00:01:10.000When we're not talking about Syria, when we're not watching it very closely, that's when the strike happens.
00:01:16.000And so, of course, there was a strike in Syria on Friday by a coalition of the United States, France, and the United Kingdom.
00:01:26.000And we caught the beginning of the strike at the end of the show on Friday, and it turned into a big controversy in Knicker Nation.
00:01:34.000Of course, as it always does with the Black Pillars, as it always does with the Black Pillars, before the bombs even stop falling, Everybody's got a big problem with Nick and his predictions and what he says.
00:01:48.000Neocon Nick, Nick's a Zionist show, all this stuff.
00:01:53.000And so we saw the strike play out on Friday.
00:01:55.000It played out exactly according to my prediction on Friday.
00:01:59.000Saturday, I did a periscope very, very late Friday night and gave my initial take.
00:02:05.000We've seen some of the reactions from the White House, from France, from Russia, from Iran, other actors in the region, other actors involved in Syria.
00:02:16.000And now we've really seen the effects of it.
00:02:18.000On Friday, we really didn't get a full grasp of what happened because until very late, we didn't understand how many missiles were fired, who fired what missiles, which targets were hit, how many people were killed, etc., etc.
00:02:32.000So we have all the details and we want to give you basically just a full debriefing of what's happening there.
00:02:38.000There was another strike today by Israel, what happened there, why it happened, the details.
00:02:56.000But, you know, today's going to have to be a show about foreign affairs because, you know, we talk about it for five days and then he finally strikes.
00:03:04.000But a lot of people are very upset with me.
00:03:17.000And I'm going to try to be as careful as I can.
00:03:21.000With my language, and that I want to say exactly what I intend to say, and that I'm very precise.
00:03:26.000So, please, I'm asking for anybody that's listening to this show, you have to have a 250 IQ even to watch.
00:03:33.000You have to meet that threshold even to be watching this right now.
00:03:35.000But even if there are some people that are under there, I'm asking that people really listen very closely and understand what I'm saying, and that I'm not, you know, we can have views that may seem contradictory, and I'll explain that because I know there's a lot of confusion.
00:03:51.000So, first, we'll go into what exactly happened on Friday.
00:04:12.000If you watch the show from Thursday, we went through the entire timeline of events on Thursday up until Thursday from the chemical weapons, the alleged chemical weapons attack on Saturday, all the way through up until Friday.
00:04:25.000And there were very few developments on Friday.
00:04:39.000And we really went in depth on Friday at what France was saying, the UK, Russia, Iran, Syria, and the United States, and real deep background on what happened on the strike on Friday.
00:06:25.000And so the strike happened on a Thursday or a Friday last year, April 7, 2017.
00:06:31.000And then President Trump, about an hour later, got on and said, This is what we did, and this is why.
00:06:37.000This time it happened a little bit differently.
00:06:39.000President Trump came on at about 8 o'clock central and said, The attack is underway as I'm speaking to you right now.
00:06:46.000And it's actually important that you go back and you listen to the exact statement by President Trump because the wording was very crucial here.
00:08:00.000He said, ultimately, it's up to the people in the region to decide the fate of the region, which is by far and away already a big difference from the rhetoric of the Libyan intervention.
00:08:13.000In 2011 or 2013, then the Iraq war, then the Afghanistan war.
00:08:22.000A neoconservative, and I talked about this on the Bloodsports on Saturday with James.
00:08:28.000We got into a little bit about Syria, and I challenged him and I said, Do you actually know what neoconservative means?
00:08:34.000And this is a problem I see all the time on the right wing every foreign intervention is a neocon.
00:08:40.000Every foreign intervention, every exercise of military force, Whether it's in Asia or the Middle East, no matter what it is, missile strike, airstrike, invasion, it's neocon.
00:09:17.000Originates actually from the Trotskyists.
00:09:20.000The neoconservative thought actually originates from the writings of Leon Trotsky, who was the leader of the Red Army in the Russian Civil War after the Russian Revolution.
