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00:06:30.000This country is being ripped apart and raped and looted.
00:06:34.000We're being slowly poisoned and, in some cases, quickly murdered and assassinated.
00:06:41.000And we're killing ourselves every day.
00:06:43.000Inadvertently, with the kinds of things that we eat and breathe and drink and see.
00:06:48.000People have got to start to radically begin to obey their conscience and tell the truth and do the right thing.
00:06:56.000People have got to start to get courageous.
00:06:59.000And 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.
00:07:13.000And the alternative is that there will be no country.
00:07:17.000Is it really only as big as low gas prices?
00:07:21.000Is it really only so big as bringing inflation and gas prices and the corporate tax rate back down?
00:07:27.000It's not about waiting for someone to come in and change the policy and make it better.
00:07:31.000It's a personal decision that we all have to make to become soldiers of Christ.
00:09:38.000that America was different because we are different.
00:09:56.000Palantir is an AI data analytics company They use artificial intelligence to look at vast amounts of data and create insights.
00:10:09.000If the government has an amount of data which is kind of unimaginable, if you've got every phone call, every email, every transaction, every photograph of a license plate on the highway, satellite data, it's too much data for a bureaucracy to sift through.
00:10:26.000Palantir comes in and interprets the data using algorithm, using artificial intelligence, using software to make vast amounts of data usable.
00:24:18.000People just want more and more freedom and love.
00:24:22.000What he's looking for, want more and more.
00:24:25.000People just want more and more freedom and love.
00:24:30.000What he's looking for, freed from desire.
00:24:44.000If we don't have freedom on the Internet in the age of AI, we are going to be mind raped every day forever.
00:25:01.000Think about anything you've ever said or done in the vicinity of your phone's camera or microphone, everything you've ever put into your phone, and even things that are not necessarily so scandalous, but even things like your favorite restaurants, your geolocation, because your phone also has a GPS.
00:25:23.000They have access to your bank account.
00:25:25.000AI will literally know everything about you.
00:25:29.000Everyone you know, your relationship to them, your tastes, your preferences, your habits, your whereabouts, your routines, your schedule, when you're asleep.
00:25:39.000They know how much REM sleep you're getting.
00:25:43.000They know how many calories you consume.
00:25:45.000Think about the ways that they can manipulate you.
00:25:48.000You have a computer in your refrigerator, computer in your car, computer in your home security system, computer in your everything, computer in your clothes, your watch, your glasses, your VR headset, your alarm clock.
00:26:00.000You have a smart home, economy of things.
00:26:02.000It's like total, like, rape of everybody by the system forever.
00:26:19.000My life is like a first-person video game, you know?
00:27:18.000These material appetites, they will never be satisfied.
00:27:23.000And even if they are, it'll never be an adequate substitute for communion with our Holy Father, with somebody, with the author of the world.
00:27:32.000And every mother and father understands the love for a child.
00:39:59.000People just want more and more freedom and love.
00:40:03.000What he's looking for, Freed from desire, Mind and senses purify, freed from desire.
00:40:11.000Mine and senses purify, freed from desire, Mine and senses purify, freed from desire.
00:40:22.000There is something involved where we have to forgive them.
00:40:25.000We do have to forgive them for their ignorance, We do have to forgive them for their misunderstanding and we have to embrace them and say, better late than never, Welcome to the right side of history.
00:40:37.000to our massive vision, our massive and ambitious vision for how we want the world to be.
00:41:17.000I got places to be Good evening, everybody You're watching America First.
00:41:53.000You got that back, but that's a lot of fun.
00:42:00.000Listen to the cure, listen to the cure, listen to the cure, and then they cry.
00:42:14.000All the things you're all the things you say, running through my head, running through my head, running through my head.
00:42:19.000All the things you said, all the things I said, running through my head, running through my head, all the things you had, all the things you're saying.
00:42:27.000I forget all the things you're saying, all the things you're saying.
00:50:55.000This country is being ripped apart and raped and looted.
00:51:00.000We're being slowly poisoned and in some cases quickly murdered and assassinated.
00:51:07.000And we're killing ourselves every day, inadvertently, with the kinds of things that we eat and breathe and drink and see.
00:51:14.000People have got to start to radically begin to obey their conscience and tell the truth and do the right thing.
00:51:21.000People have got to start to get courageous.
00:51:25.000And 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.
00:51:39.000And the alternative is that there will be no country.
00:51:43.000Is it really only as big as low gas prices?
00:51:46.000Is it really only so big as bringing inflation and gas prices and the corporate tax rate back down?
00:51:53.000It's not about waiting for someone to come in and change the policy and make it better.
00:51:57.000It's a personal decision that we all have to make to become soldiers of Christ.
00:53:51.000And I think that the mature people that actually love America, actually love our children, the people that recognize the division, the peril that we're in, we need to fortify a new consensus and rally the people of conscience, the people of decency, the people of humanity, the people of charity towards their fellow man,
00:54:16.000against those that want to kill us, against those that laugh and celebrate when innocent people are harmed.
00:54:26.000For any reason, for any ideological reason, against the people that are cruel, the people that are hateful.
00:54:33.000And by that, I mean the people that are really cruel, not the people that say things you disagree with, not the people that are provocative, not the people that are sometimes angry, but the people that are really cruel and really evil.
00:54:47.000What makes Christianity and Christ so different from the other religions is that our religion is based on the bearing of suffering for the sake of even those that persecute us.
00:55:23.000An unconditional, absolute standard of love for all of God's children, even those that are misguided, even those that persecute us, even the most heinous among us.
