00:02:11.940U.N. Ambassador Mike Waltz said U.S. forces remain at the ready,
00:02:15.980but that the president decided to pause nightly airstrikes.
00:02:19.360He's giving talk some space. He's giving it a little bit of room. We've had both Iman and Iran and a number of our other negotiators engaged at every level.
00:02:30.660Tensions are high in the Middle East, as the White House insists all options remain on the table for Iran after the U.S. elected not to strike again last night.
00:02:38.920But it comes as reports suggest Iran's new supreme leader is more interested in building a nuclear weapon than his late father.
00:02:47.460Virtually everything they have has been knocked out now.
00:02:50.560Their missile count is going way down.
00:02:53.920Amazingly, the 80 countries have been...
00:03:39.260I said last night that Trump and Bibi are like Roosevelt and Churchill.
00:03:44.520I mean, they're the right two guys to confront this evil.0.64
00:03:52.900All right, folks, Jack Pesovic back live here, Human Events Daily.
00:03:56.520Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events.
00:04:01.340Today is July 27th, 2026, Anno Domine.
00:04:06.780And the breaking news that's coming out is that Zelensky and Netanyahu are going to be visiting the White House tomorrow.0.61
00:04:11.920And I don't know about you, but I just saw that video of Lindsey Graham and how he was giddy and laughing and excited about the prospect of America going to war with Iran.
00:04:32.040And I don't know about you guys, and I'm certainly not going to disrespect someone who just passed away in that sense.
00:04:45.580But on a very real level, on a very personal level, I felt sick to my stomach watching that Lindsey Graham video.
00:10:00.000I actually, on my, on my old man, that would be a huge aside, but I actually have a little
00:10:05.120bit of history with the Mary Sue from like over a decade ago on, uh, on my old Game of Thrones
00:10:10.540podcast, uh, back, back in the good old days when all we, all we did was talk about media, but Scott,
00:10:16.700you've got the new book out called the white pill, the online online, right. And the making
00:10:20.420of Trump's America. And I couldn't help, but think of how the Shiloh Hendricks case and the way that
00:10:28.680it's played out online. And, and I wouldn't say that it's really gone beyond the online sphere
00:10:35.080quite yet. I haven't seen any like mainstream Republican politicians bring it up. I may have
00:10:40.660missed one or two, but I haven't seen it as much as such yet, but something like this, you know,
00:10:45.88010 years ago would have been something that maybe got a couple of tweets about now you're getting,
00:10:52.360you're getting posts from Elon Musk about it. You're getting trends on Twitter. How did we get
00:10:57.560to a point where something like that? And she raised, you know, just under a million dollars0.93
00:11:00.940in terms of her defense. How do we get from a point where stuff like, you know, basically
00:11:04.740posting videos like this would get you banned to stuff like this, where there's actually
00:11:09.400a real backlash to, again, this the Shiloh Hendricks charges and now conviction?
00:11:17.380Yeah, you bring up an excellent point about how this would have played out a decade ago.0.92
00:11:21.040You only have to go back a few years ago to where there was the Karen epidemic,
00:11:25.040That they were worried about all these Karens out there who cared about their community and were reporting people who might be up to no good.0.96
00:11:32.560And what would happen is that a Karen would just be a standard white woman.0.93
00:11:36.280She would have a problem with some type of minority group and they would be confronting her.0.96
00:11:42.240And then she's like, you know, a lot of times they were making noise disturbances or they were in places that there were strangers in an apartment building.
00:20:04.400We are on with Scott Greer. He's our guest today. His book is The White Pill, The Online Right and the Making of Trump's America.
00:20:12.680And Scott, I want to give you the floor here a little bit to kind of walk this out because you're explaining how so many of these things that we're talking about,
00:20:21.340and I use the Shiloh Hendricks example because it's in the news, but so many of these topics used to be things that were totally taboo to talk about in, you know,
00:20:30.260the 2012 to 2014, sort of the McCain-Romney era of the GOP and the conservative movement.
00:20:37.600And now they just dominate the discussion.
00:20:40.920And I think that's something that a lot of people who maybe got into politics in 2024,
00:20:45.780they don't quite understand just how bad it was not really that long ago.
00:27:18.220check out the book White Pill. Right back, Jack Posobiec, Human Events Daily, Real America's Voice.
00:27:48.220And these are the guys who should be getting Pulisic.
