War Update: Israel’s True Motives, Potential False Flags, and Oncoming Global Crisis

would like to see it continue much longer if you were to pull while the Iranians or the Americans basically anybody. How long do you want this to go? Very few people would say, "I want it to go a long time." But that doesn't mean it won't go a long time. Unfortunately, it is likely to.

It's unlikely to be resolved anytime soon. Of course, that could prove to be untrue. You never know.

It's an utterly dynamic situation. But big picture, there are still a couple of unresolved

“questions that this war may resolve. This one may be the only thing that resolves them.”

And so until there's a consensus on the answers to those questions, it probably is going to continue. What are those questions? Well, the first is geopolitical. And it's the biggest question of all, which is who runs the world. Who gets to make the decisions? Not simply who's richest, but who makes the rules, who sets the terms. And for most of our lifetimes, there has been no question about that. The answer has been in the United States. The

United States sets the rules. The United States runs the world. That's been true in the Western half of the world since 1945 when the U.S. emerged stronger and richer than any other nation after the end of World War II. And it's been true since August of 1991, 35 years ago, after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The United States has rained in a unipolar world. That's the color. It's just one poll. There's one center of gravity. There's one power center. And that's been

“the United States. But that has changed over the past several years, maybe decades certainly since”

China was admitted into the WTO in 2001. Now, it is a multi-polar world. You've heard that phrase no doubt. And that means there are a couple, at least a couple centers of gravity. Really, there are two. There's the U.S. and the constellation of states with which it's a lie. And then there is on the eastern hemisphere of the globe. China. And China is now a pier with the United States. At least, almost no matter how you measure it, population, of course, much bigger, military power mode.

We're not quite sure, but certainly from a technological and industrial output standpoint, at least a pier. And then on a pure economic level, well, China has a bigger economy, a bigger real economy than the United States. So, yes, China is a pier. And so the question is, since you

now have two countries that are roughly evenly matched, we think we never do know until they come

into conflict, but they seem roughly evenly matched, who gets to set the terms for commerce and diplomacy

“and everything else that happens on the globe. Well, if you were to reach a diplomatic solution,”

there would be, in effect, a power sharing agreement between these two countries. You take these, I take the West, here are the terms. But unfortunately, no such agreement, formal or informal, has been reached for a bunch of reasons that's everybody's fault, but one of the reasons is, almost nobody in Washington can get his head around the current present obvious reality, which is no, we don't run everything anymore. We are in competition, not necessarily in conflict,

but in competition with this other country that says least as powerful as we are, called China, different system language culture, et cetera, but at least every bit is powerful. And so you can't make unilateral decisions anymore. Sort of that moment that many parents face when used to barking orders that their kids, they realize the kid is taller than them. And like,

it's a new relationship in some ways. You're always the parent, but you can't just bark orders anymore.

That's pretty much where we are with China, or maybe a little past that, actually. And what we've noticed over the past several years is the total unwillingness, the inflexibility of Washington policymakers to just acknowledge the reality. And instead, even as we speak, there's probably some symposium underway in Washington, about what we do if China invades Taiwan. Well, of course, some China's perspective,

Taiwan is part of China, which is sort of runoff for the past 75 years, but it's a part of China. That's their view. And the United States, of course, isn't in a position to stop the reclamation of Taiwan. Let's stop lying. And yet only in DC is that not obvious, which is to say, people in Washington are still acting like they're running everything on a post, but they're not. And the rest of the world is looking on and thinking at some point, you got to knock it off in

face reality. Now, there are a lot of people in the United States who would like to live in a polar world. It's way less fun to be constrained to have to come to terms with another country before you make a decision. No one wants to do that. No one wants to be challenged. But again, it's sort of not up to us, or anyone, the moment that you live in, you're not in charge of reality, actually. And so this is the reality we live in.

And the question is, are we going to come to terms with it in a reasonable way, or are we going to be forced through use of arms to face that reality? And it looks increasingly like the latter,

diminished from those contests and find yourself in a much weaker negotiating position.

“Better negotiate while you're strong than when you're weak, but our leaders weren't wise or”

far-sighted enough to do that, seized by hubris. They were dictating terms, like Baghdad Bob. It's sad, actually. No reason to laugh about it. But that is one of the questions now being

decided and run. Why are run? Well, because these questions are always decided by proxy.

No two great powers want to go to war with each other. Of course, especially in the nuclear age, because that could mean simultaneous elimination. And no one wants that, at least consciously. And so typically these things play out in third countries, like Vietnam, famously, or Afghanistan, for both the Soviets and the United States, or Korea, and now Iran, which is part of alliance that includes the other big powers Russian and China. So they may not be explicitly

weighing in, which is to say they're not fighting alongside the Iranians yet, but they're certainly on Iran's side and they're certainly helping in a multitude of ways, one expects. And a lot for them rides on the outcome. And because it does, makes it harder to settle this thing. So that's

“the geopolitical, very obvious overlay here. That's why this is not just a debate about whether”

the ayatula has nuclear weapons stop. It's much bigger than that, and much more serious than that.

The consequences are much more profound than that. So that's the first. But there is another layer

that most Americans are not aware of, but much the rest of the world is highly aware of. And that is a religious layer. Now, Lindsey Graham is on tape saying to a gaggle of reporters his bloodshot eyes, his puffy face. God knows what he's been doing. Saying explicitly, this is a religious war. This is a religious war. Now, his motive in saying that, you know, he's not here to answer the question. We can only guess, is he trying to ferment a religious war? Probably,

he's an end times kind of guy, but it almost doesn't matter. He's telling the truth for once.

“This is a religious war, fundamentally. And that is not obvious to most Americans because this is”

the most secular society, not just United States, but the West, the English-speaking world,

Europe, and the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand. In history, there's never been a more

godless to be blunt about it, a more secular society at scale. Never. Nothing, approaching this has ever happened ever. Every society is fundamentally a religious society, explicitly a religious accept hours. So we lack the terms to describe what we're seeing, and we lack the imagination to think about it. And well, to quote Jesus, we have the eyes, but we cannot see. We don't see what's happening on us, but the rest of the world very much does see. So you often hear people talking

about the Middle East crisis, and they usually mean energy, you know, people want the oil, the gas. But traditionally, and people have talked about the Middle East, they're talking about Jerusalem. We're talking about the Holy of Spot on Earth. Let's be a lot more specific when we say the Holy of Spot on Earth. The Holy of Spot on Earth is something called the Foundation Stone. The Foundation Stone is literally a rock in Jerusalem. I'm used to be called Mount Mariah,

which was at one point the highest place in the oldest part of Jerusalem. And it's on that spot on that rock, on that stone that Jews believe the world began, that the Old Testament, or the Jewish Torah tells us that Abraham brought Isaac bound to be sacrificed to God. It's on that spot that Muslims believe that the Prophet Muhammad ascended into heaven. And of course, it's right nearby that Christians believe Jesus was crucified, and then rose to heaven.

So on that spot, or right nearby, a lot has happened, but critically on that spot, because it was the place where Abraham brought Isaac, and again, to American ears to sounds weird, but to the rest of the world, it's like, yeah, everyone knows us, because it's the center of their lives. On that spot, Solomon built his famous temple. Now in the Torah, it says pretty clearly, and correct me if I'm just reading it, that Jews followers of God can only publicly worship God

and sacrifice on that spot in that city of Jerusalem on that spot. And on that spot was built a temple. The first temple, and that was destroyed by Babylonians famously. And then it was rebuilt and later improved by Herod. And it was at its completion, I think, the largest building,

Jesus preached in what we call the second temple that Jesus preached, the very center of Judaism

“building without which you can't really have toward Judaism. The religion just didn't work without it”

by its own terms, in its own book, it said that. And during one of his sermons in that sermon, Jesus, who Christians believe is God sent to earth, says, "This will be torn down, not one stone will be left standing." And it was shortly after that that he was put on trial, mill the night, and tortured to death, crucified. As it happened, so that's the religion. Here's the history. About 35 years later, 37 years later in that range, in 78D, Titus, the Emperor, the Roman Empire,

of the Roman Empire, gotten to quite a conflict with the Jews of Judea in Jerusalem. And it's

complex and incredibly brutal, but the bottom line was, in AD70, the Romans,

besieged Jerusalem, finally broke through the walls, and tore that temple stone from stone, not a single stone left upon another. Really, a kind of dedication to destruction that's hard for the modern mind to imagine. We talk about genocide, this genocide that the Romans tried to genocide the Jews for real, and they succeeded in destroying the temple, and with it, temple Judaism, toward Judaism. You can't have the religion that existed before AD70,

after AD70, because there's no temple. And so this has been an open wound for 2000 years, and certainly understandably, people have wanted to rebuild the temple to build what they call the third temple, to re-establish this religion at its birthplace. There are a couple of problems with this. One, exactly 500 years after Titus destroyed the temple in AD70, in AD570, a man called Muhammad was born in Mecca, and built one of the world's great religion through

the world's second largest religion, as it stands today, in a very short period. His name was Muhammad, he was born in Mecca. He died in nearby Medina, but in the meantime, he built or inspired the building of within 50 years of his death, one of the great religious monuments in the world, certainly one of the prettiest, called the dome of the rock, and it's in Jerusalem on Mariah. In fact, built over the foundation stone. And if you've ever been to Jerusalem, or if you've ever seen

“photographs of it, you will remember vividly, a gold dome, it's called the dome of the rock.”

