00:04:20.000What is confirmed is he had three targets pertaining to the production and deployment and research of chemical weapons, and all the facilities were empty.
00:06:12.000We had a decapitation strike, which was two Nighthawk stealth fighters dropping four satellite guided 2,000 pound bunker busters on a compound where they thought Saddam Hussein was.
00:06:29.000And then for an opening attack, in seven hours they destroyed 70 military sites, and then over the course of the invasion, they deployed 467,000 military personnel.
00:06:44.000Trump is like Bush because Bush did things in the Middle East and Trump did things in the Middle East.
00:06:49.000Bush started a war in Afghanistan in 2001.
00:06:53.000By 2003, there were 10,000 troops there.
00:06:56.000And then in 2003, after 12 years of airstrikes, 12 years of no fly zones against the Saddam Hussein regime, after that, he did a 100 plus aircraft strike.
00:07:08.000Then a decapitation strike on the regime using bunker buster bombs trying to kill Saddam Hussein.
00:07:14.000Then they destroyed 70 military sites in seven hours without, by the way, alerting them it was going to happen five days beforehand.
00:07:21.000And then a 450,000 troop invasion, not counting the 150,000 other coalition troops that were from Iraqi militias, the UK, France, and Poland.
00:07:31.000Or not France, I'm sorry, the UK and Poland.
00:07:35.000This year, we had 120 Tomahawk missiles on three empty facilities.
00:07:41.000So, yeah, it's safe to say that Trump is Bush.
00:07:45.000It's safe to say that that's definitely comparable.
00:07:59.000And he said some very specific things that I think the black pillars missed because they're a little bit low IQ, they're high time preference, they're a little dumb.
00:08:08.000They didn't quite catch these very specific things that he said, which is, For starters, he said that this was, he said this explicitly.
00:08:15.000He said the reason we're doing this is to deter the use of chemical weapons and the proliferation of chemical weapons.
00:08:23.000Chemical weapons are one of three weapons that fall under the category of weapons of mass destruction.
00:08:29.000The others are nuclear and biological.
00:08:53.000It's a big difference to say we are going to respond to the use of chemical weapons in this one instance than it is to say we are going to remove the Assad regime or we are going to spread democracy or we are going to liberate the people of Syria.
00:09:08.000The rhetoric Israel is using about Iran is they're saying the Iranian people need to be liberated.
00:09:13.000Did Trump say we need to liberate the people of Syria or did he say explicitly?
00:09:17.000The interest, why we're doing this, to establish a legal basis for this limited strike is to deter the use of chemical weapons.
00:09:25.000Gee, what's the meeting going to be about Trump and North Korea in the next month, in either May or early June?
00:09:34.000It's to denuclearize the peninsula, get them to remove one class of weapons of mass destruction.
00:09:39.000You think that sends a message to North Korea?
00:09:42.000Maybe they just didn't, maybe they don't pick up on the significance.
00:11:38.000A war starts with a president who warns.
00:11:41.000The target of the war for a whole, basically a whole week that a strike is coming.
00:11:47.000He bombs three facilities that are empty, that they've already, not only did they move the personnel out, but they used their military assets out, which this was reported earlier in the week.
00:11:58.000And then he goes on the air, and the president says, We will not have a sustained occupation.
00:15:05.000And then you also say it's not feasible for us to determine the fate of the Middle East and that the Middle East will decide the fate of the Middle East.
00:15:12.000But trust me, but the war is still on.
00:17:36.000President Trump struck Syria last year, limited strike, 59 missiles on an airfield that was operational within 24 hours of the strike.
00:17:44.000At the same time that Mar-a-Lago and him were eating chocolate cake, excuse me, at the same time that Xi Jinping and Donald Trump were eating chocolate cake at Mar-a-Lago, he struck Syria.
00:18:20.000Why could he possibly do another symbolic strike against a rogue regime that is using weapons of mass destruction that, as a superpower client state, That is saying that they'll go to war if the United States strikes them.
00:18:32.000Can we think of another similar scenario that's going on right now?
00:18:35.000Because I think I see the same thing on the Korean Peninsula.
00:18:37.000And I think I see that we have the best opportunity in 30 years to denuclearize that country with the summit.
00:19:10.000Why do they say you go to the bank, you take out a small loan, and you pay it back?
00:19:15.000They say to do that not because you need the money, not because you need the loan, not because you need to spend the loan money.
00:19:22.000There's no reason to take out the loan.
00:19:24.000The point is to demonstrate to the bank that you can pay it back and you raise your credit score.
00:19:31.000So, that in the future, when you ask for money, when you ask for a little more money, they'll say, Well, you've shown you're responsible before.
00:21:44.000I look at his decision-making process.
00:21:47.000And I say that it's likely that these outcomes are going to happen as opposed to these.
