GAZA WAR DAY 88: TERROR ATTACK In Iran, Israel Responsible??? | America First Ep. 1272GAZA WAR DAY 88: TERROR ATTACK In Iran, Israel Responsible??? | America First Ep. 1272
In this episode of America First, host Nicholas J. Fuentes and his co-host cover a major terrorist attack in Iran, the assassination of key Hamas leaders in Lebanon, and the potential for an all out war in Yemen. They also discuss the latest in the War in Gaza, and what it means for the future of that conflict and the prospects for peace between Israel and the Palestinians. And, of course, they have a special guest on the Alex Jones Show to wrap things up. Subscribe to America First to get immediate access to all the latest news and updates, and to stay up to date on all things going on in the world of pro-Israel and anti-Israel news. You can also join the conversation by using the hashtag , and find us on and on social media, and use the hashtag #americafirst on the trending topic to help spread the word about the show. Thanks to our sponsor, Caff Monster Mashup! for sponsoring the show! Don t miss out on the latest edition of the podcast! Subscribe, rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, and don't forget to leave us a rating and review! We'll be listening to your thoughts and thoughts on the show next week! Thank you so much for supporting the show, and we'll be looking out for the next episode! Cheers, Nicky! - Nicky and Rachael! Peace, Raffaele - The Best of Nicky & Raffie, - Your Hosted by: Sarah, Sarah, Rachel, . Nicky, Rachie, Rocha, and Sarah, Rene, and Raffael, , & Sarah, Rachel, R. , R. & Rachel, Rachel R. ? . . Rachiel, Rennie, and Rachel, B. & R. ( ) . , Rachel, Sarah ( ) Michael, Rachel ( ) , and Rachel & Rachel ( ). , & Rachel? ! Thanks, Rachelle, Rachel and Rachel ( ), Rachel ( , Sarah, & Rachel ? ) , Rachel (R)? ( ) and Rachel? ( ) ? , Caitie, Rachel? , Rachel , Natalie, ) , Michael ( ) & Sarah ( ), and Rachel .
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00:04:32.000Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo.
00:11:02.000Big story and big developments tonight in the war in Gaza.
00:11:06.000And we'll be talking about that war the whole night tonight.
00:11:11.000We've actually been trying to talk about it the last couple nights, but there's been all sorts of other developments happening.
00:11:19.000But tonight we're finally going to get to cover what's been going on over there.
00:11:25.000And our featured story will be talking all about this major terrorist attack that happened in Iran today at the cemetery where Qasem Soleimani is buried.
00:11:36.000It was a pretty serious terrorist attack, killed a hundred people.
00:11:46.000Automatically the Iranian government blamed the United States and Israel, which would be obvious.
00:11:52.000But the United States and Israel maintain that it looks like the work of Sunni terrorists, Sunni Muslim terrorists.
00:12:01.000And perhaps there's a plausible explanation for that.
00:12:06.000But we'll be talking all about this major terror attack and we'll also talk tonight
00:12:11.000About the assassination of several key Hamas leaders in Beirut, Lebanon yesterday.
00:12:17.000And that was maybe the most aggressive and penetrative strike by Israel inside Lebanon since the war in Gaza began.
00:12:27.000Many are saying that this is a major provocation
00:12:31.000Which could draw Hezbollah into a war with Israel.
00:12:36.000And of course, both of these things are happening with the backdrop of, potentially, the reignition of Yemen's civil war, as the United States contemplates bombing Houthi sites inside Yemen, which may provoke an all-out war in the Arabian Peninsula.
00:12:58.000So there's developments happening all over the region,
00:13:47.000And as you know, from the beginning, the biggest concern and the thing that we've been watching for is the widening and escalation of the war.
00:13:58.000That the war will not be isolated, or rather the fighting, because the war has already engulfed the entire region.
00:14:08.000But the question is whether the fighting will consume the entire region.
00:14:14.000Will it become a truly regional war and then a global war?
00:14:20.000Or rather a war that involves global powers, a regional war that will draw in
00:14:26.000Global powers like Russia, China, and the United States into a bigger war.
00:14:31.000And it looks like that may be happening, and we've been covering it very closely since it started.
00:14:36.000We've talked about the different phases of the war, and specifically how Israel has fought in Gaza, and we've kept, I think, a pretty keen eye on all these other developing theaters of conflict, which, of course, it's not just Gaza, but it's also the West Bank, it's the border with Lebanon,
00:15:27.000But before we get into all the news, I want to remind you to smash the follow button here on Cozy and Rumble to get a push notification whenever I go live.
00:15:35.000Make sure to follow me on both and follow me on Telegram.
00:17:26.000So, I think tomorrow I'm going to do some kind of Rumble exclusive and react to that stream because it was really something.
00:17:39.000And like I said, I don't know what's at play there because, and we've talked about it at length, I don't need to re-litigate the whole thing, but we know that Alex Jones clearly has some kind of Zionist benefactor.
00:17:57.000And I don't say that, that's not a complete guess.
00:18:10.000We've been over it at length throughout the history of the show and especially since the war in Gaza.
00:18:16.000If you don't know what the score is, you can watch my show last night.
00:18:19.000We talked all about the high-pressure campaign against the three gentile presidents of the Ivy League schools because they weren't sufficiently philo-semitic.
00:18:30.000But if you watch the show, you understand this.
00:18:37.000And we know that he is really pulling his punches and some would say even covering for Israel.
00:18:46.000Running cover for them and very deliberately and intentionally and knowingly all the time.
00:18:54.000And I would imagine that that's because somewhere in that operation
00:19:02.000There's a critical alliance with some kind of Zionist benefactor.
00:19:07.000I don't know if that's a donor, or it's a service provider, or maybe that's just another faction that he doesn't want to piss off, but there is this sort of willful blindness on that topic, and I think that's by design.
