00:03:07.820I don't know if they're just dumb.1.00
00:03:10.200I don't know if they're just tone deaf.0.99
00:03:11.840But I do know this, that they are finding things, emotional triggers, that make people upset.
00:03:18.340And one of those things that a lot of people are upset about right now, believe it or not, online and across the country is, of course, the cost of living.
00:03:26.760It's now, in some polls, being seen as the number one issue in the 2026 midterm elections.
00:03:34.820And I'm not even entirely sure how it all got started.
00:03:38.000I was talking about gas prices earlier this week, and then last week I sort of got into it with Kevin O'Leary and his gold Rolex, a $2 million Rolex, and I said, you know, you can't be bragging about stuff like that and going on and talking like that if you want to win politically and if you don't want to upset these people.
00:04:02.760But somehow we got on the topic of burritos. Yes, we got on the topic of burritos. And of course, my friend Andrew Colvette from Turning Point USA has I was had come came in on this and J.D. Vance came in on this.
00:04:20.460But I did want to go in and talk about all this because it's very similar to what I was talking about in terms of having an economic system that serves the national good and having an economic system that understands the needs of the people first.
00:04:36.220And, you know, burritos sort of became this proxy system for debating all of this.
00:04:44.120So I wanted to go back, ladies and gentlemen, I wanted to go back, back, back to an old video, an old advertisement, actually, from everyone's favorite, those authentic Mexican cuisine connoisseurs over at Taco Bell.
00:09:20.660I was I was enthralled by the big burrito intro, the burrito beef, as we're talking about, because you're exactly right.
00:09:28.260It is this entire concept of, you know, they're taking this Taco Bell stuff and they're saying, yeah, back in the back in the late 90s, the early 2000s, you can get tacos for thirty nine cents and seventy nine cents in a buck.
00:09:38.920And and you get you know, there's they had combinations you could do for two bucks.
00:09:43.760You get drinks and and an extra, you know, quesadilla or whatever.
00:09:47.900And it was true. And I was saying, you know, we do this on the show a lot. Before COVID, I had the receipt in my pocket that was $9.90 for this burrito that I would get across the street a lot. And then after COVID, that same burrito, same ingredients was $15.50. And you think that is an incredible rise in prices in just a short span of time.
00:10:11.160But but when these socialists, democratic socialists are trying to sell you their spiel of, oh, no, no, we're going to we're going to make things affordable.
00:10:19.460We're going to get the prices down. They forget that it was their side that brought the prices up and getting prices down is easier said than done.
00:10:27.700I mean, if you take eggs, everybody can promise to get eggs down in six months because chickens produce eggs all the time.
00:10:34.620But when you're talking about beef and other stuff, it's going to take a while because you can only grow the cows so fast.
00:10:42.680You can only turn these contracts so fast.
00:10:45.820So turning the ship, turning these massive ships, you know, when you're talking about prices is going to take a little while, Jack, because that's kind of the way the economy works.
00:10:56.000And I think these socialists, what they leave out of all of their their hype about they're going to they're going to give you free health care.
00:11:04.560It's going to be great is the fact that when they talk about Medicare for all, they're also talking about private insurance for none because Medicare takes everything and everybody's got to wait in line six months to get a get a checkup.
00:11:17.720And then everybody's taxes are going to go way up. That's the way this whole thing works, which is why we still have private insurance.
