00:00:04.780And this is a beautiful window into his mind and how he thinks.
00:00:08.880If you look at this explosion right here, this is what our world leaders have on their minds.0.66
00:00:12.720He is putting into the mind of Israelis, of Jews, of Americans, of Jew and Gentile, goys and all, that Iran is going to strike with a nuclear weapon.
00:00:31.300Therefore, Israel must strike first.0.52
00:00:35.620And it's setting the conditions for that in the political space, in the military option space.0.91
00:00:43.900And if it was questionable as to whether or not Israel had nuclear tactical weapons or even if they had them, do they have the ability to deploy them?
00:00:53.200Well, the frightening thing is, as the answer to both of those questions is an absolute yes.0.60
00:00:59.520Israel has nuclear tactical nuclear weapons and they have the means to deploy them.0.58
00:01:06.060And now we're seeing this political rhetoric to set the justification of the preemptiveness to a strike to that caliber of using a tactical nuke is that, well, Iran's going to use it on us and then nothing else will matter.0.64
00:01:20.860Right. So I think we are on the precipice of that in the coming days, because if anybody thinks that Netanyahu is going to lose this election quietly and under the normal processes and just say a good election, I'll go ahead and take my seat and face my prosecution in my criminal cases and just, you know, potentially go to jail for the rest of my life.
00:01:40.340If anybody thinks that Benjamin Netanyahu is going to do that, then you haven't been paying attention.
00:01:45.280Back in the Central Texas Command Center, deep behind enemy lines, it's Alex Jones.
00:01:53.380And once again, you are the Paul Revere's.
00:01:56.900Share the links and spread the word of this historic broadcast.
00:02:15.280Welcome back to the second hour of the Sunday, October 25th, 2026.
00:02:21.980Alex Jones show Alex Jones live transmission.
00:02:24.560Want to remind everybody, share links, repost, tell people, family, friends what you're watching.
00:02:29.120Put this on the TV right now because we got a really heavy geopolitical analysis.
00:02:33.580Second hour for you. I want to bring in Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Aguilar.
00:02:37.860Anthony Aguilar is a retired United States Army lieutenant colonel and special forces officer operator Green Beret.
00:02:44.460who served for 25 years. In 2025, he became known as whistleblower after making public
00:02:49.860allegations against operations at a U.S. and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
00:02:55.080aid distribution site in Gaza, where he worked as a security contractor for UG Solutions.
00:03:00.360He had allegations of Israeli misconduct and war crimes at the aid site, sparked significant
00:03:06.480media coverage and official inquiries. Anthony is a geopolitical analyst on all the big shows.
00:03:10.540It's been a while since we talked. How are you doing? I'm doing well, Alex. How are you? I'm
00:03:15.300doing phenomenal. It's always great to talk to you. I wanted to ask you about this whole calm
00:03:19.000before the storm thing, because is it going to happen? Is it not going to happen? I had this
00:03:23.600first article. I just wanted to read this to you, get your reaction to it. Trump is just he's
00:03:29.260special. All right. There's never been anybody like this before. Another little epic fury. Trump
00:03:34.700issues new warning iran says don't play the fire trump says we may do another little epic fury or
00:03:41.440they'll agree trump said while addressing a campaign rally in florida u.s president donald
00:03:46.120trump on friday warned iran of another potential military strike if tehran fails to reach a
00:03:51.080diplomatic agreement with washington saying the u.s could launch another little epic fury
00:03:55.100trump referred to the initial u.s military operation that began during the u.s iran war
00:03:59.140epic fury we both know that we may do another little epic fury or they'll agree uh if they're
00:04:04.320smart. They'll just say, let's get down to business. But, you know, I'll doubt they'll do
00:04:07.480that because perhaps they're not smart. So I view that as projection on my side. Anthony,
00:04:12.520how do you see that? The comments that we heard from President Donald Trump today,
00:04:19.340everything from the another little epic fury and the comments of maybe I'll destroy them,
00:04:25.340maybe I won't. We'll see. He at some point today decided that he wasn't going to strike
