that denounced what happened in Iraq, the man that said no more foreign wars, no more regime change, promise it on the campaign. Jady Vance promised it.

Tulsi Gabbard promised it. All of them promised it. And we're a year in, a year in, and we're in another fucking war. And we've got American troops being killed. Mm-hmm. That is absolutely right. And so I'm gonna get to mainstream meeting in a second. But Glenn, we're now being told that Tucker Carlson, Megan Kelly, and by the way, let me tell you, Megan Kelly said, this is Israel's war.

And that's part of why Trump was so mad. And Tucker Carlson said that the war was, quote, absolutely disgusting and evil. But we hear that they're not right wing and Marjorie Taylor Green's not right wing. The only person who's right wing is Donald Trump. And even if he changes his opinion, like the entire right wing changes with it, even if it's on either side, as you mentioned earlier. So what do you make of this? Is this a real MAGA civil war? Because some in mainstream are saying it's not.

And who comes out the winner of all this? Not now, but later at the end of all this. Well, there are clearly major figures in the conservative movement. Let's just call it that for the moment, who are not just speaking out with some hesitation or resistance, but are vehemently condemning this war, including the people that you mentioned. And Tucker has one of the largest audiences in the country. Megan Kelly has a gigantic audience and is very well known from all that time she spent on Fox News and then NBC. And you have Marjorie Tilly Green and Thomas Massey and people inside the Republican Party who are not the majority.

The majority is still petrified of defying Trump. He can destroy their careers like he did with Marjorie Taylor Green. Like he's trying to do with Thomas Massey. You know how much money. Mary Madelson and Trump's other APAC donors, billionaire donors are pouring into that Kentucky district to get rid of Thomas Massey out of Congress because of this. and a couple of other issues of dissent, including on Epstein. But I know Tucker very well, I've been on a show a million times over the years. Megan, same thing.

Marjorie Taylor Green as well. And I just, you know, maybe I'm being naive, but I've seen their evolution. It's been gradual on this issue. None of them ever talked about Israel prior to October of 2023. In fact, I had Marjorie Taylor Green on my show once where she was very outspoken on the issue of Ukraine. And she was saying things like American women can't afford baby formula for their babies. Why are we sending billions of dollars over to Ukraine, which is a position I shared? And then I asked her, but what about Israel?

We send billions to Israel. Doesn't that same rationale applied? And she wasn't quite ready yet to talk about that. She was scared. She stumbled around and ultimately said something like Israel is an important ally. This has been a sole evolution. And you can hear it in their voices. I mean, betrayal is a very powerful human emotion.

When you get led to believe, and I think a lot of people experience this first, I would I did with President Obama, where you get led to believe that these are people who believe in certain things are going to do certain things. And then they end up just completely once they're in power and don't need you anymore, reversing themselves and embracing the very policies that they promise that they were going to uproot. The anger is a very, and betrayal are very genuine emotions. And I think you're seeing that inside MAGA. I think the most interesting figure here is JD Vance. He cannot in any way be seen as opposing Trump or criticizing Trump because he believes that. to get the nomination, he needs Trump behind him. But he can't also tie himself to a disastrous

war because if that sinks, it looks like it will. I think it will already is. That too will destroy his future prospects and open up the lane for like a Thomas Massey or Marjorie Taylor Greener, maybe even in Tucker Carlson to run on this genuine anti-war anti-interventionist populist ideology that Trump promised to run on but then quickly abandoned and J.D. Vance has to be tied to Trump and he could easily go down with him. Yeah. So Glenn, you've had a lot of interaction with the left and the right. Just a quick fun tangential question. What do you call yourself? And by the way, tell the audience where people can find you to. You know, Jay, well, I got, I had, the last three years I've been doing this nightly show,

live nightly show on Rumble. I ignored all my friends who have done like night, not live nightly shows who told me don't do it. It's extremely draining. And they were absolutely right. So I'm back on substack where I'm doing a lot of writing, doing some some videos as well, just, you know, kind of doing the journalism I like to do primarily on substack, but that can be found on social media and YouTube and like. You know, even back in the day, you know, when I was on your show a lot, defending you, we were talking a lot. You know, I never really embrace those labels because I know they mean so many things to

so many different people. I honestly do not believe I have changed my core ideology ever. You know, all the causes that I've defended, I've defended very consistently. Obviously, some of them have a lot in common with the left free speech, anti-security state, anti-surveillance, anti-war. But there have been things that the left, places the left has gone that I haven't been comfortable with. So even back in the day and even now, I try really hard not to embrace those labels.

In a way, they can be obfuscating because they mean different things, but also they can imprison you. Like you could say, oh, I planted my flag on the left, I set them on the left, now I have to believe this and now I have to pursue this view. And I just want to be freer in terms of my ability to see things and understand things and try and do as honest a job as possible. and let other people apply those labels. Yeah, number one, that's fair.

Number two, we were kidding around about how you're in Anna's seat today. And you're filling that seat appropriately because Anna has come to the same conclusion. Like she can't stand the labels. She's like, let's just talk about what's true and leave it at that. Yeah. Right. So, okay, I now want to move on to mainstream media back on on this point. So they say, well, look, we don't even know that there is a,

where media I wrote an article about like, oh, no, no, this is all a mirage. In reality, everyone agrees with Mark Levin and Laura Lumer. Like, that's the majority of the right. And then, of course, they happen to mention one other factor that they say is the real reason people are anti-war. Isaac Shore in this case writes, Scratch beneath the surface of what Carlson Fuentes and their audience and many Democratic elites, including those who poses newsmen, rhetoric, and you will find that their worldview is shaped by an anti- American instinct that animates their every move and or an unhealthy ancient obsession with

Jewish influence, both of which are an anathema to both MAGA adherents and traditional conservatives alike. Then you move on to Axios Caputo, I believe Barack Ravid, and they write, the picture critics are painting of a U.S. reluctantly pulled into a war by a smaller ally obscures a deep coordination between the two countries and the weeks before the strike. So they're trying to say, no, this is nothing to do with Israel. commanding us to go to war now, they've been commanding us to go to war for a long time. I'm not sure that's the win you think it is, but then of course they have to throw this in as well.

Anti-Israel voices on the right as well as openly anti-Semitic influencers who've clawed toward the mainstream in recent years claimed vindication about what's happened. So Glenn, there's two things here. One is, you know, they're going back to the whole everybody's an anti-Semite if you oppose Israel's wars. That's very classic mainstream media 101, right? But there's also a second part where it feels like the bubbles have never been thicker and more impenetrable. Like the establishment truly believes that Mark Levin is the standard bearer of the right wing, and that Tucker Carlson and Megan Kelly are fringe characters. Marjorie Taylor Green-Tom has a fringe, fringe.

The mainstream is all about Laura Lumer and Ben Shapiro and that and all of the Tom, cottons of the world and the Marco Rubios, et cetera. And they truly believe that, right? And in the online world, we think those guys are jokes and that Tucker and Megan, et cetera, are way more popular in the future of the Republican Party, whether you're a Republican or not, or the future of MAGA America First, et cetera. So where do you come out on that? I defy anybody. I mean, I would put money, good money, that anybody who tried for even weeks, every day, if you woke up early and did it all day to find someone under 70 years, old who knew who Mark Levin was, I don't think you could. Unless like, you know, people like us

were under 70, thankfully still, who, you know, are extremely, you know, just constantly tied into political discourse and online discourse and like. But otherwise, you know, Mark Levin represents this dying conservative mindset. That's the thing that is scaring people the most. And this isn't my own speculation, Shank. You know, you've seen the polling numbers as much as I have. The every demographic group by a majority is now a group that harbors negative views of Israel, including not just young conservatives like 18 to 24, but 18 to 49. All conservatives under 49, under 50, if you poll them, more than 50 percent have negative views of Israel. And this is one of the reasons Charlie Kirk, as Megan Kelly has talked about and others,

started to become a lot more open to being very critical of Israel to questioning U.S. support for Israel. Because he was representing a generation, young conservatives, who he knew he wouldn't be able to represent. Nick Frentas would have stolen that whole group from him had he continued on this adamantly pro-Israel path. And I think it's part of why Megan and Tucker and all these people understand that there's a lot more space inside the conservative movement because it's not just a handful of podcasters the way like Zionists like Isaac Shore or Barack Rivin. I always find it amazing that this overnight star of media who tells us about Israel is

actually an Israeli who served in the IDF until 2024 in the reserves and in the intelligence unit 8200, which is one of the most notorious intelligence units. So a lot of it is coming from this kind of mindset, but I don't think is aligned in any way with the broad public opinion of these people. Now, people who don't pay attention to politics that much and are Republican still like Donald Trump. So they're not going to quickly and immediately object to or vehemently oppose a war that they know Donald Trump. has decided to initiate and his defending. But these things trickled down and that's the way we've seen these changes in

and public opinion. I think the people are saying, oh, Tucker, Megan, these are irrelevant outliers, even Nick Fuentes, all these people, Marjorie Telegreen. I don't think they believe it. I think they know their days are numbered, not just on the right, but on the left, even among Democrats of all ages, it's becoming much more anti-Israel. And that is a trend that I do not believe will ever be reversed. And I think they know that as well.