00:11:25.900because it is the best system available, and I don't think the Republicans have done enough
00:11:31.520to hammer that point home, is they want to open the prisons. They want your private insurance
00:11:37.760to go away. They want to open the prisons. They want to get rid of police. They want to get rid
00:11:42.300of ICE. And you think, why are you so in favor of criminals, and yet you're not in favor of
00:11:49.080you know, of Israel. Why is what is going on with why is the hate pointed in certain directions and
00:11:56.360not other directions? And I would love for somebody from the DSA or even supported by the
00:12:01.960DSA or DSA candidates like Abdul El Saeed and get an explanation and you never get it. All you get
00:12:09.560is the talking points of how they're going to lower everything, how they're going to make,
00:12:13.580you know, America into this utopia where we all shop at the same stores and it's 30 percent
00:12:18.960less and we're going to do it all for you and they know it's bs and everybody knows it's bs but
00:12:23.860people are falling for it because people love headlines and they hate to read the actual text
00:12:29.160because it's too much damn work no they they do and and they know that they know that every single
00:12:35.240time this has ever been tried anywhere around the world uh i come from a polish family believe me0.87
00:12:40.300the polls to tell you right now that that it does not work and the polls were very very excited to
00:12:46.000get their freedom back in the 1990s, 1991. Actually, funny enough, I believe 1991 is
00:12:51.840exactly when that Taco Bell commercial came out. So, you know, it's sort of this tie between the
00:12:57.580cheap burritos, the fall of communism, the systems, they fall apart. And in fact, I don't
00:13:02.440believe Taco Bell, but I know it was sort of McDonald's and Burger King. These were some of
00:13:06.740the franchises that were opening up after the Berlin Wall came down, if the Iron Curtain came
00:13:11.820down, they were starting to open up and people really viewed those as ways to, you know,
00:13:19.080Now, that being said, I, I do actually, if I'm in Poland, I'm probably not going to be
00:13:22.380ordering tacos and burritos, but you know, I'm probably going to go for Polish food,
00:13:26.520but, but it's, it speaks to the wider point of what, what we're saying that these systems
00:13:30.960sound good when, uh, when they're, um, you know, when they're promoted, they never tell
00:13:35.820you about the downsides and they know, they know that it doesn't work because it's been
00:13:41.000try it again and again because they don't care. What they ultimately care about is power. What
00:13:46.080they ultimately care about is the power over your country, the power over your decisions,
00:13:51.080the power over corporations, economy, the, as you say, the police, the prisons, they want total
00:13:56.220power. All the other stuff that doesn't even enter into the equation. And, you know, actually
00:14:01.100it's, it's interesting. And because one of the pieces where, which did lead to all of this,
00:14:05.960of course, was COVID. And I think the disastrous response of the Biden administration and the
00:14:12.180lockdowns by so many blue governors that led to all of this inflation. And we just saw the news
00:14:17.080and Trace, I had to get your your take on this first bite at the apple that we just saw that
00:14:22.540Dr. Fauci, the guy who led the response to all of this, that a lot of people are saying, you know
00:14:29.920what? That guy needs some accountability. He has just been held in contempt from the Senate,
00:14:36.340the Senate committee. And it was this situation where he refused to answer any questions. Now,
00:14:41.560people say, well, what about the Fifth Amendment? He had a pardon, though. So if he has a pardon,
00:14:46.540does the Fifth Amendment apply? This is actually contempt. And Trace, I wanted you to weigh in on
00:14:51.900that because, again, what are we talking about? Centralized government power, one person making
00:14:56.880decisions for everyone sounds a lot like socialism which is why you have the liberal media jack that's
00:15:03.580actually you know fighting this and standing up for fauci because they were complicit they are
00:15:07.460the ones that helped him do his and in turn we found out from his diary that he was he was
00:15:13.800literally sprawled by the medium and he loved the attention he wrote about the attention and every
00:15:19.740single day one of his first entries was oh man they want me on this show and oh i you know i'm
00:15:25.480I've become famous across. And, you know, the fame took him out of the mission, took him away from the goal, which was to actually guide people in the proper direction during COVID.
00:15:36.160And in that goal, you know, Fauci forgot about other opinions and other people.
00:15:42.260In fact, he demeaned the Jay Bhattacharyas of the world. He demeaned these people as being irrelevant.
00:15:48.340When they wrote the Great Barrington debate and they were talking about differing ways to handle COVID and let's not focus as much on vaccines and putting people inside, we need to really focus on putting the elderly, the people who are sick and vulnerable, putting them aside and letting everybody else kind of live their lives because this is going to be the best thing.
00:16:12.780And the left shut that narrative down. And every time someone tried to bring it in and we saw this, I mean, social media shut it down. The liberal media shut it down. They were all complicit in this. And Fauci was their hero because he went along with it.
00:16:28.780He's the one that bragged about the governor of California, you know, took his advice and shut down the schools and shut down the shops and shut down any, you know, non-essential business and how he also convinced the governor or the mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, to shut down the schools.
00:16:48.240So he did that knowing, knowing that this was not the right move. And then later he said, I had nothing to do with shutting down the schools. Oh, yes, you did. And you wrote about it. And that's why we wanted answers.
00:16:59.820And 111 times that he took the fifth was a slap in the face to everybody who had to sit behind glass, Jack, and watch their loved ones die because you could not go in because it was some ridiculous law or rule that you could not go in and actually hug or spend time with a loved one who was dying because of COVID.
00:17:22.340They made these draconian rules. People lost their livelihoods, their jobs, their military service because they would not take the vaccine.