00:09:30.000Trotsky was a Bolshevik, if you're familiar.
00:09:33.000Trotsky led the Red Army after the 1917 October Revolution of the Bolsheviks in St. Petersburg.
00:09:40.000He led them to victory in 1922 when the Soviet Union was established.
00:09:45.000Later, he got exiled from the Soviet Union and assassinated on the order of Joseph Stalin with a pickaxe.
00:10:27.000Some non communist revolutions in the Middle East, in Egypt.
00:10:30.000And Trotsky believed in an international revolution.
00:10:33.000He believed in the power of ideas, that we had to invade countries and invade them with ideas.
00:10:37.000And so it's important we understand it comes from Trotsky because the neoconservatives were liberals.
00:10:42.000They were liberals in the 40s, the 50s, the 60s in America.
00:10:47.000They were left wing people, but they understood that we had to be hard on the Soviet Union.
00:10:51.000They were American leftists, but they thought, you know what, we have to get a little bit tougher on our foreign policy.
00:10:57.000We have to get a little bit tougher on communism.
00:10:59.000And And this kind of thought evolved over the course of time.
00:11:03.000There was a really good article, actually, in American Conservative, I think last week, and they wrote that there really is no great thinker of the neoconservative doctrine.
00:11:13.000All the great doctrines of foreign affairs, whether it's realism, idealism, constructionism, whatever it is, there's a great thinker.
00:11:21.000You know, you have Kenneth Waltz, you have Mearsheimer, you have all kinds of people, effectively, except for neoconservatism.
00:11:32.000Wholly the line of thinking, but by the 1990s, they start to consolidate, they start to coalesce around this way of thinking, and then they gain power in the Bush administration.
00:11:43.000And you have all kinds of neoconservatives.
00:11:45.000You have Pearl, you have Wolfowitz, you have Rumsfeld, you have all kinds of people in the Defense Department and the State Department.
00:11:51.000You have John Bolton, one of them, who's in the Trump administration now as a national security chief.
00:11:56.000And what the neoconservatives believed was that we should go into the Middle East, we should go into Afghanistan, we should go into Iraq.
00:12:25.000So the kind of thing that we saw, the kind of transformation we saw in Germany and Japan after World War II, or in South Korea after the Korean War, That's the kind of thing they wanted to see in Iraq.
00:12:37.000It wasn't sufficient that we install a leader that favors our interests.
00:12:43.000It was that we put in place and impose a new order in that country that is democratic, that is liberal, that is Western.
00:12:51.000And in doing so, we make the world safer for democracy.
00:13:23.000We have to establish Iraq as this satellite of the United States and that will shine as the shining city in the Middle East and they can spread Western ideas from there.
00:13:34.000In 2000, it was 11 or 2013, when we went into Libya, Barack Obama said Gaddafi has to either stop attacking his citizens, he has to stop doing something that we personally don't like.
00:13:47.000Or we invade and we let the will of the people be executed by the ballot box.
00:14:18.000He said, We neither can nor should change the Middle East.
00:14:23.000There is something intrinsically wrong with it.
00:14:26.000It is a troubled region, and there's nothing we can do about it.
00:14:30.000He said, We will be a partner and a friend, a partner and a friend, but ultimately it's up to the people in the region to decide the fate of the Middle East.
00:14:38.000That is nothing even close to what George W. Bush said.
00:14:42.000That's nothing close to what Barack Obama said, and that matters.
00:14:45.000Additionally, he said, There would be no occupation of Syria.
00:14:49.000He said, we cannot allow an indefinite occupation of Syria under no circumstances.
00:16:22.000They didn't really know all the details at the time, but the important stuff that they said was that this was a one off strike.
00:16:29.000If Assad uses chemical weapons again, we might strike again, but we will not automatically respond to a chemical weapons strike.
00:16:37.000So, in President Trump's statement, there was one word that caused confusion and was cause for concern, which we talked about on Friday, which was that he said there would be sustained strikes.