Why is it called that? Because there's a rock underneath it, the foundation stone. That is built on the site of the second temple, and that's with in what's known as the al-Aqsa complex. There's a mosque next door called the al-Aqsa mosque, and that spot is one of three holy places, apparently co-equal holy places in Islam. Mecca, Medina, dome of the rock, al-Aqsa. So that is at the very center of Judaism, I mean, physically the center of Judaism,

that spot, that exact spot over the foundation stone, and Islam. And it has been occupied by a

mosque. A mosque has been sitting there since the seventh century, since the late 600's. Amazing.

You may be dimly aware of this, and why go on and length about this. Because now is the moment right now, like this week, is the moment that some people, not a huge number, most people Christians, Jews, Muslims are not fully aware of all this. But some people are highly aware of it, and would like to begin the process of tearing down the dome of the rock, tearing down al-Aqsa mosque, and rebuilding the third temple.

Now, there are a lot of things to say about this about its likelihood, the potential effects of it. But first, just a quick side note on the theology of this, from a Christian point of view. Now, it was Jesus who said this temple will be torn down, shocking everyone around to me, it's in the Gospels, it's in at least a couple of the Gospels. And the people heard it just couldn't believe it, and of course, the people

“running the temple, the Pharisees and Sadducees were gravely offended by it, why wouldn't they be?”

But then it happened, less than 40 years later, it actually happened, he was right, he called it. And so from a Christian perspective, he did that, God called for the structure of the temple, and as Jesus says, plainly in the Gospels, I'm the temple, I'm the temple now.

Says that.

“But there has been at least one attempt in the last 2,000 years to rebuild a physical third temple.”

And it happened in the fourth century, and it happened without getting too far of field. Shortly after the death of Constantino, Constantino was the fourth century Roman emperor who converted to Christianity and very famously turned the Roman Empire Christian, thereby spreading Christianity

basically instantly across the west where it's remained more or less ever since.

That was in the 300s, the 4th century. Now his nephew became emperor, not long after he died, and his name was Julian, referred to very often by Christian historians as Julian the Apostate, and he was in apostate, he was the last non-Christian emperor of Rome of the Roman Empire, and he had been born a Christian apparently, but he was a fairly enthusiastic pagan polytheist and very aggressively opposed to Christianity. And for that reason, he decided Julian the apostate

“decided in 363 to rebuild the third temple. So it has been tried for those who were thinking,”

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ever made at rebuilding the third temple. This comes from a personal friend of Julian the apostates

who wrote it contemporaneously, and we still have it amazingly, all these years later. I'm quoting Julian thought to rebuild that an extravagant expense, the proud temple once at Jerusalem, and committed this task, tell Olympius of Antioch, Olympius set vigorously to work and was seconded by a governor of the province. When fearful balls of fire breaking out near the foundations of the building continued their attacks till the workmen after repeated scorchings could approach no more,

and he gave up the attempt. By the way, just a few months later, Julian and perjuling the apostate was killed. You know, he was killed doing? Invading Iran. Literally, invading Iran in 363. Yeah, he was killed doing that. So it was during his invasion of Iran that he decided to rebuild the temple. You can't make this up, and we're not making up. And by the way, there was an earthquake at the same time. There were many accounts of what happened when they tried

to rebuild it, and all of them described the earth rending and flames coming out and it all sounds kind of spooky and supernatural, because just to perfect, right? Jesus tears down the temple and begins this new relationship with God directly through him, no need for a building anymore in Jerusalem. A city he went out of his way, not to spend the night in, walk over the amount of olives, even after the last supper, but whatever. And there's this one attempt by a guy who hates

Christianity to rebuild the third temple, and by the way, the workmen get burned by fire from the

ground at an earthquake, and you can sort of laugh at that if you're irrationalist, a materialist, a modern man, until archaeologists discovered that actually there was a big earthquake in the region. Galilee to Jerusalem in 3603. So that actually happened. In any case, why the long history lesson,

“because it's not history anymore. It's happening right now. There are key players involved in this”

war, the one happening tonight, who believe that what we're seeing on our television screens, and on Twitter, will usher in a series of events that begin with the destruction of the dome in the rock, Oxamask, and then the rebuilding of the third temple after which

guys fighting the war. So you may have read reports today that commanders in the field of American

“troops, a lot of them, and who knows that this is true, but it's out there, told their troops on the”

eve of the outbreak of this war that we're doing this for Jesus, because it is Jesus' will that we do this, and that by doing it, we will usher in a series of events that bring about the end of history, the end of time. I'm going to get in the last days. I'm going to believe that's true.

Especially since, by the way, there are a million Christians in Iran.

So if you were doing this for Jesus, presumably you would go out of your way, not to hurt his followers in the country or attacking, to the US government or any government-making attempt, to spare the Christians, are we making an attempt tonight? Of course, we're not. And of course, when the smoke clears, ultimately we will find out just to guess that Christians suffered disproportionately in this as they do all wars, from the Iraq war, to the bombing of Nagasaki,

the seat of the Christian church in Japan, etc., etc., etc., Christians have a way of dying disproportionately in these wars, which tells you something about their real motive. But in any case, there was a spade of stories suggesting that US commanders told their troops they were doing this for some weird anti-Christian reason posing as Christianity. But it's not just the US side. Here's

“an idea of soldier, apparently an American, by his accent, describing why he's at war. What's this?”

They call this operation the source of iron. What are we really fighting for? We're fighting for the right of the Jewish people to exist, be Jewish, Pakistan, religion and be free, and one day our truly errol come and will be united as the whole Jewish nation, so we can rebuild the bethavik dash, bethavik dash, probably mispronouncing it. That's the Hebrew

term for the temple, the third temple. We are doing this so we can rebuild the temple. Now you'll notice

he's pulling off patches on Velcro on his IDF uniform. He's not civilian close. This is the uniform of the government, of Israel, of its military, and he has patches on that uniform, one of which is a symbol of the temple, the third temple. So it just couldn't be clear. Why are we doing this? To rebuild the third temple. Now if you think we're just cherry picking this off the internet, one guy wearing an unauthorized temple patch, paid for by the way, uniform paid by us,

armaments paid for by us. The US taxpayer pays for all this stuff, one way or another. The US taxpayer pays for the military of Israel, boy does it. If you think we're being unfair and just like found one guy, well here's a bunch of guys, it took us about two minutes on the internet to find this today. Here's a selection of IDF soldiers. Let's put it on the screen. There you go. And all of them have the same patch. Look for me. Look carefully at that. What is that? That's the temple.

That is the third temple. And we'll get two a minute in a minute about how this might actually happen and what it would mean for the rest of the world. And just to be clear, these are conversations

that most Americans certainly mean, included, never wanted to have. Everybody's religious beliefs,

sincere religious beliefs, when held up to the light of the rational world to the man made world seem a little spooky and crazy, which is one of the reasons that in the culture some of us grew up and we don't talk about them in public because they're personal. They're the most

“personal part of a person. So it is without judgment, by the way, that we're airing this, okay?”