00:17:31.980And we now realize that they told us, oh, if you take the vaccine, it's going to stop the spread.
00:17:38.060No, it's not going to stop the spread. Didn't stop you from spreading. Didn't stop you from getting.
00:17:42.880And they didn't tell us that until after all the controversy was starting to wind down.
00:17:47.160They screwed up COVID. And Fauci is emblematic of that screw up. And they refused. They refused to say, you know what, we got it wrong. We're sorry. And Fauci, you know, saying nothing 111 times is part and parcel of that bigger picture.
00:18:04.220well and and you know i i don't usually tell this story uh publicly but you know perhaps i should
00:18:09.940since it's come back in the news so we had our second um kid and it was december of 2020 so
00:18:16.200kind of the height of you know these these covid restrictions and um first of all they were they
00:18:22.820first they tried to tell me that i couldn't be in the room um because we and believe it or not we
00:18:28.580both tested positive i said well if we're both positive what's the difference and we'd had it
00:18:32.760before. So that wasn't even a strong case. They said, well, you can't even be in the room.
00:18:36.840Then they said that I could, I wasn't allowed to leave and come back. So if I wanted to,
00:18:40.460you know, go get my wife, something from the store, you know, pregnant women sometimes get,0.94
00:18:44.400get urges and cravings. I don't know if people have ever, ever had a pregnant wife before,
00:18:48.020but you know, sometimes they want something. And as the dad, you can do that. And then the very
00:18:52.700last bit, they tried to tell my wife that she had to wear a mask while she was giving birth.
00:19:00.200Let me tell you something, Trace. She took one look at them and said, if you try to put that over my face, something is going to happen to you because, no, I need to be able to breathe because we're going to make sure everything comes out all right.
00:19:14.340And it was perfect. It was a wonderful birth. But I will never forget that. I'll never forget that. And Fauci is the face of it. That was socialism.
00:19:22.840Right back. Jack Posobiec, Human Events Daily with Trace Gallagher.
00:19:30.200Influences. These are influences. And they're friends of mine. Jack Posobiec. Where's Jack?
00:24:58.720I said that I go out, listen, I can cut my, I can do whatever I want.
00:25:01.740I can cut my hair. I can, I just don't know what to do with it.
00:25:04.760It's just all I have. I mean, it's, it's kind of my hair.
00:25:07.540So it's going to, it's going to, you know, get longer and shorter and I'll do
00:25:10.420whatever I can. And, uh, you know, eventually I,
00:25:13.360eventually I won him over and it's been 30 years of Fox news channel.
00:25:16.600And it's been, it's been a great run. In fact,
00:25:18.560the 30th anniversary is October 7th of this year. So it's been,
00:25:23.080it's been quite the ride, Jack, but it's,
00:25:25.120the book is kind of a little bit about everything.
00:25:27.200But it goes to show you, right, that he, this is also, that's a lesson, right? That's a lesson in how people perceive and receive information. It's a lesson in optics. It's a lesson in just if you're doing media, if you're in this world, or lots of people who are trying to start out with social media these days, TikTok and other things, that's something to think about is, you know, you might think, well, I just, this is how I look, but are you thinking about how someone else, the audience, right, is perceiving that?
00:25:56.480So even that is a, is a great example. Now, I just want to be clear. Um, so you're saying that
00:26:01.940if I read the book, I'll be able to, uh, I will also be able to become a water boarder because,
00:26:08.200or excuse me, a water, a water surfer. I've already done the water boarding at Gitmo. Um,
00:26:12.500that, uh, that, uh, because, you know, as, as a Polish guy, my, my, my, my skills on the water
00:26:18.360surfing aren't so great. Well, neither were Jimmy Buffett's just so you're in good company there,
00:26:23.300because you know neither were his skills on the water very good but yeah it's it is it's the whole
00:26:28.660it's the part and parcel of you know the bigger picture which is fundamentals of life really help
00:26:33.520everybody jack no matter where you start or what you want to do the fundamentals are the best way
00:26:37.900it's john wooden's advice to me which said you know of all the things you wanted him to teach
00:26:42.240you how to dribble and you wanted you know you wanted all the inside of the greatest college
00:26:45.760basketball coach ever because i was a crappy basketball player and john wooden literally
00:26:50.700got up to the microphone and he said you know boys sit down take off your shoes and socks you
00:26:54.740should have two pairs of socks you put the first pair on the right way and you put the second pair
00:26:59.540on inside out if you do that you will never get blisters you cannot play back trace the book is
00:27:04.980amazing it is called turns out they were right all along trace god bless and thanks so much for
00:27:10.480coming on and joining us today thank you jack all right check it out books but folks check the book
00:27:45.260All right, folks, Jack Posobiec back live, human events, daily, Real America's Voice.0.79
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00:28:51.740All right, I wanted to get in now, folks, on more on this question of Iran, where we're at, a potential deal, and even the Strait of Hormuz and where everything is at.
