SHNEAKO - SNEAKO Interviews Brian McGinnis： US Veteran Against Iran War

00:00:00.000 Great to see what you did standing up for what is right and the backlash that I saw afterwards I was

00:00:06.100 appalled by. There is a streamer, Asmengold, when he saw what happened he started laughing and he was

00:00:10.760 saying that you deserve to be dishonorably discharged and saying that you got what was

00:00:15.120 coming to you. In my view there's nobody that we should respect more than people like you that have

00:00:19.700 actually seen what's happening who have fought for our country. Especially we're supposed to

00:00:24.060 respect the troops and understand that they're there defending our country. You actually put

00:00:27.960 your life on the line you saw it firsthand what are some of the things that you saw while you

00:00:33.080 were serving in the middle east while you were fighting in these wars it just it just painted how

00:00:38.080 how merciless the the war machine is once it's set in motion and it just doesn't jive with me now

00:00:44.360 that i have kids myself and i put my i look at my kids and i see their eyes and i have this

00:00:49.620 overwhelming sense of love and to think back to these ideas where people have lost their loved

00:00:55.140 one. It's just, it's just overwhelming. Are we going to believe the propaganda from these people

00:00:58.980 that are dancing around with swords and taking money from APAC? Or are we going to believe

00:01:03.000 the working class American who believed that he was defending his country and saw with his own

00:01:08.440 eyes that it was false and that this is propaganda? What was your reaction to seeing the subsequent

00:01:13.800 online rhetoric about what you did in the Senate? All I can just do is double down on the fact that

00:01:19.920 I was being authentic. This was not political theater. I'm genuinely trying to speak out to

00:01:24.760 save future veterans' lives. I fought. I've seen it. What else can I do other than just

00:01:32.100 share my experience and my belief and thoughts genuinely to help these other guys avoid going

00:01:39.780 into a combat zone for what? For what I truly believe is the billionaires profiteering for

00:01:46.860 unnecessary unprovoked war you actually saw it you were there these are your people the marines

00:01:52.660 that have the idea of semper fi your brothers it comes first you have all the authority to tell

00:01:58.320 people that it's right or wrong not these people that are profiting off of these wars dancing

00:02:03.960 around the people that are encouraging the war they're never going to go fight in it you actually

00:02:08.560 did these are people that were on your same side and you know they were also putting your lot their

00:02:13.940 lives on the line and you saw things that they will never see you are the real authority here

00:02:18.520 and the fact that people don't respect that is a shame upon our country brian mcginnis it's uh

00:02:23.960 great to meet you at a better setup thanks for taking the time to come on here i know it's very

00:02:28.700 late i appreciate it hey man no problem it's an honor to hang with you man and i'm curious how

00:02:36.260 was your time in saudi arabia it was great i really needed to get that you know spiritual

00:02:42.360 time and focus up on ramadan it's been pretty pretty crazy in the content world i'm sure a

00:02:47.360 lot crazier for you we saw what happened with the senator breaking your arm i'm sure that that was

00:02:52.500 you know my situation is nothing compared to that but i did need some time to reflect and focus on

00:02:58.880 my faith don't we all i agree yeah man it's good to have that yeah thanks so much for it's really

00:03:04.940 good to remove yourself from your usual environment to to really access that relaxation yeah where are

00:03:12.220 you right now where are you calling in from i'm at home i'm at my home what where do you what state

00:03:17.520 do you live i don't want to talk to anything north carolina hey guys shh we live in nightdale

00:03:23.760 north carolina can i see your uh your arm i saw it was uh oh okay it's it's healing up how's it

00:03:30.480 it's going well i um i had a hard splint here and i was gonna have my arm like this

00:03:37.540 I I've taken that off and now I'm just trying to keep the stitches and the incisions from getting infected

00:03:43.880 But and I'm not using it to lift up anything too heavy or anything, but it's healing well

00:03:50.000 I'm glad to hear that and I had an injury like that a couple years back

00:03:53.820 Obviously, it wasn't for being a hero and a patriot, but I lost a lot of weight because I couldn't go to the gym

00:03:59.400 Are you able to work out? How's everything going for you personally?

00:04:02.960 I haven't been working out. I've been just like steady doing interviews, studying American issues, getting really polished up on, you know, political issues and stuff and just pushing myself into that as much as I can.

00:04:19.400 That's dope. So how well versed were you geopolitically before the event and after?

00:04:24.800 now i've been following the palestinian effort and i remember the geopolitics of

00:04:30.120 you know the suez not the suez canal but this other canal they were trying to talk about

00:04:35.460 the natural pipe the natural gas pipeline that netanyahu tried to propose that was going right

00:04:42.020 through gaza the natural gas deposit that's underneath the ocean right off the coast of gaza

00:04:48.060 that was my introduction to like geopolitics and then the the cruelness of trying to acquire those

00:04:56.620 resources is just i mean i guess i've been told that this is the reality this is like the way

00:05:03.740 the world runs but to to see it firsthand and be connected to it via my wife being palestinian

00:05:10.160 all that it's been very overwhelming so i i don't know it's that's how my crash course went for

00:05:15.740 geopolitics. Yeah. Did you see today in the Neset, this is like Israeli Congress, they passed a law.

00:05:21.860 So now the death penalty is allowed for the prisoners. And there's about 9,000 prisoners.

00:05:26.060 A lot of them haven't even had trials. And over 4,000 of these prisoners are children. And they're

00:05:30.580 there, cheersing and clicking their glasses and saying, I'm celebrating that now they have the

00:05:37.340 ability to get the death penalty. I saw that I had to stand up and just take a walk. It was so

00:05:43.100 disturbing and it shows you the attitude they have upon uh palestinians and that their idea of 0.52

00:05:48.880 being able to kill them i understand it's for the death for anybody who's been accused of killing a

00:05:53.560 settler uh which is out of resistance which is under international law allowed i've went to 0.97

00:05:59.840 west bank i've been i've seen the violence uh given out by the israeli settlers they are vile

00:06:07.020 horrible people that live with impunity and so this this this additional law is just so

00:06:14.120 man so horrible and scary i didn't know that you were in the west bank and i do want to ask about

00:06:19.580 your time serving but when i ask you about the west bank i'm going to have to cut youtube so 0.53

00:06:23.800 youtube coming over to kick i'm sure you know how it's like with the the censorship so we're gonna

00:06:28.680 we're gonna you're smart yeah we're gonna cut that so your time serving where were you deployed

00:06:35.060 where were you stationed and why were you in the west bank it's a multiple part question

00:06:38.660 when i was in the marines i was stationed at camp majeune in north carolina and our company was on

00:06:45.780 a mew which they've talked about lately because that's the marine expeditionary unit and they're

00:06:50.860 always scheduled to either be deployed in the pacific in the mediterranean or the um you know

00:06:56.400 in one other site region of the of the world uh and so i i was deployed in the mediterranean

00:07:03.880 And we traveled throughout the Mediterranean, through the Suez Canal, into the Red Sea and the Strait of Hormuz to Bahrain, of all places.

00:07:14.460 And then that was a six-month stint.

00:07:16.260 It was right after 9-11.