Just describing it because it is significant to the future of the world, to the future of this war and to our future as Americans. So how exactly did the IDF, the Israel Defense Forces, a military that the US taxpayer pays for, that lots of wealthy Americans send money to the friends of the IDF, how did all these guys wind up wearing patches suggesting the point of this war was the destruction of one of the holiest places in Islam and the rebuilding of a temple

that is totally enactment of Christianity, like how did this happen? Well, there are a lot of ways it happened. The main way it happened is because no one in the United States noticed because it's such a secular place and as noted, we have eyes but can't see in the years and can't hear, but this has been going on a long time in public through, in part, the efforts of a group called Hobad, C-H-A-B-A-D, and you may know people who give money to Abad, or run to Abad,

that's really good. But what is about, exactly, the Hobad you can look it up, is a very old organization

“about 250 years old and it's a branch of his civic Judaism, it's an organization that was”

overseen for many years, by guy called Rabbi Monarchum Schneerson, who was famously in Brooklyn, considered the Messiah by some of his followers, who was a friend of presidents or certainly someone

president's visitors, very powerful man in the Orthodox and the Hacetic community. He was the

overseer of Hobad, which predated him and outlasted him, but he was its most visible ambassador. And Hobad has been pushing in a pretty subtle way, unless you look carefully, for the reconstruction of the third temple, and it seems like from the reading we did recently, that those patches actually came from Hobad. In any case, Hobad is pushing for the building of the third temple, but it's not just Hacetic groups from Brooklyn and it's not just

“IDF soldiers. There are amazingly a lot of American evangelical leaders, Christians Zionists,”

whose main point is rebuilding the third temple. Now, how could an American Christian or any Christian call for the building of a temple whose presence, whose inherent presence, denies Christ, who said clearly in Christians believe this, it's a core point of faith, I am the temple. You want to speak to God, you speak through me? That's Christianity, that's the whole religion,

right there. So if you're a Christian preacher calling for the rebuilding of the third temple,

you kind of missed the whole point, that's more than apostasy, that's like not even knowing what the religion's about. So it's hard to believe there could be any or deemed Christian leaders, pushing for the rebuilding of the third temple, open there a lot. There a lot. And here's just one.

“This is Pastor Greg Lock, listen to this. The Gaza Strip, which has now been cut off”

by Israel and rightly so, they should have cut them off a long time ago. I don't care how insensitive you think I am to that. There's six doors in this church you're leaving time you want to. They've cut them off electricity, they've cut off the water, they should have not listened. I'm not for hurting anyone that's innocent, but anybody that supports terrorism is not innocent. You stand out. Israel should make the Gaza Strip a parking lot by this time

next week. Destroy the whole thing. What they ought to do is evacuate up their own heel and get a great, big missile and blow that wicked dome of the rock plumb off of the spot where it's standing right now. So we get that third temple rebuilt and not sure in the coming of Jesus! Boy, it is embarrassing and shameful as an American Christian to hear that and to know that videos from a few years ago, it's been on the internet. No one bothered to highlight it.

Most people weren't even aware this was going on. Oh, it's definitely going on. These are very common views. Seems obvious that my cuckoo has them that a lot of the Christians sign as John Haguey that you think just like Israel. They just like Israel a lot. You know, these are clerics. So their lives were informed by their religious views. What are their religious views? Well, you just heard it right there from Pastor Locke, who's quite a prominent Christian Zionist. He's not

some lone wacko. And there he is with an Israeli flag waving behind him, casual calls for

genocidal violence. Just blow it up, make it a parking lot. Well, 2 million people live there. What

happens to them? Their terrorist sympathizers. That right there is the tell. This is not Christianity. Imagine Jesus saying, just kill them all. Their terrorists. Is there anything in the gospel that's just Jesus believe that? No, there's a lot to suggest. In fact, to tell us in very clear terms, he thought the opposite. Of course. But the last part, let's build the third temple and bring about the return of Jesus is a direct contradiction of core Christian theology. And even people

without theology degrees, who didn't go to some eminent Bible college, can tell you what Jesus says, I am the temple. That is not Christianity. It's not even a close facsimile of Christianity. It's clearly evil. And it is, in some sense, the driving force behind the efforts to rebuild the third temple. Julian, the apostate, who was the last guy to try it, who died invading Iran, he's not a Jewish, he was a pagan, just like Pastor Locke. But for some reason, he was the instrument

in the political realm. And that's relevant to you, whether you believe in God or not, or interested in the history of the Abrahamic faiths or not, global leaders believe this.

“People you wouldn't expect, and you wonder, what is going on here?”

It's enough to make the hair and your arms go up. Did everyone know there was an effort to rebuild

the third temple and the foundation stone, except me? I can't believe I was left out of this conversation.

No, all of us took place in public. And if we'd been paying attention, or been tuned into that frequency, the spiritual frequency, we've been spiritually sensitive enough to pay attention to we would have known this. But of course, when you grew up in a materialist culture, when the only things you believe are real or the things that can be measured or purchased on Amazon, you tend to miss a lot. And we miss this. Here's the President of Argentina,

have your melee, who we know personally, at the Western Wall, which is believed by some to be a

remnant of the second temple. The last stone from the second temple, that's the claim. Here,

he is there, the famous wailing wall, saying this, watch the subtitles. There is another prophecy that says that the same place would be rebuilt. So a correction that doesn't appear to be the Western Wall, and there were no subtitles. You heard

“him say it through his translator. I laugh and quiver with joy when I think about the third temple”

being rebuilt. Now, this is the supposedly maybe who knows Catholic President of an overwhelmingly Catholic country, South American country, wonderful country, Argentina, who got elected and was presented to American news consumers as the libertarian economist who was going to fix their debt problem and get rid of inflation and just make life better for Argentines. And there he is in Jerusalem saying that he's weeping with joy thinking about the return,

the rebuilding of the third temple. What the hell is that? You would think that would not even

be on his to-do list. If you're running a country as complex and damaged as Argentina and just promising and great as Argentina, but like there's a lot of things you got to do in Argentina if you're running it, but you take time to fight a Israel and say the thing you really want in

“life is the rebuilding of the third temple. What is going on here? And why haven't we talked”

about this before? Say before we invaded Iran with troops who say out loud we're doing this to bring about the creation of the third temple. Why weren't the rest of us informed? Now here's a piece of tape you may have seen and that I personally don't want to play since I know the guy I like him, but it does make you wonder. So this is the current Secretary of War Pete Higgs-Fourne Fox News employee. Nice man. Very nice man.

2018 in Jerusalem and is someone who knew him well, I can tell you I had no idea that he had such evolved and specific and apparently very informed opinions on rebuilding the third temple of all questions. This is not something they teach you in Sunday school in the Presbyterian church. This is not something that people talk about at dinner in the United States. This is not something our Congress ever mentions that the president ever talks about. This is considered so esoteric and

weird and crypto historical and religious and kind of culty and what's a bodden that no one ever mentions it. But here's Pete Higgs-Fourne Fox News employee from Princeton going on about it in a way that suggests he thought a lot about it. This is 2018. Today, Jennifer and I have a chance to go see the western wall of the temple now, the western wall tunnels, so much of the old city. And as you stand there, you can't help but behold the miracle before you. And it got me thinking about

another miracle that I hope all of you don't see too far away. Because 1917 was a miracle. 1948 was a miracle. 1967 was a miracle. 2017, the Declaration of Jerusalem at the Capitol was a miracle.

is not possible. I don't know how it would happen. You don't know how it would happen,

“but I know that it could happen. What is that? That's the secretary of war right now”

overseeing the war with Iran that people fighting it are starting to say actually is about rebuilding this third temple. It's the same man. Okay, this is the point where you begin to think maybe we should talk about this and its implications. And what are its implications? Religious war, global religious war. So the first heavily publicized move by the United States military in the Israeli military in this conflict was to kill the head of state of Iran. The 86-year-old Itollah, Itollah, Camini, who was replaced today

by his son is apparently more anti-Western than he was, so I guess strictly speaking that wasn't very effective. But if you take three steps back and know and did because everyone's busy dancing him as Hitler and the most evil man in the world and we're so grateful he's dead. What was the last time the United States military or Israeli working in conjunction with Israeli military killed the head of a world's religion? Is that wise? It's something as we agree

with all world's religions. It's not endorsement of Shia Islam to say maybe we should pause before killing its 86-year-old leader. It is instead an acknowledgement that that might have consequences that affect the United States and Europe and the world, but particularly the United States since we are the United States and we have children and hope to have grandchildren and what will be the downstream effects for them when you kill a religious leader, killing the religious leader, cripple

their command and control structure, were they unable to launch missiles and drones when we killed

“the 86-year-old Itollah? No. Because he knew he was going to be killed. That's why he stayed above”

ground apparently. He wanted to be murdered. No, why would he want to be murdered? Maybe because he wanted a religious war? Why do we kill him? Maybe because we wanted a religious war. No. Why would we want that? Why would these railies? Who got us into this war? Everyone emits that now? Sorry. Why would they want that? I don't know. Think about what would happen if this war leads to the destruction of the dome on the rock and the oxup complex on Mount