00:17:36.000The U.K. and France used similar variants off of the Tomahawk missile.
00:17:40.000It was missile strikes against three targets in Syria, France, or excuse me, it was three, three, the missile strike was against three targets in Syria by France, the UK, and the United States.
00:17:53.000The strike was 105 missiles launched from air and sea platforms in the Red Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Persian Gulf.
00:18:31.000This time we did about 20 more than we did last year.
00:18:33.000But in total, with the UK and France also involved, it was 105 missiles launched from air and sea platforms in the Red Sea, the Eastern Mediterranean, and the Persian Gulf.
00:18:44.000The missile struck the Barza Research and Development Center outside Damascus, as well as two targets in the Him Shinshar Chemical Weapons Complex outside Homs.
00:19:34.000The bunker was only damaged, but the other two were destroyed.
00:19:38.000And out of 105 missiles that were launched, Russia and Syria say that about 70 of those were intercepted by Syrian air defenses, which is important.
00:19:47.000They were not intercepted by Russia, they were intercepted by.
00:20:03.000And they say, oh no, well, this is degrading Assad's ability to fight his civil war in Syria.
00:20:08.000Well, it turns out the Assad government comes on on Saturday and they say that the strikes were basically completely ineffective.
00:20:15.000The facilities that were struck were evacuated days before, there were zero casualties.
00:20:21.000And they actually made no impact, no significant impact at all on the Assad regime's capability to fight the civil war.
00:20:30.000People said this is going to hamstring Assad, this is backdoor regime change, no such thing.
00:20:36.000People were actually celebrating in Damascus after the strikes.
00:20:40.000That morning in Syria, people were celebrating, waving the Syrian flag, and actually the effect of the strikes was to rally support for the Syrian people around the Assad government.
00:20:51.000So if the strike was intended to do backdoor regime change, We ended up bombing three empty facilities, which, if there's no chemical weapons, as the critics say, as the skeptics say, then it did nothing.
00:21:06.000All they did was blow up a research and development center and storage facilities, which shouldn't have even been housing any chemical weapons at all.
00:21:13.000If people say that he doesn't have chemical weapons, or if you believe he does, then it takes out the chemical weapons.
00:21:18.000But they bombed these three empty facilities.
00:21:42.000And so we look at some of the main concerns that we heard the night of the strikes and after the strikes.
00:21:47.000And one of the preeminent concerns before and after was war with Russia.
00:21:52.000We saw the strikes coming down on Friday.
00:21:54.000And the first concern people had was oh my God, you're going to hit Russians.
00:21:59.000You're going to hit Russians, and it's going to be World War III.
00:22:02.000You're either going to hit and kill Russians, in which case Russia will respond, or you're going to launch your missiles and Russia will intercept them.
00:22:11.000And if Russia intercepts American missiles, Russia is directly confronting America in a military basis.
00:22:18.000We've confronted them diplomatically with sanctions, through proxies, but this would be the first time in a long time that Americans and Russians confronted each other directly.
00:22:27.000So the biggest concern was Russia is going to retaliate in some way.
00:22:33.000Our missiles went right through, didn't kill anybody, didn't kill any Syrians, let alone Russians, and actually came out that we cleared the strike with the Russians before the strike even began.
00:22:43.000And the Russians gave a tip to the Syrian government, to the Assad government.
00:23:07.000So the first big concern on Friday, it goes from our starting point for the black-pilled position on Syria was World War III, war with Russia, nuclear war now.
00:23:32.000Russia, and Barack Obama said this a lot during his presidency Russia has to beat their chest and do these kinds of things because they are weak.
00:23:41.000They have to pretend like they're projecting strength so that they can hide their weakness.
00:24:55.000The next concern people had in mind with regime change was people said, We're going to degrade Assad's ability to conduct the war in Syria.
00:25:02.000People were retweeting an unconfirmed report that there was some kind of ISIS assault going on on the Assad government during the strikes.
