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Thank you and enjoy the show. Hello and welcome to the DSR Daily. I'm David Rothkoff joined by Riley Fassler, Minestine. We've made it through another week.
It's the beginning of spring, holy moly.
And we've just got global warfare and the collapse of democracy in America to deal with.
“So, where are we going to start our rundown on yesterday, today, and tomorrow?”
Good question and I have the answer. Donald Trump compared the surprise US strike on Iran to the Pearl Harbor attack during a meeting with the Japanese Prime Minister, saying, quote, "We didn't tell anyone about it because we wanted the surprise. And who knows better about surprise than Japan?"
He defended not informing allies in advance by arguing that secrecy made the attack more effective, contributing to thousands of strikes and major damage to Iran's local forces.
Mark along with the historical comparison created an awkward diplomatic moment and added tension
amid the ongoing conflict. Oh, a awkward diplomatic moment. It was so cringe.
“I mean, I saw one person commenting, you can see the Japanese Prime Minister so leave her body.”
I mean, she was so discomforted by the whole thing. And as of course, she should be because holy Mackerel, there's a bit of a debate on the internet. We talked about it yesterday with Norm Ornstein on Words Matter. As to whether this was more embarrassing than the time when George H. W. Bush leaned over and puked into the lap of a Japanese Prime Minister.
And there was a kind of consensus that it was George H. W. Bush couldn't help himself. Trump, you know, turning to the Japanese and kneeling them about Pearl Harbor. Right when he was about to ask them for help, cleaning up his mess in the Middle East. But, you know, she gave him some innocuous language about, yeah, it will help sort of kind of, and managed to get out of the whole meeting unscathed,
proving that she's pretty deafed politician for a new Prime Minister.
“And she got pretty good reviews for that back home.”
And, you know, we now continue on with, you know, the reality, which is not at all reflected in what Trump said in his statement, which was secrecy didn't help us. We are farther from achieving any goals in the region than we have been. Price of oil is spiking things are a mess. We don't even coordinate terribly well with our one ally that we were talking to in this.
These rail is who Trump blames for having, you know, bombed targets that we hadn't approved. So it's a big cholesterol. And I'd write about that in a column at the Daily Beast, in case you're interested in that. And Riley, what are you at? I have some exciting news about a finite new collectible will be able to get David.
Good, I can't wait. The US has said, "This is going to go with your Trump phone and my Trump phone." You know, by the way, during the meeting with the Japanese yesterday morning, Trump was, well, I guess I had their posting or talking about the fact that a pair of his golden sneakers went for a very high price at a sale in the Middle East. Like, like, a hundred and eighty thousand dollars for a pair of Trump golden sneakers.
I'm so shocked to hear that. Well, you know, it's all, it's all griffed. It's all griffed, but Riley's got like a hundred pairs of those in his closet. And that's your new one. Yeah, no.
I can't wait for him to cash in on that. You what, didn't you once ordered a Trump watch?
No, they're too expensive and they're too shitty.
Oh.
“And that coming from a true watch connoisseur.”
So, well, what I'm sorry to have been erupted you, because I know it you're going to talk about.
This is another thing to get under our skin. Okay. So, what's the new collectible, Riley? The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts is officially approved a 24-care commemorative coin featuring a president Donald Trump's image to mark America's 250th anniversary.
To bypass federal laws that typically prohibit living presidents from appearing on currency. The treasury is exercising a specific legal loophole regarding the issuance of gold coins. The final design portrays a stern profile of the president at a desk with a bald eagle on their reverse side. Commission numbers are currently advocating for an exceptionally large coin size. Anyway, to match the presidents, it's a well documented preference for, quote, "big things."
[laughter] That he loves gold. And he loves things that typically only autocratic leaders, dictators do, Roman emperors do.
“There's a reason there's a log in stealing this kind of thing.”
And, you know, it's just like holy macro. You know, no one will say Mr. President, no. And it is leading the world into total chaos.
But of course, Riley will be the first one in line to buy a few of these collected coins.
Of course. Yeah, well, who wouldn't want it? Well, you know, again, we have more proof that we're living not in a simulation, but in the real thing of the craziest moment in our history. Meiner.
The Pentagon is considering sending additional U.S. troops to the Middle East, amid escalating conflict with Iran, despite Trump publicly denying any plans for new deployments. The U.S. already has about 50,000 troops in the region. And discussions of reinforcements comes as fighting intensifies. Global oil flows through the state of our moves are disrupted.
“And military operations expand in scale and proximity.”
Officials say the added forces could protect shipping or support further strikes, while the potential escalation raises concerns about deeper U.S. involvement in the prolonged conflict. I'm Theresa, and my experiences with all entrepreneurs started a choppy fire attack.
I know choppy fire has already been the first day.
And the platform makes me no problem. I have a lot of problems, but the platform is not one step away. I have the feeling that choppy fire is a platform that continues to continue. Everything is super simple, integrative and helpful. And the time and the money that I can't invest in there is no other way.
For everyone in vaccination. Let's test the choppy fire point D.E. What's the number? 50,000 right now, but unsure how many they're thinking about sending over. They're just mulling it over.
Yeah, they're mulling it over. It's all a great plan. They're executing the plan. This is just, you know, stage 11 of the 1,000 pits. No, they don't have a plan.
They don't know what the fuck they're doing. But again, on the internet, showed a picture of, I guess it was, the Iran with a picture of Vietnam imposed on top of it. And it showed that Iran was three or four times as large as Vietnam. And then it pointed out that at our peak in Vietnam,
we had 560,000 troops there. And how did that turn out? Let's just see if the class knows how that turned out. Did we win the Vietnam War? Anybody just throw shout it out?
