America First - Nicholas J. Fuentes - ASSAD DEFEATED: HTS Rebels SEIZE Damascus, Ending Syrian Revolution | America First Ep. 1433

00:00:04.000 The stars are brightly shining, it is the night of the dear Saviour's birth.

00:00:17.000 Long may the world in sin and error pining, till he appeared and the soul melted.

00:00:32.000 A thrill of hope, the weary world rejoices, for yonder breaks a new and glorious war.

00:00:45.000 Fall on your knees, O hear the angel voices, O night divine, O night when Christ was born.

00:01:11.000 O night, O holy night, O night divine.

00:01:28.000 So let my light of the stars sweetly gleaming, here came the wiser I

00:02:03.000 O hear the angel voices, O night divine, O night when Christ was born. O night when Christ was born.

00:02:22.000 O night, O holy night, O night divine.

00:02:48.000 And then nowadays, I am so upset that the things we did and the things we fought for and the boys that died for us, it's all gone down the drain.

00:03:02.000 Our country's gone to hell in a handbasket.

00:03:07.000 We haven't got the country we had when I was raised.

00:03:11.000 Not at all.

00:03:12.000 Nobody will have the fun I have.

00:03:14.000 Nobody will have the opportunity I have.

00:03:18.000 It's just not the same.

00:03:22.000 Jesus is the way and the life and the King of Israel.

00:03:28.000 We just leave with love.

00:03:31.000 We're really at a crossroads here.

00:03:35.000 Look around you.

00:03:36.000 It's drag queens in schools. 1.00

00:03:38.000 It's 18-year-olds joining OnlyFans.

00:03:40.000 It's the filth on TikTok.

00:03:42.000 It's this country not having a border.

00:03:44.000 It's the idea that our kids and we, this generation, are never going to own anything.

00:03:51.000 Think about it.

00:03:52.000 Never making an income to support a family.

00:03:54.000 Never being able to have a family.

00:03:57.000 People being corrupted before they're even a teenager by things on their phone.

00:04:02.000 Sick addiction to technology.

00:04:05.000 The future is so bleak, but that has changed the calculation.

00:04:14.000 God is using me.

00:04:15.000 He's breaking me down.

00:04:18.000 Removing all of the, you know, richest person, all of this, so I can serve him.

00:04:22.000 I think they've been extremely unfair to you.

00:04:25.000 Who is they, though?

00:04:27.000 We can't tell you who they is, can we?

00:04:30.000 There is no future if we do nothing now.

00:04:33.000 There is nothing to lose.

00:04:38.000 Their ever-shrinking share of what they have are foolish.

00:04:43.000 It's all going.

00:04:44.000 It's all going away.

00:04:46.000 This country is being ripped apart and raped and looted.

00:04:50.000 We're being slowly poisoned and in some cases, quickly murdered and assassinated.

00:04:57.000 And we're killing ourselves every day, inadvertently, with the kinds of things that we eat and breathe and drink and see.

00:05:04.000 People have got to start to radically begin to obey their conscience and tell the truth and do the right thing.

00:05:12.000 People have got to start to get courageous.

00:05:15.000 And this is the time for everybody to turn and look to God And to pray and to ask for strength and to ask for wisdom to get through this time and to transform and sanctify this country.

00:05:29.000 And the alternative is that there will be no country.

00:05:33.000 Is it really only as big as low gas prices?

00:05:37.000 Is it really only so big as bringing inflation and gas prices and the corporate tax rate back down?

00:05:44.000 It's not about waiting for someone to come in and change the policy and make it better.

00:05:47.000 it's a personal decision that we all have to make to become soldiers of Christ.

00:05:53.000 I want to be a dictator.

00:06:16.000 *music* And you know why I want to be a dictator?

00:06:23.000 Because I want a wall, right?

00:06:28.000 I want a wall, and I want to drill, drill, drill.

00:06:31.000 My own narrative is not one of some sudden, booming bolt of lightning out of the blue.

00:06:48.000 It was a slow and steady, unrelenting stream of blips and blinks, glimmers and glares, low beams and high beams of light, some of which I did not want to see.

00:07:03.000 And then finally, a point of no return reckoning.

00:07:10.000 Why are you called Mommy Malcolm?

00:07:12.000 I think it was because I fiercely came out during the Griper Wars of 2019 when so many of these brave young men were on college campuses challenging the likes of Zio Schill Dan Crenshaw, questioning him about his undying loyalty and, of course, defending Nick Fuentes and so many of the stars of the burgeoning America First movement.

00:07:35.000 who through an increasing amount of activism are really going to ensure the future America is a nation of believers, dreamers, and strivers that is being led by a group of censors, critics, and cynics.

00:07:55.000 These interests have rigged our political and economic system for their exclusive benefit.

00:08:03.000 Believe me, it's for their benefit.

00:08:06.000 My message is that things have to change, and they have to change right now.

00:08:16.000 My sole and exclusive mission is to go to work for you.

00:08:23.000 It's time to deliver a victory for the American people.

00:08:28.000 We don't win anymore, but we are going to start winning again.

00:08:34.000 So to every parent who dreams for their child, and every child who dreams for their future, I say these words to you tonight.

00:08:47.000 I am with you, I will fight for you, and I will win for you.

00:08:54.000 I'm not supposed to be here tonight.

00:09:09.000 I'm supposed to be here.

00:09:11.000 I want this earth out for myself.

00:09:14.000 I'm doing drugs without a hand.

00:09:20.000 My voice is nothing but a scream without fire.

00:09:27.000 I stretch my hair but my cup just goes up.

00:09:33.000 I'm supposed to be here.

00:10:03.000 O come, O come, Emmanuel, to free your captive Israel, that mourns to free your captive Israel, that mourns in lonely exile here, that mourns in lonely exile here, until the Son

00:10:36.000 Rejoice, rejoice.

00:10:42.000 Rejoice!

00:10:44.000 O Israel! 0.60

00:10:50.000 To you shall come, Emmanuel.

00:10:56.000 And even Emmanuel, Captivum Captivum Soli Israel, Qui gemet And even Emmanuel, Captivum soli Israel, Qui gemet Captivum

00:11:19.000 soli Israel, Qui gemet in exilio, Qui gemet in exilio, Privatus defiliu, Privatus defiliu, Gaudem, Gaudem, Emma anduem,

00:11:44.000 Emma anduem, Nasi tur Satsang with Mooji 0.99

00:12:07.000 Satsang with Mooji 0.99

00:12:28.000 The End

00:12:58.000 The End

00:13:28.000 Saying to me is like, this is probably pretty cool for you.

00:13:31.000 I'm like, yeah, it is.

00:13:32.000 Hey.

00:13:47.000 And I feel different when I say my heart, I ain't gone, it's starven on me, I'm on me.

00:13:55.000 I feel different when I say my heart, I ain't gone, it's starven on me, I'm on me.

00:14:05.000 I feel different when I say my heart, I ain't gone, it's starven on me, I'm on me.

00:14:09.000 I feel different when I say my heart, I'm on me.

00:14:09.000 I will fight for you with every breath in my body and I will never ever let you down.

00:14:33.000 A new droiper war.

00:14:36.000 Yeah, nigga, this war. 1.00

00:14:38.000 I'm taking bodies on the floor.

00:14:40.000 I'm with it all.

00:14:41.000 I talk to my demons and I see the writings on the wall.

00:14:43.000 Niggas is dying when it's so weak. 1.00

00:14:45.000 I get excited for them cops.

00:14:46.000 And no one ain't crying when he gone.

00:14:48.000 Cause Brody was fighting for them.

00:14:50.000 I do this shit for my brothers.

00:14:51.000 We do this shit for each other.

00:14:53.000 We do this shit for each other.

00:14:54.000 The courageous fallen!

00:14:55.000 The anguished fallen!

00:14:57.000 Their lives have meaning because we, the living, refuse to forget them!

00:15:01.000 And as we ride to certain death, we trust our successors to do the same for us!

00:15:07.000 Because my soldiers do not buckle or yield when faced with the cruelty of this world!

00:15:13.000 My soldiers push forward!

00:15:15.000 My soldiers scream out!

00:15:18.000 My soldiers reach!

00:15:20.000 We can't go back to the past.

00:15:38.000 That's what people always say, isn't it?

00:15:40.000 They say, can we really go back?

00:15:41.000 And the answer is, whether you're conservative or liberal, right when you're left with, the answer is no.

00:15:48.000 We're never going back.

00:15:49.000 It's gone.

00:15:50.000 It's gone.

00:15:51.000 All of that is gone.

00:15:52.000 But I would call myself something like a Christian futurist instead.

00:15:57.000 Because Jesus Christ was our past before any of us were born or conceived.

00:16:02.000 Jesus Christ is our present now.

00:16:05.000 And Jesus Christ is our future after we die on earth.

00:16:10.000 We want this century to be the most Christian century in the history of planet earth. 0.98

00:16:21.000 We want this century to be the most Christian century in the history of planet earth. 0.98

00:16:22.000 We love everybody.

00:16:24.000 And we want people that can burn really more than anybody.

00:16:28.000 But this country can no longer be held hostage by a small minority that doesn't believe in the real world.

00:16:38.000 The mission of our movement is to make this country a Christian country.

00:16:43.000 The mission is to create a Christian future in our time.

00:16:48.000 The only way we're going to do it is not by infiltrating, not by subverting, not by lying, which is what a lot of people do.

00:16:56.000 The only way that we're going to make this happen is with the boldness of a real Christian. 0.96

00:17:02.000 It's the only way.

00:17:03.000 We have got to be willing to die for Jesus Christ.

00:17:08.000 We have to want it more than they do.

00:17:11.000 because if there are thousands and millions and tens of millions and hundreds of millions of Christians ready to meet their final destiny, then nothing can stop us and nothing will.

00:17:25.000 The more that a broken system tells you that you're wrong, the more certain you should be that you must keep pushing ahead. .

00:17:48.000 Because it's the outsiders who change the world and who make a real and lasting difference.

00:17:54.000 Nothing worth doing ever came easy.

00:17:58.000 Treat the word impossible as nothing more than motivation.

00:18:05.000 The future belongs to the people who follow their heart no matter what the critics say.

00:18:11.000 We must always remember that we share one home And one glorious destiny.

00:18:19.000 We all bleed the same red blood of patriots.

00:18:23.000 We all salute the same great American flag.

00:18:28.000 Our best days are yet to come.

00:18:32.000 I am officially running for president of the United States.

00:19:00.000 We need a leader.

00:19:03.000 I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created.

00:19:14.000 It can be wonderful if you have smart people, but we have people that are stupid.

00:19:23.000 The American dream is dead.

00:19:30.000 But if I get elected president, I will bring it back bigger and better and stronger than ever before.

00:19:44.000 The American dream.

00:20:01.000 And we will make America great again.

00:20:09.000 Again.

00:20:10.000 And we will make America great again.

00:20:24.000 And we will make America great again.

00:20:31.000 We will make America great again.

00:20:38.000 And we will make America great again.

00:20:45.000 We will make America great again.

00:21:06.000 We want trouble!

00:21:25.000 And nobody builds walls better than me, believe me.

00:21:28.000 Bigger and better and stronger than ever before.

00:21:35.000 And we will make America great again.

00:21:40.000 Thank you.

00:21:40.000 Thank you very much.

00:21:42.000 And we will make America great again.

00:21:48.000 We will make America great again.

00:21:56.000 And we will make America great again.

00:22:03.000 And we will make America great again.

00:22:11.000 We will make America great again.

00:22:13.000 We will be right back.

00:22:43.000 We will be right back.

00:23:13.000 We will be right back.

00:23:17.000 Thank you.

00:23:22.000 Years from now, some of them may look back and ask themselves whether they've made the right choice, whether they've made the most of the opportunities they've been given.

00:23:33.000 Together, we have the same mission.

00:23:36.000 Over the course of your life, you will find that things are not always fair.

00:23:42.000 You will find that things happen to you that you do not deserve and that are not always warranted.

00:23:51.000 But you have to put your head down and fight, fight, fight.

00:23:57.000 Never, ever, ever give up.

00:24:00.000 Don't give in.

00:24:02.000 Don't back down.

00:24:03.000 And never stop doing what you know is right.

00:24:07.000 Nothing worth doing ever, ever, ever came easy.

00:24:13.000 And the more righteous you fight, the more opposition that you will face.

00:24:18.000 In your hearts are inscribed the values of service, sacrifice and devotion.

00:24:24.000 Now you must go forth into the world and turn your hopes and dreams into action.

00:24:32.000 America has always been the land of dreams because America is a nation of true believers.

00:24:39.000 When the pilgrims landed, At Plymouth, they prayed.

00:24:44.000 When the founders wrote the Declaration of Independence, they invoked our Creator four times.

00:24:53.000 Because in America, we don't worship government, we worship God.

00:24:58.000 It is why our currency proudly declares, in God we trust.

00:25:03.000 And it's why we proudly proclaim that we are one nation under God.

00:25:10.000 The story of America is the story of an adventure that began with deep faith, big dreams, and humble beginnings.

00:25:24.000 The next generation of American leaders.

00:25:27.000 Never, ever give up.

00:25:31.000 There'll be times in your life you'll want to quit.

00:25:35.000 Never quit.

00:25:36.000 Never stop fighting for what you believe in and for the people who care about you.

00:25:42.000 Carry yourself with dignity and pride.

00:25:45.000 Demand the best from yourself.

00:25:48.000 The more people tell you it's not possible, that it can't be done, the more you should be absolutely determined to prove them wrong.

00:25:59.000 Treat the word impossible as nothing more than motivation.

00:26:09.000 Relish the opportunity to be an outsider.

00:26:13.000 The more that a broken system tells you that you're wrong, The more certain you should be that you must keep pushing ahead.

00:26:23.000 You must keep pushing forward.

00:26:27.000 And always have the courage to be yourself.

00:26:33.000 America is better when people put their faith into action.

00:26:39.000 Pray to God.

00:26:41.000 And follow his teachings.

00:26:43.000 Today, each of you begins a new chapter as well.

00:26:47.000 When your story goes from here, it will be defined by your vision, your perseverance, and your grit You will build a future where we have the courage to chase our dreams no matter what the cynics and the doubters have to say.

00:27:06.000 You will have the confidence to speak the hopes in your hearts and to express the love that stirs your souls.

00:27:16.000 As long as you have pride in your beliefs, courage in your convictions, and faith in God, Then you will not fail.

00:27:28.000 As long as America remains true to its values, loyal to its citizens, and devoted to its creator, then our best days are yet to come.

00:27:42.000 The End

00:28:12.000 May God bless the United States of America.

00:28:22.000 And I just want to let you know that God blesses you.

00:28:26.000 And I want to just say you are special in every way.

00:28:32.000 God bless you and God bless America.

00:28:35.000 Thank you very much.

00:28:36.000 Thank you so much, everybody.

00:28:46.000 can I just say are you trusting Brian Adams?

00:28:50.000 Our movement is about replacing a failed and corrupt political establishment with a new government controlled by you the American people.

00:29:15.000 The Washington establishment and the financial and media corporations that fund it exist for only one reason, to protect and enrich itself.

00:29:26.000 The establishment has trillions of dollars at stake in this election.

00:29:30.000 For those who control the levers of power in Washington and for the global special interest, they partner with these people that don't have your good in mind.

00:29:40.000 Our campaign represents a true existential threat like they haven't seen before.

00:29:49.000 This is not simply another four-year election.

00:29:51.000 This is a crossroads in the history of our civilization that will determine whether or not we the people reclaim control over our government.

00:30:04.000 The political establishment That is trying to stop us is the same group responsible for our disastrous trade deals, massive illegal immigration, and economic and foreign policies that have bled our country dry. 0.72

00:30:23.000 The political establishment has brought about the destruction of our factories and our jobs as they flee to Mexico, China, and other countries all around the world.

00:30:34.000 It's a global power structure that is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped our country of its wealth, and put that money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political entities.

00:30:51.000 This is a struggle for the survival of our nation, and this will be our last chance to save it.

00:31:00.000 This election will determine whether we're a free nation or whether we have only the illusion of democracy, but are in fact controlled by a small handful of global special interests rigging the system, and our system is rigged.

00:31:14.000 This is reality.

00:31:16.000 You know it, they know it, I know it, and pretty much the whole world knows it.

00:31:22.000 The thing that said, take a look at what happened.

00:31:25.000 These are people who work hard, but no longer have a voice.

00:31:42.000 I am your voice.

00:31:46.000 I am dreaming of a white Christmas.

00:32:14.000 Just like the ones I used to know.

00:32:23.000 Where the treetops glisten and children listen to hear.

00:32:37.000 sleigh bells in the snow I'm dreaming of a white Christmas With every Christmas card I write May your days

00:33:08.000 be merry and bright And may all your Christmases be white I'm dreaming white Like 1.00

00:33:41.000 the ones I used to know Where the treetops glisten And children listen To hear sway bells in the snow Dreaming

00:34:13.000 of a white Christmas With every Christmas card I write May your days be merry and bright And may all your

00:34:44.000 Christmas be wild.

00:34:50.000 Christmas be wild.

00:35:20.000 Christmas be wild.

00:35:49.000 Because it's the outsiders who change the world and who make a real and lasting difference.

00:35:55.000 Nothing worth doing ever came easy.

00:36:00.000 Treat the word impossible as nothing more than motivation.

00:36:06.000 The future belongs to the people who follow their heart no matter what the critics say.

00:36:13.000 We must always remember that we share one home And one glorious destiny.

00:36:21.000 We all bleed the same red blood of patriots.

00:36:25.000 We all salute the same great American flag.

00:36:30.000 Our best days are yet to come.

00:36:34.000 Are you winning, son?

00:36:41.000 Are you winning?

00:37:11.000 Wish that you cocaine in my baby I want nothing to do.

00:37:15.000 My own narrative is not one of some sudden, booming bolt of lightning out of the blue.

00:37:21.000 It was a slow and steady, unrelenting stream of blips and blinks, glimmers and glares, low beams and high beams of light, some of which I did not want to see.

00:37:35.000 And then finally, a point of no return reckoning.

00:37:42.000 Why are you called Mommy Malcolm?

00:37:45.000 I think it was because I fiercely came out during the Griper Wars of 2019 when so many of these brave young men were on college campuses challenging the likes of Zio Schill, Dan Crenshaw, questioning him about his undying loyalty and, of course, defending Nick Fuentes and so many of the stars of the burgeoning America First movement.

00:38:07.000 Who, through an increasing amount of activism, are really going to ensure the future and the success of that movement.

00:38:15.000 Napoleon, Alexander the Great, Donald Trump, were all cut from the same cloth.

00:38:20.000 And that cloth is very, very large.

00:38:22.000 It's not too big, is it?

00:38:24.000 Hey.

00:38:28.000 Kill yourself.

00:38:30.000 It's wrong, isn't it?

00:38:40.000 It feels so right.

00:38:42.000 And it's a deal?

00:38:48.000 I put together some really impressive deals.

00:38:51.000 I like that.

00:38:56.000 Go gig or go home.

00:39:00.000 Donald Trump.

00:39:05.000 You know, you're really beautiful.

00:39:15.000 A woman who looks like that has to have a special set. 1.00

00:39:21.000 It's the night.

00:39:24.000 Oh, my God.

00:39:26.000 Hey, Donald Trump.

00:39:31.000 I told you, you look great.

00:39:34.000 Thank you very much.

00:39:35.000 I'm told it's a special one.

00:39:36.000 Just a minute.

00:39:40.000 Are you Megan here?

00:39:41.000 Huh?

00:39:43.000 Are you?

00:39:45.000 No, no, no, you speak just back.

00:39:48.000 I'm calling this.

00:39:49.000 No.

00:39:50.000 Look at this right here on the street.

00:39:54.000 It's Donald Trump.

00:39:56.000 What do you want?

00:40:10.000 Everything's set for tonight, Mr. Trump.

00:40:13.000 I wonder what Trump's game is this time.

00:40:19.000 Trump's got a new day.

00:40:20.000 Hey, Crop, get a new deal. 0.94

00:40:21.000 What's your game, though?

00:40:25.000 Heard about Crop's new deal?

00:40:27.000 What?

00:40:27.000 Mr. Crop!

00:40:33.000 Crop has a new game.

00:40:38.000 What is it?

00:40:42.000 Mr. Trump, what is it?

00:40:46.000 What is it?

00:40:47.000 What is it?

00:40:48.000 Mr. Trump, what is it?

00:40:50.000 My new game is Trump.

00:40:53.000 The game.

00:40:54.000 Trump.

00:40:55.000 The game.

00:40:58.000 This sounds like political presidential.

00:41:03.000 You said, though, that if you did run for president, you believe you'd win.

00:41:10.000 I like that.

00:41:12.000 I would say that I would have a hell of a chance of winning.

00:41:15.000 I never learned to lose.

00:41:16.000 I've never learned to lose in my life.

00:41:19.000 I don't know how your audience goes, but I think people are tired of seeing the United States ripped off.

00:41:25.000 That's the guy on the far right.

00:41:27.000 Mm-hmm.

00:41:28.000 Captain.

00:41:28.000 Thank you.

00:41:29.000 I believe that.

00:41:30.000 Okay, kids, make it fast.

00:41:32.000 I've got a plane.

00:41:33.000 Jimmy Crean Magazine.

00:41:34.000 Mr. Trump, what do you do?

00:41:36.000 Scabby. Scabby. Scabby. Scabby. Scabby.

00:41:42.000 Excuse me, personally.

00:41:57.000 Thank you.

00:42:30.000 Thank you. Thank you. .

00:42:38.000 If you want to really see something that said, take a look at what happened.

00:42:42.000 We will make America proud again.

00:42:54.000 We will make America proud again.

00:42:59.000 We will make America wealthy again.

00:43:02.000 And yes, together, we will make America great again.

00:43:12.000 Why wouldn't you dedicate yourself to public service?

00:43:15.000 Because I think it's a very mean life.

00:43:17.000 I would love and I would dedicate my life to this country, but I see it as being a mean life.

00:43:22.000 And I also see it as somebody with strong views.

00:43:25.000 And somebody with the kind of views that are maybe a little bit unpopular, which may be right, but may be unpopular, wouldn't necessarily have a chance of getting elected against somebody with no great brain but a big smile.

00:43:37.000 And that's a sad commentary for the political process.

00:43:40.000 And if you have a minute, why don't we go?

00:43:46.000 Talk about it somewhere only we know.

00:43:51.000 This can be the end of everything.

00:43:56.000 So why don't we go somewhere only we know?