00:25:10.000People said, ISIS is attacking the Assad government while the United States is attacking the Assad government.
00:25:16.000Trump, how does it feel to be ISIS's air force?
00:25:19.000Yeah, well, it turns out that actually later that day, after the strikes were concluded, Assad took control of eastern Ghouta, which was the last rebel stronghold in Damascus, which is where the strikes were.
00:25:31.000So people said, oh, this is backdoor regime change.
00:25:46.000And actually, the ISIS reports were unconfirmed.
00:25:49.000And later that day, Assad made one of his biggest gains since taking over Aleppo two years ago in 2016 by taking over East Ghouta, the last rebel stronghold in Damascus.
00:26:00.000And then additionally, the effect of the strikes on the ground was to rally support of the Syrian people around the Assad government.
00:26:07.000And people are like, that's nice coping, Nick.
00:26:10.000That was the actual, if you read anything on the ground after that, people were celebrating.
00:26:14.000They said, Yeah, is that all you got, America?
00:27:35.000It's almost hard for them to carry all these double standards where just two months ago they were saying we shouldn't let dead kids decide our policy for the school shooting.
00:27:46.000These are the same people that say, We're going to have ethnic cleansing in our country.
00:29:15.000You see this kind of thing employed pretty regularly.
00:29:18.000Obama said we're going to strike in 2013 because they used sarin gas, which is a neurological chemical weapon, which I guess is much more severe.
00:29:28.000And that's why they were going to strike in 2013.
00:29:47.000So the idea that every time there's a chemical weapons attack, we have to strike.
00:29:52.000We are in full control of the media, we're in full control of which strikes, or rather, which chemical weapons incidents we respond to and which ones we don't.
00:30:01.000If people say they invented this example, we could just as easily send inspectors next time and say, oh, it wasn't legitimate.
00:30:08.000So that's a bogus, convoluted thing people are coming up with to cope with the fact that all the other things didn't work out.
00:30:14.000And then finally, and here is the wild thing people who are very critical of the strike, people who are blackpilling about the strike, finally they reached two conclusions, which was, well, okay, maybe it didn't start World War III.
00:30:27.000Maybe it didn't escalate into war with Russia.
00:30:35.000Yeah, okay, maybe we don't have to strike every time they use chemical weapons, but they say, but the black pillars say, it was a waste of money and we violated international law.
00:30:48.000You know, it's like, do your arms hurt?
00:30:50.000Have you dislocated your shoulders from reaching so far?
00:30:54.000Suddenly, the people who they have never in their lives said anything about Social Security or Medicare say fiscal matters are boring, they're for normies.
00:31:05.000We don't care about them, that's for regular Republicans.
00:31:31.000We appropriated a hundred times, literally a hundred times more money to fight the opioid epidemic in the omnibus bill than we spent on this missile strike.
00:32:35.000I get literally these were the comments in my mentions, which is staggering because this is in defense of countries like Russia and Iran and North Korea.
00:32:46.000We're going to start to talk about violations of international law?
00:32:50.000Where were these people in 2014 when Putin illegally annexed Crimea?
00:32:55.000Where were they in 2008 when Putin illegally annexed Abkhazia and South Ossetia in Georgia?
00:33:01.000Where were these people in the two Caucasus wars and the two Chechen wars in Russia, where Putin committed war crimes?
00:33:07.000Where are these people with Iran and North Korea when they don't sign the nonproliferation treaty and they develop chemical, nuclear, and biological weapons against international law?
00:33:53.000And by the way, I predicted the chemical attack, too.
00:33:55.000If we want to get into Vindication Nation, if we really want to get deep, Into the bowels of Vindication Nation.
00:34:02.000If we're in the downtown, the commercial district here of Vindication Nation, and there's shops, and it's so, Vindication Nation is so developed, so urbanized, the HDI is so high.
00:34:14.000We just, the downtown area is just completely convoluted.