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00:28:59.300He's a senior editor over at the American Conservative. Luke Nicastro joins us now. Luke,
00:29:05.020how are you? I'm great. Thanks for having me on, Jack. Yeah, well, I saw your interview the other
00:29:10.100day with with War Room talking about this this section, you know, 219 in the NDAA and merging
00:29:16.580the U.S. military and the Israeli military and, you know, looking at some of these things. And as
00:29:21.340a prior intelligence officer myself, you know, really, really wary of integrating the United0.89
00:29:26.800States with any foreign military, even if it is, you know, and keep in mind that Israel is not in
00:29:33.000five eyes. They're not in NATO. They're not in a number of these, you know, intelligence sharing
00:29:38.580frameworks that we normally have not to say that we don't share intelligence with them but again
00:29:42.440this is going to come up and plus they and one of the reasons for that by the way is because a lot
00:29:46.100of the technology transfer that they have with China that's one of that's always been one of
00:29:50.840the main reasons they also have a relationship with Russia as well it's one of the main reasons
00:29:54.920that we've always been very careful with what we share with them but you know now we come to see
00:30:00.160and you know putting this all together I see the you know the stomach churning Lindsey Graham video
00:30:05.440that came out the other day. And now we see that Zelensky and Netanyahu are both arriving0.76
00:30:11.620at the White House tomorrow. And it's been my sort of, I don't know, theory or perhaps
00:30:19.500reading the tea leaves here, does it seem like there is a formulation going on to try to combine
00:30:26.680the Ukraine war and the Iran conflict? Yes, I think that that is absolutely something that
00:30:33.120is underway. I think you see it in a lot of different dimensions. I mean, one is that Ukraine
00:30:39.040allegedly struck an Iran-linked vessel in the Caspian Sea over the weekend, which is kind of
00:30:45.020like Zelensky's effort to really sort of fuse these wars together and to make the case that
00:30:49.720the United States should enter the Ukraine war more as a co-belligerent by tying it again to
00:30:55.080this struggle that we're already enmeshed in with Iran. I also think you see it happening in
00:30:59.720Congress because while Zelensky comes to the White House, he will also allegedly be meeting
00:31:04.740or apparently rather be meeting with senators ahead of this big Russia and Iran sanctions bill
00:31:11.960that's currently moving through the Senate. So I think it is a very deliberate and conservative
00:31:16.200effort to merge these two conflicts that you're seeing. Yeah, when I saw that open up in the
00:31:22.640Caspian Sea, I had to read the news a couple of times. I said, wait a minute. So Israel struck an
00:31:29.120Iranian supply ship in the Caspian Sea and map break. We do have it up so folks can see that0.90
00:31:35.280this is across the caucuses from the Black Sea. So totally, you know, pretty far afield for the
00:31:42.960Ukrainians. They have been conducting more long range strikes over the past year or so. We've
00:31:47.840certainly seen that situation turn into a stalemate. There's no question. But this seems like a new
00:31:53.100front opening up, not just and of course, I'm sure he'll say, well, this is just, you know,
00:31:57.340we're attacking Russian supply lines. But at the same time, we know that Israel, the United States0.53
00:32:03.640and Iran are embroiled in this conflict. And it seems to me like he's trying to get in on the game.
00:32:10.220Yeah, I think that's exactly right. I mean, I think Zelensky is a canny operator. And,
00:32:14.460you know, he has been trying to get the United States ever more directly involved in this war
00:32:19.720since it began. And I understand that from his perspective. But, you know, we have our own sort
00:32:24.480of discrete set of national interests. And so, you know, you have to look at this and understand
00:32:28.620sort of the motivations that are driving it. No, and it makes sense because from his perspective,
00:32:36.520because as I say, that it does appear to have turned into a stalemate and, you know, credit
00:32:42.000where it's due. That is, I think that Russia has vastly underperformed their expectations,0.77
00:32:48.420particularly for 2026. We didn't see any major breakouts in the spring. We haven't seen any
00:32:53.900in the summer thus far. They have been conducting, Ukraine has been conducting more long-range
00:32:58.880strikes into Russia. But at the same time, I don't think there's much appetite from the American
00:33:04.620people for more involvement with Ukraine. So it seems to me as though Zelensky is making a play
00:33:10.240directly for the president. Yeah, I think that's exactly right. I mean, I think the timing is also
00:33:15.500interesting because, as you know, we're in the middle of this pause, right, on strikes against
00:33:20.260Iran. And the president has spoken to reporters several times today, basically saying that the
00:33:26.420reason for this pause is to give negotiators the space to see if we can't get diplomacy moving
00:33:33.380again. And so, you know, it does raise this question of what happens if the Iran conflict
00:33:38.740is or moves closer to a diplomatic resolution. Is this play going to work out? Obviously,
00:33:44.900as I said earlier, it's tied to, it's partly tied to the momentum of this bill for additional
00:33:50.520sanctions in the Senate. And I think that this, it's just very uncertain whether this play,
00:33:57.860which I agree with you, is being made directly, it's a sort of an appeal being made directly to
00:34:02.140the president of the United States, whether it is going to pan out for Zelensky.