00:07:17.460 Usually, you get to hit a bunch of Liberty ports and go off to, you know, into the different countries and do a lot of touristy stuff.

00:07:25.540 Ours was right after 9-11, so we were on high alert.

00:07:27.980 So we had – we stayed on the ship for three months straight, no Liberty.

00:07:31.560 and they gave us steel beach parties where they allowed us two alcoholic beverages

00:07:36.320 and lots of barbecues on the flight deck, basketball tournaments, dancing,

00:07:43.100 just whatever you could get into, hit golf balls off the flight deck.

00:07:46.480 So that was what they kind of offered in the consolation of not being able to get off the boat.

00:07:53.160 And then I was deployed in Iraq in 2003 for the initial invasion.

00:07:59.020 I operated as an LAV gunner, light armor vehicle.

00:08:02.220 It's kind of like a Bradley in the Army, but it's like a tank with wheels.

00:08:05.940 It's got a turret on the top, and I was a gunner, and I was deployed there.

00:08:11.160 And that's where I experienced my combat.

00:08:14.480 And, you know, five months doesn't seem like a long time, but you could pack a lot in there.

00:08:20.360 We were activated and we drove all over the country, and it was intense the whole time.

00:08:26.660 And so I saw a lot of things there that I had a hard time processing the rest of my life.

00:08:35.640 But so that was my time in the Marines.

00:08:38.740 And I don't remember if I asked you.

00:08:40.840 It was a little bit hard to hear when I called you from Medina.

00:08:42.720 But there was many soldiers, so many Americans who believed in the propaganda.

00:08:47.560 They really believed that they were doing the right thing.

00:08:49.880 And you have to give them credit for following their inclination to want to defend their country.

00:08:55.800 did you enlist in the military because of 9-11? No I didn't and anybody who did I really salute

00:09:02.820 you because that's that's knowing you're going to combat and signing up for that reason I signed up

00:09:07.960 because I just didn't want to go to college I didn't want to I was sick of wrestling and football

00:09:13.940 and I was looking for something different but also physically natured my friend for the football team

00:09:18.540 was going in the marines I was like I'll go in with them and that's just kind of how I haphazardly

00:09:23.340 took shape. And I really enjoyed it. And I enjoyed boot camp and all that structure,

00:09:29.180 all that discipline and challenge. But yeah, so that's kind of how I got myself into it.

00:09:36.600 Right. What do you think people don't seem to understand civilians who haven't served?

00:09:41.280 Trump is infamously a draft dodger. And now it seems like there's going to be a ground troop

00:09:45.120 invasion. What do you think civilians do not understand about the U.S. military and what

00:09:49.560 it's like to serve abroad i think the u.s military is a really strict culture that unless you're in

00:09:56.900 it and you've been forced to uh assimilate into it and take it on for your new self it you know

00:10:03.960 erases your personality and brings you back up as a soldier a marine a sailor an airman and you

00:10:10.520 become a a a movable unit within this large organization of the branch of military you're in

00:10:19.320 And you become – you're united with everybody in there and you become very efficient.

00:10:27.380 The mission is the top priority.

00:10:30.400 It's not your desires or wants.

00:10:32.440 It's the mission of everybody.

00:10:35.240 And that's just the mentality, that group mentality you really tap into.

00:10:39.320 And so you lose a part of your humanity in a sense because you're so focused on being a part of the team.

00:10:47.460 That's a good thing and a bad thing. It's part of the human situation because we can't be everything at once, but this is definitely a focused type of environment that you get yourself into in the military.

00:11:03.640 Right. I want to get to what drove you to do that act of patriotism and heroicism we saw. And I'm not sure how I am interested and I'm sure many people are about the things you've seen. But obviously, there could be, you know, it could just conjure up a lot of memories that people don't want to remember. What are some of the things that you saw while you were serving in the Middle East while you were fighting in these wars?

00:11:30.180 you um one of the most disturbing things i saw is when our unit was driving around and we saw

00:11:36.480 personal personally owned vehicle driving uh towards our direction and at this time we were

00:11:43.640 just our unit and everybody's always looking for potential threats and somebody reported the

00:11:48.620 vehicles entering you know coming from the east and um and it's i see it i got and then

00:11:54.360 And out of all this suspicious paranoia, somebody shot the vehicle and ended up killing this young boy in the passenger seat.

00:12:07.880 And the dad was driving.

00:12:09.360 and I just couldn't imagine being that dad driving him down the street not knowing you're

00:12:16.320 going to run into a convoy of United States Marine vehicles and your son gets killed right

00:12:23.660 next to you and we stopped and our commander went and with some translators and tried to

00:12:31.980 uh make it seem like try to uh make amends or try to explain the situation somehow and

00:12:40.280 and uh you know 20 minutes later we all get back in our vehicle nobody left their vehicles but we

00:12:46.280 get back ready to move and we drive on and that man's just there without a son anymore and and so

00:12:55.660 the unnecessary overreaching overkill of action there was just so unexplainable and

00:13:06.300 unforgettable and unacceptable yet it barely stalled our our our evolution of continuing on

00:13:15.040 and so it just it just painted how how merciless the the war machine is once it's set in motion

00:13:22.880 and uh and it just doesn't jive with me now that i have kids myself and i put my i look at my kids

00:13:30.160 and i see their eyes and i have this overwhelming sense of love and to think back to these ideas

00:13:35.460 where people have lost their loved one it's just it's just overwhelming and so i always had that

00:13:39.960 that back and forth troubling feeling yeah that that perspective does change probably your

00:13:49.040 perspective changed completely from before and after you enlisted? I mean, I know you did it

00:13:53.120 for money. Did you have an idea? Correct me for more, most of your time was served in Iraq?

00:13:58.900 Well, yeah. I mean, I had a deployment in Iraq, and then other was the MU, which was

00:14:04.720 not necessarily in one place. It was mostly on the ship. But yeah, my main deployment was in Iraq.

00:14:12.920 And what did you think about the people of Iraq before the war versus after? So you had a new

00:14:17.940 perspective seeing you know innocent lives being taken and the war machine continuing on regardless

00:14:26.300 of what happened did you have an idea about you know them being terrorists and this being evil

00:14:32.260 and how did that change once you saw what they were like yeah i didn't have a personal vendetta

00:14:38.160 towards anybody it's just more an objective feeling of them versus us i'm here to protect us

00:14:44.780 I'm here to carry out the missions I get from my NCOs and my commanding officers.

00:14:51.120 And it was just cut and dry like that.

00:14:53.600 I didn't venture out to think about humanity.

00:14:56.460 This was just a mission.

00:14:57.720 And the Marines really give you that focus.

00:15:02.000 You barely treat each other as humans.

00:15:04.560 You're fellow Marines.

00:15:05.760 You don't have empathy or sympathy amongst each other.

00:15:09.220 So that wouldn't make sense.

00:15:12.280 it doesn't even carry out towards anybody else especially in a combat zone where you've got you

00:15:16.820 just look at everybody as potential threats so i didn't really have a much of a first a developed

00:15:21.440 idea of who the iraqis were as as humans so that plays into the dehumanized you know dynamic we're

00:15:29.920 seeing through the idf soldiers and the palestinians and and then just this general you know uh mindset

00:15:37.100 that people take on in a military setting.