00:21:54.000And so, in this case, I think it's far more likely, given what we know about the strike, that it's symbolic than that it was intended to degrade Assad's capability to conduct war.
00:22:04.000Not because he's Trump and I'm loyal and I have faith and I'm optimistic.
00:22:13.000But I think if you were to tell me that this is the beginning to a war, I would remind you of the relevant details and I'd say you're an idiot.
00:22:20.000On four dimensional chess, this is not complicated stuff.
00:22:55.000So it's not four dimensional, it's not complicated.
00:22:58.000It's basic strategy, and it happened last year, and nobody's willing to admit it because then there'd be no credibility for them to forecast this strike.
00:23:14.000I mean, I'm so smug because if you're not emotionally unstable, if you can think rationally for five seconds, and if you watched the show earlier, I heard some of the quotes from the Trump statement where he said there'd be a sustained strike, and I was worried.
00:26:35.000And then, two weeks later, when they get proven wrong, they come back and say, Oh, that temper tantrum where I called you an idiot and I told you to shut up and I said Trump was a dummy and you're dumb for supporting him?
00:27:00.000The day when Trump, it was a Tuesday in January, the day when Trump in that meeting with Republicans and Democrats said, I'll sign anything on DACA.
00:33:05.000Attacking three empty military facilities?
00:33:08.000Yeah, I know it was a big price to pay to make it a little bit more likely that North Korea doesn't have a nuclear arsenal and that we win the midterms.
00:33:15.000Yeah, that's definitely not worth it, right?
00:33:46.000Most of Trump supporters support the strikes for dominance.
00:33:49.000I would say a lot of them, and even the ones that don't, they're not going to remember it by.
00:33:54.000Do you think people in Wisconsin and Michigan, you know, working class machinists and automobile mechanics, voted for Trump in Michigan because of his hands off policy on the Syrian civil war?
00:34:45.000But he's drawn a temper tantrum so people watch his stream, not unlike Black Pillars who throw a temper tantrum so that they get a dopamine rush.
00:38:22.000It's probably going to be towards the end because, you know, page 395.
00:38:31.000Okay, so let's look in Article 1, Section 8, where it says The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises to pay the debts and provide for the common.
00:38:48.000Defense and general welfare of the United States, to borrow money on the credit, to regulate commerce, to establish a uniform rule of naturalization, to coin money, to make rules for the government, to provide for organizing, to exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, blah, blah, blah.
00:39:09.000And so basically, if you read in the Constitution, here it is: No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in consequence of appropriations.
00:40:07.000And then people are saying, oh, you could build it through the military.
00:40:09.000You would have to go through the Congress anyway.
00:40:11.000Military can't just do whatever it wants, military can't just build infrastructure.
00:40:16.000I mean, you could say it's for the national defense, but ultimately, you'd have to go through the Pentagon and through the House of Representatives.
00:40:22.000So, the idea that you could build it all by yourself, I do not think there's a very strong legal case for it.
00:41:47.000It's always on track, going a million miles an hour.
00:41:51.000Nick the Knife dropping a symbolic strike?
00:41:53.000No, I'm going full scale ground invasion against black pillars.
00:41:57.000I mean, does anyone not do what Israel wants, though?
00:42:00.000The problem is, there's a very simple understanding of the world Israel controls everything, it's much more complex than that.
00:42:08.000Israel exercises influence over the government.
00:42:12.000Through people with dual loyalties in the bureaucracy and also through foreign lobbying through AIPAC.
00:42:18.000They don't have an absolute stranglehold over the government, but they do exercise an incredibly disproportionate amount of influence, and a lot of it.
00:42:27.000But to say that it doesn't matter who we elect because Israel controls it anyway, I mean, that's just a foolish thing to say.
00:42:34.000Do they exercise an exorbitant amount of influence, or rather a lot of influence, a disproportionate amount?
00:44:54.000And the legal basis, of course, is the Constitution actually says that unless there's an immediate threat to the United States, you have to go through the Congress.
00:45:04.000The legal justification for the war is that the proliferation of chemical weapons presents an immediate threat to the United States.
00:45:12.000It is dubious whether or not you agree with that, but there is a legal basis for that.
00:45:18.000Technically, we haven't declared war since World War II.
00:45:23.000There wasn't a declaration of war in Korea.
00:45:25.000There wasn't a declaration of war in Vietnam.
00:45:28.000There wasn't a declaration of war for the war on terror.
00:45:32.000It was an authorization of the use of military force.
00:45:36.000I don't even believe there was a formal declaration on Iraq.
00:45:40.000There was in the 1990s a bill passed in the Senate, but I believe it was only like a resolution which said that we should depose Saddam Hussein.
00:45:50.000But I don't really think that fits under a formal declaration of war.