Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - China Offers Taiwan 'Reunification For Energy Security' Deal Amid Iran War & Trump Attends Dignified Transfer

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, it's Jack. I wanted to let you know that we're starting a new push for subscriptions

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00:00:36.820 meets fifth generation warfare. A commentator, international social media sensation,

00:00:47.620 and former Navy intelligence veteran. This is Human Events with your host, Jack Posobiec.

00:00:52.460 Christ is king.

00:00:54.600 A federal judge has blocked Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s sweeping changes to the nation's childhood vaccine schedule, 0.74

00:01:02.920 a significant setback for one of the administration's most controversial health policy moves.

00:01:08.320 The ruling sides largely with major medical groups that argued the administration improperly changed vaccine recommendations.

00:01:15.480 I've worked with many people in this room. Seems like you fight Republicans more than you work with us.

00:01:20.300 I did address those remarks. I did explain your gimmicks by the amendment you put forth.

00:01:26.600 And as far as me saying that I invoke violence, I don't. I don't think anybody should be hit by

00:01:32.240 surprise. I don't like that. But if I do have something to say, everybody in this room knows

00:01:38.000 I'll come straight to you. I'll say it publicly and I'll say it privately, but I'll never say it

00:01:42.320 behind your back. Anyone who has been suspected of leaking or is proven to be a leaker will not be

00:01:48.940 welcome in this administration. I know that for a fact because I've heard the president say it

00:01:53.440 myself. There are investigations underway into leakers in this administration and people will

00:01:59.140 be held accountable for that. The intelligence community assesses that Russia, China, North

00:02:03.160 Korea, Iran and Pakistan have been researching and developing an array of novel, advanced or

00:02:08.680 traditional missile delivery systems with nuclear and conventional payloads that put our homeland

00:02:13.940 within range. Iran is just a military operation to me. Iran is something that was essentially 0.92

00:02:22.260 largely over in two or three days because the Navy was wiped out almost immediately.

00:02:27.620 the Air Force came next, the anti-aircraft came next.

00:02:34.620 Overnight, Iran launching new strikes on Israel. These apparent cluster warheads seen falling

00:02:50.740 over Tel Aviv. Israeli officials say an elderly couple in this building were killed by shrapnel

00:02:56.140 from a missile interception.

00:02:57.820 In Iraq, flames also rising after the U.S. embassy compound

00:03:01.540 in Baghdad again came under attack.

00:03:03.960 Hours after an earlier wave of drones,

00:03:06.520 air defense here seen shooting one down.

00:03:09.220 Meanwhile, the U.S. taking new action

00:03:11.400 in the Strait of Hormuz,

00:03:12.760 dropping multiple 5,000-pound so-called bunker-buster bombs

00:03:17.020 on hardened Iranian missile sites along the strait

00:03:20.060 that could be used to target ships.

00:03:21.940 But the waterway remains virtually shut down,

00:03:24.640 choking off global oil shipments.

00:03:55.560 Well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily.

00:03:59.560 Today is March 18th, 2026.

00:04:02.680 Anno Domine.

00:04:04.180 Folks, the Iran military operation continues.

00:04:09.040 U.S., of course, involved in direct participation, as we know, Operation Epic Fury.

00:04:14.180 We are in an active and highly escalatory phase as of this day.

00:04:18.380 The conflict is now in its third week, approximately day 19.

00:04:21.400 And what we're now seeing is Israeli and U.S. airstrikes intensifying, targeting Iranian leadership, military infrastructure, increasing economic assets.

00:04:32.100 Now, they've been met with Iranian ballistic missile and drone barrages in retaliation, the proxies, Hezbollah, Iraqi militias, threats to the Gulf states.

00:04:40.300 Over the last 24 hours, Israel has come out and confirmed the killing of Iran's intelligence minister, Koteb, in an Israeli strike on Tehran.

00:04:48.960 This is the third high level assassination in two days. Previously, we saw the security chief, Ali Larajani, a key figure who was running aspects of Iran during the war and the besieged commander Soleimani.

00:05:01.600 Iran has, of course, granted the ID, excuse me, Israel has granted the IDF blanket permission to target remaining high value Iranian leaders without case by case approval, signaling what we see as an intensification of this decapitation campaign.

00:05:17.700 In retaliation, missile barrages on Israel, Iran launching a major what they call revenge wave of ballistic missiles, 0.54

00:05:25.100 including reports of cluster warheads targeting central Israel, particularly near Tel Aviv.

00:05:30.120 At least two civilians killed an elderly couple.

00:05:33.440 It's reported in widespread damage in populated areas, sirens across multiple reasons.

00:05:39.620 Multiple missiles have been intercepted by Israeli defenses, the Arrow system, the Iron Dome,

00:05:44.640 but impacts cause destruction and at least one confirmed fatality pair near Tel Aviv.

00:05:50.220 Israel, and with U.S. backing, struck Iran's massive South Pars gas field.

00:05:57.100 This is the world's largest natural gas field.

00:06:00.220 Iran shares this field with Qatar.

00:06:02.980 And for the first time, we're seeing these targeting of Gulf-based energy and economic assets,

00:06:09.280 plus oil, petrochemical facilities, and a gas processing plant in Fars province.

00:06:14.640 Iran, of course, vowing decisive action.