00:29:03.400And in fact, so I just on Timcast IRL last night and kind of broke down a little bit of an analysis because I was asked the question of what I thought would come next.
00:29:32.200But there was only dredged in the center because the large tankers weren't able to get through the large hole, especially when it's full, so it's going to be lower with the super tankers.
00:29:41.400But now the Omanis have kind of cleared out a route that's completely to the south because they call it the Hugging Oman route.
00:29:49.400And the reason that that matters is because it doesn't stray into Iranian waters at all.
00:29:53.980And so they're saying, hey, if this thing doesn't go into Iranian waters, what is your claim for messing with the shipping?
00:30:01.500While Ron, of course, is saying, like, well, we want to control all shipping and and we want to control all trade through that.
00:30:07.440And so what seems to be happening, at least as far as I know, I haven't, you know, I don't have any direct information as to the current negotiations that are taking place.
00:30:17.840But what seems to be happening is this sort of like dual route scenario, like you say, like a northern route, southern route.
00:30:24.860All right. And so come in to weigh in on that.
00:30:27.960We've got Andrew Day. He's the senior editor of the American Conservative.
00:30:31.500Andrew how are you I'm good thanks for having me back yeah so Andrew I mean that's that's just kind
00:30:37.300of my spitballing you know reading the tea leaves I could like I said I could be completely wrong
00:30:42.100but on how it shakes out I think it's it's you know it could be anyone's guess at this time
00:30:47.160but but the idea being that it seems to me that it's almost like two routes seem to be what's
00:30:53.600opening up and I wanted to want to get your take on that and really where things stand in general
00:30:57.560so it's a little unclear at the moment but right now it seems like iran and oman are closing in
00:31:05.540on some kind of deal to govern how the strait of hormuz operates and under that arrangement
00:31:10.120iran would be coordinating with ships especially going inbound oman would be handling ships
00:31:15.940outbound but they would still kind of consult with iran to get approval for that so iran would
00:31:20.980still be coordinating this these routes they're driving a pretty hard bargain on the strait of
00:31:25.280Hormuz, to be honest, especially after the Memorandum of Understanding collapsed over
00:31:29.640disagreements about Lebanon and Israel's military campaign there, and also disagreements about the
00:31:34.560Strait of Hormuz. And what I was told from sources who are involved in regional mediation efforts
00:31:38.720is that Iran is driving a hard bargain on Hormuz, specifically because of the disagreement that
00:31:43.420emerged over Lebanon. They wanted to be sure that they maintained control of their leverage.
00:31:47.440And right now it does sound like they want to control the Strait of Hormuz, essentially. They
00:31:51.820They want to coordinate with these ships, make them so that the ships have to basically reach
00:31:55.720out to the IRGC and get some sort of approval. So that's a big ask. And if that arrangement is
00:32:01.660indeed what we are left with at the end of this war, it's going to get a lot of pushback. It's
00:32:06.080going to be pretty ugly. But what I would say is people who are upset about that and complaining
00:32:10.600about that, they're usually misdirecting their anger. The problem is the war itself. It's not
00:32:16.480that the war is ending. It's that the war started in the first place, because as you mentioned in
00:32:20.440that clip. The Strait of Hormuz was open before this war started, and now Iran is driving a hard0.97
00:32:25.900bargain. It still remains to be seen whether they're going to be charging tolls. They would
00:32:30.000probably call them some sort of service fee for environmental damages or whatever. I don't think
00:32:35.240the Trump administration has publicly signaled yet that they would be okay with that, although
00:32:39.420we did get some comments from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent that suggested that they weren't
00:32:43.800explicitly ruling it out, which is interesting. And we've gotten mixed reporting about whether
00:32:48.300the Iranians want to do that, but it does seem like they're going to have some sort of control
00:32:51.680over the Strait of Hormuz, or at least that that's what they're angling for here.0.98
00:32:56.280Well, that's exactly right. And so that's why, you know, basically that's the status quo ante,
00:33:01.240right? So the status quo ante, the state of affairs before the conflict took place was that
00:33:06.420it was this international transit corridor. And what the Iranians have pointed out and the
00:33:11.120Omanis have pointed out that technically there is no, there are no international waters here
00:33:16.940because it's so narrow that this is the territorial waters of each.
