00:01:32.000It's actually a very somber day because 250 years of sacrifice of all the things that so many people gave all the way back to the very foundation of this country before we even had a, you know, really a constitution per se that was in the works.
00:01:48.000So we have men and women serving in the United States Army in about 180 countries right now, and certainly some of them are in harm's way tonight in different parts of the world.
00:02:01.000You know, I wish everybody that served in the United States Army sort of a happy birthday, if you will, and know to keep your bannets shut because that's the other part of being in the Army or being a veteran is we've got to maintain, you know, who we are and what we're all about as a nation, and our nation is under attack right now.
00:02:21.000Talking about under attack, the Financial Times, the lead story is Israeli strike on Iran ignites new Middle East war.
00:02:31.000Sir, as someone that served in a couple of Middle East wars, do you agree with that headline?
00:02:36.000Is this just a surgical strike to take out the nuclear processing and nuclear bomb-making capability of the Persians, or do you believe that this is actually igniting a broader war in the Middle East, General Flynn?
00:02:51.000Yeah, this is a much broader war, and I'd like to bring people's attention to my post on X this morning.
00:02:57.000The last couple of days I've been putting out these updates and go to at Jen Flynn, G-E-N Flynn.
00:03:03.000So, yes, this is a much broader struggle, and in terms of Israel, Israel has finally gotten to the stage.
00:03:12.000And I mean, talk about extraordinary strategic patience and combined with exquisite intelligence for years that have been in the works to include people on the ground, you know, physical military capabilities and intelligence capabilities, but also human intelligence sources and networks.
00:03:32.000And this is also a warning to the rest of the Arab world.
00:03:35.000What Israel is doing to Iran right now, trust me, the Israelis will protect and defend themselves to survive.
00:03:44.000So this is a broader regional war, as I laid out this morning.
00:03:57.920There's some discussion about that, but they made a unilateral decision.
00:04:02.000But the assumption of that is that America was going to be – all the air defense is not a big part of the air defense, including early Burke-class cruisers in the Eastern Med right now predicated upon America's involvement as a combatant in this right now, sir?
00:04:17.400So the answer to that, Steve, the big answer is yes.
00:04:19.740I mean, when we provide part of that intelligence capability, whether it's land-based, space-based, so that intelligence capability puts us in a camp, in the Israeli camp, and to me, rightly so.
00:04:35.260I mean, I don't have any issues with that because what we're talking about is a nation, and now I'm talking about Iran, who has called us –
00:04:45.000You don't have a problem with somebody saying unilaterally?
00:04:47.560You have a negotiating process, whether it was working or not.
00:04:52.720President Trump said it's making progress.
00:04:54.160Let's have another meeting on Sunday, right?
00:04:56.820And obviously he said a 60-day – and it was beyond the 61st, but he had Wyckoff and these guys going to a Muscat in Oman to sit down for another six or seven – Oman, another six or seventh round.
00:05:08.960They made a unilateral decision to go.
00:05:11.220But once you make a unilateral decision to go, aren't all bets off because if you let people make – like the Ukrainians last week attacked the Russians.
00:05:18.840If you let these guys make unilateral decisions, you're automatic – we don't have a treaty with – we don't have a treaty with Israel.
00:05:25.640We don't have a treaty – unlike NATO where we actually have a treaty who's got Article 5, one attack, all attack.
00:05:38.740But isn't that special relationship put on hold if they make a unilateral decision because then you're allowing somebody – that's wag the dog.
00:05:46.740You're allowing them to draw you in as a combatant.
00:05:50.480So the big word that you use there is if.
00:05:52.900So, first of all, I want people to understand is Iran was probably days away from matching the capabilities from ballistic missile capabilities with a nuclear, Iranian-enriched warhead.
00:06:09.080If they were in that period of – since we – and we've all been talking about this, Steve, for a long time.
00:06:14.900We have a psychotic regime, and most of whom the leadership has been taken out, and I posted this morning that I have reports that the Ayatollah may have been wounded in one of those strikes.