00:19:24.000But for whatever reason, he keeps bringing on all these people like me, Stu, Nathaniel,
00:19:30.000I don't know if that's his subversive way of getting it out there.
00:19:52.000Because it's getting a little weird now.
00:19:54.000This is the third time in like two months that he brings somebody on who he knows is an anti-Semite, quote unquote, to sort of embarrass him on the topic.
00:20:25.000I think he's a terrific guy, and I think he's a broadcasting legend.
00:20:28.000I just am on the opposite side on this topic.
00:20:32.000So it's very peculiar, but I think I'll maybe cover this tomorrow and do a Rumble exclusive.
00:20:40.000I say maybe because it's never 100% I know but I'd like to get to it either tomorrow or Friday so be on the lookout for that on Rumble.
00:20:49.000I haven't done a Rumble exclusive so far this year and I know everybody be excited for that one so I think I'll do that at some time tomorrow afternoon.
00:21:03.000I don't think there's any other big... I don't think there's any other big stories.
00:21:08.000We may cover the Epstein stuff tomorrow.
00:21:10.000It's been kind of trickling out over the past three or four days.
00:21:14.000I know these Jeffrey Epstein documents were ordered to be unsealed and people were saying that that was going to happen like four or five days ago and I know that people have been watching it very closely and I guess that never happened until today and now finally the documents have been released and I haven't had a chance to really sit down and go through all of that so I think we'll cover that either tomorrow or Friday on the show.
00:21:44.000So, I said I'm trying to think anything else that happened today.
00:21:50.000I think we'll maybe save that though for tomorrow or Friday once I have a chance to go through all of that.
00:21:56.000Pretty interesting stuff, but I don't know.
00:21:58.000I mean, to me, I feel like we don't really know the full story.
00:22:03.000I know that, of course, Israeli and American intelligence is involved.
00:22:08.000Clearly it's some sort of blackmail operation.
00:22:12.000But the real particulars of it, I think, remain mysterious.
00:22:18.000Some have suggested that maybe that represented some kind of internal battle between the CIA and Israel or different factions within Jewry.
00:22:31.000So I'll have to take a close look at that and talk to the experts, but we'll probably save that for later in the week.
00:22:38.000So with that, we'll dive into the show here.
00:22:41.000Like I said, we'll get into our latest with the war in Gaza.
00:22:45.000I can't remember the last time we talked about this.
00:22:47.000It must have been last week that I did a whole show about the war in Gaza.
00:23:00.000And the big story about the war in Gaza, which we've been covering, is how this is now intensifying, not in Gaza, but everywhere else in the Middle East.
00:23:12.000And so the story goes like this, as you know.
00:23:16.000To kind of bring you up to speed, on October 7th there was the major Hamas incursion into Israel from Gaza.
00:23:39.000And Hamas is a very insignificant fighting force.
00:23:43.000It's only about 25,000 guys, very primitive weapons.
00:23:48.000So there was no reason that this should be a really a major conflict.
00:23:57.000I should say it should have never expanded beyond a local low-intensity conflict.
00:24:05.000And everyone was expecting Israel to respond, but it was difficult for Israel to respond because Israel's army is made up of reservists.
00:24:13.000They have a mandatory three-year service in Israel.
00:24:18.000Every man and woman in the state of Israel has to have three years of military service
00:24:25.000And most of their military, which is a reservist military, does not have any combat experience.
00:24:31.000So although they are a technologically sophisticated military, they're an inexperienced military and really more like a civilian military.
00:24:41.000What's more, Hamas inside of Gaza has been entrenched.
00:24:47.000For decades they have been building tunnels a hundred feet below the ground.
00:24:53.000They've been stockpiling missiles and cheap defensive weapons that would make a counter-insurgency inside of Gaza very bloody and very costly for Israel.
00:25:06.000Because of course Hamas is preparing for that war of the future.
00:25:10.000They have been preparing to draw Israel into a counterinsurgency for decades, and they've been preparing to do that not by preparing for a war where they're fighting Israel on a battlefield with tanks and planes, but preparing for a war where they know Israel will invade, they know Israel will besiege the Gaza Strip, and specifically Gaza City, and they've been preparing
00:25:37.000With anti-armor and with the tunnels for a protracted counterinsurgency where the goal is really attrition.
00:25:46.000To kill as many IDF soldiers as possible and to simply make it a trap.
00:25:52.000Make it very difficult for Israel to sustain a prolonged occupation of the Strip.
00:25:58.000Because they know they're at a numerical and technological disadvantage.
00:26:02.000So that was the outlook from the beginning.
00:26:38.000Throughout the month of December into January, there's been more bombing and Israel has actually expanded the ground offensive into South Gaza, the southern half of Gaza.
00:26:48.000And that brings us up to speed to where we are today in Gaza.
00:26:52.000But of course, the story of the war in Gaza is much bigger than that.
00:26:57.000Ever since Israel said that they would invade Gaza and potentially annex the territory, or at the minimum, occupy it with the Israeli military, there has been this specter of an overwhelming Iranian response to Israel's actions in Gaza.
00:27:16.000And not just from Iran, but from Iran's proxies all across the entire region, which exist in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Yemen.
00:27:28.000And so not only did Israel invade Gaza, but Israel also spent actually its most experienced and its most advanced ground forces to its northern border, which it shares with Lebanon.
00:27:43.000And they sent their most experienced soldiers to that border on the opposite side of the country to counter the threat from the Iranian proxy Hezbollah in Lebanon.
00:27:54.000And so that's one other theater of conflict.
00:27:57.000There's the war in Gaza, which has been airstrikes and a significant ground invasion.
00:28:05.000I think it was 300,000, 360,000 troops inside of Gaza.