00:06:17.140 They are threatening retaliatory tit-for-tat strikes on Gulf energy facilities.

00:06:21.280 Think Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Hezbollah, launching missiles in northern Israel,

00:06:28.180 multiple strikes in southern Lebanon, bridges over the Latani River that have been targeted by Israel.

00:06:33.700 We're also seeing the Iraqi Islamic resistance now in Iraq target those U.S. bases,

00:06:39.060 Victoria Basin, Baghdad, Erbil, explosions elsewhere at U.S. sites in Kuwait, elsewhere.

00:06:43.960 All multiple interceptions, Qatar, Kuwait, UAE, Saudi Arabia reported intercepting Iranian missiles and drones, blasts near Dubai Airport and other sites.

00:06:54.860 And we're seeing the Houthis potentially, potentially coming on board in the Red Sea.

00:06:59.480 And of course, this would compound multiple issues with the resumption of their shipping attacks for the sea lane and the sea line of communication.

00:07:06.840 Probably the biggest bombing overnight.

00:07:08.880 The U.S. deploying the 5,000-pound bunker buster bombs near the Strait of Hormuz,

00:07:13.820 targeting potential underground Iranian mining threats, Iranian missile threats.

00:07:18.800 This has been the key intensification that we've told you was going to come.

00:07:23.520 Now, there's funerals underway in Tehran.

00:07:25.900 Human Events Daily continues to monitor the situation.

00:07:30.040 Stand in our way in our golden age has just begun.

00:07:33.780 This is Human Events with Jack Posovo.

00:07:35.440 Now it's time for everyone to understand what America First truly means.

00:07:40.220 Welcome to the second American Revolution.

00:07:47.720 Back, Jack Posobiec back here, live human events daily, Real America's Voice.

00:07:55.220 And we're here today on this occasion.

00:08:00.320 We're looking at this war.

00:08:01.300 We're looking at the continuation of this war.

00:08:03.000 We're looking at everything that's escalating.

00:08:06.600 We're looking at the potential and real truth of this war intensifying.

00:08:13.660 We've seen bombs on the gas fields.

00:08:17.420 We've seen the bunker busters on the strait.

00:08:19.580 And Human Events, of course, is going to be here to give you all of the situational reports, the sit reps as this continues.

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00:10:33.840 Now, I did also want to mention, by the way, so we have DNI Gabbard is out there.

00:10:39.180 She's testifying today at the at the Senate.

00:10:42.780 But the 2026 annual threat assessment was just released by DNI Gabbard.

00:10:48.660 It reveals the terrorism threats on the rise and specifically talks about the 2025 New Year's Day attack in New Orleans, Louisiana, the Boulder, Colorado attacks.

00:10:58.800 And it talks about the fact that we are now seeing these teenage extremists, these teenage, in some cases it calls them lone offenders or homegrown radicals, that this is becoming the largest terror threat in the United States.

00:11:15.740 And certainly we've seen multiple instances of this since the Iran operation, since Operation Iran has begun.

00:11:22.200 So D&I Guy, we're delivering that report and answering questions there up at the Senate today.

00:11:26.480 In order to go through this and some other stuff, I wanted to bring in filmmaker and author and sub-stacker Mike Cernovich joining us here on the program.

00:11:37.300 What's up, Mike?

00:11:38.420 How you doing, man?

00:11:40.340 So actually, you know, I hadn't run that by you before, but seeing that headline come out from DNI Gabbard saying that this is the first time that we've actually seen, I think, this phrase teenage extremists.

00:11:51.820 They're calling it homegrown extremists of Islamic radicals.

00:11:55.360 We haven't seen that put in intelligence. I just remember this from being in the IC.

00:12:00.280 We never saw that put at such a high level before. What do you think it says that, you know,

00:12:05.400 in the media has been trying to gaslight us for years about these things. What does it say that

00:12:08.800 we're actually seeing the administration put this front and center? The timing is the problem,

00:12:15.380 right? And I'll tell you why. You and I, we were talking about the Red Green Alliance in 2017.

00:12:22.280 None of the neocons were talking about it.

00:12:24.560 Nobody talked about it.

00:12:26.040 People would sort of make fun of us.

00:12:27.920 Oh, Qatar.

00:12:29.580 And then a few months ago, suddenly they start talking about Qatar.

00:12:34.060 And now nobody believes it. 0.95

00:12:35.300 Nobody finds it trustworthy or credible.

00:12:37.960 People don't even talk about the Brookings Institute having a location in Doha.

00:12:41.420 So you can't really track how much money Qatar was putting into Brookings.

00:12:45.740 There's college campuses that would have a Doha campus.

00:12:48.220 so you can't track any of the spending.

00:12:51.680 And unfortunately, this is how I feel about the latest announcement.

00:12:55.960 All of this is true, but people think it's a distraction now.

00:12:59.360 People don't believe it's real.

00:13:00.640 We have MAGA people saying, well, what threat is Islamic terrorism to the United States?

00:13:07.320 And to you and me, this is like an obvious question, of course.

00:13:12.500 Why are we arguing about this?

00:13:14.920 But that's because the issue was not presented.

00:13:18.220 in a credible way and with credible timing.

00:13:21.580 And now everything looks like a distraction on Israel.