00:56:50.000Mission is an Israeli-funded blacklist, which, since July 2025, has been confirmed to be used by the Trump administration to target students, professors, and professionals who oppose Israel and reside in the United States.
00:57:02.000This idea is part of an initiative created by the Heritage Foundation, the same group responsible for the infamous Project 2025.
00:57:09.000In their initiative, titled Project Esther, they state that students participating in pro-Palestinian protests and activism are supporting Hamas, a group that the United States designates as a foreign terrorist organization.
00:57:21.000Therefore, pro-Palestinian students are considered to be supporting terrorism and are subject to the revocation of visas, frozen bank accounts, asset seizures, and the denial of basic constitutional rights.
00:57:33.000In effect, the Canary mission serves as a means to circumvent constitutional protections, allowing the federal government to engage in intelligence gathering activities that would otherwise be considered unlawful.
00:57:46.000Palantir, another company closely aligned with the state of Israel, uses AI-driven analytics to maintain private databases on U.S. citizens and currently works with four federal agencies.
00:57:55.000While government contracting with the private sector is long-standing, the prominent influence of Jewish groups within these increasingly powerful organizations warrants careful examination.
00:58:09.000I renew the call for all able-bodied young American men, all of our elite human capital, all of our geniuses, warriors, intelligent people to dedicate themselves to American sovereignty and independence as Christians, as Americans, as white people, as citizens of the United States.
00:58:26.000And anybody that settles for anything less is just as much of an enemy.
00:58:31.000I would actually consider them worse than our oppressors.
00:58:35.000So on Independence Day, it's important to reflect on the fact that we are an occupied nation.
00:58:39.000Now, just like then, we're being ruled by a small country across an ocean, serving itself at our expense.
00:58:46.000And as long as that is the case, I will always be obsessed with that.
00:58:49.000As long as that is the case, I will always be speaking out against that and fighting against that.
00:58:53.000And I will always be anchored, understanding that that is the fundamental struggle.
00:58:57.000As long as our presidents have to kiss the wall in Israel and wear a small hat, as long as they have to say that we want to make Israel great again and they're the greatest country ever, and I will never be okay with that.
00:59:55.000This is not a timeline going back to 1948.
00:59:58.000What had just happened before the 2016 election?
01:00:01.000Barack Obama created the joint comprehensive plan of action, the JCPOA, or the Iranian nuclear deal.
01:00:10.000And Barack Obama brought together China, Russia, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States and the European Union to enforce a nuclear deal that restricts Iran's enrichment of uranium.
01:00:24.000The early talks were conducted in secret, and the Israelis were furious, furious about this.
01:00:32.000Netanyahu went to a joint session of Congress and gave a speech in defiance of the American president and its nuclear deal, and Congress gave 37 standing ovations.
01:00:43.000This is the background of Trump's first election.
01:02:06.000They colluded with Trump to get him elected so that Trump would do maximum pressure and create a ladder of escalation, pulling us out of the deal, declaring the IRGC terrorists, then killing its leader, putting sanctions on the regime.
01:02:20.000This is a war that started a long time ago, that Trump made hot in 2018 and has been going on for seven years.
01:02:33.000Just like in Iraq, which went from 1990 until today, just like Libya, which went from 2011 to today, Syria, which went from 2011 to today, and Iran, which went from 2018 until today.
01:14:47.000This country is being ripped apart and raped and looted.
01:14:52.000We're being slowly poisoned and, in some cases, quickly murdered and assassinated.
01:14:58.000And we're killing ourselves every day.
01:15:01.000Inadvertently, with the kinds of things that we eat and breathe and drink and see.
01:15:06.000People have got to start to radically begin to obey their conscience and tell the truth and do the right thing.
01:15:13.000People have got to start to get courageous.
01:15:16.000And 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.
01:15:31.000And the alternative is that there will be no country.
01:15:34.000Is it really only as big as low gas prices?
01:15:38.000Is it really only so big as bringing inflation and gas prices and the corporate tax rate back down?
01:15:45.000It's not about waiting for someone to come in and change the policy and make it better.
01:15:48.000It's a personal decision that we all have to make to become soldiers of Christ.
01:16:53.000When I get home, I want you Got places to be Good evening, everybody You're watching America First.
01:17:55.000America was different because we are different.
01:18:14.000Palantir is an AI data analytics company.
01:18:19.000They use artificial intelligence to look at vast amounts of data and create insights.
01:18:26.000If the government has an amount of data which is kind of unimaginable, if you've got every phone call, every email, every transaction, every photograph of a license plate on the highway, satellite data, it's too much data for a bureaucracy to sift through.
01:18:44.000Palantir comes in and interprets the data using algorithms, using artificial intelligence, using software to make vast amounts of data usable.
01:29:53.000The American people will come first, once again, With respect to respect that we deserve From this day forward, it's going to be only America first.
01:32:27.000You can predict the ultimate course of events and you can sort of predict the generality here, but there is so much uncertainty right now.
01:32:37.000And really the biggest problem, which we discussed a little bit last night, is that there just is no plan here.
01:32:44.000That's why we don't know, because there is no plan.
01:32:49.000And you have to wonder how that's even possible.
01:32:52.000How do we make that same mistake over and over and over in Iraq, in Syria, in Libya?
01:32:59.000We go in, we rip apart a country and a government, and there's no plan in place.
01:33:05.000So you get a failed state, you get a refugee crisis, you get a genocide, you get all these problems.
01:33:12.000And it seems that that is exactly what has happened this weekend.
01:33:16.000Trump goes into Iran really heavy, really hard, anticipating that maybe the fighting would last weeks at most, and not many weeks, that the fighting might last a week, maybe a few weeks.