00:28:10.000But there's also been a significant Israeli presence on the northern border.
00:28:40.000Hezbollah is trained by Iran and they receive weapons from Iran, but they will not attack Israel in a real way because they understand that Lebanese society does not want a war with Israel.
00:28:56.000They understand that a ground war between Hezbollah and Israel, it would take place in Lebanon and it would devastate an already very poor country with the struggling economy.
00:29:07.000So, Hezbollah has been keeping the conflict with Israel at a very low boil, simmering, but they don't seek a full-on war.
00:29:18.000At the same time that that's been happening, Israel, Iran, and the United States have all been fighting in Iraq and Syria.
00:29:25.000Iran has militias, and their paramilitary group, the Revolutionary Guard Corps, has been operating inside of Assad's Syria and inside of Iraq.
00:29:37.000And these Iranian proxies called the Popular Mobilization Force have been bombing United States bases in Iraq and in Syria.
00:29:46.000The United States has been retaliating.
00:29:49.000In response to those strikes by attacking Iranian Revolutionary Guard bases inside of Syria and inside of Iraq.
00:29:59.000And Israel has been conducting airstrikes inside of Syria and Iraq targeting Iranian military assets in both countries.
00:30:07.000So those are two other theaters of the conflict.
00:30:14.000Yemen has been involved in a major civil war for about 15 or 20 years with the Shiite Iranian-backed Houthi movement, although they've been in control of the country for a long time now.
00:30:26.000Yemen has been in a very fragile ceasefire with Saudi Arabia.
00:30:31.000The United States has formed a coalition with Saudi Arabia to bomb the Houthi movement.
00:31:05.000Now the United States has said that they're going to deploy a maritime force in the Red Sea to respond to any Houthi threat against shipping, international shipping, in the Red Sea.
00:31:33.000And what we've been watching for and waiting to see is how much the conflict will spill outside of Gaza and become intense and potentially turn into a regional war in these areas.
00:31:51.000For example, we've been waiting to see whether Israel will engage Hezbollah in an all-out war.
00:31:59.000Will Israel invade Lebanon and attack Hezbollah?
00:32:03.000And will there be a full-on Israel-Lebanon war?
00:32:16.000bases escalate and as America's retaliations escalate, will the United States be drawn into potentially attacking Iran directly or beefing up its presence in Iraq and Syria?
00:32:29.000And then last but not least, the question is whether this conflict between Yemen and the United States will turn into an all-out war, again, between Yemen and the American-backed Saudi coalition, which would be catastrophic for a number of reasons.
00:32:49.000And it seems that the conflict is heating up
00:32:52.000In basically every area, the latest developments from the past several weeks are that Israel has been striking further and further into Lebanon.
00:33:03.000Hezbollah doesn't want a war with Israel, but Israel appears to be provoking Hezbollah into attacking them.
00:33:10.000And they've been doing that by killing civilians in Lebanon, bombing Lebanon further and further into the interior of the country, further and further north of the shared border with Israel.
00:33:23.000And recently striking Hamas terrorists inside of the capital, Beirut, which we'll discuss in detail.
00:33:31.000And then there's the front in Iran where there was a major terrorist attack, which we'll talk about as well.
00:33:37.000And there's the third area, the third major theater of conflict that's intensifying, which is this U.S.
00:33:46.000First I want to talk about actually the attack in Lebanon because chronologically that happened I think two or three days ago.
00:34:09.000On Sunday, actually on New Year's Eve, Israel targeted three senior Hamas leaders inside of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, and they, I think it was a missile strike inside of a suburb of Beirut, and they killed three Hamas officials.
00:34:26.000Lebanon and Hezbollah are not happy about it.
00:34:32.000The deputy head of Hamas and two leaders of its armed wing were killed in an explosion in Lebanon on Tuesday that the group described as a Zionist raid.
00:34:42.000Hamas' leader, Ismail Haniyeh, said in a televised address that seven members of the group had been killed in the strike in a suburb of Beirut, the Lebanese capital.
00:34:53.000The office of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not immediately comment and a military spokesman declined to discuss the matter during a briefing on Tuesday night, but two senior U.S.
00:35:04.000officials confirmed that Israel was responsible for the strike.
00:35:08.000One official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive internal discussions said it was most likely the first of many covert strikes that Israel will carry out against Hamas officials or operatives with any connection to the deadly October 7th assault.
00:35:24.000Al Arori, the Hamas leader, was a founder of Hamas' military wing, the Qasim Brigades, and was elected the deputy chairman of the group's political bureau in October 2017.
00:35:37.000His official role was head of Hamas in the West Bank and deputy to Haniyeh, but regional security officials said that Al Arori spent much of his time in recent years in Beirut, where he served as an ambassador to Hezbollah,
00:35:53.000So, on the conflict on Israel's northern border,
00:36:23.000Many have said that it seems that Israel wants a war with Hezbollah.
00:36:34.000When Hamas did their attack on Israel, very quickly Hezbollah deployed to Israel's northern border, and Lebanon evacuated that border, and Israel responded by doing the same.
00:36:47.000Israel evacuated its civilians along their border with Lebanon, and Israel deployed its force to the northern border.
00:36:54.000But from the beginning, Lebanon, or rather Hezbollah, did not commit to an all-out attack on Israel.
00:37:03.000There were very minor strikes on Israeli surveillance stations, taking out some of their cameras, taking out some of their radar, but almost no casualties and very minor strikes.
00:37:17.000And within three or four weeks of the beginning of the war in Gaza, the leader of Hezbollah came out and said that they would not engage Israel in an all-out war.
00:37:29.000Lebanon does not want a war with Israel.
00:37:32.000Their economy is bad, they're a weak country, and they suffered heavily in the previous two Israeli wars in Lebanon in the 1980s and in 2006.