00:13:23.840 So I feel like I'm constantly,

00:13:25.360 and you probably feel the same way too.

00:13:27.340 You can elaborate if you don't.

00:13:28.740 I won't speak for you.

00:13:29.880 But I constantly feel like I'm screaming into the air

00:13:32.420 that all of this is true,

00:13:34.540 but nobody's going to believe it

00:13:35.820 because you don't want to talk about it until now.

00:13:38.560 So everything now is coming out is true,

00:13:40.940 but it's not going to be seen as credible

00:13:43.520 by most people due to the timing of it.

00:13:45.880 well and and this was something that we saw in so like when when there was that attack in new

00:13:52.180 york city the bombing and it was the two i guess buddies they weren't brothers but it was very

00:13:57.360 similar to the boston bombers who were brothers um and they came out of newtown pennsylvania and

00:14:03.380 then they drove up to new york city throw some bombs near gracie mansion and for anyone who

00:14:07.940 doesn't understand bucks county philadelphia area newtown i said this is like the town from

00:14:12.640 Gilmore Girls, right? This is a place that you would never, ever associate with something like

00:14:17.300 that. But the idea that there could be ISIS extremist sympathizers here is because of mass

00:14:22.760 immigration. It's because of mass open borders. It's because mass, but it's actually not just

00:14:26.560 mass open borders because it's mass third world open borders because it's only from certain places,

00:14:30.700 right? There's actually immigration restrictions on certain parts of the world too. And so this is

00:14:36.020 just exactly what you and I have been talking about again, since 2017, Sweden, everything else

00:14:41.480 that now it's here in the United States and we're seeing it again and again, but because it's

00:14:46.380 happening at the same time as the Iran operation, people are saying, oh no, this, this must be,

00:14:51.440 this must be something else. This, this can't possibly be its own, you know, its own thing.

00:14:55.700 It's gotta be fake. It's gotta be false, which is just obviously not true. And you got Deanna

00:14:59.680 Gabbard who, by the way, she herself has always talked about this from the days that she was a 0.92

00:15:05.400 democrat like freshman congresswoman from hawaii she would always she was the only one that would

00:15:11.640 in the obama years that would speak out about radical islam and she would say this is what

00:15:15.480 we're fighting we're not fighting just some group we're fighting an ideology that's one of the

00:15:19.180 reasons that i remember like she just came across my radar back then yeah you know this i know this

00:15:27.200 gabbard knows this but it it doesn't strike it just doesn't come off as credible to most people

00:15:34.280 because nobody was talking about it

00:15:36.200 when we were supposed to be talking about it.

00:15:38.500 And that's the way it is with a lot of issues. 0.98

00:15:40.840 Nobody believes in the Qatar stuff, 0.96

00:15:44.100 except for us, because we knew it.

00:15:46.160 But that's a messaging failure. 0.69

00:15:48.800 And then in terms of why do we have Islamic terror? 0.86

00:15:52.800 Because the neocons brought them in, dude. 0.84

00:15:55.460 Because we all remember the tweets about, 0.72

00:15:57.780 well, I don't care about the browning of America. 1.00

00:16:00.360 We all know, oh, white people suck. 1.00

00:16:02.320 White people are, we all know this stuff. 1.00

00:16:04.280 It's so tiresome for people to try to go, oh, God, oh, gosh, oh, gosh, what happened? 0.98

00:16:10.260 You know, anti-white bigots, white people, haters within the neocon movement wanted this. 0.97

00:16:15.760 And now they're saying, well, look, look, we have Islamic terrorism. 0.97

00:16:18.380 I'm saying, well, I know because you supported open borders. 1.00

00:16:22.400 There's a reason that they're here.

00:16:25.120 And people don't even believe this is a problem now because you guys were the ones supporting it. 0.85

00:16:32.840 And now it looks like a huge distraction from Israel. 0.91

00:16:35.040 So I'm caught in the middle because everything that is being released now is true. 0.65

00:16:40.600 But then it looks through the timing of it as being a distraction from Israel. 0.77

00:16:44.260 So I wanted to pull up a tweet because I pulled it up and it's just so revealing and I'm so sick of it.

00:16:50.280 So last night there were primaries in Illinois and other states and the media is trying to spin it as, oh, this shows that AIPAC won.

00:17:00.720 But AIPAC had to create a bunch of different cutout groups to back candidates in these Illinois primaries.

00:17:08.560 There was a Media Matters person that was running for Congress, and she ran a close second. 1.00

00:17:13.900 And it took a ton of money to stop her.

00:17:15.640 And then I see people trying to spin this as, oh, look, this is proof that the left isn't that crazy.

00:17:22.060 And the answer is no, it took tens of millions of dollars to stop some of these people in lefty primaries.

00:17:27.900 So I see this thing and this is like, I'm just tired of it and I'll have patience with people.

00:17:34.420 Okay.

00:17:34.940 In that race as well, though, weren't there like, I think there were multiple candidates.

00:17:39.900 So it was actually, I think it was like two far left candidates and then one moderate Democrat.

00:17:45.260 So if you look at it together, that's a split of the far left vote.

00:17:49.380 So that means your actual far left vote chair was like 45, 50%.

00:17:52.720 And so the moderate only had about what, 19, 20% or something like that.

