00:00:47.000Remember, tomorrow, if you forgot, remember, tomorrow is my big debate on Iran with Jacob Wolf.
00:00:55.000And so I actually timed it basically perfectly.
00:00:59.000The timing of the debate tomorrow is excellent, it's timely stuff.
00:01:03.000And tomorrow we'll be debating, obviously, his position of regime change.
00:01:07.000You know, we'll be talking about the Iran nuke deal today and the policy of containment and Trump's deal making style of diplomacy and all of that.
00:01:17.000But tomorrow we talk about this proposal of regime change, which certainly Israel, many of the Zionists, many of the neocons and the chicken hawks and the establishment have wanted to see for a long time.
00:03:29.000I will say what I liked about Black Panther, as opposed to all the other Marvel movies, is it had a much more serious tone than the other ones.
00:03:37.000You know, all the other ones, the most recent Thor, which I didn't see, but I heard this.
00:03:48.000It was this kind of goofy, and I talked about this after I saw Infinity War, this goofy, Self conscious, almost embarrassed tone that it struck with all these goofy one line jokes.
00:05:09.000And people say, Nick, they say, Nick, you know, when you go and watch a movie, you're basically funding pedophilia.
00:05:17.000You're basically, by virtue of you purchasing a ticket, totally okay with what Hollywood does, how they rape women and they rape kids and they're spreading their propaganda and all the rest.
00:05:30.000And I say, look, take the stick out of your butts.
00:06:13.000Boys are wearing makeup and girls are having, you know, they're shaving their heads and getting tattoos and upside down is right side up and everything's going crazy.
00:07:54.000Been waiting for this one for a long time.
00:07:57.000And, you know, we've talked about it a lot on the show how the focus of this administration really has been on Asia so much more than the past two administrations.
00:08:07.000Since the end of this confusing decade between intervening between the Cold War and the war on terror, in the past decade, it's been a focus on the Middle East, specifically on the Persian Gulf, countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Trump really has pivoted to Asia.
00:08:27.000And so, for the first time, we're seeing a slight pivot back to the Middle East.
00:08:32.000I think it started with the second round of serious strikes, and now I think we're seeing a greater mobilization of this Middle Eastern policy.
00:08:41.000I think it's been in the works for a long time.
00:08:44.000I think if you've been following the news very closely about what's been happening regionally, you understand that this has been underway for some time, really, since about October or September.
00:08:58.000Really, you could go back as far as the summer of last year.
00:09:01.000It all started with the blockade of Qatar.
00:09:04.000We remember that, I think it was July or August 2017, there was a big blockade led by Saudi Arabia of Qatar because their state media had praised Iran in some way.
00:09:16.000And this was the beginning, many said, of the ascendancy of the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
00:09:22.000And since then, we've seen this proxy war or this greater Cold War that's been playing out across the Middle East between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
00:10:13.000And in a lot of ways, America has been behind the scenes in the Middle East.
00:10:18.000While we've been doing this very public and aggressive diplomacy with North Korea and with China in Asia, and certainly with other actors, behind the scenes, we've always been chipping away at a greater Middle Eastern strategy.
00:10:32.000You've seen the Gulf states, all the heads of states meeting at the White House, Egypt and Afghanistan as well.
00:10:38.000You've seen Mohammed bin Salman and Jared Kushner forging an alliance with Israel.
00:10:44.000So, really, this has been there all along, but now I think we're going to see a much more public process.
00:10:51.000And so, today, President Trump announced that the United States is withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal.
00:10:56.000And just a little bit about the Iran nuclear deal it is officially called, and I'll have to go to my notes because I always forget the exact wording of it, but it is called Do I even have it in here?
00:11:09.000It's called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, otherwise known as the Iran Nuclear Deal Framework.
00:11:15.000This was put together by the Obama administration in 2015, and the signatories included the P5 nations, the permanent five members of the Security Council, which include the United States, Russia, China, France, and the United Kingdom, as well as Germany and obviously Iran.
00:11:33.000The conditions of the deal in 2015, and they had worked on this for two years, hammering out this deal.
00:11:40.000In exchange for us giving up the sanctions regime, which had been accrued for many, many years, the sanctions regime on Iran had been developed for, I think, a decade and a half to a point where almost all the European countries, even their patron states like Russia and China, had signed off on some of these more aggressive UN sanctions, other forms of economic sanctions.
00:12:05.000And so, in exchange for leaving this very intense global international sanctions regime on Iran, in exchange for All of that going away, they would give up 97% of their enriched uranium.
00:12:19.000They would agree not to enrich uranium past 4% or a little bit less than that.
00:12:24.000I think it was like 3.8 something percent.