Mariah and Jerusalem and we'll explain in a second how that could happen. A word that began with the killing of the head of Shia Islam. What would happen? Well, here are the numbers. They're about

15 and a half million Jews in the world. Total. They're about 2.5 billion Christians and they're

“about 2 billion Muslims. So whatever happens next is not going to be a fight between the Muslims”

and the Jews because 2 billion versus 15 million. Not much of a fight. This is likely to be, if not brought under control immediately or maybe it's too late, a war, a religious war, the one that Lindsey Graham just described between Muslims and Christians. And it's not going to play out in the Middle East because this is a regional conflict but as noted at the beginning, it's a global conflict where every big power has a stake in what happens, this will play out globally and it'll

play out in our cities. Islam is the fastest growing religion in the United States or not that many Muslims are the United States. What five million or something like that? But as the fastest growing

religion, that's enough to cause problems for sure in Europe. 65 million Muslims, second biggest

religion in every European country, fastest growing in every country, Australia's same thing, second biggest fastest growing New Zealand, same thing, second biggest fastest growing, Canada's same thing. What happens in all those countries? Those Christian Western white countries? What happens there? If there's the religious war that Lindsey Graham and clearly the Israeli government and some in our government are hoping for what happens? Oh, oh, those countries

suffer more than they have suffered. And so it's possible that the real target here, it's just possible to throw this out out there. It's not the Mueller's in Iran.

It's us as it always has been. But don't take our word for it. Here's a particularly candid and

an Israeli rabbi. Joseph Misrock describing how Israel should take advantage of a then ongoing

“conflict with Iran, much less intense in the current conflict we're seeing with Iran. To destroy”

the dumb of the rock in Al-Aqsa. Watch this. If it was up to me, the last time when they shot hundreds of missiles, I would pretend that one missile came from Iran and shoot it down. You know, then all the Arabs will go against Iran, there will be the end of the problems.

You make them fight with each other. This bunch of lunatics. Never to let you deal with a bunch of

cowards. Shoot it down into the dumb of the rock in Al-Aqsa. Destroy what's on what the Israelis call the Temple Mount on the foundations don't destroy it and blame the Iranians. And that has the effect, as you just heard him say, of turning our enemies against each other. Turning our enemies against each other. Although they refuse to recognize it for quite some time, the Europeans are the

“enemies. The mortal enemies of the Israelis. That's the Israeli perspective. Obviously, look at the”

effects. And so, if that were to happen in this conflict, it's not the Israelis who would bear the brunt of it. It's the Europeans, it's the Canadians, it's the Australians, and it's us, with our, and it's the Russians, 20% of Russia's Muslim. All of those countries would be in for serious turmoil and budget, and maybe already, this shortly into the war. Turn them against each other. You heard the rabbi say. Now, how could this play out? Very simple. Iran is sending drones

and missiles into Israel right now, mostly into Tel Aviv. Is it beyond imagination? That in the fog of war, maybe one of those missiles hits the dome of the rock, or we're told that it did.

And of course, during war, the first thing you see is censorship, so it's very hard to know

“what's going to be already seeing it today, is there less or more video available on the internet”

today than there was yesterday from this world? There's much less, of course, that's called censorship. They're censoring video of what's actually happening. It happens in every conflict. Every war sets off the same cycle at home far from the fighting, censorship and persecution, censorship and persecution of the enemies, real or perceived for the people prosecuting the war, and censorship of their views. So in that environment, when you can't really know what's going on,

it's thousands of miles from here. All of a sudden, the Aloxiconplex is just vaporized, oops, the Iranians did it that we had this debate. It's like a hospital bombing in Gaza, who did it? Well, it was a booster from a Hamas rocket. Well, how do I know? I wasn't there. Oh, we know as it's gone. Oh, so sorry. Could that happen? Oh, yeah, could happen. The army is fighting with patches of the third temple on their arms on their official uniforms.

And what happens then? Global religious war. Talk about high stakes. You thought nukes were high stakes. At least nukes are over quickly. There are survivors. A generational religious war. That's worse than any virus and more deadly. That could happen. Do the people in charge know could happen? Some of them do. They don't seem worried about they should be. We should all be worried about. We shall be noisy about it. No, you can't do that to the world. We hope to give

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conceptual, big picture way, but in a detailed way and coming at this with an understanding of the technology and use the tactics and the strategies. We've been super impressed and we think you will be with that Brendan Weikert joins us now. Brendan, thank you so much for coming on. Thank you for having me. Thank you for those kind words. That was very, I'm very honored.

Well, it's true. We've never met, but I've just been watching your stuff recently and, you know,

wars tend to bring out phonies and people like, oh, I was on a sealed team 27 and I know what's going, you know, and they don't know anything. But your analysis is just a nerd. I'm just a nerd. Well, I have been very impressed by your grasp of what's happening. So can you just give us really quickly the overview of where we are today. What are the big developments? Well, the big developments as you saw with Secretary War, I guess he's calling himself now. Hegg Seth is their transitioning

the munitions. So now the claim is that it's been so successful this air war. They don't need to use what's known as standoff weapons. So think the Tomahawk cruise missile. And they're going to now shift the air force and the Israeli air force. They're going to shift now to flying large sorties of war planes into Iran and bombing targets with what are known as gravity bombs. And these are things like the joint directed attack munitions, J-bams. They require you to be close to the

target. So the the risk factor to our pilots is now increasing exponentially. But I would just like to pause it a theory and it's just a theory. I actually think the real reason we are doing the shift is not because of realities or facts on the ground that are amenable to the US and

“Israeli strategic position. I think we are being dictated to by the depletion of our stockpiles.”

Yes. And what I mean by that, I have some numbers for your audience. We all know the Tomahawk cruise missile going back to the Clinton era where he would just pop those things off, you know, as soon as the Winski, the Lewinsky impeachment got underway. 4,000 Tomahawk land attack, cruise missiles are believed to be in the arsenal. We have been draining those since 2022, 2023 in Ukraine at an disproportionate rate. In the last four days of this conflict, we have

expanded 400 of those systems, which means that's 100 per day with the operational and tempo, not ceasing. In 2026, the budget request was only for 59 new missiles. We need several hundreds every year. The reason we're getting such low numbers, Tucker, is because our defense industrial base is broken, and we have no business starting a world war or a major regional war as we are in the process of doing. So I believe the real reason the US and Israeli militaries are starting

to get more daring and dangerous with their air strikes is because they cannot afford to blow through the munitions that are already depleting. And it is, in fact, a race to depletion between us and Iran. And right now, I think the Iranians still have a very sizeable, unused, increasingly sophisticated missile arsenal. Colonel Rob Maynes is a friend of mine. He's an former Air Force Colonel. He disagrees with me. He says, look, these missiles that are being

popped off by Iran are basically a bunch of dead enders. It's going to fizzle out, and

headset made a sort of argument about that today that there was a decrease. But I actually think

“that those dead enders, if that's what you want to call them, actually are probably still combat”

effective. And that is why we are now having to still continue the war, even though we have blown through these standoff munitions, which really were protecting our people. In fact, that got word from a source of mine who's monitoring this on open source, which it looks like the U.S. This Abraham Lincoln is going to be repositioned to within anti-ship ballistic missile range of Iran. So either the U.S. really believes we've degraded the Iranian capabilities sufficiently,

or we're just throwing caution to the wind because we got to get this thing over before we run

who watched carefully the few days in the run-up to this conflict where there were uniform servicemen, I mean, there are flag officers who apparently is right this summer. Thank you. Yeah, exactly. We just don't have the munitions to sustain any kind of real conflict. They said that, right? Yeah. In fact, it is my understanding, and this is again, take from this what you will. It is my understanding that last Friday, the order went out at

338 p.m. Eastern before that there was a, quote, particularly contentious meeting between General Dan Raisin Kane, who is Trump's hand-picked chairman of the Joint Chiefs' staff. He was pulled out of retirement by Trump. So this is Trump's guy, and Kane tried to get to the word to the president that this thing is not going to go like you think it is. This is not Venezuela. This is a very different operation. And the president, for whatever reason, still decided to

ignore the best military, vice-egot, and went forward with this. In turn, vice-emoral Fred