00:17:57.900 So you could say she lost, but that doesn't actually mean because if you look at the full vote share, that's a huge number, again, for the far left candidates.

00:18:06.100 Yeah, the far left should have won.

00:18:08.080 The far left, SPLC, Media Matters, back person, should have won, should be in Congress.

00:18:14.660 And then you have all the spin, which is why there's just a level of trust.

00:18:18.100 This is like a textbook thing, and I'm just so tired of reading stuff like this.

00:18:21.520 She was the squad that the squad came in, they were trying to put her up.

00:18:25.880 Blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:18:26.800 but it's profoundly disturbing that a growing segment of the far left

00:18:29.940 appears to be almost rooting for Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Iranian regime.

00:18:33.940 Gee, buddy, who let him in?

00:18:36.540 Who let him in, buddy?

00:18:38.160 Who let him in?

00:18:39.440 And we're all just so sick of it.

00:18:41.960 They let him in.

00:18:43.100 These people don't like Israel. 1.00

00:18:44.940 I'm aligned with Israel. 0.99

00:18:46.180 I'm fine with Israel.

00:18:47.540 That gives me a lot of heat.

00:18:48.900 I'm not some flag waver.

00:18:50.280 I'm fine with Israel.

00:18:51.760 But I'm not fine with people being deceptive.

00:18:55.020 just say we imported a lot of people they hate israel i like israel this was a mistake i'm

00:19:02.060 voting trump i'm voting maga i'm voting republicans in the midterms i'm writing big checks 0.96

00:19:06.460 this was a stupid thing that i did let's let's roll boys no no it's always well i'm not some 0.99

00:19:12.640 filthy dirty maga mike mike we have a we have a quick break we have a quick break coming up 0.99

00:19:17.420 more mike cernovich iran mass immigration human events daily

00:19:25.020 They talk about influences. These are influences. And they're friends of mine, Jack Kosovic.

00:19:33.780 Where's Jack? Jack. He's done a great job.

00:19:37.420 All right, Jack, we're back.

00:19:55.360 We're on with with filmmaker Mike Cernovich.

00:19:58.300 That footage that we just had there, ladies and gentlemen, that was footage from Tehran.

00:20:02.380 It's going on right now. And this is footage of one of the one of the leaders who was killed

00:20:09.360 in the recent strikes, his funeral, his his coffin there being paraded through the square.

00:20:15.320 What do you get Mike Cernovich in here to get your take on this? Because

00:20:17.880 you had a tweet up recently talking about sort of the different camps on the war. You know,

00:20:24.240 some people totally for some people totally against some people skeptical, but optimistic.

00:20:28.980 You see videos like this coming out of Tehran. It seems to me like we're starting to see a rally around the flag moment by the Iranian people rather than sparking this protest revolt that obviously was was what the hope had been.

00:20:43.580 I mean, I'm sure there's opposition out there still, but you also have supporters of the regime. So where do we go in a situation like this?

00:20:50.920 that that's the quagmire so if you spend time in the in la or in china there's a huge iranian 0.99

00:20:59.260 diaspora and they have friends and family back home and there's a large amount of people that

00:21:04.400 wanted freed from the oppressive thumb of the mullahs the mullahs did kill a lot of people i

00:21:09.440 remember to argue with and that's what really makes me sad about the info environment i remember

00:21:13.860 arguing with a lot of maga people where they say oh the numbers are made up the mullahs didn't kill

00:21:17.420 anybody. Guys, you can be anti-Mullah. You can be against, you can think this was an ill-advised

00:21:22.480 thing and be anti-Mullah, please, for the love of God. We, you know, we have a country to save

00:21:27.720 and people are somehow forgetting that. And, but there are people that obviously are part of the

00:21:32.800 Mullahs. There's also a lot of foreign people who brought in from Iraq, just like they were Cubans

00:21:36.960 in Venezuela. Remember the Maduro's Praetorian Guard was largely Cuban because he couldn't

00:21:43.120 trust his own people in Venezuela, right? He couldn't trust Venezuelans, so they brought in 1.00

00:21:48.480 Cubans there. There's that element, too, with the militias, and other groups are not always

00:21:53.160 Persian, and they're more ready and willing to fire on people who would protest the mullahs.

00:22:02.220 And that's the problem. Where does it go? You don't know, because the enemy gets a vote. This 1.00

00:22:06.660 is something that the podcasters and the chicken hawks and neocons they either don't know or they

00:22:14.060 don't care about the enemy the enemy gets a vote you don't know what's going to happen and once you

00:22:19.160 start kicking over trees you don't know how many rattlesnakes are going to be under there

00:22:24.480 that's a problem so in terms of the the war in MAGA because I get that a lot because a lot of

00:22:30.400 people call me a fence sitter and I'm completely fine with that is you can be you can think that 0.69

00:22:36.360 the mullahs are evil they are killing their own people you can want the mullahs to fail but you 0.85

00:22:41.200 can also not support a ramped up war which it does look like the war is ramping up i was hoping this 0.92

00:22:48.080 would be a two-week thing and i didn't consider that realistic but i i that's what that's what

00:22:53.880 my hope was and now they're talking about it lasting until what september blowing up natural 0.64