00:12:27.000Which, if you know about uranium, look, I'm not going to pretend to know anything about chemistry or about enrichment or nuclear weapons, the science of it.
00:12:35.000But what they tell me, what my Zionist puppet holders tell me, what the Jewish producers tell me, is that when you're making a nuclear bomb, You need fissile material.
00:12:48.000You need radioactive fissile material like uranium, like plutonium.
00:12:52.000And what you do is, I guess you get the raw uranium or the raw plutonium, and you have to enrich it using a centrifuge.
00:12:59.000And I don't know what that is, I don't know what that means.
00:13:02.000But to get it to a point where you put it in a bomb and it makes an explosion to create weapons grade uranium, you have to enrich it to a point where it's at 90% purity.
00:13:15.000And so, this process, I don't know what it does, it's called the enrichment process.
00:13:19.000You need a very high weapons grade uranium, high enrichment percentage of 90% to get uranium, put it in a bomb, and it blows up.
00:13:28.000Part of the restrictions for the deal in exchange for the sanctions relief was that they would give up 97% of their existing highly enriched uranium stockpile.
00:13:38.000And then in addition to that, they would agree not to enrich their uranium beyond something like 3.8%.
00:13:44.000And like I said, you have to get to 90% for it to be usable in a bomb.
00:13:50.000And in addition to that, they would shut down two thirds of their nuclear centrifuges.
00:13:55.000A centrifuge is the facility at which you enrich the uranium, I'm told.
00:14:00.000And lastly, well, second to lastly, they would fill one of their plutonium reactors, I believe in Iraq, not Iraq, A-R-A-K.
00:14:09.000They would fill one of their plutonium reactors with concrete.
00:14:12.000And then lastly, and this is the biggest part, they would agree to very intrusive inspections by the IAEA, the International Atomic Energy Agency.
00:14:22.000So they'd agree to these extensive inspections.
00:14:25.000Inspections by one of these independent bodies to make sure they were abiding by the deal.
00:14:31.000And it's worth noting that the IAEA, since the deal has been passed, has confirmed 10 times since 2015 that Iran is in compliance.
00:14:40.000As recently as February, the IAEA confirmed they were in compliance with the deal.
00:14:46.000And President Trump today said that the United States is withdrawing from it.
00:14:51.000He said the reason that we're withdrawing from the deal in a statement, he said the reasons were there were a few reasons.
00:14:57.000Number one, he said that there is a sunset clause in the deal, which says that after 10 years, a lot of the restrictions are lifted, a lot of the intrusive inspections are gone.
00:15:07.000In 25 years, almost the entire framework is gone.
00:15:17.000And basically, Iran, barring another intervention, barring another deal, is free to enrich uranium, is free to build a nuclear arsenal.
00:15:24.000Now, the language of the deal says they're barred from building a nuclear weapon.
00:15:28.000However, there would be no provisions.
00:15:31.000Existing in the deal after 25 years to really prevent them from building any kind of a bomb.
00:15:37.000So he said, number one, you have the sunset clause.
00:15:39.000In 10 to 25 years, we're basically back where we started.
00:15:43.000We'll either have to make another deal or it could get very ugly.
00:15:46.000Number two, he said the deal does not address their ballistic missile program.
00:15:50.000And the problem is this you have this deal in place, 10 to 25 years go by, and by the time the deal is expired, because there's no provisions monitoring their ballistic missile program, they could have developed an ICBM.
00:16:04.000They could develop ballistic missile technology for medium or short range, they could develop MIRV technology.
00:16:10.000They could develop all kinds of missile technology outside of the deal so that by the time the deal expires, all they have to do is enrich the uranium, strap it on a missile, and they've got a full blown nuclear arsenal or capability by 2025, 2030, whatever.
00:16:26.000So he says number one, sunset provision.
00:16:28.000Number two, doesn't address the ballistic missile activity.
00:16:31.000Number three, he says, is that it doesn't address the broader regional concerns, which is, in his words, he says that after the deal, part of the deal was that Iran got $150 billion in.
00:16:47.000And in addition to that, they got a $1.7 billion cash injection from the United States, which was delivered very viscerally, I think, in a visual way, on a pallet, just straight up $1.7 billion in cash, hard cash, delivered to them.
00:17:04.000And he said that that money that was given to them, and as a result of the sanctions relief, it has allowed them to spend more money on terrorism, which of course means Hezbollah, which means Shiite militias in Syria and in Iraq.
00:17:37.000Whether they sponsor the Houthis or Hezbollah or Palestinian Islamic Jihad or the PLO or Hamas or any of those guys, none of that affects us.
00:17:54.000And that one exception is pretty extraordinary.
00:17:56.000So he says, well, all that money is going to terrorists and blah, blah, blah.