00:44:03.000 Somewhere only we know.

00:44:09.000 I'm not supposed to be here tonight.

00:44:12.000 I'm supposed to be you.

00:44:14.000 I want this earth on for myself.

00:44:17.000 I'm doing drugs and I have.

00:44:23.000 My voice says nothing but I scream and I'm for help.

00:44:30.000 I stretch my hair but my cup just goes up.

00:44:36.000 I'm supposed to be you.

00:45:16.000 Long may the world in sin and error pining, till he appeared and the soul melted A thrill of hope, the weary world rejoices, for yonder breaks a new and glorious war.

00:45:45.000 Fall on your knees O hear the angel voices O night divine

00:46:03.000 O night when Christ was born O night, O holy night O night O holy night O night divine Amen.

00:46:26.000 you

00:46:27.000 So let my light of the stars, sweetly gleaming, here came the wise The King of kings laid us in lowly manger In all our trials born to be our friend Fall

00:46:57.000 on your knees O hear the angel voices And

00:47:48.000 then nowadays, I am so upset that the things we did and the things we fought for and the boys that died for us, it's all gone down the drain.

00:48:01.000 Our country's gone to hell in a handbasket.

00:48:07.000 We haven't got the country we had when I was raised.

00:48:10.000 Not at all.

00:48:12.000 Nobody will have the fun I have.

00:48:14.000 Nobody will have the opportunity I have.

00:48:18.000 It's just not the same.

00:48:22.000 Jesus is the way and the life and the King of Israel.

00:48:28.000 We just lead with love.

00:48:31.000 We're really at a crossroads here.

00:48:34.000 Look around you.

00:48:35.000 It's drag queens in schools. 1.00

00:48:37.000 It's 18-year-olds joining OnlyFans.

00:48:39.000 It's the filth on TikTok.

00:48:41.000 It's this country not having a border.

00:48:44.000 It's the idea that our kids and we, this generation, are never going to own anything.

00:48:51.000 Think about it.

00:48:51.000 Never making an income to support a family.

00:48:54.000 Never being able to have a family.

00:48:56.000 People being corrupted before they're even a teenager by things on their phone.

00:49:02.000 Sick addiction to technology.

00:49:05.000 The future is so bleak, but that has changed the calculation.

00:49:13.000 God is using me.

00:49:15.000 He's breaking me down.

00:49:17.000 Removing all of the, you know, richest person, all of this, so I can serve him.

00:49:22.000 I think they've been extremely unfair to you.

00:49:24.000 Who is they though?

00:49:26.000 We can't tell you who they is, can we?

00:49:29.000 There is no future if we do nothing now.

00:49:33.000 There is nothing to lose.

00:49:34.000 People that are scrambling, trying to protect their ever-shrinking share of what they have are foolish.

00:49:42.000 It's all going.

00:49:43.000 It's all going away.

00:49:45.000 This country is being ripped apart and raped and looted.

00:49:49.000 We're being slowly poisoned and in some cases quickly murdered and assassinated.

00:49:57.000 And we're killing ourselves every day, inadvertently, with the kinds of things that we eat and breathe and drink and see.

00:50:04.000 People have got to start to radically begin to obey their conscience and tell the truth and do the right thing.

00:50:11.000 People have got to start to get courageous.

00:50:14.000 And this is the time for everybody to turn and look to God.

00:50:20.000 And to pray and to ask for strength and to ask for wisdom to get through this time and to transform and sanctify this country.

00:50:29.000 And the alternative is that there will be no country.

00:50:32.000 Is it really only as big as low gas prices?

00:50:36.000 Is it really only so big as bringing inflation and gas prices and the corporate tax rate back down?

00:50:43.000 It's not about waiting for someone to come in and change the policy and make it better.

00:50:47.000 it's a personal decision that we all have to make to become soldiers of Christ.

00:50:53.000 I want to be a dictator.

00:51:15.000 Yeah.

00:51:18.000 And you know why I want to be a dictator?

00:51:22.000 Because I want a wall, right?

00:51:27.000 I want a wall and I want to drill, drill, drill.

00:51:30.000 My own narrative is not one of some sudden, booming bolt of lightning out of the blue.

00:51:48.000 It was a slow and steady, unrelenting stream of blips and blinks, glimmers and glares, low beams and high beams of light, some of which I did not want to see.

00:52:03.000 And then finally, a point of no return reckoning.

00:52:09.000 Why are you called Mommy Malkin?

00:52:12.000 I think it was because I fiercely came out during the Griper Wars of 2019 when so many of these brave young men were on college campuses challenging the likes of Zio Schill Dan Crenshaw, questioning him about his undying loyalty and of course defending Nick Fuentes and so many of the stars of the burgeoning America First movement who through an increasing amount of activism are really going to ensure the future and the success of that movement.

00:52:42.000 America is a nation of believers, dreamers, and strivers that is being led by a group of censors, critics, and cynics.

00:52:54.000 These interests have rigged our political and economic system for their exclusive benefit.

00:53:03.000 It's for their benefit.

00:53:06.000 My message is that things have to change, and they have to change right now.

00:53:15.000 My sole and exclusive mission is to go to work for you.

00:53:23.000 It's time to deliver a victory for the American people.

00:53:28.000 We don't win anymore, but we are going to start winning again.

00:53:34.000 So to every parent who dreams for their child, and every child who dreams for their future, I say these words to you tonight.

00:53:47.000 I am with you, I will fight for you, and I will win for you.

00:53:53.000 I'm not supposed to be here tonight.

00:54:09.000 I'm supposed to be here.

00:54:11.000 I want this earth off by myself.

00:54:16.000 I'm doing drugs and I have.

00:54:22.000 My voice says nothing but I scream without fire.

00:54:28.000 I stretch my hair, but my coat just goes up

00:54:33.000 I stretch my hair, but my coat is a little bit

00:55:01.000 O come, O come, Emmanuel To free your captive Israel That mourns in lonely exile Here

00:55:29.000 Until their son of God God appear Rejoice!

00:55:42.000 Rejoice!

00:55:43.000 O Israel To you shall come, Emmanuel Welcome

00:56:15.000 Oh, yeah. yeah.

00:56:39.000 God bless you.

00:59:05.000 I will fight for you with every breath in my body and I will never ever let you down.

00:59:32.000 A new droiper war.

00:59:36.000 Yeah, nigga this war. 1.00

00:59:38.000 I'm tricking bodies on the floor.

00:59:39.000 I'm with it all.

00:59:40.000 I talk to my demons and I see the writings on the wall.

00:59:43.000 Niggas is dying when it's so weak. 1.00

00:59:44.000 I get excited for them coals.

00:59:46.000 And no one ain't crying when he gone.

00:59:47.000 Cause Brody was fighting for them coals.

00:59:49.000 I do this shit for my brothers.

00:59:51.000 We do this shit for each other.

00:59:53.000 The courageous fallen!

00:59:55.000 The anguished fallen!

00:59:56.000 Their lives have meaning because we, the living, refuse to forget them!

01:00:01.000 And as we ride to certain death, we trust our successors to do the same for us!

01:00:06.000 Because my soldiers do not buckle or yield when faced with the cruelty of this world!

01:00:12.000 My soldiers push forward!

01:00:14.000 My soldiers scream out!

01:00:16.000 My soldiers reach!

01:00:18.000 We can't go back to the past.

01:00:38.000 That's what people always say, isn't it?

01:00:40.000 They say, can we really go back?

01:00:41.000 And the answer is, whether you're conservative or liberal, right when you're left wing, the answer is no.

01:00:47.000 We're never going back.

01:00:49.000 It's gone.

01:00:50.000 It's gone.

01:00:50.000 All of that is gone.

01:00:52.000 But I would call myself something like a Christian futurist instead.

01:00:56.000 Because Jesus Christ was our past before any of us were born or conceived.

01:01:02.000 Jesus Christ is our present now.

01:01:04.000 and Jesus Christ is our future after we die on earth.

01:01:09.000 We want this century to be the most Christian century in the history of planet earth. - We love everybody.

01:01:24.000 And we want people that can burn really more than anybody.

01:01:28.000 But this country can no longer be held hostage by a small minority that doesn't believe in the real world.

01:01:38.000 The mission of our movement is to make this country a Christian country.

01:01:43.000 The mission is to create a Christian future in our time.

01:01:47.000 The only way we're going to do it is not by infiltrating, not by subverting, not by lying, which is what a lot of people do.

01:01:56.000 The only way that we're going to make this happen is with the boldness of a real Christian. 0.96

01:02:02.000 It's the only way.

01:02:03.000 We have got to be willing to die for Jesus Christ.

01:02:08.000 We have to want it more than they do.

01:02:11.000 because there are thousands and millions and tens of millions and hundreds of millions of Christians ready to meet their final destiny.

01:02:20.000 Then nothing can stop us and nothing will.

01:02:24.000 The more that a broken system tells you that you're wrong, the more certain you should be that you must keep pushing ahead.

01:02:47.000 Because it's the outsiders who change the world and who make a real and lasting difference.

01:02:53.000 Nothing worth doing ever came easy.

01:02:58.000 Treat the word impossible as nothing more than motivation.

01:03:04.000 The future belongs to the people who follow their heart no matter what the critics say.

01:03:11.000 We must always remember that we share one home and one glorious destiny.

01:03:18.000 We all bleed the same red blood of patriots.

01:03:23.000 We all salute the same great American flag.

01:03:28.000 Our best days are yet to come.

01:03:32.000 I am officially running for president of the United States.

01:03:59.000 We need a leader.

01:04:03.000 I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created.

01:04:14.000 It can be wonderful if you have smart people, but we have people that are still living.

01:04:23.000 The American dream is dead, dead, dead, dead, dead.

01:04:32.000 But if I get elected president, I will bring it back bigger and better and stronger than ever before.

01:04:46.000 The American dream.

01:05:04.000 And we will make America great again.

01:07:16.000 And we will make America great again.

01:07:44.000 And we will make America great again.

01:08:12.000 America great again.

01:08:17.000 And we will make America great again.

01:08:21.000 from now, some of them may look back and ask themselves whether they've made the right choice, whether they've made the most of the opportunities they've been given.

01:08:32.000 Together, we have the same mission.

01:08:36.000 Over the course of your life, you will find that things are not always fair.

01:08:41.000 You will find that things happen to you that you do not deserve and that are not always warranted.

01:08:50.000 But you have to put your head down and fight, fight, fight.

01:08:56.000 Never, ever, ever give up.

01:09:00.000 Don't give in.

01:09:01.000 Don't back down.

01:09:03.000 And never stop doing what you know is right.

01:09:06.000 Nothing worth doing ever, ever, ever came easy.

01:09:12.000 And the more righteous you fight, the more opposition that you will face.

01:09:18.000 In your hearts are inscribed the values of service, sacrifice, and devotion.

01:09:24.000 Now you must go forth into the world and turn your hopes and dreams into action.

01:09:31.000 America has always been the land of dreams because America is a nation of true believers.

01:09:38.000 When the pilgrims landed, At Plymouth, they prayed.

01:09:44.000 When the founders wrote the Declaration of Independence, they invoked our Creator four times.

01:09:52.000 Because in America, we don't worship government, we worship God.

01:09:58.000 It is why our currency proudly declares, in God we trust.

01:10:03.000 And it's why we proudly proclaim that we are one nation under God.

01:10:10.000 The story of America is the story of an adventure that began with deep faith, big dreams, and humble beginnings.

01:10:23.000 The next generation of American leaders.

01:10:26.000 Never, ever give up.

01:10:30.000 There'll be times in your life you'll want to quit.

01:10:34.000 Never quit.

01:10:36.000 Never stop fighting for what you believe in and for the people who care about you.

01:10:41.000 Carry yourself with dignity and pride.

01:10:44.000 Demand the best from yourself.

01:10:48.000 The more people tell you it's not possible, that it can't be done, the more you should be absolutely determined to prove them wrong.

01:10:59.000 Treat the word impossible as nothing more than motivation.

01:11:09.000 Relish the opportunity to be an outsider.

01:11:12.000 The more that a broken system tells you that you're wrong, The more certain you should be that you must keep pushing ahead.

01:11:23.000 You must keep pushing forward.

01:11:26.000 And always have the courage to be yourself.

01:11:32.000 America is better when people put their faith into action.

01:11:38.000 Pray to God.

01:11:40.000 And follow his teachings.

01:11:42.000 Today each of you begins a new chapter as well.

01:11:47.000 When your story goes from here, it will be defined by your vision, your perseverance, and your grit.

01:11:57.000 You will build a future where we have the courage to chase our dreams no matter what the cynics and the doubters have to say.

01:12:06.000 You will have the confidence to speak the hopes in your hearts and to express the love that stirs your souls.

01:12:15.000 As long as you have pride in your beliefs, courage in your convictions, and faith in God, Then you will not fail.

01:12:27.000 As long as America remains true to its values, loyal to its citizens, and devoted to its creator, then our best days are yet to come.

01:12:41.000 To be continued...

01:13:11.000 May God bless the United States of America.

01:13:22.000 And I just want to let you know that God blesses you.

01:13:26.000 And I want to just say you are special in every way.

01:13:32.000 God bless you and God bless America.

01:13:34.000 Okay.

01:13:34.000 Thank you very much.

01:13:35.000 Thank you so much, everybody.

01:13:45.000 Can I just say, are you trusting Brian Adams?

01:13:49.000 Our movement is about replacing a failed and corrupt political establishment with a new government controlled by you, the American people.

01:14:14.000 The Washington establishment and the financial and media corporations that fund it exist for only one reason, to protect and enrich itself.

01:14:25.000 The establishment has trillions of dollars at stake in this election.

01:14:29.000 For those who control the levers of power in Washington and for the global special interest, they partner with these people that don't have your good in mind.

01:14:40.000 Our campaign represents a true existential threat like they haven't seen before.

01:14:48.000 This is not simply another four-year election.

01:14:51.000 This is a crossroads in the history of our civilization that will determine whether or not we, the people, reclaim control over our government.

01:15:03.000 The political establishment That is trying to stop us is the same group responsible for our disastrous trade deals, massive illegal immigration, and economic and foreign policies that have bled our country dry. 0.72

01:15:22.000 The political establishment has brought about the destruction of our factories and our jobs as they flee to Mexico, China, and other countries all around the world.

01:15:33.000 It's a global power structure that is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped our country of its wealth, and put that money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political entities.

01:15:51.000 This is a struggle for the survival of our nation, and this will be our last chance to save it.

01:15:59.000 This election will determine whether we're a free nation or whether we have only the illusion of democracy, but are in fact controlled by a small handful of global special interests rigging the system, and our system is rigged.

01:16:13.000 This is reality.

01:16:15.000 You know it, they know it, I know it, and pretty much the whole world knows it.

01:16:22.000 The thing that said take a look what happened No I am your voice

01:17:09.000 Of a white Christmas Just like the ones I used to know Where the treetops glisten And children listen to hear

01:17:37.000 sleigh bells in the snow I'm dreaming of a white Christmas With every Christmas card I write May your days

01:18:07.000 be merry and bright And may all your Christmases be well I'm dreaming Americanism,

01:18:45.000 not globalism, will be our credo.

01:18:50.000 It's going to be only America first. 0.99

01:18:56.000 America first.

01:18:59.000 The American people will come first once again.

01:19:05.000 With respect, the respect that we deserve.

01:19:16.000 From this day forward, it's going to be only America first. 0.99

01:19:29.000 America first America first America first 0.78

01:19:36.000 Thank you.

01:21:34.000 You're watching America First.

01:21:36.000 My name is Nicholas J. Fuentes.

01:21:37.000 We have a great show for you tonight.

01:21:39.000 Very excited to be back here with you tonight on Monday.

01:21:43.000 We have a lot to talk about tonight.

01:21:46.000 Lots to get into.

01:21:47.000 Big show.

01:21:49.000 It's going to be a huge show tonight.

01:21:52.000 So much to cover.

01:21:54.000 Our featured story tonight, we're going to be talking all about the civil war in Syria and Which is not over but seems to have entered into a new phase as of this weekend.

01:22:08.000 I'm sure you've heard the news but the Assad regime has officially collapsed.

01:22:13.000 It's over.

01:22:15.000 Assad has fled to Russia.

01:22:18.000 And now the rebel group which took over Aleppo only last week is now in control of the capital Damascus and most of the country.

01:22:30.000 Now there is chaos in the streets.

01:22:33.000 The future is very uncertain.

01:22:36.000 Already some of the emerging conflicts are beginning over who will control Syria.

01:22:44.000 And so tonight we're going to be talking about all of it.

01:22:47.000 We're going to talk about how we got here.

01:22:49.000 Why the Syrian government collapsed.

01:22:53.000 Because it's pretty remarkable it happened in just two weeks ago.

01:22:57.000 This was a frozen conflict that Assad was expected to win imminently with offensive against the remaining rebel stronghold in Idlib.

01:23:08.000 But the opposite happened.

01:23:10.000 The remaining rebel stronghold in Idlib invaded the rest of Syria and toppled the government.

01:23:18.000 And after 13 years, the Assad regime has fallen.

01:23:21.000 The Syrian revolution, some would say, is complete.

01:23:24.000 At least that initial goal has been achieved.

01:23:28.000 And now outside players, as well as various factions that fought against Assad, will determine the future of Syria.

01:23:38.000 And there's a few different pathways that it can take.

01:23:42.000 And we'll talk about those.

01:23:44.000 Syria could become partitioned like Libya or Yemen into effectively different countries.

01:23:52.000 It could become a Sunni Islamist government like Afghanistan.

01:23:58.000 It could become a Sunni Islamist government like Egypt and then be overthrown by a Ba'athist remnant, which is what happened to Egypt later on.

01:24:10.000 We don't know.

01:24:11.000 And so we'll talk about all the different possibilities.

01:24:13.000 We'll talk about the dynamics of the conflict.

01:24:16.000 We'll talk about the different players and how it affects them and what they want.

01:24:21.000 And what's next for each of them, specifically Russia, Iran, Israel, America, Turkey.

01:24:28.000 And we'll also talk about the factions inside of Syria, like the Kurds, HTS, the SNA... And some of the other smaller ones.

01:24:38.000 So it's going to be a big show.

01:24:39.000 We're going to cover all of it.

01:24:40.000 A lot of ground to cover, but it's a huge historic moment.

01:24:46.000 And I did predict this.

01:24:48.000 We covered this on the show last week.

01:24:50.000 And I told you this was it for the Assad government. 0.81

01:24:54.000 I said that was it.

01:24:55.000 I said they're going to go for Hamas, and then nothing stands in their way. 0.97

01:25:02.000 Between there and Damascus.

01:25:04.000 And that's exactly what happened.

01:25:06.000 So we're going to cover all of it.

01:25:08.000 It's going to be thorough.

01:25:13.000 takes anywhere else because nobody knows yet.

01:25:16.000 But I do because we know all the history.

01:25:19.000 I know the history.

01:25:21.000 We know what's going on.

01:25:22.000 You've heard it here first.

01:25:24.000 This is going to be the most comprehensive, thorough analysis of Syria to date because it's developing and nobody knows.

01:25:33.000 So we're going to get into all that.

01:25:35.000 We will probably cover the story of the UnitedHealthcare assassin tomorrow.

01:25:41.000 The other big development from today is that the assassin who killed the healthcare executive last week in New York was apprehended and identified.

01:25:54.000 It's pretty interesting.

01:25:56.000 He's like a radical centrist.

01:25:59.000 He's like a 130 IQ, Ivy League graduate, coder, computer science major, apparently a prolific reader.

01:26:10.000 He's got nearly 300 books on goodreads.com on his bookshelf.

01:26:16.000 Apparently, he is a disgruntled client of UnitedHealthcare, like some people speculated.

01:26:24.000 I thought he was government.

01:26:25.000 I thought he was a paid assassin.

01:26:27.000 Turns out to actually be a disgruntled consumer.

01:26:31.000 And effectively a terrorist, a political terrorist, in the sense that it was political in nature, with political goals, premeditated, targeted.

01:26:43.000 And so I think we'll talk about that, though, tomorrow, because that's another big story.

01:26:47.000 We'll get into it tomorrow.

01:26:49.000 It is funny, though.

01:26:51.000 I mean, he's like a radical centrist.

01:26:54.000 And I said, I don't think it's based.

01:26:57.000 A lot of people are debating on the timeline.

01:26:59.000 Almost everybody likes him.

01:27:01.000 Almost everybody thinks he's great.

01:27:03.000 I don't.

01:27:05.000 The right wing, the left wing, people in the middle, everybody is on this guy's side.

01:27:10.000 I'm not.

01:27:11.000 And I said it's very left wing coded to kill businessmen in general, like for any reason.

01:27:17.000 And then we find out the guy is like a walking TED talk.

01:27:22.000 We find his Twitter and he's retweeting Yuval Harari, Mike Benz.

01:27:27.000 He follows Joe Rogan, AOC. And his Goodreads list, it is a parody.

01:27:35.000 It's The Giver.

01:27:37.000 The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck, Zero to One.

01:27:42.000 Biography of Malcolm X. I mean, it's like a literal who's who of New York Times Top 100. Yearly New York Times book list.

01:27:53.000 That's what he's, he's not reading, you know, and he read the Unabomber manifesto, I think, and Mein Kampf is on there.

01:28:03.000 But it's also a lot of self-help literature and nonviolence type stuff.

01:28:07.000 Very centrist coded.

01:28:10.000 So it's sort of interesting.

01:28:12.000 And I think we'll probably cover that on tomorrow's show.

01:28:15.000 Tonight, we're going to spend all the time talking about Syria.

01:28:18.000 So we'll save that for tomorrow.

01:28:21.000 Before we get into it, though, I want to remind you to smash the follow button on Rumble.

01:28:26.000 Smash the like button.

01:28:27.000 Leave a comment.

01:28:28.000 Let me know what you think about the show.

01:28:31.000 I'm going to be here all week.

01:28:33.000 Might not be here Friday, but I'll be here the rest of the week.

01:28:36.000 I have a big collaboration this weekend.

01:28:39.000 I might be doing it Friday or Saturday, so I don't want to overcommit and do a show Friday.

01:28:44.000 So I think I'm just going to tell you now.

01:28:46.000 I'm not going to do it Friday because I might be doing a stream then.

01:28:51.000 Other than that, I guess that's all of our announcements.

01:28:54.000 I am selling mugshot t-shirts.

01:28:57.000 If you saw last week, I did get charged with battery.

01:29:01.000 A violent crime.

01:29:03.000 I'm now a violent criminal.

