Based Camp - Biggest Geopolitical Win In US History？ (Iran, Venezuela, & Cuba in Three Months)

00:00:00.000 Hello, Simona. I'm excited to be here with you today. The world has changed so dramatically,

00:00:05.600 and I think much more dramatically than people realize in the past few months,

00:00:10.060 specifically in the past few weeks with what's going on in Iran right now. The number of core

00:00:15.740 geopolitical wins that Trump has have, and I think even the right wing doesn't seem to really

00:00:22.460 grok the magnitude of this. There is no historical parallel in all of American history, except for

00:00:29.860 maybe the collapse of the Soviet Union, but that wasn't exactly all our doing. A lot of that was

00:00:34.700 internal. The closest three historical parallels I can find, like series of wins this significant

00:00:43.460 with this little early cost, would be the beginning of H-Man's campaigns, the beginning of Napoleon's 0.87

00:00:51.240 campaigns, or most of Oliver Cronwell's life. Those are the only three that come anywhere near,

00:00:57.760 and I think that this actually highlights one of the big risks of where we are geopolitically right

00:01:04.800 now. Okay. In the same way that if you look at Napoleon's early career, just win, win, win, win,

00:01:11.440 win, win, or the H-Man's early military career, win, win, win, win, win, win, win, very low cost to 0.70

00:01:18.180 his own troops, very low cost to him geopolitically. What happened in both of those cases is they

00:01:24.880 completely overdid it and ended up giant villains from history. And I can completely see the temptation

00:01:32.540 from Trump's perspective right now. And for people who don't understand what I'm saying right now,

00:01:36.780 Trump has taken out first, obviously Maduro and the Venezuelan, the new Venezuelan president,

00:01:43.920 it appears to be working. Like she halted the oil shipments to Cuba, which now is forcing Cuba

00:01:50.780 because Mexico did not restart the shipments. Somebody on our last podcast we were talking

00:01:55.320 about, they said they restarted them. They've halted oil shipments as well. So it looks like

00:01:58.600 the Cubans are either going to cave or be put into a permanent blackout because they don't really have 1.00

00:02:04.400 oil anymore. And if you don't have oil, you can't grow crops or move cars or anything. And none of

00:02:11.260 their geopolitical allies have the ability to get them oil because like if China tries to send a ship all

00:02:15.960 the way to them, the US will just grab it like we've been with everyone else who's trying to send

00:02:20.180 them ships and they don't, and China doesn't even seem to want to. And then Iran has been taken off

00:02:25.380 the map with very little geopolitical costs. And we'll explain why each of these has had so little

00:02:30.300 geopolitical, because that's also weird, right? And if you go through American history and you look at

00:02:37.560 something like say the Vietnam war or something like that, if we had overwhelmingly won the Vietnam

00:02:45.500 war, right? Like just completely won it early days, it would not be one-tenth as geopolitically

00:02:54.040 relevant at the three victories combined. We have been trying to deal with Iran, Venezuela, and Cuba

00:03:01.840 for a half a century at least. Oh yeah, no, from our childhoods, we've all grown up hearing about

00:03:10.340 Iran and death to America and yeah, all this stuff. Venezuela was more of a recent thing though. 0.94

00:03:16.380 The United States doesn't really have that many geopolitical enemies.

00:03:20.900 Yeah, truly. It's just been Iran and North Korea mostly with China and Russia both being kind of like 0.67

00:03:27.480 frenemies. China is really more of a frenemy than anything else. 0.98

00:03:33.880 Yeah, they're like the Jessica to our Utah mom. That's a little too. 0.62

00:03:39.600 Yeah. What I mean by China is more of a frenemy is in terms of like big geopolitical enemies that

00:03:46.000 we've had, China really hasn't made a point outside of the fentanyl epidemic, which is absolutely

00:03:51.000 terrible, and inventing TikTok, again, absolutely terrible. But you know, it's been nothing like our

00:03:56.500 wars against our other geopolitical enemies, like what we had to deal with.

00:03:59.500 They're like that passive-aggressive mean girl. Like we're in a mean girl clique together and like,

00:04:04.300 you know, one's like, oh sweetie, let me help you. Like you can buy some of my cheaply manufactured

00:04:09.560 goods. Or like, oh, what don't you have? Like here, you can have my Cheetos because I mean,

00:04:13.900 they're going to make you fat anyway and I'm going to eat like all my healthy food over here.

00:04:17.140 We do not have a clique problem at the school, but you do have to watch out for frenemies.

00:04:21.920 What are frenemies?

00:04:23.100 Frenemies are enemies who act like friends. We call them frenemies.

00:04:25.800 Or enemies. Or enemies. Or friends who secretly hate you. We call them freighters.

00:04:30.340 That's so gay. 1.00

00:04:32.440 That is actually exactly like it. It's like two mean girls that constantly hang out together. 1.00

00:04:37.700 Exactly.

00:04:38.240 But what I mean is they're not like an existential threat to-

00:04:41.720 Yeah, they're just like competitive rivals who really don't like each other and feel like

00:04:44.960 it's a zero-sum game. So like, yeah, actually it is pretty bad, but like in a more collaborative

00:04:51.060 way, whereas Iran was like, no, I just want to kill you. You just like, there can be no room 1.00

00:04:56.100 for the two of us. You know, it's more explicit.

00:04:57.540 It's like a wonder founding thesis is I want to kill you. 0.99

00:05:00.840 We are two months away from enriching weapons-grade uranium. 0.98

00:05:07.840 To be used for peaceful purposes.

00:05:11.640 Obviously this joke was made a while ago. By Iran's own claims, they had enough enriched

00:05:27.380 uranium to make 11 nuclear bombs. Nearly enough to wipe out all life on Earth.

00:05:33.700 Yeah, so it's like, it's the school bully, like, meet me out back, I'm going to beat you

00:05:38.640 up versus the mean girl of like-

00:05:41.380 Well, I do, I do love how everyone is memed on Kamehne for this, that he, the man spent

00:05:45.460 his entire life trying to get into a war with the United States.

00:05:48.080 Dude, you can't make me smell. It's going to burst my mouth stitches, but Kamehne, can 0.99

00:05:52.720 we please? Oh God. Oh, the stitches are going to burst open. What are you doing to me?

00:05:58.460 Kamehne.

00:06:01.780 Okay, keep going. Keep going. Just, just keep butchering all the Iranian words and I'm just 1.00

00:06:06.520 going to bust all my stitches open. I'm not. I don't try to stay away.

00:06:11.680 Kamehne. Kamehne. Kamehne mayhaw.

00:06:15.040 Iran, day one, he spends his entire life trying to get us into a war with Iran. 0.91

00:06:19.460 Mm-hmm.

00:06:20.260 Guys, like, day one, hour one. Watching a video on this was insane because they knew not just

00:06:27.400 like the bunker he was in, but the floor he was within in that bunker.

00:06:31.460 I wish I knew how they knew, you know? I want to watch the Ocean's Eleven.

00:06:36.980 Israel, don't piss off Jews. Jews are sneaky. This is the thing about Jews that people don't 1.00

00:06:41.480 know. They were very sneaky people, which makes them excellent spies. Like all Jews, if you're 1.00

00:06:46.500 playing like Skyrim or something, they're born with like a plus 10 to their sneak stat, you

00:06:51.220 know, stealth. They all go stealth, archer, blit.

00:06:54.380 Wait, because I like legit have never played Skyrim or like any video game aside from Rollercoaster

00:06:58.740 Tycoon. Are there Jews in Skyrim? No, no, no, no. But there's races in Skyrim. 0.99

00:07:03.160 Oh, okay. If there were Jews in Skyrim. Okay, I get you. 1.00

00:07:06.320 It's a racial stat modifier. With Jews, it's a, oh, we should do that. We should have an 1.00

00:07:10.560 episode where we make racial stat modifiers for every race.

00:07:15.140 Oh my God.

00:07:16.080 But Jews are sort of an OP build these days. I'm going to be honest. Got to nerf that. 1.00

00:07:21.880 It turns out to be very, very useful.

00:07:23.360 That's what the H-man said, as you refer to him. But you know what? 1.00

00:07:27.540 Yes, he did try to nerf the Jew build. 0.82

00:07:29.660 He did try to nerf the Jew build.

00:07:31.420 This is unfair to have Jews in our server. 1.00

00:07:33.180 Yeah.

00:07:33.500 How do you compete? So anyway, we have other episodes where we talk about these sorts of

00:07:37.520 topics. If you're interested in learning more.

00:07:40.500 Our Jewish Patreon supporters after hearing this.

00:07:43.320 Let him take his hat back, huh? 1.00

00:07:45.060 But on the other side, imagine how stupid you have to be to know you're in a Stealth Archer 1.00

00:07:48.940 meta. To know that the elves have a Stealth Archer meta buff. And to intentionally attempt 1.00

00:07:57.280 to isolate them just because they are arrogant and have dicked you around occasionally. 0.71

00:08:05.060 Right? Like this is, this is my cultural group whenever we try to run the Sneak meta, as you

00:08:12.060 have seen from me trying to pronounce whatever that guy's name is.

00:08:16.280 Buongiorno.

00:08:18.480 Signore, è un piacere.

00:08:20.760 Gli amici della vedeta amirata da tutti noi questa gemma proprio della nostra cultura saranno

00:08:25.140 naturalmente accolti sotto la mia protezione per la durata del loro soggiorno.

00:08:32.540 Grazie.

00:08:33.180 We, we, we're, we're, we're born with zero sneak stat.

00:08:37.320 But so, so they knew exactly where he, and this is the thing, right?

00:08:40.940 So the U.S. has said, and this is a very interesting, like, we've never done this before.

00:08:45.100 And so when the U.S., this was Netanyahu who said this, he's like, anybody who replaces

00:08:49.260 Khomeini as the Ayatollah, if they take this position with stated antagonism towards the

00:08:57.120 United States and Israel and towards the people of Iran as Khomeini did. 0.54

00:09:01.380 And keep in mind, he murdered tens of thousands of people, tens of thousands of people in

00:09:06.280 just the past few months.

00:09:07.680 Like, the death count in Iran was staggering, even if you're looking at the more conservative

00:09:12.420 numbers, of, of people just protesting in the streets.

