Is this the beginning of a cataclysm in the Middle East? Is this the start of a third world war? We can't ignore the elephant in the room today, and we have to discuss this war because it's potentially going to engulf the entire world.
00:02:16.280While U.S. military action taken last night was designed to alleviate that threat, the situation in the Middle East remains highly volatile.
00:02:23.860Stability in the region is a priority.
00:02:26.180Well, there hasn't been stability in that region since 1948.
00:02:28.660Canada calls on parties to return immediately to the negotiating table and reach a diplomatic solution to end this crisis.
00:02:36.540As G7 leaders agreed, in Kananaskis, the resolution of the Iranian crisis should lead to a broader de-escalation of hostilities in the Middle East, including a ceasefire in Gaza.
00:02:47.700Well, that's all very, very good to say that.
00:02:50.740But at least he's not saying, hit Tehran, get them again.
00:03:11.060You don't do that simply by bombing people.
00:03:13.280You have to have the army on the ground, and that's going to lead to chaos, millions of refugees, decades of instability that's even worse than today.
00:03:26.020I think we can all realize that, okay?
00:03:31.780One of the immediate consequences of this war has been the shutting down of the Straits of Hormuz, which means oil tankers aren't going to be able to get through.
00:03:43.560And here I've got this little video here shows you.
00:03:49.420These are oil tankers in the Straits of Hormuz.
00:03:53.940This is how incredible the activity is.
00:03:57.460So, if you think this isn't going to affect you, well, my God, it could affect you if this thing goes global.
00:04:09.460But it's going to affect you immediately, or at least in the next couple of weeks, as the price of gas goes up.
00:04:15.380Because the supply and demand is going to be.
00:06:36.120There's probably about two, three dozen here, which is, Donald Trump is putting his own country in incredible danger and the troops and personnel.
00:06:50.220I want peace in the region because I know how quickly war escalates.
00:06:54.640And as I've told you so many times, I am a guy who used to write the propaganda.
00:07:01.700And this is what we're going to be seeing right now for the next weeks or months or however long this thing lasts.
00:07:11.160We're going to be seeing propaganda from the mainstream media, propaganda from all the governments involved, both sides, of course.
00:07:19.200But the United States deliberately lied about this, saying Donald Trump was going to have a two-week pause.
00:07:27.420I even wrote an article for Human Events about that, saying, oh, this is an opportunity, I said.
00:07:32.340During this two weeks, Donald Trump can refocus on domestic issues such as the deportation of illegals, such as reducing government waste, such as focusing on eliminating the toxicity of DEI and everything else.
00:07:49.560And he was just talking about finally looking after these poor people in North Carolina and Georgia and other states that were affected by the hurricanes last fall.
00:08:04.040So he was focusing on this, but it was all a ruse just to have another surprise attack on Iran.
00:08:11.060But like I said, I wrote the propaganda points for NATO.
00:08:18.260I wrote the propaganda points for why we need to have another war.
00:08:23.880And I supported every American war in the past.
00:08:28.760And I deeply regretted that then-Prime Minister John Gretchen would not send troops to Iraq like Great Britain did.
00:08:54.540Because the people who benefit from this are the military-industrial complex folks at Raytheon, at Boeing, at General Dynamics, at Northrop, Grumman, or Grumman-Northrop, excuse me.
00:09:12.720These are the people who benefit from these wars because they expend a lot of weaponry and they have to keep replenishing it.
00:09:21.700It makes billions of dollars, hundreds of billions of dollars for these people.
00:09:26.760And they've never seen a war they didn't like.
00:09:28.640And that's really what it's all about.
00:09:30.980But I want other people to state their opinion on this.
00:09:57.380And this is why the International Atomic Energy Agency is saying they can find no evidence of radiation leaks or increase in radiation levels.
00:10:10.200So all I'm saying here is that don't believe everything you read or see.
00:10:17.280Obviously, this is an audience that doesn't do that.
00:10:29.100From the beginning of that conflict, the media was bought and paid for by the governments that represented the countries they worked for.