01:29:05.000 That's not a confession.

01:29:06.000 That's a joke.

01:29:07.000 But they have charged me with battery.

01:29:10.000 And I had my mugshot taken.

01:29:13.000 So you could buy a hoodie or a crew neck or a t-shirt with my mugshot.

01:29:17.000 Fuentes.store.

01:29:18.000 And if you're worried about...

01:29:21.000 Shipping time.

01:29:22.000 It's going to be a quick turnaround because that's going to be a print-on-demand shirt.

01:29:27.000 That means that we don't handle the fulfillment.

01:29:29.000 You place the order, it gets shipped.

01:29:32.000 The hats are different.

01:29:33.000 I know the hats are taking a long time.

01:29:35.000 We're handling the fulfillment because they're made in America.

01:29:38.000 It's a whole thing.

01:29:41.000 We're getting a lot of delays from our manufacturer.

01:29:44.000 But these sweatshirts, shirts, if you buy them, you'll get them promptly in a couple weeks.

01:29:48.000 High quality stuff, you get them in time for Christmas.

01:29:51.000 Make sure to check it out, Fuentes.store.

01:29:53.000 I believe we're only accepting crypto.

01:29:56.000 Which sucks, but it is what it is.

01:29:58.000 The Jews banned me from banking, so we have to use crypto. 0.97

01:30:02.000 It is what it is.

01:30:05.000 So, that's that.

01:30:08.000 What else?

01:30:10.000 Yeah, I guess that's about it.

01:30:11.000 I don't really have too much to say.

01:30:13.000 I'm just getting excited to talk about the civil war in Syria.

01:30:17.000 It's been a real treat.

01:30:20.000 I've been analyzing it, researching it all weekend.

01:30:23.000 You know what's really funny?

01:30:24.000 Before we dive into the Syria topic, because I do want to get into it quickly because there's so much to cover.

01:30:31.000 There is one thing I want to say.

01:30:34.000 So when something like this happens, you really do rely on people that actually know what they're talking about.

01:30:44.000 Because when something that is unexpected happens, Like this.

01:30:50.000 And it happens so quickly.

01:30:52.000 And it happens really without explanation.

01:30:55.000 People who rely on others to do their thinking for them are at a loss.

01:31:02.000 Questions like, why did the Assad government collapse?

01:31:06.000 It actually requires critical thinking.

01:31:09.000 Nobody really knows yet.

01:31:11.000 It's not clear.

01:31:13.000 It's ambiguous.

01:31:13.000 It's And so times like this, you're actually relying on people that can think and know the situation.

01:31:21.000 It's not one of these takes.

01:31:23.000 It's not one of these situations where you read the conservative thinking or the liberal thinking and they do the thinking for you.

01:31:32.000 It's not – you can't easily rip it off from somebody else.

01:31:35.000 You actually have to think about it.

01:31:36.000 That's one thing.

01:31:38.000 So it's going to be really good.

01:31:39.000 But the other thing specifically I wanted to get into is I have been heavily critical.

01:31:44.000 This is related recently of Scott Ritter.

01:31:48.000 You know, I'm a big fan of Judge Andrew Napolitano.

01:31:53.000 He's got a daily show and he brings on all of the Israel critical analysts, people like Jeffrey Sachs and Scott Ritter and Max Blumenthal and John Mearsheimer.

01:32:07.000 He brings these guys on to his morning show and they analyze Ukraine and the Middle East conflict primarily.

01:32:15.000 And all these different guys come on and they give their takes.

01:32:18.000 And really, it's must-watch viewing.

01:32:22.000 Okay, this is really like a must-watch show for anybody that's interested in the subject.

01:32:27.000 In my opinion, a lot of these guys are really hit or miss.

01:32:31.000 And I think a lot of it is either foreign intelligence or wishful thinking.

01:32:36.000 Because what I tend to find among this community, and I like the show and I like a lot of the people on it, But I think what you tend to find in that community, these guys like Pablo Escobar and other people who write on UnzReview and Antiwar.com, there's a lot of wishful thinking or maybe just willful misdirection.

01:32:59.000 And they're heavily critical of Israel and sometimes it crosses the line into delusion.

01:33:07.000 Where they won't even admit that Israel is successful on the battlefield. 0.55

01:33:13.000 So, for example, lately, I've been very critical of Scott Ritter.

01:33:18.000 I've been poking fun at him because Israel seems to be succeeding in this Middle Eastern conflict. 0.99

01:33:26.000 As you know, ever since October 7th, there has been a war that has engulfed the entire region.

01:33:32.000 There's fighting in Gaza, the West Bank, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen.

01:33:37.000 Iran itself.

01:33:39.000 And no matter what happens, no matter what the development is, Scott Ritter will always be reliably on the show, on the judge, on Judge Napolitano saying, Hezbollah is going to beat Israel. 0.88

01:33:54.000 Hezbollah is going to kick their ass. 0.90

01:33:56.000 Israel does not know who they're messing with. 0.73

01:33:58.000 They have no army.

01:34:00.000 All of this intelligence is All of this apparently open source intelligence, or maybe these are his sources because he's a weapons inspector.

01:34:12.000 So every show, it's always this chest beating about how Israel doesn't know what they're getting into.

01:34:20.000 And yet, what we see in the news every week is that Israel is successful, that they have routed Hamas.

01:34:29.000 They've defeated 22 out of 25 Hamas battalions, that they've conducted thousands of airstrikes in Lebanon, that they have killed the leader of Hezbollah, the successor to the leader, the successor to the successor, the successor to the the successor to the successor, the successor to the successor to the successor to the leader.

01:34:49.000 That they've been spying on their radios for a decade and then blew them up with remote explosives.

01:34:56.000 And no matter what seems to happen, Scott Ritter will come on the show and say, Israel will fall.

01:35:03.000 Israel is losing.

01:35:05.000 It's over for Israel. 0.97

01:35:06.000 And last week was no different.

01:35:09.000 The Assad government was routed.

01:35:14.000 They just retreated, actually.

01:35:16.000 We'll talk about that.

01:35:18.000 From Aleppo.

01:35:20.000 And then Hamas. 0.79

01:35:22.000 And it looked like they were going to make their last stand in Damascus.

01:35:26.000 And Scott Ritter says, oh, it's over for the rebels.

01:35:31.000 Russia is going to come in with air power. 0.82

01:35:33.000 The Iranians are deploying from Iraq.

01:35:37.000 And yeah, it's over for the rebels.

01:35:39.000 They're going to be turned back and then defeated decisively in Idlib.

01:35:43.000 And that's it.

01:35:44.000 And the opposite happened.

01:35:47.000 The Assad government, on the contrary, not only did that not happen, the Iranians did the opposite. 0.73

01:35:53.000 The Iranians left. 1.00

01:35:54.000 The Russians didn't come. 1.00

01:35:55.000 Assad fled.

01:35:56.000 His government collapsed.

01:35:58.000 And now the rebels are in control.

01:36:01.000 And look, I don't hate the guy.

01:36:03.000 I'm not like against Scott Ritter, but I do think there is something to be said.

01:36:08.000 This is very important.

01:36:12.000 It is very, very important to realize that just like there is Israeli intelligence and American intelligence, and just like there are people that are witting or unwitting pawns of the Israeli and American state, people kind of understand that if you watch this show.

01:36:35.000 You know that Fox News is owned by the Zionists. 1.00

01:36:38.000 You know that Tucker Carlson is some sort of intelligence asset.

01:36:42.000 You know these things.

01:36:44.000 At the same time, we must be equally cautious because there are people out there that are in fact owned by Turkey or that are owned by Russia or by Iran or, yes, by Qatar or the Emirates or Saudi Arabia or by other elements.

01:37:04.000 And so it's important to remember the name of this show is America First.

01:37:11.000 America First.

01:37:13.000 And while I do take joy in seeing Russia take Ukrainian territory... 0.98

01:37:22.000 Because we just like to see the American regime take a hit.

01:37:26.000 And while we like to see the United States defeated in Afghanistan because this undermines the credibility of the neocons, among other things, the triumph of history, of tribalism, of We're a regressive fundamentalist religion.

01:37:43.000 For various reasons, we like to see American empire rolled back.

01:37:47.000 At our core, we're America first.

01:37:50.000 We're about America.

01:37:51.000 And more importantly, we're independent.

01:37:54.000 We're of America.

01:37:55.000 We're by America.

01:37:56.000 We're for America.

01:37:57.000 We're not like Tenet Media.

01:37:59.000 We're not like Tim Pool or Dave Rubin.

01:38:01.000 We don't get paid by the Russians.

01:38:03.000 We're also not like Ben Shapiro or Jordan Peterson where we're owned by the Israelis.

01:38:07.000 And it's important to keep it 100.

01:38:09.000 It's important to keep it real.

01:38:11.000 We are hypercritical of the Israeli occupation of America.

01:38:15.000 We're critical of our support for what they're doing.

01:38:19.000 At the same time, I am under no financial pressure or the sway of a foreign government to lie to you or to promulgate disinformation about what is happening.

01:38:32.000 Russia is not a bastion of tradition.

01:38:36.000 Hezbollah and Hamas are not 21st century fighting forces.

01:38:40.000 Israel is prevailing. 0.99

01:38:44.000 America is prevailing, for better or for worse.

01:38:47.000 The empire has struck back, and the opponents of American empire have been reeling for the past couple of years.

01:38:54.000 So it's just an important note on some of these analysts, because there are layers.

01:39:01.000 The most important thing to understand, one of them, is that there are layers to the Many people realize they're being deceived by an Israeli-owned press, by an American-owned press.

01:39:16.000 And then they rush to Russia Today, Al Jazeera.

01:39:21.000 They rush to some other source.

01:39:23.000 They rush to some of these analysts who purport to be telling the truth.

01:39:27.000 And in fact, we don't even really know who these people are.

01:39:32.000 So, I don't really trust any of them.

01:39:34.000 You know, I trust myself.

01:39:35.000 And you still have to parse the information.

01:39:38.000 I'm just putting that out there.

01:39:39.000 So, I don't have a problem with Scott Ritter.

01:39:41.000 I'm not making any accusations.

01:39:44.000 But I do think, you know, there's some suspicious things going on there.

01:39:49.000 And his tendency to always come on the air and exaggerate the capabilities of these groups like Hezbollah...

01:39:59.000 I think it makes him a little bit unreliable, and I think the proof of that, I think you're seeing it in this conflict right now.

01:40:05.000 I think you're seeing it with Israel's incursion into Lebanon, the collapse of the Assad government.

01:40:09.000 It goes to show not everybody that criticizes Israel is necessarily on our side.

01:40:17.000 People like Max Blumenthal, he's another one that goes on the show.

01:40:20.000 And again, I'm just saying he's part of this coterie of Israel critics that People like Max Blumenthal from the gray zone, he's another one.

01:40:29.000 He criticizes Israel heavily, but he's also a Jew.

01:40:33.000 And his father, Sidney Blumenthal, was the hatchet man of Bill Clinton.

01:40:36.000 And for whatever reason, Max Blumenthal doesn't like to talk about Israel's role in 9-11.

01:40:41.000 He also says that some people like myself who criticize Israel are real anti-Semites.

01:40:48.000 So why is a Jew the son of someone who worked for one of the neoliberal political dynasties?

01:40:55.000 Why is he unwilling to talk about Israel's role in 9-11?

01:40:59.000 Why is he unwilling to criticize world Jewry on the whole as opposed to just one part of it?

01:41:07.000 These are valid questions.

01:41:09.000 And the same extends to the rest of the whole lot of them.

01:41:12.000 People like Scott Ritter, Max Blumenthal, the others.

01:41:16.000 I'd be a little bit suspicious.

01:41:17.000 Just saying.

01:41:18.000 So anyway, so with that, we're going to dive in.

01:41:21.000 We're going to get into the Syrian civil war.

01:41:23.000 And I'm going to tell you my take on the whole situation.

01:41:27.000 So the big development from this weekend is that the Assad government has officially collapsed.

01:41:34.000 And this is a world historic moment.

01:41:38.000 The Syrian civil war is, I believe, the longest.

01:41:42.000 It is certainly the deadliest conflict of the 21st century.

01:41:48.000 It's disputed a little bit.

01:41:50.000 In my opinion, it's the deadliest of the 21st century.

01:41:54.000 500,000 dead.

01:41:56.000 It's been going on since 2011. And we talked about it a little bit last week.

01:42:02.000 What makes it so shocking, aside from the pace, the rate at which the Assad government fell, it happened completely suddenly and unexpectedly.

01:42:13.000 It's also that it completely goes against the momentum of the Assad government for the past five or seven years.

01:42:22.000 The tide in the Syrian civil war started to turn in favor of the Assad regime nine years ago.

01:42:30.000 When Russia intervened in the conflict in 2015 and in 2016 when the Assad government held on to Aleppo and defended it from the rebels, that is the point after which it became clear that Assad would not lose power.

01:42:48.000 By 2017, ISIS was defeated, and after a series of Turkish invasions by 2020, with the implementation of the Astana Agreement, the conflict lines have been frozen and have not changed considerably.

01:43:03.000 And not only that, but the Assad government has actually moved towards normalization in that period.

01:43:10.000 So the tide turned nine years ago in 2015. ISIS is defeated in 2017. By 2020, the conflict lines are frozen.

01:43:21.000 And in that period since then, in the past four years, the Assad government has actually moved closer towards normalization diplomatically with its neighbors.

01:43:32.000 It was brought back into the Arab League.

01:43:36.000 Diplomatic relations were restored with the Gulf countries and And Erdogan, the president of Turkey, who was an early opponent of Assad and one of Assad's biggest foes since 2011, since the beginning, actually made and extended the olive branch to Assad in the past four years.

01:43:57.000 It was Assad that rejected him.

01:44:00.000 So in other words, it seemed that everything was going wrong.

01:44:04.000 In the direction that Assad wanted it to, it looked like not only had he won the war, but he would remain in power indefinitely and all of his neighbors would have to deal with it.

01:44:14.000 And really, it was only a matter of time before the last rebels, the remaining stronghold in Idlib, was confronted and defeated by the government.

01:44:23.000 This was the reality as of Thanksgiving.

01:44:26.000 Literally two weeks ago, this was the reality.

01:44:30.000 Assad controlled two-thirds of the territory, and even though he only controlled 60% of the territory, it was stable.

01:44:37.000 Most of the rest of the territory was controlled by the Americans and the Kurds in northeastern Syria.

01:44:45.000 So even to say that Assad controlled 60% of the territory is deceptive.

01:44:50.000 Although he had lost a good percentage of his territory, the other side of the Euphrates River to an autonomous government led by the Kurds, backed by the Americans, it was only about 5 to 10% of the population that was controlled by rebels in Idlib province, which it was only about 5 to 10% of the population that was controlled by rebels

01:45:10.000 There were only about 10 to 15,000 remaining rebel fighters, which the Assad government began bombing in the past couple of years, putting pressure on them.

01:45:21.000 So as of two weeks ago, like I said, conflict lines are frozen.

01:45:28.000 Assad is normalizing relations with his neighbor, with his neighbors, the Arabs, which he had bad relations with before.

01:45:36.000 Erdogan is coming to Damascus hat in hand, looking to make concessions, looking to make a deal.

01:45:44.000 And the Assad government is on their way to defeating the rebels.

01:45:48.000 This was the situation.

01:45:49.000 And like I said, it is that coupled with the pace of the collapse of the government, the suddenness, which is what has made it so surprising.

01:45:58.000 In the span of two weeks, this previously unknown group, which nobody had ever heard of, a group called HTS, invaded Aleppo, which is Syria's second biggest city, launched a major offensive and took it immediately within three or four days, took control and closed launched a major offensive and took it immediately within three or four days, took control and closed off the major highways, connecting And then they marched south to the capital, basically unopposed.

01:46:27.000 People were expecting Russian air power to come through.

01:46:30.000 They were expecting Iranian militias or proxies to come through.

01:46:35.000 They were expecting the Syrian military eventually to regroup and make some sort of last stand at Homs or maybe eventually in Damascus.

01:46:45.000 But it never happened.

01:46:49.000 And so, basically, the Assad government was in free fall.

01:46:53.000 The rebels faced no resistance.

01:46:56.000 They cut through Syria like a hot knife through butter. 1.00

01:47:02.000 And by this weekend, it was over.

01:47:04.000 They captured the capital, really with no major fighting.

01:47:07.000 There was no major battle, no protracted fighting, no serious casualties.

01:47:12.000 The casualties were in the hundreds.

01:47:16.000 And you see this situation.

01:47:17.000 This is why it was so difficult to understand as it was happening.

01:47:22.000 And this is why, by the way, nobody predicted it.

01:47:26.000 Although I called it as it happened, nobody predicted this offensive.

01:47:32.000 Allegedly, there were warnings given.

01:47:34.000 Allegedly, Turkey knew in advance of some of the preparations.

01:47:39.000 Allegedly, Israel knew in advance, and there are some signs that they knew, and we'll talk about those things.

01:47:45.000 But first, let's talk about the offensive itself.

01:47:50.000 It happened in two weeks, and this is maybe the first thing to say about it, is how conspicuous this really is.

01:47:59.000 And I pointed this out on Twitter.

01:48:02.000 What is the force composition of both sides in the conflict?

01:48:08.000 The Syrian government forces number close to 300,000 personnel.

01:48:17.000 So Syria controls two-thirds of the territory.

01:48:21.000 They have the Russian Air Force.

01:48:23.000 They have a Russian base, air base and naval base.

01:48:27.000 They have Iranian militias.

01:48:30.000 They have about 200,000 regular army personnel.

01:48:33.000 They've got about 70,000 to 90,000 other personnel in the presidential guard and the special forces in the air force.

01:48:42.000 In some of their militias.

01:48:44.000 So the Syrian army, 300,000 strong, and a modern military with armor, with an air force, with the backing of the Russians, with the backing of the Iranians, furnished with equipment from both.

01:49:01.000 And so the question is, because the suddenness of it is not only unpredictable, but it's also strange, right?

01:49:11.000 How is it that the Syrian army, the Syrian Arab army, with 300,000 personnel, with modern military equipment from Russia, with the backing of Russia and Iran, and bolstered by Iranian militias, how was it defeated without any protracted fighting?

01:49:32.000 Without any major battles?

01:49:35.000 Without any serious casualties.

01:49:37.000 How were all of its cities taken?

01:49:39.000 Like I said, in a straight shot.

01:49:41.000 The rebels went east to Aleppo and then straight south through Homs, through Hama, Homs, and then the capital Damascus.

01:49:50.000 With no resistance.

01:49:52.000 On the other side, the rebels, the group HTS, number 10 to 15,000.

01:50:01.000 As of...

01:50:03.000 Five, six years ago, they were virtually defeated, non-existent.

01:50:08.000 They went from about 5,000 to 15,000.

01:50:13.000 They did not, contrary to what some people were reporting last week, they did not have the full backing of the Turks.

01:50:23.000 They did not have Turkish air power.

01:50:25.000 They did not have Turkish armor.

01:50:27.000 They were not supported by the Turkish-backed rebels, the Syrian National Army, which have much larger numbers as they march south.

01:50:37.000 So how did a force, which is really amateurish, And again, vastly outnumbered, 20 to 1. How was it this faction out of all the factions?

01:50:51.000 Not the Turkish-backed SNA, not the American-backed Kurdish SDF, not the Syrian Free Army, which emerged from the Free Syrian Army in the South.

01:51:07.000 How was it that it was this Islamist faction, previously unknown, that Besieged in Idlib province, not even fully supported by any patron state, why was it this faction which seemingly took over all of Syria without any fighting?

01:51:27.000 That's the big question.

01:51:29.000 And the answer, I think, is clear.

01:51:33.000 And I said this on Twitter.

01:51:36.000 This was not a battle.

01:51:39.000 This was a coup.

01:51:41.000 Clearly, the Syrian Arab Army, for some reason, stood down.

01:51:46.000 That's the answer.

01:51:47.000 There was no fighting.

01:51:50.000 And there were reports throughout the past couple weeks of officers in the Syrian Army retreating and defecting, giving up.

01:52:00.000 It seems like the Syrian Army either stood down spontaneously of their own accord or They grew tired of the Assad regime and defending the Assad regime from the rebels.

01:52:16.000 But because they gave it up quickly, it seems like that was a decision that was made very rapidly or in advance of the offensive by the rebels.

01:52:27.000 Or one theory is that maybe the officers in the Syrian military was bribed.

01:52:34.000 Syria is broke. 0.91

01:52:35.000 They are out of money.

01:52:36.000 They have been sanctioned since 2011. And their primary export, which is oil, except for Captagon, which is an amphetamine, which is what the Syrian government has been selling, their primary natural resource, oil, is controlled by the American-backed Kurds northeast of the Euphrates River.

01:52:59.000 So if the Syrian army, Syrian government is broke, they're not getting revenue from trade because they're under immense sanctions.

01:53:08.000 They're not getting revenue from oil because the oil fields are controlled by the Americans. 0.79

01:53:14.000 If the Syrian army is not being paid, if the Syrian economy is failing, if the Assad government is rejecting an overture by Turkey.

01:53:27.000 And if Syria is pivoting away from Iran, their major supporter in the past 10 years and towards the Arabs instead, Iran's rivals, then maybe the Syrian military was either bribed by the Americans or by the Turks or by the Israelis or some other then maybe the Syrian military was either bribed by the Americans Or they simply gave up and this was a peaceful transfer of power.

01:53:51.000 But that was clearly what took place over the past couple of weeks.

01:53:55.000 This was not, contrary to what everybody's calling it, this was not, strictly speaking, a military offensive.

01:54:03.000 There was no major battle.

01:54:05.000 It wasn't a war.

01:54:06.000 What really took place was a coup.

01:54:09.000 It was a quiet, a silent coup.

01:54:13.000 At some point, and for some reason, maybe due to outside influence, maybe was just a spontaneous collapse, the Assad government, which was upheld by the military, decided they would no longer fight.

01:54:28.000 And so they retreated into the capital and then surrendered without any real battle.

01:54:36.000 And you could see that there were other factors that led up to this as well, which people have pointed out.

01:54:42.000 Over the past 13 years, the Assad government has been bolstered by two countries, like I said earlier.

01:54:48.000 Initially, when the Syrian revolution began in 2011, the Assad government was on the back foot.

01:54:55.000 The rebels were taking a lot of territory.

01:54:58.000 After a period of time, all the rebels defected and became radical Muslims.

01:55:03.000 Most of Syria is Sunni Muslim.