00:09:15.900 You know, genuinely, the people who are standing this are genuinely monstrous.

00:09:19.800 Indulge me. 1.00

00:09:20.840 For one second, pretend that I'm an idiot. 1.00

00:09:23.060 Okay, I'm there. 1.00

00:09:24.180 Okay.

00:09:25.420 You know what?

00:09:26.980 Let's just agree to disagree, my friend.

00:09:29.200 Okay.

00:09:32.320 What?

00:09:33.000 Why?

00:09:33.580 No!

00:09:34.620 Don't you remember?

00:09:35.840 Of course I remember!

00:09:37.400 How dare you question my memory!

00:09:39.100 I remember everything!

00:09:40.300 Oh no, I would never do that, never!

00:09:41.900 I'm so sorry, I didn't mean that!

00:09:43.400 Oh, sorry.

00:09:44.160 It's fine.

00:09:45.080 Well done, my friend.

00:09:46.100 Thank you.

00:09:46.520 And I think it's important...

00:09:51.160 Yeah, has the death count from the U.S.-Israel attacks yet surpassed the death count from

00:09:57.660 the protesters being taken out?

00:10:00.300 So the Iranian government's official death count for civilians so far is around 1,300.

00:10:07.140 Keep in mind that their official death count for the civilians that they slaughtered was around

00:10:12.500 3,000, whereas death counts from outside have been at around 35,000.

00:10:18.940 So this is astonishing to me, that their official death count for the civilians killed in the war so far

00:10:26.520 is at a third of their official death count of the civilians that they mass slaughtered just over the last month.

00:10:32.480 I don't, I don't know.

00:10:35.200 I don't, I'd be surprised if it has.

00:10:36.880 Because when I last checked, I thought it was like around 1,600 or so from this conflict.

00:10:42.640 Oh, then it's not even close.

00:10:44.080 There's like over 5,000 for the protests.

00:10:46.960 I heard up to 30,000 for some estimates.

00:10:48.780 Oh my god.

00:10:49.480 Well, I mean, who knows?

00:10:51.680 I think 5,000 was actually Iran's official figure.

00:10:54.580 Hmm.

00:10:55.080 So...

00:10:55.560 I mean, I want to be conservative, but I mean, that basically means that like, it's been, you know...

00:11:01.480 And I want to point something out to how vile the people who were fighting are.

00:11:06.620 You know, when they say that Ayatollah Khomeini is with his, you know, 30 virgins right now, 0.57

00:11:11.380 you got to keep in mind what they're, what they're imagining.

00:11:14.680 You are imagining a bunch of young...

00:11:17.220 I thought it was 40 virgins.

00:11:18.800 Did he get a penalty for something?

00:11:20.860 Yeah, sorry.

00:11:21.420 40 virgins.

00:11:21.720 10 virgin penalty for like getting bombed by the infidels, I guess. 1.00

00:11:26.360 Yeah.

00:11:26.980 But anyway, so you, you are imagining like beach girls or something like that.

00:11:32.280 Khomeini is the guy who lowered the legal marrying age in Iran to nine.

00:11:37.500 Like when he, if that's the age that you're getting married, that's the age that he thinks

00:11:43.100 when he thinks he's getting 40 virgins for all eternity. 0.97

00:11:46.080 He thinks heaven is an endless orgy.

00:11:49.980 Have you looked this up when you did more research on Iran? 0.98

00:11:53.160 Are they like, do they re-virginize every time you bang them?

00:11:57.940 Like, or is it just a one time?

00:11:59.340 Because this is eternity.

00:12:00.380 You have them.

00:12:01.640 So like, what's the point of them being virgins if like you immediately become intimate and

00:12:06.780 then you're not?

00:12:09.060 Well, I guess they've never slept with anyone other than you.

00:12:11.340 Okay.

00:12:11.560 So that's the point is that they've been untouched by other men.

00:12:13.760 Okay.

00:12:14.000 Okay.

00:12:14.180 Okay.

00:12:14.420 Well, I mean, I imagine, you know, in their heaven, nobody ever ages and that basically

00:12:18.780 their heaven is literally.

00:12:20.140 So he gets his harem of nine-year-olds.

00:12:22.240 Yes.

00:12:22.840 An eternity of being a PDA file.

00:12:25.240 Like.

00:12:25.620 And watch Frozen with them over and over and over.

00:12:28.020 It's going to be delightful.

00:12:30.000 And these are real things here, people.

00:12:31.440 You can, you can look this up.

00:12:32.820 This is what he lowered the marriage age to.

00:12:35.280 So, so I, I want to, and if you want to go deeper onto this concept within Islam, because

00:12:40.500 a lot of people are like, oh, Aisha wasn't actually nine.

00:12:43.480 Look at this.

00:12:44.260 Look at this.

00:12:44.740 Look at this.

00:12:45.280 And it's like, you progressive Muslim can say that, but the truth is, is that the vast

00:12:49.360 majority of conservative Muslims in conservative Muslim countries do believe she was not.

00:12:55.540 So while we may never be able to know, was she actually nine when he slept with her?

00:13:00.380 Was she actually, what was it?

00:13:01.760 Six when they got married?

00:13:02.800 We, we can know for a fact what most conservative Muslims believe, and they do believe this.

00:13:08.380 That is a hundred percent easily provable.

00:13:11.720 And so it doesn't matter what you think.

00:13:13.840 This is what they think.

00:13:15.140 And this is what they're acting on.

00:13:16.400 In our episode where we talk about the major religious court in Pakistan saying it was

00:13:19.800 Islamophobic to raise the marriage age to, I want to say 14 or 16 or something.

00:13:24.100 Like it's still a fairly young age.

00:13:25.840 They mean this.

00:13:26.540 This is like a, you know, you got to take their religion seriously.

00:13:28.840 And they mean what they say they mean.

00:13:30.220 Don't, don't be like, they don't mean what they, they mean what they say.

00:13:32.800 They mean, um, because they do it and they show it legally.

00:13:35.840 But I want to, I want to talk about like how geopolitically the shift thing so much.

00:13:39.340 I mean, imagine you're Kim Jong-un or Putin right now, right?

00:13:43.080 You are effing terrified.

00:13:45.620 You are every, like China thinks they built this giant geopolitical network.

00:13:51.600 Like I ran it before I go into this.

00:13:53.300 What I want to say is a lot of people who think like, oh, we're getting into a new Iraq war

00:13:56.900 here or something like that.

00:13:58.400 Yeah.

00:13:58.800 Cool hack that Trump seems to have figured out about this stuff is people were like, how

00:14:04.140 do you take down this dictatorship and rebuild the country at like a good, like at a decent

00:14:12.220 cost.

00:14:12.760 Right.

00:14:13.120 And Trump's like space.

00:14:15.080 That's the neat thing.

00:14:16.660 You don't.

00:14:18.200 You don't.

00:14:19.560 You don't rebuild it.

00:14:21.440 That I just, that's not, we'll leave that to, and if people are like, well, that leads

00:14:26.260 to, you know, worse situations in the long run.

00:14:29.840 Not if they have the demographics that they have right now, like they're not building 1.00

00:14:33.940 into some like bigger power in the future.

00:14:35.800 Every year, Iran is just less powerful than it was the year before. 0.96

00:14:39.180 And they just completely knocked it out as a geopolitical player because Iran has a terrible 1.00

00:14:43.500 fertility rates below the United States, for example, despite their poverty.

00:14:48.440 And I think that, and people can be like, well, US presidents in the past weren't about

00:14:53.200 this.

00:14:53.400 We tried to kill Castro like 135 times or something.

00:14:56.680 And that was during the height of the age of spycraft.

00:14:59.900 Trump basically unlocked a new way of doing this.

00:15:03.200 And we'll talk about that in just a second.

00:15:04.300 But now I want to talk about the geopolitics of this, what he unlocked, why it hasn't had

00:15:08.700 the negative geopolitical effects that many people expected it to, why things seem to

00:15:12.500 be working out well in Venezuela and why I suspect less, less easy, but it may work out

00:15:18.680 in Iran.

00:15:19.280 And even with Iran, when I thought about this, I was like, I don't, I wouldn't say that you 0.99

00:15:24.260 should go in and try to do regime change in Iran.

00:15:26.920 I was a little worried about it. 0.83

00:15:27.960 It is, it is definitely harder than Venezuela, but with those sneaky Jews, we may be able 1.00

00:15:33.780 to do this without too much death.

00:15:39.820 When I say that, what I mean is the reason, if we are able to do Iran well, if we are able 0.99

00:15:46.040 to rebuild it well without actually attempting boots on the ground reconstruction of the country,

00:15:50.320 it is going to be because of Mossad and, and, and I hope that Trump plans to basically leave

00:15:58.100 this in Israel's lap after all of this, be like Israel, Saudi Arabia, UAE, you guys take 0.67

00:16:03.080 over here.

00:16:03.880 You've got the money and we're out.

00:16:06.160 Right.

00:16:06.600 And I think a lot of MAGA is going to be very mad if he decides to go in a heavy way boots

00:16:10.660 on the ground or reconstruction, but I don't think that I'm not, I'm not expecting that

00:16:14.200 for what I'm saying.

00:16:14.660 I think a lot of that is just threats right now.

00:16:16.640 But anyway, so geopolitically, yes, our entire life, it was a fight between the Shia and Sunni 0.93

00:16:24.640 faction and the Sunni faction, the Saudi faction, they were largely the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and

00:16:33.900 the United States and Israel.

00:16:36.520 And they, they, they really sort of sided with it.

00:16:38.300 They pretend like we're not really on Israel's side, but you know, they, they largely side 0.94

00:16:41.360 with Israel.

00:16:41.720 And then the Shia faction, the Iranian faction did not use states.

00:16:47.580 It used Hezbollah. 0.79

00:16:48.680 It used Hamas. 0.94

00:16:49.840 It used Houthi rebels.

00:16:51.600 It used non-state militant actors, and it would fund them to go out and attempt to do things

00:16:59.000 on its behalf, what we would call today, terrorist organizations.

00:17:02.620 And they, unfortunately, we have another video where we talk about this.

00:17:05.180 That group was basically entirely taken out and now is being wept up.

00:17:08.880 So initially you had, obviously, like Hamas is not nearly as powerful as they were before

00:17:14.800 the Gaza war or able to push Iran's will right now. 0.70

00:17:19.580 The Houthi rebels have largely been defanged.