Yeah, and guys, think about it, right? So their thesis is that the only reason Glenn, me, everybody in the anti-war movement opposed the war is because we're anti-Semites who are opposed to Israel, right? Okay, but if that's true, but there used to be positive views of Israel in the Democratic Party. Now it's gone to like 90% against. They're very, very positive, almost universally positive among the Republicans now. They've lost about 50%. I mean, and among the under the 50-year-olds, they're totally gone.

And independence are moved to 70 to 80% against what Israel is doing. So did the country become anti-Semitic overnight? Or, or I know this is crazy for mainstream media, could it be that we are rationally looking at what Israel has done over the last couple of years and going, oh, no, we don't want any part of that. We don't want to pay for a genocide. We don't want the endless wars. And now it's kind of become obvious to us that, yes, they're contributing to 94% of Congress.

and they're the number one lifetime donor of Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Mike Johnson, Heirkeem Jeffries, I could be here all night. There has been a great awakening, and it doesn't have anything to do with anti-Semitism. It has to do with American sovereignty. All right, when we return, we might be in a little bit of trouble, and so might Israel, because I'm going to show you some of the numbers behind the war here, and it is unsettling, so it might be a harbager of things to come. So we'll show you that when we return.

Let's go to super chat. Danny Isaac once, says long-time viewer, voted for Ojetta early. He actually called me personally twice to thank me for donating to his campaign. CEO Ojetta posters everywhere. Danny, that's an awesome update from North Carolina and I. We appreciate it. If you're in North Carolina, make sure you're voting, Democratic primaries are today, and Richard Ojetta is the populist rebellion-pack candidate there.

Constantine Kavira says it's the same story over and over again through history. A hegemonic power believes they're invisible. They stretch themselves too thin and it backfires. I think this war might be such a turning point away from U.S. hegemony. Kasti, I don't know if I was about to say, yeah, I'm worried about that. I don't know if I am worried about it. I do think that you're absolutely right, whether it's concerning or not concerning, whether where the hegemon is a different question.

But I'm very worried about this war and the turn that it's that it's going to take. We're going to talk more about that in the next segment. Faisal, thank you for the contribution on Super Chat. Rob V says Glenn and Jenk, this is awesome. Thank you. We appreciate it on behalf of Glenn as well. America's 1776 USA says, I just believe we should stay out of other countries' conflicts and focus on making and keeping America the great country it is. We need the stability here at home, not more division or foreign entanglements. Well, so, brother, about, I mean, I don't know what the number is, but if you put it that way, my guess is about 90% of Americans agree, right? Right, left, middle, doesn't matter.

Would you rather have something positive happen for you? Or would you rather start another war in the Middle East? How is that a question? How is that a question? But yet the answer by our government officials and politicians and our media, nonstop is war in the Middle East. Screw you, you can't get free college, you can't get paid family leave, you can't get a public option, you can't get anything, you can't get anything.

In fact, we're taking away SNAP, we're taking away Medicare, we're taking away Medicaid, But Israel, don't worry, our troops are on the way. I mean, how much more can people take this? Peter Margie, thank you for the generous contribution on Super Chat. The CDN, North Dogdad said, Israel wants greater Israel. Iran is just in the way, so we get Operation Forget Epstein's Fury. Arstones says, do you think Trump is doing all this as a way of somehow getting a fast pass to heaven? Because of all the Zionists in his ear and Edelson's in his pockets.

I mean, he's said a number of times that he's kind of given up on heaven, which makes sense. But I'm also a little worried about that. If that's his mindset, I don't know why he's, look, with Donald Trump, it's almost always cash, right? But there is a second thing, which is potential blackmail. And every time Netanyahu comes by, Donald Trump goes from wavering to, yes, sir, absolutely, sir. Whatever you need, sir, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry, I forgot for a second. So it's weird. It's super weird.

Elliot ZP saying, I think Trump's saying there will be more casualties is because there's already been more and they haven't reported it. That might be true because there was already six and they pretended it was three, then they pretended it was four, then we found out it was six in the same bombing. We'll be back. Back on TYT, Jank and Glenn. Greenwald with you guys, Melody Loves Music. Thank you for gifting a membership with a gal. Thank you for gifting five. And I'll just read one YouTube member here. Nani Draginson, I'm glad to see Glenn and Jank together again.

know they had their fights, but we must unite on what's right. And you know, Glenn, I'll just say, look, thank you for doing your part and getting past all that stuff. And so good to be on the same team again and trying to protect America and what's right. Yeah, I feel the same way. I mean, people who are around politics for 20 years, it inspires huge amounts of passions, all kinds of intense beliefs. You can fight with people. I think it's so important, unless you think the person is a like irretrievably bad person, which I think that about some people, but not many, especially when it comes to something as crucial as stopping monstrous, extremely dangerous wars in general or for Israel. Of course I'm gonna work with the people,

you know, especially we've had a very good working relationship in the past as well, Jake, like you and I have done things together. We talked, you know, I've defended you when you were fired from SMBZE, you've defended me many times during student. Like we've had a good relationship as well. I think if you really believe in the causes you say you do, Of course you put those kind of differences aside in and realize what's more important. Yeah, obviously I couldn't agree more. And I agree there's only a few irredeemable people. Dave Rubin. Okay, let's move on.

Okay. All right. So Congress is about the green light more money for this war with Iran. Of course. Now, they didn't tell you that before the war, right? But they're telling you now. So here is Axios reporting. House Speaker Mike Johnson said Congress may need to consider supplemental appropriations

package down the line, down the line as in very, very soon. Quote from Mike Johnson, there are more details to be determined on how long the operation goes and what the need is. Well, I'm pretty sure I know how that's going to go. Glenn, you've seen this movie before. They're going to ask for a lot more money, aren't they? I mean, look at how, I mean, it's shockingly costly. That's the other thing.

Iran is using cheap drones of the kind that, you know, has been used in the battlefield in Russia and Ukraine. And also just often crude ballistic missiles. And the most expensive weaponry are the anti-missile defense systems that we quickly were depleted from using those Gulf State regions are depleted. Israel is going to quickly be depleted. A lot of people think they had to end the war, the 12-day war last year, because Israel had no more defense systems to shoot down Iranian missiles. The ballistic missiles, do you know how expensive these missiles are?

To say nothing of these gigantic aircraft carriers and massive military assets, you're talking about hundreds of billions of dollars. Once people realize how much money is going to this as well, and as you said, Jank, all the things that they don't have that they should, I think the anger is going to be even more intense. Yeah, so I'm gonna tell you a little bit more about how much is gonna cost. Then we're gonna move on to, oh my God, are we gonna get badly hurt here, including Israel, because of some critical facts about Iran's weapons versus our weapons. First of course, President Donald Trump, this isn't from Forbes, military strikes in Iran have likely cost American taxpayers over $1 billion using cursory estimates, with hundreds of millions lost on a lost aircraft over the weekend,

with a price tag that could approach $100 billion, depending on how long it can stretch on. There is no end to how much money we will spend for Israel. Now let's go to stay with Forbes. They explain Brown University's cost of war project estimates the military's operations in Iran. That was a 40th slip of most of Iraq. In Iran, costs between 2 billion and 2.25 billion in 2025. So that money's already gone, the 2, 2, 1⁄2 billion gone, right? Now we might spend another 100 billion.