00:15:42.200 What were other soldiers saying?

00:15:43.840 So obviously it doesn't seem like you harbored any sort of prejudice

00:15:46.600 and you were doing your job as a Marine.

00:15:49.600 What was the rhetoric about the enemy?

00:15:53.380 Because we've seen most of our people like me, civilians,

00:15:57.520 our idea of the Army, we see like Vietnam Wars,

00:16:00.520 American sniper Bradley Cooper is seen as a hero for sniping 150 people,

00:16:04.640 which is crazy that we revere him as a hero or that soldier but we see them talk about like oh

00:16:09.980 charlie charlie we need to get charlie and they talk about the vietcongs and you slurs and stuff

00:16:14.220 was that common rhetoric within your platoon yeah i mean people called people that called

00:16:23.300 them the sand n-word uh ragheads um and that just i know you sneaker have been with

00:16:32.440 guys in 0.81

00:16:34.020 you know general sense

00:16:36.720 or locker room talk as Trump

00:16:38.780 has sadly used or said

00:16:40.520 but it's just guys

00:16:42.500 just get loose and start talking

00:16:44.320 really loose and stuff and

00:16:46.240 this hateful rhetoric becomes

00:16:48.800 not normal

00:16:50.160 and in the Marines and the

00:16:52.580 military in this combat

00:16:54.200 setting we're not saying

00:16:56.560 hey pass me

00:16:57.920 some chips dude like give me the 1.00

00:17:00.280 fucking chips motherfucker it's just 1.00

00:17:02.080 It's like, and that's normal. And that's just the way things evolve within the social settings. And, and so, yeah, there's the dehumanizing is, is ghastly from my point of view and perspective now. But when you're in it, you're, it's just normal. 1.00

00:17:24.740 So that's why it's just hard to look back at that, and I cringe to think of how things go and to place my family anywhere near that is just scary.

00:17:40.080 So that's where I come from this repulsive this this repulsive reaction of me and going to the Senate and screaming at the generals and just rebuking this war machine because I've been a part of it.

00:17:55.640 It's just nothing for humanity. It's just destructive and it's horrible.

00:17:59.400 And and and so, yeah, that's my situation. We appreciate it. Like you talking about this, it's it's clear that you saw evil and it's not easy to talk about this.

00:18:10.900 And it takes a lot of courage, not to overly glaze, but I can't imagine what it's like for you to remember this stuff and to be honest about it.

00:18:19.300 And this dehumanization is responsible for the atrocities we saw in Abu Ghraib.

00:18:25.540 What changed the minds of so many Americans because of the dehumanization was all over American soil,

00:18:31.360 what finally changed their mind is seeing the torturing that went on.

00:18:34.280 There's a famous picture of Abu Ghraib where the prisoners kept up like, you know,

00:18:39.420 Jesus on the crucifix and they're electrocuting him.

00:18:42.280 We've seen videos of the dogs going on to torture the prisoners.

00:18:47.440 Did you ever see anything like that, similar to Abu Ghraib?

00:18:52.940 No, I didn't see anything as super exploitative like that.

00:18:59.480 But I have a pretty interesting story.

00:19:01.000 They got this young boy and had him tied up, and he kept on getting loose.

00:19:06.540 So they really tied him hard, and they hog-tied him and put a sheet over him.

00:19:11.320 and wouldn't you know this boy without breaking his profile under the sheet got his hands free

00:19:20.440 and then once they and he was very quiet and once they pulled the sheet up his hands were free so

00:19:26.000 he darted and ran off uh because he got his hands free they chased him down and caught him again

00:19:31.440 but if you've ever been hogtied that is a very claustrophobic hard to breathe position so um

00:19:40.120 Just knowing that these people endured such barbaric behavior, man, it's just it's it's almost they have my respect for just enduring such such hardships and pain and struggle like that.

00:19:58.160 But that's something that I remember happening. And yeah, man, I appreciate you saying that, but it's like I'm not trying to tell on anybody.

00:20:05.580 I'm not trying to blow the whistle or nothing.

00:20:07.960 I'm just trying to be real.

00:20:09.180 I think explaining what my experience was is one more peer into what war's got and what happens there.

00:20:19.140 Because I think we're all smart and strong enough to handle these realities.

00:20:24.000 I think the stigma of they don't want to talk about this or you don't want to talk about that, I respect that.

00:20:30.300 maybe some people don't want to but i feel it's more important to like express these things so

00:20:35.280 everybody knows about it so somehow maybe we can discourage it from happening anymore right and

00:20:41.360 avoid the same mistakes which we are seeing so much of that same rhetoric going to geopolitics

00:20:46.100 the narrative for the iraq war was that they were harboring weapons of mass destruction

00:20:50.220 and there were a million civilians killed they were using chemical weapons they were you know

00:20:55.940 committing war crimes and then afterwards turns out there were no weapons of mass destruction

00:20:59.660 There was no real reason to go into Iraq other than to benefit Israel because Netanyahu said

00:21:04.580 that it was very beneficial for them, destabilizing their enemies in the Middle East. 0.56

00:21:08.960 Now, the same thing is happening with the Marines today, which is, I could assume that

00:21:13.700 this is why you decided to stand up in the Senate because you saw the same mistakes.

00:21:18.780 There's no real objective to the end of this war.

00:21:21.180 Right now, they're targeting civilian buildings.

00:21:23.240 They're just bombing the country because they don't know where the military targets are.

00:21:26.240 And now they're saying, OK, we need to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which is exactly how it was before the war even started.

00:21:32.300 So there's no real endgame. They're saying that they have a nuclear weapon.

00:21:35.180 Iran has denied this. There's no specific evidence of this happening.

00:21:38.460 They said they need to dig up their nuclear capabilities, even though it was a 12-day war last year. 0.62

00:21:43.560 It sounds identical. When you were in Iraq, what was the narrative about weapons of mass destruction? 0.98

00:21:49.200 And how can we make that comparison to this war in Iran today?

00:21:52.300 man so concisely put i agree with you 100 same things happening today you know um i you know

00:22:01.040 the weapons of mass destruction was something that was put out there to uh initiate the war

00:22:07.540 um and then there was this threat of chemical weapons or nerve agents and so they gave us

00:22:14.240 these pills to take to help you know the symptoms of that if we were ever attacked

00:22:19.760 I never took those. I'm still curious to this day what those pills were or what they truly would do.

00:22:28.680 But yeah, I just agree with you so much that I don't know.

00:22:31.640 The connection is just they're lying their way into these wars because they don't care about the fallout.

00:22:39.660 They have already set the precedent where Americans don't care enough to look back to find accountability.