00:17:22.040 Hezbollah was so afraid after all of this that when, when we were bombing and when Israel

00:17:28.740 mostly was, was bombing Iran, they, to like a token show of support, shot one measly missile 0.63

00:17:35.880 into Israel, killed nobody, was shot down, wasn't even at like a populated area.

00:17:40.700 And Israel was like, okay, buddy, we're coming in at full force. 0.96

00:17:45.660 And they're now doing a ground invasion of Lebanon.

00:17:48.360 And it's even crazier because the Lebanese government, which used to be the, like, like 1.00

00:17:53.900 subordinate basically to Hezbollah within this region, is now actively helping Israel

00:17:59.240 in securing Hezbollah weapons.

00:18:02.940 The core reason, the core flip that happened, a lot of people are unaware of this, is, do

00:18:07.780 you remember when there was that giant explosion in that port town?

00:18:12.080 No.

00:18:13.000 So in the Middle East, a few years ago, a giant explosion. 0.99

00:18:16.600 And some of my friends like lived there and you could see like all of their windows.

00:18:19.760 Oh my gosh.

00:18:20.700 Yeah.

00:18:21.160 Yes.

00:18:21.560 Yes.

00:18:21.820 And there was footage and people's like balconies got blown in and yeah.

00:18:25.280 Yeah.

00:18:26.020 So that it turns out was in Lebanon and that was a Hezbollah warehouse.

00:18:33.780 And that is because previously people were like, well, you can't get rid of Hezbollah because 0.98

00:18:37.500 Hezbollah, you know, runs some schools, runs some medical stuff, runs some, you know, it

00:18:40.460 helps people.

00:18:41.080 Right.

00:18:41.260 And that, because of not just that happening, but then Hezbollah really ham-fistedly using 0.95

00:18:49.100 corruption to cover up that it was obviously a Hezbollah warehouse, that turned public sentiment

00:18:54.160 against Hezbollah in elections and political sentiment against Hezbollah.

00:18:58.140 And so then politicians were like, oh, let's go all in on this.

00:19:00.840 Let's do joint operations with Israel.

00:19:02.840 Wouldn't it be great if we didn't have to worry about them coming in and fighting us all

00:19:05.700 the time?

00:19:06.060 And, and they also see where things are going with Iran.

00:19:10.140 Iran is not going to be daddy war bucks for anyone anymore.

00:19:12.760 Right.

00:19:14.160 Yeah.

00:19:14.500 The only state actor that Iran really had as a friend was Qatar.

00:19:18.120 And that wasn't even because Qatar and Iran really liked each other.

00:19:20.800 It's because they sit on the giant gas field that makes up the majority of Qatar's wealth

00:19:25.720 is like half in Iran.

00:19:27.500 So they have to get along.

00:19:28.980 It's like Qatar and Al Jazeera keep saying things like, oh my God, the cost of oil is going

00:19:34.140 to skyrocket and that's going to hurt economies.

00:19:35.900 It's all over the world.

00:19:36.940 And I'm like, oh no, America, the cost of oil, oil, that's going to be horrible.

00:19:43.700 What did we just get a ton of was this whole Venezuela situation.

00:19:48.080 Something we definitely wouldn't want the value of that to explode.

00:19:51.800 That'd be horrible for us, a net oil exporter, at least vis-a-vis the rest of the world.

00:19:58.620 You know, I'm not looking forward to a depression either, but you know, in the, in the world of

00:20:01.580 AI, maybe we could use a slowing off this grocery right now.

00:20:04.780 But anyway, so that has basically been resolved.

00:20:08.220 And the way that we were able to resolve that without the major geopolitical fallout that

00:20:13.780 I think a lot of people expected, because pretty much every major power is praising this.

00:20:17.880 I mean, Spain threw a bit of a donkey tantrum about this and so did the UK.

00:20:22.020 But the truth is, is they both capitulated within like two days of throwing their tantrum.

00:20:27.460 And now they're, they're toeing the line because of a few things.

00:20:31.220 One is, is I ran, and this was an accident.

00:20:32.960 They didn't mean to do this.

00:20:33.940 I almost feel sort of bad for them on this run, but they accidentally shot a missile

00:20:37.720 into Turkey, which is-

00:20:39.820 That was an accident?

00:20:40.860 How do you accidentally do that?

00:20:43.060 They said it was a technical malfunction.

00:20:44.760 Given the number of missiles they're shooting, I can see that it could be a technical malfunction.

00:20:50.160 If you're like, Malcolm, why do you believe it was an accident and it wasn't meant to target

00:20:53.460 a US base?

00:20:54.140 It's because they only sent one missile.

00:20:55.820 And every other missile campaign that they've done has been a huge barrage of missiles.

00:20:59.120 So to me, this looks more like an accident.

00:21:01.920 So anyway, this could trigger Article 5.

00:21:04.140 Now, the UN is not saying we're going to trigger Article 5.

00:21:06.620 Turkey is not saying they're like, we understand it was an accident.

00:21:08.980 We're sorry, you know, blah, blah, blah.

00:21:10.300 But the point is, is it gives America a lot more leeway to be like, hey, what's even the

00:21:14.740 point of NATO if you guys aren't even going to allow us to use our bases in your countries

00:21:19.240 and stuff like that, right?

00:21:21.060 And so the question is, why aren't people freaking out about this existentially other

00:21:26.900 than just progressives?

00:21:28.100 Like, why aren't Muslim groups freaking out about this?

00:21:31.300 Why aren't Europe freaking out about this?

00:21:34.760 Why is the Middle East not freaking out about this? 0.99

00:21:37.300 And the answer is because Iran, unfortunately, made an enemy out of most other Muslim groups.

00:21:44.280 And then in a moment of almost hilariously bad decision making, when Iran started to get 0.99

00:21:50.040 attacked, rather than shooting all its missiles at Israel, it shot some, but it has shot many

00:21:54.100 more missiles at non-aggressive Muslim countries. 0.87

00:21:58.500 Some of them even Shiite majority countries who just weren't 100% on board with them.

00:22:04.880 And as you can guess, a lot of these countries were not involved in this.

00:22:10.100 They did not want to be involved in this.

00:22:11.780 But now they're like, you know what?

00:22:12.800 You're going to bomb us?

00:22:13.680 Okay. 0.97

00:22:14.340 Like, I don't even see the point in not being involved in this if you're just going to shoot

00:22:17.460 us with missiles anyway.

00:22:18.720 Like, how would you build public support around that? 1.00

00:22:21.480 That's comically stupid. 0.99

00:22:24.300 So first of all, you've got to remember is the Shias were always the minority within the 1.00

00:22:30.500 Muslim world.

00:22:32.320 For an understanding of just how much of a minority they are, only 10 to 15% of Muslims

00:22:36.960 are Shia.

00:22:38.120 And they often treated the Sunnis really, really terribly. 0.94

00:22:41.780 Now, it's sort of a both way thing.

00:22:43.420 It's a Catholic Protestant thing here.

00:22:45.180 But they haven't gotten over it yet in the same way.

00:22:47.760 Okay.

00:22:47.920 And so, obviously, Saudi Arabia isn't shedding a tear over this.

00:22:53.100 The UAE isn't shedding a tear over this.

00:22:55.280 And Iran hasn't even been able to keep the real Shias on board with them, you know, bombing 1.00

00:23:00.160 reflexively, despite not being involved in the attack, the Shia-majority Bahrain.

00:23:06.840 And I'd point out to you, if you're like, oh, I'm seeing stuff online where Muslims support

00:23:12.700 this or whatever.

00:23:13.720 This stuff is entirely astroturfed.

00:23:15.940 And it's very easy to tell that it's astroturf, but that might be for another episode.

00:23:20.960 Ironically, the only people who I've seen who appear to be real and are actually being

00:23:25.200 radicalized by this, who were not already, you know, radical, I just want to destroy 1.00

00:23:29.980 America types, are, of course, the patriotic Americans' worst enemy, dumb white women. 1.00

00:23:37.640 And then other places where we're seeing major power overhauls, like in Yemen right now, 1.00

00:23:42.440 they've got their own stuff going on.

00:23:43.880 They don't care about this.

00:23:44.860 But most of the Islamic world just doesn't feel a kinship with Iran, outside of like

00:23:51.400 a few isolated terror cells.

00:23:53.340 Outside of that, a lot of the other countries in the Islamic world saw Iran as their, so

00:23:59.260 remember how I said the Islamic world was like a bipolar axis of Iran and Saudi Arabia as

00:24:04.340 the two core power players.

00:24:05.660 Yeah.

00:24:05.760 Remember how I was listing countries that were on one of those axis or another?

00:24:10.180 And you might have noticed some very big countries weren't on that list, specifically Egypt and

00:24:15.580 Turkey, two very powerful Islamic countries.

00:24:17.980 Because they wanted the power play to be between them and Saudi Arabia, right? 0.96

00:24:24.860 Iran has always been the weaker of these two partners, and they wanted it to be focused on 0.77

00:24:29.740 them.

00:24:30.040 They wanted to be one of the uncontested power players in the region.

00:24:33.320 So they're happy that this has happened, right?

00:24:36.460 That Iran is off the map at this point, right? 0.99

00:24:40.340 They're not shedding a tear.

00:24:41.920 They're like, oh, awesome.

00:24:43.420 Like, now I have a chance to play for a bipolar axis of power within the Islamic world, which 0.99

00:24:49.800 is going to reemerge eventually.

00:24:51.200 And a lot of people are going to be moving to try to gain power in this vacuum.

00:24:55.160 But you have that reason for, like, theologically and ideologically why a lot of people don't

00:24:59.240 care.

00:24:59.560 Second, if people are, like, worried about a lot of terrorism in the aftermath of this,

00:25:02.700 you may get some.

00:25:03.860 But the reality is, is that Israel has sort of acted as our terrorism bug zapper. 0.94

00:25:07.540 Like, it's just an easier place to do terrorism if you're already a Muslim, and it's more culpable 1.00

00:25:13.300 than the United States is. 0.88

00:25:15.060 And it's also better at defending itself.