Okay, but how's the war gonna go? Now we go to daily mail for that. Buckle up, guys. A single Iranian drone can cost as little as $35,000 to produce, while intercepting it can cost anywhere from $500,000 to $4 million. million dollars. Uh-oh, SpaghettiOs, that is a big problem. If their drones cost 35K and to intercept them cost $4 million, we're in a lot of trouble.

Financially and actually in our ability to keep up with those missiles. In fact, let me tell you more. They say rather than a few thousand long-range drones, Iran's total Shahid fleet is estimated between 80,000 and 100,000 across all variants. Okay, so that's a lot of drones and that's a lot of weapons that Iran has. And we had the false belief, oh, it's okay, there's Iron Dome, there's Thad missiles, Patriot missiles, we'll just knock them all down. Well, let me show you a graph here of that gives you the context that you need.

You got the 80 to 100,000 Shahid drones that Iran has. 1,500 ballistic missiles. Okay, but we've got interceptors. Our coalition interceptors there, wait, 5 to 8,000, without even getting into the future and all the things that they could produce and how little it costs for them and how much it costs for us. We only have 5 to 8,000 interceptors and they have 80 to 100,000 drones. I did the math on that.

That is not good, okay? That means we're very likely going to run out. It's going to be super expensive. During the 12-day operation back in June, a midnight hammer, we already depleted a quarter of our interceptor missiles for the entire United States military. A quarter already gone in just 12 days in the earlier war. It's hard to imagine that we're not going to run out. But there's even more depressing news.

Every interceptor deployed to protect one base is one that cannot be used elsewhere. Since interceptors are finite, this leads military planners to stretch their resources across thousands of kilometers leaving weaker protections in each location. That is why Iran is attacking in so many different places. We've got to go try to protect over in Dubai and then up in Cyprus and Israel and our fleet. So they're spreading us thinner and it doesn't cost them that much because it's inexpensive drones to spread us thinner. During the conflict last summer, they explained the U.S. alone fired 150 THAA interceptors to defend Israel over just 12 days using roughly a quarter of its stockpile.

Each of those interceptors cost about $15 million and can take three to eight years to replenish. We don't have three to eight years to replenish our $15 million interceptors. Then Daily Mail continues using that data alongside current exchange rates between cheap drones and expensive interceptors. A prolonged campaign could run into tens or even hundreds of billions of dollars. So, Glenn, let me bring you back in here. Could we really run out of these interceptors and have these drones start to do significant damage to Israel, to our bases, and maybe even to our fleet? Yes, yes. You know, Jank, during the 12-day war, and after as well, I interviewed Dan Caldwell.

I don't know if you know him. I really highly correct him. If you haven't had him on your show, he was a very top-level Pentagon official under Pete Heggsath and, kind of got pushed out as part of this power dynamic, but he was part of this anti-interventionist wing that had been in the Pentagon. And he talks in very great detail about how, as I said earlier, the Israelis and the Americans were running out of anti-missile systems. And they're not just things that you order up from Boeing and they're on the battlefield the next day. They're extremely lengthy. They're very complex and difficult to produce. And already the UAE and

and Qatar and even maybe Saudi Arabia are running out. And that's why they're saying, hey, this war has to end. Without those, if those run out, it's open season on the entire region. And let me just quickly add, Jank, like in terms of how long this war is going to take. I think people forget, we were told that we would win the war in Iraq in two to three weeks. Obviously that didn't happen. Not only didn't it happen, but huge, unforeseen things happened. Like the emergence of ISIS that emerged in the power vacuum that we created is even Tony Blair

admit, we're in extremely dangerous territory here. It's hard to really overstate. Like, you can't be hysterical about it because it is worth maximalist warnings. Yeah, Wall Street Journal also agrees they write in. U.S. commanders in the region overseeing coalition air defenses that include local partners, but both have been overwhelmed at times by Iranian missiles and drones in recent days. We're only a couple of days into the war, and we're already overwhelmed. by their drones. This is exactly the thing that I was worried about. You guys heard me say it on the Young Turks many times. Said, yeah, we have these giant aircraft carriers, but now hundreds of drones can do massive damage. And now our defenses are already beginning to run out.

This could end very, very badly. I mean, look, we had Wesley Clark Jr. say this about a decade to go on the show. He said, look, we're totally misunderstanding new modern warfare. We're not ready for it. All of our equipment is gigantic and clunky in the era of drones. Like he was talking about China. If we went to war with China, they'd launch thousands of thousands of drones. And how are your ships and your planes going to be able to handle that?

And they can't. So, Glenn, one more thing about that. I mean, here we are busy in Iran and already starting to worry about our defenses running low, what if Venezuela goes, hey, you know what? I don't think we're going to listen to you anymore. Your fleet's gone. What are you going to do? You're going to start a second front?

Or if China comes to take Taiwan, there's no way in the world who could defend Taiwan, right? Yeah, you know, this is the irony is that the consensus of the foreign policy establishment, going back to the first Obama term, was we need to pivot away from the Middle East and start to focus on the Pacific because we perceive China as being our primary adversary. And we need to make sure that we're containing them and they're not going to be able to just expand their influence. We've been trying that for 15 years. We cannot extricate ourselves from the Middle East. It's not because of oil.

We have plenty of oil. All those countries will happily sell as much oil to us as they want. It's because of Israel. And this is just another cost added on. Exactly what would stop China from going and taking Taiwan the minute they want. I mean, I think what's happening is Taiwan knows that and is no longer trusting the U.S. and their politics are changing and becoming friendlier to China because they don't think the U.S. will or could intervene in their defense against China if China decided to be as hostile as

possible. But this whole pivot to Asia has never happened because Israel drags us down in that region and makes us stay there in a region where we really don't have vital interests any longer. Yeah, and I'll end on this for this story. Trump is aware that we could lose more soldiers. In fact, we've already lost six. And he says, and sadly there will likely be more before it ends. That's the way it is. Well, it didn't have to be that way. He chose to make it that way by starting this disastrous war for no reason where we have no American interest at all.

All right, even though we're past hour, I'm going to do one more story because that's what I do. So let's talk about Israel. There are people that say, well, the prime minister of Israel dragged Donald Trump into it. And as somebody that's been friends with him over 30 years, nobody drags Donald Trump into anything, number one. But I want to get your reaction to that. Well, you're right. I mean, that's ridiculous. Donald Trump is the strongest leader in the world.

He does what he thinks is right for America. He does also what he thinks is right for future generations. And frankly, we're partners in that effort. That evil cackle in the middle was haunting. So we actually made a clip out of it. We might go to this more and more, but this is Netanyahu's reaction to all of us. Yeah. And guys, what that was was him thinking like, oh yeah, Donald Trump can't be poisoned anything.

Unless you have what I have. One is 94% of Congress, who is $337 million, the Aedelson's gave, Donald Trump, and three is the thing that you guys don't know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you can't be pushing into war. What are you talking about? We can't push into war for decade after decade. In fact, Netanyahu brags about how he's been trying to push us in this war the entire time. Watch.

Is this now the culmination of decades of your work and your belief and your passion that these radicals needed to be defeated? Well, you're right, I did have spoken about it for decades. And I try to persuade successive American administrations to take firm action. And President Trump, in his first time, did. He got out of the disaster Ceron deal right off the bat. And he did everything he could to prevent them from going into the nuclear program that they seek to build atomic bombs to threaten us and you, and ultimately, to attack both of us. Yeah, Iran was never going to attack us.

The only reason why we're in this war with them is obviously because Netanyahu's been pushing for it all along. And in fact, rather than Trump being incredibly strong, he can't be pushing anything, they're all saying, right? No, I think he's actually the easy president to push into a war. He's like, I'm anti-war in America first. Like, here's money and blackmail. Oh, right away, I'm Israel first and pro war. So I don't know what they're talking about. The Trump, of course, got touchy about it.