00:35:14.000And I predicted the military strike, which is what I said all week, which was that President Trump is going to do a limited, one off strike.
00:35:22.000The reason he's doing it with coalition powers is not because he intends on invading, but because this would deter Russia from responding.
00:35:30.000And the whole point of the strike was not to kill people, it was not to do damage to the Assad regime, it was not seeking regime change, it was to deter.
00:35:39.000The proliferation or the use of weapons of mass destruction, of which chemical weapons fall under that category.
00:35:46.000Nuclear weapons also fall under that category.
00:35:49.000We are meeting with Kim Jong un in May or June to discuss the denuclearization of the continent.
00:35:57.000And the whole point to arrive at the real conclusion here, the real analysis, well, okay, Nick, why did it happen then?
00:36:06.000The whole point was to demonstrate that we are willing.
00:37:33.000The point of the Syria strike was to demonstrate that we're willing to use force.
00:37:38.000And this is very important in international affairs.
00:37:40.000People say, oh, well, Nick, everybody knows we're the strongest country in the world.
00:37:45.000Everybody knows we have this kind of power.
00:37:47.000The point of this strike was to say, even if you have a patron country like Russia, Even if you have a patron country like China, even if that country occupies your country, even if that country is protecting your country, they sold you advanced anti air missiles, even if they have a presence on the ground in your country, even if they threatened the United States, we can still strike anywhere, anytime, whenever we choose.
00:38:14.000And they could say we're going to knock the missiles out of the sky.
00:38:17.000They can say it's going to lead to World War III, but at the end of the day, it doesn't matter.
00:38:48.000We will do it, and we will make Russia back down, and we can make Russia back down, and we can make China back down.
00:38:55.000And that was to say to North Korea and to Iran, Better make a deal with us.
00:39:00.000You better make a deal, North Korea, because if you don't, look at our arsenal, look at all these cases where we made a threat and we followed up on it.
00:39:51.000If those 2,500 troops, or it's 2,000 troops and 5,000 contractors, if they're not out of Syria within the next six months, I'm not going to be happy about it.
00:40:01.000And I think Trump has really failed on foreign policy, if that's the case.
00:40:05.000If we see a ground war of Syria, he is severely cucked on one of his core promises.
00:40:11.000One of the three, one of the big three promises, one of the big three areas that matters to this president and to his base is foreign affairs.
00:40:19.000He will have completely failed on that if he invades Syria, and I will be against that.
00:41:27.000But then there was this article that came out yesterday, last night, where it said that France had convinced the U.S. to stay in Syria long term.
00:41:36.000And people said, oh, well, we've done it now.
00:42:11.000The independent, what is it, the OPCW or OPCF, the independent watchdog that went to Syria to investigate if the chemical weapons were used.
00:43:21.000And last Sunday, we saw an Israeli airstrike on the T 4 airbase, the same base from which the Iranian drone originated in February.
00:43:29.000And tonight, Israel launched another airstrike.
00:43:32.000I don't know if there are new details about it, but before I went live, the latest was that Israel attacked the Shariat airbase in Homs, the one that we struck last year.
00:43:41.000And they launched something like six missiles, all of them were shot down.
00:43:45.000And so the broader concern here is that Israel is going to drag us into the war because Israel wants regime change.
00:43:50.000And people say, Nick, why would Trump do a severely restrained attack to appease the neocons, to appease Israel?
00:43:57.000Because Israel will try to drag us into the war.
00:44:00.000That's what they're trying to do right now.
00:44:02.000And they want to drag us into the war because Iran has a significant presence in Syria.
00:44:09.000They're building permanent military bases.
00:44:10.000They've got about a quarter of a million troops that are on the Iranian payroll, either their militia, their Foreign fighters, their IRGC, their Iranian military, but they've got all kinds of people in Syria.
00:44:22.000And Israel rightly is concerned that Iran will use Syria as a forward operating base to supply Hezbollah with weapons to attack Israel.