00:22:47.340 we don't care that there was no weapons of mass destruction oh well it happened move on and they

00:22:53.920 think that's the same thing that will happen with iran and but it's not the same thing that's

00:22:58.980 happened with iran i think iran has got the upper hand they're um they're they're they're much more

00:23:04.980 fortified they're much larger than iraq and they're fighting back and the two to two narratives the

00:23:12.280 american perspective and the iranians perspective are two different stories i don't know which one

00:23:18.440 to believe so uh i don't know what's happening okay and basically i'm asking so the main military

00:23:28.260 objectives when you were there was it to try to look for the weapons of mass destruction

00:23:32.880 what were you told to do what were the specific uh tasks and instructions our unit was to lead

00:23:41.080 supply trains towards baghdad and we did submissions on the way there we went to al

00:23:47.120 khut and we were just distraction uh towards the iraqi forces inside al khut and so they

00:23:55.440 we caught their attention entering into the south of the town and an army group um uh attacked from

00:24:02.940 the west and and and fought and invaded the city that way and as we came in south we were taking

00:24:10.640 mortar fire and uh distracting them and taking that attention for that to happen then we continued

00:24:15.400 on towards baghdad leading these supply trains of bullets beans and something else um and and we got

00:24:24.660 that to baghdad and then we went north of baghdad to krit so that was our our small mission of us

00:24:31.200 and on our way too we were out there looking for bath party members i don't remember what that

00:24:35.760 stood for but they were like the the government uh military officials of saddam and we were trying

00:24:45.180 to find those along our travels through the country and so the wds were probably a part of

00:24:53.000 that and then once we got to tukrit we located lots of ammunition you know concentrations and

00:25:00.900 And then we'd report them to EOD, and they would come and destroy them and blow them up.

00:25:05.600 Okay.

00:25:06.980 So were you told that the mission was successful?

00:25:12.240 How effective do you think the military was in achieving your instructions?

00:25:19.740 We were overly efficient.

00:25:21.720 I mean, Iraq was completely bombed and devastated with, like, naval fire and airstrikes.

00:25:29.440 Then helicopters came through and swept everything out of the way.

00:25:33.420 Then tanks came in.

00:25:35.120 Then we came through. 0.99

00:25:37.020 So it was a very thorough sweep of eliminating any threats that existed in Iraq. 0.89

00:25:47.720 And once we've had control and established into the bases,

00:25:53.160 Then the Iraqis were left with nothing else other than IEDs to resist this occupation they were under.

00:26:01.800 And that's when the death toll started to decline.

00:26:04.660 I know Fallujah was some serious stuff.

00:26:06.760 I've heard friends talk about that.

00:26:10.020 But yeah, that's just, I was in there and out of there with my Marine units.

00:26:13.920 and then 10 more years of it post that where where lots of people had a lot more

00:26:22.280 intense situations again I was a mechanized infantry guy I was inside of a vehicle that's

00:26:29.080 a very different set of intimacy than an 0311 who carries his rifle and patrols through the

00:26:36.760 streets of a you know a town and does room clearing I mean it's two different wars so all 0.87

00:26:42.800 my respects to guys who you know were shooting their small arms and and close combat you know

00:26:50.300 i was in a vehicle so my war and their war completely two different experiences um i would

00:26:56.820 just say we do understand we do share the same consequences of war and understanding you know

00:27:02.420 you could lose a lose a friend you witness plenty of others die it's just an ugly thing so i think

00:27:09.960 that's enough to unite on, even though we might have different ways of executing our military

00:27:19.400 jobs. Right. I want to get into more about Iran war today, especially. I'm glad to hear that

00:27:25.980 you've been talking about your research and your analysis about the world right now. I don't ask

00:27:30.980 you too much about your history in combat. I'm sure it's difficult. But you did, if I'm not

00:27:38.400 mistaken. You mentioned in the beginning that you also were deployed in Gaza? Well, I wasn't

00:27:44.140 deployed, but I went there on a solidarity mission back in August 2024. What was that like? Oh,

00:27:50.640 so this is post-October 7th? Yes. Okay. Yeah. I went there with this group called FASA,

00:27:57.500 and that's an Arab word for when one community goes to the aid of another in need. And it's

00:28:05.440 under international international solidarity movement ism and i went to jordan traveled over

00:28:11.720 linked up with the organization and they placed us with palestinians in the jordan valley who were

00:28:17.560 under immediate threat from israeli settler violence and boy did we experience that um i'd

00:28:24.320 we'd just go there with our cameras and um our phones and uh whenever the israeli settlers would

00:28:31.340 come around we would video it and and peacefully just video it and uh hopefully our international

00:28:38.420 presence would deter them from getting violent or uh being too hostile um but still i had plenty

00:28:47.760 of experiences with them coming around harassing and i even had this experience watching a complete

00:28:52.900 awesome family decide to get up and move from their long, long-standing homestead. 0.64

00:29:00.580 These young youth, hilltop youth Jewish settlers came and they'd set up, you know, play very 0.96

00:29:08.160 obnoxious Hebrew dance music, make fires, drink coffee, honk their four-wheeler horns 1.00

00:29:15.580 all night long, and just be a complete nuisance. 0.99

00:29:18.660 Then they herded their cattle straight through the homestead, you know, walking through their tents and through their, you know, well, their area, just their whole public area.

00:29:31.180 And then finally coming face to face and punching and kicking and pepper spraying a father and his son and threatening the whole family with physical violence.

00:29:45.680 And then one of them pulls up his shirt and he's brandishing a pistol. 0.52

00:29:49.580 This is the level of intimidation and violence that this young, this little crew of eight settlers came and bestowed upon this peaceful, hardworking Palestinian family in the Jordan Valley.

00:30:05.340 so i witnessed that and saw that and then once that was over for the settlers skedaddle and then

00:30:12.020 the other four give themselves scratches on their forearms call the authorities and then the the uh

00:30:18.620 the um the immigration officers the military and the police and some settler security guys show up

00:30:27.000 and they all take the sides and baby the four settler boys and make sure they're okay and

00:30:32.720 give them cigarettes and they're just talking and patting them on their head and then they come up

00:30:36.940 and they interrogate the family that's been pepper sprayed arrest one of them and one of our activists

00:30:43.360 and take them off to jail interrogate them finally release them and say you can never come back to

00:30:48.480 the jordan valley for uh for a year and um and then the other the patriarch gets to come back

00:30:55.160 they find out they settle up and they move their whole homestead to a town nearby and when they go

00:31:01.020 to the town the idf cuts them off and takes all their tractors and mechanical equipment from them

00:31:07.340 leaves them with all their livestock but tells them they can't stay in the city and so this was

00:31:13.880 this was just that's that's what they're dealing with over there it's incredible and imagine how

00:31:19.180 many of those people so you said that they were taken to prison imagine how many now are in prison

00:31:23.880 falsely and now the death penalty is allowed and how many are going to face that it's really just

00:31:30.640 absolutely there's nothing more disgusting than than think it's it's very possible to believe that

00:31:36.120 that's now going to happen i mean certainly they definitely do love to dance some of these

00:31:40.980 settler videos are more disgusting than you could even spell out in words but the fact that you saw

00:31:46.800 it how did that change your perspective on israel because they're our greatest ally right we have

00:31:52.060 judeo-christian values the secretary of the white house just said that this is you know ted cruz is

00:31:57.020 saying god blesses those that bless the state of israel how did this change your perspective did

00:32:02.080 you believe that we should you know bless this country and that they share a democracy in western

00:32:07.720 values with america not at all i see past all that um surface narrative that they're just this facade

00:32:15.580 they're trying to you know fool americans with because they know america butters their bread we

00:32:21.900 give them all the money and this is a side of them they've tried to hide and it's and it's

00:32:29.220 frustrating to i can't i can't convince my fellow friends and americans to see past it as well

00:32:37.380 um they're still they're still so indoctrinated they just believe the biblical you know there's

00:32:43.740 this storyline that you know bless israel bless you and all this and how surface alt level that

00:32:49.640 is compared to the actions i'm trying to tell them i feel like actions should speak louder than

00:32:55.220 words but um people are so stuck in their ways and the the narrative is so strong with the western

00:33:01.340 media that nothing seems to get through to many americans and that's really frustrating you know

00:33:06.860 it was great to see what you did standing up for what is right and the backlash that i saw

00:33:13.120 afterwards, I was appalled by. There is a streamer, you know, I don't have that much.