“Kotcher, who was an adjutant, basically, two-d came leaked parts of that meeting, too. I think”

it was Reuters. Now, the question that I've been hearing from people is was that Kotcher acting on his own volition, or was that in fact, Kotcher executing some kind of informal order from Dan Kane, because the rest of the military is very, the high level is very worried about the blowback from this operation, and it is my contention that the permanent bureaucracy is desperately trying to push blame away from itself to the politicians, and even as we're seeing Marco Rubio now

to Israel itself, which is not how a winning war would look like. There'd be no blame shifting. So, do you have any insight into how the decision was made to kill Iran's head of state slash chief cleric? And this has not been a conversation anyone's been going to have, because of course, the proponents of it have been screaming about how he's hitler is the worst person. If there's any question about whether it's a good idea to kill him, you're an Iatolo lover,

you know, just the normal low IQ crap that you see on Fox News, but it's a real question, like, what was the thinking there? Do you know? So, again, this is all, you know, background and sort of piecing the puzzle together with what I know about how it works up in that horrible city we

called DC, but basically what it sounds like is the administration used the idea of diplomatic

talks to law, Khamani, into a false sense of security. We were going into a holy week at that time, and the Iranians wanted, or Khamani wanted to basically come out of his hole, and he thought,

“okay, we're going to get a reprieve. We'll kick this down the road until Monday, which I think was”

March 2nd. They got the word on Friday that hey, we're open to negotiating. So, Khamani and his cadre let their guard down. And at the moment they did, Israeli missiles were fired at a very interesting, it was actually, if I can dirt out here for a second, the Israelis did a very interesting performance with their missile, where they fired it into space from, I believe, F-16s or F-35s, it went into the space above Iran and came down at hypersonic velocities,

and it came within millimeters of the known position of Khamani. So, from a tactical standpoint,

yes, it was very technically impressive, but the key thing here was that the US used its honor

into law, the counter party into a false sense of security using our diplomatic word that hey, we're going to hold off and try to talk to you. And I actually think, and I say as a somebody who's a fan of Steve Woodcock, I actually think Woodcock and probably Kushner were probably in on the whole thing to basically law the Iranian leader into a false sense of security so we could clip him.

“And I think Tucker, I think the assumption was that if we locked off the head of the regime,”

Khamani, that the whole thing would implode like a house of cards in about 72 hours, which is why I think Trump didn't really care when Dan Kain was warning him last Friday that hey, we've got eight days of munitions in Sankham before we have to start cannibalizing Indo-Paycom, and then we have a real crisis on our hands. I think Trump was thinking, we can probably do this at about 24 to 72 hours, we'll get Khamani, these railies will,

and then it'll all work out. It's all going to work out. And obviously, nobody took the time to brief the president on, and I could have done, and I wrote a whole book about it,

basically what the Iranians have been doing for pretty much 47 years to harden their regime

day four, day five now, and they're already having to panic and change the munitions structure

because we're depleting them too fast. This is why, by the way, the heads of those defense companies are now being summoned to the White House, because Trump is going to try to read those leaders, the riot accent, you got a boost production, and they're going to say to him, "Sorry, we can't do it because the defense industrial base is both broken and corrupt." I don't know the truth about what you said about the diplomacy as a cover for action,

lowing Khamani into vulnerability. I have heard just the opposite that these railies are telling everybody that the U.S. knew the strike was going to happen, and they're doing that to shake the faith of any of our partners in the region in our diplomacy and make us sound decides. That would -- well, obviously, like I said, take from this, because this is all, you know, I don't have evidence of this to prove that. I don't either. But I find it just if I can speculate

here for a moment, I find it impossible or improbable to think, given the level of fusion between the U.S. and Israeli command and I mean, for goodness sakes, there is Israeli officers permanently

stationed in the Panagon, and I was just told by a former CIA case officer at Langley. So basically,

I find it really hard to believe that the administration did not have any involvement in this.

“Now, they want to say that they did it, and I think they are saying this because they're worried”

that there's going to be significant political and possibly legal blowback, you know, over time, because this war is anyway. But so I don't believe that particular story when they say, "Oh, we had nothing to do with it." I think we probably did not have an active role in the sense of bombardment, but I do believe that we were aware of what was going to happen, and if we probably nudged it along. If that's true, that's one of the craziest things that's ever happened. I mean,

we're trying to negotiate and end the war we know, we're getting against Russia, which is right -- are we? Well, exactly. And the Russians aren't stupid for the Iranians aren't stupid, but not everyone other than us is stupid, and which is our assumption. They're all a bunch of savages. They're all posh tunes, you know, living in the Hindu Kush, but they're not, actually. They're really smart. And they look at this like, why would we enter into negotiations with the same negotiating

to you, that just did this? Okay. But here's my macro question, which is, what about the safety of the United States? Like, when you kill an 86-year-old leader of a global religion, which Islam is, it's the smaller, but still enormous branch of Islam. If you're going to expect to create religious extremism, you kill the religious leader during Ramadan, like, was there no one in the room? And I know you're not supposed to say this, because it makes you like a Muslim lover,

or something. I just want to say this as a Jesus person, but as an American who wants peace in my own country, nobody stood up and said, hey, what are we doing here? Like, we're going to create a generational war that our grandkids are going to have to deal with at the shopping mall.

“Did anyone say that? No. No, I think, I think General Kane was the closest and he was making sort”

of a tactical, technical argument. And I have to say as much as I do like the general, and I do like him. I think he's a decent guy. Yeah. I think he's gone down in my book a little bit, because he didn't resign in protest, because whatever they're saying in public, the logistics does, it's like math, it doesn't lie, it's gravity, it doesn't lie. And the logistics are not in our favor if this becomes Trump said it was a forever war yesterday. Now, he's putting in sneer quotes,

but this could become at least a five to eight week war, headset said eight weeks today. And so I'm starting to remember COVID, and two weeks to flatten the curve, became, you know, years of, you know, dealing with fallout. So I am, I am very concerned that the president has really bad advisers. These are not people that I think have the best interests of Maga or America

first, the coalition that got him elected. In, in their hearts, I think these are these are deep

status, masquerading as Maga lovers. And I think that that, this is why we're here. This is one of the most strategically irresponsible moves I've ever seen. And the fact that the president, I don't believe was informed the truth about what was going to happen in the way it was going to

“happen. I think now that's why you're seeing the administration expanding the war, talking about”

giving Kurds, weapons, and, and, and money. And, and we're going to now expand it into a rock and destabilize your rock as if that's another thing we need on our plate. This to me is somebody who, this to me is, is a country that is made a very serious mistake with triggering this war.

once it's totally, you know, out of hand or maybe they don't even want to clean it up. I don't know,

that speculation, but I do believe that we were involved on some level with what was going on behind the scenes the day that. And by the way, I just want to make some clear. I am very much anti-Islamic Republic of Iran that regime, all that. I'm the record people know this about me. So I'm not saying this because I'm mourning the loss of commodity, but it is, it is very dangerous

“what we're doing. And I think that we really damaged America's credibility for a long time”

for a long time when it comes to diplomacy. The gold industry bank rules a lot of conservative media. Much of the gold IRA business is not actually about selling gold at all. It's about selling massively marked up coins to people who trust the voices delivering the pitch. Why is gold a hedge? I've decided to partner with the top rated precious metals company. The companies have the exclusive control. They can manipulate the price of the coins at any time. That's the dark side of it.

What he said was, you don't get as much of a loss and they tend to really accelerate when the market goes up, which obviously sounds too good to be true. We know this is happening because we talk

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in a country. Right. And sisters founded them. I don't think they're not going to play along with that at all. And it's shocking that they would even be throwing that out there at the most patriotic magnet in the world. Yeah, but you have. So let me, I mean, you look at this and it's so heartbreaking and it's so potentially catastrophic that you keep thinking, all right, point made,

“can we pull back? Can we just pull back and declare victory and go home in the famous phrase?”

Are we at a place where that's possible? Well, I'm reminded of a 2004 interview that Donald Trump gave to your old colleague, Neil Cavuto. And it was during the Iraq War at the height of the insurgency. And at the time, everybody made fun of Trump. But I thought it was brilliant. Trump told George W. Bush on that interview. He said, listen, just a clear victory, bring everybody home. We got Saddam. You've won. Let's just call it a day and let the Middle East figure out

the mess. Now, people mock him at the time. But I actually thought, actually, that's probably the best at that time way out. Well, he could do the same thing right now. Because get this. He got ready to come on. He got ready to very top bad IRGC guys. He can claim that. He has done what he can to help the people. There is a way forward. It's a golden off ramp, but he's got to take it in the next probably 48 hours. Because if he doesn't take it Tucker, this thing takes on a life of

its own, the Iranians are not going to surrender. They're not going to stop popping off missiles. They have planned for this, like I said for 47 years. Yeah, they're degraded. Yeah, they're hurt. But so are allies, by the way. And the oil coming out of the region is not coming out of the region. We are now looking at spikes in the price of energy. I saw a report from Seeking Alpha, which is an investment publication saying that if this continues for four to eight weeks,

this could take oil over $200 a barrel. That's recession territory going into a midterm

“election. Yeah. So I think 200 is depression is, I mean, well, who knows? Yeah, but that's extreme.”