00:18:00.000And then lastly, he says, the last big concern he has is that the inspections don't go far enough.
00:18:06.000He says, the IAEA can inspect the civilian nuclear energy program, but they cannot inspect sites on military bases, which is a problem because if you imagine that Iran is developing covertly a nuclear program on a military base, Well, then it can't be inspected by the IAEA.
00:18:25.000And so we have no idea if they're really going along with the deal, if they're really in compliance.
00:18:32.000That's why he said we're withdrawing from the deal.
00:18:35.000Now, as it stands right now, the deal is still on.
00:18:39.000Remember, the deal was not just between Iran and the United States, it was not just a bilateral deal between us and Iran.
00:18:46.000The deal still exists with Germany, the UK, France, China, Russia, and Iran.
00:18:52.000Iran responded by saying they're going to try and make the deal work.
00:18:56.000The European country said they're going to try and make the deal work.
00:18:59.000And so, as of right now, the deal is still on.
00:19:03.000It's worth noting that the president of Iran, Hassan Rouhani, has said before President Trump made his announcement that if the U.S. pulled out of the deal, the deal would be off, they would scrap it.
00:19:14.000It looks like that basically amounted to tough talk because Hassan Rouhani responded shortly after Trump's statement and basically said, Yeah, the deal's pretty much still on.
00:19:32.000And today they said, well, we're going to try our best to keep the deal going.
00:19:36.000We're going to prepare to restart our uranium program, but actually, we're going to wait a few weeks and consult with our allies and with the other signatories of the resolution, and we'll see if it could still work.
00:19:49.000And so it looks like the deal may still be salvageable by some of these other powers.
00:19:54.000Iran responded in this way the UK, France, the EU, and Germany all came out with a joint statement today saying they regretted the U.S.'s decision.
00:20:05.000If you remember, we talked about this a few weeks ago.
00:20:08.000When French President Macron, German Chancellor Merkel visited the United States in the same week, they both made a big overture to try to get Trump to change his mind and to stay on to the deal.
00:20:19.000And so those countries said they're very disappointed.
00:20:21.000They're going to try to make it work regardless.
00:20:24.000And they also said, Macron said they would try and make a new deal or add an addendum or something, make it so that we could address the United States' concerns, which are the ballistic missile, the regional unrest, and the terrorism, to put that into some kind of a deal.
00:20:40.000Barack Obama responded on Facebook with basically a bunch of straw men about it.
00:20:45.000It's not really worth reading, but he's out there saying, I think it was a big mistake, you know, the Iran deal, this and that.
00:20:50.000And I think we have to take a moment before we really sink our teeth in and analyze what happened today and talk about what happens next outside of just the reactions.
00:21:00.000I think it's worth mentioning we have to appreciate the fact that now Barack Obama's entire legacy, all of it, it's gone.
00:21:11.000I think even though we might not agree, all of us don't agree that pulling out of the Iran deal was a good thing.
00:21:17.000I think we could all agree to appreciate the fact that in 2013, Barack Obama made a couple of jokes at Donald Trump's expense at that dinner, and Donald Trump embarked on a four year quest to win the election and become the president of the United States, and then turn the world and the U.S. government and 20 years of precedent on its head.
00:21:46.000Despite one man, because he made a couple of jokes about him.
00:21:49.000I think we have to appreciate that all of this has happened.
00:21:53.000That just four years ago, Barack Obama was up there.
00:22:41.000And I think it's also interesting to note for all the people that have a very one dimensional view of foreign relations, it's interesting to note that on one side of the deal, People who supported Trump withdrawing from the deal, which was Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the Emirates, they were all in favor of this.
00:23:01.000It was a great decision because these three countries see Iran as the biggest threat to their national security.
00:23:07.000Saudi Arabia has grown this alliance with Israel because they both see Iran as a big threat to them.
00:23:13.000Israel is against, or rather, Israel supports the decision.
00:23:17.000Barack Obama and the EU and the European countries and the mainstream media.
00:23:23.000All are against the president's decision.
00:23:25.000And so I think it's quite interesting because people have a very one dimensional view of foreign relations and they'll say, well, it can all be explained by the Jews or Israel.
00:23:36.000You know, it's like you're either a realist and you think people make rational decisions based on security dilemmas and things like that, you're an idealist or a constructivist and you think, well, ideas change the world or liberalism can change the world, the 14 points can change the world.
00:23:55.000People make decisions sometimes based on institutions or decision makers.
00:23:59.000Or you're of, you're either, you know, this guy or you're that guy, or your entire worldview can just be explained away with Jews.
00:24:08.000It's just always, oh, well, you know who it is.
00:24:13.000And it's times like this when you have to push back on that a little bit.