00:33:19.380 It's some things I have in common with him. He's overall a good guy, Osmongold. But when he saw

00:33:23.260 what happened, he started laughing. And he was saying that you deserve to be dishonorably

00:33:28.020 discharged and saying that you got what was coming to you. In my view, there's nobody that

00:33:33.040 we should respect more than people like you that have actually seen what's happening,

00:33:36.920 who have fought for our country, especially we're supposed to respect the troops and understand

00:33:42.060 that they're there defending our country, you actually put your life on the line. You saw it

00:33:46.820 firsthand. Are we going to believe the propaganda from these people that are dancing around with

00:33:51.160 swords and taking money from APAC? Or are we going to believe the working class American who 0.60

00:33:56.460 believed that he was defending his country and saw with his own eyes that it was false and that

00:34:01.860 this is propaganda? Did you change your perspective? What was your reaction to seeing

00:34:07.980 the subsequent online rhetoric about what you did in the Senate?

00:34:14.280 I wouldn't be surprised at all if anybody's, of the spectrum of, the full spectrum of opinions

00:34:21.200 and responses to what I did. So, I mean, I've been around for 44 years. Nothing's gonna

00:34:28.220 surprise me there. And that's the freedom I fought for to express those things, you know.

00:34:34.580 And so good for you. Have your opinion. I'm not going to appreciate that. I'm not going to respect you for having that. And so that's all I have to counter that. I know that my effect only goes so far. Big deal. I don't like what you said to me. And the same thing goes for me.

00:34:57.500 I don't care what you think about me.

00:34:59.900 We only, if we, I have a good idea of what I can and can't affect.

00:35:03.980 And there's people that are long gone that I can't convince or anything.

00:35:08.080 And I got it. 0.98

00:35:09.420 I fight hard for them because it took me a long time to see past the bullshit. 0.97

00:35:14.580 But, and if I care about you, I'm going to stay with you and try to stay, you know, try 0.97

00:35:19.860 to convince you because I truly believe this is right.

00:35:22.620 And that's authentic.

00:35:24.020 But at the same time, if you really don't respond to that and then you disrespect me, of course, I'm going to probably leave you faster and sooner than later.

00:35:34.160 So, yeah, I mean, I get it. I get we all have our opinions, but all I can just do is double down on the fact that I was being authentic.

00:35:43.280 This was not political theater. I'm genuinely trying to speak out to save, you know, future veterans lives.

00:35:49.820 I fought. I've seen it. What else can I do than other than just share my experience and my belief

00:35:57.060 and thoughts genuinely to help these other guys avoid going into a combat zone for what? For what

00:36:05.980 I truly believe is the billionaire's profiteering for unnecessary, unprovoked war. And so that's

00:36:11.740 where I'm coming from. If you want to disagree with it, go right ahead. Absolutely. And why

00:36:16.780 would people believe in the words of a draft dodger like Trump? Why would we believe his

00:36:22.280 objectives of war? You actually saw it. You were there. These are your people, the Marines that

00:36:27.560 have the idea of Semper Fi, your brothers. It comes first. You have all the authority to tell

00:36:33.100 people that it's right or wrong. Not these people that are profiting off of these wars, dancing

00:36:38.720 around. The people that are encouraging the war, they're never going to go fight in it. You actually

00:36:43.340 did these are people that were on your same side and you know they were also putting your lot their

00:36:48.700 lives on the line and you saw things that they will never see you are the real authority here

00:36:53.280 and the fact that people don't respect that is a shame upon our country what was your breaking

00:36:57.960 point to do what you did and stand up and exercise free speech america this is what it was all about

00:37:03.580 they were taxed too much and so they said no they rejected this and they tar and feathered the

00:37:08.340 messengers coming in from england they said we are not going to listen to this tyrannical government

00:37:12.880 We are going to fight back against injustice. This is why freedom of speech is the core tenet of American values in our Constitution, which you exercised. What brought you to that point of speaking up heroically like you did?

00:37:26.200 thank you sneaker for saying that a lot of things brought me to this point um and it's just

00:37:33.260 feeling feeling like this is my responsibility um if i don't say who will um this is my specific

00:37:45.700 point of view and perspective and i care enough to do it and i'm just gonna do it you know who

00:37:51.180 cares uh what comes of it um what else am i here for then this just seemed like a big enough

00:37:59.620 deal to speak out against so that's all that's it and i'm glad your your arm is healing properly

00:38:06.840 what can we expect you believe so you've been doing more geopolitical analysis and obviously

00:38:14.100 trump is timing up his speeches with the market because the oil prices are skyrocketing and so

00:38:20.700 he keeps saying, oh, it's going to be two days until we're going to go bomb you. Never mind.

00:38:25.280 The market's open five days. You have five days until unconditional surrender. So clearly there

00:38:31.380 is market manipulation. Also, we're seeing Trump insiders clearly use this information to go and

00:38:36.540 bet on prediction markets and also manipulate the stock market. They're doing gangster mafia tactics

00:38:43.800 that these are criminals like we could look at the charts. No one's going to talk about it.

00:38:47.960 do you expect a ground invasion to happen and when will it happen if it does i am so hopeful that it

00:38:55.600 doesn't i was hoping it would be a bluff but i saw something today that seems like they're

00:39:00.480 it's more imminent than ever and i just see it as the next chapter in this war that we all will

00:39:07.780 just numbly accept and sit and watch the death toll rise and it's just depressing to think we're

00:39:16.420 to go through this process again and that's why i spoke up to try to avoid this and if this is

00:39:25.140 how it's supposed to how it's going to be made this death toll cat you know continue this

00:39:36.340 progression of collective thinking and understanding of what this what's happening

00:39:41.620 in our world and hopefully spur on more people to speak against it and then the fourth branch of

00:39:48.440 our government the public can somehow cause change by demanding it but we have to be organized and

00:39:59.220 we have to find a way and one way to do this is to get behind elected you know candidates that

00:40:05.760 will care about this and this is very unusual for me to do to plug myself but i'm running for

00:40:13.480 national in the national senate seat north carolina i am who i'm telling you i am and i i care about

00:40:20.200 people over profit and i'm not gonna say i don't i i'm part of the green party we don't take

00:40:25.520 corporate sponsors so i'll be long i'll do what i feel is best for the people and i want to take

00:40:32.540 that money away from our international connections with Israel and bring it back here. I mean,

00:40:37.200 we just added $200 billion to a $1 trillion military budget. Just use a fraction of that

00:40:45.740 for the domestic issues. We could do such a good thing. So you're going to run for,

00:40:51.240 can you say, is this in the upcoming midterms? When can we cast a vote for you?