00:37:44.000So although Hezbollah, some say, won the war in 2006, it was very brutal for Lebanese society, so it seemed that Hezbollah deployed to Israel's northern border, not in an offensive way, but in more of a defensive way, and potentially to deter Israel from either attacking Lebanon or from engaging in cruelty in Gaza.
00:38:10.000But the purpose of it wasn't to attack Israel.
00:38:14.000On the other hand, it would seem that Israel has sought a full-on war with Hezbollah from the very beginning.
00:38:21.000It would seem that after the attack on October 7th, Israel committed itself not only to eradicate the threat from Hamas in Gaza,
00:38:32.000But their play was more ambitious than that.
00:38:35.000They wanted also to eliminate or mitigate the threat from Hezbollah in the northern border.
00:38:41.000And they saw the attack on October 7th as a pretext to do that.
00:38:45.000As a pretext not only to retaliate against Gaza, and not only to diminish or degrade Hamas, but also as a pretext to attack all of its enemies.
00:38:59.000And probably its biggest enemy, the most preeminent local security threat to Israel, doesn't come from Hamas in Gaza, but it comes from Hezbollah in Lebanon.
00:39:11.000So it would seem that Israel, rather than Hezbollah, is the aggressor here.
00:39:16.000And we know that because Israel has been striking Hezbollah and striking Lebanon in a far more provocative way than Hezbollah has been attacking Israel.
00:39:27.000For example, Israel has been striking not just along the border with Lebanon, but deep into Lebanese territory.
00:39:35.000And this latest strike was in Lebanon's capital.
00:40:01.000And they never go for that because of course Israel is deployed on their border.
00:40:07.000So if Hezbollah retreats deeper into Lebanon and the Israeli military remains right on the border, that leaves Lebanon vulnerable to an attack from Israel.
00:40:18.000Completely vulnerable to an attack and an offensive where Israel has evacuated their population, basically prepared for war.
00:40:28.000So Israel knows that Hezbollah would never assent to these demands, and Israel has actually demanded that the United States and the European Union intervene diplomatically to try to convince Hezbollah to move north of this river and to retreat from the border, something that Israel knows that Hezbollah won't agree to.
00:40:48.000So it would seem that this is the prelude to an offensive.
00:40:54.000That phase one was to invade northern Gaza, surround Gaza City, neutralize Hamas, and neutralize the threat in the south.
00:41:05.000And then it would appear that phase two is to provoke Hezbollah into a war.
00:41:12.000To give out an unreasonable demand, to say they have to move north of this river,
00:41:18.000Involve the United States and give the appearance that there was a diplomatic overture, and then when the unreasonable demand is rejected, and while they're provoking and battering Lebanon with missile strikes and other provocative actions, they can either goad Hezbollah into attacking them, which will give them an immediate precipitating cause to go in,
00:41:55.000Is that there was a major terrorist attack inside of Iran.
00:41:59.000And this is a story also from the New York Times.
00:42:02.000It says, quote, a pair of explosions on Wednesday at a memorial for Iran's former top general, Qasem Soleimani, killed at least 103 people and wounded an additional 211, sowing fear in a country where domestic unrest and the prospect of a spiraling regional war have left many on edge.
00:42:22.000Iranian officials told state media that a pair of bombs had been placed in bags along the road toward a cemetery in the city of Kerman and exploded as a vast procession of people made their way to commemorate the fourth anniversary of Qasem Soleimani's death.
00:42:39.000The architect of the Axis of regional militias backed by Iran's hardline government, he was killed by an American drone strike in 2020.
00:42:49.000The attack in Iran on Wednesday led to finger-pointing, confusion, and speculation after no group took responsibility.
00:42:57.000Officials in the government blamed the two countries Tehran has long cast as arch-enemies, Israel and the United States.
00:43:04.000However, international intelligence experts and analysts said the attack bore the hallmarks of terrorist groups, not of Israel.
00:43:13.000Iranian officials said the roadside bombs appeared to have been detonated via remote control.
00:43:19.000In late December, Israel assassinated a senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander who was in charge of procuring weapons for Hezbollah and Syrian militants.
00:43:29.000Then on Tuesday, a senior Hamas official who was a liaison with Iran and Hezbollah was killed in Beirut, Lebanon.
00:43:36.000In the aftermath of the attack in Kerman, two people closely affiliated with the Revolutionary Guard and familiar with the internal debates among Iranian decision-makers say the country's military and political leaders quickly decided to hold Israel responsible for the bombings.
00:43:53.000The assessment contrasted sharply with the analysis by U.S.
00:43:56.000intelligence, according to three American officials.
00:44:01.000Early assessments indicate that Israel was not involved.
00:44:05.000The bombing, analysts say, bore the hallmarks of Islamist terrorism.
00:44:10.000Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei issued a statement blaming the attack on Iran's malicious and criminal enemies, though he stopped short of naming any group or country.
00:44:20.000He vowed that Iran's enemies should know that the tragedy will have a strong response
00:44:49.000In late December, which we covered on the show, Israel killed an Iranian paramilitary commander in Syria.
00:44:59.000Yesterday, Israel assassinated three Hamas leaders in Beirut, Lebanon, who were seen as the liaison between Hamas and Hezbollah, Hezbollah being backed by Iran.
00:45:12.000And now today, there was a major terrorist attack inside of Iran,
00:45:18.000At the cemetery where people were commemorating the assassination of Soleimani, who was the general and the leader of the IRGC and the architect of this Iranian Axis, including the IRGC and the Iranian-backed militants in Syria and Iraq.
00:45:38.000What's interesting about the bombing in Iran is the obvious culprit would be Israel.
00:45:51.000They assassinated IRGC leaders in Syria.