00:24:17.000We can recognize the influence of Israel, which is massive and incredibly disproportionate and borderline illegal.
00:24:26.000They should be registered as a foreign agent.
00:24:29.000Some of these lobbies, like AIPAC, a lot of them should be shut down for espionage, for Like all kinds of things.
00:24:37.000But it is to say that that is not purely a substitute for analysis about foreign affairs because something like this you start to see.
00:24:45.000There are globalists, there are foreign influences on both sides.
00:24:50.000Saudi Arabia and Israel, very pernicious influences on our State Department, on our Defense Department, on the White House, and they should be called out.
00:24:58.000But by the same token, on the other side, you've got Barack Obama, John Kerry, the deep state, which is the CIA, the intelligence agencies.
00:25:05.000You've got the UN, you've got the European countries, the media.
00:25:08.000And so these are two foreign hostile influences, interests, but they're on two sides of the deal.
00:25:15.000And so I think that's where it calls for a much more in depth kind of analysis.
00:25:20.000And that's what I talk about a lot on the show for people that say, you're not autistically yelling out about Jewish people every five seconds.
00:25:39.000But those were the big reactions from Iran, from our allies, from Israel and Saudi Arabia, who I wouldn't even classify as allies.
00:25:46.000I would say they are rogue states, but in a different way, like subversive rogue states, as opposed to overt revisionist powers like Iran, Russia, and China.
00:25:59.000And now the next phase is that sanctions will come down.
00:26:03.000Within the next 90 to 180 days, you'll see the sanctions slapped back on.
00:26:08.000Which includes sanctions on Iran's oil sector, their aircraft exports, their precious metals trade, and their government's attempts to buy U.S. dollar banknotes.
00:26:19.000And I think a lot of what happens next can be speculated on based on what Trump said during his statement, because he said some very deliberate things, some very significant things in his statement.
00:26:33.000There were some things which I found very troublesome.
00:27:28.000The only reason you would talk about this liberator stuff is so you could charge up any kind of dissent in Iran and then take advantage of it if there's an occupation or invasion or something like that to pit the people against their government.
00:27:42.000And I think it's also worth saying you know, we hear all this talk in the liberal press about we interfere in Russia's elections, or rather, I'm sorry, vice versa.
00:27:56.000And we're out there just grossly interfering in their politics, saying, well, you know, their government treats them badly and America can show them a new way.
00:29:01.000It's also significant and striking that he invoked North Korea explicitly and directly in the statement.
00:29:09.000He said that Mike Pompeo, who is now the Secretary of State, is on his way to North Korea for a second visit there to solidify the details of the upcoming visit between Trump and Kim Jong un.
00:29:36.000There'll be prosperity in their future.
00:29:37.000And he essentially said all of that and more is on the table for Iran if they just agree to these conditions.
00:29:45.000He said, and if they don't agree to these conditions, we will slap on brutal sanctions, maximum pressure, all the rest.
00:29:52.000And what he's doing essentially is laying out the same deal making strategy that he did with North Korea.
00:29:58.000And I talked about this on my World Report podcast before the maker support catastrophe.
00:30:03.000And if you charted very carefully the diplomacy with the United States and North Korea, it started out with North Korea being very provocative, missile tests, nuke tests.
00:30:14.000And then Trump came out and said, Kim Jong un is honorable, and under the right conditions, I'd make a deal with him.
00:30:20.000He said, But they have to get rid of their nuclear program.
00:31:56.000Iran now is connected to the European economy, they're connected to China, they're connected to Russia, their economy is connected to the world.
00:32:04.000To get them back to the kind of position they were in two years ago, and even then was not as isolated as North Korea is now, You would have to break the back of Europe to get the sanctions regime back on them.
00:32:15.000You'd have to get Russia to put the sanctions regime back on them and China to put the sanctions regime back on them, as well as a number of other regional actors.
00:32:25.000So it's a much different equation in that regard.
00:32:28.000To use leverage on Iran is going to be much different.
00:32:31.000It's going to be not the same as isolating them from the world.
00:32:34.000Additionally, Iran derives its strength from international cooperation, whereas North Korea says we're going to be alone with the exception of one country.
00:32:42.000Iran says we want to be connected to all these countries.
00:32:45.000So, also changes the incentives and the sticks and the carrots that can be used.
00:32:50.000Additionally, in Iran, what is different is that you have actors like Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, and Israel, which are going to work aggressively and actively to thwart the diplomatic process.
00:33:04.000Japan, South Korea, they were 100% cooperative in the process.
00:33:08.000And actually, South Korea, who would be, I guess, the comparable foil.
00:33:14.000If it were analogous as North Korea is to South Korea, Iran is to Israel.