00:06:26.080So that's, you know, that's out there.
00:06:28.700So we have a psychotic regime that has not only talked about the annihilation of the nation-state of Israel, but also talked about how we, as the great Satan, need to be annihilated from the planet.
00:06:43.520I have video now that has been sent to me from inside of Iran that has shown the people of Iran celebrating this attack by the Israelis.
00:06:53.680Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, period.
00:06:57.280Now, back to your bigger question about, you know, was this a unilateral effort?
00:07:02.280I think that whoever's using those words needs to really rethink those and be very careful about who's using them.
00:07:09.300If it's the Israeli regime or the – I'm sorry, if it's the Israelis that are using it, then, you know, we have to be suspect.
00:07:17.120Because if we're providing intelligence, and we are, then, you know, not implied, but specifically involved in supporting the attack itself.
00:07:28.000So there's a broader regional conflict that is playing out right now.
00:07:34.340The other part that I did not add in this morning that I think people need to be aware of, because I'm going to be, you know, carrying this later today or tomorrow, is what's China's role?
00:07:44.540Because the Chinese are the biggest beneficiary right now of what is happening globally, specifically in the region of the Middle East, because of their One Belt initiative.
00:07:56.100And they have massive amounts of resources that flow into Africa, flow into Europe, and flow back through the Persian Gulf and back through Iran.
00:08:05.340So China's a big beneficiary, and for President Trump recently to have cut a deal with Xi, where I guess he's going to continue to allow Chinese students at our universities who are ripping us off every single day of intellectual property and going back – we spend $10 billion on a weapon system.
00:08:23.300They spend $100 million, I mean, because they've got the blueprints.
00:08:27.460I mean, so there's some things that are happening that we all need to understand globally.
00:08:31.640How many years of your life did you give – how many years did you actually serve, not just in the military, but before deployed into war zones in the Middle East, Iraq and Afghanistan?
00:08:45.580I have five years in direct combat operations of my life.
00:08:50.080And you became – you were the senior intelligence officer, and actually when intelligence was active, it's actually almost like paramilitary in Afghanistan.
00:09:03.220We did a lot of reforms to the U.S. intelligence system in order to be able to destroy terrorist networks, al-Qaeda principally, and then, of course, al-Qaeda in Iraq and al-Qaeda.
00:09:16.880And that's how – and you were selected – you were selected, and it's kind of a surprise selection, because of your efforts in actually making it what we call actionable intelligence.
00:09:33.860And senior military intelligence officer in the Department of Defense heading up one of the largest intelligence agencies in the world.
00:09:39.800The other thing in between fighting on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, Steve, I also served as the head of intelligence for all of U.S. Central Command.
00:09:48.500And at that time, we were 27 nations, all of East Africa, from Egypt down to Somalia, east all the way over to Pakistan and the Central Asian state.
00:09:57.140So I have a lot of experience in this region, a lot.
00:10:02.780And how many close colleagues – today on the 250th anniversary of the Army, how many close colleagues did you lose in combat, either KIA or injured, such that it dramatically changed their lives?
00:10:19.660How many gave all or were wounded horribly in those many years in combat that you served?
00:10:27.560I mean, too many, too many, too many, and the numbers are beyond what – and that's why I say, you know, I'm not anti-war, but I'm anti-stupid war.
00:10:40.800And so the United States of America –
00:10:43.880I don't want to walk you into a trap here, so I'm going to get to the punchline.
00:10:47.500I think you would agree that the beginning of both those conflicts, you know, even in Afghanistan where we kind of secured what we needed to secure quickly but couldn't get Osama bin Laden, and then we tried to have a democracy project, which you had to bear the burden of.
00:11:02.600And as you remember, when you were National Security Advisor, one of our highest priorities of the president is let's get out of Afghanistan, not like Biden got out, but in an orderly way, a smart way.
00:11:12.240But in Iraq, with the weapons of mass destruction and all that nonsense, these were wars we kind of got into, and, you know, 10, 15, 20 years later, we're still in them.
00:11:24.260My question about this is precision of language and action.