00:10:38.360So every week, for instance, the London Times would be talking about big push, big push going on on the Western Front, huge advances made by Allied troops.
00:10:51.660And it was all lies, all utter fabrication.
00:10:55.020And, of course, the German press did the same thing.
00:10:57.600They were talking about huge advances and that war was going so well.
00:11:03.200And it was going well for nobody, actually, especially the soldiers who were sitting in trenches, sometimes waist deep in mud and water, surrounded by rats and dead, can't say that, corpses.
00:12:23.700A short time ago, the U.S. military carried out massive precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime, Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan.
00:12:38.860And everybody heard those names for years as they built this horribly destructive enterprise.
00:12:47.340Our objective was the destruction of Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world's number one state sponsor of terror.
00:12:58.980Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success.
00:13:07.760Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.
00:13:13.600Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace.
00:13:17.740If they do not, future attacks will be far greater and a lot easier.
00:14:49.220We lost over a thousand people and hundreds of thousands throughout the Middle East and around the world have died as a direct result of their hate.
00:14:58.420In particular, so many were killed by their general, Qasem Soleimani.
00:15:04.220I decided a long time ago that I would not let this happen.
00:18:30.160If Iran is close to producing a nuclear bomb, that's going to make them work harder, because they're going to say, hey, North Korea produced a nuclear bomb, and the United States let them do it.
00:19:15.460And there's really just no getting around that very simple statement.
00:19:19.180So we have not declared war on Iran, and we are waiting for the White House to even muster the legal justification, though, if it exists, if they point to anything, it will be dubious at the very, very best.
00:19:32.600I'm really glad you highlighted that, because that's something that I think we should all really spend a lot of time on.
00:19:37.120I mean, this is one of the most extraordinary and aggressive independent unilateral actions launched by a president of the United States ever.
00:19:47.840I'm struck by, you know, in my opinion, just such a foolhardy decision, given, I mean, the consequences that are unfortunately very likely to come.
00:19:57.960It has to be said, there's been turmoil, and there's been plenty of war in the Middle East since the creation of Israel in 1948.
00:20:06.320And yes, many times Israel had to defend itself from its Arab neighbors.
00:20:12.040But in every case, whether it's the 67 Six-Day War, the 73 Yom Kippur War, all of the other wars between Israel and Lebanon, and when they went into Lebanon to get the Palestinian Liberation Organization, it was always a proxy war.
00:20:32.500The United States was never directly involved in a fight like this, in a war like this.
00:20:39.500So we have thousands and thousands of U.S. service members.
00:20:44.320You know, the Straits of Hormuz is at risk.
00:20:47.760We have air bases and U.S. military bases in Iraq.
00:20:52.480And yeah, I mean, I spent my whole career and I've met so many people who've suffered in the global war on terror.
00:20:58.500And it's really just terrifying, you know, to think that we're right back and it's totally unnecessary.
00:21:05.640And let me just explain some of how this went down, you know, just tracking from the beginning.
00:21:12.080So first we had the revelation that Israel had bombed a bunch of sites in Iran.
00:21:18.100The initial reaction from the Trump administration, from Secretary of State Marco Rubio, was to feign effectively surprise and say, oh, well, this was a completely unilateral action.
00:21:27.180Very shortly thereafter, it became clear from Trump himself that he was claiming credit for it.
00:21:33.040And they put out to the press that actually all of their recent attempts at diplomacy and the claim that they were going forward with this next round of nuclear diplomacy talks, that this was actually a ruse to create an ability for this Israeli surprise attack.
00:21:48.860Since then, we've had this whole will they or won't they very reality show, you know, theater put on from Trump where he's seeking the advice from this one and different things are being leaked to the press and all sorts of misinformation.
00:22:03.780And really, the propaganda effort kicks into full effect suddenly, even though our director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, at the end of March told us the Iranians are not close to a nuclear weapon, they are not pursuing a nuclear weapon.
00:23:04.960The question that's being asked of the American people from the president isn't, hey, do you want to get involved in another idiotic, disastrous, like morally atrocious, illegal regime change war?