So he's like, oh, they didn't boss me. He says this instead. Force your hand to launch these strikes against Iran. Did that you all the whole United States into this war? No, I might have forced their hands. You see, we were having negotiations with these lunatics. And it was my opinion that they were gonna attack first. They were going to attack if we didn't do it.

They were going to attack first. I felt strongly about that. And we have great negotiations. negotiators, great people, people that do this very successfully, and have done it all their lives very successful. And based on the way the negotiation was going, I think they were going to attack first. And I didn't want that to happen. So if anything, I might have forced Israel's hand. But Israel was ready, and we were ready.

Okay, two comical things about that. First, oh, Israel didn't want this war. We had to force them into it. I don't think I have to make a case about that. And then let's go to Reuters to see if what was Israel, Iran about to attack? Were they about to attack? Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff on Sunday that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces first. Two people familiar with the matter said.

So entirely made up by Donald Trump. Now, you guys have seen Marco Rubio say Israel was going to attack and we had to do it. so that we didn't lose more American soldiers. We had to join them. This looked like we were being pushing to it. So I want to play you clip six here. This is the undersecretary of defense, Elbridge Colby. He's being questioned by Elizabeth Warren in the Senate.

Let's see what he says. This is certainly not nation building. This is not going to be endless as the president of vice president. So this is not in your mind? Interventionism? I don't think this is, no. I don't think that's what that, you know, nation building, endless wars. Interventionism.

That's actually the very first. word in the Department of Defense. Interventionism is a more, I would say, you know, kind of responsibility to protect or something. I mean, it's obviously not precisely defined. And we didn't do this in order to try to protect Israel? I think that, well, that's one of the goals. It's obviously we're serving our own interests. So Glenn, as I said in the beginning of this show, it feels like you change your reasons for the war.

regime shame, I mean, I meant the nukes, I meant the ballistic missiles, I meant we have to destroy their whole name. I meant roadside bombs when you're trying to hide the real reason you're doing it. Because like what I want to get money out of politics. I have a very clear reason for why I want to do that. I don't need to obfuscate around it. I don't have to lie about it, I can just tell you exactly why I'm doing it, right? So I mean, to what degree is it obvious that Israel is pushing us into this war?

We just listened to video and there's so many other examples where Netanyahu just flat out says, Sean Hannity said it too. This has been your supreme dream for 40 years. It has been the number one wish on the list of Israel Netanyahu, the Israel lobby, Israel firsters in the United States to lure the United States into a regime change war against Iran to remove the government that is in Israel's most formidable adversary. Having heard all that, Trump is then going to turn around and say, oh, I actually pushed them into doing it.

They didn't want to. I'm the one who decided. On top of which we just heard Marco Rubio and Tom Cotton and all the other people say the exact opposite. The reason we had to was because Israel was going to, whether we were going to or not, and we were afraid we would get attacked. So we were forced by Israel to do so. Trump just says whatever he wants. I mean, the amount of lying that was there was amazing. Just really quickly though, on that one defense department official you showed, Albert Colby, he actually, he almost didn't get confirmed because the Israel lobby was opposed to him. He is one of these guys who believes we have to stop by. interventions in the Middle East. He's a very realist sort of figure, which is why the Israel lobby didn't want him. I'm sure there's pushback in the defense department saying we can't fight this war. We don't have the readiness for it. We don't have the weapons for it. The problem is, is that once you start a war like this, you can't just end it whenever you want, because the outcome has to be such that you can end it in a way that lets you say that you've won. And the more Iran attacks, things like our embassies in Saudi Arabia or Dubai as they're doing, where bombing Israel or killing American soldiers, the more Trump is going to feel compelled

to get further and further into this war. And that is the real danger. Did Israel force Trump or just Trump just like the idea of being a war president? Hard to say, they did pretend to be at loggerheads last year too. Like Trump was supposedly trying to negotiate and Netanyahu wanted to go to war and it turned out to be a ruse to just lure Iran into lowering their defense systems. It could be that Trump wanted as much as Netanyahu. But one thing I know for sure is that the the Israelis and Netanyahu didn't just want this now. They wanted it for decades. And whatever else is true, Trump's claim that he told the Israelis to do it against their

wishes is one of the most transparent lies you could possibly tell. Now before on the undertores, we've shown you clips of Netanyahu arguing to go to war with Iran for the last, actually longer than 20 years, about 30 years at a minimum, right? But Glenn mentioned earlier in the show that they promised us that Iraq would be easy too. And now all you got all these guys going, yeah, maybe it's for Israel, maybe it's not, but it's going to be easy, four or five weeks when we're done. I remember another guy telling me about that or telling all of us about that back during the lead up to the Iraq war.

Let's see who that was. If you take out Saddam, Saddam's regime, I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region. Did it, Glenn? Well, if you think ISIS is a positive reverberation on the region, which by the way, Israel might, is ISIS has never really shown a propensity to attack Israel, interestingly. Then I guess you could say so. I don't think anyone else really thinks that.

He also went on to say you're going to have democracy flourish in the region. Taking out Saddam is the key to everything. He's the terrorist regime. Again, Jank, it's the exact same script they're using now for Iran. Yep. All right, Glenn, thanks for doing this. Really appreciate it. Everybody, you can check out Glenn Greenwald on Substack and make sure you do.

He's covering this war and so many other things brilliantly. Glenn, thanks for joining us. Really appreciate it. Great to see you, Jenk. Thanks for having me. Yeah, no problem. And when we come back, one of the things that's happening is apparently commanders telling U.S. soldiers before they go into war that this is for Armageddon and so that

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Fool me once. Shame on you. Fool me. We can't get fooled me again. All right. Back on T.Y.T. Jank Hugar, Yasmin O'Leon.com with you guys. As is also on Rebel HQ, another YouTube channel you guys should check out. So, yes, I'm going to read a couple of comments here, and then we'll take a break. And then we got really important stories about Christian Zionism to tell folks. But again, I wanted to thank Peter Margie on Super Chat. R. Stone said, as a Texas voter, I'm looking at elections very simply.

One, I see better than I hear and I wear glasses. Two, our nation requires accountability and patience in that order. Pillars of democracy and trust must be strengthened. So look, I think part of the reason why he says that is because corporate media keeps telling us to not believe our eyes and ears. Right? And so no, we got eyes and ears and we know what we need and we definitely need accountability. Gargwell dragon says next, by the way, Richard Ojetta is running in North Carolina and I in this, please vote in North Carolina. No matter how you're going to vote, but he's a wonderfully populist candidate running in the Democratic primary. No court pack money, no foreign government money. Gargwell dragon says next excuse for the war we'd have to cancel Christmas if we didn't start it.

Hold for it. You never know. They might go to that too. YTP renewed says little Marco might be the one. to bring Trump down. Jennifer Marr on YouTube member section says, I feel like there's a high probability that Marco is going to get fired, little Marco is going to get fired. You know, he's one of their stars and he's so deep in the pocket for Israel that I'd be surprised if he got fired. Like those, the guys that are 100% Israel first like Marco Rubio are the ones that are the most highly protected.

Jenkeys, a fun handle among our YouTube members there, writes in, I think most everything that Rubio just said could be said at any time about Israel, Russia, North Korea as an excuse for war. Yeah, they've got nukes. They might use them. They're in danger to the region. That's true of Russia, North Korea, Israel. He's absolutely right. America's 1776 USA says to Glenn Greenwald, who's just on. Glenn, thank you for continuing to speak with clarity and conviction. Your commitment to transparency and accountability means a lot to many of us. You know, I love that this has become a place right, left center for transparency and accountability, right? Let's be honest about everything and let's hold our politicians and our media to account.

And finally, on Twitch, Octo Squitty says, the left and right can all come together in hating Dave Rubin. I think Glenn and I just did agree to that. All right, anyway, guys, we're gonna take a quick break here. When we come back, like I said, some of our commander are saying that this war is going to be Armaged But we'll be back. We must stop the terror. Now watch his drive. Yeah, so guys, a couple of things.