00:11:28.940I feel very uncomfortable because guess what?
00:11:32.560As you know better than anybody, General Flynn, Persia ain't Iraq, and Persia is not Afghanistan.
00:11:38.880This is the same power that went up against the Greeks and the Roman Empire 5,000 years ago, okay?
00:11:45.920To get involved in a war, as Financial Times of London says, and you agree with, and we agree here with Poso, this is the beginning of a potential war.
00:11:55.360We need to be precise, to know that the Israelis determined on their own, and now let's talk about the bait and switch.
00:12:02.980It's just not about going after the nuclear command structure, all that.
00:12:08.820They attempted a decapitation for regime change.
00:12:11.420I have no problem with that if that – jump in here.
00:12:13.960I have no problem with that if they're going to take the whole thing and then we make a decision independently.
00:12:19.900Oh, yes, maybe we do share intelligence.
00:12:21.660Maybe we get the Arleigh Burks over to protect Tel Aviv.
00:12:24.760Right now, I'll be blunt, this is just as sloppy, just as ill-thought-through, just as lack of precision as Afghanistan and how we started there, and Iraq as we started there.
00:12:36.600And quite frankly, the Fox News team and the pom-poms up, we played on the cold open the other day, shock and awe, shock and awe, shock and awe.
00:12:44.200When Fox was up there with the pom-poms, we are inexorably drawn into a conflict that we're not making clear decisions about now.
00:13:10.480What Donald Trump needs to do – President Donald J. Trump needs to do is he needs to go to the podium with very – I mean, very clear objectives about what the hell we're doing.
00:13:19.100And I mean, none of this – I got special envoys doing this.
00:30:10.820Page two of this report talks all about that.
00:30:13.420Even talks about, just in 13 May 2025, so just last month, there was an individual from Melvindale, Michigan,
00:30:21.740a former member of the Michigan Army National Guard, arrested for attempting to carry out a mass shooting at a U.S. military base on behalf of ISIS.
00:30:32.060Provided materials, was provided, attempted to provide material support, such as armor-piercing, ammunition, drone reconnaissance,
00:30:38.520and the construction of Molotov cocktails to the foreign terrorist organization, but was thwarted due to counterintelligence efforts.
00:30:44.740Again, so they're talking, this is from the Philadelphia Police Department, they're tracking all of this.
00:30:48.480So this is the best part, by the way, what I love, when Mayorkas would come out and say,
00:30:53.020we don't have any assessments of that, or Ray will come out, we don't have any assessments,
00:30:56.360and then you go and you get the actual files.
00:30:58.500They talk about the exact same stuff that you're seeing right here on The War Room,
00:31:02.240because they know these are the real threats.
00:31:05.160And as Lara just said, and as we saw here in D.C. just a couple of weeks ago,
00:31:09.520these individuals who have become radicalized by the Hamas war with Gaza are now conducting these strikes out.
00:31:17.740Well, Benzman, Todd Benzman, his first book was about how jihadis are coming across the border.
00:31:22.780We have no earthy idea who Biden let in here.
00:31:26.000There's 10 million, there are a lot of bad hombres in there.
00:31:28.600Well, and you're seeing the Mossad trucks, they had these pickup trucks with the flatbeds on the back,
00:31:34.100and there's pictures that are now coming out that were filled with drones.
00:31:37.560And so the drones are on the back of the truck, and it's these small boxes that they have up,
00:31:41.460and then the back of the panel, it's like a panel truck.
00:31:44.120And then the box is open, and all the drones pop out.
00:36:01.120Jack Posobiec, your assessment of General Flynn.
00:36:04.260Well, I think General Flynn is correct when he says that we are being pulled into this war, that we are being pulled in, and that's exactly what's going on,
00:36:11.180because this is not what the American people voted for.
00:36:12.980This is not what President Trump campaigned on.
00:36:14.400I was with him when he went to those campaign rallies in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, all the way up in front of the autoworkers.
00:36:20.880He didn't say we're going to go to war.