01:33:32.000And it seems that the plan was something like this.
01:33:36.000After we pound Iran's ballistic missiles, Navy, missile production facilities, after we decapitate the leadership, I think the gamble, the bet, is that a pragmatic faction within the government would somehow emerge and initiate peace negotiations with the United States, very similar to what happened in Venezuela.
01:34:00.000We know that because Trump said that is the best outcome, is the Venezuela model, that we go in, hit them hard, decapitate the leadership, and somebody from lower in the chain of command will come to their senses and they will just accede to all of America's demands.
01:34:17.000Trump said that's the Venezuela model.
01:35:03.000Arguably, we can't actually destroy all of their capabilities.
01:35:06.000We can't destroy all their missiles and missile production and missile launch platforms.
01:35:12.000So what happens in a few weeks when we actually run out of interceptors, when the war drags on too long for us, when it becomes very costly, when the global price of oil is sustained at a very high level, and Iran is still bombarding the Gulf countries and Israel and U.S. bases with short-range missiles.
01:36:33.000According to Axios, the Trump administration spoke with two Iraqi Kurdish groups in northern Iraq just a week before the operation began, expecting that the Kurds might cross over the border into Iran and be the ground force for the U.S.-Israeli Air Force.
01:36:51.000And they might fight, but there's not enough of them.
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01:40:19.000And by that, I mean, we're engaged in this political struggle.
01:40:22.000We're in this power struggle with the powerful elites of the United States.
01:40:27.000And in our quest to tell the truth and to fight the good fight, they just put the screws in you every way-financial, digital, social, professional, you name it.
01:40:42.000I mean, they are really grinding us to dust.
01:40:45.000And we've been fighting this fight for a long time.
01:40:49.000And so for us, it's, you got to understand it's a little bit different than all of you, all of you that were red-pilled after the pandemic or people that have been working jobs and living normal lives.
01:41:33.000It seems that the world is destabilizing and coming apart.
01:41:37.000And these good old days that we've been living in for most of recent memory, it seems like that's all coming to an end domestically, internationally, and you just wonder what that portends for the future.
01:41:51.000So, you know, we had the show and I could tell he was a little worked up about it because I've been very critical of Trump.
01:41:57.000I like to think I've been very sober about all of it and hyper-critical.
01:42:03.000And obviously, I think that Alex is a lot more pro-Trump.
01:42:07.000I think that I don't know what you want to call that, if that's optimism or maybe just a different perspective, but he really believed in Trump and really believed that in 2024, Trump was going to deliver the victory and all this.
01:43:06.000Everything that has happened for 10 years, all the battles, all the censorship, the cancellation, the professional, social, personal cost of all of it.
01:43:19.000And in the end, we're in a war with Iran.
01:43:23.000You know, you look at like, okay, so we mainstreamed anti-Semitism and woke is dead and the discourse has changed and the people have woken up.
01:43:33.000And you look around and people are talking about astral projecting and aliens and we're in a war with Iran regardless.
01:43:39.000Doesn't matter how unpopular these people get.
01:48:01.000They basically are incapable of doing anything other than launching short and medium range ballistic missiles, which are interceptible.
01:48:11.000But if they launch them in a large enough volume and across a broad enough swath of territory, eventually they're counting on the United States to not be able to intercept them.
01:48:23.000So the U.S. and Israel are hitting Iran.
01:48:58.000They're also striking the country of Israel, hitting military targets, government targets there.
01:49:05.000And they're also hitting civilian targets in the Gulf countries as well.
01:49:09.000So in addition to the U.S. bases in those countries, they're also actually hitting residential infrastructure, hotels, the civilian airport.
01:49:19.000Now, again, the United States, Israel, and the Gulf countries are able to intercept most of these missiles.
01:49:26.000So Iran has fired, I think in the first 24 hours, they fired 300 missiles, not a lot.
01:49:34.000And mostly these are being intercepted by U.S.-provided weapon systems.
01:49:39.000So we've put in place these Patriot missile batteries and FAD batteries, as well as ballistic missile interceptors on the destroyers that are shooting down all the incoming missiles.
01:49:51.000The goal for Iran is to overwhelm these air defenses, either with large volleys of missiles in a single area, or over a sustained period of time, if they can maintain the ability to launch the missiles, they're counting on the United States, Israel, and the Gulf to run out of interceptors.
01:50:10.000So they won't be able to shoot them down.
01:50:12.000And that has been the course of the war.
01:50:15.000Now, it is important to talk about what the actual strategic objectives are here.
01:50:20.000And to be very precise and specific, we talked about this in the buildup to the war, and it's equally, maybe arguably more important now.
01:50:29.000What Trump laid out on Friday is that this is a regime change war.
01:50:34.000So the strategic objective of the United States in the conflict, among others, is they are seeking a regime change.
01:50:44.000In addition to that, Trump said that they are seeking, the U.S. is seeking, to destroy Iran's navy and its ballistic missile capability.
01:50:53.000So that means, obviously, sinking all their ships, and also not just destroying the platforms that launch the missiles, but also the facilities where the missiles are produced.
01:51:04.000This is where it gets a little bit tricky because Iran's missile production facilities and their launch platforms are fortified underground.
01:51:13.000So just like the complications with the nuclear program and the nuclear complex, the sites at Fordo and Natans, where the centrifuges are buried under mountains and buried under the ground, it's the same story with the missiles.
01:51:26.000They have basically built entire cities fortified underneath the ground.
01:51:32.000And just look at a topographical map of Iran.
01:51:37.000They build these cities underneath the ground, underneath thousands of feet of earth.