00:40:55.980 Yes, sir. It's November 3rd. I'm running for the North Carolina Senate federal position.

00:41:00.480 It will be replacing Tom Tillis. And I'm running for the Green Party. We do not accept any donations.

00:41:06.680 What did happen to me on March 4th has spurred on a huge amount of campaign donations and obvious attention.

00:41:16.180 Now, I am thankful and grateful for that. And I'm going to take that and run with it.

00:41:20.220 And I really want to capitalize in making this shot in the dark, you know, move to get into the Senate as a real person.

00:41:31.220 I think everybody that's in there now are puppets and they're bought out and, you know, they're sold out to the APAC and all these big money donors.

00:41:40.440 Therefore, they have to do what their donors tell them.

00:41:43.860 I'm not. I'm from the people.

00:41:46.020 And so take a chance on me.

00:41:47.340 And I'm not a spoiler. I'm not going to steal votes from one part or the other.

00:41:50.680 I'm here to spoil all the duopoly.

00:41:53.360 And I think more people than ever are open to a third-party candidate.

00:41:58.140 And I'm trying to promote myself, which is very weird.

00:42:01.220 I'm not into doing that, but this is the name of the game.

00:42:04.620 And I need to get in there. And so that's what I'm doing.

00:42:07.220 No, absolutely. I was about to ask you to run for Senate.

00:42:11.900 I wanted to see you make a real change like that.

00:42:15.780 So to hear you say that, just answer that before I got to ask it.

00:42:20.040 Look, I mean, Lindsey Graham is the senator of South Carolina.

00:42:23.100 This old weirdo is now at Disney World. 0.69

00:42:26.740 He doesn't even have children.

00:42:27.700 We can see your kids are walking around the living room.

00:42:30.000 You're a family man.

00:42:30.820 You serve.

00:42:31.400 There's so many people in D.C. right now that have never served.

00:42:34.440 We could clearly see you're a married man.

00:42:36.500 This is what we want.

00:42:38.040 And absolutely, if you're not taking – well, let me ask you, Brian.

00:42:40.780 How much money are you going to take from APAC?

00:42:43.740 Zero.

00:42:44.600 You got my phone.

00:42:45.780 You got our vote. Green Party, it is. There you go.

00:42:49.160 Well, I'm not North Carolina, but all North Carolinas vote for Brian McGinnis.

00:42:53.020 Why wouldn't you run? How difficult it is. I'm not sure what the process is like.

00:42:56.940 What would it be like if you were to run as a Democrat?

00:43:00.080 Because it seems like it's going to be a sweep for the Democrats this midterm.

00:43:03.360 Yeah, I don't know. I'm not sure.

00:43:07.080 All I know is that Green Party was the only pro-Palestinian party last year.

00:43:11.540 The Democrats kept the Palestinian representatives out of their convention.

00:43:15.780 This election, Roy Cooper, prior governor of North Carolina as a Democratic candidate, he is already resisting this resolution number one that would keep America from arming Israel.

00:43:32.960 And the state Democrats have passed that 160 to 151, a very tight run there.

00:43:41.160 But him and the governor, Josh Stein, are already saying they're going to refuse that.

00:43:46.500 So they're right there. The Democrats are denying their constituents wishes.

00:43:51.500 The Republican candidate, Mike Watley, is just a lifelong type of, you know, government candidate type of, you know, run of the mill MAGA guy.

00:44:03.160 So you know what you're going to get when you get these guys.

00:44:06.140 And so I am for the people. I'm all for health care is a human right, affordable housing, child care subsidies, quality education and free public higher education.

00:44:18.460 And so these are the domestic issues. This is this is America we deserve.

00:44:23.140 This is America we can afford. Just take the money out of of our international spending and our military budget.

00:44:30.560 Use it for the taxpayers here in North Carolina. And I think that that that's what I would do.

00:44:35.620 and it's it's it's optional we got people in the chat saying i'm in rally dude got my vote so

00:44:41.440 love to see that what is it is there early voting what's the voting process like in north carolina

00:44:47.180 i mean main thing is just to get registered to vote and then follow the prompts which i know

00:44:53.300 everybody's smart enough to do they'll announce early voting by mail and then november 3rd is

00:45:00.040 the actual voter voting day uh but uh yeah i would just love to encourage everybody especially

00:45:07.260 young people who have not fallen for the uh the the propaganda for majority of their lives yeah

00:45:13.360 you know god rest god rest my mom or not god rest but god bless my mom yeah and all these people the 0.60

00:45:19.060 boomers you know the boomers are so they're gone they're stuck yeah they're they're it's not really 0.99

00:45:24.200 even worth convincing them at this point not to have a defeatist mentality but they are all eating 1.00

00:45:28.760 up that propaganda they don't care about the future of this country they're gonna eat that 0.91

00:45:32.900 war slop for the rest of their their lives we'll see how long they're gonna last but it's the youth

00:45:37.880 that's gonna stand up and vote in the next generation of politicians people like you

00:45:42.020 i am supporting james fishback for governor of florida he's not taking any apac money

00:45:46.200 we got to get more people like that i also see uh dan bozerian is saying that he wants to run

00:45:51.220 uh did you hear that i think he wants to run for congress i heard that yes yeah do you does

00:45:57.940 Does Brian McGinnis endorse Dan Bilzerian for Congress?

00:46:00.220 Oh, sure.

00:46:00.900 Yes, I do, man.

00:46:01.840 He has been so well outspoken against.

00:46:04.260 He's so straightforward and cut to the chase and strong and stern about what is happening.

00:46:11.620 And yes, he's brought me.

00:46:13.200 I've been in a state of depression over the last two and a half years.

00:46:15.560 And to have men like him step up and just call it like it is has been a light in the darkness.

00:46:22.340 And it's like the same with you, Sneeko, when you stood down that Rabbi Shmuley in Times Square and told him what for and gave him the, you know, you stonewalled him and his attempts to try to ask you to support him and his attempts to claim he was American, all that.

00:46:42.680 The similarities, you're talking about the IDF settlers or just the Israeli settlers that are putting scratches on their arms and then going to the police.

00:46:50.220 This is what Rabbi Shmuley just did.

00:46:51.980 I debated him, destroyed him two years ago, but just now I'm going to bring on the guy

00:46:56.460 who was, you know, talking to him in public. 0.96

00:46:59.700 He's saying Zionist pig to Rabbi Shmuley's face. 0.90

00:47:02.060 I don't know if you saw the video. 0.91

00:47:02.940 Rabbi Shmuley immediately lurches and goes to the police officer and says, oh, I'm being

00:47:07.500 harassed.

00:47:08.120 I'm being harassed. 1.00

00:47:09.180 That's identical to these Israeli settlers in the West Bank that are scratching their 0.94

00:47:13.460 arms. 0.97

00:47:13.860 Oh, I was attacked.