No. No, that's correct. So, you know, we also sent hundreds of thousands of troops into Iraq and tens of thousands of troops into Afghanistan as well. And we didn't win there either.
So, this seems just like a formula to spend lots and lots of money. Put tens of thousands of Americans at risk, lose lives, and produce chaos in uncertainty in the region. And on top of that, unlike the Vietnam War, or the Iraq War, or the Afghanistan War, to anything like this degree,
disrupt the global economy at the same time. The financial times today called what is happening right now, as a result of this war, shutting down the straight-of-hormous, blowing up energy facilities as the Iranians did with the natural gas
Facility in Qatar yesterday.
The biggest single disruption in global energy supplies ever.
“Can't imagine it's bigger than World War II, but that's what they said.”
And that's not a good thing. And you know it when you go to the gas pump. You know it when you're if you're a farmer, you know, and at the beginning of the year, you thought that a ton of Eurea was going to cost you $260 or $300.
And now it costs $600. More than doubled in price. That's where we are right now, folks. And there is no way out. President Trump has reportedly warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
against further strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure, following in Israeli attack on a major gas field that destabilized global oil markets further. While Israel seeks state collapse by dismantling Iran's revenue sources, the Trump administration is prioritizing economic stability and attempting
to prevent a broader regional war that threatens Gulf neighbors.
“To combat surging energy prices, US officials are weighing the release of”
strategic reserves and the temporary suspension of sanctions on Iranian oil already at sea. You know, as I said, you know, Trump's now after the fact going, yeah, hey, would you guys come in and help us clean up the straight of our moves?
And it does make you think, well, you know, in the past when we would get into scrapes in this part of the world,
the first thing that United States would do,
even the bone headed George W. Bush administration was put together coalition. Make sure that nations were on our side. There was even, you know, we had a coalition to help with the extraction of US troops from Afghanistan of 60 ad countries.
We didn't do that here because Trump, Pearl Harbor, secrecy, blah, blah, blah. We just talked about that. So we had a coalition of two. Just two.
That's got to be easy to manage, right? Except apparently not.
“Not for us because our coalition partner, our ally,”
is apparently blowing shit up and we don't know about it. There's a big debate continuing whether they push
us into this thing in the first place.
I think that's been overstated. The United States can't be pushed into this thing. Unless the United States wants to go. But, you know, Donald Trump, because he has no good advisors, because he doesn't have people with experience at this,
because he thinks he can handle anything. Cannot manage a coalition of two. Great, fantastic. Okay, come on, there's got to be one more story. Help us get through the week and into the weekend.
You've been through the week and into the week of the week. You've been through the week and into the week and into the week. No, no, no, no. How long are you going to take my savings? You're going to take my savings?
Yeah, exactly. How long are you going to take your savings? You're just going to understand. You're just going to get your job or your own savings. You're just going to understand.
How long are you going to take your savings? Save. How long are you going to take your savings? One last story. The Trump administration is moving to shift oversight of federal student loans from the Department of Education
to the Treasury Department, starting with defaults of loans and potentially expanding to the entire $2 trillion portfolio. Spoiler say the change could improve financial management, while critics warn and may create confusion and ad barriers for borrowers already navigating a complex system. The phase transition begins immediately,
but lacks a clear timeline. Raising concerns among lawmakers advocates and education officials about its broader impact. This is just part of the desire to shut down the Department of Education, which is a terrible idea. Although when you listen to the Secretary of Education talk,
as she did yesterday, this former wrestling executive who's in charge was shutting it down, you know, I guess it's better than having her in charge. She was singing the praises yesterday of certain kinds of test schools that she's visited, starting the day off with two hours of AI-led teaching, where teachers stand on the side and let the AI do it.
You know, AI has lots of purposes in life, but you know why they think this is a good idea. Fewer teachers, fewer dollars, spend an education, a more ignorant populace,
Because the more ignorant the populace,
the more votes for the GOP.
That's how that works.
“But shifting it over to the Treasury Department should be seen as,”
you know, improving the situation for anybody, because the same Secretary of Education said it's time for all these people who have these student loans to start paying up. They owe it to the taxpayers. This is somewhat distinct from the approach taken during the Biden administration,
which is trying to forgive these student loans, which are not just a result of student overspending an education.
They're also a result of incredible inflation of the cost of education
to those students and forgiving the loans, recognizes that people who actually go and get an education contribute more to our economy than people who don't. And that it is a fundamental principle of America's growth in the world that we help those who are in need to finance their education.
But you know, I mean, Riley, you studied in Europe,
“do European students appear burdened by heavy student loans to go to college?”
No, that seems to be a uniquely us problem.
It is an us problem, you know why,
because education is free in those countries. Just like healthcare is free in those countries, because those countries further along in the progress of civilization that we are, recognize that one of the things that governments do that actually benefits all of society is ensure that its people are healthy
and well educated, because it makes for better society. It makes for more tax revenue. It makes for more innovation. It makes for more growth. It makes for better understanding of the challenges we face.
And consequently, we can just look within me at the other places in the world that are moving away from us, moving ahead from us, because they don't have these self-inflicted problems that we do.
“Well, isn't that a cheerful note on which to end the day?”
No, not that cheerful. But we will encourage you to look back at our various podcasts from the week. They've been getting great reviews or deep-state radio podcasts on the war. The conversation yesterday with Norman Stein about the current situation in Washington. We've got a still consciousness coming for you today.
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Encourage them to do it. For now, happy spring, Riley. Happy spring, men all the way to coffee. So everybody be aware, allergy time. And we'll be with you on Monday. Bye-bye.
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