00:45:56.000They assassinated Hamas leaders in Lebanon.
00:46:00.000And this terrorist attack was targeting mourners who are commemorating the loss of the architect of all these groups and the leader of the IRGC inside of Iran.
00:46:12.000So it would seem that this terrorist attack, and I think there's maybe two plausible explanations.
00:46:18.000The obvious culprit would be that Israel attacked Iran, and they did this to avenge October 7th, and maybe the play is to provoke Iran or its proxies into attacking Israel.
00:46:34.000And why would Israel want to provoke Iran?
00:46:39.000strike iran on a very sensitive day and target civilians it would be to create a pressure or an animus for iran or its proxies to lash out against israel the purpose of that would be that israel just like on october 7th could use that as a justification to expand the war they know israel knows that the u.s president joe biden
00:47:07.000His main priority is to prevent the war from expanding.
00:47:12.000Biden does not want Israel to go to war with Hezbollah.
00:47:15.000Biden does not want the United States and Saudi Arabia to go to war against the Houthis in Yemen.
00:47:21.000He does not want to go to war against Iran.
00:47:24.000But Israel's prime objective is to do all those things.
00:47:27.000Israel wants to eliminate Hezbollah, they want to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities, and they want to eradicate the Houthis in Yemen.
00:47:36.000So it really concerns the politics within this alliance that Israel has these very ambitious goals to completely remake the region and reset the geopolitical situation among all of its neighbors.
00:47:52.000And the United States does not want that because it would come at the cost of great regional instability, more terrorism, increased energy prices, a migrant crisis, and it would embroil the United States in another quagmire, but this time throughout the entire Middle East.
00:48:12.000Maybe in a way that is somehow more expansive than our engagement in the region 15 years ago, 20 years ago.
00:48:20.000So, Biden has been attempting, as best as he can, to restrain Israel, restrain and limit the number of civilian casualties in Gaza, restrain Israel's provocative actions in Lebanon and Syria, their provocations against Hezbollah and Iran.
00:48:37.000On the other hand, Israel has been doing the opposite.
00:48:39.000Israel has been trying to provoke all these other countries, because Israel knows that if these other countries hit first,
00:48:52.000And not only that, but it obligates the United States to support them.
00:48:57.000So if Israel bombs a bunch of civilians at a cemetery on the fourth anniversary of this Iranian war hero's death at the hands of the United States,
00:49:08.000And this incenses the Iranian population and Hezbollah does a provocative strike on Israel.
00:49:15.000Israel knows this gives them a blank check to bomb the Iranian centrifuges where Israel claims Iran is developing a nuclear arsenal or it gives Israel an excuse
00:49:57.000Is that potentially this was a false flag of a different variety.
00:50:03.000That maybe this was a terrorist attack which happened to create that perception.
00:50:12.000That maybe there's a Sunni Islamist force that attacked Iran to create the perception that Israel did it.
00:50:21.000To create a public response, a public outcry by Muslims worldwide or in Iran and force the hand of Iran and the Iranian Axis of Resistance to attack Israel so that the Axis will finally confront and engage Israel and prevent a slaughter in Gaza or prevent a normalization of ties between Israel and the Arab and Gulf countries.
00:50:51.000It would behoove the United States to say that it was Islamists.
00:50:55.000I mean, we really can't believe anybody because everybody has skin in the game here.
00:51:01.000What I mean by that is the United States would love for that latter explanation, for that alternative explanation to be real.
00:51:08.000If it was Islamists in Iran, then the United States can assure Iran that Israel didn't do it and there's no need to strike Israel and therefore Israel is denied
00:51:46.000They are culpable because it would follow a long line of very similar other actions that have been taking place just in the last three weeks.
00:51:56.000The final theater of conflict is the last one we'll talk about and then we'll probably move on into super chats because we're almost out of time here.
00:52:05.000But the last theater of conflict which
00:52:08.000was popping off this weekend on New Year's Eve was in the Red Sea and I don't have a news article about this but in the past several weeks the Houthi movement which is in control of Yemen has declared that any and all shipping that goes through the Red Sea and then therefore the Suez Canal or the Strait of Tehran they have said is subject to be attacked by the Houthis
00:52:36.000Until Israel stops bombing Gaza or allows humanitarian aid to enter the Gaza Strip.
00:52:43.000So the Houthis have been attacking international shipping, which has caused a major headache for Europe and for European and American companies.
00:52:53.000It's also caused some problems for Egypt, and so that's in a way putting pressure on the West, and even to an extent putting pressure on Egypt to apply pressure to Israel to ascend to the Houthis' demands.
00:53:08.000But in response to this, the United States has deployed a maritime force to protect the shipping lanes.
00:53:15.000And this Sunday, the United States engaged Houthi boats and killed 10 Houthi militants.
00:53:22.000And the Houthis have said that this is not going to make them back down, they're going to continue their attacks on international shipping.
00:53:31.000And the United States is now contemplating striking Houthi bases inside of Yemen.
00:53:40.000There has been a very intense conflict between Saudi Arabia and Yemen for like the past 10 years.
00:53:48.000And even with United States support, even with U.S.
00:53:51.000air support, and with major arms deals with Saudi Arabia, and U.S.
00:53:57.000training of the Saudi military, Saudi Arabia was never able to prevail over the Houthis in Yemen.
00:54:06.000It was kind of like their Afghanistan.
00:54:08.000And basically Saudi Arabia capitulated.
00:54:11.000They have allowed the Houthis to remain and they've had this very fragile ceasefire with the Houthis.
00:54:17.000And so if the United States engages Yemen, if the United States bombs Yemen, there's a good chance that 1. the Houthis will not stop attacking international shipping and 2.
00:54:29.000This would potentially incite the Houthis to begin attacking Saudi Arabia.