00:22:58.880 gas fields now that's gonna bring in the other middle eastern countries into the mix the whole 0.98

00:23:05.860 the whole situation is getting unpredictable and uncontrollable. 1.00

00:23:12.360 And so the question there, I think, you know, it comes down to and I pointed out, by the way,

00:23:17.640 that there are and Politico, you know, kind of pulled some of my stuff. I said, there's there's

00:23:21.440 ways you can you can neutralize things, oil infrastructure, et cetera, without having to

00:23:26.180 go boots on the ground. But at this point, when you see the Marines go in, you know, heading over

00:23:30.940 there from japan we're seeing uh social media people talking about deployments do you think

00:23:35.940 we're going to see boots on the ground yeah we were we're talking about that yesterday and i

00:23:42.280 didn't want to tweet out because then people are demanding a source and that gets out of my my

00:23:45.980 skin but the opsec on social media is not what it used to be there are things posted that the

00:23:53.680 chain of command would not approve of and includes by a lot of family members and there have been

00:23:57.240 way more deployments that have been reported. I find it insulting that we're not getting

00:24:02.340 the real information because I've seen, I've seen deployment information posted by parents who

00:24:08.800 either don't understand OPSEC or don't care, or maybe they do want to post what's going on.

00:24:14.060 And then somebody will find it and they'll say, oh, we didn't know, you know, oopsie, my bad.

00:24:17.980 And don't, you know, don't blame my son for this. I don't really know, but there have been way more

00:24:22.380 deployments than have been reported. And I've seen it. And I know immediately somebody's going

00:24:28.580 to say, give me a source. No, I'm not going to get family members in trouble. If you can't find

00:24:32.040 this stuff on your own, that's your problem. It's not my job to go spoon feed people. They can go

00:24:38.180 spend more time figuring this stuff out. Now, there might be boots on the ground already. We

00:24:43.720 don't know. We don't know anything right now. It's almost impossible to find reliable information

00:24:48.080 on that war. So for example, that video you showed me, I hadn't even seen that. The cemetery

00:24:54.440 or the coffin video, I hadn't even seen that yet. I haven't even got caught up today. It takes

00:25:00.560 forever to find any kind of information to find out if it's reliable. The UAE, and I don't disagree 1.00

00:25:07.100 with these decisions, but a guy from the UK posted a video of a bomb attack. He's in jail. We're not

00:25:13.960 getting any kind of information. The satellites haven't been updated, right? There's a two-week

00:25:18.300 lag that was imposed now, so we don't know what targets have been hit and where. We're getting

00:25:24.060 no credible information about the war. So how should people, and just in the last two minutes

00:25:30.020 that we have you, how should people go about thinking about these things when it's obviously

00:25:35.620 such a hot topic, for sure, and it should be. It's questions of war and peace. But how should

00:25:41.100 people be thinking about that as they go about their day they're interacting with social media

00:25:45.480 obviously it's very emotional but at the same time there's real you know would you would you

00:25:50.540 say a healthy skepticism just to everything you see i don't believe anything i see stuff coming

00:25:56.560 out because i follow ryan grimm the drop set news guys you have to read all these you have to read

00:26:02.400 everybody and that's not to say that i believe anything i see because i see information where

00:26:07.460 they'll say oh the settlers in Israel they were they drove over people and the Israel side says

00:26:13.440 no the people they got run over were running at the car I don't believe any of it at this point

00:26:18.300 and the the big problem I have is I should be able to trust this sounds naive and childish but

00:26:24.400 I should be able to trust this administration to give us accurate information and when I'm

00:26:30.620 seeing information on deployments posted on social media by parents who shouldn't have posted it

00:26:35.400 and not hearing that from from the rest of because they can't claim we can't talk about

00:26:42.480 deployments because that gives the enemy info dude it's out there the enemy knows i don't want

00:26:48.640 to hear any more of this spin let us know by the way and we know we've we've covered here that

00:26:53.280 china is china's watching the whole thing with their spy satellites now and posting it all on

00:26:57.480 open source so it's it's totally out in the open for the other side and guess what facebook didn't

00:27:03.260 even exist when the iraq war began mike cernovich we should go longer man thank you so much for

00:27:08.080 being here thank you so much for your words and providing expertise and a different perspective

00:27:12.020 perhaps to other people go give him a follow at cernovich on x and other associated platforms

00:27:18.600 right back human events daily

00:27:19.560 jack where's jack where is he jack i want to see you

00:27:33.240 great job jack thank you what a job you do you know we have an incredible thing we're always

00:27:40.740 talking about the fake news and the bad but we have guys and these are the guys should be getting

00:27:45.700 all right jack here we are back at human events daily real america's voice folks i got to tell

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00:29:49.480 President of the United States, President Trump, along with Secretary of War Hegseth, have arrived at Dover Air Force Base there for the dignified transfer of the air crew that was lost in, went down in Iraq.

00:30:04.040 This, the six member crew, and he's there awaiting that.

00:30:09.040 We have footage, this footage you're watching right now, this is from moments ago.

00:30:12.720 And of course, we're awaiting the live footage or whenever we can get the footage of President Trump attending that dignified transfer and the dignified transfer actually taking place.

00:30:23.700 Of course, we will cut to that as soon as we have the ability to do so.