00:33:23.140And under the law of the sea, when you have a situation there
00:33:25.960that two nations' territorial waters meet,
00:33:29.720then you split the difference, basically.
00:33:32.140Because it's typically 12 nautical miles is the standard on that.0.86
00:33:35.960And so the point being is that Iran really does have the ability, right?
00:33:42.540And this is something that I think a lot of people have missed
00:33:45.020when they were analyzing the situation completely is that they missed that Iran was able to use0.69
00:33:50.940their asymmetrical advantage here with this situation to be able to use it to their advantage.
00:33:57.340And to your point, even if Iran only has a couple of drones left or only a couple of small boats0.90
00:34:05.480left with rocket launchers or whatever it is, some small munitions, they're still able to0.76
00:34:13.240effectuate this level of control over that strait because it comes down to, and I've
00:34:18.240said on the program so many times, that it just comes down to if you're the captain of
00:34:22.560one of these ships, one of these super tankers, and you've got a billion dollars or more in
00:34:27.340terms of your cargo, and you've got your insurer and your reinsurer, Swiss reinsurance, coming
00:34:33.440in saying, hey, we don't think you can go through that strait, then you're going to
00:34:37.980just park. And so this has always been the card that Iran was going to play if they were backed0.66
00:34:44.680into a corner. Yeah, I totally agree with that. I mean, for as long as there are some guys who1.00
00:34:50.540have speedboats and shoulder weapons and who, you know, work for the Iranians or represent their0.72
00:34:55.420interests, there's going to be potentially a problem here because they can harass ships.0.90
00:34:58.920And it's not just a matter of whether a ship can freely transit and kind of make a run for it and
00:35:03.980get through it. It's a matter of whether the captains of those ships are willing to take that
00:35:08.260risk. And it's a matter of whether the insurance companies are willing to take that risk. And what
00:35:12.300we've seen, even when the U.S. said it was going to be helping them transit and coordinating that,
00:35:18.200giving them an escort, the insurance companies and the captains have generally been unwilling
00:35:22.680to do this. The Trump administration did a good job of getting some oil out, but it wasn't at
00:35:26.880levels that we saw before the war, before hostilities. And clearly there's going to have
00:35:30.680to be some sort of diplomatic arrangement. And what I would point out is just this key point that
00:35:35.440in war, you need to have an understanding of your strategy. What is the strategic logic of the
00:35:40.640hostilities you're waging? Because obviously it's true, even with this munitions shortage that
00:35:45.220everyone is talking about, where we're running out of interceptors and these so-called exquisite0.87
00:35:49.000munitions, the long-range precision strike missiles, we still could bomb Iran all day,0.97
00:35:54.660bomb their buildings, kill their leaders or their IRGC members and stuff. But what is the logic of0.98
00:36:00.320that, because even if that led to some sort of general collapse of Iran, a country of more than
00:36:05.04090 million people, that wouldn't necessarily solve this problem. We could just see terrorists
00:36:10.260kind of fill the power vacuum, and we would still have this problem that the Strait of Hormuz is
00:36:13.920just very close to Iran. And so that's why I think this is going to have to end in some kind of
00:36:18.740diplomatic arrangement. I'm expecting that there would be a lot of pushback on Trump. I imagine
00:36:23.260that he feels pretty stuck right now. He feels like he's stuck between these different options
00:36:27.320that are both bad. Continuing the war and, you know, wasting even more of these munitions that
00:36:32.540I just mentioned, that would be really bad for American interests or getting some sort of0.70
00:36:36.240arrangement with Iran that they're OK with over the Strait of Hormuz. That's going to be politically
00:36:40.880very dicey for him. But I think that he should just go for it. And as I mentioned, when these
00:36:44.920people inevitably start pushing back, we should remind them this is your fault. This war has been
00:36:50.120a costly distraction, self-destructive of American power and otherwise nearly irrelevant to American
00:36:56.380interests, except to the extent that it has been bad for us as we try to pursue our interests.0.97
00:37:01.560And the fools and traitors, frankly, and foreign interests who pushed for this war and said that0.98
00:37:06.480we'd be able to get regime change in just a few weeks and that it was going to be a new regime1.00
00:37:10.540that loved America or something. They were selling Trump a bill of goods. And now, unfortunately,
00:37:15.060the bill has come due and it's not what they promised. And this is where you mentioned
00:37:20.480munitions as well but but also when this is why that when the saudis called on saturday because