00:33:18.000Don't get me wrong, it's not the same dynamic, but you understand that these are the adversaries in these regions.
00:33:24.000South Korea elected a president who wanted to make peace with North Korea, who said, let's embrace them, let's bring our countries together.
00:33:31.000He called it, what, the sunshine policy, something to that effect.
00:33:34.000And so somebody that was very open to it.
00:33:36.000Conversely, with Iran and Israel, or Iran and Saudi Arabia, with their adversaries, you have very aggressive regimes in both countries.
00:33:48.000The ascendant Mohammed bin Salman in Saudi Arabia.
00:33:51.000And not only will they oppose any attempt at diplomacy, any attempt at a deal, any attempt at containment, they will actively try to sabotage it.
00:34:02.000You saw it just after Trump signed the memorandum, pulling America out of the deal, Israel launched military strikes in Syria, killing nine people, Iranian assets in Syria.
00:34:15.000And this is obviously not an isolated occasion.
00:34:18.000This happened earlier in April, this happened twice in February.
00:34:22.000It's happened dozens of times since the start of the Syrian civil war.
00:34:28.000Not only do you have them trying to drag us into war in Syria and Iran and the region, but you also have actors within the country trying to get us to war in Iran.
00:34:37.000You have neoconservatives in the deep state, in the State Department, all over the place.
00:34:41.000You've got them in the lobbying industry, in AIPAC with the ADL, with not so much the ADL, but with AIPAC, with the other pro Israeli foreign lobbies.
00:34:50.000You've got the neocons, the right for the New York Times, like Brett Stevens.
00:34:55.000You've got Bill Kristol on the Weekly Standard, Ben Shapiro on National Review.
00:35:00.000They've got a stranglehold on geopolitical analysis, at least on the right and somewhat on the left.
00:35:06.000So it's a much, much, much different equation with Iran.
00:35:11.000Now, that said, the deal making strategy will be different.
00:35:15.000I think what Trump is trying to do here, and allow me to speculate a little bit, as to what is also different between Iran and North Korea, is that Iran's people are restless.
00:35:26.000They have a lot of protests, the economy has been doing very badly, pollution is very bad.
00:35:33.000It's a population that's not doing so well.
00:35:36.000We saw the Iranian protests earlier this year, and I think to a large extent that was astroturfed, but certainly there was some resentment that they were tapping into, and there are pretty regular anti government protests in Iran.
00:35:51.000You have a very tenuous balance between people who want to moderate the Iranian government's position and people who are hardliners, who are extreme.
00:36:00.000You have the clerics and you have the pragmatists, you have the moderates and you have the fundamentalists.
00:36:06.000You have this very, I guess you could call it a very difficult position that the Iranian government is in, where if America brings pressure with sanctions, they don't have to isolate them completely from the world economy, but if they bring the pain, there will be pressure within Iran from the people, from inside the government, to react in some kind of way.
00:36:29.000Additionally, with the people, you know, they talk about, well, Trump talked about the Iran government versus the Iranian people.
00:36:36.000Now, that is a red flag, but by the same token, Iran is different than a lot of countries.
00:36:40.000Iran is a very closed off and insulated country.
00:36:47.000It's a lot more difficult, for example, to find somebody that speaks Farsi than somebody who speaks Arabic.
00:36:53.000To live in Iran is really the only way to understand how Iran works, how the Iranian people work, the culture.
00:37:00.000It's a very secretive culture, and it's very different than ours.
00:37:03.000Not many, even of the experts, understand it completely.
00:37:06.000And so when somebody like Trump endorses the people and goes against the regime, It may seem counterintuitive.
00:37:13.000Maybe it's not intentional, and I'm not saying it's intentional.
00:37:15.000But the effect is that it actually delegitimizes the people that are against the government.
00:37:21.000And you saw this even during the anti government protests a few months ago.
00:37:25.000When an outsider, when an American starts to speak of their government's illegitimacy, it actually has the opposite of the intended effect.
00:37:34.000And I don't know if that's intentional.
00:37:35.000I don't know if that's conscious, but certainly that is the effect.
00:37:39.000So I think that is how it will play out in the next coming months.
00:37:44.000Very similar to North Korea in that the strategy is containment.
00:37:48.000It is to put maximum pressure on Iran so that either they come to the table or natural causes, natural trends, cause the regime to collapse from within.
00:37:58.000I think it'll be predicated on an understanding that there are, it is a precarious situation that the regime is in, and they are exploiting that with economic sanctions.
00:38:07.000It is worth saying that we oppose war in Iran under no circumstances.
00:38:17.000Under no circumstances, no circumstances do we support a war in Iran by the United States.