00:25:17.100 Now, people in Europe are like, well, what about Europe? 0.99

00:25:19.180 And I'm going, well, maybe you shouldn't have let a bunch of freaking radical Muslims into 1.00

00:25:22.180 your countries. 0.99

00:25:22.760 And America's got to clamp down on this, too.

00:25:24.400 I think, like, especially the situation in Texas right now really needs to be resolved.

00:25:28.500 And, you know, it's the Trump administration.

00:25:30.140 And this is why, if there is a major Muslim terrorist attack in the United States, like 0.93

00:25:34.260 we recently had one in Texas.

00:25:35.660 This stuff gets covered up, of course.

00:25:37.000 But we need to get, and I think that that's what we'd likely see next, is a major Muslim 1.00

00:25:42.500 deportation push in the United States as a result of that.

00:25:46.300 And I could see that being popular depending on the scale of the attack.

00:25:49.840 And so that wouldn't even necessarily be a negative thing for the goals of the Trump

00:25:53.820 administration, because the Trump administration is looking for an excuse for something like

00:25:56.520 that if they can get one, right?

00:25:59.240 So again, even that's not like, it's like, is it a risk?

00:26:03.200 Yeah, it's a risk.

00:26:03.980 But it's a risk in the same way like a school shooting is a risk.

00:26:06.260 You know, like, it's a risk.

00:26:07.380 I would prefer it not to be a risk.

00:26:08.760 But it's not like a statistical risk to anyone I know's individual life, even if one does

00:26:16.220 happen.

00:26:16.620 You know what I mean?

00:26:17.380 So I think that that's, again, why, like, he's directed the anger at this within the

00:26:22.700 Islamic world where there is anger onto Israel.

00:26:25.320 And Israel's been willing to accept that. 0.85

00:26:28.400 Second, and I want to note, like, the genius of this is weird, because it wasn't even like

00:26:32.600 Trump's own move.

00:26:33.700 Like, apparently, the way I'm hearing it from the administration is Netanyahu basically

00:26:37.520 called him up and it's like, we're going to do this.

00:26:39.080 Are you in or are you out?

00:26:40.040 Oh, my God. 1.00

00:26:41.160 And Trump was like, fuck, like, I guess I'm in. 1.00

00:26:45.240 That basically, because they wanted this to be over with the last bombing, right? 1.00

00:26:49.500 Yeah.

00:26:49.900 But anyway, and the way that they've been able to, like, the way that they're trying to 0.97

00:26:53.280 handle this is basically just like, we'll kill whoever you elect as an antagonistic 0.97

00:26:56.700 Ayatollah going forwards.

00:26:58.900 I just wanted to ask you what your read on the ultimate outcome is going to be, because

00:27:03.360 in general, I think this kind of foreign involvement is unpopular among Americans and

00:27:08.720 many others, because it doesn't tend to end well.

00:27:11.780 It hasn't ended well historically.

00:27:13.580 It ended spectacularly well in Venezuela.

00:27:15.920 See, that's a to-be-continued kind of thing.

00:27:19.120 It's still in the midst of happening.

00:27:21.780 It's not to be.

00:27:22.640 We, the situation in Venezuela is resolved.

00:27:25.160 Venezuela is stable with a new government that has acted while they have spoken negatively

00:27:30.200 about the U.S.

00:27:30.760 I mean, of course she has to if she was working with us to do this power transition.

00:27:34.340 They have acted.

00:27:35.460 They have been releasing prisoners of war.

00:27:37.420 They have been loosening up on the draconian rules that they had on their people.

00:27:40.900 They are opening up, economically speaking.

00:27:43.160 We are getting access to their oil at preferential prices.

00:27:46.360 And they stopped sending oil to Cuba.

00:27:48.280 And they broke off all of their connections that were damaging to us with our geopolitical

00:27:52.900 enemies, like China. 0.94

00:27:54.140 Like, I don't understand, like, what you did with it.

00:27:56.240 It was like, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, like, the situation.

00:28:01.080 So this is what I expect to happen.

00:28:03.440 The council that would elect the next Ayatollah is either going to do it in secret or not

00:28:09.540 do it at all.

00:28:10.100 Like, they're going to be really quiet about it.

00:28:11.500 So they did elect him over the weekend, I think late last night, actually.

00:28:16.080 And it was the Ayatollah sun, which is actually really bad for the optics of Iran.

00:28:19.820 It's the entire point of the Shah revolution was to get rid of a hereditary monarchy. 0.95

00:28:24.020 And now it looks like they just replaced that with another hereditary monarchy, which further

00:28:28.800 loosens their legitimacy.

00:28:30.980 They're really afraid to do it right now, right? 0.98

00:28:32.840 Because they're basically saying, well, we'll kill whoever you elect. 0.96

00:28:35.580 But they're still going to, the way they're structured, probably elect a hardliner, Islamic, 1.00

00:28:41.280 conservative, anti-Israel person. 0.95

00:28:43.620 The question of if this works is then does Israel kill him? 0.88

00:28:47.640 If Israel kills him, and especially a few of them after they're elected, which it appears 0.89

00:28:52.460 they might have the capacity to do, eventually one of them is just going to be like, maybe 0.91

00:28:58.080 we need to rethink this idea.

00:28:59.460 Like, the moment he's elected, he's like, guys, I have a great idea.

00:29:01.960 Yeah, let's stop being antagonistic to Israel and the United States.

00:29:06.040 Let's stop killing the protesters, right?

00:29:09.260 Like, and that's even just like a self-preservation thing.

00:29:12.000 I mean, that's basically what the US did with this Venezuela.

00:29:14.340 This Venezuela lady is not like a capitalist or whatever. 1.00

00:29:17.860 She's not like actually, she was like Maduro's right-hand man for ages.

00:29:21.800 She just understood, oh, they can take me out whenever they want.

00:29:25.520 I guess I'm going to play ball because I'm dictator now.

00:29:28.180 And I like being dictator.

00:29:29.760 This is kind of cool.

00:29:30.540 It's a completely new strategy for foreign policy that like, we just didn't try before.

00:29:36.800 Like, oh, just try to create a situation where the new dictator doesn't want to act in a way

00:29:41.660 that's against our geopolitical interests.

00:29:43.600 Now, whether that plays out.

00:29:45.000 Now, as I've said, the situation in Iran is harder than the situation in Venezuela.

00:29:48.360 And what ends up happening in Cuba is also like, we don't know, like stuff is bad in Cuba

00:29:54.080 right now.

00:29:54.540 And what could end up happening to Cuba is Cuba goes the way of Haiti, which is just 0.87

00:30:00.000 it just becomes a complete hellscape and the world forgets it exists, which is, by the

00:30:06.320 way, what happened to Haiti.

00:30:07.520 Haiti is still happening, by the way, people.

00:30:10.160 Barbecue is still like basically running things there.

00:30:13.340 Yeah.

00:30:13.640 Yeah.

00:30:13.960 Yeah.

00:30:14.240 Little hellscape.

00:30:15.080 So, and I think a lot more places in the world this is going to happen to.

00:30:18.520 I mean, we basically memory hole it because there's not a lot of Jews in Haiti.

00:30:21.520 And as I say, no Jews, no news. 1.00

00:30:23.420 You know, nobody cared when the Iranians were being killed in mass, except for conservatives, 0.74

00:30:27.060 because, you know, we actually care about, you know, people dying.

00:30:30.040 Right.

00:30:30.480 You know, but anyway, I'm sorry.

00:30:32.240 What, where were they going with this?

00:30:33.740 So this, this gets resolved.

00:30:35.540 Now let's talk about the Cuba Venezuela situation.

00:30:38.360 They were like the two tools.

00:30:40.000 And if you want to talk about like North Korea, how tied in they were with all of this.

00:30:43.120 North Korea has been like frantically saying, like, if you kill any North Korean citizens

00:30:47.340 in Iran, we'll consider it an act of war. 0.66

00:30:49.560 And I think that this serves to remind you that North Korea and Iran were tight.

00:30:53.100 Like North Korea was sending its citizens to work as slave labor in Iran.

00:30:57.080 Right.

00:30:57.280 Like they don't, they don't actually care.

00:30:59.200 I mean, talk about when you talk about the forces arrayed against us, how tight they are.

00:31:02.440 It looks like right now, Russia was in Ukraine.

00:31:05.700 We know that they have deployed some North Korean soldiers and they might be increasing

00:31:09.800 that significantly.

00:31:11.140 And they appear to be doing this in exchange for modern weapons to North Korea.

00:31:17.120 But a player like China or something like that is increasingly isolated.

00:31:23.360 And in a way that is interesting because they're, they've got so many internal geopolitical

00:31:29.980 issues right now that like, and this is something I should note in terms of like regime change,

00:31:34.800 but people are like, where do we target next?

00:31:36.940 Who do we target next?

00:31:38.320 If you're, if you're looking at this in a Trump style, one of the things that he sort

00:31:42.780 of takes is he's like, okay, one, only target leaders that are nearly universally hated.

00:31:48.760 Yeah.

00:31:48.980 Like basically everybody has to agree.

00:31:51.340 This person is terrible in almost 90, 10.

00:31:53.420 That's his thing.

00:31:54.660 Country seems to hate him.

00:31:55.680 Yeah.

00:31:55.840 90, 10.

00:31:56.400 And that was true of Maduro and the Ayatollah. 0.95

00:31:58.400 Okay.

00:31:59.640 You, you, so don't, don't do, don't do a wishy-washy.

00:32:02.480 I mean, we, I might love to take out the German government right now, you know, ignoring the 0.77

00:32:06.740 will of their own people's vote with the ADF conservatives winning the majority and then

00:32:11.540 them freezing the ADF out of the government, putting them under surveillance.

00:32:14.360 I mean, they are a, a police state in the way that we would think of one historically

00:32:18.480 was one political party living under surveillance, despite viewer, voters with their viewpoints

00:32:24.240 getting a majority win at the vote with the conservative ADF victory in the last election

00:32:28.020 cycle.

00:32:28.740 You know, they, they, they, they are a major geopolitical enemy to us going forwards.

00:32:33.680 And this isn't because like Trump did something wrong with them.

00:32:36.400 They're just a country that has experienced a drift into fascism and in, in sort of a more

00:32:41.800 traditional sense, you know, the, the state exists, nothing exists but the state.