00:54:35.000And there was a major missile attack against Saudi's oil facilities in their eastern province by the Houthi rebels in 2019.
00:54:44.000The Houthis have, like Hezbollah, they have a huge stock of short and medium range missiles which they can use to attack Israel and they can use to attack Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries.
00:54:57.000And so if a conflict happens in Yemen, this could embroil the entire Arabian Peninsula in a war.
00:55:52.000and Israel missile strikes and air campaigns against the IRGC militants in Syria and Iraq.
00:56:00.000We're talking about potentially Israeli and American strikes in Iran targeting their nuclear facilities and we're talking about another Arabian Peninsula war with a Saudi coalition against Yemen that then draws in the Red Sea and compromises all of the global shipping that goes through the Suez Canal.
00:56:26.000So then this turns into, I mean, this is literally a war like we have not seen in the Middle East since 1973.
00:56:35.000Because you consider, everybody knows that the Middle East has been a hotspot for conflict in the past 10 years.
00:56:43.000And maybe at any given time you've had one or two or three wars going on.
00:56:49.000The last Israel-Lebanon war was in 2006.
00:56:54.000The United States began their drawdown from Iraq in 2011, re-engaged when ISIS emerged, but has had a minimal presence there ever since Trump was elected.
00:57:05.000The United States left Afghanistan in 2019.
00:57:08.000The war between the Saudis and Yemen ended a couple years ago.
00:57:13.000But we're now talking about a war like we have never seen where literally every country is engaged all at the same time.
00:57:22.000There's not one country that will not be engaged.
00:57:24.000It's gonna be Israel, it's gonna be Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Qatar.
00:57:38.000Israel can't fight all these countries all at the same time.
00:57:42.000They're writing checks that we are going to have to cash.
00:57:47.000When they threatened Hezbollah and Iran and the Houthis and Iraqis...
00:57:52.000They're writing a check that only the United States can and will be expected to cash.
00:57:58.000So we will be fighting Iran which is a significant military power.
00:58:03.000We will be fighting on multiple very difficult battlefields.
00:58:07.000We will be fighting enemies with cheap but very effective defensive technology like new drones that Iran produces and new missiles and loitering munitions that are designed
00:58:38.000We're the arsenal of democracy for Ukraine, fighting a proxy war over there, engaging all the resources that NATO can provide, and then some, and at the same time, as that's going on, we're preparing and arming Taiwan for a proxy war against China, a hundred miles from their shores.
00:59:04.000So this is a recipe I hope everybody realizes.
00:59:08.000It's not just a massive war that will kill a lot of Americans and cost a lot of money.
00:59:16.000We're talking about a war that ends the United States.
00:59:20.000And I don't think people realize that.
00:59:23.000People understand that there is a risk of escalation where the United States is engaging Iran and multiple enemies in different theaters.
00:59:32.000But people don't realize we can't do that, actually.
00:59:36.000They don't realize that we are engaged, if we're in the Middle East, we're engaged in three proxy wars.
00:59:49.000And then you add to that the risk also of these other fringe conflicts.
00:59:54.000We talked last year about a coalition war by the economic community of West Africa against Niger.
01:00:03.000And we're talking about Venezuela deploying troops to the border of Guyana because Guyana just discovered oil and now Venezuela wants to seize that region.
01:00:17.000We're talking about a war that taxes the United States and overextends the United States military commitment so much that this country will collapse at home.
01:00:27.000People think, oh, this is a war over there that will be taxing.
01:00:32.000This is a war that will cause American society to collapse.
01:00:37.000Because we have committed to arming Ukraine.
01:00:39.000We have sent them all of our tanks, missiles, I mean, you name it.
01:00:44.000Everything in our stockpile that is disposable to send, we're sending and we cannot replenish it.
01:00:51.000We're arming Taiwan for something that will be even more difficult and more brutal and more protracted than our proxy war with Russia.
01:01:00.000And in the middle of those things, I mean we're winding down our failed war in Ukraine, which was way too expensive, we're winding up what's going to be a failed war in Taiwan, which will be far more expensive, and we're sandwiching in the middle a total regional conflict with the entire Middle East, the likes of which we've never seen.
01:01:21.000And this is happening at the same time that we have a $30 trillion debt, unprecedented trillion dollar deficits, a migrant crisis which is bringing public services in all of our major cities to the brink of collapse without a bailout, still reeling and recovering from the COVID recession which has destroyed commercial real estate and caused all kinds of other problems.
01:01:52.000When people talk about a point of no return, they talk about this feeling of dread, this calamity that we all understand is inevitable and that we're lurching towards every day, this is it.
01:02:17.000It's almost like even though we can see that we're hurtling towards a cliff, even if you slam on the brakes, we're still going off the edge.
01:02:27.000Because we've committed that we're going to go to war with China if Taiwan is attacked.
01:02:32.000Which it will be within a decade, at the very latest.
01:02:38.000And we've committed to defending Israel, who is keen on drawing us in to destroy Iran.
01:02:52.000And that's not even to mention all these other little things that are going to happen.
01:02:56.000The Great General Global Disorder, where Venezuela will attack Guyana, and Azerbaijan will attack Armenia, and attempt to take that corridor,
01:03:09.000And maybe there'll be conflict between, with Kosovo and Syria, and there'll be conflict potentially between Greece and Turkey.
01:03:18.000I mean, there's really, there's no limit to what's possible when the United States chokes like we're about to.
01:03:32.000There is going to be a global calamity, and it's going to be intense, and it's going to be brutal, and on the other side of it is going to be a completely different world.
01:03:44.000Different than the end of World War II, different than the end of the Cold War.
01:03:51.000So, the stakes here are very, very, very high.