Yeah, that's extreme. Listen, listen, they're destroying not, they're not just blockading the straight. They're destroying the refineries in Qatar and Saudi Arabia. And the Qataris are saying, they're not going to get this stuff online for months if not years. So that's going to be a gaping hole in the global economy for oil and natural gas. So even if Trump gets the quote victory here in Iran, and I don't even know what victory looks like anymore, we're going to be cleaning up

this mess economically for many, many years thereafter. All of that is awful. All of it is made. They don't call me Dr. Doom for nothing. All of it is manageable, though. You can imagine working through those problems and convincing yourself that it was worth it somehow. Or, you know, you could concoct as to tell yourself, there are certain things that are not possible to recover from. And yes, one is the use of unconventional, you know, highly destructive weapons

that just changed the calculation forever. And I worry about that. And everyone I ask that is,

oh, no, no, no, that would never happen. Do you worry about it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I think I tweeted

about this in the last 24 hours. Trump responded to what I've been writing. And I'm not going

cross with me. And, you know, I'm a three-time supporter of Trump. I'm saying that's not a love, you know,

“not not a hate. But I was told that the statement he made yesterday in the Oval Office”

was partly responding to my claims about the stockpiles. And he said something very specific. He said, not only we have enough weapons to fight a quote forever war, which is only cow. But he said that, you know, we're depleted a little bit on the, and I'm paraphrasing, he's on the lower level weapons. But we've got, we've got enough higher and in middle tier weapons to fight forever. Well, the higher end weapons would be things like, I don't know, low yield nuclear

weapons. And, you know, you don't want to think that an American president would go there, especially over something like this, where we weren't attacked, which we were not. And I'm not a fan of the Iranian regime, and they do support terror. But we were not attacked. The Israelis weren't even attacked. This was all sort of the machinations of Netanyahu's worst fears. And

“it is my concern that if we truly are reaching depletion, that we might have an incident where”

a nuke is used. And, you know, it's not the likelyest, but it's no longer impossible. It's now moved into sort of the realm of, it could happen. And the longer this goes on, and the more that we run through these stockpiles. And if we start losing planes to some of the remaining Iranian air defense systems, then we're going to have some problems. And I want to also say something about the strategic side. I was on banning show earlier today, and there was one of the guests

was saying, basically saying I was wrong, and maybe I am, but you know who knows. But

he was saying that we've got local air superiority, and from there we'll be able to grow out and go farther. And the only reason you get local air superiority is because you've degraded the enemy so much. Well, yes and no, but that's just a small slice of a very large country. They probably, and Iran, if they've decentralized those missile capabilities to the local commander level, anticipating that we would degrade command and control, they likely have hidden

and decentralized their air defense capabilities. And that means we have to do sort of a long-term air defense hunt. And in the meanwhile, the Iranians are still combat effective. And the longer this

last, the longer that strain is closed down, the more the oil is disrupted. And basically,

the more we get to these really nightmare scenarios. In my book, I said, a war over Iran will likely trigger a World War III. Now, that book came out in 2022. I, Grimein, convinced that we are at the opening salvo of a true World War. And it's happening because of our actions and the actions of our partner Israel. I would say even more precise, it's happening because of Benjamin Netanyahu, in the hammer lock, he has over the American government, including Masada officer at CIA headquarters

and IDF. Yeah, that one came from a, you would know this individual. He's a very famous CIA guy. I got off the phone with him about an hour before I came on with you. And it's scary. It's, I mean, remember though, Gary Vogler, who wrote a great book for the Libertarian Institute, it was called,

“I think Israel was the winner of the 2003 Iraq War or something like that. He was an oil guy working”

for the Coalition Provisional Authority. And he identified this guy named Makovsky, who was a panic

on bureaucrat, who ran the Iraq War desk for the first part of the Iraq War in O3. And he was

a Masada officer, not just IDF, and he was done by Sunan Law. So, you know, this is, you know, our country is, is unfortunately not being run entirely by the United States. You know, people, you know, it doesn't, you don't see a lot of software. I'll get emails for that one, which is, well, it's true. It's factually true. In the Secretary of State, God bless him, admitted that two days ago and said, "We did this because Israel made us do it. We're going to go

anyway." So, what about the question of hypersonic weapons? You read that Iran has them, they've been given them? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, they've got them. In fact, I got an interesting report from overseas yesterday. And again, you know, these, I'm sort of, I take with the grain of salt, but they've been right, and when they're right, though, they're really right. This one came from our friends in Russia. So, take from this what you will, but the report that I received was a retired

Russian general is telling the press over there that he knows for a fact, there's a cluster of Chinese high-tech officers or technical officers on the ground in Iran right now, perfecting and maintaining Iran's growing. They're still building them. Growing hypersonic weapons

very similar to the Chinese ASBM, which of course, when and if, and I really hope it's if,

the war with China erupts, the first thing the Chinese are going to do after they knock out our

satellites and disrupt our electromagnetic frequencies is they're going to use thousands of ASBMs ringed in those man-made islands to either keep our carriers at bay so that we can't launch planes in range or to think or destroy the carriers flight deck. And the Iranians are the, the Iran rather is the test bed the same way that we've been using Ukraine as a test bed against Russian tech. And so the, the Iranians have them. They're buried in those underground missile cities. They have

not really fired them. I, I believe they fired four ballistic missiles at the carrier after Khamani was killed. That was the symbolic attack though. If the Iranians really wanted to go ham

“on the carrier with his missile swarm, they absolutely could. The only thing that would be”

preventing them was if we had degraded their C2 functions enough. And at that time, I don't believe

we had. What's his C2 function? I'm sorry. That's command and control. So basically their ability

to control their systems and issue commands. That's why before the war began, the Iranians basically the government said to their local field commanders, we're going to give you permission to take command of your individual missile batteries so that if something like killing Khamani happens, you can just start going and you won't have to call in for orders or for range. And by the way, the Chinese are using their Yalgon. I think it's their Yalgon satellite

constellation to do surveillance of the carrier and of the US air bases in the region. And they're providing increasingly accurate targeting sets to the Iranians. In fact, I believe the reason the

“Iranian missiles have been so effective in damaging our bases. And boy, have they done a doozy?”

It is not being reported accurately. They have done a real doozy to these bases. It's because of the fact that the Chinese are providing direct real-time signals and intelligence and electronic assistance to the Iranians. So we're fighting a proxy where we're with China right now. That's the world war. I mean, this is a world war. And the Chinese are more than happy to see us soon. Now, there's this, there's this like story that the politicians keep telling us. It's really

the Republican side that keeps saying this that well, you know, we went after Venezuela and we went after Iran and that's going to really kill China because they rely on these countries for their oil. It's not really accurate. The Chinese got less than I think 4% of their oil from Venezuela. It was a new sense if anything to lose. If anything, they were thinking more money into rebuilding the refining capacity because the Communists had ruined the oil industry in Venezuela over 25 years.

“And then with Iran, they get at most, I think, I think, 14% of their oil and natural gas from”

Iran. What they were doing is the Chinese knew because they could read the room. They knew we were growing in. So what they started doing was shifting their purchases of oil from Iran to places like neighboring Russia and to other Middle Eastern countries. In fact, I think that the largest amount of oil purchased by China in Saudi Arabia occurred two weeks before the war began. So while this will hurt the Chinese absolutely, economically, it's not going to trigger a collapse.