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Wang John said Mike Johnson is the fashion sense of a relocated youth pastor. Okay, that's hilarious, as usual. Smith and Verana says, this is going to suck. We're going to have to have a national primer on the crucial nature of the Zionish-slash-Jewish distinction. Everyone loves learning. You are absolutely right, and I have been doing that. I feel like almost every day for a long time. Zionist is about nationalism.

Judaism is a religion. A lot of Jews don't agree with what Israel is doing. Some of them, by the way, or a lot of them might be Zionists, hey, I want Israel to exist. And I think they have a right to exist. And I support Israel. But I do not support what they did in Gaza. I do not support these wars, et cetera. And then there's different categories of Jewish folks who aren't even Zionists at all, right?

And so don't assume anything about anyone based on religion or race. That's crazy talk. Now, if someone says, hey, I am for Israel, you guys should be for Israel, or here's $5 million to be for Israel, or you have to start Israel's wars, yes, you criticize them. Look, I don't even criticize all Zionists, and I know some people say, no, Jake, you should. I sometimes use that word just because it's too convenient as a sort of a giant, long explanation. But I generally say Israel first, because I don't mind anyone who likes and loves Israel. as long as they're not demanding that America do every single thing that Israel asks for.

That's the real issue, including the wars and paying for the genocide. All right, but we've got to make sure that we stay on that, guys. We cannot have this bleeding into anti-Semitism, and that is on the rise. Before they were using it as kind of weaponized charge, okay, that's still out there, but now real anti-Semitism is rising. And by the way, of course, because of Netanyahu and Israel, No doubt about it, I don't care what anybody says. That's a stone cold fact.

Most inarguable thing I've ever said. BC Lizzie says Marco Rubio is a foreign agent. He's a modern day Benedict Arnold, a treasonous traitor. That's her opinion. Old Dirty Pastor says the legendary Glenn Greenwald, nice to see Jack and Glenn hanging together. Little Mac McChie says only losers, losers lose jet planes to friendly fire. I have a secret theory about that. CB wants his bag is still drinking the Kool-Aid and will until the end.

We'll see brother. It doesn't look like it, but we'll see. And I am out of time. We'll be right back. I picked those drapes in my first term. I just saved curtains. That's kind of nasty. All right, back on TYT, Jenkin, Yaz with you guys. Yaz's got a story for us. All right, let's roll the tape. The U.S. Embassy now in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait City, they are closed. The State Department has ordered non-essential, non-emergency personnel out of the UAE, out of out of Bahrain, out of Jordan, out of Iraq. And in addition to that, Brett, the State Department suggested that every American basically

almost anywhere on this map, get out if they can. I have never seen notice like that from the State Department. Every American across the Middle East find a way to get out of the region. Of course, they're on their own. Everyone get out if they can, however they can. So after launching a very aggressive war against Iran alongside Israel, the United States. States is now just leaving Americans who are out in the Middle East, out to dry, out to fend for themselves, drawing the wrath of former Trump ally. Of all people, Marjorie Taylor Green, she

has a lot to say on this. We're gonna get to her response and that is fun, but Jenk, it's almost as if they didn't have a plan. What's going on here? Yeah, two things in this story. One is we're gonna show you the panic that has started and that goes to Yaz's point and The second point, which is, my God, did you have no plan at all, right? But I like that others are now as furious as we are about the fact that they are endangering Americans while being obsessed about protecting Israel. So let's give you the facts. All right.

So here is the situation as it stands right now. Of course, everything is happening so quickly. It's still a developing story in a lot of ways. But yesterday, the State Department urged all U.S. citizens to leave more than a dozen. Middle Eastern countries due to the obvious safety risks. And the US Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs, Moram, Namdar, posted this image on X telling Americans to get out via commercial means. And of course, that was very difficult to do because, you know, everything was a bit chaotic.

And you can see that is an extensive list of all the usual suspects, all the countries in the Middle East. And today, the State Department ordered the mandatory departure of non-emergency personnel and family members in six countries in the Middle East after two Iranian drones struck the U.S. embassy in Saudi Arabia. So a suspected Iranian drone also hit the U.S. consulate in Dubai today, but the Americans in the Middle East have very few options for how they're supposed to get out and they're just supposed to figure it out for themselves. For one, many of the airports in the region have shut down due to the fighting, which makes

sense. airports in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Doha have been hit directly by strikes. Ben Gurian Airport in Tel Aviv is also still closed with no options for commercial or charter flights. And secondly, more and more U.S. embassies and consulates have suspended their services altogether. In Kuwait, the embassy was closed and Americans were told to just stay indoors. In Jordan, diplomatic staff was temporarily evacuated on Monday over a threat. And in Bahrain, the embassy was closed and all regular and emergency appointments were canceled. And Marco Rubio, he posted a video on X outlining how Americans can get in touch with State Department officials.

But a recording on the phone number, Rubio recited to help Americans says, please do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation at this time. There are currently no United States evacuation points. Great. They really just did not think this through and they weren't worried about all the Americans that they left over there. So even the U.S. Embassy and Israel told Americans in the country that they were on their own.

They posted this on X and it says the U.S. Embassy is not in a position at this time to evacuate or directly assist Americans in departing Israel. The following is provided for your information to make your security plans. the Israeli Ministry of Tourism has begun operating shuttles to the Taba border crossing as of March 2nd. To be added to the passenger list for a shuttle, you have to register via the ministry's evacuation form. The U.S. Embassy isn't making recommendations for the shuttle. If you choose to avail yourself of this option to depart, that is interesting wording, the U.S. government cannot guarantee your safety and the information is provided just as a courtesy.

So thanks. Thanks a lot. So just pure abandonment is what it seems like. The embassy announcing that it was leaving Americans out to dry infuriated a lot of people, I would imagine, but also the likes of Marjorie Taylor Green, who responded to the post when she had this to say. She said American taxpayers are forced to give Israel $3.8 billion every single year. And here is our own U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem telling Americans, good luck getting out, you're on your own. The Betrayal is unbelievable. It really is. And Democrats joined in the condemnation, including Senator Chris Murphy, a Democrat from Connecticut, who had this to say.

He says so the State Department is forcing everyone to immediately leave the region, but it's also refusing to help people leave the region. The strike itself is illegal and disastrous, but their lack of readiness for what comes next is unforgivable as well, incompetence everywhere. So today, a State Department official claimed that it had helped over 130 American citizens leave Israel, which doesn't sound like that much. And they said that they were working on getting charters and military aircraft for Americans trying to leave. But when Donald Trump was asked about the thousands of Americans that are stranded in the Middle East, all he had to say was this and see if you can decipher what he was trying to say. Why wasn't there an evacuation plan and will you send planes to get people out?

Well, because it happened all very quickly. We thought, and I thought maybe more so than most, I could ask Marco, but I thought we were going to have a situation where we were going to be attacked. They were getting ready to attack Israel. They were getting ready to attack others. You're seeing that right now. And a lot of those missiles that are hitting in, those are stationary. Those were aimed there for a long period of time at these other countries. So I think I was right about that. We attacked first. And if we didn't, it could have been, you know, look, we're really decimating them. They're being decimated.

So he had no words of encouragement or wisdom for these people who have been stranded. He doesn't seem to think that it's a priority to get these people out of these countries that he, after he initiated this attack. And he acts as though, you know, it all happened so quickly. You planned it. You're the one who decided to do it as quickly as you do it as you do. it as quickly as you did without having a plan in place. Jenk, this is negligence is what we're seeing from our government. And they're just not doing their jobs, they're not taking care of our people overseas.

Yeah, it drives me crazy. So during the break, I was looking through a couple different sites. You know, we got our embassies on fire. We got the CIA station in Saudi Arabia that got hit. And there's fires everywhere, they're hitting us all over the place. And Trump said earlier, that he was surprised. Jake Tapper did a good job, ask him,

was there anything that you surprised you? And he said, yeah, I didn't think they were going to hit our bases in the Gulf. I'm like, why wouldn't you think that? And people all over media are doing this, and it's driving me crazy. They're like, wow, I mean, and especially the Israeli guys, like Cornicus or whatever, you pronounce his name, was debating Anna on Pierce Morgan yesterday, Benetting Yahoo himself on Sean Hannity.