01:03:56.000And you really have to you have to look at the big picture Because of course everything is related to everything else When you talk about these things You know like the the southern border being open and these migrants being here and like that that's part of it, too So
01:04:52.000This was all telegraphed by Putin years in advance.
01:04:57.000If you know anything about the evolving situation with Ukraine, which goes back 20 years,
01:05:03.000NATO has been pushing for Ukraine to join NATO since 2007-2008, and then of course there was the Euromaidan coup in 2014, after which Russia seized Crimea and the secessionist war of Luhansk and Donetsk began against the government in Kiev.
01:05:27.000But there was also another, but of course the Euromaidan and the secessionist war was principally concerning the westward pivot of the government in Ukraine of Petro Poroshenko, that he wanted Ukraine to join the European Union and NATO
01:05:50.000And this would be catastrophic because it moves NATO's jurisdiction right up to Russia's borders, it does involve the naval base at Sevastopol, and maybe more importantly, it allows NATO to deploy missiles in Ukraine.
01:06:08.000And this is also something that Trump blundered with.
01:06:10.000Trump deployed medium-range ballistic missiles in Ukraine and brought missiles back into Eastern Europe.
01:06:19.000And a lot of people don't know this, but Putin made an overture to the West, to Trump, in 2020, and said, let's make a deal.
01:06:28.000Let's have mutual weapons inspections.
01:06:32.000Let's remove our medium-range missiles from each other's borders.
01:06:37.000Let's commit that Ukraine remains neutral.
01:06:54.000And that's when Putin began surrounding Ukraine with 200,000 troops.
01:06:59.000And it was then in a security conference that Zelensky went out and said that
01:07:06.000Because the West is not living up to their obligations under the Budapest Memorandum that we're going to acquire a nuclear weapon, which is insane.
01:07:51.000They have sort of rejoined the modern world after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and they want their land back.
01:07:59.000Just like after Brest-Litovsk, they want their land back that was stolen from them when they were weak after the fall of the Soviet Union.
01:08:08.000And the United States could have allowed for Russia to maintain a reasonable sphere of influence and accommodated this, this inevitable change in the balance of power,
01:08:19.000It was inevitable that Russia would be relatively more powerful in 2020 than it was in 2000.
01:08:25.000That the power differential between the United States and Russia would shrink.
01:08:32.000As Russia stabilized, and as their economy recovered, and as their military was rebuilt, of course Russia would not be as weak as they were in the year 2000 in perpetuity.
01:08:45.000And so naturally, Russia would want to reassert its historic sphere of influence and to protect its vital strategic interests in the Black Sea and in Ukraine.
01:08:58.000But the United States wouldn't let that happen.
01:09:53.000We could have done a sort of strategic realignment
01:10:00.000Like a Nixon era, we could have used diplomacy rather than aggressive threats and missiles.
01:10:07.000We could have used diplomacy to rebalance the world order, recognizing that 20 years into the 21st century, China and Russia and Iran are far more powerful than they were at the beginning of the century, and that the United States is actually in a far weaker position.
01:10:25.000And we could have used diplomacy to adjust based on this changing reality.
01:10:33.000I mean, we are 100% fucked because our economy's weak, our debt is too high, we can't dig our way out of it, we don't have manufacturing, so all this equipment we're using, we don't even make it anymore.
01:10:48.000They talked at one point about being able to fight two wars at once.
01:11:56.000It is promoting transgenderism, and homosexuality, and feminism, and abortion, and instability, and just abominations all over the world, and we need a radical change.
01:12:08.000I mean, we can all recognize that American society is dying because there's a cancer inside of it.
01:12:17.000There's a cancer in the center of it, and it is radiating throughout the entire country.
01:12:46.000Just like it took World War I and the complete collapse of the Russian military to depose the Tsar, just like it took the breakup of the Soviet Union for Russia to abandon communism,
01:13:03.000And like everything else throughout history, it does require this historical inflection point.
01:13:11.000It requires a big shake-up where the ordinary rules don't apply, where the ordinary is suspended for there to be a radical change.
01:13:20.000So, you know, we shouldn't be too broken up about it, but we shouldn't celebrate it either.
01:13:50.000Maybe this is the sort of necessary trauma that will get the United States to heal itself, to revive itself.
01:13:59.000This will be the shock to the system that jolts the white race and jolts the sleeping giant, which is America, awake and revives America as a true nation and revives a religious fervor.
01:15:22.000Now, is the arrow pointing towards, like, we're gonna get a handle on any of these things that gradually will reform them or turn them around?
01:15:46.000This is more likely than that, you know, the, the freaking, you know, national populists are gonna gather all the blacks and Hispanics and elect Ron DeSantis to fix it all, that he's gonna pass a better CHIPS Act, and we're gonna build more fa- It's not gonna happen, like, it's not gonna happen.
01:17:16.000I'd be like I'd be surrendering I'd be like, hey, let me join you guys now kidding.
01:17:21.000I don't want to go to jail, but I Want to live to be on the other side I want to hail the new Caesar the coming of the new Caesar of America and
01:19:04.000Seagull sent $3, didn't get a chance to use my call in for the charity stream, was just gonna say I have been watching since YouTube days and I hope to catch you at FPAC.
01:22:27.000If somebody thinks you're about to die and they go in to kill you...
01:22:31.000When your back is against a wall like that, you have to, like, take the spear and shove it in their fucking face and push them until they're off the cliff, like.
01:22:41.000I will never let go of naming him as a Jew-Zionist.
01:22:47.000He can never be given any quarter because he, from the beginning, from the very beginning in 2019, tried to take me out and abort the Groyper mission because he's a Jew.
01:27:15.000They think that it's more viable for the right to push the left to embrace race blindness.
01:27:23.000They think it's more viable for the right to get the left to roll back
01:27:31.000A couple of updates to away from DEI and anti-white and roll it back to good old race blindness from, you know, Crash from 15 years ago, that movie.