01:51:42.000And this makes it very difficult to destroy these completely and then to verify that the production facilities have been destroyed.
01:51:49.000And so even though Israel claims that these joint operations have destroyed half of Iran's ballistic missile launch platforms, it's an open-ended question whether we will be able to destroy all of them.
01:52:03.000And that raises some serious questions.
01:52:06.000But before we get into the missile aspect of the equation, because let's just say succinctly, for the sake of argument right now, the two strategic objectives here are regime change and destroying the missile launch capability.
01:53:14.000We overthrew the Baathist Assad regime.
01:53:16.000And in its place is now a Sunni theocracy, effectively.
01:53:21.000We actually don't know the character of the new regime, but this new character, Ahmed Al-Sharra, formerly known as al-Julani, he is now in charge.
01:53:32.000It appears that he is reorienting Syria away from the fascist, pan-Arab socialist ideology of Baathism and towards something like, I'm not even quite sure what he's going for.
01:53:45.000They're maintaining a liberal structure, relatively liberal structure, but it is going to be a Muslim religious regime.
01:53:53.000All that being said, it's a completely new governing ideology.
01:53:57.000It's a new leader, and it's a new security apparatus.
01:54:00.000That is historically what regime change means in the Middle East.
01:54:05.000But with Trump, it's a little bit different because, like we talked about with Venezuela, when Trump went into Venezuela in January, he did not actually have a real regime change.
01:54:16.000It appears that way, and it seems that way.
01:54:20.000Trump kidnapped Nicolas Maduro, who was the head of state and head of government, the president of Venezuela.
01:54:26.000And so people would say that appears to be a regime change operation because the head of state has been removed from power.
01:54:35.000However, you could argue this is more of like a hybrid approach.
01:54:40.000Even though Nicolas Maduro is no longer there, his vice president succeeded him and became president.
01:54:47.000It's the same cabinet, it's the same government, same defense minister, same intelligence minister, same interior minister, same the vice president is now the president, same army, same intelligence operation, same security apparatus.
01:55:02.000And they still ostensibly are a socialist Chavista regime.
01:55:07.000So is it safe to say that that's regime change?
01:55:14.000And it's using decapitation as a menu item, as a tool, maybe call it smart power for persuasion.
01:55:24.000In other words, rather than go to war against Venezuela in a conventional sense to destroy their military and put everybody on trial and find new leaders and create a democracy, instead, we are picking off individuals in the government with these very surgical operations, I guess it's just the one, in the hopes that the successor will be more compliant to Washington.
01:55:52.000And so this is seen as a cost-effective, low-intensity way to reorient the posture of a hostile or revisionist country like Venezuela.
01:56:02.000And I think that in Iran, that is the same approach.
01:56:06.000So Trump laid out the case on Friday for a regime change.
01:56:22.000And then we want the people to rise up.
01:56:25.000Now, this is a little bit confusing because that would seem to indicate that he is talking about a full-fledged regime change.
01:56:34.000If he's degrading Iran's armed forces so that an uprising can occur, well, that would tend to imply that there will be a new regime, that the people of Iran are going to take power and they're going to create some kind of popular government, like a democracy or a liberal regime, but it will not be the Islamic Revolutionary Guard.
01:56:57.000It will not be the Islamic Revolutionary Regime.
01:57:02.000So that's the message we got on Friday.
01:57:04.000And that's what it sounded like: full-fledged regime change.
01:57:07.000We're going to take care of their big guns, the cannons, the navy, the missiles.
01:57:13.000And once we're done, then the people can rise up and they can create a free and independent and liberal regime.
01:57:21.000It seems, though, that Trump has been walking that back.
01:57:24.000And now they're talking about a different kind of regime change where Trump is talking about there may be candidates from within the existing government that will succeed the government that has been destroyed.
01:57:37.000So after the Ayatollah was assassinated in the initial strikes on Saturday, a council has been convened to operate the government and try to maintain some continuity.
01:57:49.000And today they elected a new supreme leader and they're trying to keep everything together.
01:57:53.000Trump says that every candidate he had in mind to lead the country has been killed.
01:57:59.000He says, and we're almost done killing all the leadership.
01:58:02.000There have been some reports that Trump's plan all along was to decapitate enough of the leadership, destroy enough of the military, that eventually an element from within the regime would somehow take power and then negotiate with the United States.
01:58:19.000Seeing that the military is destroyed, seeing that Iran is totally defenseless and recognizing that they face certain death, Trump is anticipating that a pragmatic element is going to seize power and they will initiate negotiations and give the United States what they want.
01:58:37.000Now, to me, that sounds like what happened in Venezuela.
01:58:41.000That sounds like if that is coming from inside the regime, then it's not a real regime change.
01:58:48.000If you were talking about an uprising of the people, that is a whole different undertaking.
01:59:26.000So, when Trump says now, well, maybe we're waiting on somebody from inside the regime to take the reins and let common sense prevail, that sounds like what happened in Venezuela, which is that the regime will be intact at the end of this.
01:59:43.000The Iranian Revolutionary Guard will be intact.
01:59:45.000The Iranian armed forces will be intact.
01:59:47.000The constitution, legislature, the structure, maybe even that they have a supreme leader.
02:00:09.000Nobody has any idea because it is pure chaos.
02:00:12.000When you destroy the command, control, and communication of a country, you assassinate the supreme leader, you assassinate all their top military and civilian brass, what does the day after look like?
02:00:24.000Well, that actually depends upon the people that survive.
02:00:58.000It's not just a huge regime of hundreds of thousands of loyalists that have been vetted, that have been tested, but it's also religious zealots.