00:04:30.620tonight going actually Monday morning Iran time. And there's reason for that because of the0.99
00:04:37.140Qatari foreign minister and prime minister who are visiting Iran right now. So I do believe that
00:04:44.320this president is absolutely going to renew strikes against Iran along with Israel and
00:04:53.100renewing strikes on not only the previous objectives and targets that we've seen
00:04:58.440in previous engagements and hostilities, but an array of new targets. And we saw on the,
00:05:06.000you know, we've now known through news that's broke from going back to the 10th of October
00:05:11.740that the Israeli foreign minister, or excuse me, the Israeli defense minister
00:05:16.820veiled plans to Netanyahu that the IDF and Assad have put together for renewing strikes and
00:05:25.620conducting covert operations within Iran, likely in Belouche province and the northwestern areas
00:05:35.240along the Iraq border. But we know that that's being planned. It's not a warning order to be
00:05:41.400planned. It's been planned. And now it's simply the matter of when. So unfortunately, I do think
00:05:48.740that this president in conjunction with Israel is going to renew strikes on Iran. And that this
00:05:57.940in this round of escalation, in this next step of escalation, the response from Iran is going to be
00:06:04.400much more harsh. And what we're seeing from from this president is nothing more than, you know,
00:06:09.940when he talks about this conflict, when he talks about war, it's very dystopian and adolescent
00:06:16.520and immature. It screams of someone that has never sacrificed in conflict or war and understands
00:06:23.080the costs, nor does he understand the operational complexity in an operation such as this.
00:06:30.960And if he had, he wouldn't have started this war in the first place. But here we are,
00:06:35.500238 days into this conflict. Yes. And the Israeli elections, I believe that's the 28th,
00:06:41.580Right. So we're three days out. Twenty seven. Twenty seven. Tuesday.
00:06:45.300How does that play into all this? Great question. So we know that the elections within Israel are are neck and neck, depending on which polls you read, whether they're genuinely Israeli polls or international polling, that the opposition has a slight lead over Netanyahu at points.
00:07:06.820Netanyahu may have a close tie, but the truth is that Netanyahu is not going to allow the free-form democratic voting process to take place if there's potential that he is going to be ousted from power at this point in time because of his own political survival.
00:07:27.060And the ultimate objective for him in renewing strikes against Iran would be to maintain his political advantage.0.59
00:07:37.120He's told the people of Israel that to vote him out of office right now while Israel and the United States are at war with Iran would be suicide for the nation and would ensure that Iran would reign holocaust.
00:07:50.900He used these words, reign holocaust down on Israel.
00:07:54.320So he's trying to invoke these feelings of the Holocaust, of the genocide of the Jews in World War II, to then compare that to Iran and fixate that with his position in political power.
00:08:06.840And if anyone thinks that Netanyahu is just going to hold his breath and wait for how these elections turn out and hope that he skates by and wins, even though the opposition shows that he likely will not, we're foolish to think that.
00:08:20.600And I think that most people don't think that.
00:08:22.700So in the next two days here, what is Israel going to do to renew the conflict into full-scale war once again to then suspend elections in Israel on Tuesday to then either renegotiate the opposition, the various persons in political positions?
00:08:44.920But we also know that in the Arab bloc within the Knesset, that there's concerns amongst the leaders in the Arab bloc and the opposition that they may be subject to assassinations by Netanyahu.
00:08:59.640So the way I think this is going to play out is that Netanyahu has been wanting Iran to strike to renew hostilities.
00:09:07.200I think that's why we saw Israel being very bombastic with their claims that we're going to strike on our own.
00:09:13.260We don't need the United States. We'll do it on our own. We saw last week, not once but twice, full-scale Israeli sorties of F-35s and F-16s conducting the exact airstrike rehearsal run with refuelers from Navatim Air Base in Israel, which is where their F-35Is are based, through Iraq to the eastern border, which would take them right into Iran on path for the nuclear facilities there.