00:30:28.980 So there you see the president coming down off of Air Force One, see him meeting with the officials there preparing to make the transfer, the beast in the background as well, meeting with the military officials.

00:30:41.200 You see Secretary Hegg set there arriving just after the president and President Trump, of course, showing and making the case that this situation is not bloodless, that this is very serious business.

00:30:55.320 And the president, of course, taking time, as he's done already, to go and attend this transfer.

00:31:02.080 We'll bring that to you. If it happens while we're still alive, we will go directly to that on Human Events.

00:31:07.520 And so I wanted to bring in now, as we're looking at Iran, as we're seeing the situation intensify, I am seeing reporting from Axios, Shelby Talcott here, that she said she's told that, excuse me, she's a semaphore, but she's confirming something from Axios. Shelby Talcott says, I'm told the U.S. was aware of the Israeli strike against the gas facility in Iran, but the U.S. did not play a part in the attack.

00:31:29.980 This is notable as the Trump administration has previously been wary for a few reasons of striking certain infrastructure in Iran.

00:31:36.780 I want to bring in here Malcolm Flex because Malcolm Flex, you were the man who told us last week, you said we are going to see intensification.

00:31:45.720 We are going to see this military operation intensify.

00:31:50.520 We're going to see it expand in terms of scope.

00:31:52.420 And that's exactly what we're now seeing.

00:31:54.080 We've seen there had been this, you know, this essentially a block on hitting the oil infrastructure, the gas infrastructure.

00:32:02.680 One of the reasons, I think, was because they were saying the oil infrastructure, obviously, that's the commodity.

00:32:07.220 But the gas infrastructure, that speaks to the direct electric grid of Iran.

00:32:12.900 And, of course, we're also seeing the deployment of the Marines now, 2,500 Marines from Japan.

00:32:18.720 And the 31st MEU is now steaming its way towards the Persian Gulf, which, of course, provides that optionality for the president.

00:32:25.560 So, Malcolm Flex, you wanted to get your take on this in terms of how you see this going.

00:32:31.860 You're the man who called that it was going to escalate.

00:32:34.160 We're now seeing them hit the electric grid, Marines potentially on the way, bunker busters in the Strait of Hormuz.

00:32:39.740 What do you think is going on?

00:32:40.700 i think right now we're in a pretty tough situation because you know there's a couple of

00:32:46.760 there were a couple of cards in the president's deck and i think he's rapidly had to shuffle

00:32:52.820 through those cards discard the ones that that didn't work you know we were looking at the

00:32:57.400 cooperation of maybe some of the other countries the other nato countries and we were hoping that

00:33:02.200 hey maybe some of them will help us reopen straight didn't happen a lot of them are looking

00:33:06.920 out for themselves which actually plays into a much larger issue i don't want to bury the lead

00:33:11.120 here but you know that plays into a larger issue that's going to really come back and bite us but

00:33:15.580 now that marine expeditionary unit that we're about to send over there again they're going to

00:33:21.320 be able to do a couple of things but you know it's like if we're going to literally have them secure

00:33:25.720 passage of straight or moves and whatnot that's going to be dangerous because that's going to take

00:33:30.880 a constant almost eye of sauron like focus on the straight in order to keep it open demining

00:33:37.540 and stuff because a lot of the demining vessels that we have have been decommissioned you know

00:33:41.960 they're very old i think um you know those are the avenger class of uh ships we only have i i want to

00:33:48.720 say about four if i remember off the top of my head you know i've been doing a little bit of a

00:33:51.860 deep dive on this so keeping straight of our moves open just in order to keep the world economy and

00:33:57.540 to get gas and you know the sort of the uh the way that gas works and goes out to a lot of these

00:34:03.280 countries that we buy goods from to keep those prices in check is going to be an all-around

00:34:07.900 task it's going to revolve around having a lot of manpower so now you're talking about an optical

00:34:13.540 failure here because now we have we're in a spot where we have to put boots on the ground in order

00:34:19.120 to keep the economy from going haywire and so it's going to actually uh flex i've got um breaking

00:34:27.260 news because as as you're speaking, none other than the chairman of the Federal Reserve is up

00:34:34.940 publicly confirming exactly what you just stated. Fed Chair Jerome Powell says that rising energy

00:34:43.020 prices will push up inflation. It is too early to judge the magnitude. And of course, too slow

00:34:50.220 Powell in defiance of President Trump just announced that interest rates will remain

00:34:55.460 unchanged he did not lower the interest rates they remain unchanged and this is it exactly

00:35:02.360 backs up what you've been saying yeah it's tough i don't know if we uh i don't know if we have audio

00:35:08.540 what he's saying and not not that it's not going to be anything revelatory but yeah we're at a point

00:35:13.720 now where it's economic jenga trump is pulling out blocks and trying to rearrange them on the top

00:35:20.720 because we're up against a metal versus metal conundrum which is we are using resources and

00:35:28.660 we're expending a lot of our resources but also the american will to even continue the metal m-e-t-t-l-e

00:35:35.140 to continue this war is also rapidly exhausting and as prices go up and as this goes downstream

00:35:41.280 and the shipping costs into manufacturing costs because china other company other countries that 0.82

00:35:47.320 how's company manufacturing they're going you know they're doing what they can to get on Iran's