02:01:09.000And the religious zealots that are, their religion is based on dying for God.
02:01:14.000So this infrastructure, this security apparatus made up of jihadists, of people that are willing to die for their religion, for their theocracy, for their leader, they just witnessed the United States and Israel lie to them, kill their leader, kill their colleagues, their friends, maybe their families.
02:01:35.000And the expectation is that this is going to make them more compliant.
02:01:40.000It would seem to be the case that it's more likely they will be emboldened and actually get a more hardline faction.
02:02:25.000You're either going to get a regime change, a true regime change, and that is going to entail some kind of ground force.
02:02:33.000That's going to entail, you're talking about a popular uprising, which isn't there.
02:02:38.000It's going to be some kind of sectarian group or ethnic group, a separatist group, something like that that, again, will need to be armed and organized.
02:02:46.000Or you're looking at a decapitation strike that eventually results in compliance.
02:02:52.000And I think at this point, that is very far-fetched.
02:02:56.000Now, the other strategic objective is destroying the ballistic missile capability.
02:03:03.000So, not only do we seek the termination of the Iranian regime, but also we want to destroy all the missiles.
02:03:56.000All of them, many of them are highly mobile.
02:04:00.000This is the same problem we faced in Yemen.
02:04:02.000Last year in 2025, we launched a month-long war against the Houthi rebels in Yemen, and we had a carrier strike group off the coast, and we launched tons of airstrikes, and we hit them really hard.
02:04:33.000And you might have heard about a year ago, aircraft carriers had to swerve to avoid being hit by missiles so sharply that planes were falling off the deck of the carrier.
02:04:45.000And we had, at the very end, to say, we surrender.
02:04:48.000Trump got up and said, I respect the Houthis.
02:05:10.000If Iran has any ability to launch ballistic missiles, and they have a lot of them, according to U.S. assessments from the Defense Intelligence Agency, they have the widest, biggest, most diverse missile arsenal in the Middle East.
02:05:23.000If you're going to do it, you got to destroy all of them.
02:05:44.000Now, the equation that everybody is talking about with regard to the missiles is that Iran's ballistic missiles are much cheaper than the interceptor missiles that we use to shoot them down.
02:05:57.000And we need multiple interceptors per missile.
02:06:02.000And the interceptors do not have a 100% interception rate.
02:06:08.000We also produce them much more slowly.
02:06:11.000And these are spread out across the entire world.
02:06:14.000So think about all these variables here.
02:06:17.000Iran has tons of cheap supplies, cheap missiles.
02:06:21.000They're very inexpensive to make, and they're blasting them off.
02:06:25.000And we really have no ability to prevent them from launching all their missiles.
02:06:29.000And these missiles are raining down every day against a wide array of targets across the entire region.
02:06:38.000Hezbollah is launching them against Cyprus in the eastern Med.
02:06:43.000Iran is launching them against Israel, but also against Jordan and northern Iraq and Riyadh and Bahrain and the Emirates and Qatar and Oman.
02:06:53.000The whole region is being hit with missiles.
02:06:56.000And the ships in the Persian Gulf are being hit with missiles.
02:07:00.000Now, if you are trying to intercept these missiles, you can only deploy a finite number of systems to protect a finite number of targets.
02:07:11.000The detection, early warning, and interception, it's a smaller radius.
02:07:16.000So you have to deploy systems in all these different places.
02:07:19.000You can't leave Saudi Arabia out to dry because what happens if missiles start hitting the eastern province oil fields?
02:08:17.000Iran is making them not just more quickly, and they don't just have more of them, and they're only using them in one theater of conflict, but also they're much cheaper.
02:08:28.000They're far cheaper, and you only need one to get through.
02:08:32.000Interceptors, you need to launch two or three.
02:08:35.000You need to launch multiple per missile.
02:08:38.000Not all of the missiles are going to be shot down.
02:08:41.000And so, if the interception rate is 86% as it was in the war last year, that's a significant number of missiles that might be getting through.
02:08:50.000And if the war drags on for weeks or months, it becomes a war of attrition.
02:08:57.000Are we going to run out of our very finite, very limited stockpile, very expensive interceptors, which are not always effective?
02:09:07.000Or is Iran going to run out of their very cheap missiles and drones, which they have underground factories to churn these out by the hundreds every month?
02:09:16.000And what that tells us about the conflict is that it is in our interest for this to be fast.
02:09:25.000That is the insight that you have to derive from this.
02:09:29.000If that is the calculus, we cannot tolerate the Gulf and our bases and Israel being hit with missiles for weeks and months because we can't shoot them all down.
02:09:39.000And if we can't shoot them all down, it is ruinous.
02:10:18.000And it would require a very long and pitched battle to topple the regime.
02:10:23.000So this tells you what Trump was thinking.
02:10:26.000Well, it looked very one-sided in the opening stages of the conflict when we were just having our way in Iran's airspace, dropping all these bombs.
02:10:37.000But now that the Iranians are not surrendering, and now that they're still maintaining the ability to launch missiles into the Persian Gulf and elsewhere, now you got to wonder: well, what is the off-ramp here?
02:10:53.000If the gamble was we're going to hit them really hard and we're going to hope that someone is going to take the reins, well, again, what happens if they don't?
02:11:03.000Now we're kind of screwed because we're running out of this supplies and it's a race against the clock.
02:11:09.000Either we destroyed the missile launch platforms and it's a non-issue or we don't.
02:11:33.000And if you have air power, if you take out their airplanes, if you have air superiority, if you take out some of their major assets, then maybe it becomes possible to deploy a small force inside the country.