00:38:24.000And I think that, regardless of whether or not we believe that this is the approach he will take, whether or not we believe it will be successful, whether or not we believe that a missile strike or a statement or provocations or anything like that will lead to peace, it'll be like North Korea.
00:38:40.000I think, nevertheless, it is so important that we make absolutely clear that we oppose war in Iran.
00:38:46.000And me and Alex Wytoslavsky talked a lot about this.
00:38:49.000Last Wednesday, about the serious strikes.
00:38:54.000It is important for people to show, specifically our movement, that the new right wing, the new conservative movement, whatever you want to call it, is anti war.
00:39:15.000Too expensive, too costly, and not in our interest.
00:39:18.000And I think it is a very valuable thing for people to be vocal about that, to contact their representatives.
00:39:24.000To call the White House, to do whatever it takes, and to be vocal about it whenever you can.
00:39:28.000Because, you know, it's always, I think it's always a good thing to remind Trump that that pressure is there.
00:39:35.000The support for him is not unwavering.
00:39:37.000And I want to distinguish it's not to say we should be calling him neocondon and, oh, well, he's just a Zionist puppet, so don't vote in elections and all this.
00:39:48.000I really do love him, and I respect the hell out of him because I see in him a man who loves his people and is trying to do the right thing for him.
00:39:56.000So I don't think it should be this like, Weird hostage situation where we're like, you know what?
00:40:59.000Prove that we don't need a deal, force Iran to make a better deal.
00:41:03.000And that's what he said throughout the.
00:41:05.000It's fair to say, you know, for people who say he betrayed us and all this and that, he said throughout the campaign, I hate the Iran nuclear deal.
00:42:20.000And I was watching to prepare for this video a lot of the Zionist propaganda on Prager University, for example.
00:42:27.000There's two videos one called Iran and the Bomb with Brett Stevens and one with Dennis Prager about how Iran is like Nazi Germany because just like Nazi Germany, they hate us for our freedoms.
00:42:39.000And just like Nazi Germany, they're a police state and they're socialist.
00:44:07.000And Putin is a dangerous authoritarian who hates free speech and he's going to invade the planet.
00:44:13.000He wants to rebuild the Soviet Union and take control of the moon and crash it into the earth.
00:44:18.000You know, I mean, they rely 100% on that to sell you into the idea that we should support another $6 trillion mass casualty event in the Middle East.
00:44:31.000However, the reality is much different.
00:44:33.000Iran is a rational actor, just like any country.
00:44:38.000China, Russia, Syria, Bashar al Assad, these are rational actors.
00:44:43.000The worst you could say about them is that they are adversaries or rivals or revisionist powers, but that's about it.
00:45:21.000If you were an Iranian and you're in the Iranian regime, you've got Americans on your eastern border in Afghanistan, you've got Americans on your western border in Iraq, you've got Israel a thousand miles away saying they want to blow you up, they've got 200 warheads pointed at you.
00:45:37.000You've got Saudi Arabia, which is encroaching on you.
00:46:33.000They did terrorism on American facilities in Egypt, on British facilities.
00:46:37.000They tried to in the United Kingdom, and on and on.
00:46:40.000And so that's a rational activity undertaken by the Iranian regime.
00:46:43.000And so we have to analyze them not as the villain, not as the Nazi regime, and we have to confront evil and it's like Hitler all over again.
00:46:52.000They're a vision of power, they're a rival.
00:46:54.000We want them to cooperate with our interests, and that's about it, folks.
00:46:58.000And again, you start to remember, you start to realize core stuff here.
00:47:03.000You start to realize how important it is that Nazi Germany existed, right?
00:47:08.000You start to really understand why it's necessary that somebody like Hitler, somebody like the Nazi regime existed.
00:47:17.000How many times they rely almost 150%, something like that, on sadness, remorse, regret about the Nazi regime to sell you on a foreign war, on censorship, on taking away your guns?
00:47:56.000But with that out of the way, we got to talk about, and we're running out of time here, but we have to talk about the intellectual dark web because, you know, I'm told by a guy named Bari Weiss, who's a white guy.
00:48:08.000Bari Weiss, I believe that's an Anglo name.
00:48:11.000I believe that, or maybe that's French.
00:48:40.000They're the underground, secretive, clandestine dark web, the dissident establishment, or not even the dissident rebellion against the establishment.
00:48:50.000They talk about how they will say things like men and women aren't the same.
00:53:03.000They have almost no in group preference.
00:53:07.000And so a lot of the difficulties I think people see originate from the Anglo, at least the Anglo Protestant culture of America.
00:53:15.000And you look at the United Kingdom, certainly it's very difficult where their healthcare system is like killing babies and terrorism reigns and it's just like a masochistic cultural suicide.