It's not the Chinese were prepared for this. Just as the Russians were prepared for what we were going to throw at them in 2022. These regimes have been studying us for years, for years and they know our pressure points and we're like the gentle giant. We're like the lovable giant. We're just too stupid to realize these people are serious and they're killers. They're killers. And we're trying to lecture the world about transgendered rights in Libya. And these guys are playing hardball

and they're playing for keeps. And I was actually speaking to Brendan O'Reilly who's probably one of the foremost China scholars, real world intelligence type scholar practitioner. He wrote a great book called "Everybody is Everyone is Wrong About China." And I just talked to him this afternoon. And he tells me he's convinced that at the end of the day the real winner of this conflict is China. Of course. That we are going. Yeah. And I think actually this conflict worst case scenario because

you laid out a pretty bleak scenario too. But worst case scenario is this is the end of American military power for a generation. I mean, I think that's clear the goal and that's up to us at this point. I mean, you know, the second you, it's the same in a fist fight. The second you punch someone. Yeah. Everybody standing around finds out how tough you actually are. What you say

would you say? But the second, the blow start, it's like we know. And you don't always want to

not a better naked. So, but I would, okay. So the hypersonic weapons missiles, which they possess, yeah, you suggest they might be deployed against surface aircraft, right? Yes. What about Israel? Would any of them remind you? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you've got, you've got two classes of hypersonic. I apologize. I was fixated on the carrier because I got that text. But yeah, so you've got the maritime targeting of surface warships. But then you also have, what you've seen a couple of

times in the last year, where the Iranians did deploy hypersonic against Israel. And it did an

“incredible amount of damage to Tel Aviv, if I remember correctly, in the 12-day war. And I think,”

although it's been AI, I think in the last 48 hours, they deployed another, the Iranians did another hypersonic against Tel Aviv that did a lot of damage. So these hypersonic weapons, there is no

active defense against them. Our air defense systems cannot, and the problem is, it's really what

makes them very interesting. Is they come in fast and then they sort of zigzag on predictably right before they land. And this is the problem for our AD systems, our air defense systems, because they sort of just track and then go. But if you've got a target coming in and then they say, you know, those AD systems are not, because the AD systems are older, and they're based on older generation, being able to track incoming regular ballistic missiles. So this is where we get

real concern, because we, I don't think we really know how many hypersonic weapons they've got. I would imagine they've got at least, I would say, at least a hundred or so, because they've been just churning them out. And then the Chinese have been helping them. And of course, the Chinese have overmatch with us in terms of industrial mass production.

“What is the damage right now to Israel, and to US bases in the Gulf, do you think?”

Well, well, the bases in the Gulf, you know, I wish I kept the window open that I was reading,

but basically at least three of the bases have been devastated. The fifth fleet headquarters,

I am told, and if you look at the satellite imagery that you can find on open source information, it looks like actually the base and Bahrain looks like Gaza. It's completely a moonscape. So the American fifth fleet, now I don't believe I don't know if there's any, because I think we might have evacuated that base before this started. So I don't, I don't want to say there's casualties because I don't know, but just looking at the satellite images that it looks like that

it's been flattened. And that's a very expensive base that you and I paid for, and that was the sort of the hub for the US Navy in the Middle East for many years. And it has been completely taken off line, and I have serious doubt. I was talking also to a Middle East expert not long ago,

and he was saying that with these bases being obliterated, basically to use a turn, a turn.

Essentially, he doesn't think, because he thinks the Arabs are going to be so I rate with us for having kicked over this Hornets nest, because it is not going to end anytime soon. His belief is that once the war does end or settles down enough for us to say, hey, we're good, we're done. The Arabs are going to say you're not building back in our, in our countries anymore. So why would they, we didn't defend them? I mean, that's, this is a reciprocal relationship. They're

not doing this because they love us. They give a great deal on the billions, hundreds of billions in foreign investment in the United States, all this. But in exchange, we promised to protect them.

“And we didn't, that's right. And in fact, there's, there's reports, and I think they're credible.”

In fact, the Saudi officials complaining about this two days ago, basically whatever air defense systems were in these Arab countries were sent over to Israel. And they actually left our own bases in people vulnerable. Our own government did to protect Israeli targets, rather than to protect our our men and women in uniform. Do you believe that's true? Do you believe the U.S. government prioritized Israel over our own troops? If you had asked me this, a year or two

ago, I would have said no way. But after seeing that Huckabee interview by the way, Bravo, after seeing that Huckabee interview, I can't imagine how we didn't do that. I mean, it is very clear that the United States is being led around the nose right now by its, by what should be its proxy? I mean, let's get it real. I mean, of course, it should be, you know, so they're the housekeeper. We're the homeowner. Like, what is this? I don't get it. No, I'm serious. I don't understand.

I agree. I agree. So so I do believe, yeah, we probably did. And the worst part here, one of the worst parts is I have a colleague who's in the Gulf States. And he tells me he sent me a picture of the warning he got from the State Department to get out. And to cut to the chase, it basically said, you're on your own to get out. Like, we're not doing flights or not. And meanwhile, I hear that

So you mean to tell me that the sole superpower is picking a fight with this missile city that is your own. And we're not even going to provide exfiltration for our people. That's not an empire.

“That's not a superpower. That's the power and decline. That's what the Chinese see by the way.”

And the Chinese think their time is at hand because we are committing national suicide with this insanity. I wish I could disagree. It's one of the saddest things. I wish I didn't have to say these things. I don't know. I totally agree. And you think of the men whose lives are going to be taken. Americans who are like the best people already have been. We already have been. And you look at, I think the deodes only released the hometowns of four of them I think. But it's like,

Iowa, a couple from Iowa. And it's like the best people we have. These are, these are our people. No private equity kids in that group. That's right. That's right. And I just want to just say something. Yes. And I probably shouldn't. But I was, I was, as I said, a very early supporter of headset, the secretary of defense. I thought his takes on hypersonics were good.

I thought that he was a warfighter. So he understood in a way that maybe you or I could never

understand. But I was mortified by his press conference this morning. The glibness six Americans are dead because of a political decision that was made. Obviously, I don't expect him to challenge the president on this publicly. But at the very least, it's a solemn day. And we should probably not be acting like this is just another walk in the park because this is not. This is not. This is not going to plan. Now, hopefully we can pull it out of the fire. Whatever that looks like.

But right now, this is not going the way we were told that was going to go. And certainly not the

“way the president assumed it would go once he once, come on he was whacked. So the question, I think,”

is do we commit ground troops Americans on the ground? They already are. Okay. So explain what you know if you don't mind. So again, I don't have any, but just for the record because I know I'm going to, I have no access to classified information. Right. I'm an open source guy. But I can read a freaking room. And I can tell you right now, if the president went into this air war thinking, I'm going to be over in three or four days. I don't have to worry about stockpiles. And now he's

waking up and going, oh, he cow! Everything's running out. And I've got to keep fighting. He's talking about now opening up a front in Iraq using the Kurds, which is lunacy. What are the Turks going to do? By the way, the point is because Israel's next priority is Turkey. So the point is to diminish Turkey. That's the truth. Yeah. Yeah. And so there's that. And then there's the fact that the president wants to be seen as quote unquote winning. And winning means you've got, he's already outlined

what the objectives are. And this was, this was also a big bugaboo of mine. War and strategy is about objectives, attainable political objectives. Clouds with wars and extension of politics through other means. Trump came out on Saturday. He's repeated it since. The aims are regime change. The aims are denuclearization and the aims are getting rid of the ballistic missile system. He's now added on getting rid of the Navy if Iran. So those four objectives, what is the objective of the

Iranian regime survive? That's all they have to do. Survive long enough because they know because the Chinese and Russians are giving them the intel. They know that our stockpiles are about to be depleted. So all they have to do is hold out until we have to start cannibalizing Indo-Paycom. And there's going to be a real political fight at that point. I'm told that Indo-Paycom leaders are already raising quite a stink behind the scenes because they know once those systems are gone

out of their arsenal. They ain't coming back anytime soon. So the question of ground troops this

gets us to that. I don't believe it would ever be an invasion like Iraq and O3. First of all,

we don't have that capability anymore. We should scare every American because we don't have that capability anymore. Second of all, the way the country is arrayed, Trump is trying to do this

“in a light footprint methodology. So he, I think, is going to replicate the US strategy in Afghanistan”

in 2001, where we sent a bunch of special forces, A teams and CIA paramilitaries infiltrated the country linked up with already organized locals. It was the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan. This time it'll probably be the Mujahidini Kolk MK to try to basically organize a movement with the Kurds coming in probably from the Iraqi side. I think it's the north, I think it's the north west of the country and we'll be coming in from the south and it will kind of link up in whatever

is left of Tehran. That's the plan I think using air power as an interdiction like we did exactly

like we did against Taliban in 2001. Well, first of all, the MK is not the Northern Alliance

at its height. It's not. Second of all, you're talking about far greater ground that's going to

going to work. Then you're going to have to deal with the rugged terrain of Iran. Iran is

basically like Switzerland. It's just surrounded by mountains. It's a desert in the middle. I mean,

this is not good geography for the kind of tactics we're talking about. And again, the size matters. This is a much bigger country than Afghanistan with many more people. So we're talking about a much