02:11:48.000Who knows to secure the nuclear sites, to secure the ballistic missile sites.
02:12:00.000It says, quote, President Trump told the New York Post on Monday that he is not ruling out sending ground troops into Iran if it was necessary, adding that Operation Epic Fury was way ahead of schedule after taking out dozens of Tehran's top officials.
02:12:16.000He said, quote, I don't have the yips with respect to boots on the ground like every other president.
02:12:25.000Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said at a Monday morning Pentagon press conference that no American troops are currently inside Iran, though he also did not rule out the possibility.
02:12:36.000He said, President Trump ensures our enemies understand we'll go as far as we need to to advance American interests, but we're not dumb about it.
02:12:45.000You don't have to roll 200,000 people in there and stay for 20 years.
02:12:50.000Trump told the Daily Mail on Sunday he estimated the war would last four weeks, but hinted that the timeframe could be shortened.
02:12:57.000He said it's going to go pretty quickly.
02:12:59.000We're right on schedule, way ahead of schedule in terms of leadership, 49 killed, and that was going to go for four weeks.
02:13:10.000They're saying, if we can't get Iran to capitulate, we'll send in a ground force.
02:13:15.000Trump says, I'm not ruling that out in principle.
02:13:18.000And Hegset says, we may not invade like we did in Iraq.
02:13:22.000Maybe we'll do a smaller force, maybe special forces.
02:13:26.000But Hegseth too says we're not going to rule it out either.
02:13:30.000That seems to be the only possible alternative.
02:13:34.000If you're not able to drop bombs enough to get them into submission and they're going to hand over their missiles and their nuclear program and make peace with Israel, someone's going to have to go in and kill them.
02:13:46.000Someone, some force on the ground with guns is going to have to go in and do this intense fighting to actually raid these facilities, raid this.
02:15:01.000And by the way, what happens then when Americans start dying?
02:15:05.000So Americans land on the ground and all of a sudden they're getting shot with shoulder-launched rockets and they're getting blown up with IEDs.
02:15:14.000And Iran is going to change their tactics into a defense of the homeland.
02:16:05.000And then again, what exactly have we gotten ourselves into?
02:16:09.000Are we now going to have thousands of Americans dying trying to put Iran back together in a civil war, trying to rebuild some semblance of law and order?
02:16:19.000What exactly are we on the hook here for?
02:16:23.000Now, that is the other alternative, and it has been mentioned, is that we might use an already on-the-ground force to be our ground force in Iran, like, for example, the Kurds, which are Iran's largest ethnic minority.
02:16:37.000It's about 10 to 15% of the population concentrated in the northwest part of the country.
02:16:45.000Apparently, Trump and Netanyahu had spoken to the Kurds a week before the war started.
02:16:52.000And specifically, they talked about the Kurds being an invasion force, that the Iraqi corps, the Iraqi Kurds in northern Iraq, armed and supported with U.S. air power, would cross the border with Iran, and they would be our invasion force.
02:17:10.000It says, quote, President Trump spoke by phone with Kurdish leaders in Iraq on Sunday to discuss the U.S.-Israel war with Iran and what might come next.
02:17:20.000Trump spoke to leaders from the two main Kurdish factions in Iraq a day after the Saturday bombing campaign began.
02:17:27.000The calls were the culmination of months of behind-the-scenes lobbying by Prime Minister Netanyahu.
02:17:32.000Israel has had close security, military, and intelligence ties with the Kurds in Syria, Iraq, and Iran for decades.
02:17:40.000It is the general view and certainly Netanyahu's view that the Kurds will come out of the woodwork.
02:17:46.000They're going to rise up, said one of the officials.
02:17:49.000Six days before the war began, five dissident Kurdish groups sheltering in Iraq announced the formation of the Coalition of Political Forces of Irani and Kurdistan to fight Iran.
02:18:01.000Well, U.S. policymakers believe Netanyahu might have overestimated the number of Kurds who might take up arms against Iran.
02:18:15.000Before you invade a country of 90 million people with 200,000 Iranian Revolutionary Guard, what you want to hear is, hey, well, we don't have absolutely nothing at all, but something.
02:18:33.000The plan, because this is what has happened in Iraq, the Kurdish third of Iraq is effectively autonomous.
02:18:41.000There was sort of a brief civil war about 10 years ago between the government in Baghdad and the Kurds.
02:18:49.000Iraq is effectively controlled by Iran because part of Iraq's security architecture includes a militia army called the Popular Mobilization Forces.
02:18:59.000And most of them are Shiite Muslims loyal to Iran.
02:19:04.000And they have launched bombs at Israel and they have criticized the United States and they operate in every governorate in Iraq except for in Iraqi Kurdistan in the north.
02:19:15.000And the Iraqi Kurds had fought for independence, fought for a semi-autonomous government system.
02:19:21.000And this is where American soldiers retreated to.
02:19:24.000When the Iranian missiles started flying, we took our troops out of Baghdad and we put them in Erbil.
02:20:52.000The western part of Iran is mostly Kurdish.
02:20:56.000And so if a lot of armed, organized Kurds, backed by Israel, backed by the CIA, backed by the U.S., if they cross over the border as a military unit, well, they will probably be liberated or rather greeted as liberators by the Kurds that are already living in Iran.
02:21:15.000And then the question is, where does that lead?
02:21:20.000Does that turn into a full-scale uprising against the government?
02:22:03.000And the U.S. has their air base in Iraq.
02:22:07.000And now you have a land bridge across the border into Iran, where the Kurds have established this beachhead inside the country.
02:22:14.000And so you can then begin supplying weapons and you can fly in.