01:55:06.000 They are being ruled over by an Alawite Muslim minority. 1.00

01:55:13.000 And so the military, which defected from the government in 2011 and 2012, could no longer control its personnel.

01:55:21.000 The personnel that defected from the Syrian government then defected from the moderate rebels and joined up with ISIS or the al-Nusra front or al-Qaeda.

01:55:32.000 And by 2013-2014, you had a radical Muslim insurgency, mostly led by ISIS take over the country.

01:55:39.000 And it seemed like Assad was finished.

01:55:42.000 That is when, in 2015, Russia came in with air power, with its air force, to roll back the rebels, which they succeeded in doing.

01:55:52.000 And Iran sent in its militias and its revolutionary guard to expand their influence inside Syria, and they worked as the ground force to roll back ISIS and the rebels.

01:56:06.000 So this is what must be understood.

01:56:09.000 It was Russian air power and Iranian ground forces which secured the Assad government in the period, roughly speaking, from 2015 to 2017. That's when the Assad government recaptured most of its territory.

01:56:24.000 And they have been the guarantors of the Assad government's consolidation and subsequent stability.

01:56:32.000 Of course, recent developments have compromised both of those forces.

01:56:37.000 Russia and Iran were vying for power inside of Syria between 2017 and 2022. Iran wanted to use Syria as a base to supply Hezbollah inside of Lebanon and to train Hezbollah inside of Syria.

01:56:56.000 Syria was a staging ground for Iranian forces and Iranian proxies.

01:57:03.000 But Iran using Syria in this way put Syria in the crosshairs of Israel.

01:57:10.000 Syria is not fundamentally aligned with Iran's strategic goals.

01:57:16.000 Syria is a Ba'athist state. 0.93

01:57:18.000 Iran is a revolutionary Shiite state.

01:57:22.000 Syria is a secular Arab nationalist socialist dictatorship.

01:57:27.000 Iran is a revolutionary theocratic dictatorship.

01:57:32.000 And so Iran and Syria have very different goals.

01:57:35.000 Iran wants to take over the Middle East by influencing all of the Shiite populations in all of the different Middle Eastern countries. 0.92

01:57:46.000 Syria wants to consolidate control over their own territory.

01:57:50.000 They don't want to provoke Israel necessarily.

01:57:53.000 They don't seek a regional Shiite revolution, and they're not a religious government.

01:58:00.000 But they relied upon Iran to bolster their security.

01:58:04.000 So they hosted Iranian forces.

01:58:06.000 It is Russia that opposed this because Iran, using Syria as a base of operations, made it a target of the United States and Israel.

01:58:17.000 This is why Israel has been bombing Syria for years.

01:58:21.000 This is why the United States has maintained a presence in Syria.

01:58:25.000 At least that's one of the reasons.

01:58:27.000 To roll back and check the influence of Iran. 0.97

01:58:32.000 Russia is involved in Syria for a couple of reasons.

01:58:35.000 Russia moved into Syria in 2015, largely for symbolic reasons.

01:58:41.000 This was Russia's reentry into the global stage. 0.95

01:58:45.000 After the fall of Soviet Union, Russia was constrained and became a country that was in effect not even a regional power.

01:58:55.000 Had no force projection capability outside of its own borders.

01:59:00.000 Could not intervene in Eastern Europe.

01:59:01.000 Could not intervene in the Middle East. 0.91

01:59:04.000 Could not intervene in Africa or Latin America or Asia like they did in the heyday of the Soviet Union. 0.84

01:59:10.000 And after 15 years of rebuilding by Vladimir Putin, Syria was the first testing ground for Russia to export its arms and its influence and provide for the security needs of a country in a different region.

01:59:28.000 And Russia acted as a kingmaker. 0.75

01:59:33.000 Assad was on the ropes, Russia intervened, and Assad remained in power.

01:59:37.000 And this is part of Russia's offering to other countries in the world.

01:59:43.000 The United States and Russia compete with each other as arms traffickers, as arms exporters.

01:59:50.000 And so this was a demonstration of Russian-provided capabilities, Russian-provided weapons.

01:59:57.000 But it was also a demonstration of Russia as a patron for a client state.

02:00:03.000 America gains its influence by providing for the security needs of other states.

02:00:09.000 For example, the United States provides Saudi Arabia with security in exchange for oil.

02:00:15.000 In this case, Russia provided Syria with security, and that was a demonstration that Russia could provide for other countries' security.

02:00:24.000 In addition, there was something more pragmatic.

02:00:26.000 Russia was able to host a naval base in the Mediterranean Sea in the Syrian port city of Tardis.

02:00:34.000 This is very important because Russia's only other port nearby is in the Black Sea in Crimea.

02:00:42.000 And for Russia to access the Mediterranean, it has to cross through a choke point controlled by Turkey, a NATO member.

02:00:50.000 So for Russia to exercise naval power in the Mediterranean Sea, it has to go through a choke point controlled by a NATO country.

02:00:58.000 With the naval base at TARDIS in Syria, it can project power in the Mediterranean without having to do that.

02:01:06.000 So Russia not only built a naval base there, but also an air base and a number of other military outposts, and Syria became a critical client state, maybe the critical client state of Russia.

02:01:19.000 Russia did not want Iran there using Syria as a base for Hezbollah because it compromised the Syrian state.

02:01:27.000 And if the Syrian state fell, if the Assad regime fell under pressure from Israel and the United States, then Russia loses its bases.

02:01:36.000 So Russia and Iran had an immense rivalry inside of Syria after the Assad regime gained control.

02:01:45.000 But this all changed in 2022. When Russia invaded Ukraine, it had to withdraw its forces from Syria and redirect them in Ukraine.

02:01:56.000 As such, Iran expanded its influence in the past couple of years, unchecked by Russia in Syria.

02:02:03.000 But then another development compromised Iran's involvement in Syria.

02:02:09.000 and that is Israel's regional war.

02:02:12.000 Because Israel is at war with Iran's proxies in every country, in Yemen, against Hezbollah, in Lebanon, and by carrying out airstrikes in Syria, Iran's forces have been seriously weakened.

02:02:26.000 In the past couple of months since September, Israel has stepped up its airstrikes considerably, bombing Hezbollah thousands of times in Lebanon, bombing the border between Lebanon and Syria, bombing the border between Syria and Iraq, bombing Iranian positions bombing the border between Syria and Iraq, bombing Iranian positions inside of Syria.

02:02:46.000 And so after 2022, Russia was disengaged from Syria.

02:02:52.000 After the past couple of months, Iran's forces have been considerably weakened in and around Syria, inside of Syria, but also inside of Lebanon and Iraq.

02:03:06.000 So these are the factors which contributed to the fall of the Assad government.

02:03:12.000 There was a fragile peace that has been in place since 2015. Well, I shouldn't say that.

02:03:19.000 There has been a fragile peace that has been in place since 2020. The tide started to turn and the consolidation was underwritten by Russian air power and Iranian ground forces.

02:03:32.000 Those were the guarantors of Assad's control over the country. 0.74

02:03:38.000 With Russia out of the picture, with Iran severely weakened, and because the Assad government was made poor by sanctions, because the oil was taken from them by the Americans...

02:03:52.000 And because probably Iran lost interest in defending Syria on some level because Syria pivoted away from Iran and towards the Arabs, seeking acceptance from the Gulf states, being reinstated in the Arab League, reinstating diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries.

02:04:13.000 Maybe they didn't even want to defend the Assad regime.

02:04:17.000 All of these factors contributed basically to the Assad regime giving up.

02:04:24.000 And there are some reports that said that Russia and Iran didn't even want to engage for that reason.

02:04:29.000 They said if Assad's forces won't fight, if the Assad forces are giving up Aleppo, giving up the cities on the way to Damascus, if they have given up, then why would Russia...

02:04:44.000 Why would Iran rapidly deploy their forces to defend Syria if Assad's forces won't fight?

02:04:52.000 And so there are some reports, unconfirmed, that Assad decided there would be a peaceful transfer of power.

02:04:58.000 He left Syria probably at some point in the middle of last week.

02:05:04.000 Russia, Iran, and the Syrian military just abandoned the fight.

02:05:08.000 And now the country has been taken over by HTS. So that's the first part.

02:05:14.000 That's the anatomy of the collapse.

02:05:17.000 That's my take on what exactly transpired because everybody is wondering how and why and what explains the timing.

02:05:26.000 I think it's clear.

02:05:27.000 It wasn't clear last week, but since HTS moved into Damascus effectively unopposed, outnumbered 20 to 1, without any fighting, without any battles, it seems without even an effort by Iran or Russia to stop them, Iran began to evacuate last week.

02:05:44.000 Russia sent its warships out last week from their base in TARDIS. It seems that there was something like a coup.

02:05:52.000 They just gave up.

02:05:55.000 And the Syrian regime collapsed because without Russia engaged, with Iran's forces weakened, with the Assad government broke, and maybe with some kind of deal being made behind the scenes to bribe the generals and officers, or some warning that was given to the Assad regime.

02:06:15.000 If you were to be more conspiratorial, I started to think this.

02:06:20.000 I almost wonder if maybe the Israelis are behind this. 0.97

02:06:24.000 I wonder if they communicated to the Syrian military that they would get bombed like Hezbollah if they didn't surrender.

02:06:33.000 But that's a little conspiratorial.

02:06:35.000 There's no evidence for that.

02:06:36.000 Because there still is some weirdness about it.

02:06:39.000 But I think what characterizes what has happened over the past two weeks is that this is more like a silent, bloodless coup than it is like some climactic final battle.

02:06:51.000 And so the Assad regime was effectively bled and its allies abandoned it.

02:06:56.000 Now let's talk about who took over.

02:07:00.000 So this is the other mystery.

02:07:02.000 Who exactly launched the offensive?

02:07:04.000 It's a group called HTS, which stands for Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham.

02:07:09.000 Not much is known about them.

02:07:12.000 Well, at least I should say in the public consciousness, there hasn't been a ton of reporting on them lately.

02:07:17.000 But the group is called HTS, and they are an Islamist, Salafist, Sunni Muslim militant group.

02:07:27.000 What does that mean?

02:07:29.000 They are Salafist. 0.98

02:07:31.000 That is a fundamentalist Muslim ideology which has been exported by Saudi Arabia.

02:07:37.000 They're the most extreme Muslims. 1.00

02:07:39.000 So ISIS, Al-Qaeda, these are two groups that have a Salafist theology, Salafist Muslim theology.

02:07:49.000 Also goes by the name Wahhabism, which is named after one of the clerics which pushed this in Saudi Arabia.

02:07:57.000 They're Islamist, which means they're theocrats. 1.00

02:08:01.000 Islamism means they believe that Islam should be the state religion.

02:08:05.000 There should be a Muslim government implementing Sharia law at the level of the state, and that the leader should be a cleric.

02:08:15.000 And so they actually have much in common with Al-Qaeda and ISIS. More on that in a moment.

02:08:20.000 But that is their ideology.

02:08:22.000 They're Sunni Muslim.

02:08:23.000 The reason I'm pointing all this out is because they are in, they're the diametric opposite of the pre-existing Syrian regime. 0.53

02:08:32.000 The Assad government is a Ba'athist Alawite government.

02:08:38.000 The Alawites are an offshoot of Shiite Islam.

02:08:43.000 They're in the minority in the west of the country.

02:08:47.000 And as Ba'athists, they are secular socialist Arab nationalists, meaning that they basically have a fascist government inside of Syria.

02:08:58.000 They do not have a religious law.

02:09:01.000 They're ruling over a country that is mostly Sunni, and they are in the religious sectarian minority.

02:09:09.000 And because they are a secular regime, this is the critical word that people are using, they're tolerant of minorities.

02:09:19.000 Because it is not a fundamentalist, theocratic, Muslim, Sunni government, they're tolerant of the many minority groups in Syria, of which there are a lot.

02:09:32.000 There is a significant Kurdish minority in the Northeast.

02:09:35.000 There is a significant Druze minority in the South.

02:09:38.000 There is a significant Christian minority and Alawite minority in the West.

02:09:44.000 And so it's a secular government that is organized really on ideological and ethnic principles rather than a religion.

02:09:52.000 And their principles are that they want to unite all the Arab countries.

02:09:56.000 That's where their flag comes from.

02:09:58.000 Their flag comes from their union with Egypt in the 1950s.

02:10:03.000 The Syrians and the Egyptians were both fascist governments united under one government for a short time.

02:10:10.000 And so that reflects the fact that they want to unite the Middle East as ethnic Arabs rather than as a particular variety of Muslims.

02:10:18.000 And as a secular government, they are more tolerant of religious minorities like the Druze, like the Christians, like the Shiites.

02:10:30.000 And so, HTS, the rebel group, which is now in control of the capital, which is now in control of most of Syria, it is completely different.

02:10:40.000 It is a completely different faction.

02:10:42.000 The Syrian regime was socialist, ruled by minority Shiite.

02:10:47.000 They were allied with Iran for that reason and other pragmatic reasons.

02:10:52.000 Now it's ruled by Sunni fundamentalists. 0.74

02:10:55.000 So they would be more aligned now with Saudi Arabia.

02:10:59.000 And Afghanistan, then they would be aligned with Iran.

02:11:03.000 So the alignment of Syria, if it is controlled by this group, is completely different.

02:11:09.000 That's what makes this such a big deal.

02:11:11.000 Syria being a pan-Arabist Ba'athist, fascist country was naturally aligned with Iran, was naturally aligned with the axis of resistance.

02:11:23.000 Now, if under control of HTS would be aligned with Saudi Arabia, would be aligned with the United Arab Emirates, would be aligned with the United States, potentially.

02:11:35.000 So it's a complete sea change.

02:11:38.000 Now, this group, HTS, in particular, this is actually a new name for an old group.

02:11:46.000 The leader's name is al-Julani.

02:11:49.000 He used to be a leader in al-Qaeda.

02:11:52.000 And what's interesting about him is he actually comes from the Golan Heights, which is occupied Syrian territory controlled by Israel.

02:11:59.000 That's where he's from.

02:12:01.000 That's what he's named after.

02:12:03.000 Al-Julani did fight with al-Qaeda, and he joined up with the resistance in Syria during the Syrian revolution in 2011.

02:12:12.000 And it's important to understand what happened in the Syrian revolution.

02:12:16.000 I guess we could go back there.

02:12:18.000 So in 2011, when the Syrian revolution started, it was largely led by former members of the military.

02:12:26.000 There were pro-democracy protests.

02:12:30.000 Many of the Syrians wanted a pluralistic democratic republic to be established in Syria.

02:12:37.000 They wanted real elections.

02:12:39.000 They wanted minorities to be represented.

02:12:42.000 They wanted the Sunnis to be represented.

02:12:44.000 And this was following the Arab Spring when there were a surge of these types of protests in North Africa and in the Middle East.

02:12:51.000 In Tunisia, in Libya, in Egypt, in Lebanon, elsewhere.

02:12:56.000 So there was a huge swell of pro-democracy protests happening.

02:13:02.000 Assad killed them all.

02:13:03.000 Assad sent in the military and the police and had the military fire upon the protesters.

02:13:09.000 Eventually the military said we don't want to fire upon our own people.

02:13:13.000 So the early leaders of the revolution were defectors from the military.

02:13:17.000 They formed a military council.

02:13:20.000 And using military weapons, military training and tactics, organized disciplined forces who defected from the Assad government, who received training, they fought against government forces and had a lot of successes in 2011, 2012. But eventually the character of the rebels began to change.

02:13:40.000 The United States was arming these rebels.

02:13:42.000 The CIA was directing the rebels.

02:13:45.000 And the goal of the rebels, who again were former military members, was they wanted a pluralistic democracy and a republic in Syria.

02:13:56.000 The tone and objectives started to change.

02:14:00.000 After a while, the bulk of the rebels started to drift more towards Islamism.

02:14:06.000 They started to drift more towards groups like ISIS and Al-Qaeda and a splinter group called Al-Nusra Front, which eventually became HTS.

02:14:16.000 And we'll give some details on that.

02:14:18.000 But that's the important details that the character of the revolution started to change.

02:14:23.000 And so by about 2013, after two years of fighting, the rebels were no longer former military seeking a democratic republic, including...

02:14:32.000 Increasingly, they were radical Muslims who wanted a Muslim government.

02:14:37.000 And they were aligned then with Al-Qaeda, Al-Nusra Front, other factions, and then eventually ISIS. And so then the United States began to reevaluate their support for the rebels.

02:14:51.000 All the rebels that they had been giving weapons and training began to pledge allegiance to Al-Qaeda.

02:14:57.000 Big problem.

02:14:58.000 The United States was arming these rebels who were talking about democracy and pluralism and liberalism and an organic democratic liberal revolution in the Middle East in the center of the region.

02:15:11.000 And they all started pledging allegiance to Al-Qaeda immediately.

02:15:15.000 Big problem.

02:15:16.000 And then ISIS sweeps in in April 2013. They cross the border from Iraq.

02:15:22.000 And very quickly, many of these Islamist factions who then constitute the majority of the rebels who had been trained and armed by the United States, they started to pledge allegiance to ISIS. And they joined up with ISIS. ISIS swept through the region.

02:15:38.000 They took Raqqa, which is a major city in Syria.

02:15:42.000 And then suddenly, the nature of the conflict changed.

02:15:45.000 And many of the former military started to conditionally work with ISIS, but also start negotiating with the government.

02:15:53.000 And they said, you know, we don't really want ISIS to run Syria.

02:15:56.000 That's actually worse.

02:15:59.000 And so this is where Russia and the United States come in. 0.68

02:16:02.000 The United States comes in to fight ISIS. Russia comes in to fight the rebels on behalf of Assad.

02:16:09.000 And in a sense, Assad is saved by the fact that the character of the rebellion changed.

02:16:16.000 Russia comes in as the liberator, not from the rebels seeking democracy, but the liberator saving Syria from ISIS and from radical Islam. 0.61

02:16:26.000 But this is where HTS is formed.

02:16:31.000 HTS was formed out of a group called Al-Nusra Front.

02:16:34.000 Al-Nusra Front came out of Al-Qaeda.

02:16:37.000 The leader of HTS and one of the commanders of Al-Nusra Front, Joulani, was a leader in Al-Qaeda inside of Syria during the early days of the Syrian revolution.

02:16:51.000 The problem is that many of the Al-Qaeda fighters had international ambitions.

02:16:57.000 Al-Qaeda wanted a caliphate that stretched all over the Middle East.

02:17:02.000 And they were very hard-line religiously and ideologically.

02:17:05.000 Joulani, who was one of the key members in Al-Nusra Front, he and others inside of Al-Qaeda decided to break away from Al-Qaeda because they wanted to focus on Syria alone.

02:17:17.000 Al-Qaeda wanted to fight, and they have operations in Yemen and in Iraq and in North Africa and in Syria alone.

02:17:27.000 But the people like those that went on to form this group, people like the rebel leader who's currently in control of Syria, they wanted to focus only on Syria.

02:17:35.000 So they broke away from Al-Qaeda and formed Al-Nusra Front.

02:17:38.000 But they have the same goals.

02:17:41.000 Al-Qaeda and the Al-Nusra Front have the same theology.

02:17:45.000 They're both radical.

02:17:47.000 They both use terrorism.

02:17:48.000 They're both Salafist, Muslim fundamentalists.

02:17:52.000 They both want Muslim theocracy. 1.00

02:17:55.000 So the Al-Nusra Front was formed out of Al-Qaeda.

02:17:58.000 It was a splinter group from Al-Qaeda.

02:18:01.000 Many of them were from Al-Qaeda, but they wanted to focus on Syria.

02:18:05.000 Al-Nusra Front became one of the biggest rebel groups inside of Syria.

02:18:12.000 Eventually, they were beaten back by the Russians.

02:18:14.000 They were called a terrorist group by the United States because of their connections to Al-Qaeda.

02:18:20.000 And by 2018 or 2019, they were nearly defeated.

02:18:24.000 They were in a small corner in northern Syria.

02:18:27.000 Eventually, they were given control over Idlib province.

02:18:30.000 That was the last stronghold.

02:18:32.000 Idlib province in northern Syria was the last pocket of resistance after the Russians and Americans intervened against the rebels and against ISIS, and Assad was able to consolidate control.

02:18:46.000 So 2015, the Russians come in. 0.99

02:18:49.000 2017, the Americans abandon regime change.

02:18:52.000 Around 2018, 2019, the al-Nusra front is given control over all of Idlib province, which is a state in the north, but that's the last pocket of resistance.

02:19:03.000 Everything else is controlled by Assad or Turkey or by the American-backed Kurds. 0.88

02:19:09.000 We'll talk about the Kurds in a moment because they're separate.

02:19:12.000 Al-Nusra Front rebrands as Hayat al-Sham.

02:19:17.000 They actually had a different name change and then later became Hayat al-Sham.

02:19:21.000 But in a short period of time, they go through a series of rebrands and change their name to HTS around 2020. And they say that unlike Al-Qaeda, and in order to distance themselves from Al-Qaeda further...

02:19:34.000 They changed their name and they say that they are willing to be pragmatic and work with Turkey and work with Western nations like the United States.

02:19:43.000 They recognized that if they were too closely associated with ISIS or Al-Qaeda that they could not get Western support.

02:19:50.000 They couldn't get Western money, couldn't get diplomatic recognition, couldn't get weapons, couldn't work with Syria. 0.53

02:19:56.000 So they rebranded.

02:19:58.000 But they are fundamentally the successors of al-Qaeda in Syria.

02:20:03.000 You have al-Qaeda in Syria.

02:20:05.000 They break away to focus on Syria alone and become al-Nusra front.

02:20:10.000 There's dispute.

02:20:12.000 Some of them join ISIS. Some of them remain.

02:20:16.000 Al-Nusra Front rebrands to HTS and then they control the last pocket in northern Syria.

02:20:22.000 And they do it really, again, for pragmatic reasons so that they will not be snuffed out.

02:20:27.000 If they're Al-Qaeda, they're going to get the full brunt of the American military.

02:20:32.000 If they are HTS... There's a little bit of obfuscation.

02:20:37.000 It's complicated.

02:20:39.000 And maybe in the future they could get support from the United States or from a NATO country like Turkey.

02:20:46.000 And that's precisely what happens.

02:20:49.000 Turkey starts to work with HTS. Even though HTS is not a proxy of Turkey.

02:20:56.000 They are not controlled by Turkey.

02:20:58.000 They're not a client of Turkey.

02:21:00.000 They weren't created by Turkey.

02:21:01.000 They start to work with Turkey as the occupying force inside of Idlib province, which borders Turkey.