They're all like, can you believe Iran is a attack? all these random countries like, you know, UAE and Cyp, they're not random. We have bases in all those countries. That's the most logical place to attack because Iran's missiles can't reach us. The only thing it could reach is when we bring our entire fleet to them like schmucks so that they're sitting ducks and we have our bases unprotected because all of our energy and resources are going to protect who? Bolivia, right?

Jordan, right? No, of course, Israel. Everything is protected. They already have Iron Dome. We have no protection. Okay, so on CNN, me interviewed Americans stuck in the Middle East. One said, I feel just like a sitting duck. And you are, brother. You know why? Because you're not Israeli. If you're an American, no one cares about you. If you're in Israel, you'll be super protected. So another person said there's one. widespread frustration. He's in the UAE. Do we head to the airport? Do we stay sheltered in place? The director of the U.S. government is completely unclear. They're saying to shelter in place, but also to seek out commercial flights. And there was no advance warning that a war was about to break out. So look, what happened was, as Trump halfway alluded to there,

Netanyahu and Israel kept going, you got to go now, you're going to go now. And so they're like, Oh, plan for Americans, who cares? No, no, we got Iron Dome and you've brought your missiles and the Thads and the Patriot missiles are all ready to intercept missiles that might come to Israel. Don't worry, they won't attack your bases. Who cares about the Americans, right? Don't worry about a plan to get into Americans. Shut up, shut up.

Israel wants a war right now, okay? And by the way, why did they want the war right now? Was Iran on the verge of doing anything? No, we had already destroyed their nuclear facilities. And we read you this story earlier in the show where officials at the Pentagon say, no, Iran was definitely not going to attack us. And you saw Trump say it there. He said, we attack them first.

Meanwhile, Heggs is still out there lying going, we didn't start this war, but we're gonna end it. No, we one billion percent started it, and you just heard the president say that we started it. And yes, look, there's two things. One is Israel's like, no, war, war, war, war, because they're, they're just, they're just, they're because they're losing support and popularity here in America. And before they get completely outed and ousted from the US, them and their Israeli lobby and all that junk that's harming this country so much,

they're like, okay, we're gonna push, push, push, get one more war. And if they get entrenched in that war, they won't be able to get out. We got them, they're working for Israel for another decade or so like we did in Iraq, right? But the second part of it is Trump never plans for anything. He's still working on a concept of a plan for healthcare. I mean, he goes in and like, I remember the first year in his first term. He's like, nobody knew health care was this complicated. Brother, we all know that health care is that complicated.

And now you've had 10 years to come up with a plan and you still don't have a plan. He never prepares for anything. He hates doing homework. That's why he's still hiding his grades from college and high school. What do you do? Yeah, but, you know, in Trump's, in a weird defense for Trump, you know, He doesn't have any plans for anything, but he's never asked to have any plans for anything. He would do three separate presidential campaigns, have no plans for anything, no solutions,

just complains about all these problems, and then says, we have concepts of plans. Oh, it's very tricky. It's very difficult. And nobody ever presses him on these things. And so he never, ever has to deliver. He's been saying that he was going to have a health care plan. Oh, you know, it's a couple weeks out from now. He's been saying that since 2015, since before he was even the president, from before he was even a presidential candidate, you know, and nobody ever holds him to account for anything,

it seems. And so it makes sense that he would just go into something like this, have no plan of execution. Perhaps maybe he knows why he did all this. Perhaps he thinks he understands the situation as it's playing out. I'm sure he has a lot more information that we do not have access to, but he has, there's no plan. And we can see that. And we can see it not just in how these things are playing out. But also in the way that Trump himself is talking about it, he contradicts himself quite a bit when any time he's asked about why we attacked Iran. And it's only been a few days. So he's contradicted himself quite a few times within just a few days. But then we also hear conflicting accounts from members of his cabinet, from Marco Rubio, from Pete Hegsef, as to why

we're doing what we are doing. And the American people, I think at this point, unfortunately, are kind of accustomed to just being confused and not really knowing what's going on. They're telling us one thing, but it's clear that that's not exactly what it is. And so we're just like trying to figure it out on our own. And it's kind of interesting because we've gotten good at it, right? We've gotten good, at least some of us have gotten good at reading the larger geopolitical situation when we have to and thinking ahead and kind of trying to understand what the actual motivations are behind the actions of our administration. But it's really sad that the things that they

tell us are just part of the story, just something to consider because we cannot trust anything that they're saying. Also, I do want to give a shout out to Spain for getting on Trump's, I can't say that word, on his bad list. He's not happy with them right now. And it's because they won't support us in this and they won't let us use our military bases in Spain to launch attacks from. And good for them because we see what's happening to all those bases and to our embassies in the areas that are being cooperative with us. And, you know, this is like France all over. This is like freedom fries that we're going to have all over again, except with like paella or something.

Yeah, I was going to say, that's it. No more tapas for us. Okay. I love tommas. No more tapas. No more tapas. No. All right. So look guys, enabling us to further damage ourselves by starting these wars for Israel is not something that our allies do to help us. So real allies like Spain in this case, France and the case of the Iraq war, try to pull you out of a bar fight where you're gonna get hurt. And so this is a bar fight we didn't need, so God bless Spain for not encouraging.

On the other hand, the English as usual are compliant and they're like, yes, we shall give Israel its war. They hesitated for like a second and they're like, we're so sorry, Israel, we're so sorry. We will sacrifice now British soldiers. All of you go to die for Israel, right? And that's it. And if we are the British embassies or the British faces get hit, we had it coming, you know, because our British lives are not important. American lives are not important.

Only thing that matters is Israeli lives. So this is the six state of affairs here in the West. We've got to liberate ourselves. So it's not just Palestine that's occupied. I think a lot of our governments are occupied. All right, we're gonna take a break here. When we come back, like I said, the Christian Zionists are also here, and they're in the military, and they're talking about how this war is great because it's going to lead to Armageddon.

That story when we return. I have concepts of a play. I put on the blinders, I say I just do it. Members on t.t.com for a lot of love for Yaz out here. Gemmali said, yeah, it's actually kind of frightening how you somehow become even more magnetic over the years, a real life superhero. A superhero. How fun. How fun for me. Totally. And then Benjamin, the Yazinator has entered the building.

So I didn't know you were the Yazinator. So that's fun. I could be. Good. Yeah. Well, apparently you are now. Okay. And Teddy Lucy Linda says, yeah, stunning hair. Okay. So lots of love out there. Okay. Thank you. I did deep condition over the weekend. So I'm glad that it's being appreciated. There you go. Notice. Okay. Brad O'Donnell, councilman. writes in. Once upon a time, not so long ago, American citizenship conferred some pretty fantastic privileges. Nowadays, we can't even bother to save American lives in a war we started,

not to mention America's executed in cold blood by ice. Yeah, so great points, brother. Okay, so then we go to super chat. History speaks, YT says, the problem of Islamic terrorism in the West is real. It has nothing do with Iran. The group of Muslims who commit basically all Islamic terrorism in the West, or extremist Sunnis, Salafi jihadist groups like al-Qaeda slash ISIS, while Iran is Shiite. So it's not that there's never been an act of terrorism from Shia Muslims. It's been attacks against Salman Rushdie. There's been other things that happened as well. But overall, he's right. And so look at that. So I'm from a Muslim background, but have there been Muslim terrorists? Of course. See people who like Israel? That's not that

hard, you could still be honest, right? But anyway, his main point is that Iran is not nearly the threat that people are talking about. And they just conflate Shia and Sunni Muslims and make it pretend as if we're all massive extremists. And that's a huge problem. So seventh flyer, Stephanie says, good to see Spain stand up to Trump. I hope more countries follow suit. Even if it alienates us, we can always rebuild relations after Trump's gone. Then on YouTube member section, Snow Wolf V-O-V writes in. Our queen from Texas joins us from the news for the news on TYT today. Hi, your hair looks great today, madam.