02:22:18.000And then maybe that is aided by special forces.
02:22:22.000Maybe that's aided by a U.S. ground presence.
02:22:25.000Maybe on the eastern side of the country, you get a Balochistan separatist group.
02:22:30.000There's another ethnic minority, the Baloch, in southeastern Iran.
02:22:34.000They're very restive and they have some separatist groups there.
02:22:38.000Maybe it becomes a two-pronged attack and they meet in the middle.
02:22:42.000Maybe something like this is in the cards.
02:22:47.000Either way, once again, what exactly is the plan?
02:22:51.000Because what it is sounding like more and more is that this is going to turn into a ground war.
02:22:57.000It is going to turn into a ground war with us.
02:23:00.000Because again, just like it happened with the nuclear program and the missiles, all you have to do is think about these strategic imperatives.
02:23:49.000So if failure is not an option, and if Iran does not surrender, and if we can't bomb them into submission or destruction, then what is going to absolutely have to happen?
02:24:03.000Some ground force is going to have to go in.
02:24:06.000It doesn't matter who, but someone is going to have to go in.
02:24:09.000And from these discussions, it looks like that is the Kurds, but we know that they are not enough.
02:24:16.000We know they have deep ties to the U.S. and Israel.
02:24:32.000We may be incapable of destroying everything that they have.
02:24:35.000And so in the end, we're going to have to back some kind of popular uprising, some kind of hybrid, a mix of liberal anti-government forces, secessionists and separatists like the Kurds or Balochistan.
02:24:49.000And yes, maybe some kind of U.S. ground presence.
02:24:53.000But I don't see how you get to the end of the year.
02:24:56.000I don't see how you get to the end of this administration with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard intact.
02:25:14.000It's interesting that this is now being admitted by Netanyahu and Trump and the Kurds, because I said this about the protests in January.
02:25:25.000If you remember in January, when all of this started, when the uprising began in Iran and it became the deadliest protest and every paper of record in the United States, it was just the front page was all about the atrocities that the Iranians were committing against the protesters.
02:25:44.000And that is when the United States and Israel were going to intervene.
02:25:47.000Now, there were reports when this was happening that the so-called protesters were actually not protesters at all.
02:25:57.000There were eyewitness accounts that the so-called protesters were clad in all black uniforms, were using professional tactics, were armed with automatic weapons, and they were targeting and seizing government buildings.
02:28:33.000Six days before diplomacy collapsed, the United States moved everything into place and initiated the conflict.
02:28:39.000All the Kurds came together and it looks like they're going to invade Iran.
02:28:44.000Maybe that's the plan B. If Iran doesn't surrender and we can't keep this war going on indefinitely and we need a swift end to it, achieving our strategic objectives, that's going to be that missing ingredient.
02:28:57.000But again, they're not going to be able to do it on their own.
02:29:00.000So that implies that we're going to go in.
02:29:03.000And I hope that's not the case, but I think at this point, it looks likely.
02:29:09.000Question is, just what exactly is the plan?
02:29:38.000Again, the character of the regime, the character of the country, they have full faith and confidence that they're going to survive this, that they have time on their side, they have their missiles, and they're going to survive.
02:29:52.000And all they need to do is get through the worst of it.
02:29:55.000And then on the other side, they're just going to be more hardline and they're just going to rebuild everything.
02:30:23.000We think they're building their nuclear program again.
02:30:27.000And so either Iran totally capitulates, which is very unlikely, or we surrender due to political pressure from Congress or from the public or something, and the regime survives.
02:30:40.000If the regime survives, then all that is going to happen is that the Israelis are going to hit them really hard and they may keep the war going in perpetuity.
02:30:51.000If Iran's missiles are depleted but not altogether destroyed, maybe Israel will just keep the conflict going at a low boil, constantly degrading the regime and waiting for that revolutionary force to come together.
02:31:04.000And then the last option is that, again, you get an American-backed force with U.S. assistance, a hybrid force, maybe comprising the Kurds, anti-government forces within Iran, maybe other separatists, and we swiftly bring down the government.
02:31:22.000And that seems to be right now the outlook on the conflict.
02:31:28.000And I got to say, just at what point do you learn your lesson?
02:33:08.000Tim Walz and Jacob Fry both say we have not changed a single policy and the ICE raids are over.
02:33:16.000So we retreated from Minneapolis where we were fighting to liberate America from illegal immigrants so that we could focus on deploying apparently now boots on the ground into Iran for regime change.
02:35:18.000We want their government to submit to us forcefully.
02:35:23.000Who is going to be our ally as we murder them, as we drop bombs and laugh, as we slaughter them, as we destroy their country?
02:35:30.000Who is the greatest ally of the evil outside force raping you, taking your freedom, taking your sovereignty?
02:35:37.000Women, students, liberals, racial and ethnic minorities.
02:35:41.000It's going to be an army of Kurds, literally an army of knuckle-dragging mudslimes, the most primitive people in the Middle East, and they're just a grieved minority.
02:35:52.000It's going to be stupid bitches that don't want to wear the burqa.
02:35:55.000They want to dance and they want to go on OnlyFans and trannies and stuff like that.
02:35:59.000It's the stupid young people that are brainwashed in universities where they have Western influence.
02:36:05.000And it is liberals, liberals, liberals that want elections, liberals that want an open society.
02:36:11.000Yeah, why do you think that favors Israel?
02:36:14.000Because an open society can be penetrated.
02:36:17.000An open society is wide open, open for business.
02:36:22.000Yes, we will take your foreign contributions in our elections.
02:36:25.000Yes, we will take your National Endowment for Democracy-backed press and student groups because that's freedom.