02:21:10.000 So they buy energy from Turkey and they do receive weapons from Turkey like drones and other things, but they're not controlled by them.

02:21:18.000 And they are the group that for the past two years, the leader of the group, Julani, gave a speech two years ago and said, Aleppo is the goal.

02:21:27.000 That is how we're going to change the strategic situation in Syria.

02:21:32.000 This is the group that then invaded Aleppo.

02:21:36.000 And again, for whatever reason, a decision was made in the Syrian army to stand down.

02:21:41.000 Maybe they were bribed.

02:21:42.000 Maybe they were threatened.

02:21:44.000 Maybe they just simultaneously, spontaneously gave up.

02:21:48.000 But this is the group that when they marched into Aleppo from Idlib, without many fighters, facilitated the collapse of the government.

02:21:56.000 They entered Aleppo from Idlib, where they had been gathering strength, moved directly south and marched into the capital, and now they're in control.

02:22:05.000 Their leader is named al-Julani.

02:22:07.000 Like I said, he was literally a commander in al-Qaeda.

02:22:11.000 And at one time, when fighting alongside al-Qaeda and then al-Nusra Front, was collaborating with commanders inside of ISIS.

02:22:19.000 This is the group that now controls most of Syria.

02:22:24.000 They control most of its major towns, including Aleppo, the second biggest city, and the capital city, Damascus, as well as the strategic cities of Homs and Hama, which have military resources.

02:22:37.000 They control the intersection between Western Syria, which has port cities and the Alawite minority and the rest of the country.

02:22:46.000 The question is, now that they have taken over, will this group rule?

02:22:51.000 What happens next?

02:22:53.000 Will they hold elections in a few months and establish some sort of democratic governance which would be the realization again of the original goals of the revolution?

02:23:06.000 Back in 2011, when the Free Syrian Army, the consolidated factions of the resistance, when they fought Assad, they dreamed of a pluralistic democratic republic with elections and tolerance for minority groups.

02:23:22.000 Will this rebel group...

02:23:25.000 One, maintain control.

02:23:27.000 And if they do, will they hold elections?

02:23:31.000 Or will they try to implement something like Taliban rule inside of Syria?

02:23:37.000 Or will it be more moderate?

02:23:39.000 Will they be more pragmatic like the Emirates or like Saudi Arabia and have tolerance for the minorities?

02:23:47.000 It's worth pointing out that on their march to Damascus, the leader insisted repeatedly they will be tolerant of minorities.

02:23:54.000 They will be tolerant of the Christians, the Alawites, the Druze, the Kurds.

02:24:01.000 But what does that mean in practice?

02:24:03.000 Now that they have control over the government and now that they're conducting diplomacy with Iran, with Turkey, with their neighbors...

02:24:12.000 What will that look like in practice?

02:24:14.000 That is the question.

02:24:15.000 Who will now rule?

02:24:17.000 Now that this small faction, because that's really what it is, they just happen to be the faction, not the strongest, not the most organized, not the best, but just for whatever reason happen to be the one.

02:24:32.000 Will they be the ones to rule?

02:24:35.000 Will they try?

02:24:37.000 And if they do try, can they hold on to power?

02:24:41.000 But that is the current situation as it stands.

02:24:44.000 Here are some of the outstanding questions and some of the consequences for the other people in the region.

02:24:52.000 This is what happens next.

02:24:54.000 First of all, I'd like to point out that the number one beneficiary of this revolution is Israel.

02:25:02.000 By far and away, they're the clearest.

02:25:04.000 They are the first in terms of chronology.

02:25:09.000 They're the number one beneficiary of the conflict.

02:25:13.000 And here's why.

02:25:14.000 Because the first thing that has happened, and it has already happened so far, now that Syria is under the control of Sunni fundamentalists, is that Iran is out. 0.51

02:25:24.000 Syria was critical in Iran's power projection in the region. 0.71

02:25:31.000 If you look at a map of the Middle East, in order for Iran to reach Hezbollah inside of Lebanon on Israel's border, the only way for Iran to reach them is across a land bridge that connects Iran to Lebanon through Iraq, which is controlled by a security the only way for Iran to reach them is across a land bridge that connects Iran to Lebanon through 0.72

02:25:54.000 So in the aftermath of the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, in the aftermath of the Syrian civil war, Iran has been able to create a huge footprint inside both countries and take significant control over the security situation in both countries.

02:26:12.000 The popular mobilization force inside of Iraq is officially under the national security services of the government.

02:26:21.000 inside of Syria, the IRGC and Hezbollah and other Iranian militias bolster Assad's security forces inside of Syria.

02:26:31.000 And And so with Iraq and Syria, Iran is able to supply Hezbollah with weapons. 0.60

02:26:39.000 Now that Syria is under the control of a Sunni fundamentalist regime, the Iranians have already left. 0.73

02:26:45.000 And that means that land bridge is severed.

02:26:48.000 So that means that Iran is no longer connected to Hezbollah.

02:26:51.000 And although Iran can supply Hezbollah in other ways, they could do it covertly, they could theoretically do it by air or by ship or something.

02:27:00.000 It will be limited, constrained and extremely complicated.

02:27:06.000 So this, after Israel's been bombing Hezbollah with thousands of airstrikes over the past couple of months, significantly diminishes Hezbollah and Iran's control over Lebanon.

02:27:19.000 So the fall of Syria, it's not just the fall of Syria for Iran. 0.58

02:27:23.000 It's also the fall of Lebanon for them as well. 0.80

02:27:26.000 It means that Syria can no longer be used as a forward operating base of Iran.

02:27:32.000 It cannot be used as a supply line for Hezbollah.

02:27:35.000 And it means that Iran's influence over Syria and Lebanon is finished.

02:27:40.000 And Hezbollah is significantly diminished because of this.

02:27:43.000 That means that now Damascus and Beirut, Syria and Lebanon, realistically are more under the sphere of influence of Israel and Turkey, more so than Iran.

02:27:54.000 That makes Israel the biggest winner. 0.94

02:27:57.000 Because as we've talked about for the past year, the biggest threat to Israel, the biggest proximate immediate threat is Hezbollah. 0.83

02:28:05.000 And it is that way because Iran is able to supply them.

02:28:10.000 So the biggest strategic victor in all of this immediately is Israel.

02:28:15.000 Assad is out and with them the Iranians are out as well. 1.00

02:28:20.000 Iran is the big loser. 1.00

02:28:21.000 They are significantly diminished.

02:28:24.000 Here are some other questions.

02:28:26.000 Here is what else will happen next.

02:28:29.000 Already, Israel has invaded Syria.

02:28:33.000 Israel has occupied a portion of Syria called the Golan Heights since the war in 1967.

02:28:40.000 And this is a huge matter of contention.

02:28:44.000 Technically, Donald Trump recognized it as part of Israel.

02:28:47.000 If we recognize it, it's basically no other country is going to roll that back.

02:28:53.000 Israel occupies the Golan.

02:28:56.000 Since Assad left, Israel invaded Syria from the Golan Heights.

02:29:01.000 A demilitarized zone was established in 1974 between the occupied Golan and the rest of Syria.

02:29:08.000 Israel has invaded and occupied all of that territory.

02:29:12.000 They've occupied all of the checkpoints in the DMZ.

02:29:15.000 And they're even invading western Syrian towns outside of the DMZ.

02:29:20.000 They're moving into western Damascus province.

02:29:23.000 And they're moving up north along the border with Lebanon.

02:29:28.000 Which would seem to suggest that Israel might seek to control Syria's border with Lebanon in its entirety.

02:29:36.000 Or at least the border crossings in the east.

02:29:39.000 And that might mean that Israel intends to invade Lebanon from the east.

02:29:44.000 Where they're vulnerable.

02:29:46.000 Where they're not protected by Hezbollah, which is in the south. 0.94

02:29:49.000 Or it might mean that Israel is securing that border crossing so that it cannot be used in any scenario as a supply line for Iran to resupply Hezbollah.

02:30:03.000 But that is what is happening next.

02:30:05.000 Israel is securing its border with Syria and moving to secure their border, Syria's border with Lebanon.

02:30:12.000 And we don't even know.

02:30:13.000 That might not be the end of their ambitions.

02:30:15.000 That is what is happening so far.

02:30:18.000 Israel is also launching hundreds of airstrikes against Syrian military facilities.

02:30:23.000 Now that the Assad government has collapsed, the big question is who inherits all of their facilities, infrastructure, and hardware.

02:30:33.000 If HTS, if this successor to Al-Qaeda, if they're here to stay and running the government, that means they inherit Bashar al-Assad's chemical weapons, they inherit his helicopters, planes, naval ships, ammunition, all of it. 0.64

02:30:50.000 So Israel has been systematically carrying out airstrikes, hundreds of them, in just the past 48 hours.

02:30:56.000 Allegedly, they've destroyed all of Assad's naval ships.

02:30:59.000 They've destroyed the chemical weapons stockpiles, ammunition depots, helicopters, air bases, all of it.

02:31:07.000 Israel is right now in the process of destroying all of the hardware so that whoever comes to power won't inherit any of it. 0.83

02:31:14.000 And then therefore cannot pose a threat to Israel.

02:31:17.000 Because of course, even if it's a Sunni fundamentalist government, there's no guarantee that they will necessarily be in the pocket of Israel with so much uncertainty.

02:31:27.000 Israel's not taking any chances. 0.62

02:31:29.000 They're moving to disarm and neutralize whatever potential government comes to power by destroying any of the military hardware.

02:31:37.000 That is what is happening on the southern front in the south and southwest.

02:31:42.000 The next big question, this is something else that's already underway, is the fate of the Kurds and of the Americans.

02:31:51.000 So one of the significant ethnic minorities in Syria are the Kurds in northeastern Syria.

02:31:57.000 The Kurds are a huge transnational stateless ethnic group.

02:32:03.000 There are about 45 million of them.

02:32:05.000 And they're located in southeastern Turkey, northeastern Syria, northern Iraq, and northwestern Iran.

02:32:13.000 They have no country of their own.

02:32:15.000 There's no Kurdistan. 0.99

02:32:16.000 They are an Iranian ethnicity, and they're a big problem for all these countries. 1.00

02:32:23.000 There are serious Kurdish separatist movements in Turkey.

02:32:28.000 They're a big problem for the Turkish government.

02:32:30.000 They were recently a big problem for the Iraqi government, and now they're going to be a big problem for the Syrian government.

02:32:37.000 They have taken control of the Syrian territory northeast of the Euphrates River, which happens to also be where all of Syria's oil fields are.

02:32:48.000 That's a big problem.

02:32:50.000 So during the fighting with ISIS, the United States came in.

02:32:54.000 They were looking for rebels to back against Assad that weren't pledging allegiance to ISIS and Al-Qaeda, and the Kurds happened to be some of them.

02:33:03.000 So the United States began to arm and train and actually sent in military personnel to fight alongside the Kurds.

02:33:11.000 They reorganized the Kurdish forces into a group called the SDF, the Syrian Democratic Forces.

02:33:18.000 Problem is the Syrian Democratic Forces are made up almost entirely of a group called the YPG or the People's Protection Unit.

02:33:27.000 The YPG is the Syrian arm of a terrorist group called the Kurdish Workers' Party, and they're from Turkey.

02:33:36.000 The Kurdish Workers' Party is a separatist group.

02:33:39.000 It's a Kurdish-Turkish group.

02:33:41.000 They operate in southeastern Turkey, and they are responsible for many terrorist attacks in Istanbul and Ankara and other places.

02:33:49.000 They back Kurdish separatists in Iraq, in Syria— The reason this is a big problem is because the Kurdish Workers' Party is the mortal enemy of Turkey.

02:34:01.000 Turkey believes that the Kurdish Workers' Party, which operates in Turkey, is backing the People's Protection Unit, which is their wing in Syria, which has been renamed and reorganized into the Syrian Democratic Forces in northeastern Syria.

02:34:18.000 Since around 2017 or 2018, the SDF has provided security for an autonomous government.

02:34:28.000 They're calling it the Autonomous Administration of Northeastern Syria or Rojava.

02:34:33.000 And they're effectively a separate state altogether.

02:34:36.000 Northeast of the Euphrates, where the Kurds are in control of the security, even though they're not even the majority of the population there, they've established an autonomous government.

02:34:48.000 It is socialist.

02:34:49.000 It is feminist. 1.00

02:34:50.000 It is democratic.

02:34:53.000 I mean these guys are like communists.

02:34:56.000 They're not even Muslim. 1.00

02:34:58.000 And they're carving out what is being called like a socialist utopia.

02:35:03.000 It's called the Rojava Project.

02:35:05.000 That's what they're calling this polity.

02:35:07.000 And it is totally backed by the United States.

02:35:10.000 There's hundreds of American personnel officially there.

02:35:15.000 Unofficially, there's probably thousands of mercenaries there.

02:35:18.000 And again, this is where all the oil is.

02:35:20.000 Now, the question is, after Assad falls, will the new government incorporate northeastern Syria into their government?

02:35:31.000 Will they try to bring them back into the fold?

02:35:34.000 Right now, or as of two weeks ago, they were autonomous and separate from the Assad government.

02:35:42.000 When Assad was in control of Damascus and control of 60 percent of Syria, he was not in control of Rojava.

02:35:50.000 They were autonomous, independent, Kurdish, credibly accused of ethnic cleansing, forced conscription, child kidnapping, and backed by the Americans.

02:36:02.000 And that's where all the oil is, and they're getting a lot of revenue, billions of dollars a year from the oil.

02:36:08.000 But now that there's a new government, that new government is going to want the oil.

02:36:13.000 If it's HTS or whoever it is, they're going to want the oil.

02:36:19.000 They're going to want the territory.

02:36:21.000 They're going to want to bring Rojava back under the control of the capital. 0.83

02:36:26.000 But the Kurds aren't going to want to go. 0.99

02:36:29.000 They've enjoyed years of independence and autonomy, and probably they dream of statehood.

02:36:35.000 Probably they believe that they're going to become an independent Syrian Kurdish country.

02:36:41.000 So this puts them at odds with Damascus.

02:36:44.000 HTS, I would imagine, is going to try to create a federal government.

02:36:49.000 They're going to want to bring in Rojava as a semi-autonomous state or province.

02:36:55.000 And maybe Rojava will negotiate or maybe they'll want complete autonomy.

02:37:00.000 But the Syrian Democratic Forces are well-armed.

02:37:03.000 They're backed by the Americans.

02:37:05.000 And if they don't go along with the government in Damascus, there will be a fight.

02:37:11.000 So that is one of the emerging questions, is what will be done about Syria and Kurdistan?

02:37:18.000 Will they join up with the Syrian national government or will they be partitioned away and either enjoy unofficial autonomy or will they declare independence as a state?

02:37:30.000 But there's another complicating factor, which is Turkey.

02:37:34.000 Turkey has intervened in Syria many times since the civil war in Syria started.

02:37:40.000 They intervened in 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020. They've conducted, I think it's in all, six cross-border operations.

02:37:49.000 And when Turkey invades Syria, they fought ISIS initially, but they also fought the Kurds.

02:37:56.000 They invaded in Euphrates Shield in 2016 and they drove ISIS away from their border, but they also fought the SDF.

02:38:05.000 They also fought the Kurds and they have fought the Kurds repeatedly.

02:38:10.000 In recent years, Erdogan, the president of Turkey, has promised to carve out a 30-kilometer buffer zone across all of Turkey's border with Syria.

02:38:20.000 That runs through all of Rojava's northern border.

02:38:24.000 So Turkey has pledged that they will invade Rojava and they will take 30 kilometers of their territory in the north to create a safety zone where they will then expel all the Syrian refugees inside of Turkey into that zone.

02:38:42.000 Yeah.

02:38:43.000 So Turkey will never accept a Syrian Kurdish state if Rojava declares independence, if they say they're going to be an independent Syrian Kurdish country, Turkey would go to war to prevent that from happening.

02:38:59.000 Moreover, Turkey will not even allow them to have what they have.

02:39:03.000 Turkey is going to seize a significant portion of their territory along the border to prevent and basically sever Kurdistan inside of Turkey from Kurdistan inside of Syria.

02:39:14.000 That way the Kurdish Workers' Party can't support the SDF and the SDF can't export their revolution inside of Turkey.

02:39:24.000 By creating a safety zone, they will sever the two and cut them off from each other, probably prevent statehood, and they'll be able to exert control inside of that territory.

02:39:34.000 That's already happening.

02:39:36.000 Since the HTS offensive against the Assad regime, the SDF has made advances west of the Euphrates River and they've taken over the city of Manbij.

02:39:47.000 In the past couple of days, Turkey and the SDF have been fighting intensely.

02:39:53.000 Turkey has taken manbij from them.

02:39:55.000 And probably they're going to keep going and secure control over their border.

02:40:00.000 This would seem cut and dry.

02:40:03.000 The government in Damascus wants to bring Kurdistan.

02:40:06.000 They want to bring Rojava back into the fold. 1.00

02:40:10.000 Turkey wants to prevent the emergence of a Kurdish state.

02:40:13.000 They want to establish a safety zone.

02:40:17.000 They're already fighting them.

02:40:18.000 And if they're going to fight them, they will win because Turkey has air power.

02:40:23.000 Turkey has a huge military.

02:40:24.000 Turkey has a massive native drone industry.

02:40:28.000 And so if Turkey fights the SDF and gives it their all, they're going to win.

02:40:34.000 The complicating factor is that, of course, the United States is backing the SDF. So if Turkey invades Rojava, if they invade northeastern Syria to fight the SDF, the Kurds, they're going to run right into American personnel.

02:40:48.000 We've been backing the Kurds for years.

02:40:51.000 So the question is, what will the Americans do?

02:40:55.000 Will the Americans defend the Kurds from Turkey?

02:41:00.000 Will the Americans stand in the way? 0.76

02:41:02.000 Will they attempt a diplomatic resolution?

02:41:04.000 Will they back a Kurdish bid for independence?

02:41:09.000 Will they force the Kurds to integrate into a Syrian state?

02:41:13.000 Will the Americans be caught in the crossfire with Turkey?

02:41:18.000 That is the question.

02:41:21.000 What will Damascus do?

02:41:23.000 What will Ankara do?

02:41:24.000 What will Washington do about northeastern Syria?

02:41:27.000 Damascus wants it for the oil and the territory, maybe in a federated structure with semi-autonomy.

02:41:34.000 Turkey wants to take a lot of their land and they will refuse to accept any kind of statehood.

02:41:40.000 Washington's goals are a little bit unclear, but this might make it a little bit more clear.

02:41:46.000 Donald Trump is coming into the White House and Trump has a history of dealing with the Kurds.

02:41:52.000 In 2019, one of Turkey's operations out of six was launched against the Syrian Kurds.

02:42:02.000 Donald Trump was ridiculed for this and attacked for it, but he stayed out of it.

02:42:08.000 Trump sought to withdraw all the Americans from Syria, and when Americans were caught in the crossfire, when they were in the way of invading Turkish forces inside of Kurdish-occupied Syria, Trump said, we will stay out of your way.

02:42:23.000 We will stay out of it.

02:42:25.000 So under Trump, the United States let Turkey conduct operations against the SDF in Syria.

02:42:32.000 He let them do it.

02:42:34.000 He said, we're withdrawing anyway, but we will not interfere.

02:42:37.000 We will not get involved.

02:42:39.000 And he let the Turkish operation go forward.

02:42:43.000 There was another battle inside of Iraq.

02:42:46.000 After the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, basically the same thing played out in Iraq.

02:42:51.000 There's a significant Kurdish minority in the north of Iraq.

02:42:54.000 In their fight against the Saddam Hussein regime, they basically gained something like autonomy.

02:43:00.000 In their fight against ISIS, they expanded their holdings significantly.

02:43:05.000 And there was a significant dispute over a city called Urqaq.

02:43:11.000 The United States did not intervene.

02:43:14.000 They stayed out of it and they let the Iraqi government recapture 20% of Iraqi Kurdistan's territory and it led to the fall of the Iraqi government inside of Iraqi Kurdistan.

02:43:28.000 They voted on a referendum for independence.

02:43:31.000 It caused tensions with the Iraqi government in Baghdad.

02:43:35.000 Baghdad invaded to take back some of the territory.

02:43:37.000 The United States stayed out of it.

02:43:40.000 So in 2017 in Iraq and in 2019 in Syria, when there were disputes between the Baghdad government and Iraqi Kurdistan, when there were disputes between Ankara and Syrian Kurdistan, Trump stayed out and let Baghdad take territory and let Ankara take territory from the Kurds.

02:44:02.000 That would seem to suggest that Trump is not about to die on the hill of establishing an independent Syrian Kurdistan in the Northeast and would probably allow for a deal to be made.

02:44:17.000 I imagine where Ankara will take territory, Damascus will bring them to heel and incorporate them into some sort of federal government and the United States may withdraw.

02:44:29.000 The only thing that's in dispute is the oil, but since the Assad regime is out, and since we're not getting the oil, the oil revenue is going to the Kurds, I imagine there'll be no qualm about releasing the oil to the government in Damascus.

02:44:46.000 So I think that might give us some evidence about where this is going.

02:44:51.000 Now, the reason Turkey doesn't want a state, obviously, is because if the Kurds establish their own government, then they will use that as a base of operations to support independence in Turkey, which would result in a significant loss of territory.

02:45:06.000 They would support it in Iraq and in Iran, and none of those governments support that.

02:45:13.000 So unless there is some sort of significant development, I doubt that that will come to fruition.

02:45:18.000 That is another one of the major questions.

02:45:21.000 Some other outstanding questions about Syria.

02:45:23.000 Now that there's a new government in Damascus, what is the fate of Russia's fleet?

02:45:28.000 Russia has a significant naval base in Tardis, and they have an air base in Latakia.

02:45:35.000 They have military outposts elsewhere.

02:45:37.000 Russia's withdrawn its ships, but will the new Syrian government renew their lease with Russia?

02:45:44.000 That is heavily dependent on who controls Syria, and it depends on how the government in Syria aligns.

02:45:52.000 If it aligns with the United States, probably they won't renew it.

02:45:56.000 If somehow they're aligned with these other powers, maybe they'll wind up renewing the lease.

02:46:02.000 But that's another question for them.

02:46:05.000 I think that covers just about everything.

02:46:13.000 Yeah, I think that covers all the bases.

02:46:15.000 That is what happens next in Syria.

02:46:19.000 So those are the things we're going to be looking out for.

02:46:21.000 We're going to be looking out for which faction will consolidate control over Syria.