00:23:17.320We can't we can't let him have a nuke.
00:23:19.140And from there, the logic flows to this moment when we directly engage.
00:23:24.800But I don't want anyone to be fooled by the idea that we weren't already involved, that this operation hadn't already been greenlit.
00:23:32.220We know from Reuters, we know from Ken Klippenstein that the regime change operation had already been greenlit by Trump.
00:23:38.580And I think a lot of the machinations that we've seen going back and forth over this ensuing time period has been mostly for show.
00:23:46.740And, you know, this was this was the intention effectively all along.
00:23:50.980And Crystal, just to add to that point real quickly, you said that, you know, as Tulsi Gabbard said, that the nuclear program was not up and running.
00:24:00.080What she also said is that it had not been running since 2003.
00:24:45.040This is like how they and I'll scroll this up.
00:24:47.320So if anybody wants to pause and like read this, like this is how they they determine their successor.
00:24:53.860They've got this little 88 member clerical council.
00:24:56.620They sit down, they come up with candidates that are going to replace the Supreme Leader and then they pick one and that becomes the new Supreme Leader.
00:25:04.740So Khamenei is saying here, like, OK, this this might be it for me, like I'm going to take Israel and the United States at their word.
00:25:14.300You know, after this hospital was hit yesterday, the day before, Israeli, Israeli President Herzog was saying, like, OK, Khamenei cannot live any longer.
00:25:24.780And there have been all of these reports that Khamenei is going to be killed by the Israelis, but Trump has been holding him back.
00:25:30.940We don't know whether or not we can believe any of this because, you know, we're in the fog of like intentional disinformation.
00:26:23.740What is happening right now is unbelievably identical to the plot of Top Gun Maverick, the Oscar nominated best picture of the year in 2022.
00:26:37.640This has been an obsession of mine all week.
00:26:40.280I've been meaning to make this video all week, and I just saw Fox News reference it last night.
00:26:45.580So let me give you the proper treatment.
00:26:47.840We're going to go through this scene by scene.
00:26:49.320We're going to do a movie watch chronologically through the movie.
00:26:51.660And as you watch these scenes, remember that the whole plot is to use Bunker Buster bombs using stealth bombers through the mountainous region of a Middle East country in order to blow up its nuclear plant.
00:27:06.160Here's what the final scene looks like at the climax of the film, for example.
00:27:17.200Now, something troubled me when this movie first came out, and I'm just going to play this scene.
00:27:21.280It's at the 19-minute mark of the movie where they're setting out the whole plot of why they're doing this operation.
00:27:28.240The target is an unsanctioned uranium enrichment plant built in violation of a multilateral NATO treaty.
00:27:36.880The uranium produced there represents a direct threat to our allies in the region.
00:27:40.920Now, when I first watched this on an airplane in 2022 as just something to do to kill time, I thought that was a very strange plot choice because this whole operation to use Bunker Buster bombs and risk American lives to blow up a nuclear plant in the Middle East was because the nuclear plant represented a direct threat to our allies.
00:28:04.680Like, the military generals did not even say it was a threat to the United States.
00:28:11.140The operation was because the plant was a threat to our allies.
00:28:18.580The uranium produced there represents a direct threat to our allies in the region.
00:28:44.780It's because the nuclear plant in the mountains of an undisclosed Middle East country represents a direct threat to our allies in the region.
00:28:55.180They don't say it's to the United States.
00:28:56.880I thought that was very, very strange to come at the 19-minute mark of a two-hour movie as they're setting up the whole plot.
00:29:04.840The uranium produced there represents a direct threat to our allies in the region.
00:29:09.760The Pentagon has tasked us with assembling a strike team and taking it out before it becomes fully operational.
00:29:15.140So, again, the plot is the Pentagon has been tasked to set up a strike force to launch a preemptive strike against this facility to take it out before it becomes fully operational.
00:29:29.900So, this is without a war being declared.
00:29:32.660This is presumably without this country having launched an attack.
00:29:36.920This is a preemptive strike against a facility that is doing nuclear uranium enrichment to take it out before it becomes fully operational.