02:37:03.000This 85-year-old cleric who like gave his life to his country and religion, turned his country into a fortress made out of missiles and nukes?
02:37:13.000Or like some stupid bitch that just wanted to dance?
02:37:17.000Some stupid bitch who doesn't understand anything, who is like, I want to have fun.
02:37:23.000I want to go out and party like they do in the West.
02:37:48.000Same reason China has a great firewall.
02:37:50.000And you're sort of starting to understand why.
02:37:54.000We used to think that the Chinese and the Iranians had a cyber firewall to keep their people in.
02:38:02.000They didn't want their own people to know about Tiananmen Square, and they didn't want their own people to know about their corruption and so on.
02:38:10.000In reality, it was about keeping the West out.
02:38:14.000It was about, because what is the West going to do?
02:38:17.000We're going to destabilize their country.
02:38:20.000If there was no great Chinese firewall, we would bombard their country with anti-China propaganda.
02:38:26.000We would be talking about the Uyghurs and we would be vilifying the regime and all sorts of things.
02:39:12.000And this is food for thought for America.
02:39:15.000If there was some country that wanted to destroy America, would they back a Mexican force to invade America and liberate the Mexicans in LA?
02:39:25.000Let's say as an example, I mean, that sounds crazy, but as an example, would they back BLM rioters to destroy the cities?
02:39:33.000Would they go for the women and try to make it into some kind of women's rights things?
02:39:39.000And then, of course, the open society, they already take advantage of it.
02:39:42.000This is how they destabilize the country.
02:42:30.000And to the extent that people are going to attack me on that basis and say, you know, like I said, all the usual allegations, try to destroy my reputation.
02:42:38.000It's only because they're afraid of that outcome.
02:42:43.000They don't want white people to know their power.
02:42:45.000They don't want the base to know its true power.
02:42:48.000They don't want us to rise up and develop our own political consciousness and start fighting for our own interests.
02:42:54.000They want to keep us complacent, keep us asleep.
02:42:58.000You can be angry, but you got to keep voting.
02:43:00.000You can be upset, but you got to keep playing the game.
02:43:46.000And the more they panic, the more I know I'm doing the right thing.
02:43:51.000The more that people who are paid to lie to me call me out for this, the more I know I'm doing the right thing.
02:43:59.000People that are literally paid money under the table to peddle influence, soft, soft money influence.
02:44:09.000These people are out there saying, hey, everybody, it's okay.
02:44:12.000As long as there's no boots on the ground, here's how we could still win.
02:44:16.000If people that are being paid to lie to my fucking face, sending my country into a war that we have no business fighting, if those people are telling me, oh, you're a Democrat plan, you're a Fed.
02:44:29.000Well, then I know I'm in the right because those people are the fucking enemy.
02:49:22.000Telling everybody we're going to have whites become a minority at a slightly slower rate and, you know, Israel's still going to run the country and so on.
02:49:33.000I don't know what we're buying time for at that point.
02:49:36.000We have to stop playing not to lose and start playing to win.
02:49:40.000And that means taking ourselves seriously to start voting for ourselves, voting for our own interests, voting as a block, rather than going with Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and Israel every year.
02:57:45.000Imagine sitting there in Ireland, or I don't know, some other country, and you have to watch America just go to town on all these little people.
03:02:48.000Let's say hypothetically, you could have every single one of your ideals be implemented in government permanently, but you have to larp as a devout Muslim for a week to make it happen.
03:03:14.000Praying for the people who are going to be able to do it.
03:03:15.000true thank you lopez sent 100 nick really want to hear your take on the kurds now being armed in western iran for a ground war with the irgc supposedly the cia is arming them Haven't we already betrayed them like eight times after we've used and abused them?
03:03:54.000I was like a Zionist when it came out, but when I was in high school, I was very pro-Israel and I was like, you know, Iran should never have a bomb, blah, blah.
03:07:50.000Hypothetically, if the community raised enough money to start an America first party, would you be supportive of Thomas Massey as our nominee?
03:07:54.000Do you think he'd be a good pick for that position?
03:11:31.000Just wanted to say I'm probably the biggest liberal and disagree with 90% of what you say, but I do appreciate your perspective and how much I've learned about Israel and the other side of my views.
03:12:35.000Nick, did you see Matt Walsh calling out Trump and asking why he thinks he can make a move like this in Iran that is clearly controversial?
03:12:39.000But he cannot go through with mass deportations.
03:14:30.000As well as helping me grow stronger in my Catholic faith.
03:14:32.000Although I voted for Trump since I was swept up by emotions and didn't know about your Groi Per War 2 at that time, I still want to apologize.
03:14:36.000But thanks to you, I want to make that same mistake with Vance.
03:16:25.000Is China missing the golden opportunity to step in and fill the security void created by the U.S. favoring the defense of Israel over the Gulf states?
03:16:30.000No, dude, they have no capability to do that.
03:16:48.000When you relate it back to how the Jews love to destroy society, infiltrate, and extract wealth until the well runs dry, it's done all right in our faces and people still choose to be blind.
03:18:24.000There was a story today that U.S. troops are being told by their commanders that the war in Iran is just because it fulfills some evangelical end times prophecy involving Israel.
03:19:22.000And then it concerns the supply chains and trade.
03:19:26.000We're friends shoring or reshoring everything.
03:19:29.000We're trying to secure minerals in all these countries, trying to make these deals like in Ukraine and in Greenland and Venezuela in the pursuit of the ultimate weapon.
03:19:40.000And we're going to, of course, deregulate AI, empower AI.
03:19:46.000So I don't know that it will play a role in this.
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