02:46:27.000 Will it be HTS? Will they be the ones that rule in Syria?

02:46:32.000 And how stable will their regime be?

02:46:36.000 That's question number one.

02:46:37.000 Question number two, what are Israel's ambitions?

02:46:40.000 Israel's neutralizing their military hardware, but they also seem to be expanding outside the DMZ. Do they seek to control the border with Lebanon?

02:46:50.000 Do they seek to expand further towards Damascus?

02:46:54.000 Will they invade Lebanon through Syria? 0.95

02:46:58.000 Will they hold that territory in perpetuity or for limited strategic objectives?

02:47:04.000 Other question, what happens to northeastern Syria?

02:47:07.000 Will the Americans withdraw?

02:47:09.000 Will they support the Kurds?

02:47:11.000 Will they support a claim to independence?

02:47:13.000 Will Turkey continue fighting, not just in Manbij, but to secure a 30-kilometer safety zone inside of Syrian Kurdistan?

02:47:22.000 Will the government in Damascus accept the 3.5 million Syrian refugees inside of Turkey that Erdogan wants to get rid of?

02:47:31.000 Will the new Syrian government renew the lease of Russia's naval and air base in western Syria?

02:47:36.000 And then maybe the next question, the ultimate fate of Syria is how stable is this order?

02:47:44.000 So in the foreseeable future, HTS will be tasked with consolidating Syria.

02:47:53.000 And they will have to consolidate Druze militias and various other rebel factions in the south and They will have to consolidate the Kurds in the northeast.

02:48:03.000 They will have to consolidate the minorities in the west. 0.98

02:48:06.000 They will have to work with Turkey. 0.87

02:48:07.000 They will have to work with the United States.

02:48:09.000 They will have to work with Iran and Russia.

02:48:13.000 Maybe they do it.

02:48:14.000 Maybe they create some kind of moderate Muslim Sunni federal system.

02:48:21.000 But there's another outstanding factor, and that is the imperial remnant.

02:48:28.000 What happens to Assad's military forces?

02:48:31.000 Because the military was loyal to Assad.

02:48:36.000 The military is Ba'athist. 0.88

02:48:38.000 And so you could see a couple of different outcomes.

02:48:43.000 After the revolution in Yemen and in Libya, the revolution in Yemen in 2012, the revolution in Yemen and Libya in 2011, the governments were partitioned.

02:48:55.000 Today in Libya, you have competing claims in Tripoli and Tobruk.

02:49:01.000 In Yemen, you have competing claims in the west and in the east of the country.

02:49:05.000 So will Syria be partitioned?

02:49:08.000 Maybe the rebels will be unable to consolidate control and they'll be rival militias vying for power.

02:49:16.000 Maybe there'll be a Sunni coalition and a Druze coalition and a Shiite coalition supported by officers and Kurds in the Northeast.

02:49:25.000 And maybe it'll be a failed state and no one group will emerge and consolidate the old borders around Syria.

02:49:33.000 Another outcome could be like the fate of Egypt. 0.97

02:49:36.000 After Egypt's revolution, which deposed their military dictator, Hosni Mubarak, they had democratic elections and they voted in the Muslim Brotherhood.

02:49:47.000 Just like HTS, Muslim Brotherhood is a radical Sunni Islamist group.

02:49:54.000 Then in 2013, the military staged a coup.

02:49:57.000 They overthrew Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood, democratically elected president, and they had another military dictatorship under LCC. So will that happen in Syria?

02:50:07.000 Maybe HTS holds elections.

02:50:09.000 Maybe they establish a government.

02:50:12.000 But will it be successful if it consolidates?

02:50:16.000 What will be the fate of Syria's military?

02:50:19.000 Maybe they made a bid to overthrow Assad, but does that mean they're ready to accept Sunni Islamist control? 0.97

02:50:25.000 And are the Syrian people ready to accept that?

02:50:28.000 Maybe they will then support a military coup, a popular military coup against whatever this administration is.

02:50:38.000 Will it just become a Sunni Islamist state that oppresses everybody? 1.00

02:50:43.000 No.

02:50:44.000 These are the uncertainties after the ouster of Assad.

02:50:49.000 But I think anybody would agree this is an altogether worse outcome.

02:50:54.000 This is a terrible situation.

02:50:57.000 500,000 people are dead.

02:51:00.000 Syria is destroyed. 0.87

02:51:01.000 It's gone on for 14 years.

02:51:04.000 The territory may never be reestablished.

02:51:07.000 They may never have the same borders that they used to.

02:51:10.000 They're being raped by outside powers like Israel, the United States, Turkey, Iran, Russia.

02:51:17.000 And in the end, they're controlled by Al-Qaeda.

02:51:20.000 In the end, they're being controlled by Al-Qaeda and ISIS. And the rich irony is that the Assad regime was Ba'athist, which is ideologically the same as Saddam Hussein.

02:51:34.000 And one of the charges for why we intervened in Iraq in the first place, why we're even in the Middle East, is because of 9-11.

02:51:43.000 So we back the Mujahideen. 0.99

02:51:45.000 We back Osama bin Laden against the Soviets. 0.92

02:51:49.000 They form Al-Qaeda. 0.64

02:51:51.000 They train.

02:51:53.000 Allegedly, they do 9-11.

02:51:56.000 We didn't care.

02:51:58.000 Allegedly.

02:51:59.000 They do 9-11.

02:52:01.000 They bring the fighting to our shores.

02:52:02.000 Now we've got to remake the Middle East in our image. 0.99

02:52:05.000 So we invade Afghanistan because that's where they trained, even though we used to support them. 1.00

02:52:10.000 We invade Iraq because Saddam allegedly helped Al-Qaeda.

02:52:15.000 They didn't.

02:52:15.000 Even though we used to support Saddam Hussein against Iran.

02:52:19.000 Then we support the overthrow of Syria, even though we used to work with Syria.

02:52:27.000 And then Syria falls under the control of ISIS. We're funding the rebels who become ISIS. We defeat ISIS. And then ultimately Al-Qaeda comes to power in Syria.

02:52:38.000 And so when all is said and done, we have achieved nothing.

02:52:43.000 25 years have gone by.

02:52:45.000 25 years in the Middle East.

02:52:47.000 And the Taliban rules Afghanistan.

02:52:49.000 Iraq is on the brink of coming apart. 0.99

02:52:52.000 It's basically controlled by Iran.

02:52:53.000 And Syria is controlled by Al-Qaeda.

02:52:58.000 That was our victory.

02:53:00.000 And by the way, now all the mainstream media is calling Al-Qaeda a moderate opposition.

02:53:06.000 Have you seen this?

02:53:08.000 Now all the headlines say that HTS vowed to protect children.

02:53:14.000 That's the headline.

02:53:16.000 When HTS collapsed the government of Assad...

02:53:20.000 Their leader, Al Julani, said, do not scare the children.

02:53:24.000 He said, we will protect Israel.

02:53:26.000 He said, we will protect minorities.

02:53:29.000 Now CNN and the mainstream media are giving HTS a facelift.

02:53:34.000 They are officially recognized as the state sponsor of terrorism by the United States, by Russia, by Turkey, by Iran, by Israel.

02:53:42.000 And now the mainstream media says, yeah, you know, maybe they're not so bad.

02:53:48.000 And they're the successors of Al-Qaeda and former collaborators of ISIS. And now they run Syria. 0.86

02:53:56.000 Thanks almost entirely to the United States.

02:54:00.000 Thanks to the United States undermining and overthrowing Assad.

02:54:03.000 Thanks to Israel weakening Iran and Syria. 0.94

02:54:06.000 Thanks to the United States drawing Russia away from the conflict.

02:54:11.000 So the big winners in all of this, the winners are Israel and The winners maybe are Turkey. 0.95

02:54:19.000 They may be a winner.

02:54:22.000 The big losers are Iran, Russia, Assad, Hezbollah. 0.95

02:54:31.000 And with the United States, it's sort of in the middle.

02:54:35.000 I mean, we opposed Assad, but is a government run by Al-Qaeda better? 0.98

02:54:43.000 Kind of puts us in the crosshairs.

02:54:46.000 So...

02:54:48.000 This group, they used to say Idlib province, this was said by the Department of Defense two years ago.

02:54:56.000 The DOD said that Idlib was the biggest hotspot of al-Qaeda terrorists anywhere in the world.

02:55:01.000 It is from Idlib that these rebels broke out and took control of Syria.

02:55:07.000 Now they run Syria. 0.97

02:55:08.000 Is that a victory?

02:55:09.000 the only way that this is a victory is because it is a huge defeat for russia that is the benefit for the united states it is a humiliation and a major defeat for russia and arguably this puts us in a position where we can draw down the war in ukraine without losing face arguably this is the case but of course everything is connected and so here's the here's the big picture the

02:55:37.000 Trump is coming in on January 20th.

02:55:40.000 And think about what he is inheriting in a month.

02:55:45.000 He is inheriting the use of long-range missiles inside of Russia by Ukraine, which was just authorized.

02:55:52.000 He's inheriting the collapsed Assad regime, which no doubt he'll be tied up in for years now.

02:55:59.000 Reconstituting Syria will be a real dilemma for a long time and it will suck him into it and all of his attention. 0.97

02:56:06.000 At the same time, China is conducting unprecedented naval and air exercises outside of Taiwan.

02:56:14.000 Taiwan is preparing for war.

02:56:17.000 This is all in advance of Trump getting into office.

02:56:20.000 And think about what happens here.

02:56:24.000 So Trump gets in.

02:56:26.000 Iran is totally weakened.

02:56:28.000 Israel has a ceasefire with Hezbollah and they're withdrawing from Lebanon.

02:56:32.000 They have severed Iran from Hezbollah.

02:56:35.000 And it looks like with Syria defeated, Hezbollah is going the way of Hamas. 0.55

02:56:39.000 North Gaza is going to be ethnically cleansed. 0.91

02:56:42.000 Israel will be focused on fighting a greatly diminished Iran and expecting Western backing. 0.58

02:56:49.000 Iran has been revealed to be a paper tiger and no doubt will lose support from Russia and China.

02:56:54.000 The United States is looking to make a deal in Ukraine, which will have to involve territorial concessions to Russia, demilitarizing Ukraine, forbidding NATO membership.

02:57:06.000 But both of these things must be accomplished in order for Trump to truly confront China.

02:57:13.000 The threat of China invading Taiwan and the threat posed by China in the long term in the Pacific.

02:57:19.000 This has been the unrealized goal of the American government for a decade.

02:57:24.000 The so-called pivot to Asia initiated by Obama.

02:57:27.000 But we have been bogged down in Eastern Europe, fighting Russia over Ukraine and bogged down in the Middle East in the proxy war between Israel and Iran.

02:57:37.000 And so it will be the task of the incoming Trump administration to extricate the United States from the Middle East and from the war in Ukraine so that we can adequately address the China problem, which is arguably a legitimate problem. 0.98

02:57:54.000 And, you know, Obama, Trump and Biden all made efforts toward that with the TTP, the TTIP, with the AUKUS agreement, the sub agreement, bolstering the quad, you know, winning some of these other governments like the Philippines back into our orbit.

02:58:10.000 that But Trump cannot fully commit to that.

02:58:16.000 Our island chain in the defense of the Pacific if we're bogged down in a proxy war with Iran.

02:58:23.000 But China knows that.

02:58:25.000 China and Russia know that.

02:58:26.000 So China and Russia will attempt to make it hurt for us in Iran. 0.59

02:58:32.000 We're going to have to ratchet up the pressure in Ukraine by escalating.

02:58:36.000 That seems to be the only language that And we're going to have to restrain Israel to prevent regime change in Iran, which would just blow up the whole region and demand a serious confrontation from the US military. 0.78

02:58:52.000 So if I were to make predictions, I would say that Trump is going to come in with fire and fury like he did the last time.

02:59:02.000 He's going to come in with fire and fury like he did the last time to reestablish deterrence.

02:59:08.000 Contrary to what everybody is saying, people say Trump is going to come in and make peace.

02:59:13.000 I think that's what he intends to do, but first he will make war.

02:59:17.000 He will look for a target that he can hit that will not complicate matters, but it will demonstrate to the world that he's serious.

02:59:26.000 And I can think of a couple.

02:59:28.000 The cartels or the Houthis. 0.74

02:59:32.000 He's going to do something provocative in the first few months.

02:59:35.000 He's going to consult with his advisors.

02:59:38.000 He's going to come in because the first step in the negotiation with Russia, China, Iran, Israel, Ukraine, all of them, is to demonstrate that he is in control, that America is willing to fight it to the end.

02:59:50.000 And to do that, he's going to need a victory right out of the gate.

02:59:55.000 And I think he's not going to withdraw the Americans from Syria right away because that will look like capitulation.

03:00:01.000 He's not going to give Russia everything they want right away because that will look like capitulation.

03:00:06.000 And you can't capitulate on two things before you try to exert maximum pressure on Iran and China or deter China. 0.71

03:00:14.000 You have to exercise force and then make a deal with concessions.

03:00:18.000 How do you do that?

03:00:20.000 I think he's going to do something provocative against the axis of resistance, and maybe that includes, I think, the Houthis because we're already at war with them and we've been failing. 0.98

03:00:29.000 Maybe Hezbollah, maybe does something unrelated like goes after the cartels, but this will consume a lot of his attention.

03:00:37.000 And then I think he'll have to make some serious, incredible threats against Russia.

03:00:41.000 He'll at the minimum have to threaten something extraordinary, if not do something extraordinary, to make Russia bend the knee.

03:00:49.000 And I don't think Russia's going to go for that.

03:00:52.000 So that's going to be complicated.

03:00:54.000 And then in the Middle East, he's going to have a cabinet working against him.

03:00:58.000 He'll try to get Israel to expedite the end of their war. 0.89

03:01:02.000 But I think they are looking to provoke Iran into a wider conflict, especially while Syria is reeling.

03:01:09.000 Maybe they'll wait for some stability there.

03:01:12.000 And who knows?

03:01:13.000 It's a wild card what they're doing right now in Syria and what their goals are for Lebanon.

03:01:18.000 But it seems that they will try to get the situation in Lebanon and Gaza and the West Bank further under control and then look to a confrontation with Iran.

03:01:26.000 I don't think Trump will be successful in restraining them.

03:01:29.000 If anything, he's going to reinstate sanctions.

03:01:32.000 He's going to open up.

03:01:33.000 He's going to Undo the LNG ban.

03:01:36.000 Destroy energy for Russia and Iran. 0.98

03:01:38.000 That may bring them to their knees.

03:01:40.000 That may be sufficient.

03:01:41.000 He's going to attack them hard.

03:01:45.000 And that'll bolster...

03:01:48.000 That'll all help him in his bid to reorient our foreign policy towards China.

03:01:53.000 I think that's going to be the...

03:01:55.000 If I'm sketching out a rough outline, to me it looks something like that, but...

03:02:01.000 We have to watch the signals very closely, have to watch what they're doing.

03:02:05.000 It's interesting.

03:02:08.000 Trump visited France this week.

03:02:11.000 This is not, hey, idiot, every dumbass is looking at Trump visiting France for the reopening of the Notre Dame and they're saying, oh, it's good to see Trump as a world leader again.

03:02:23.000 Okay, why did Trump visit France first?

03:02:27.000 This is not a coincidence.

03:02:29.000 Trump had a very chummy relationship with Macron his first term.

03:02:34.000 Macron is one of the biggest Russia hawks in Europe.

03:02:38.000 Macron is also one of the biggest supporters of Iran and Lebanon, one of the biggest critics of Israel in Europe.

03:02:45.000 It's a big signal.

03:02:47.000 It's all signaling.

03:02:49.000 In Trump's first foreign visit since becoming president, he travels to Paris, France, and gets all chummy with Macron and Zelensky.

03:02:58.000 Macron is a huge Russia hawk.

03:03:02.000 Because Russia is overthrowing his proxies in West Africa.

03:03:06.000 We've talked about this.

03:03:08.000 Trump has had only glowing praise for Zelensky, meets with Zelensky and Macron.

03:03:14.000 Macron's a Russia hog. 0.97

03:03:15.000 Zelensky is Ukraine.

03:03:18.000 So what does that mean?

03:03:19.000 That's a signal to Russia. 0.85

03:03:22.000 Putin reads that.

03:03:23.000 While Tucker's interviewing Sergei Lavrov, Trump is meeting with Putin's mortal enemies, Macron and Zelensky.

03:03:31.000 Plotting out what exactly?

03:03:32.000 Who knows?

03:03:34.000 But the timing is really interesting.

03:03:37.000 So what did they discuss?

03:03:39.000 I'm sure they discussed Ukraine and how they don't want to give it up.

03:03:45.000 But anyway, so that's that.

03:03:49.000 So that's everything.

03:03:50.000 That's the whole big picture.

03:03:52.000 That's the big story.

03:03:54.000 The next phase of the conflict is this.

03:03:57.000 The rebels consolidating power, the Turks and their Syrian National Army, which is their proxy.

03:04:04.000 That's their Wagner group.

03:04:05.000 That's their foreign legion. 0.98

03:04:09.000 The SNA and the Kurds fighting the SDF. I'm sorry, the Turks. 1.00

03:04:16.000 Did I say that right?

03:04:17.000 The Turks and the SNA fighting the Kurds, the SDF, the YPG. We're going to see what America does.

03:04:24.000 Will Trump withdraw them?

03:04:26.000 Will Biden try to negotiate something?

03:04:28.000 Will Trump try to negotiate something?

03:04:30.000 And then we have to see what Israel's operation is on their border with Lebanon, on Syria's border with Lebanon.

03:04:36.000 And what will be the character of the Syrian regime?

03:04:39.000 How will that evolve over time?

03:04:41.000 And will it bog down Trump as he enters into a second term?

03:04:48.000 But that is the conflict in a nutshell.

03:04:52.000 It's an historic moment.

03:04:54.000 It's a huge deal.

03:04:55.000 Everybody's talking about it.

03:04:58.000 And that's my take.

03:04:59.000 So that's going to do it for me on that tonight.

03:05:02.000 We're going to move on and take a look at our super chats.

03:05:05.000 Like I said, tomorrow we'll cover the killing of the UnitedHealthcare CEO and the suspect who has been named the killer.

03:05:17.000 But for now, we're going to take a look at our super chats.

03:05:19.000 We'll see what you guys have to say about all this.

03:05:22.000 Let's take a look.

03:05:23.000 We'll see.

03:05:24.000 What's your take?

03:05:25.000 Syria super show.

03:05:38.000 Okay.

03:05:41.000 Let me get all set up here.

03:05:48.000 Okay.

03:05:48.000 I'm really hungry.

03:05:49.000 I forgot to eat today.

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03:05:54.000 How can you eat Taco Bell?

03:05:56.000 Nasty shit.

03:05:58.000 This is low IQ conversation, but thank you.

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03:06:02.000 Hi Nick.

03:06:03.000 Hope you had a fantastic day.

03:06:04.000 I was wondering if you would do the Lily Gaddis show.

03:06:06.000 I don't know.

03:06:07.000 She hate me still?

03:06:08.000 She still think I'm a gay Groyper or whatever?

03:06:12.000 It's kind of interesting.

03:06:13.000 She flipped a little bit on me, I think.

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03:06:17.000 Thank you for the big super chat.

03:06:19.000 I don't know what that says, but I appreciate it.

03:06:24.000 I'll take this as a Jewish Christian.

03:06:26.000 I'll take that.

03:06:27.000 I'll assume you're a Jewish Christian, but thank you for the big super chat.

03:06:30.000 I appreciate it.

03:06:32.000 I see people online saying it's retarded.

03:06:34.000 You still live in Chicago.

03:06:35.000 I think it's based.

03:06:36.000 It's actually fucking gay to just scatter away from your parents and family heritage where your grandparents were born. 0.61

03:06:41.000 I think it destroys society at the base level to have no roots.

03:06:43.000 I totally agree.

03:06:44.000 I absolutely agree.

03:06:45.000 People go, oh, you still live in that shithole?

03:06:47.000 It's like this was a great city.

03:06:51.000 Chicago was a great American city.

03:06:54.000 If you've never been here, you would never understand.

03:06:56.000 And my family's been here for five generations.

03:07:01.000 So some people, you know, they're immigrants.

03:07:03.000 Or some people, they're transplants.

03:07:05.000 My family's been here since the beginning.

03:07:08.000 You know, my great-grandparents lived on Taylor Street.

03:07:12.000 And they built the city.

03:07:15.000 So, they were there from the beginning.

03:07:18.000 They made sculptures in the churches.

03:07:20.000 They worked in the city.

03:07:26.000 They were part of Little Italy at the beginning.

03:07:29.000 This is a relatively new city, you know?

03:07:33.000 So...

03:07:35.000 It's not so simple.

03:07:36.000 I mean, I'm...

03:07:37.000 My mom's an Italian-American.

03:07:40.000 We were the original Italian-Americans here in Chicago that built Chicago.

03:07:47.000 We're like our own ethnicity.

03:07:50.000 So...

03:07:50.000 And Mexican and Irish.

03:07:52.000 We also built this city.

03:07:54.000 So...

03:07:55.000 Yeah, it's not so simple for me to just leave like...

03:07:58.000 Where am I going to go and live?

03:08:00.000 West Virginia?

03:08:01.000 I have no roots in West Virginia.

03:08:03.000 You can't get...

03:08:05.000 Food in West Virginia.

03:08:06.000 What are we going to get?

03:08:07.000 You can't get anything we get here in West Virginia.

03:08:14.000 So...

03:08:14.000 Yeah, I'm a big believer in that.

03:08:19.000 Oh, actually, I guess you can pretty easily, too.

03:08:22.000 At least we can enjoy seeing Jackson Hinkle and Scott Ritter seethe.

03:08:25.000 Yeah.

03:08:25.000 All these like third world-esque lasers.

03:08:28.000 I was never big into the Assad thing.

03:08:30.000 I mean...

03:08:31.000 We joke about it a little bit, but some people are like serious Assad glazers. 0.98

03:08:36.000 Hint, hint.

03:08:37.000 Keith Woods.

03:08:38.000 Keith Woods has been crying for 48 hours about the downfall of Assad.

03:08:43.000 I'm like, hey, buddy, get it together.

03:08:45.000 It's called taking your own side.

03:08:50.000 So I'm a first-worldist, not a third-worldist.

03:08:53.000 I don't really give a shit that much about some Arab dictator. 0.96

03:08:56.000 It's sad what happened there, but it doesn't keep me up at night.

03:09:00.000 Well, I kind of got cheated because I listen to Vultures a lot.