00:36:22.380No, he said we're going to go to economic war against the Chinese Communist Party, and we're going to fight for your jobs.
00:36:26.580What he also said is we're not going to send your boys to go over and die in some desert for some country that doesn't have a direct ability to threaten us.
00:37:37.960What I'm saying, these talking heads on Fox News with the blow-dried hair, and they're saying, oh, we need to go in there and take out the missile sites.
00:37:45.580You're talking about offensive combat operations.
00:37:59.080They're telling President Trump behind the scenes the only way they can actually take out the rest of the nuclear facilities and the command and control structure to finish the decapitation, they need direct involvement of American combat fighters.
00:38:20.940And then we've got the carrier strike group.
00:38:23.060The Carl Vinson is over there right now operating just outside of the Gulf of Aida, just outside of the Gulf itself.
00:38:30.300Certainly within distance, you've got those B-2 bombers that are down on Diego Garcia.
00:38:34.320And you've got these people up on Fox News who never served a day in their life.
00:38:39.040And you've got people, the great heroes like Tej and all of his brothers that are still in harm's way.
00:38:45.000That are sitting there going, wait, what's going on here?
00:38:47.800Tej, do any of the guys that you know, the men and women that were the tip of the spear, do any of them want us to get back into a gunfight in the Middle East, sir?
00:39:09.740But there's still guys all over the Middle East, and they're doing not a lot.
00:39:17.240Like, guys are over there scuba diving and stuff like that.
00:39:19.900Like, it's a waste of forward deploying our men over there.
00:39:23.360If they're going to be over there, use them and let them do what they're trained for.
00:39:27.340And you can't win – if this escalates into a full-scale war, you can't win it with airplanes and missiles alone.
00:39:36.040You have to put boots on the ground, and that's what we don't want.
00:39:38.640And if we do get sucked into something where we have to put boots on the ground, then Trump should charge them.
00:39:44.380And just like we're charging for tariffs, he should tell Israel, hey, it's $10 trillion.
00:39:50.440Pay off our national debt if you want us to defend your airspace.
00:39:53.360If you want us to put boots on the ground in Iran, then pay off our national debt completely, $35 trillion, and we'll win this war for you.
00:40:08.800I want to go back to boots on the ground.
00:40:10.260With all the great air theoreticians of the 20th century, even bombing Nazi Germany and the industrial strength of Germany to the ground, we could not defeat Nazi Germany unless you had major ground from Russia and from the United States.
00:40:55.780Even with all the technology we have and space-based and laser-based and hyperspace-based and whatever Elon's got, it still comes down to boots on the ground.
00:41:03.180The British papers are reporting this week that the Russians have lost now 1 million casualties, killed or wounded, and 650,000 in the last six months since November 4th of 2024.
00:41:16.000You know what it comes down to, Steve?
00:41:16.740It comes down to the boys in green that are right down here on this parade route today here in our nation's capital.
00:41:52.600Tell us what we need to do, and then we'll go do it.
00:41:54.540But, you know, I understand this attack needed the element of surprise to work, but now the cat's out of the bag, so get on the air, just like General Flynn said, and lay it out.
00:42:42.260Oh, yeah, in the war room about five years ago.
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00:48:02.700And we've got, so it looks like an assassination.
00:48:05.520And the speaker, Speaker Emirata, so the former speaker, Melissa Hortman and her husband, this is confirmed, were killed in an overnight shooting, supposedly in their own homes.
00:48:20.740There was another shooting of Senator John Hoffman and his wife.
00:48:25.380And according to Alpha News, this is all breaking.
00:48:27.680They were shot in their homes, still alive at this time.
00:48:31.000Reportedly, the shooter is on the loose in an area called Brooklyn Park outside the area there.
00:51:31.400All of the stars of Real America's Voice are going to align around this commemoration and massive parade of our military and the Army today in Washington, D.C.
00:51:41.680Posobiec, social media, and any other breaking news, sir?
00:51:51.720Israeli hitting up the oil refineries, the energy infrastructure, of course, in Iran, which is a direct target on their financial capability.