00:34:07.580Well, and that creates a huge problem because this is something where if you're the United
00:34:13.200States and the president obviously has, has talked about this. He took a question about it earlier
00:34:17.120regarding whether or not, um, you know, some of these questions about his Russia supplying
00:34:21.060intelligence to, uh, the Iranians. Although I would point out that we publicly know that the
00:34:26.260Chinese with their Beto satellite, um, system is absolutely providing targeting data on our
00:34:33.080aircraft carriers and more to the Iranians that if this were to escalate into such a way,0.53
00:34:41.320this would be a way that Iran's military allies, like Russia, would potentially come into the
00:34:47.920conflict, which is something that we know that the generals have absolutely been warning against.
00:34:53.060This is one of the reasons that you saw Dan Cain and others at the Pentagon saying that, look,
00:34:57.380we need to take this operational pause, not just to assess what the battle damage is in terms of
00:35:02.880the Strait of Hormuz, in terms of the targets and whether or not they've been totally neutralized,
00:35:07.380But also because this question of the shortage of Patriot missiles, the shortage of interceptors, which is something I've been talking about on this program since day one, that, you know, these things cannot you cannot conduct these operations unilaterally.
00:35:21.440You cannot conduct them indefinitely. And they come with real costs and real risks.
00:35:26.280And that's one of the reasons that, you know, I found it personally so appalling to see Lindsey Graham so so giddy when he knew that Americans were going in harm's way.
00:35:34.940Yeah, I think that's a huge problem. I mean, I think you're exactly right to hit on the shortage of munitions. We saw a lot of press coverage of this over the weekend, actually. There was a report that the Wall Street Journal put out that sort of described how at the highest levels of Pentagon leadership, you've got Chairman Cain and CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper talking about the tradeoffs with respect to the use of munitions if we're going to kind of continue these operations.
00:36:02.620And I'll remind you, too, that, you know, this was one of the cardinal or central objections to the deepening involvement that the Biden administration was pursuing with Ukraine, was that we were basically giving away the farm when it came to our own stockpiles of munitions.
00:36:18.000And the reality is that, you know, we have the most powerful military in human history, but we are not omnipotent. We are not invincible. We have real sort of constraints that we have to sort of observe and be cognizant of.
00:36:31.220And as we think about the potential for conflicts or threats to emerge in other areas, and obviously China is always going to be kind of number one in that calculus.
00:36:40.660You know, we have to be thinking very, very strategically and very, very sort of very much in what IR theorists would call like realist terms about what the constraints of our power are and where it makes the most sense to really kind of focus our strategic efforts.1.00
00:36:55.720no there's there's no question about that because uh we do have serious threats from china we have0.98
00:37:03.480serious threats on the potential of and you know an outbreak there with taiwan which we already1.00
00:37:08.980know that we've dropped a number of our interceptors in that area this is one of the
00:37:13.100issues with imperial overstretch that um you know eventually you get into the finite resources
00:37:19.460allotment of reality and that's just reality is we also know that we've dropped interceptor
00:37:23.840coverage of South Korea. So should North Korea make any attempt on the South, then they would
00:37:28.680be able to do so with a lot more impunity than before. Obviously, we have ballistic missile
00:37:34.040defense from other platforms in the region, our Arleigh Burke destroyers and a number of the
00:37:38.560technology that we give in the Japanese. But still, this creates so many issues.
00:37:45.600I want to, all right, looks like we're going to have to be just out of time here because the
00:37:49.620president is going to come up and be speaking. I'd love to get you on later in the week when
00:37:53.660have a little bit more time we're not up against the president uh tell people what your coordinates
00:37:57.340are um so i'm senior editor at the american conservative you can uh follow the american
00:38:02.620conservative on x you can also follow me on x at luke underscore nicastro all right thanks so much
00:38:08.300luke appreciate it jack posovic right back human events daily real america's voice president trump
00:47:32.180We need to find out what the facts are on the ground here in Michigan.
00:47:34.600And that's just one example, of course.
00:47:36.600Something else that the president's doing here, Jack, pretty clearly.
00:47:39.600He's been in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan.
00:47:42.840He's going to all the swing states that he still thinks are key to the midterm election.
00:47:46.700And, of course, you've got this big convention coming up on the 9th and 10th of September in Texas to reinvigorate the Republicans, doing something that hasn't been done before.