00:37:26.400of course you know since since we've last spoken there there had been this potential president was
00:37:31.200looking at a range of options he called it a world war ii scale attack on iran and then of course if
00:37:37.200iran responded they came out and said that they were going to strike the saudi oil fields that if
00:37:41.440iran's energy infrastructure was hit they were going to hit the saudis and and other gulf partners
00:37:46.160as well. And the story we got, and then it later broke, and the president himself actually said
00:37:50.800this, that when the Saudis called, they said, look, even if we had a full complement of air
00:37:55.700interceptors, that's the way this works, that if Iran's able to slip a few drones or even just a
00:38:01.420few rockets, a few missiles or the Houthis into those oil fields, they're so large, you're not
00:38:06.720going to be able to effectively protect them completely from the air. They only need a couple0.64
00:38:12.040hits in for that entire oil field to potentially go up in flames. And so this gets into the
00:38:19.240asymmetrical warfare threats in the Middle East. Jack Posobiec, right back, Real America's Voice,
00:44:46.720Katie Vance has pointed this out as well as the vice president.
00:44:49.580And also the current and by the way, this is also the current government of Israel as well.
00:44:55.000And so Bibi Netanyahu, for example, he's in a very slim electoral coalition in control of parliament right now as the prime minister.
00:45:03.180And they have an election coming up in about two months time, give or take.
00:45:08.240I believe it's October where their election is coming up.
00:45:10.920And so that's one of the main reasons that he's pushing for a lot of this to keep going, because he wants to be able to say that I kept the United States and I kept the United States in this fight.
00:45:22.340I kept the United States pushing and escalating with Iran because he's not not only is it in their geopolitical interest in their view, but it's also in his political interests, because if he it's really been that relationship that he has with President Trump that he's been reminding voters of.
00:45:40.260That's why he went to the White House and held the meeting recently.0.81
00:45:43.980It's why Zelensky was there as well, even though Zelensky kind of wasn't able to seal the deal in terms of getting many, getting much support in terms of the asks of patriot missiles and licenses and all these things.
00:45:56.580But so there's a whole electoral context to this that I just really feel gets kind of missed from the, you know, the Western discussion of this.
00:46:04.720But if you just go and read like Times of Israel or Jerusalem Post or any of these outlets that are actually in Israel, you could see that they have a very robust conversation about it all the time.
00:46:15.440Naftali Bennett is running against Bibi Netanyahu right now, and he's saying that, you know, this guy isn't able to get it done and all the rest.
00:46:23.960So this is a guy who's fighting for his political future. And by the way, also potentially faces this this criminal case that could potentially come in because he loses immunity after he then.
00:46:36.700But I'm talking about the in Israel. I'm not talking about the international court one that that could potentially kick in if he's not prime minister anymore.
00:46:44.320So there's all of these pressures going on within Israel that totally seem to get lost from the conversation because we'll talk about the Iranian system all day long.
00:46:53.400why don't we talk about this as well? It seems like it's fair game.0.77
00:46:57.360Yeah, totally. I think that that October election is a very important detail to pay attention to.
00:47:02.620And it's come to be the case that Prime Minister Netanyahu's political interests are aligned with
00:47:07.260continued war and especially keeping the U.S. involved in backing these Israeli wars against
00:47:11.980its enemies, namely in this case, Iran, but also this so-called axis of resistance that is aligned
00:47:17.560with Iran. And, you know, Bibi Netanyahu is Mr. Security. That is his brand within Israeli
00:47:23.540domestic politics. So it's very important for him that he can kind of cash in on that and say,
00:47:28.320see, I actually do provide security. And that became obviously more difficult
00:47:32.160after the Hamas atrocities in 2023. And so he's really leaning into a more hardline militaristic
00:47:40.900foreign policy to kind of overcome the potential reputational damage from that.
00:47:45.520We should also go back all the way to 1996, I believe it was, when Netanyahu had authored for him something called the Clean Break Memo by his American neoconservative advisors.
00:47:56.020It is. And we've actually done literally almost out of time for the show.
00:48:00.380We've done full episodes on Clean Break and over the summer or excuse me, over the winter break.
00:48:04.640And I hope people can go back and check that out.