00:32:45.500 And when you get to this level of socialism, that's, that's what it is.

00:32:48.460 I mean, Mussolini laid this out.

00:32:50.060 That is, that is what definitionally the inventor of fascism said fascism is.

00:32:54.280 And when he says the state, he doesn't mean the land or its people.

00:32:56.320 He means the ideology that that state embodies.

00:32:59.740 And that's, that's what we're seeing.

00:33:00.980 But fortunately they're, they're going to be economically irrelevant through, given 1.00

00:33:04.780 their, their demographics and that they have turned off all their power plants like idiots. 0.99

00:33:10.000 What ideal, but no, the point I'm being is, is, is so like, who does that leave on the 0.99

00:33:14.740 board in terms of people who we might be going after next?

00:33:17.800 Putin, Kim Jong-un and the, the, what's left of the Castro regime.

00:33:22.680 The Castro regime, I do not expect them to go and take out because the, the, that situation

00:33:28.020 seems to be resolving on its own without any oil.

00:33:30.180 Like, like the, there's been talks of negotiations.

00:33:32.520 I think that they might do something eventually with that, but I don't expect them to move that

00:33:36.220 quickly on that, given how bad the situation is there right now.

00:33:39.720 So right now it's just negotiations.

00:33:41.580 And I suspect those are already happening.

00:33:43.540 See our episode on, you know, Kim has got two weeks left. 1.00

00:33:46.500 They're out now of oil.

00:33:47.880 And that you, you, you know, you need oil for everything.

00:33:51.640 Oh, man.

00:33:53.640 Then you've got the situation in North Korea.

00:33:56.200 The second thing he does is so first, everybody has to hate the person.

00:33:58.980 So that, because it makes progressives look really bad when there's like Iranians in the 1.00

00:34:03.020 streets cheering that the Ayatollah is finally dead, who tortured and killed their family

00:34:06.320 and then leftists like free Iran.

00:34:08.600 And they're like, but that's like what we're doing.

00:34:11.140 Right?

00:34:11.420 Like, what did you think that this wasn't an, this wasn't an occupation of Iran by a hostile

00:34:16.960 power that, that mass killed leftists, by the way, after using them to win support.

00:34:22.020 But North, the, the other thing is, is he wants situations where somebody else has a financial

00:34:26.880 interest in stabilizing whatever's going to happen in the region.

00:34:29.880 And I think that's why we're moving slower on Cuba because nobody really has a financial

00:34:33.400 interest in stabilizing or an ideological interest.

00:34:36.040 With Venezuela, the oil companies had a financial interest in rebuilding Venezuela.

00:34:39.860 Right?

00:34:40.440 So yeah, sure.

00:34:42.140 Get them to go back in, rebuild the infrastructure, everything like that.

00:34:44.860 With Iran, Israel, and Saudi Arabia, in the UAE, you know, if they can expand their power 0.97

00:34:49.320 projected in the region, oh my God, gift box package for them.

00:34:53.580 Right?

00:34:54.240 Exactly.

00:34:54.720 Yeah.

00:34:55.140 Don't do it ourselves.

00:34:56.260 Basically don't do what Bush did, which is, you know, MacArthur plan 2.0. 1.00

00:35:01.520 That was stupid. 1.00

00:35:02.440 Okay. 1.00

00:35:02.700 Trying to make a democracy in the Middle East was stupid. 1.00

00:35:05.300 Bring back the Shah or something like that. 0.99

00:35:07.060 But in terms of North Korea, you might have a situation for that because South Korea for 0.99

00:35:13.720 a long time, and especially the people who run the chai bowls, now younger people in

00:35:16.880 South Korea, they don't want to take on the cost of handling North Korea.

00:35:20.100 But what you got to remember is all the power in North Korea is with the chai bowl heads. 1.00

00:35:24.240 I've described South Korea as sort of like a collection of fascist states competing against

00:35:28.760 each other in a communist, in a capitalistic ecosystem.

00:35:31.660 Yeah.

00:35:31.840 And who do you think is going to get all those road paving contracts?

00:35:35.300 Who do you think is going to be remaking all the North Korean infrastructure? 0.93

00:35:38.200 Who do you think they are foaming at the mouth at the opportunity to get the government to

00:35:43.380 take out a ton of debt in this big sort of national savior project or whatever?

00:35:47.460 Now, do I think it's actually a good idea for South Korea to allow a bunch of people 1.00

00:35:51.160 who are brainwashed under a North Korean system to vote in a South Korean election cycle?

00:35:54.620 Well, probably not.

00:35:57.420 But that's, again, the type of thing where we can go in, do a surgical thing.

00:36:03.280 And also the thing with North Korea, like if you really wanted to handle North Korea the 0.79

00:36:06.240 way he handled Venezuelan, just go keep killing whoever is at the top of the leadership.

00:36:12.340 Take out their nuclear program, which is going to be harder to do, which is likely why we 0.95

00:36:16.540 are not doing this yet.

00:36:17.800 And then just tell whoever takes the position, be like, you get to keep your dictatorial state.

00:36:21.520 Just treat people a bit nicer, okay?

00:36:25.900 Marginally nicer.

00:36:26.800 That's all we're asking for.

00:36:28.000 And normalize relationships with us. 0.99

00:36:30.080 And stop helping your jerk friends, okay? 0.99

00:36:33.820 And it turns out that a lot of dictators, when they have seen the last dictator, and keep 0.99

00:36:39.760 in mind, like, this form of power projection is so powerful because now Kim Jong-un has seen

00:36:45.260 this.

00:36:45.820 Like, every other dictator has seen this in every other position, right?

00:36:48.760 Like, with Russia, when this started happening, Russia and Iran had a mutual defense pact.

00:36:55.500 Russia, like a NATO, like, was supposed to come to Iran's aid.

00:36:58.680 And it immediately said, oh, these are counter-terrorist bombing runs.

00:37:03.040 This is not an invasion.

00:37:05.360 And the rumor is, like, I haven't seen this confirmed yet, but they even turned off some

00:37:10.500 of their satellite things that they had given Iran to protect it from bombing runs.

00:37:15.260 Well, I mean, I'm Putin.

00:37:16.780 I'm like, I better stay on Trump's good side.

00:37:18.620 I'll tell you that, right?

00:37:19.640 Like, the words where Trump is like, all those beautiful minarets, you know, wouldn't it be 0.98

00:37:24.980 a shame if I dropped a bomb on them?

00:37:27.200 And that's why Putin didn't invade Ukraine.

00:37:29.080 And I think a lot of people were being like, Putin didn't really think Trump might do that.

00:37:33.680 Like, a sane person.

00:37:34.520 And I think now a lot of people are like, oh, he was probably really considering it, right?

00:37:38.020 Like, geopolitically, this sort of changes everything.

00:37:40.620 And so the question is, is what allowed for this to happen geopolitically?

00:37:45.620 Like, why did we have to try to kill, at the height of spycraft, Fidel Castro 136 times?

00:37:51.480 I always put my episodes into AI to ask if I made any factual errors after I record them.

00:37:56.180 And here it goes.

00:37:57.500 You made a big one.

00:37:58.620 Was this 136 times?

00:38:00.400 Apparently, it was over 600 times.

00:38:02.760 And yet, we get Maduro and al-Khamenei on our first tries, right?

00:38:07.920 Yeah.

00:38:09.000 The answer is a couple things.

00:38:12.580 Thing number one is the way that the CIA operated in the past was a joke.

00:38:18.220 Giant bureaucratic institutions in the, you know, they had like the staring at goats experiments

00:38:22.860 and stuff like that.

00:38:23.880 And the weird stuff like Rubiard believes that they discovered parallel universes.

00:38:28.440 And I'm like, no, actually, just a huge branch of the CIA was actually controlled by Scientologists.

00:38:33.620 See our episode on that one.

00:38:35.100 I think it's like, can autists read minds? 1.00

00:38:38.580 It's hilarious how crazy it is when people think the U.S. government discovered paranormal

00:38:42.720 something or another.

00:38:44.300 I'm like, no, that was a bunch of Scientologists. 1.00

00:38:47.300 And if you had a government, but anyway, basically, they were just idiots is one thing. 1.00

00:38:52.100 And the other thing is, and Simona and I have noted this, is that when you, you know, 0.99

00:38:55.420 outsource something to another person, like humans, humans are like generally like borderline

00:39:00.300 mentally handicapped, like most of them, right? 1.00

00:39:03.040 You know, so we just don't like dealing with them.

00:39:05.120 We like dealing with AI agents, by the way, live now on r5.ai.

00:39:09.240 It's still very buggy, super alpha, but we're, we're improving those.

00:39:12.120 But that's actually what we have seen within these latest things is they, they didn't give

00:39:16.660 it to these bureaucrats. 0.99

00:39:18.240 They gave it to elite military groups.

00:39:21.920 Yeah.

00:39:22.320 Small.

00:39:22.920 Yeah.

00:39:23.440 Not through intelligence, but elite military groups.

00:39:26.860 And then, and I even think, you know, start to dismantle intelligence if they're not helping

00:39:30.560 us with this stuff.

00:39:31.840 Elite military groups combined with AI, technology, satellites, you know, not, not the way that

00:39:39.800 we did things historically, right?

00:39:41.740 The amount of AI that was probably used in the triangulation of these people's positions

00:39:45.540 and stuff like that was enormous.

00:39:46.960 Yeah.

00:39:47.560 Secondarily, we are partnered very tightly right now with a government that, and when

00:39:54.440 people are like, Iran was Israel's enemy, not ours.

00:39:57.080 No, death to America was death to America, right?

00:39:59.740 And for people who are like, whoa, getting in another Middle East war because of Israel. 0.51

00:40:03.180 What do you mean another Middle East war because of Israel?

00:40:05.080 Israel asked us not to go to war with Iraq.

00:40:08.140 If you think, oh, we want, we don't want another war like Iraq where Israel told us, Israel told

00:40:12.280 us, don't do that.

00:40:13.200 I don't want you to do that.

00:40:14.380 That is actively against my interests, and this is well documented.

00:40:17.680 But it also doesn't even pass a sanity test.

00:40:20.100 Like, what did Israel gain from our war in Afghanistan or Iraq?

00:40:24.440 Like, we were on, we were on the, the meal board.