00:35:52.660 good side and we're kind of seeing where that's lying and so remember what I talked about which

00:35:56.840 is that we didn't get that coalition to keep the straight of Hormuz open that's going to have

00:36:00.900 ramifications when we look at the international rules-based order that we've set up which

00:36:06.520 facilitates free trade and shipping because now America is kind of giving them a side of like hey

00:36:11.260 man like I thought y'all were you know kind of want to help us they're like I don't know man we

00:36:15.420 kind of want to kind of want to stay on their good side because we get oil from iran so america's not

00:36:19.700 feeling it because we're a net exporter of oil still but at the same time a lot of what we do

00:36:25.580 that ties into nato the international rules based order of friendship and all of this stuff that

00:36:31.320 does play into a bigger picture and we're kind of fracturing it for what i can only understand is

00:36:38.300 such a short-term or nebulous gain and so well it's all that plus what what res of course but

00:36:48.460 what i would add there is the you have the the economic jenga you have the metal versus metal

00:36:54.400 no question but the game i think the great game here is not necessarily direct on iran i mean yes

00:37:03.680 that's part of it. But the bigger game is Iran or is Russia and China is the effects on Russia,

00:37:09.400 the effects on China, because, of course, for Russia, this is going to push up their oil price

00:37:13.360 or their the price of their oil, which, of course, benefits Russia because they are in that oil

00:37:18.420 exporter as well. And then, of course, for China, it's going to it's going to hurt them because this

00:37:24.140 is one of their major suppliers. They're going to be paying more for oil. They don't like the

00:37:27.760 instability either. And in fact, and we're coming up on a quick break here, but I just saw coming

00:37:33.160 across the headline that listen to this China here. How are they trying to take advantage of 0.57

00:37:37.700 the situation? Because they've got massive LNG reserves right now that China just offered Taiwan

00:37:44.760 a reunification deal in exchange for access to their LNG reserves. So there you go.

00:37:54.020 The Chinese making a deal, perhaps one that Taiwan can't refuse. I think they will, 0.98

00:38:00.960 although I don't see it coming.

00:38:02.100 But, of course, China looking to gain their advantage from this as well.

00:38:06.680 All of this and more coming up, Human Events Daily, Real Narciss Voice.

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00:38:30.960 All right, folks, Jack Posovic back live here, Human Events Daily.

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00:40:03.260 And we have to dig in more, folks.

00:40:06.100 This Reuters story, one of the hottest stories in the world right now.

00:40:09.440 No one else is talking about this.

00:40:11.500 China made an energy security deal offer to Taiwan amid the Middle East war,

00:40:18.700 offering them reunification in exchange for energy security.

00:40:25.180 I want to bring Malcolm Flex back on here because, Flex, is this just about Taiwan or is this perhaps really all about semiconductors?

00:40:35.140 It's all about the chips and China knowing that if that island, the island of Taiwan, which we were talking about this yesterday here on the program vis-a-vis AI, that if they don't have the energy to be able to continue those supplies, then that's going to cause so many problems all around the world, not to mention for Silicon Valley and the power brokers there.

00:40:56.640 yeah well what we're seeing now is probably a ram in a bush so to speak you know if i want to use a

00:41:06.040 biblical term for uh for china here and the thing is a lot of people don't understand is tsmc is

00:41:14.460 extremely unique in the way that they create the semiconductors and the microchip and the silica

00:41:20.120 and all of that it's a very intricate process and it's one that cannot be duplicated the united

00:41:25.980 states has tried many times it's going to take a long time before we even anywhere close to that

00:41:30.660 china understands that that if we go in guns a-blazing taiwan's just going to sabotage it 1.00

00:41:37.640 they're not going to let it fall in the ccp hands so again you can do that but what you're doing is 0.99

00:41:43.760 guaranteeing sort of a doomsday scenario in taiwan creating a headache for you and so they're seeing 1.00

00:41:50.440 right now hey with the breakdown of the international rules-based order with a lot of

00:41:55.520 the nato countries and this coalition that was supposed to defend taiwan sort of breaking down

00:42:00.620 why not let's go ahead and you know offer a little bit of a uh you know a sweet deal to them

00:42:07.280 and now taiwan historically has had issues with their electrical grid now they've announced that

00:42:13.640 they were going to increase imports from the united states of uh lng in order to sort of

00:42:19.200 subsidize things but that supply chain is still difficult and right now what's going to end up

00:42:23.840 happening especially if the united states does decide to disembark from nato like trump is sort

00:42:29.080 of saying then you're going to have a bit of an issue where okay how do we handle international

00:42:34.060 waters how do we secure safe passage against things like pirates and all of that of energy

00:42:38.660 that's going across there so then china really does become an easy way to just get consistent

00:42:45.640 lng and so like i said again if i'm the leadership over there in a taiwan you know over there in

00:42:51.260 taiwan i'm looking at the dignitary from uh china's taiwan affairs office um i'm i'm kind

00:42:57.380 of looking at this deal i'm like you know what do we do because again you can either take the blood

00:43:03.020 bath which it will be i know i know we lampoon china's navy and whatnot but that's still a war

00:43:09.300 that's still a battle and it's one that you're not necessarily likely to win especially even if

00:43:14.940 japan gets involved like you're not necessarily likely to win it especially if the u.s which has

00:43:19.880 your biggest guarantor of freedom is already overextended and over leveraged in the middle

00:43:24.560 east and you know the enemy of course gets the boat over there and they drag us deeper

00:43:28.880 and then you got israel which is now going in lebanon and other areas and starting to leverage

00:43:34.560 other conflicts that they're going to need our help taiwan's kind of wondering where they fall

00:43:39.480 on this and then russia and ukraine you know that we're still kind of leveraged over there

00:43:43.980 And China does have a relationship with Russia, who is still a gas exporter. So there are opportunities there in that same sphere of influence where Taiwan can maybe secure a future that's not, you know, self-deterministic. Maybe they don't exist as their own sovereign entity. But, you know, I mean, geographically, maybe makes a little bit more sense.