00:47:15.420 I something they they hurt me.

00:47:17.580 It's this arrogance and knowing that they can get away with lying to the police officers and also publishing the information and knowing that they're not going to get prosecuted and they won't be convicted of any crime, which it is illegal to lie about these crimes. 0.99

00:47:32.040 So Shmoli is identical to these settlers that you saw in Palestine. 0.96

00:47:39.240 How sad and pathetic is that? 1.00

00:47:41.040 How sad and pathetic is that their women have to deal with having men like that? 1.00

00:47:45.260 I don't understand why they put up with that. 0.99

00:47:47.860 I feel sorry for them.

00:47:49.620 So how could we support your campaign?

00:47:51.880 I really want to help you out.

00:47:54.700 Man, thank you.

00:47:55.320 My website is brianmcginnis.org, and there's a contribution and a volunteer tab.

00:48:05.540 And so if you would love to get – I would love it if you got involved.

00:48:08.580 And if anybody wanted to just click on those and put their information in,

00:48:13.380 And we have a good campaign team. We're reaching out to everybody. And we have a weekly volunteer meeting every Wednesday. And we want to see those Zoom boxes multiply as the weeks go on. And we want to get everybody in motion, trying to spread the word and get a real person in office.

00:48:37.080 so yeah we have a pin in chat brian mcginnis.org for u.s senate standing up for the american people

00:48:42.500 when washington won't great slogan i think a lot of people can get behind that we all can

00:48:47.760 and we'd love to see you get on more streams i think another good one i wonder if uh do you know

00:48:52.600 hassan piker i think he would love to have someone like you on that would be fantastic yes yes that

00:48:58.980 would be great man i think that'd be that'd be great so i'll be doing a little bit of outreach

00:49:04.060 there and i'll get the chance to donate and support the cause love to see that you know even

00:49:08.920 then you're you're a humble dude i'm not trying to glaze too much but you know even your apprehension

00:49:13.260 to say like i'm plugging myself it's not even really like you're plugging yourself you're

00:49:16.780 trying to you've already served your country and now you want to serve even more and change this

00:49:21.860 control that these billionaires have sending our children and our sons and daughters as lindsey

00:49:26.460 graham says to go die in this war for israel again north carolina is connected to south carolina you

00:49:32.060 guys are right there a lot of people consider it that the Caroliners are almost one in the same

00:49:35.840 what do you think about Lindsey Graham he wants the sons and daughters of South Carolina to go

00:49:41.140 fight against Iran he is he's very uh um outspoken about something that he himself will never

00:49:49.660 participate in and I just think that's disingenuous and uh and and really suspect

00:49:55.740 just because he doesn't have any skin in the game. 0.89

00:49:59.680 So he's just so outspoken and so Israel first. 0.53

00:50:04.580 You know, he's very Israel first.

00:50:06.640 So I think he's exposing himself. 0.96

00:50:10.080 They all are. 0.80

00:50:11.080 Ted Cruz is talking about Sharia law taking over Texas. 0.99

00:50:15.240 And it's like, what, Muslims are 2% of the population? 0.83

00:50:18.180 Yeah, your wife's Muslim.

00:50:20.420 I have to ask you not to be pushy, but have you taken your shahada yet?

00:50:24.940 what's your so i don't want to talk about my probably shouldn't yeah you probably shouldn't

00:50:30.440 especially because you're running for senate yeah it's just it's a lot of things it's a personal

00:50:34.900 deal to me because what does it matter to anybody else what my faith is that's between me and god

00:50:40.800 and when i you know breathe my last breath or when anybody breathes their last breath

00:50:46.420 it's your time to die so you do what you got to do and that's just you between you and god

00:50:52.380 And so that might be a cop-out-y question of trying to sidestep this.

00:50:57.260 But also, in religion, in government or politics, there's a separation between church and state.

00:51:05.560 And I also do feel like there's this interesting psychological or sociological dynamic when you take on a religion amongst people.

00:51:14.140 And then you take on what that label means in the eyes of everybody who looks at you.

00:51:20.060 and good, bad, or indifferent,

00:51:22.660 I mean, there's a certain respect I have

00:51:25.160 for those who say who they are

00:51:27.600 and stand behind it.

00:51:30.020 In my own personal situation,

00:51:33.240 I just don't,

00:51:35.200 and I'm not making that choice

00:51:36.380 to be open in this subject with the world.

00:51:39.440 Yeah, that's the right way.

00:51:40.880 And I'll take on,

00:51:42.220 but any pushback on that,

00:51:48.080 I'm willing to take.

00:51:49.140 This is my choice.

00:51:50.060 what does it matter to anybody else? This is my face. Absolutely. I mean, everybody can respect

00:51:55.600 that. That's respectable from everyone here. I want to just say, because obviously it looks like

00:52:02.560 the ground invasion is imminent. You correctly pointed out that Trump's clearly manipulating the

00:52:08.520 market and trying to get the oil prices right. What would you say to the Marines? Because

00:52:12.900 it seems like they are going to invade Karg Island. This is where a lot of the oil refineries

00:52:18.880 happening. It's around the Strait of Hormuz. What would you say to these Marines? It seems

00:52:22.960 like they're going to send 5,000 in Israel. There are reports that they're not going to send any

00:52:26.940 troops. What would you say to them if this is happening? And where do you think this invasion

00:52:31.360 would be? I don't support the war, but I support the Marines and our men and women that are going

00:52:37.940 over there. I just don't believe in the reasoning they're being put into harm's way. I don't want

00:52:43.960 any of them to be harmed. I don't want any Iranians to be harmed. Uh, and, and I think

00:52:49.140 that's a legitimate opinion. People can say that that's not realistic. Well, I get that,

00:52:57.100 but what are you, emotions are different than reality. Uh, you don't, I don't wish death

00:53:04.540 on anybody. Uh, and that's it. I don't know, man. I, I, I wish everybody the ability to

00:53:12.420 come back home and be with their families and friends and and and not be killed for this war

00:53:17.940 that is that's criminal and unprovoked and uh illegal and so man i i'm i am very uh distraught

00:53:30.520 with the idea that they're gonna try to take that island and um and i think it's foolish to have

00:53:36.960 foolhardy support for it and i think you know i don't i'm not i just don't have that in me anymore

00:53:46.280 given what i've seen and how i see it now and all that yeah i mean there's nobody else's opinion

00:53:53.600 again to reiterate then we shouldn't take seriously other than yours and based off of

00:53:57.980 your analysis do you think that that's a correct assumption that they are going to reach cog island

00:54:02.620 And a greater question, where do you think they're going to go?

00:54:05.620 Because it's a big mountainous region.

00:54:07.380 Obviously, they want to reopen the Strait of Hormuz for the U.S.

00:54:10.680 There's mines everywhere.

00:54:12.160 Where can we expect this sort of invasion to happen with your experience in the Marines?

00:54:17.680 Yeah, Iran has outlasted Napoleon and Genghis Khan. 0.91

00:54:21.920 I mean, they're just – the geographics that surround them are a natural barrier.