00:40:28.040 People who say that are just traitors.

00:40:29.480 They're either getting money, I think, directly from Iran, their, their fake accounts.

00:40:32.900 I think it's simpler than that.

00:40:34.240 I think that there, because we've even been asked by some people what we think about the

00:40:41.360 people on the right who are against this action, because there are some people.

00:40:47.780 No, I don't, I don't believe there are really many people on the right against this action.

00:40:51.800 Well, I think if you're anti-Israel, it's really hard to stand this because this was

00:40:55.540 Israel's idea, kind of. 0.74

00:40:57.380 And if you are anti-Trump, you can't get excited about this because then you're giving Trump

00:41:02.640 credit for doing something awesome.

00:41:04.720 So there are going to be people on the right who are against this because of those two factors.

00:41:09.960 I want to, I mean, my take on this, right, is every real influencer who I follow on the

00:41:15.280 right, like somebody who I consider like intellectually sane and interesting to listen to, I have not

00:41:20.060 heard a single one of them frame this anything other than universally glowingly.

00:41:26.000 The only people I've really heard go against this are people who either just are not particularly

00:41:33.680 tethered to reality, just like complete conspiracy brain cooked people, like say Candace Owens. 0.73

00:41:38.900 And I don't know if she's against it, but I suspect she probably is because she's very

00:41:43.480 untethered from reality.

00:41:44.640 See our episode on psychosis maxing with Candace Owens.

00:41:47.520 Or there are people who seem to be controlled opposition in the right, you know, like Tucker Carlson

00:41:53.040 and Nick Fuentes, where, you know, they'll, they'll, they'll stand.

00:41:57.400 Remember Tucker Carlson was standing Venezuela, right? 0.99

00:42:00.060 Like before we went into this, like literally like Venezuela is good because they kill gay 1.00

00:42:05.040 people. 1.00

00:42:05.400 Like what?

00:42:07.320 Yeah.

00:42:07.760 Like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:42:10.080 This guy is not right wing in any sort of a traditional context.

00:42:13.260 Right.

00:42:13.760 You know, in, in, in terms of like the sane, right.

00:42:16.500 And as we've done other episodes, Nick Fuentes appears to be hugely astrochered first of all.

00:42:21.600 And second of all, a controlled opposition.

00:42:23.620 I don't, I just don't understand what position did he hold?

00:42:25.420 The controlled opposition wouldn't hold, right?

00:42:26.640 Like, you know, whoever is elected the next head of the Republican party, he's going to

00:42:31.840 be against.

00:42:32.380 And the fact that you know that today means that you know that he is not interested in

00:42:37.240 Republicans winning.

00:42:38.000 And he knows, he knows that the Iranian government tried to have Trump assassinated, right?

00:42:41.720 Like a government tries to have Trump assassinated. 0.92

00:42:43.980 We assassinate their leader.

00:42:45.060 And he's like, oh my God, how could you do that? 0.86

00:42:46.920 The United States.

00:42:47.820 Oh, that's so horrible.

00:42:49.000 Well, early on when I covered him, I tried to give him the benefit of the doubt.

00:42:52.060 I tried to act like there was something real behind him, some sort of real movement.

00:42:55.640 I just don't buy it anymore.

00:42:57.340 I don't think anyone who's seriously a right winger is out there supporting the Ayatollah

00:43:02.760 of Iran.

00:43:03.920 Like, oh, if we had boots on the ground in Iran, if we had some major invasion force,

00:43:08.000 yes, it would make sense to be against that.

00:43:11.020 But that's not what's happening.

00:43:13.020 So if you're standing Iran right now, you're just standing the Ayatollah, right?

00:43:16.620 You're just standing the regime.

00:43:18.680 And I don't understand how any sane person with a non-completely leftist brain cook on

00:43:24.320 things could be having these opinions.

00:43:27.640 And so my only thought is the people who still support him after all of this, I just don't

00:43:33.020 really have any patience anymore.

00:43:34.960 Like, you want to go out there and you want to criticize Israel's actions in something

00:43:39.820 like Gaza. 0.63

00:43:40.560 And I can be like, oh, maybe he doesn't have all the facts or maybe he doesn't understand

00:43:44.460 what's going on or whatever.

00:43:46.320 But when you go out there and you say, this country that tried to assassinate our president,

00:43:50.940 that we assassinated their president and we don't have boots on the ground.

00:43:53.980 And I don't like that.

00:43:55.020 And there have been our one of our primary, if not our primary geopolitical adversary for

00:43:59.900 almost half a century.

00:44:00.840 And I'm against us winning there.

00:44:03.500 That's no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:44:07.560 When he goes, oh, I'm pro Epstein.

00:44:09.740 He's like, Epstein is cool.

00:44:11.120 Like an awesome.

00:44:12.560 Jeffrey Epstein was probably so cool.

00:44:15.680 Like he was probably the coldest, coolest guy, you know.

00:44:20.680 I'm like, what?

00:44:21.520 Like when I saw that, I was like, oh my God.

00:44:24.040 Oh my God.

00:44:25.240 Like, come on people.

00:44:27.000 This is who you're supporting.

00:44:28.100 When you say Epstein is cool, you aren't speaking truth to power or something like that.

00:44:33.920 You're just reflexively saying whatever you think it's the most offensive thing is because

00:44:38.000 you've learned it's a brain hack for simpletons that gets them to follow you and cheer.

00:44:45.860 I want to be in the Special Olympics.

00:44:52.140 Especially given that he says he believes like life begins at conception and he knows

00:44:57.640 that we are fighting to make things like abortion more restrictive.

00:45:00.820 And yet he would fight against that, right?

00:45:02.340 Like that is like being supportive of what is apparently in his mind a genocide, but it's 0.84

00:45:07.320 just unimportant to him unless he can have complete ideological purity, which is silly.

00:45:12.300 It shows to me that I don't think he really holds the beliefs he says he holds.

00:45:15.900 Because if I believed that strongly that life begins at conception, I would not be constantly

00:45:21.380 sabotaging the party, given what the other side believes.

00:45:24.260 But so I think some of them are just like controlled oppositions or people who are just trolling

00:45:28.420 for trolling sync.

00:45:29.200 I really think Nick Fuentes is just trolling for trolling sync.

00:45:31.900 And then he doesn't know that he's controlled.

00:45:33.700 I think that he's then just platformed and ad bought by people who want to hurt because

00:45:38.300 like, look, look, he's everywhere all of a sudden, right?

00:45:41.640 How does that happen?

00:45:42.280 Oh, because leftist news sources, right?

00:45:44.480 Then a bunch of Twitter accounts that are probably, you know, Pakistani, right?

00:45:47.760 Like that's what we saw with a lot of these quote unquote like based Twitter accounts

00:45:51.380 was the big X leak is a lot of them showed that they were never actually on our side,

00:45:55.880 right?

00:45:56.780 The, the, and I was talking to this reporter, it was a reporter who reached out for a major

00:46:00.340 newspaper.

00:46:01.200 She was like, what, what are the people who you're, when I, when I'm watching my circle,

00:46:04.680 you know, like leaflet and nuxenol and asthma gold and stuff like that, people who I consider

00:46:08.580 like normal, sane writers, none of them have had anything to say about this that was negative.

00:46:13.320 And, and these are people who, who may criticize other things as the right does, but on this

00:46:16.900 stuff, no, it's just like universal.

00:46:18.280 Like, what do you, what are you even on about is one, when somebody is like, well, Iran isn't 0.93

00:46:23.000 really our enemy.

00:46:24.080 And like, you can show a video from like, well, this is them shouting like death to America,

00:46:27.920 like last year.

00:46:29.140 Like, what do you mean?

00:46:30.440 Like, this is in the parties, like bylines, right?

00:46:33.960 Like death to America. 1.00

00:46:34.960 You literally like, do you take me for a complete imbecile? 1.00

00:46:39.400 Like, do you take, are your followers just complete imbeciles? 1.00

00:46:42.540 Like, do they not like understand like what's, what's, what's going on out there geopolitically 1.00

00:46:49.140 speaking?

00:46:49.340 Well, I think you're forgetting that there's a non-trivial level of agreement with the death

00:46:56.980 to America argument among American progressives.

00:47:00.880 America is enemy in their opinion.

00:47:03.240 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:47:03.800 But these conservatives are siding with that team, right?

00:47:06.380 Like, so I think that that's, that's a big thing.

00:47:10.720 And so I think a lot of it is just, I just, I don't understand how you can be like somebody

00:47:15.240 who has actually thought through this.

00:47:16.380 Even if you hate Israel, even if you think that, and note, I mean, our position on Israel

00:47:20.680 has tempered a lot recently.

00:47:22.680 I mean, you can see some of our videos on that.

00:47:24.420 Even, even if you think that Israel is manipulating us and we shouldn't be giving the money and

00:47:29.160 this disproportionately geopolitically helps Israel, which it does, it's still overwhelmingly

00:47:34.880 in our geopolitical interest that this is resolved.

00:47:37.980 And, and the war so far has gone overwhelmingly well.

00:47:42.840 We just need to have the, the, the moral fortitude to step back after we install another dictator,

00:47:50.100 right?

00:47:50.360 You know, don't change things that much, let them stay, whatever they want, just get

00:47:54.940 them like what we did in Venezuela.

00:47:56.500 If we, and this is where things get scary.

00:47:58.660 If we repeat what we did in Venezuela, and this works out one quarter as well as the Venezuela

00:48:03.560 situation did this, like if I'm Trump administration, it's like, who's next?

00:48:09.400 You know, this, this changes everything about the level of power projection America has.

00:48:14.320 And, and the, the one thing I'd note on, on this situation is we were able to do this

00:48:20.020 because of Mossad, right?

00:48:21.600 And if we, if we end up stabilizing the situation, it's going to be in a large part because of

00:48:26.260 Mossad.

00:48:27.240 And that's why it's useful.

00:48:29.200 Even if somebody is being a selfish and douchey friend, which I think Israel often is like, 0.97

00:48:34.880 Hey, give us money.

00:48:36.000 Like I'm only going to be, it's like, come on, man.

00:48:38.500 Like you're doing well.

00:48:39.760 Okay.

00:48:40.680 My tricks gonna work on me only money.

00:48:44.120 Like, stop shaking me down every time we hang out.