00:54:07.000If you've been watching the metrics, it's been exploding in popularity.
00:54:11.000You know, I was looking at the analytics the other day, and it went from September when I started the show on this channel, went up to like November when I started America First Overdrive with James, and we were doing a lot more content, down to January when we stopped doing Overdrive, and now we've exceeded where we were before.
00:54:29.000And you can look, the numbers are crazy on YouTube.
00:54:32.000And not only are the numbers growing on YouTube, but also we get like 1,500, 2,000.
00:54:37.000Viewers per night on Periscope as well.
00:54:39.000So it's like you add that on top and we're doing crazy numbers.
00:54:43.000And people might say, oh, well, that's small.
00:54:45.000Consider last year, I was lucky if I got a thousand views per show and now we're doing really great numbers.
00:54:52.000So it's been, it just goes to show look, you work hard, you're consistent, it's a quality product, and you should be able to do reasonably well for yourself.
00:55:01.000And that's the biggest problem people have consistency.
00:55:04.000Consistency in timing, consistency in quality.
00:55:07.000And I like to think that's my strong suit here.
00:55:11.000Alex F., I'm getting real sick of all the spurgs and pagans in the chat.
00:55:15.000Might have to go full Yezifahshina on them.
00:55:18.000I don't know how to pronounce that, but yeah, no.
00:55:23.000Look, paganism doesn't really even deserve a response, it should just be dismissed.
00:55:27.000The proper response to a pagan is LOL, gay.
00:55:30.000I mean, that's about all they deserve.
00:55:33.000Matt Forney, Nick, why do you think the alt-right is stuck in a loser libertarian anti-war mentality regarding Trump's foreign policy?
00:55:42.000Keep up the great work, and for more great content, your fans can check out mattforney.com and youtube.comslash userslash realmattforney.
00:55:50.000Well, I don't know if that is the real Matt Forney, but if it is, much appreciated.
00:55:54.000And, you know, it's difficult with the alt right because you want to walk this line of I'm anti war and I'm against intervention, but I'm also not, it's not my ideology that I'm anti war.
00:56:05.000You know, I'm a pragmatist, I'm a realist.
00:56:07.000I don't think our interests are served by war, but I'm not ideologically opposed to any war.
00:56:12.000And I think it's because, I don't really know.
00:57:35.000Reagan says Iran is a mess, but unlike our Saudi allies, they have a growing Christian population in Tehran, tolerated by the Ayatollahs.
00:57:44.000Libyan and Iraqi Christians have been genocided thanks to regime change.
00:57:48.000Why is Jacob Bull pushing for the same thing in Iran?
00:57:50.000Well, the reason the Zionists want regime change in Iran is because Iran supports Hezbollah and they support Assad.
00:57:57.000You understand that just about every one of these regime change pushes comes from the fact that Israel wants to control its northern border.
00:58:05.000Israel secured its southern border by making peace with Egypt with the Camp David Accords and making peace with Saudi Arabia.
00:58:11.000They've controlled their eastern border by occupying the West Bank and having an alliance with Jordan.
00:58:16.000And they've secured their northern border, or they're attempting to secure their northern border, by destroying Syria and destroying all the countries that support Hezbollah.
00:58:25.000And the PLO and Hamas and all those other organizations.
00:58:28.000And that's really what it comes down to.
00:58:30.000So, when you look at the contemporary chaos in the Middle East, just about 99% of it is because you have this rogue regime in the Middle East that has formed out of nowhere, which obviously the countries in the region had a big problem with it.
00:58:44.000And now we've been reconciling this big shakeup for 70 years.
01:00:12.000You're basically an African American if you're from Sicily.
01:00:14.000So, no, my people are from Naples and from Northern Italy.
01:00:18.000So, we got the high IQ, industrial North, and also the agrarian, the Chad South as well.
01:00:26.000Joshua Larson says Am I wrong to cringe when pundits like Brett Weinstein pat themselves on the back and label their milquetoast ideas as the intellectual dark web?
01:00:36.000Absolutely, because it's not dark and it's not even intellectual.
01:00:39.000What it is is centrism and it's not even original.
01:00:43.000Ben Shapiro goes out there, he has never, he has never contributed to the discourse a single original idea, a single original theory.
01:00:52.000You know, people have it like Ben Shapiro, Dave Rubin, Sam Harris.
01:01:22.000So these people are not even, they're not original, they're not fresh, they're not dark, they're not intellectual.
01:01:27.000It's safe, PC, kosher centrism and poorly delivered.
01:01:33.000I'm watching Ben Shapiro's podcast today and he does, he's got this weird tick where he talks and he does this shaking thing with his head.
01:01:41.000He's like, today we're talking about Iran and blah, blah, blah.