“longer and commitment on our part. And I think the president knows this and I think he's sort of”

like the frog boiling the water, boiling in the water. He's just sort of slowly getting us used to the idea before he has to send troops in because he wants to quote, "win." It will winning for him is regime change. The regime is not going to change on its own. It's not going to be the people who can do it because they're not organized enough. They're too divided amongst each other. So he's going to need to send in special forces and CIA to basically do the organizing on the

ground and to do force multipliers. And I'm sorry to say that the likelihood of this working is very, very low. And now we're talking about being seen in this region as strategically defeated, by what we were told was a backward military force in Iran. The first American to die in the war in Afghanistan was a CIA officer, Johnny Michael Span. Yes, right. That's right. Yeah. So these forces, the CIA paramilitaries, special forces

would be deployed to do what the goal is. What? Here? Well, this is exactly what, well, again, the goal that we are told and that Trump continues to say is regime change. regime change. We don't want the Islamic Republic of Iran in charge anymore. We want, I don't know, M.I.K. or the Shah's son who's a lobbyist in northern Virginia. I'm sure he'll do great. Or, you know, any of these other, you know, groups. The thing is, we don't really know. And I think it's very interesting that

we can I just guess that's going to is the problem. I mean, I do detect. I don't detect. I notice it's very obvious efforts by Israel and its proxies in the United States of Femento religious conflict in our country. Hate all the Muslims to port the Muslims as if that's better than saying hate all the Jews. It's not better. It's the same thing. But they're trying to turn religions

“against each other in our country. And that's why I see the same, which I resent more than anything”

I've seen in a long time, because it's not going to make a peaceful country for my children. No. But I see that in this effort. So the idea is like, they're not allowed to have an Islamic country or something. For allies or Islamic countries. What kind of country are we calling for? It's their country. No. I was using the official name of the, I don't know if this, I'm sure for some people it is. But they just want to replace it with anyone other than the current

crop of leaders. And I believe that that is not possible because this regime is deeply embedded. So, you know, we killed Khamani and a dozen new leaders replaced all of these other leaders. This is this reminded me a lot of the early days of the Ukraine war when the Ukrainians and the NATO types would be, oh, we killed this Russian commander. We got this guy. Well, within 24 to 48 hours, the leadership was replaced and the Russians kept going. So this is, you know, who knew a

nation of 96 million people would find other generals and people to promote, you know, you know,

you know, it's like, well, so you wonder like how much if you really believe that killing an 86 year old cleric is going to topple the government. How much do you know about the country?

“And how much of what you think you know, well, that's why it's filtered through some CIAs,”

so who wants to be president, like the former King Sutton exactly. Do we know a lot about Iran? I don't sense that we do. Well, I know a lot about Iran, but, you know, I was boxed out of the administration almost from the beginning. So it's like you know why? And people like, um, I think, well, I think there's some personnel in the White House that doesn't like me. And I, and I think that they don't like that I don't play ball. And, you know, I moved, I got out of DC moved to Florida,

and I never looked back, but there are people like me as well who were boxed out, who know a lot

about these things. And we cannot talk. Can I ask you, who, if you can say, who, because you're clearly very knowledgeable, you seem sensible, you seem, pro-American. I'm going to tell you box to that. I'll tell you offline. I really don't. I really not looking to start a mixture. I understand. So, Bill, let me text you a broader question, which is, and I know the answer, but I want to hear you say it, was there from the very beginning of this second Trump term in effort to exclude

anybody who might conceivably stand in the way of an Iran invasion? Yes. Yes. Even though, again, again, understand, I hate the regime, you know, I don't like that regime. I'm not like I'm some lover of, you know, but I was, I was a friend of mine joked, I wasn't

Because I think it's, this is the stuff of, of lunacy. And this is literally, this is like the Mad King, you know, this is, this doesn't make any sense. It doesn't make any sense. Yeah.

“It doesn't, unless, you know, what you were saying in your model, which I think you're probably”

right, I think that's definitely a play here. Yeah, I mean, I, I just want to be clear, I don't, I don't think that most to us policymakers of any idea what the foundation stone is, or al-Aqsa,

or dome of the rock, or the third temple, this is just so far from the concerns of average people

in this country, even though I'm not paying them to know. They're minors, they're not paying them to know. They're minors, they're not. Well, that's it. But there are people who do know, and certainly in the region and the Middle East and the rest of the world, people who religious, they're not Americans, like they care. So these are big questions to people around the world, just not. I, well, I care. These aren't, I'm a Christian. Well, I care too, actually. So let me ask you since

you said that you're constructing most of your analyses through open source materials, you're reading publicly available, things on the internet. Have you noticed an effort to clamp down on videos? Yes. Okay. Tell us what you've noticed. There's also an interesting effort,

“Tucker, to, and I think this is coming from our guys, to spread AI videos of what look like”

war scenes, and then you share it. And then they say, oh, that's AI. We got to get him deemed now. We got to get him, you know, this is all, you know, we have, it is a, Tucker. It is a sad day in this country when we have official, and I have a feeling I know the group that's doing it. We have official, US intelligence people being paid with our tax dollars to sit around a basement in Langley or Arlington, Virginia, and harass American citizens online for sharing their opinion.

But that is where we are at in this country. That is where we are at. And I can tell you right now, I have been the victim of bought attacks. I've been the victim of cyber attacks in the last 24 hours on my personal email, which I didn't know people had, but apparently they do. We have been, I had to file a police report. In fact, yesterday with my local police on this ever since coming out in the last week and sharing my opinion. And this is not an organic phenomenon. This is

either ours or Israel or the British, you know, because they're always in there somehow or the

friends. Or the French. That's right. That's right. So this is, you know, this is where we are. This isn't really America anymore. This is some sensurious state. And I thought that we were going to be cleaning that up, but we're instead, we're instead giving the keys to these guys and telling them to go start war war three. I wonder if we're going to see this is purely speculative, but war's tend to create an environment where there's actual persecution of critics of the war.

Well, I was told. And again, take from this what she will, because I have no way proving it. I was told two years ago that the Biden regime had concocted a list of high profile magas supporters that they were going to basically go to and say, if Kamala had won, say that, hey, you, you got to leave the country as, you know, you can't get out of, we're going to basically

“prosecute you until you're broken, okay, law fair. And I think that never happened, but those lists are”

still around. And, you know, in 35 months, we have an election coming up. And if this keeps going the way it is, Tucker, I don't think the Republicans stand a chance to win the next election. No, if things keep going the way they are, I don't say much shady or if it's Marco. Yeah, well, that's, unfortunately, I agree with you. Last question is a put, and I hope you'll come back, because I think this has been. Any time, I love hearing you, thank you. So here's my question.

I saw video, maybe, AI of the governor of California today, Gavin Newsom, saying point blank, Israel led us into this war, Israel leads us around by the nose, Israel's first genocide in Gaza, and we can't, we're not getting anything out of this, and we need to reassess our military support for Israel. And yeah, that's probably your next president right there. Well, eggs, and, and I don't, I know him, and I wouldn't credit a single, or he says, with sincerity. He doesn't believe anything,

but he's smart. And I know that Donald Trump thinks he's formidable. He has said that in public a lot. I mean, if that's real, then, I mean, that guy has a shot. Do you think? Yeah. Yeah, I think I wouldn't be surprised. Look, this can all be, I just want to make it clear. This can be reversed in the next forty-and-a-hour. Thank you. Thank you. And just gets out, and says, look, I got everybody we needed to get. If the people

overrun can't do it, then they're never going to do it. You know, this is, this is, it's an easy out.

It's a golden offer, Mr. President. It's a golden offer amp with your name on it. Take it, and you'll be a can-israel. Will Israel allow that? You know, I, I don't, I probably,

Israel's going to do. All I can say is the president has got to make it clear. He's getting out now.

“We've achieved our objectives. We're done. That's what he needs to do.”

In terms of, in terms of news, some, you know, I, he, he will probably be the nominee because

he is wily enough. He kind of reminds me of Bill Clinton a little bit in a weird way. Oh, yeah.

“But I wouldn't be surprised if his Veep is in my old state where I used to live Virginia”

is Abigail Spanberger because the CIA wants to have one of their own sitting in the White House.

Man, that's not democracy. That's really, really dark. I hope you're right.

“Not the deep state, man. Oh, of course. Man, all it.”

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