00:48:46.580 Right.

00:48:47.260 But like, genuinely, they also helped slip me like the pathway that the school bully

00:48:54.820 or whatever was going to be walking on.

00:48:56.480 So we could jump him. 0.99

00:48:57.540 I'm like, I am really annoyed that you're a jerk to me and, you know, pantsing me for 1.00

00:49:03.160 money all the time. 1.00

00:49:05.200 I make all the money.

00:49:07.320 But, but that costs me less than being able to deal with a country that we've been trying

00:49:14.220 to deal with for half a century.

00:49:16.460 Yeah.

00:49:17.420 This holistically.

00:49:18.360 Now, I also want to talk about how much Iran screwed the pooch on this and how like, so, 1.00

00:49:22.460 so this war starts and Iran then decides that it's going to start shooting missiles at somebody

00:49:29.380 who hadn't even attacked them, which was the UAE.

00:49:31.540 So they sent, I think it was 350 missiles.

00:49:33.560 All of them were intercepted by the UAE's interceptive system, different from Israel's 0.68

00:49:36.980 interceptive system.

00:49:37.660 But anyway, they showed that it was potentially even better than the Iron Dome.

00:49:41.560 Really?

00:49:42.600 Yeah.

00:49:42.840 I didn't even know they had one until you just mentioned it.

00:49:46.020 And this is huge for the UAE, actually, and huge for geopolitics.

00:49:49.560 One, it showed to everyone in the region that like, yeah, Iran will just randomly flail and 0.95

00:49:54.120 start attacking you if you're not like full-threadedly on their side.

00:49:58.100 And they were shooting these into tourist areas.

00:50:00.380 They were shooting these into residential areas, you know.

00:50:03.000 And as I mentioned earlier, but I think it's really important to reemphasize is Iran has

00:50:06.060 sent more missiles to non-combatant states than it has to Israel since the start of the

00:50:12.820 war.

00:50:13.380 This includes the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Jordan.

00:50:20.980 And then shortly before the war, Iraq.

00:50:23.800 And oh, Turkey as well, if we're including the one that went by accident.

00:50:26.800 So they're just flailing out and hitting everyone. 0.99

00:50:30.280 I do not understand how you could be more politically inept.

00:50:33.500 Actually, wait, did Mossad infiltrate them and get them to do this?

00:50:38.220 Maybe they did, because I cannot believe that anybody who wanted them to win would do this.

00:50:42.580 You see, I'm learning to think like a Jew, learning to be sneakier here. 0.99

00:50:46.860 I'll figure this out.

00:50:47.920 I'll figure this out.

00:50:48.880 So I think one, the UAE is like, I'm glad we're not like Iran's friend. 1.00

00:50:52.500 Like this is, they were as bad as we thought.

00:50:55.060 But the last time I was in the UAE and I was talking with one of my friends there, his mom

00:50:58.440 was telling me, she's like, you know, honestly, I go to sleep like afraid, like every night

00:51:03.120 that Iran is going to try something.

00:51:04.220 Because, you know, they're just across the Gulf, right?

00:51:06.740 You know, they're just across, like, you see this body of, that's Iran on the other 1.00

00:51:10.600 side of that.

00:51:11.120 And they hate us, right?

00:51:12.880 Because we're in this wider, like Saudi-US alliance.

00:51:15.640 And so a lot of people in the UAE lived every day in fear.

00:51:19.840 And I think that we don't realize that, that they lived in fear of somebody who wanted to

00:51:23.720 kill them within bomb range in the same way that like South Korea does. 1.00

00:51:28.380 And for a lot of them right now, they're feeling like that threat is basically gone. 0.91

00:51:32.860 The amount of, I think it was like using hundreds of thousands of missiles a day on the first

00:51:38.640 days of the war.

00:51:39.200 And now it's down to something like a hundred a day or something like that.

00:51:42.840 Like just barely any, like they're running out of stockpiles.

00:51:45.320 Well, but also the United States and Israel, as I understand it now, have shifted from

00:51:49.580 taking out their leadership to not taking out their defense, defense building infrastructure,

00:51:56.760 essentially.

00:51:57.280 Like they've, they've gotten rid of all the existing stuff.

00:51:59.900 Now they're destroying the stuff to build their defense architecture.

00:52:03.860 So yeah, they're not going to be able to even make more bombs and missiles, et cetera.

00:52:10.140 Right?

00:52:11.280 Yeah, no, it's, it's, it's, I mean, basically the idea is, is destroy their,

00:52:15.300 infrastructure and leadership enough that it's another few decades before they can reorganize

00:52:18.920 anything.

00:52:19.640 And they seem to be doing a pretty good job of that.

00:52:22.080 But the, the thing is, is that if Trump wants to continue this, staying friends with Mossad

00:52:26.780 is going to be useful in this type of power projection because they've shown, especially

00:52:31.160 with the pager attacks, like, and, and, and being able to know the room that he was in

00:52:35.420 enormous aptitude.

00:52:38.080 That is so fascinating.

00:52:39.260 I wish I knew how they knew that.

00:52:42.120 So, well, the funny, here's the anecdote.

00:52:44.780 So, and this was actually leaked by the young Turks. 0.94

00:52:47.400 Okay.

00:52:47.640 So there's a, they, they would be in a place to know this, right?

00:52:50.000 Like check you or this, this comes from him.

00:52:51.720 Cause I was trying to confirm this is at one point they built an anti Mossad task force

00:52:57.600 in Iran.

00:52:59.060 Um, and they later found out, hold on.

00:53:03.500 I don't know that like within it was a Mossad agent.

00:53:07.160 Uh, no, it's just not just that within it was Mossad agent.

00:53:11.400 So it, it came out.

00:53:15.660 Yeah.

00:53:16.460 That the head of the unit was a double agent for Mossad.

00:53:22.100 And that there were 20 other double agents in the task force.

00:53:25.780 It's like mostly Mossad agents.

00:53:28.840 Yeah. 0.91

00:53:29.280 It's just like, to take out, you know, the Jews. 1.00

00:53:34.700 And it turns out.

00:53:35.520 All these people start volunteering for it.

00:53:37.160 They're like, wow, let me help.

00:53:38.600 I'd love to help.

00:53:39.500 This sounds great.

00:53:41.440 Sure.

00:53:41.740 Yeah.

00:53:42.040 Yeah.

00:53:42.260 It's like, actually, you know, if I was a Middle Eastern country, I would start one

00:53:46.320 of those organizations to, to like track down Mossad.

00:53:49.280 Then like a year later, just go and be like, we're executing everyone who works here.

00:53:52.340 Like our honey trap for Mossad is just create an anti-Massad agency.

00:53:57.000 Oh my God.

00:53:59.100 But yeah, no, it's, it's just geopolitically where we are right now.

00:54:04.780 I almost, I'm just like astonished.

00:54:07.280 I'm astonished.

00:54:08.580 If you're like a politics, what we spent our entire lives trying to deal with Cuba, Venezuela

00:54:14.320 and Iran and it might be over.

00:54:20.540 And if it's over, everyone else is cornered at this point.

00:54:26.240 And what does that mean geopolitically for the United States?

00:54:29.640 It's, I mean, we are at a level of geopolitical dominance right now that no political power

00:54:38.960 has ever had in human history.

00:54:40.220 Like this, this might at this point be bigger than what we had in the end of World War II.

00:54:45.120 And that's the final point I wanted to make here.

00:54:47.080 When I was talking to this reporter, I remember what I want to say.

00:54:49.140 She's like, well, weren't people in the right, like America first, like, weren't we against

00:54:52.160 invasions?

00:54:52.660 And it's like, yeah, we were against invasions.

00:54:54.140 Cause like we hated what happened with Iraq. 1.00

00:54:56.360 We hated what happened with Vietnam. 1.00

00:54:58.940 We didn't want to get dragged into something like that again. 0.99

00:55:01.800 We love killing terrorists, right? 0.95

00:55:04.360 Like we, we want to be the hero country that goes out and takes out bad guys. 0.99

00:55:10.200 Right.

00:55:10.960 And then has people from those countries cheering in the streets and everything.

00:55:14.300 We just didn't like the business of nation building.

00:55:18.300 Right.

00:55:18.920 We didn't like the business of boots on the grounds and occupations. 1.00

00:55:21.980 We thought you can't have your cake without your bag of shit. 1.00

00:55:29.860 And so we were like, well, every cake has a piece of turd inside it. 1.00

00:55:37.560 And so I'm not going to bite into that cake anymore.

00:55:39.780 I've learned my lesson, right?

00:55:43.560 Trump has shown us a way to have our cake without a big turd inside it.

00:55:49.000 And if he continues to execute on this as well as he has in Venezuela, because with

00:55:54.960 Venezuela, we didn't know this was actually going to play out well.

00:55:56.840 And now that we know in hindsight, it appears to have, it's like, well, what now?

00:56:02.080 Right.

00:56:02.420 Like what now?

00:56:04.040 I don't know.

00:56:04.840 I, I, I honestly, you know, we're, we're entering a new world and this also could be

00:56:10.160 very good.

00:56:11.020 Like I've often said, I think that the world that we're heading into, it's going to be

00:56:13.760 a by power structure, not the U S and China, but the U S and Israel is being the two core

00:56:19.900 powers and thus potentially antagonistic to each other as world powers often are.

00:56:25.020 But if we integrate the way that we are handling this, it becomes harder for us to become antagonistic

00:56:31.900 to each other.

00:56:32.660 And so we might actually be able to achieve a degree of global geopolitical dominance without,

00:56:39.300 you know, they just got to hope Dems don't win and screw all this up somehow be like,

00:56:44.760 Oh, we're giving, we're giving it all back.

00:56:46.720 I mean, odds are that they will win in the next presidential election.

00:56:51.420 That's just generally how things go.

00:56:54.160 So, I mean, what about that?

00:56:56.360 Because what this is also demonstrated is that it is a nation's imperative to, I guess,

00:57:02.580 have nuclear capabilities, because I don't think we would have done this to Iran had we 0.93

00:57:07.280 known they had usable nuclear weapons.

00:57:12.100 And now this is demonstrated like, well, okay, I need to make sure my nukes work or else the

00:57:16.660 United States is coming for me.