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Listen to this one. Brahmin 83 says, registered Republican, I just got back from my Tala rica vote. Look, take the win fellas, it's something. He wrote that in, okay? Look at that. They say, oh, no, but they're never going to vote for a Democrat. Well, apparently, Tom Formas says the U.S. has the largest debt in the world and countries are already calling the loans.

And I'm super worrying about that, brother. It's true. And then Zach Wilderberger says, follow the logical war to bring back Jesus. That would make Trump to Antichrist. Uh-oh. Hey, and, DYT. Yes, tell us about Army yet. Yeah, well, if you didn't know that this country was being run by a death cult, it absolutely is, which is fun for the rest of us.

Journalist Jonathan Larson reports that U.S. troops were being told that the U.S. Israeli attack on Iran was in preparation for Armageddon and also the return of Jesus. Jank, is this comforting information for you? No, just when you thought the Israeli Zionists were bad enough in starting wars for all the wrong reasons, Here comes the Christian Zionists. Joy. Wait till you hear what the commander said about why we're in this war and what to do. Tell us about it, yes. All right, so let's give you the high points.

This is from Jonathan Larson's report. He says a combat unit commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing Monday that the Iran war is part of God's plan and that President Donald Trump was anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon. and mark his return to Earth. And that is according to a non-commissioned officer. So we'll talk more about whatever that even means later. But between Saturday and Monday, more than 110 complaints had been logged by the Military

Religious Freedom Foundation or the MRFF regarding the rhetoric about commanders in every branch of military. The complaints were widespread across more than 40 different units, across roughly 30 military installations and according to one report, the non-commissioned officer wrote to the MRFF that their commander urged us to tell our troops that this was all part of God's divine plan and he specifically referenced numerous citations out of the Book of Revelation referring to Armageddon and the imminent return of Jesus Christ. And it is very understandable that all of this is coming directly from the top because Defense Secretary Pete

Hegeseth has enshrined evangelical Christianity at the uppermost levels of the U.S. military airing monthly prayer meetings throughout the Pentagon. Last year, the Pentagon confirmed to Larson that Hegsetth attends a weekly White House Bible study, and it's led by a preacher who says that God commands America to support Israel. And these are the people, again, who are running our country and running our military. And these are the things that they believe. So Larson spoke with MRFF President and founder Mikey Weinstein about the report, and this is what Weinstein had to say. He said these calls have one damn thing in freaking common.

Our MRFF clients, service members who seek MRFFF aid report the unrestricted euphoria of their commanders and command chains as to how this new biblically sanctioned war is clearly the undeniable sign of the expeditious approach of the fundamentalist. Christian end times as vividly described in the New Testament book of Revelation. Many of their commanders are especially delighted with how graphic this battle will be zeroing in on how bloody all of this must become in order to fulfill and be in 100% accordance with fundamentalist Christian end of word eschatology. And that is the end of worldness. That is terrifying that they're, they seem to be giddy about everything that's happening now. It seems as though they're are finally able to usher in this end of world and so they can be raptured and go up to heaven. And of course, all of this violates the constitution, which they don't seem worried about

because the constitution is very worldly and earthbound. And it also violates the uniform code of military justice. Weinstein had some choice words for the military members speaking this way to their subordinates saying that they will be swiftly, aggressively, and visibly prosecuted. However, this is not the first time that talk like this was within our military in some capacity. Weinstein says that this kind of end of the world thinking creeps up any time that Israel comes up. So after October 7th, 2023, Hamas obviously attacked Israel, for instance. And the MRFF reported a complaint about an Air Force commander who said at a briefing that the war between Israel and Hamas has all been foretold by the Book of Revelation in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. And no one can do anything about that. Wow.

As for what these evangelicals are even talking about, evangelicals are, you know, in many ways kind of like O.G. Zionists. Many, including many in our government, believe that Israel must exist in order for Jesus to return. However, Pete Hedgesets, Bible study leader, preacher Ralph Drolinger, teaches that the reason to support Israel is that God still blesses Israel's allies and curses Israel's enemies. Even though Israel killed Jesus, and of course this is rooted in historic anti-Semitism. So if you needed more proof that our government was being run by evangelical Zionists, I do have a quick clip to show you. This is Republican Representative Tim Burchett, and he is being asked a question about Israel and the second coming of Jesus and the United States' role in facilitating that.

Do you think there's a role of religious extremism here in the US funding? shaping the conflict. I mean, there are a lot of folks who are part of the evangelical movement that want to support Israel. We support Israel. And we don't really kind of see that same kind of constituent group pushing the other way. Yeah, I wouldn't label the Baptist or the evangelical community is extreme because I feel like they're following the scripture and what the scripture says about Israel. Those who bless Israel will be blessed. I mean, they take it literal and I'm one of those people. You know, there's some Christian Zionists that do believe in some of these biblical prophecies, and they're very controversial within, even within the Christian Zionists.

On what the interpretation is. Yeah, and believing in Armageddon that there will be a final battle around Jerusalem and that after that battle, you know, there's a judgment day. Jews will be killed or converted. Jesus will come back. There's going to be a rapture event. What do you think about those kind of prophecies? I believe Jesus will come back and I'm, and I'm going to be on his side. So he's going to be on Jesus's side. Jesus is going to come back. They're all going to recognize him. The world, I don't know what's going to, I don't, I haven't read the Bible in a while. It's been a while since I read the book of Revelation, I'll admit, but they believe that they will be blessed with heaven or whatever for helping Jesus return to

earth. And in order to help Jesus return to earth, they have to facilitate the state of Israel. They have to protect it. And also they have to kill a lot of people, it seems, right? They really just don't feel any kind of remorse about it because they have this strongly held religious, dogmatic, evangelical belief. And that is what is underpinning everything that they're doing in the Middle East. And then, of course, you know, as much as they don't care about worldly pleasures and things like that, they are making a ton of money while doing so.

They're just going to burn everything to the ground. And, you know, they're just going to leave the rest of us behind. and they don't care. This really explains, Jank, why they don't believe in things like climate change or why they don't think that it's an issue and they don't, they don't pay attention to it or why they don't care about the institutions that they're burning down. This is a very, very destructive ideology and it is intentionally so. What do you think? Yeah, so first that was Lee Fong doing good work in interviewing that congressman. And then Jonathan Larson was our former managing editor here at T.YT.

super proud of them. There's a great story. The whole country's talking about it. I want to mention one quick detail in this story that I thought was interesting. They had one group that is, as you have explained you guys, there's about 110 complaints at least, but one group of 15 in a unit. So you're saying, well, you know, look, they're talking about Christian Zionism, so must have been like atheists or Jews or Muslims or someone that objected.

And there was one Jewish guy, a soldier who objected Jewish American, obviously they're all They're all in our armed forces. One Muslim American, 11 Christians objected. So the majority of the people who objected were Christians, they're like, this doesn't make any sense. So look guys, do a lot of people believe in the return of Jesus? Absolutely, like about four billion people. It's about half the planet believe that, at least if they believe their religion, they believe

that Jesus is going to return. Why? First here's the Christians, but the book of revelations is different than the end times theology. The end times theology comes from a bunch of books that some American jackasses wrote in the 1970s. My conspiracy theory on that is that Israel paid him to write those books because what's in them, which I'm gonna tell you in a second, okay? But I'm open and honest, I have no information about that.

Jonathan Larson, Lee Fong, whatever, the Ryan Grim Davis, all the great reporters in this country, please go look into that, okay? Because it is so perfect for Israel. But I want you to know the other part of it. So yeah, Christians say Jesus is gonna return. That doesn't mean they have to sign up to this Armageddon plan, right? But the other two billion is Muslims. Muslims also believe that Jesus is gonna return, not Muhammad but Jesus, because Muslims

believe that the third book, the Old Testament, New Testament, and Quran, they respect Christians and Jews and they call them people of the book, and they believe in all of their profits, and in fact, at the end, they believe Jesus returns. Again, for traditional Christians as traditional Muslims, that doesn't mean that everybody is annihilated and murdered before Jesus returns, which leads us to the books that were written in the 1970s. So those guys wrote very, very, very conveniently for Israel that Israel must be formed, they must get the occupied territories.