00:54:28.980 And so I believe they know how to defend their country very well.

00:54:32.620 So I don't think this bodes well for any invading territory or any invading force.

00:54:39.100 And again, yeah, I don't know how this will all play out.

00:54:43.820 I would imagine they could, if they can shoot missiles to Israel, they can shoot missiles to an island right off their shores.

00:54:50.100 So, I mean, wouldn't that be something?

00:54:52.780 And have they probably, you know, fortified that island already?

00:54:57.640 And I don't know what to expect, man.

00:55:00.160 And I've hoped that it wouldn't happen so much to the point where I haven't seen or researched what the fallout would be if they do.

00:55:09.840 Yeah, but based off the Iraq war, which is a very easy comparison, the IRGC is nothing like the Iraqi military.

00:55:17.680 These people, they're much greater in numbers.

00:55:20.380 They are much more prepared. 0.62

00:55:22.100 They've learned from the mistakes of their neighbors in Syria and Iraq.

00:55:25.960 This is not going to be the same war.

00:55:28.520 Again, the war in Iraq was over in several weeks.

00:55:32.040 It was the ground troops that had to be stationed to implement regime change.

00:55:35.580 This is going to be somewhat impossible, completely impossible in Iran to really have successful regime change.

00:55:40.660 Trump is trying to brag and say that we killed the Ayatollah, so we changed the regime.

00:55:44.740 The real regime change is leaving thousands of ground troops for years to make sure that the government stays the way that they want it to stay as.

00:55:53.520 Just because they killed an 86-year-old Khomeini with cancer does not mean they actually implemented regime change. 0.69

00:56:00.240 So they're going to go in and fight a military that's much more prepared, that's ready to die for this cause, that has set up traps everywhere, where there's a mountainous region, where they saw what happened in Iraq. 0.74

00:56:10.720 It is going to be disastrous compared to that war. 0.83

00:56:15.320 So best of luck to them.

00:56:16.840 And I highly recommend that people don't enlist.

00:56:19.200 what advice would you give if there is going to be a draft how do you think that people should

00:56:24.380 respond to the officers knocking on our door telling us to fight i would definitely reject it

00:56:29.720 and and say hell no um even anybody who's in now conscientious objection is is a is a feasible and

00:56:38.240 rational and acceptable route for anybody to take if they personally feel like they don't want to

00:56:44.240 go believe in this war um nobody's in the military is going to offer that to you as an option but it

00:56:51.040 is part of policy that will legally protect you and you can keep your um your your va

00:57:00.400 you know benefits after after even doing that and you can still keep an honorable discharge 0.88

00:57:07.340 And also, I do think that this war, a key aspect of it is to weaken American forces by throwing ourselves at this Iranian, again, at Iran. 0.95

00:57:18.940 And we're going to deplete our military forces. 0.99

00:57:24.060 We've already done that quite a lot.

00:57:26.060 We're going to deplete our economy. 0.52

00:57:29.060 We're throwing $2 billion a day at this war.

00:57:31.980 And I think this leaves America in a weakened state. 0.69

00:57:35.040 And if Israel isn't contributing any of their, you know, treasure or blood, then where is their sacrifice? 0.87

00:57:44.820 And they will elevate themselves while America diminishes. 0.74

00:57:51.320 And I think Israel is exploiting us and using us to fight their wars while they sit on the sidelines as their God's chosen people and let us, the Goyim, fight it for them. 0.98

00:58:01.540 And I think this is all playing out to their benefit, and I think that is criminal, and I think Americans should wake up to that and say this is bullshit and say no. 0.95

00:58:12.740 But sadly, Trump is more devoted to Netanyahu and his billionaires that are going to profit off of this than the American people. 0.86

00:58:21.440 Brian McGinnis, thank you so much.

00:58:23.700 A hero, a real patriot.

00:58:25.160 I appreciate your time so much.

00:58:26.360 I don't want to keep you too long.

00:58:27.500 I know you're a family man.

00:58:29.080 You've got a busy house.

00:58:30.660 The cat's running around.

00:58:31.340 Thank you so much for your time.

00:58:32.420 We appreciate you.

00:58:33.420 A real hero.

00:58:34.960 And I really got to say, man, seeing you with that moment of courage in there inspired something in us all.

00:58:41.540 Hearing you speak up about this when it's the most difficult thing you could possibly talk about is extremely commendable.

00:58:47.020 This is something that is, you know, around the country, this is a real story that people need to hear.

00:58:52.640 And so I have the utmost respect for somebody like you.

00:58:55.340 It's, you know, not to overly, it's really an honor to have this conversation.

00:58:59.760 Thank you for everything that you do.

00:59:00.960 I hope to speak again.

00:59:01.660 Best of luck running for Senate.

00:59:03.340 November 3rd, we can vote for Brian McGinnis and the Green Party.

00:59:06.680 Thank you so much, Nico.

00:59:07.760 It's been an honor to talk with you.

00:59:09.000 And I'm not a hero.

00:59:10.060 I've been with a lot of them, but I'm not a hero.

00:59:12.280 You are.

00:59:12.720 You really are, Brian.

00:59:14.400 And I hope you know that.

00:59:17.140 Thanks, brother.

00:59:18.060 Thank you so much.

00:59:19.180 Have a great rest of your night, and I hope to speak to you soon.

00:59:21.000 God bless you, Brian.

00:59:22.200 Yes, sir.

00:59:22.820 You too, man.

00:59:23.640 Peace.

00:59:24.800 Peace.

00:59:28.160 Oh, man.

00:59:29.280 That was great, bro.

00:59:30.880 that was great

00:59:34.700 W's in the chat

00:59:37.820 W's in the chat

00:59:41.640 for Brian McGinnis

00:59:42.600 how'd I do?

00:59:45.040 did you guys enjoy that conversation?

00:59:47.620 another

00:59:48.020 man that was just

00:59:49.220 that was great

00:59:49.860 what a humble guy

00:59:53.680 a real patriot

00:59:55.000 a real American

00:59:55.880 a real hero

00:59:56.580 courageous

00:59:57.440 I don't like to

00:59:59.540 I know people were going to say

01:00:00.860 glaze glaze but seeing somebody like that who has served he fought in iraq he saw what happened

01:00:07.500 in gaza firsthand he put his life on the line then he goes and he stands up and he rejects this war

01:00:12.780 that's unjust that there's no real exit point they break his arm the police are all over him

01:00:20.200 they're grabbing him he doesn't cortisol spike at all seco's bop farm thank you for the 10 subs

01:00:24.920 he doesn't his expression doesn't change have you ever seen somebody's elbow snap and they don't

01:00:31.240 change at all real hero that is a real hero we'll lie we need to give people their respect

01:00:41.020 when they act that way standing up against injustice that's exactly what america's all

01:00:47.480 about i don't know a lot of people like that that's somebody that you need to make a movie

01:00:50.920 about not to do this whole but that is a real american hero unfazed for real that's top brian

01:00:57.840 mcginnis is the real top g that's what i'm talking about

SHNEAKO - March 31, 2026

SNEAKO Interviews Brian McGinnis： US Veteran Against Iran War

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