01:27:43.000They think that's more viable than for white identity to take off and protect Jews.
01:27:49.000You know, because me and Keith have been having this dialogue and Keith has been saying it also that
01:27:57.000You know, the Zionists really have nowhere to go.
01:27:59.000That there's this generational problem that the left hates Israel, and the left is hegemonic, and that's a big problem.
01:28:08.000You know, the old guard left, the old guard right love Israel, but the younger generation doesn't give a shit about Israel.
01:28:16.000And Costano Amariu is looking at these Gentiles and saying, you know, look at my Nazi's dog.
01:28:23.000White identity is never going to take off, and you're never going to care about Israel.
01:28:27.000So they think that Israel's security lies in this multiracial populism and this colorblind meritocracy idea where we're gonna get basically we're gonna get the left to take one step back.
01:28:44.000And they think that's the most viable way to get the left off of Israel's back.
01:28:49.000Because the DEI stuff is making the left hate Israel and that's a problem because the left runs America.
01:28:57.000So it's really coming from these guys like Bill Ackman.
01:28:59.000Pay close attention how Bill Ackman moves.
01:29:02.000Bill Ackman has said, whoa, all of a sudden I hate DEI.
01:29:07.000Because DEI is making everyone hate the Jews.
01:29:10.000And Bill Ackman is like a left-wing Jew who funds Harvard.
01:29:14.000So he was like, well I didn't care about DEI when it was picking on white people, but now I can see that DEI has metastasized and Jews aren't a part of it.
01:29:23.000So now Bill Ackman is saying, you know what?
01:31:00.000Can you tell me the reason why you feel that Protestants like myself are enemies just to acknowledge no hierarchy among men and put Jesus first by sticking to scripture?
01:31:09.000Old Irish wars shouldn't affect moving forward as Christians now together.
01:31:31.000So, I mean, we're not going to get anywhere by making compromises with people that are wrong and saying, well, let's just defer these disagreements until later.
01:31:44.000That's how liberalism started, at least according to some of the Straussians.
01:31:49.000That there were these religious wars between Catholics and Protestants, and they made this decision, and they called it national sovereignty, and they said, we're not going to kill each other forever over these religious differences.
01:32:03.000You could be Protestant, you could be Catholic, we'll all leave each other alone.
01:32:06.000And then people started to say, why even be Christian at all?
01:32:34.000You know, there are plenty of Protestants in here, and they know the score, and they know how it is, and they don't pick the fight.
01:32:40.000But people like you come in here, you just can't accept it, can you?
01:32:43.000You just can't accept that this is a Catholic movement or that I'm Catholic.
01:32:46.000You gotta come in here and say, hey man, lay off, you know, shoes brother, but you know, just because we think the Bible's, listen, we know what you believe, we disagree, you're wrong.
01:32:58.000So I love they slipped that in there, oh just because we stick to scripture.
01:33:03.000I love when they say that Catholics stick to scripture too.
01:34:29.000When we disagree about the doctrine, as all the Protestants do, you got Presbyterians and Lutherans and Seventh-day Adventists and Pentecostals and Charismatics and Mormons who believe there's other books, who comes along and says, and says otherwise?
01:34:46.000You're telling me that, you know, maybe the, uh, you know, this sect of independent Baptists, you know, this church does it right and everyone else is going to hell?
01:34:54.000I mean, that doesn't even make any sense.
01:35:00.000Okay, well, you know, do you think Jesus never anticipated people disagreeing?
01:35:06.000Never anticipated disagreement even about what constitutes scripture or what constitutes a translation or a correct interpretation.
01:35:15.000I mean, you can't even agree about which books are correct.
01:35:18.000You can't even agree about which books are actually inspired, let alone what they mean, let alone what if we're going to use the Septuagint or the Masoretic text.
01:35:45.000And obviously, I have less of a problem with Protestants than I do with Jews or Muslims.
01:35:50.000And I have less of a problem with East Orthodox than I do with Protestants.
01:35:54.000This is a Catholic movement, and, you know, like I said, it's a political movement, so I try to be as ecumenical as possible to everybody, even Muslims, you know, and even some Jews who support us, because it's, you know, fundamentally it's a political movement, inspired by Catholicism, of course, but, you know, but the Catholic doctrine is central
01:37:05.000I love all people that believe in Jesus and all of that, but no, we have severe doctrinal differences.
01:37:12.000I don't believe there's salvation outside the Catholic Church, and I think you're wrong.
01:37:18.000And Catholic doctrine specifically says not to embrace this, you know,
01:37:26.000Bringing all the religions together, this universalism stuff, that's the beginning of the end.
01:37:31.000Once you start to make compromises with one, I mean, what's the difference between, let's say, Muslims that insinuate, well, we believe Jesus was a prophet, we gotta draw some lines somewhere.
01:37:42.000And the Catholic Church is pretty clear about where we're gonna draw them.
01:37:52.000I love you too, but I don't, and you know, but Protestants always, it's a big part of them being Southerners too.
01:37:59.000Southerners and Protestants, they have this passive-aggressive way.
01:38:02.000Why do you feel like Protestants like me are enemies?
01:38:06.000Just because we believe, just because we stick to scripture.
01:38:09.000Like what, what a feminine thing to say.
01:38:12.000Why do you think I am an enemy just because I stick to scripture?
01:38:15.000Listen, one, I don't see you as an enemy.
01:38:18.000We love everybody and I love Christians, but it's that, you know, we don't even disagree because you stick to scripture, we stick to scripture.
01:38:28.000We believe you have a problem that you don't submit to the real church.
01:42:18.000Well, clearly you didn't see that stream because I was trying to convert him to Christianity and it wasn't a date, but that's a fun callback.
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