00:46:14.000And now that we're figuring out how to get guests on more often, I think I'll have to bring him on.
00:46:20.000I know he suggested in the live chat once we should have a show, and he said, I should wear a leather jacket with no shirt, and he'll wear a suit, which I like.
00:46:29.000But yeah, I got to get him on because I really like his commentary.
00:46:31.000I thought, you know, he kind of subtweeted me during the strike saying the four dimensional stuff was bull, but I still think he has a great insight, and I'm a fan of his.
00:46:40.000And I wish him luck in his race for the governorship in Vermont.
00:46:45.000We have a common cause in fighting against Jared Holt.
00:46:50.000This little guy, I follow him because his Jared Holt's this left wing guy who he was really nasty to Sticks over the weekend because Sticks said, I'm running for governor, and Jared Holt was like, I'm a little bitch.
00:47:05.000And so, Sticks and Jared Holt were fighting.
00:47:08.000And Jared Holt's this little weaselly left wing reporter, he watches the show, he might even be watching right now.
00:47:14.000I call him the America First super fan because he's always watching me, he's always commenting on what's happening, he's always the first to report it.
00:47:21.000At the end of the day, they love Nick, they love to hate Nick.
00:52:15.000I don't know, James, what's going on with that because I thought we ended up on a pretty good note, but I don't know how he expects me to move on when.
00:52:23.000And I can't get into it, but I don't know how he expects me to move on when he keeps trying to break my balls.
00:52:28.000But it was good that the Blood Sports victory was delivered.
00:54:22.000I love when you're trying to be subtle about something.
00:54:24.000I'll say something to the effect like the media, and we know who that is, or the Zionists, or the neocons, and people will come into the comments and say, in all parentheses, neocons, as if there was any doubt in anybody's mind.
00:54:40.000People are just so, these low IQ left side, and this isn't you, this isn't you, by the way, but all the time these left side of the bell curve people will come on and they'll be like, in case anybody was wondering, it's Jews.
00:54:52.000You know, it's all right, all right, you know, take it easy.
00:54:55.000Let's try and be a little bit sophisticated here.
00:55:31.000I just hate, hate, hate the way that people in this movement, you know, we love our race, we take pride in our people, pride in the collective, and yet nobody is individually responsible for doing anything.
00:55:44.000You know, never mind saving the people, but, you know, people are going to watch and they're going to listen to podcasts and they're going to type up their fasci posts online.
00:57:54.000The missiles were falling and we were going to war in Syria, but then he saw those tweets and it was like, Mike, John Bolton, we've made a terrible mistake.
00:58:29.000If it weren't for them, they're like Atlas with the universe on their shoulders.
00:58:34.000If it were not for the Black Pillars, Retweeting old Donald Trump tweets where he says, Stay out of Syria and saying things like, Remember this?
01:02:25.000The serious strike is strategic theater, not worth blackpilling over.
01:02:29.000But wouldn't it be a stronger message?
01:02:31.000If Trump waited to investigate gas attacks first, Kim Jong's got to know he's negotiating good faith and won't get backstabbed like Gaddafi.
01:03:38.000I don't know if that's really even fair.
01:03:39.000These are the same people who will say we should ally with terrible dictators in order to achieve our interests or to not bother them, but then they go and say, oh, well, we're allied with Israel.
01:05:55.000Again, the point is not what happened on the ground.
01:05:57.000The point is that we are willing to use our capabilities.
01:06:00.000Again, it's not about the actual strike, which, even though 70% were shot down, we destroyed or hit all of our targets.
01:06:09.000So, in spite of the fact that they had air defenses and very sophisticated air defenses at that, we still penetrated them and we still cucked Russia.
01:06:16.000So, you're kind of missing the point if you think that it was about the number of missiles that were shot down.
01:06:22.000The point was to show North Korea we will go to great lengths.
01:06:26.000We will risk a lot to deter the use of weapons of mass destruction.
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