Really, that's in the Bible? That they have to get the occupied territories that they got in 1967? Somehow in the early 1970s, look at that, there's a book that says, oh yeah, the Bible says they have to have Gaza and the West Bank. Sure, as my daughter says these days, sure, buddy, sure, right? And then the third thing is they have to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque, which is one of the most holy sites in Islam, so that that can start a giant war in the Middle East. By the way, congrats, we do have a giant war in the Middle East, our second one after the Iraq

war, and I'm not even counting Afghanistan and all the other things that happen, right? So, and then they think, okay, well, then what happens next? This is, this seems lovely. You know, we're taking the Palestinians land, we're destroying their mosques, et cetera. Jesus wanted all this. Remember, Muslims also want him to return, so I'm pretty sure they're not into that. But then it gets way worse. Then the war involves almost everyone on earth dying.

So that includes you guys, and that includes tons, billions of Christians, let alone billions of Muslims, let alone almost all the Jews. So at the very end, in their twisted version of end times, God kills everyone in Israel. So that doesn't help Israel either, but 144,000 Jews are saved because they realize that Jesus is real in the nick of time, in this ridiculous soap opera for serial killers, okay, that they wrote. Unfortunately, a giant chunk of the country totally got bought into this. By the way, by pastors who were continually given free trips to Israel and given tons of money

and perks from Israel, pushing this garbage on American Christians over and over again. Kill the Muslims, give Israel everything, start giant wars for Israel. Don't worry, it'll work out. And by the way, I mean, you know what happens at the end. All the Jews are killed, all the Muslims are killed, and almost all the Christians are killed. Where is the interesting part of this? I mean, this is a maniacal death cult. So that doesn't mean that every Christian Zionist knows that they're in a death cult and

is like some weirdo psycho? No, most of them are very normal people. They go to church and they listen to the pastor go, yeah, and then at the end, everybody's dead. Yes. Like, are you sure that's Jesus coming back and not the other guy? Right? But they've got people to buy into this without knowing it. Perfectly normal people going.

And the leaders pretend to speak on behalf of the actual Christians in this country. And the actual Christians that are going to the churches have no idea what those leaders are doing. Those leaders sent a letter to George W. Bush before the Iraq war. And they said, you better not be even between the Palestinians and the Israelis. You must support only the Israelis. And crush the Palestinians. That's what Jesus would have wanted because he was born in Bethlehem. Oh, right, that's the West Bank.

Oh, he's Jesus of Nazareth. Where is that? The West Bank. So Jesus who lived in Bethlehem and Nazareth would have wanted America to fund the country destroying Bethlehem and Nazareth. But these sick guys not only wrote that, but they encouraged Bush at the time. You have to go to war with Iraq and start Armageddon. And now here they are.

They're back in our military, telling the troops, go murder as many Muslims as you can because we're trying to start Armigan. This is ludicrous. We have to end the belief in this death cult. The problem is not the Christian followers. It is those pastors that are deeply corrupt. And yes, there's another reason why, you know, what Tucker Carlson has done lately, people can say I'm a bad guy for supporting Tucker on his anti-war stance, anti-Israel stance, et cetera.

But he also said that the Christian Zionists were totally wrong. And that if you're a good Christian, you wouldn't want any of this death and destruction. And that is an enormous favor to the country that he said that. What do you think? Yeah, I think this entire, the whole saga that you just laid out is unbelievable. And it's not just like an unbelievable thing in the sense that it sounds like mythology, but there's so many people who are so entrenched in our government, not just in this government, I should say, but around the world, and they're so zealous about it.

And they really just believe that this is a physical thing that they have to help manifest in our reality in this physical world. And the fact that these people are running our country, the fact that we have a prayer breakfast at the White House, the fact that Pete Hegseth has a Bible study now at the Pentagon, it's unbelievable for a country that still proclaims to have some semblance of a separation of church and state. And I know that that line has become very muddled lately, very intentionally. So especially in red states, especially here in Texas, I've been seeing that a lot.

But the idea that we used to have religious freedom in this country where it's like, sure, you can practice your own religion. No one's going to force you to be anything, but we're all subject to all of this, right? We all, nobody voted to invade Iran. Nobody said, I support this. This is, and this has like some of the lowest support I think ever for an invasion like this. I think it was at 36% overall, including Republicans. And even among Republicans, it has very little support compared to historically the way that they tend to support these things. But none of that matters, right?

None of that matters if the end goal is something divine and something heavenly and something supernatural and out of this literal world, right? None of this can be proven. This is not a logical thing. And so we're dealing with illogical geopolitics here. And that's why we're struggling to make sense of everything that's happening. And they'll give you all the geopolitical reasons for why it's happening. It's like, oh, you know, they cut off the strait of Hormuz and oh, they were, they have weapons of mass destruction.

You know who has weapons of mass destruction? You know who has a lot of them. And there is no oversight for any of them is Israel. They have acquired over like, I think it was in the 90s. It was reported that they had over 200 nuclear weapons. That was a whistleblower came out and said that in the 90s though. So if that's all true, we can assume that they have a lot more by now. And they acquired them illegally with the help of the United States, of course, and they have

no oversight on them. When we had the Iran nuclear deal in place, it was, you know, they weren't allowed to enrich their uranium beyond a certain point. And they weren't allowed to have as many enricher, machines, I can't remember what they're called. And all these things were put in place to prevent what Benjamin Netanyahu kept yelling about since again the 90s that, you know, they were going to launch a nuclear attack and everybody was going to be at risk. And so Obama put the Iran nuclear deal in place and Trump got rid of it. All the oversight was gone like nothing. And then now he's

like, oh, now they're a threat. I don't know why that, I don't know how that happened. But it's real. Yeah, look, I think Israel is by far the country most likely to use a nuke. I mean, they're so deeply paranoid, they demand 100% security, et cetera. If they thought they were like within, I had like 1% chance of losing 1% of their territory or something, they'd nuke someone in a second. I'm super duper worried about it. Yes, there's a country in the Middle East that has nukes already, it is Israel. Is there a country that's likely to use or, you know, that I'm worried is the most likely to use.

So let's put it that way. Yes, it's definitely Israel. So I realize that as we're doing the story, yes, I'm the exact opposite of Christian Zionists. So they're actually, again, guys, not the Christians themselves. They barely know anything about it, right? It's the leaders that I'm talking about. They're actually deeply anti-Semitic. And so they, Pete Higgsweth is doing a Bible study at the Pentagon every week.

Already that's unconstitutional. Then he brings this crazy pastor that keeps preaching about, and there's another story that Jonathan Larson broke, preaching about how, oh, the Jews killed Jesus. What is that? I never understood that, I think it's crazy talk. Like, first of all, yes, the Romans killed Jesus, but second of all, who cares? Jesus was Jewish. Like what is, this is madness.

So that's why I say I'm the exact opposite of them. They love Israel and Israel's wars and war crimes, but they actually don't like Jews at all. I love Jewish people, companies like, and my life and my friends, my family, and I tell you guys all the time, the crimes of Israel should, oh, don't, don't, don't ever make the mistake of putting that on Jewish Americans who had nothing to do with it, okay? So I love those guys, and I can't stand Israel at current government, their wars and their war crimes. So and then ironically the people who are Supporting Israel that are in that Christian Zionist group and other groups like that We'll turn around and say to us, oh, you guys are anti-Semites, we're not supporting Israel Bro, you want to kill all of them and that's your dream scenario

So please spare me the anti-Semite crap from those guys especially also from everyone else Okay, we've got to go we got Operation enjoy coming up for all of you. This used to be for members only, but our members are beautiful, open harder folks. They open it up for everybody. So writing stories of things that made you happy, I'll share some of that from our audience, and then we'll talk about, yeah, it's crazy. But in the political times, but especially in these dire times, guys, we need this more

than ever. It's almost an active defiance and rebellion to be happy. Let's talk about it when we come back.