00:44:06.420 i'm not advocating for that i'm just saying that could be the play there and you know again

00:44:12.180 putin's looking at that they're looking at opportunity to where hey we can finally build

00:44:18.140 up a cohesive system that's right over here on this side of the world free from western interference

00:44:25.720 and free from the quagmires and everything else and iran is basically you know it's the first

00:44:31.760 dominoes to fall in that so i don't know man yeah and you could even say you know the economic jenga

00:44:40.460 is 100 right because you could even say i mean ukraine really started all of this that ukraine

00:44:47.160 and having russia in there is directly going to be the situation that has them bogged down now

00:44:54.000 they're talking about a huge um summer counter-offensive and of course the russian coffers

00:45:00.340 are going to be flushed right now because they're making money hand over fist in the oil markets.

00:45:06.120 So, and of course, they're selling it to China, who's in turn, you know, offering it to Taiwan

00:45:09.260 here. So, because they've got the cash reserves to be able to do so, as well as the LNG reserves.

00:45:14.400 So, Russia is going to plan this massive counteroffensive in Ukraine, or excuse me,

00:45:19.820 massive summer offensive in Ukraine. Meanwhile, though, that means they don't have the free hand

00:45:25.400 that they had in the past to help out with Iran. They didn't have a free hand to help with the

00:45:29.500 Wagner group when it came to Assad to be able to shore up the his regime there in Syria. 0.54

00:45:34.800 So that's why Assad fell. That's why Assad is now over in Moscow right now. And the same deal with

00:45:39.620 Tehran. They don't have the leverage that they would have normally to be able to respond or even 0.63

00:45:44.680 act as a mediator here. But, you know, that's kind of my big question, I guess. And let me let me

00:45:48.960 throw it to you is at some point we now we know that the president has already postponed this

00:45:55.980 trip to beijing that he was supposed to be taking at the end of the month the end of march so at

00:46:01.500 some point though does he get putin on the phone does he get xi jinping on the phone and say guys

00:46:06.520 we could do this the way we're doing it now or we can come to some sort of grand strategy agreement

00:46:13.940 what do you say he could the question is are they going to pick up an answer right now because you

00:46:20.580 know everybody wants to have their cake and eat it too and at the moment you know the united states

00:46:25.120 just kind of playing a little bit a little bit sweet we are i think we are stripping away some

00:46:30.240 of the sanctions that we put on russia this is more so a play at you know keeping the gcc

00:46:34.920 countries from freaking out and destroying sort of the oil economy but you know we're kind of

00:46:40.660 reducing some of those sanctions so that russia can continue to provide oil so that the gas prices

00:46:44.980 don't go high but you know russia if i'm russia what incentive right now do i necessarily have

00:46:50.740 other than and it's the only thing if ron falls or if iran is in such disarray and russia sort of

00:46:58.200 leaves them out the dry the shahad drones that that russia is getting from iran which are yes

00:47:04.420 manufactured in facilities in russia but that last 10 of the manufacturing process iran still holds

00:47:10.860 those shahad drones are off the table that's the only bit of you know sort of downside that russia 0.79

00:47:18.460 even has in this and china i mean china has like no motivation at all you know they're collecting

00:47:24.300 batted battle data right now on the united states and how we're handling the asymmetric warfare

00:47:29.760 of uh iran and sort of what strikes that we're leveraging and here's the thing

00:47:34.780 iran they're learning more every they're learning more every chance they get yeah again we have to

00:47:42.540 increasingly we've got to throw increasingly stronger munitions at them every single time

00:47:47.520 So they're seeing what we got, they're seeing our hands. 0.83

00:47:49.960 That's exactly right, and China sees all of it.

00:47:52.020 Flex, where can people go to follow you?

00:47:54.520 Go ahead and follow me on x, Malcolm Flex. 0.99

00:47:56.920 You know, I'm getting a little bit more acerbic, I'm getting a little spicier. 0.92

00:48:00.060 But trust me, I will tie it in with some nice stuff. 0.99

00:48:02.680 But yeah, if you wanna follow me there, follow me there.

00:48:04.480 Follow me on Instagram, Malcolm underscore Flex 48.

00:48:07.360 If you like my MMA content and all of that stuff, but yeah.

00:48:10.520 Give him a follow, folks.

00:48:11.560 Ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission to lay a short.

00:48:17.520 You

Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - March 18, 2026

China Offers Taiwan 'Reunification For Energy Security' Deal Amid Iran War & Trump Attends Dignified Transfer

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