00:57:18.120 Like, I don't think Kim Jong-un is on the chopping block because we know, presumably, that they

00:57:27.180 have nukes.

00:57:27.660 Also, have you heard, like, they're thinking it looks like his daughter's next in line,

00:57:31.920 which would be delightful.

00:57:33.660 I mean.

00:57:34.120 Are you actually, like, win for feminism? 1.00

00:57:35.880 I mean, she's a, yeah, girl, girl, boss, girl, whatever. 1.00

00:57:40.240 Female dictator, mass murderer. 1.00

00:57:42.400 She's got style. 1.00

00:57:43.240 She's got verb. 1.00

00:57:44.040 And ever since it was a big hit, she's slimmed down a lot.

00:57:47.200 She's looking great.

00:57:48.420 So.

00:57:48.600 Yeah, I didn't like the fat version of her, the thin version, you know. 0.99

00:57:51.900 She looks chic.

00:57:52.780 She looks chic.

00:57:53.740 Gotta say, you know, it's the new flex.

00:57:56.400 You trying to get an invite?

00:57:57.340 In South Korea, which is kind of saying a lot when everyone else is starving.

00:58:00.460 The whole, like, moon face is more for, like, well, she has food.

00:58:05.880 We don't.

00:58:06.500 She must be a big deal. 1.00

00:58:08.800 But yeah, I don't know.

00:58:10.020 What's more likely to happen with Korea, just so people know, North Korea has been doing 0.98

00:58:12.920 a lot of trades with Russia right now to expand its military force and modernize it because

00:58:17.060 it was dreadfully out of, like, Iran, by the way, showing off U.S.-made military planes

00:58:23.960 in, like, its propaganda videos that are literally 70 years old and made by their enemy.

00:58:27.840 It's like, bro, like.

00:58:29.500 Isn't it showing video game footage as well?

00:58:32.340 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:58:32.940 They've been showing video game footage, AI footage.

00:58:35.440 Yeah.

00:58:36.860 So we are, what's weird that Trump has somehow been able to do is to be the global good guy,

00:58:42.100 take out the dictators that the own people hated in these situations without the boots

00:58:47.840 on the ground, without the enormous cost.

00:58:50.000 We are getting the jingoism of post-World War II America of, you know, Iranian women running 1.00

00:58:55.100 around on the streets of New York, hugging random strangers and screaming that, that is

00:59:00.180 V-Day-like without, how can you do this?

00:59:06.220 Oh, my God.

00:59:07.720 Oh, my God.

00:59:11.280 He's gone.

00:59:15.040 He's healed.

00:59:16.060 He's gone.

00:59:16.960 He's gone.

00:59:17.660 He's gone.

00:59:18.180 He's gone.

00:59:19.740 He's gone.

00:59:21.220 He's gone.

00:59:22.180 He's gone.

00:59:22.680 How can you be silent?

00:59:23.640 This is not okay.

00:59:25.280 I am, I'm no longer going to support Democrats.

00:59:27.880 You, Iranian. 0.99

00:59:28.920 None of you should support Democrats.

00:59:30.620 I'm honest.

00:59:31.620 Honestly, I'm, I'm livid.

00:59:32.980 I'm livid.

00:59:33.920 I'm done with them completely.

00:59:35.760 Just acknowledge the truth. 0.98

00:59:39.080 Islamist Marxism is a terrorist entity. 0.74

00:59:42.340 90 million iranians held hostage for 47 years because of your silence right like and what a 0.88

00:59:50.740 lot of people will say is well you know you'll pay the cost eventually but like he handled venezuela

00:59:54.860 so i guess we're gonna see we're gonna see yeah i'm what did they say cautiously optimistic yeah

01:00:02.120 yeah oh the the point i was making earlier i don't know if i finished this one is

01:00:06.600 now with israel moving into southern lebanon and wiping up hezbollah like there isn't even

01:00:11.580 like the ability for power projection in iran anymore with hamas and hezbollah taken out right

01:00:17.160 so like this is fascinating in terms of like what are the saudis in the uae gonna do after this right

01:00:24.160 anyway love you i thought it was funny like the last time we were talking about this was

01:00:29.840 with venezuela and people were like oh you just wait and see everything's gonna fall apart or

01:00:34.160 they're not gonna worry i'm like i don't know it seems like they set things up pretty well

01:00:37.420 or or the u.s is going to face like major retaliations for this and you the things will

01:00:42.560 never be the same and it's like well when right could we face retaliations yeah but from who like

01:00:51.560 independent terror cells there's nobody who's a terror cell tomorrow that wasn't a terror cell

01:00:56.600 yesterday like they might use this as justification but if they were nobody was radicalized by the

01:01:01.620 killing of the ayatollah okay yeah this this is ridiculous right when people say this especially

01:01:08.680 if you're like an iranian and you just saw the mass slaughter of the iranian people right 0.68

01:01:12.240 anyway fascinating fascinating time love you i love you too

01:01:19.140 and it's not actually particularly clear that you can still see bruising through dermal blend is the

01:01:31.300 the makeup of choice for battered women who have bruises to hide i don't i didn't find like your mom's

01:01:37.320 derma blend so i think you can still kind of see though yeah she heard like half of her face is black 0.98

01:01:43.060 right now yeah the the inside of my mouth is like a poorly sewn together rag doll don't talk much okay 0.91

01:01:49.900 sweetheart i'm trying to this is why we haven't been doing new episodes recently guys um and we had

01:01:55.040 to wait to talk about this subject it's not just that it's not just that like my face is immobilized

01:02:00.440 and incredibly painful and i'm constantly spitting out blood it's that then i caught the cold that the

01:02:05.280 kids had and then i poisoned myself with expired oatmeal because i can't eat anything but like

01:02:13.400 really soft mushy foods and then i got terrible food poisoning and i saved you from that by by just

01:02:19.640 going through you're like oh i think it was a surgery and i don't think it was a surgery what else

01:02:23.660 changed when you did the surgery did you eat anything new and i'm like and was it expired you go yeah

01:02:29.780 well it was very old it's like simone that's expired oatmeal you could die you kill people

01:02:40.080 and i'm like oh wait ergot poisoning etc but right i i love that your knowledge of history is how you

01:02:46.580 know about this you're like oh well oh by the way other fun thing for people the agents on rfab.ai

01:02:52.220 in an extremely alpha version are finally live at this point so and you can test them and play with

01:02:58.200 them and on the discord that specifically the rfab discord not the base camp discord make bug reports

01:03:04.220 and i try to be check those every morning and be responsive to those so the site's getting updates

01:03:09.680 typically multiple a day and everything else is pretty stable on that so i'm sorry i'm just sort

01:03:15.580 of like pulling up where i did my notes on this yeah i'm keen to get an update from you because i was

01:03:21.620 kind of in a i was you know like walking up the stairway to heaven lying in bed and then i like

01:03:28.580 get out of the haze and i'm like wait what christy gnome was fired wait what like iran is falling

01:03:33.900 apart what is happening like you you fall asleep in this timeline for like two days you know you're

01:03:40.840 you're out of out of content you know you you go backpacking or something and the world is

01:03:45.420 completely different when you come back i think it all started with that one guy who went on a long

01:03:49.940 backpacking trip when covid started just like just before it became a big thing and then came back

01:03:54.880 and the world was like completely different and he was like oh my god oh god i can't smile

01:04:00.960 i look like george washington where he like stuffed the cotton balls you can really see your relation to

01:04:08.180 him now yeah we need they for context he lost most of his teeth oh god is this genetic maybe he also

01:04:16.780 had a thin biotype like i do and his teeth just fell out because of that too but anyway he lost

01:04:21.460 most of his teeth had dentures that included some of the teeth from his slaves which he apparently

01:04:26.560 bought below market value so not great sharp businessman there i mean you know we love we love

01:04:33.340 a deal i i can't yeah i'm with him on that i love a deal but anyway simone i think of you as an ethical

01:04:39.400 woman i think if you own slaves you would buy their teeth at below market value you are an incredibly

01:04:44.880 ruthless individual well anyway so his portrait artists didn't like the way his mouth looked

01:04:50.540 caved in when they did his portrait so allegedly they stuffed cotton balls or cotton batting into

01:04:56.600 his mouth and now i am kind of for people who don't know she is probably the most closely related

01:05:04.480 person to george washington currently living well he's a great however many times over uncle of mine so

01:05:10.000 he didn't have any kids himself but she is descended from two of his siblings which you know she should 0.86

01:05:15.780 be if he has accepted kingship she should be the current empress of america and you'd be doing a 0.98

01:05:21.420 great job of it i know people would trust you to handle things thanks just like him i don't want it so

01:05:27.580 you do simone you better want it if that job comes your way 1.00

01:05:31.000 come on all right so we'll get started here you yeah but like george washington you're also like i don't

01:05:38.060 really want it not my thing teeth falling out puffy face anorexic he was so anorexic you've seen his 0.91

01:05:46.400 uniform in the swissonian museum right i wouldn't have fit into that thing and you were anorexic at 0.56

01:05:51.940 one point so you see just so many similar i'm just a functional anorexic just like you're a functional

01:05:56.160 alcoholic right like we we just we skirt the lines like this is no this is what i mean by functional i

01:06:02.220 literally had a dexa scan to see exactly what my body fat composition is to keep it at

01:06:08.400 exactly the bare minimum to be healthy and to have healthy pregnancies i'm at 20 just like that is that

01:06:17.720 is at the top end of what like a female athlete would have and that is at the bottom end of what 1.00

01:06:22.020 like a normal healthy reproductive woman would have and that is exactly where i'm going to stay 1.00

01:06:26.420 all right all right what are you guys doing

01:06:32.860 are you guys cleaning up

01:06:39.980 i love you guys

01:06:51.520 do you want a kiss

01:06:54.420 no no you're too busy you're too tight are you too busy for a kiss

01:07:00.720 working hard or hardly working right guys

01:07:08.300 yeah

01:07:09.520 turn off

01:07:15.020 you

01:07:15.900 no no no you're too busy luke

01:07:17.760 you

01:07:18.420 yeah

01:07:19.400 yeah

01:07:19.620 yeah

01:07:20.900 yeah

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Based Camp - March 09, 2026

Biggest Geopolitical Win In US History？ (Iran, Venezuela, & Cuba in Three Months)

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