03:09:07.000 So it's Kanye, Ty Dolla $ign, and YS, which are really all the same thing.

03:09:13.000 And then four and five was like, what, Suicide Boys and Vacations?

03:09:22.000 Let me take a look.

03:09:26.000 Yeah, so on Artists, I kind of got cheated a little bit, but let me see.

03:09:35.000 Yep, yeah, that was it.

03:09:36.000 So I should have had two more spaces. 0.53

03:09:41.000 You know, because YS, Ty Dolla $ign, and Kanye are all the same group.

03:09:45.000 That's all Vultures. 0.58

03:09:45.000 And then Suicide Boys, I listen to some of that. 0.58

03:09:48.000 And Vacations, they had a new album.

03:09:50.000 I listen to that a lot.

03:09:51.000 So mine was a little bit fake.

03:09:54.000 Mine was a little bit fake, but...

03:09:57.000 Yeah, Kanye, number one artist for like the eighth year in a row.

03:10:05.000 But, yeah, those are my top five.

03:10:07.000 I saw that yesterday.

03:10:22.000 Yeah, dude.

03:10:23.000 It's ridiculous.

03:10:24.000 Canada's like third world now.

03:10:26.000 Happy Feast Day.

03:10:31.000 Feast Day.

03:10:32.000 Thank you very much.

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03:10:43.000 Been away for a while.

03:10:45.000 Just wanted to drop back in and show some support.

03:10:47.000 God bless Brother PS Fire Mugshot.

03:10:49.000 Thank you for the huge super chat.

03:10:51.000 I appreciate it.

03:10:53.000 Thank you very much, man.

03:10:54.000 Thank you, YNWA Palestine, one of our biggest supporters.

03:10:58.000 Hope you're doing okay, buddy.

03:11:00.000 Kind of an L for the Assad regime to crumble for you guys, but I appreciate it, buddy.

03:11:06.000 Thank you, and I'm glad you like the mugshot.

03:11:08.000 It was pretty good, right?

03:11:10.000 People said I look Mexican.

03:11:11.000 I was trying to.

03:11:12.000 It's like a bad ombre.

03:11:13.000 I'm trying to look like a...

03:11:16.000 Like an outlaw.

03:11:17.000 Im just based sent $5.

03:11:19.000 Crazy, we got Batman, Daniel Penny, and the Riddler, Luigi Maggioni, in the same week.

03:11:23.000 Thank you for red pilling me and my friends.

03:11:25.000 That's funny.

03:11:26.000 He really is.

03:11:27.000 They're both in New York, too.

03:11:29.000 You have some, like, clean-cut former Marine subway hero versus, like, a political terrorist who labels his bullets, kills the CEO, and is, like, dropping videos and sub stacks with riddles in them.

03:11:46.000 That's pretty funny and it's all happening in New York.

03:11:49.000 I kneel.

03:11:50.000 I kneel.

03:11:50.000 I kneel for New York.

03:11:51.000 Do you know the Hussong won't get fooled again? 1.00

03:11:52.000 Was listening to it and it reminds me of how the McGaugh movement sold out on us.

03:11:55.000 Yeah, it's quite similar.

03:11:58.000 Bye.

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03:12:01.000 I had wagey rage and thought the CEO getting whacked was funny.

03:12:03.000 But I know deep in my heart this never happens to the real evil people.

03:12:06.000 They live long, comfortable lives and rarely suffer consequences.

03:12:08.000 Yep.

03:12:09.000 UHC was under investigation and CEO was probably going to blow the whistle and all the plebs celebrate. 1.00

03:12:14.000 True.

03:12:15.000 Very true.

03:12:16.000 It's just cringe and killing businessmen just like as a concept is very cringe.

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03:12:26.000 Thoughts?

03:12:26.000 No, it's not realistic at all.

03:12:28.000 It doesn't look like me at all.

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03:12:31.000 It's over.

03:12:32.000 I'm bankrupt.

03:12:33.000 Pray for Vita.

03:12:34.000 Wow, thank you.

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03:12:37.000 Hi, Nick.

03:12:37.000 I hope you had awesome data.

03:12:39.000 Duplicate.

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03:12:41.000 Sending this chat before the show start.

03:12:43.000 So if you address this during, sorry, but with the Assad regime falling, just how drastically will this negatively affect Russia over the next decade?

03:12:50.000 Well, it doesn't affect them directly so much.

03:12:54.000 Here...

03:12:55.000 Like I said, the indirect, other than the loss of the base potentially, but the indirect consequence is that this hurts BRICS as an alternative system.

03:13:04.000 Right now, there is no other superpower that can provide for the security needs of other countries.

03:13:10.000 Just isn't one.

03:13:11.000 China can provide financing.

03:13:13.000 They cannot provide security.

03:13:15.000 The United States provides security.

03:13:19.000 Russia's an arms dealer. 0.82

03:13:20.000 Russia has a mercenary army, but they cannot provide security services the way the United States can.

03:13:27.000 For Syria to fall is a serious blow. 0.95

03:13:30.000 I mean, Syria is like their only client state in that regard.

03:13:34.000 So, you know, you have Russia and China.

03:13:36.000 They have this dual benefit.

03:13:40.000 China is the money power. 0.85

03:13:41.000 Russia is the military power. 0.72

03:13:44.000 But what Ukraine and Syria are demonstrating is that there is no force like the United States.

03:13:52.000 The U.S. and NATO are the undisputed military power by far.

03:13:57.000 And if there's a next most powerful, maybe it's China.

03:14:02.000 But they're both very far away.

03:14:05.000 You know?

03:14:08.000 So...

03:14:08.000 Russian credibility has taken a huge hit.

03:14:14.000 And if they are supposed to be the military power that underlies the BRICS alternative system, took a serious devastating blow with the fall of the Assad regime.

03:14:27.000 So that might be a problem for them.

03:14:29.000 Base Texas Gamer sent $20.

03:14:31.000 It's as frustrating to see the online Catholic sphere constantly attacking you.

03:14:34.000 I am a cradle Catholic that fell away from the church, but you brought me back to the faith.

03:14:37.000 I'm sure you have brought hundreds or more to Catholicism, and I know for a fact that some are even becoming priests because of you and this movement.

03:14:43.000 It's totally true.

03:14:44.000 They, yeah, well, you know, a lot of them are very uptight.

03:14:48.000 A lot of the online Catholics are very haughty, and that totally goes against the religion. 0.97

03:14:53.000 They're very smug, and everything's got to be trad, and they're very judgmental and uncharitable, and that's just bullshit, so...

03:15:03.000 That doesn't surprise me.

03:15:04.000 Yeah, that's basically accurate.

03:15:22.000 That's great.

03:15:28.000 What?

03:15:32.000 You've shown how to carry yourself with composure when you're facing this machine, this American judicial system that cannibalizes our people.

03:15:46.000 But I'm going to tell you this, and I'm going to say it loud and clear.

03:15:51.000 Let the marchers march and let the steppers step.

03:15:55.000 Let the marchers march and let the steppers step.

03:16:02.000 You want to do something about this verdict?

03:16:04.000 Then you go into your neighborhood and you promote black unity.

03:16:10.000 Black people, we are all we have.

03:16:14.000 This system protects every other group except for the very people that built this country. 0.97

03:16:24.000 Dude, if you just translate that, he sounds like a white nationalist.

03:16:28.000 Every group That comes here, gets privileges, gets benefits, except for the very people whose fingerprints are on the bricks that built this country.

03:16:42.000 There is no love for black people. 1.00

03:16:45.000 There is no love in the system.

03:16:48.000 How can you make a moral appeal to a people that have no moral code? 1.00

03:16:55.000 How can you preach Alright, whatever.

03:16:58.000 We didn't hear all the rest of that.

03:17:00.000 Thank you, though.

03:17:02.000 It is very sad.

03:17:09.000 Why didn't Netanyahu say that October 7th was like 10-9-11-S? Because, so that in about 50 years, he can say that over 100,000 people died that day.

03:17:17.000 JP3 sent $50.

03:17:19.000 Have you seen this trend of boomers videoing planes at night and spreading rumors that they are Chinese drones disguised as planes mapping out military bases? 0.62

03:17:24.000 It say a huge thing in NJ right now.

03:17:26.000 I think you were right.

03:17:27.000 These past four years made conspiratorial types too mainstream.

03:17:30.000 We must embrace Keithism and take our schizomeds. 1.00

03:17:32.000 Okay, you are a plant.

03:17:33.000 You were sent here by Keith Woods.

03:17:35.000 Keith Woods is not the only one promoting anti-conspiracy.

03:17:39.000 That is, this is a Keith conspiracy.

03:17:42.000 I haven't seen that.

03:17:44.000 It doesn't surprise me.

03:17:45.000 I mean...

03:17:46.000 It has gone too far.

03:17:47.000 It's like a psyoped, brain-damaged country. 0.99

03:17:50.000 They'll now believe any hoax.

03:17:52.000 They'll believe any influence operation.

03:17:55.000 And they're now under the control of whoever has the biggest megaphone on Twitter or Facebook.

03:18:01.000 So it definitely has gone too far.

03:18:05.000 And I'm with you.

03:18:07.000 I'm with Keith.

03:18:07.000 I'm with Hanania.

03:18:09.000 Scott, I'm against kookism, kookery on this one. 0.98

03:18:15.000 You know, like crazy people.

03:18:16.000 That's not a dog whistle.

03:18:20.000 Not really.

03:18:28.000 Me too.

03:18:29.000 Thanks for the big super chat!

03:18:30.000 I appreciate it!

03:18:32.000 A norm-groid, I assume you mean, right? 1.00

03:18:34.000 Like a normie?

03:18:35.000 I agree.

03:18:36.000 Good for you.

03:18:39.000 Good for you, you're a hero.

03:18:40.000 Thank you for that.

03:18:42.000 We don't need anyone else to be working for the enemy anymore.

03:18:45.000 If you work at Chili's, time to quit.

03:18:57.000 Beatles.

03:18:58.000 Beatles all the way.

03:19:00.000 Thank you for the huge super chat.

03:19:17.000 I appreciated Harry Reid, who was like a mobster.

03:19:21.000 Harry Reid, the senator from Vegas, the state that's built on gambling, and you think he's a credible source of information?

03:19:30.000 The guy's like organized crime.

03:19:33.000 Thank you for the huge super chat.

03:19:35.000 I appreciate it, but that's all bullshit.

03:19:36.000 I don't believe in aliens.

03:19:38.000 All that stuff is coming from the DOD. It's all coming from the government.

03:19:41.000 I don't believe a word of it.

03:19:42.000 I think it's fake.

03:19:44.000 Do you think we have alien spaceships?

03:19:47.000 Dude, that would just never...

03:19:49.000 There's no way that that's real.

03:19:51.000 Like, someone would say something.

03:19:55.000 Where's the video?

03:19:56.000 Where's the video?

03:19:57.000 Where's the reports?

03:19:59.000 I don't believe in that.

03:20:00.000 I think that's totally fake.

03:20:02.000 But thank you anyway.

03:20:03.000 In what way?

03:20:06.000 What is goated?

03:20:07.000 MetroZoomer sent $5.

03:20:08.000 These raw milk and meat people are retarded. 1.00

03:20:10.000 Someone at my parents' work had eaten a store, bought steak a little too rare, and he developed Kreutzfeldt-Jakob disease, mad cow disease, and is now set to die in the next few months.

03:20:17.000 Yeah, I believe it.

03:20:19.000 Yeah, it's backwards.

03:20:19.000 It's backwards.

03:20:20.000 Let's cook our food.

03:20:23.000 Let's pasteurize our milk.

03:20:25.000 Let's wash our fucking hands. 0.98

03:20:27.000 And let's use eggs and flour to create, you know, actual food. 0.76

03:20:35.000 These people have gone insane.

03:20:37.000 They're just going backwards in time.

03:20:40.000 People are getting listeria because they think it's based.

03:20:43.000 Like, that's not based at all.

03:20:45.000 So that's bullshit.

03:20:46.000 Jews are laughing at you. 1.00

03:20:47.000 Jews are eating filet mignon and they're watching you drink raw eggs over raw meat, drinking raw milk and getting sick and dying and they think it's funny. 1.00

03:20:56.000 So I'm good.

03:20:58.000 I stole something out of your storage unit.

03:21:02.000 Oh, it's a little guy.

03:21:04.000 Very good.

03:21:06.000 Thank you, Zafed.

03:21:21.000 It's possible.

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03:21:22.000 Why are your supporters so retarded? 1.00

03:21:24.000 It's not them.

03:21:25.000 It's everybody.

03:21:25.000 Everybody's retarded.

03:21:27.000 Frank sent $5.

03:21:28.000 I spoke to Jonathan GF40 Boys, Fish Tank, Vampire Blood Games, and Ice Poseidon Hunger Games fame in an X space today, and he expressed interest in being your running mate in 2028. Oh, yeah?

03:21:36.000 With the tragic passing of John Pork, would you consider giving him a shot?

03:21:39.000 I don't know.

03:21:40.000 Well, I can't run in 28. I won't be old enough.

03:21:44.000 I'll have to consult with Haley Welch.

03:21:47.000 Abdul Bosnian sent $5.

03:21:48.000 By the way, who's this guy, Charles Johnson?

03:21:50.000 I had to argue with this idiot on Soleim in Space last week, almost 15, about how someone like you can't depend on the system or government to protect you.

03:21:56.000 He claims he knows you.

03:21:57.000 Oh yeah, he's a friend of mine.

03:21:59.000 He's a good guy.

03:22:00.000 John of Arcroy, percent $7.

03:22:01.000 Nick, it seems like now if you want to be a famous Zoomer these days, you shouldn't shoot up at school anymore.

03:22:05.000 You could instead just kill a CEO and claim you have a political...

03:22:07.000 Okay, disavow, disavow.

03:22:09.000 No violence.

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03:22:10.000 WStream, WJawline, WNick.

03:22:13.000 Oh, this?

03:22:16.000 Oh, this old thing?

03:22:17.000 What do you mean?

03:22:18.000 What are you talking about?

03:22:19.000 Oh, that old thing?

03:22:20.000 Get out of here.

03:22:22.000 Stop.

03:22:23.000 Stop it.

03:22:25.000 I did, yeah.

03:22:31.000 You know the original title?

03:22:33.000 jaded eyes wide shut as the original title.

03:22:36.000 Judge Knapp's my favorite.

03:22:50.000 The The rest of them I, you know...

03:22:51.000 McGregor I like okay.

03:22:53.000 The rest of them I kind of take them or leave them.

03:22:56.000 Sure.

03:23:01.000 I didn't see that.

03:23:06.000 I didn't watch that.

03:23:07.000 I'm too old.

03:23:08.000 I'm too old and washed.

03:23:09.000 I had asked some guy who's three years younger than me the other day, what's FaZe Clan?

03:23:14.000 And I felt like the oldest man in the world.

03:23:16.000 I felt like ancient...

03:23:19.000 Oldest man in the world dies at age 307. Hey, Sonny, what's this FaZe Clan? 1.00

03:23:29.000 He was telling me about Ronaldo, something Ronaldo.

03:23:35.000 I was like, who the fuck is that?

03:23:38.000 I'm like, I'm so old and so washed.

03:23:42.000 He's telling me about Clix.

03:23:43.000 He goes, so he was actually a mod in Clix's stream, and then he became his own streamer.

03:23:50.000 What's the guy's name?

03:23:51.000 Something with an L. It's like, what the fuck is that guy's name?

03:23:58.000 So I don't even know who these people are.

03:24:00.000 I mean, I've seen him, but I don't know.

03:24:01.000 What is it?

03:24:02.000 Stable Rinaldo?

03:24:04.000 Stable Rinaldo, and who's the other one?

03:24:07.000 Lacey.

03:24:08.000 Lacey, yeah.

03:24:09.000 He's telling me about Lacey.

03:24:11.000 Because I'm like, who even are the big streamers?

03:24:13.000 I'm like, Aiden Ross isn't on kick anymore.

03:24:15.000 Kick is going south.

03:24:17.000 I'm like, who's even a big streamer?

03:24:18.000 I'm like, I know Neon.

03:24:20.000 I know Jack Doherty.

03:24:21.000 I know Aiden Ross.

03:24:23.000 I know that lineup.

03:24:25.000 I know Sneeko.

03:24:26.000 I know Nelk.

03:24:27.000 I'm like, who the fuck is even big anymore?

03:24:30.000 He's like, oh, Stable Ronaldo is probably the biggest.

03:24:33.000 I'm like, I don't even know who that is.

03:24:37.000 But then he told me, Bradley Martin hit stable Ronaldo.

03:24:40.000 I'm like, oh, I saw that.

03:24:41.000 Okay, so I know who that is.

03:24:43.000 I've seen Lacey.

03:24:46.000 So, yeah, I'm out of it.

03:24:50.000 I'm out of the loop now.

03:24:51.000 I'm an old head.

03:24:52.000 I don't even know any young people.

03:24:53.000 Everybody I know is old now.

03:24:55.000 Everybody I know is... 1.00

03:24:56.000 I need a new cast of characters, you know?

03:25:00.000 I need some new squeakers. 0.98

03:25:02.000 Okay, pause.

03:25:03.000 But you know what I mean?

03:25:06.000 We need somebody to keep me in the loop here.

03:25:09.000 I guess that's Chad Champion.

03:25:11.000 Because I'm out of touch with the young people now. 1.00

03:25:14.000 I'm an old fart talking about fucking Syria for three hours.

03:25:18.000 I don't even know what's up anymore, you know?

03:25:21.000 Jack sent $20.

03:25:23.000 Sucks.

03:25:23.000 Getting old sucks.

03:25:24.000 He sings about being considered a criminal just because he utters words in a song and that people think he will do the things he says in his songs like killing hoes, while in reality he's just joking and that people became so obsessed with him they even want to see his dick. 0.96

03:25:33.000 The song is about you, nigga. 1.00

03:25:35.000 Wow.

03:25:35.000 Yeah, that sounds similar.

03:25:48.000 Similar.

03:25:49.000 Yeah, very similar.

03:25:51.000 Where is she, guys?

03:25:55.000 Where is she?

03:25:56.000 I'll rescue her.

03:25:58.000 It's going to be like Taken.

03:26:00.000 I'm going to go and track her down across the world.

03:26:03.000 I'll wind up on some, like, sultan's whore barge in a river in Europe, killing a bunch of people. 1.00

03:26:10.000 And then she's there.

03:26:11.000 She's about to be taken by the sultan.

03:26:15.000 My queen, she'll cling to me.

03:26:18.000 I told you I'd come and get you.

03:26:22.000 Oh, Lauren, where are you?

03:26:23.000 I'm on the phone with some, like, Russian oligarch.

03:26:26.000 I will find you.

03:26:27.000 I will kill you.

03:26:29.000 Where in the world is Lauren Chen? 1.00

03:26:33.000 I will stop at nothing!

03:26:35.000 I will do anything to free her from sexual slavery. 0.81

03:26:39.000 You know, she got compromised, and then they sold her into sexual slavery. 1.00

03:26:44.000 She compromised Russia. 0.69

03:26:46.000 She blew the whole operation. 0.93

03:26:48.000 Now she's in some Russian labor camp in Siberia.

03:26:52.000 I'm going to have to come and free her.

03:26:53.000 Some overseer, some Asiatic prison overseers taking advantage of her sexually out there in some prison outpost.

03:27:06.000 I'll have to come liberate her.

03:27:08.000 I'll free you.

03:27:10.000 Don't do anything.

03:27:11.000 I'll free you.

03:27:14.000 I'll chase her down. 1.00

03:27:16.000 I'll be on the Trans-Siberian Railroad fighting off henchmen on the top of the train cars.

03:27:24.000 That's how I imagine it.

03:27:26.000 I'll be on the top of the Trans-Siberian Railroad in snow, climbing on top of the train cars, fighting off henchmen, throwing them into the furnace on the train, disconnecting the rail cars, I'll be on the locomotive, sailing in to victory.

03:27:47.000 I'll be hanging on to a pole, hanging off of it.

03:27:50.000 I'm coming for you!

03:27:52.000 Then I'm situated outside the headquarters with a scope.

03:27:57.000 I have a team.

03:27:59.000 I have an overwatch, like a guy on a laptop.

03:28:03.000 Who's going to be my tech guy on the laptop?

03:28:11.000 Some girl, some super hot girl.

03:28:13.000 Well, no.

03:28:15.000 Lauren Chen's the hot girl.

03:28:16.000 Maybe it's just me.

03:28:17.000 Maybe it's just me.

03:28:18.000 This is like, I don't know.

03:28:19.000 It's like, is the mission impossible?

03:28:21.000 Is it taken?

03:28:22.000 What are we doing here?

03:28:23.000 I don't know.

03:28:24.000 You know, but I'm like killing guards.

03:28:26.000 I'm stabbing guards, cutting their necks open.

03:28:30.000 Anything.

03:28:31.000 Anything for her.

03:28:32.000 I'm shooting like red barrels.

03:28:34.000 They're blowing up.

03:28:35.000 Outposts are exploding.

03:28:37.000 I hit a button.

03:28:38.000 Siren goes off.

03:28:39.000 It's a total prison break.

03:28:40.000 It's chaos.

03:28:42.000 Prisoners are being armed.

03:28:43.000 It's an international incident.

03:28:46.000 What's my escape plan?

03:28:47.000 I don't know.

03:28:48.000 A helicopter?

03:28:50.000 Speedboat?

03:28:51.000 Snowmobile?

03:28:54.000 That's the one.

03:28:55.000 She's in a parka?

03:28:57.000 Oh my gosh.

03:28:58.000 Could you imagine she's in a big fluffy parka? 0.94

03:29:01.000 She's wearing like a nushanka or something. 0.97

03:29:03.000 She's on my back on the snowmobile driving away.

03:29:08.000 Take refuge in Russia or in China.

03:29:12.000 I get Mongolia.

03:29:13.000 Maybe we take refuge in Mongolia. 0.97

03:29:15.000 There's like a funny scene where I'm riding like a donkey.

03:29:18.000 We're riding like on a donkey in Kazakhstan.

03:29:20.000 That's how we get away.

03:29:22.000 It's a big laugh.

03:29:24.000 Yeah.

03:29:26.000 Then she gets killed in the end.

03:29:29.000 But then she gets killed, you know, the comic relief ends, you know, just when you think it's over, just when you think we ride off into the sunset, bullet right through her face, right between the eyes, she gets assassinated by my arch nemesis, Keith Woods, my mortal enemy.