01:04:48.000We have it so good where you don't even have to get off the couch and you can have whatever you want in the whole world brought to your front door for a few dollars.
01:04:57.000I mean, we're telling people reject that.
01:05:00.000You could live your whole life and all it could be is just consumption.
01:05:04.000You can eat, you can be constantly stimulated by porn and videos and music and loud noises, and you could have whatever you want on demand at a moment's notice.
01:05:15.000All you have to do is type it into this thing.
01:05:18.000And we're telling people, yeah, you're going to have to just basically turn your back on that.
01:05:23.000You could basically just encapsulate yourself in a pleasure pod and live your life as this atomized dreg.
01:05:32.000And the only way to get people to convince people to break out of that, to reject that and emerge from it, is a wholesale rejection of the temporal world and our temporal appetites.
01:06:33.000I was just talking about that with a friend of mine literally yesterday, actually, because we were talking about how the next Avengers should have all the characters, the Transformers, Shark Boy and Lava Girl, the Power Rangers.
01:08:04.000I would say that Iran might be backed by Qatar, but that's a little bit.
01:08:09.000They're not totally aligned with them, but if they were completely forced out of the Saudis' sphere of influence, they'd probably go to Iran.
01:08:16.000Syria would be there if the Assad regime was ever stabilized.
01:08:20.000Hezbollah and Lebanon would be in support of them, but no state actors.
01:08:23.000None of the state actors would be in support of Iran.
01:13:05.000We have the embrace of sub national identities.
01:13:07.000This came about about 25 years ago, written about in Sam Huntington's Who Are We, where he had this bilingualism infiltrate.
01:13:16.000And the difference now with previous ways of immigration, people say, oh, well, you know, you had other ethnic enclaves with the Ellis Island thing, you know, whatever.
01:13:25.000The difference is now you have so many Mexican immigrants coming in.
01:13:28.000So much of the immigration is from one group.
01:13:32.000That speaks one language going to the same concentrated areas, and they have a contiguous border with the U.S., so they maintain connection to their original culture.
01:13:41.000All these factors combined are why Hispanics have maintained their culture in spite of being in America.
01:13:49.000Also, you don't have the same assimilating institutions you had earlier on in the 20th century.
01:14:49.000You have to remember that we're trying to appeal to normal people.
01:14:53.000And so the things that we're talking about are things everybody wants, everybody intuitively understands, which is we want to have community.
01:16:40.000And I regret that I didn't do more with it, but I was pretty busy at the time.
01:16:43.000I was doing school and I was doing my show, started my show in the second semester, and the campaign died down after the election, obviously.
01:17:12.000Ask yourself questions, and, you know, because it's different for everybody what your goals are, where you're at, what age group, all that kind of stuff.
01:20:41.000But I will tell you my dream because I think it was interesting and it was funny.
01:20:46.000In my dream, Beardson was driving down the street and there were, because it was funny, and there were a bunch of like Hispanic kids or Muslim kids, there were some brown kids.
01:20:56.000We were on like some island or something, and a bunch of kids ran into the street, and Beardson ran them all over because they were like going to ask him for food, or I forget, or they were protesting.
01:21:06.000I don't know, but for some reason I was thinking, well, they kind of had it coming because they ran into the street to like stop his vehicle, but he just kept, he ran over him.
01:21:14.000And then, and then like the military hunted him down and like shot him, and it was very graphic and very troubling.
01:21:21.000I woke up, I was like, you know, like breathing very heavily and very disturbing.
01:21:26.000So, Beardson, be careful out there, be careful.
01:21:43.000You know, every time one of these people upsets me, they make me happy again.
01:21:47.000You know, Jordan Peterson goes hard against white people, but then he talks about race and IQ, and he talks about responsibility and tradition and God.
01:22:40.000I think what he's doing is important and it's ultimately good.
01:22:43.000You know, he's building a very solid case for personal responsibility, for stoicism, which is needed, for Christianity, for reverence, for tradition, and for hierarchy, and for family, for traditional gender roles, for realism, philosophical realism.
01:23:01.000Look into that if you don't know what I'm talking about.
01:24:14.000If you read the Catechism, if you read Chesterton, if you read C.S. Lewis, any of them, even the encyclicals by some of the popes, there is no such internationalist message.
01:24:26.000This current pope, don't get me wrong, the current pope is very political, and he's a Jesuit Marxist.
01:24:31.000But by and large, the 2,000 year tradition, the magisterium, the gospel is not antinatalist.
01:24:38.000It's not antinationalist, nothing close to it.
01:24:41.000I've said it before, I'll say it again.
01:24:43.000In the gospel, Jesus Christ says that the nations will persist until the end of time.