03:29:50.000 Just when I think we're about to live happily ever after.

03:29:53.000 Just when I think it's over.

03:29:54.000 I'm finally done with this life.

03:29:57.000 Right through the eyes.

03:29:58.000 Dead instantly.

03:30:02.000 And I try to chase in vain, but he's already gone.

03:30:06.000 He's already gone.

03:30:08.000 That sets up the next movie, you know?

03:30:10.000 And that sets up the next movie.

03:30:12.000 I'll never leave.

03:30:13.000 I'll never leave the agency.

03:30:16.000 Oh, you never leave this life.

03:30:18.000 Once you enter into this life, it's too complicated.

03:30:20.000 You can never leave.

03:30:22.000 We all know how this is going to end.

03:30:26.000 So, she takes one right between the eyes. 1.00

03:30:29.000 After we make love, of course.

03:30:31.000 Pregnant with my son.

03:30:34.000 Pregnant with my son.

03:30:36.000 The bastard.

03:30:40.000 So...

03:30:43.000 We're going to get him.

03:30:44.000 Then it ends in Dublin.

03:30:45.000 It ends in Keith's childhood home.

03:30:47.000 Now it's Skyfall.

03:30:48.000 It ends in Keith, but I'm the good guy.

03:30:50.000 It ends in Skyfall, Keith's childhood home.

03:30:54.000 I'm not going to dox his childhood home.

03:30:57.000 I'm not going to dox where he's from.

03:30:59.000 But that's where it all ends.

03:31:01.000 You know, on some sheep farm, very low tech.

03:31:03.000 No gimmicks, no CGI, no big explosions.

03:31:07.000 It's like a return to form, just like Skyfall.

03:31:10.000 And it's just a brawl. 0.58

03:31:11.000 It's just an all-out brawl.

03:31:13.000 No music, no soundtrack.

03:31:15.000 It's just brutality.

03:31:16.000 Just bare-knuckle brawl to the end.

03:31:19.000 Punching, rocks, hitting each other over the head with rocks.

03:31:23.000 You know, tumbling down a hill.

03:31:27.000 And then I just kill him in a really brutal way, like a big boulder.

03:31:32.000 Cave his head in.

03:31:34.000 Something like that, I don't know.

03:31:40.000 So...

03:31:40.000 We're setting ourselves up.

03:31:42.000 This is good stuff.

03:31:43.000 We're setting ourselves up here.

03:31:46.000 That's going to be the trilogy.

03:31:47.000 I don't know what the first movie is.

03:31:49.000 First movie is how she gets kidnapped.

03:31:51.000 That's the end of the first movie.

03:31:53.000 You know, she's like a Russian spy. 1.00

03:31:55.000 I'm fighting her a little bit.

03:31:57.000 I don't know.

03:31:58.000 Can I trust her?

03:31:59.000 Is she a spy?

03:32:00.000 Who's she working for? 0.99

03:32:01.000 I don't know.

03:32:03.000 Super sexy.

03:32:04.000 It's super sexy.

03:32:05.000 It's super like, you know, she's pulling me by my necktie.

03:32:09.000 Oh, bro, my goodness.

03:32:12.000 She's pulling me by the necktie.

03:32:14.000 Oh, man.

03:32:15.000 She's got boots on. 0.56

03:32:16.000 She's got high heel boots on.

03:32:18.000 She's fucking kicking me. 0.99

03:32:23.000 I punch her at some point.

03:32:24.000 You gotta have one punch.

03:32:25.000 I gotta punch her one time. 0.98

03:32:27.000 I'm like about to apprehend her, you know?

03:32:29.000 She does something where I'm like, oh, I never hit a woman. 1.00

03:32:32.000 She like kicks me in the face, gets away. 1.00

03:32:34.000 Then I capture again.

03:32:36.000 Fucking blast her. 1.00

03:32:38.000 Yeah, nice try.

03:32:39.000 I'm not gonna give...

03:32:39.000 Then I arrest her, hand her over to Interpol.

03:32:42.000 Hand her over to the NSA. Hand her over to Chuck Johnson.

03:32:46.000 He goes, thanks.

03:32:46.000 We'll take...

03:32:47.000 Chuck Johnson's a recurring character.

03:32:49.000 He goes, thanks.

03:32:50.000 We'll take it from here.

03:32:51.000 he's got his glasses on.

03:32:54.000 He's got his beard.

03:32:55.000 He goes, thanks.

03:32:56.000 We'll take it from here.

03:32:57.000 You know, he comes in and like a windbreaker, he comes into a windbreaker that says like NSA or I don't know, geospatial intelligence, something you never heard of counterterrorism unit.

03:33:11.000 We'll take it from here.

03:33:13.000 We got her.

03:33:14.000 You know, he's on an aircraft carrier with his hands in his pockets.

03:33:18.000 Well, Fuentes, you've done it again.

03:33:20.000 We'll take it from here.

03:33:22.000 We've been tracking you all along.

03:33:25.000 He brings the reinforcements.

03:33:27.000 He brings the helicopters.

03:33:30.000 But then it turns out she double-crosses.

03:33:34.000 There's a sleeper cell on the prison barge.

03:33:38.000 She gets put on some prison barge, some prison ship or something.

03:33:42.000 There's a jailbreak.

03:33:44.000 That's what sets up the next one.

03:33:47.000 But then I found out she'd fallen to the wrong hands.

03:33:50.000 She double-crossed me, but I fell in love with her. 0.98

03:33:55.000 you'd you they don't get to kill you only i get to kill you all right so anyway um so anyway so yeah so that's that one um I don't know.

03:34:21.000 What are we going to do with her?

03:34:22.000 What are we going to do with Lauren Chen? 0.77

03:34:26.000 The Russia thing's overplayed.

03:34:28.000 Maybe she's a Chinese spy because she's Chinese, you know? 0.97

03:34:32.000 Anyway.

03:34:38.000 So that's that.

03:34:41.000 Is that what he did?

03:34:47.000 Is that what he's doing?

03:34:49.000 I wouldn't be surprised.

03:34:50.000 Farron sent $20 with Syria's collapse.

03:34:52.000 The corridor to transport weapons from Iran to Hezbollah is compromised.

03:34:55.000 Access of resistance is very vulnerable now.

03:34:57.000 Do you think Iran will seriously consider testing a nuke as a show of deterrence before Trump is inaugurated if they feel they are cornered?

03:35:02.000 I haven't thought about that.

03:35:06.000 I think if they tested a nuke, it would basically invite an invasion.

03:35:10.000 I think that it would make it more complicated, though.

03:35:17.000 I think they've got a few steps to go before they do that.

03:35:22.000 But yeah, that's a possibility.

03:35:25.000 I'm really proud of myself for the Charles Johnson cameo.

03:35:29.000 I'm really proud of myself for that one.

03:35:31.000 That's really good.

03:35:33.000 Charles Johnson comes in.

03:35:35.000 We'll take it from here.

03:35:36.000 That's so good.

03:35:37.000 That's the best part.

03:35:38.000 Anyway.

03:35:43.000 Anyway.

03:35:44.000 I just wanted to congratulate myself.

03:35:51.000 It's up to you, buddy.

03:35:56.000 remorse for the christians who are going to be killed is frustrating to see when we literally supported their people in gaza dot do these people even have any love for us only care for themselves they do not awoken american sent five dollars there seems to be so much action during this lame duck period what do you make of it it's all in anticipation of a sea change in u.s policy nick fuentes sent 100 this is literally the smartest and funniest show on the internet well maybe not the smartest thank you nick rachel super informative and actually very aesthetic Wow, that's great.

03:36:23.000 Thank you for the big super chat.

03:36:25.000 Yeah, it's the best show ever, dude.

03:36:26.000 It's funny.

03:36:26.000 It's smart.

03:36:27.000 I'm awesome.

03:36:28.000 It's independent.

03:36:29.000 No Jews are controlling us.

03:36:31.000 No mud slimes. 1.00

03:36:32.000 We say nigger all the time. 1.00

03:36:34.000 Like, who else can say all that?

03:36:36.000 Who else can say we don't take Jewish money?

03:36:39.000 We say the N-word.

03:36:41.000 What was the other thing I said?

03:36:43.000 We're not like mudslime third-worldists.

03:36:46.000 It's funny and not boring.

03:36:50.000 It's high production quality and not stupid.

03:36:54.000 It's the best show ever.

03:36:55.000 Roy Per Spool sent $5.

03:36:56.000 Say, work with turkey again, please.

03:36:58.000 What did I say?

03:36:59.000 Work with turkey?

03:37:00.000 What did I say?

03:37:01.000 Shut up, ass. 1.00

03:37:03.000 You've done so much for my faith, brother.

03:37:04.000 Keep up the great work.

03:37:06.000 Thank you, man.

03:37:07.000 that.

03:37:07.000 I appreciate it.

03:37:08.000 Oh, your friend works for the king of Saudi Arabia?

03:37:23.000 The crown prince?

03:37:26.000 Russia? 0.61

03:37:27.000 No, I don't believe Russia and the U.S. cut it.

03:37:29.000 That's just ridiculous.

03:37:30.000 I don't believe that for one second.

03:37:37.000 And that's what we get Syria and they get Ukraine. 0.91

03:37:40.000 I don't believe that for one second.

03:37:42.000 Zuma Rick sent $5.

03:37:43.000 Tell me what is Gageets again?

03:37:45.000 Gageets?

03:37:47.000 It's like, you know, dirt, you know, shit. - Ryan Amess sent $5.

03:37:52.000 Did you see the clip of Ben Shapiro hand waving Christian deaths in Syria because the Assad collapse was good for Israel? 0.76

03:37:57.000 So evil. - I did see that, yeah.

03:37:58.000 Yeah, big surprise.

03:38:01.000 Thank you for the big super chat.

03:38:06.000 I appreciate it.

03:38:07.000 Yeah, I mean, it wasn't like 100% complete, but I think we hit all the important stuff.

03:38:12.000 So thank you very much.

03:38:14.000 I appreciate the support for the show.

03:38:18.000 I have seen it.

03:38:28.000 I saw their first episode.

03:38:31.000 But I haven't been keeping up with it super closely.

03:38:34.000 I haven't been watching a lot of streams in general, but I will check it out.

03:38:37.000 They're all good.

03:38:38.000 I like Vince.

03:38:40.000 Cameron McGregor's good.

03:38:41.000 You know...

03:38:43.000 Dave Reilly.

03:38:44.000 I like Dave.

03:38:45.000 Like, I'm aligned with Dave, but, you know, he's got some beef with some people that I'm close with, so...

03:38:53.000 You know, there's a little, like, politics there.

03:38:58.000 But he's aligned.

03:38:59.000 I mean, his message I agree with.

03:39:03.000 And the girl.

03:39:04.000 The girl is... 0.91

03:39:05.000 I don't watch girls, so... 0.82

03:39:08.000 Pause.

03:39:08.000 I don't watch girls talking about politics, so I don't really know that much about her.

03:39:15.000 Do you watch Brian Berlittic of the new Atlas?

03:39:16.000 He's one of the few geopolitical analysts that give you a run for your money, but he is considerably lessora.

03:39:20.000 Anyways, after this HTS takeover, there's a decent chance we get a CW false flag on Israel.

03:39:24.000 New Atlas.

03:39:30.000 No, I haven't seen this.

03:39:34.000 But I'll check it out.

03:39:35.000 I don't know.

03:39:36.000 Does he speak English?

03:39:37.000 I hate all these geopolitical analysts.

03:39:41.000 None of them speak fucking English.

03:39:42.000 They'll have a thick accent, you know?

03:39:44.000 Like, real-life lore.

03:39:46.000 He speaks English, but he always says during.

03:39:48.000 You ever notice that?

03:39:50.000 Can he just fucking stop that, please?

03:39:53.000 Can we start a petition for real-life lore to stop saying during?

03:39:58.000 Instead of saying during, like, you know, I was...

03:40:03.000 I was talking during my walk.

03:40:06.000 You know, he'll say during.

03:40:08.000 And it makes it unlistenable.

03:40:10.000 So he has a weird accent. 0.52

03:40:13.000 Caspian Report has a weird accent.

03:40:15.000 All the other ones are Indian. 0.70

03:40:17.000 So it's like, why the fuck are all the geopolitical people?

03:40:23.000 They're all like non-English speakers. 1.00

03:40:25.000 It's gross.

03:40:30.000 Kaze sent $10.

03:40:31.000 No message.

03:40:32.000 Thank you.

03:40:37.000 Yeah, I agree.

03:40:46.000 Well, and the whole thing is just like left-wing coded.

03:40:49.000 I mean, look at the guy.

03:40:50.000 The guy was like a walking TED Talk.

03:40:51.000 He killed someone over healthcare costs.

03:40:54.000 What is he radicalized by John Oliver?

03:40:57.000 You know, Jarvis.

03:40:59.000 Search last week tonight for episodes about UnitedHealthcare.

03:41:04.000 I mean, the guy's book list included The Giver and Malcolm X and The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck.

03:41:11.000 And people go, you know, he's a base rep.

03:41:13.000 Joel Davis said, of course, he was a right-wing chud. 1.00

03:41:16.000 He was not a fucking right-wing chud. 0.99

03:41:18.000 He was like a centrist.

03:41:19.000 He was a Redditor.

03:41:21.000 Dude, he was retweeting Yuval Harari.

03:41:23.000 He was not a right-wing chud. 0.98

03:41:24.000 Like, the guy was fucking lib shit NPR on steroids.

03:41:30.000 Hey, Nick, do you think we should kick out immigrants that have worked hard and assimilated and that have been here for 20 plus years?

03:41:34.000 Yep.

03:41:35.000 Yes, we should.

03:41:37.000 Do you think this makes her end much closer to development?

03:41:40.000 It definitely makes it more likely.

03:41:50.000 These are crazy names for cities, right?

03:41:53.000 Do you think Vivek is some type of asset or something?

03:41:55.000 He came out of nowhere and skin suited to be the most base GOP candidate on stage.

03:41:58.000 I don't know, but I am suspicious of him.

03:42:02.000 Base mode sent $5.

03:42:03.000 All my homies love man bitch. 1.00

03:42:05.000 We ain't rocking with her cucked. 1.00

03:42:06.000 Pull up to TARDIS and see what's good you heard.

03:42:08.000 Test terrible Groyper sent $5.

03:42:11.000 Can you either give summary slash key points or recommend others explanations of post-Saddam Iraq and post-2011 Egypt slash Libya?

03:42:16.000 Wicca Spooks has nothing and there wasn't as much contemporary coverage as Syria slash Ukraine.

03:42:20.000 More like Sudan or Nagorno-Karabakh.

03:42:21.000 I Read stuff about it.

03:42:30.000 I love when people do your own fucking research.

03:42:35.000 Somebody said to me the other night, you know, I said this thing on an interview.

03:42:39.000 I said like, oh, whenever there's a color revolution, they go for student groups, women's groups, and minorities.

03:42:44.000 And someone said, where can I read more about that?

03:42:47.000 And I'm like, it's called drawing your own insights from knowing stuff.

03:42:51.000 Like, someone told me that.

03:42:52.000 Like, because that's the only concept of knowledge that you have, is that someone else pre-packaged your information for you and spoon-fed it to you in a TED Talk.

03:43:01.000 Where did you hear that?

03:43:03.000 It's a novel insight.

03:43:04.000 I came up with it because I know about the things that happen in the world.

03:43:09.000 Do your own research.

03:43:10.000 A war is likely between Egypt and Ethiopia over the damming of the Upper Nile, reducing flow to Egypt.

03:43:14.000 Would be perfect for Israel to join Christian Ethiopia and seize the Suez slash Nile Delta expanding Greater Israel. 0.99

03:43:20.000 Yeah, I saw that video too.

03:43:22.000 Yo, yo, yo, sent $5.

03:43:23.000 I watched Scott Horton on Candace today.

03:43:25.000 He mentioned he had a distant cousin who died in the October 7th attack.

03:43:28.000 He also mentioned he doesn't believe any 9-11 conspiracy theories.

03:43:30.000 Another anti-Israel Jewish expert softening the truth, in my opinion.

03:43:33.000 They're all doing that.

03:43:34.000 None of them are really, uh, you pay attention.

03:43:37.000 Even like, dude, Dave Smith is totally being propped up.

03:43:41.000 I know we had beef and we kind of subsided a little bit, but that guy's totally propped up, in my opinion.

03:43:47.000 Yeah.

03:43:48.000 Why does he seem to be there, like, catching all of these debates as a fucking liberal?

03:43:53.000 You know, like, first he inherited the Israel critical position when that was a hot topic.

03:43:59.000 Now he's inheriting the woke right position when that's a hot topic.

03:44:02.000 And it's like, he's not even what they're calling woke right.

03:44:06.000 He's a fucking libertarian.

03:44:09.000 And so, uh, what's his name?

03:44:11.000 Kaufman says, well, what would you say to the guys that say calling me Jewish is an argument?

03:44:16.000 And Dave Smith goes, they're retards. 1.00

03:44:18.000 All I'm saying is this.

03:44:22.000 So, I don't know.

03:44:23.000 He's super sus to me for that.

03:44:26.000 would taking out Iran not be part of pivoting to the Pacific considering China buys a lot of oil from Iran from the POV of the China Hawks you don't understand anything Texas Groy percent $5 Woodrow Wilson in 1914 says he won enter World War I FDR in 1939 says he won enter World War II Trump in 2024 says he won enter World War III retard Retard. 0.96

03:44:47.000 Chicago fell off when they got rid of Kitty Land.

03:44:50.000 Oh my god, that's so relatable.

03:44:54.000 So true.

03:44:58.000 It's so true. 0.84

03:45:00.000 Is that the real...

03:45:13.000 No way.

03:45:14.000 That's not the real Polish-American, Groyper. 0.99

03:45:16.000 No way.

03:45:16.000 Anglo-Acadians sent $5.

03:45:18.000 Funniest thing about the gun ban in Canada, like the previous gun bans, is that the Israeli devore rifle will still be available to the public.

03:45:23.000 Crazy how that works.

03:45:25.000 Israeli interesting.

03:45:27.000 Oy vey.

03:45:27.000 Shefazik sent $5.

03:45:28.000 Mom Groyper here.

03:45:29.000 Love the mugshot.

03:45:30.000 Looking like head of the Gropire cartel.

03:45:32.000 Keep up the great work.

03:45:33.000 What is that supposed to mean?

03:45:35.000 Why?

03:45:35.000 Because I look Mexican?

03:45:37.000 Is that why?

03:45:38.000 I'm kidding.

03:45:39.000 Thank you, though.

03:45:40.000 Thank you, Groyper Mom.

03:45:42.000 I appreciate it.

03:45:44.000 True.

03:45:44.000 Canuck sent $10.

03:45:45.000 Geography for $10.

03:45:46.000 What is the name of the busiest sea trade route in the world?

03:45:49.000 Oh.

03:45:50.000 The busiest?

03:45:53.000 Are you talking about a straight or a particular route?

03:45:55.000 I wouldn't know what the name of the route is.

03:45:59.000 Marcus Aurelius sent $10.

03:46:00.000 We are sending hundreds of billions of dollars weapons to SDF and they just shot down our $30 million Reaper UAV today and they endanger our NATO ally Turkey. 0.75

03:46:06.000 Why do you think our government do this nonsense?

03:46:08.000 What's the end goal?

03:46:10.000 greater is real?

03:46:10.000 They shot down our UAV or somebody else's?

03:46:22.000 I didn't see that.

03:46:23.000 I don't think SDF shot down a UAV. Did that happen?

03:46:26.000 I didn't see it.

03:46:31.000 I don't know.

03:46:37.000 Why is that ironic?

03:46:46.000 Do you believe in Bigfoot?

03:46:50.000 No, I don't.

03:46:53.000 Really?

03:46:56.000 Yeah, I would play Fortnite with Lacey, but he would lose Twitch.

03:46:59.000 He would never do that.

03:47:02.000 Is that that your body my choice meme?

03:47:04.000 Dude, it is still massive. - Yeah, you said that like, you've been saying that for weeks. - Skibi-Egroir percent $5.

03:47:08.000 The female infatuation with a stark, sensitive, athletic, and handsome conscientious killer will be off the charts. 0.94

03:47:13.000 A far more compelling Andy hero than Ted Bundy. - I saw that tweet as well.

03:47:16.000 Canuck sent $10.

03:47:17.000 Did something happen over the weekend to shoot up Tulsi Gabbard and Pete Hegseth's confirmation odds to 70% plus?

03:47:23.000 Yeah, I think he had another meeting with Joni Ernst and Trump is backing him and he didn't withdraw.

03:47:33.000 So maybe they'll get confirmed.

03:47:35.000 I mean, Tulsi's one is connected to the Pete Hegseth one.

03:47:38.000 And I think Pete Hegseth...

03:47:40.000 There's negotiations happening behind the scenes.

03:47:42.000 means they're gonna let him do the hearing and maybe they'll confirm him. - Chad Champion, he sent $5.

03:47:48.000 And Ick, I actually learned about Fuzzy Clan from Keith Woods, you should follow him on Substack.

03:47:52.000 His recent expose on Assad really woke me up.

03:47:55.000 No, you didn't.

03:48:00.000 You mean my confirmation saint?

03:48:02.000 You don't choose your patron saint.

03:48:07.000 W. I'll check out that thread, but that sounds like BS. Why do you think that we should deport immigrants that have worked hard and assimilated and that have been here for 20 plus years and is that realistic?

03:48:29.000 Uh, cause they came here illegally and they gotta go back and yeah, with political will.

03:48:33.000 Why are you a fucking illegal immigrant? 1.00

03:48:34.000 Piece of shit.

03:48:39.000 Thanks.

03:48:44.000 Good to hear from you, buddy.

03:48:45.000 It's been a minute.

03:48:49.000 No, I haven't. - Based mode sent $5.

03:48:51.000 Trump just now on truth.

03:48:53.000 It was a pleasure to have dinner the other night with Governor Justin Trudeau of the great state of Canada.

03:48:56.000 I look forward to seeing the governor again soon so that we may continue our in-depth talks on tariffs and trade. - Okay, so what?

03:49:02.000 Okay, all right.

03:49:03.000 That's our last super chat.

03:49:05.000 That's going to do it for me.

03:49:07.000 Yeah, great super chats tonight.

03:49:08.000 Really good stuff, guys.

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03:49:46.000 Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo.

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America First - Nicholas J. Fuentes - December 10, 2024

ASSAD DEFEATED: HTS Rebels SEIZE Damascus, Ending Syrian Revolution | America First Ep. 1433

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