00:09:43.260and um you got a diagram yeah that you know here i can share that too if you want but this map here
00:09:49.800you know if you're coming uh from from uh if you know if you're flying in from from iraq
00:09:56.320you know all of your um your nuclear facilities in terms of uh what we've seen before in strikes
00:10:02.280uh ferdao irak nantans which is moving a little closer to the other direction there you go perfect
00:10:09.140Perfect. Yeah. Sorry. So, you know, here's here's Tehran. Here's the four down nuclear facility.
00:10:15.320Here's the Iraq nuclear facility. Here's the non-tons nuclear facility where Pickaxe Mountain is also located.
00:10:20.780This is actually Pickaxe Mountain. And then the Isfahan nuclear facility, the routes that Israel was flying would put them right on path for these type of strikes.0.87
00:10:28.820But we also know that what Israel has released in public information is that their targeting deck, their joint prioritized targeting list, or their JPTL, has increased vastly with civilian infrastructure targets, nuclear facilities, water purification facilities, power generation, ports, bases, civilian infrastructure.0.69
00:10:53.000So they are going to strike all out. And the thing is, is that Israel doesn't have the massive ordinance penetrator GBU 50, you know, the GBU 43 massive ordinance air burst.
00:11:10.220This is the 22-pounder, the Moab, which some people refer to as the mother of all bombs.
00:11:17.080And Israel also does not have what I alluded to just a moment ago, the U.S. bunker buster, the massive ordinance penetrator GBU-57, which is a loaded 30,000-pound bomb, which can only be deployed from the B-2.
00:11:33.520What Israel does have is a lot of 2,000-pound bombs, which they can do a lot of aerial saturation
00:11:41.380bombing, which most people would refer to in terms of carpet bombing. By doctrine,
00:11:47.020that is aerial saturation bombing. So Israel can do a lot of that, or the gap between what Israel0.60
00:11:53.660can do with their 2,000-pound guided or unguided munitions are the next step would then be a0.81
00:11:59.900tactical nuclear weapon, which Israel does possess. And a tactical nuclear weapon can be deployed0.56
00:12:05.240from the F-35I or the F-16, both of which Israel have. So when you look at that in terms of the
00:12:13.320United States is now drawn into this midnight hammer. Hey, we started this. We can't finish
00:12:18.260it. Come in and finish it. Or we're going to go the nuclear option. The start of this war on the
00:12:21.88028th of February. We think they're going to strike. So we're going to strike first because we know
00:12:25.800they're going to strike back. We're going to strike them first. And oh, by the way, we only
00:12:29.000have enough well here i would i would say i would say this an overhead shot please crew overhead
00:12:34.340shot of this i know y'all displayed earlier maybe y'all can just get it up on the screen for a
00:12:37.720second netanyahu post image of atomic bomb over tel aviv nothing else will matter and this is a
00:12:44.260beautiful window into his mind and how he thinks if you look at this explosion right here this is
00:12:49.700what our world leaders have on their minds so go ahead and talk about it you're right alex he is
00:12:53.820he is putting into the mind of of israelis uh of of jews of americans uh of of jew and gentile
00:13:05.880goys and all that's that iran is going to strike with a nuclear weapon therefore0.71
00:13:13.200israel must strike first and it's setting the conditions for that in in the political space0.54
00:13:22.180in the military option space. And if it was questionable as to whether or not Israel had
00:13:30.020nuclear tactical weapons, or even if they had them, do they have the ability to deploy them?0.60
00:13:34.960Well, the frightening thing is, as the answer to both of those questions is an absolute yes,0.59
00:13:40.960Israel has nuclear tactical nuclear weapons, and they have the means to deploy them. And now we're0.60
00:13:48.360seeing this political rhetoric to set the justification of the preemptiveness to a strike0.68
00:13:53.580to that caliber of using a tactical nuke is that, well, Iran's going to use it on us and then nothing0.50
00:13:57.900else will matter. So we have to go first. We have to do it first. So I think we are on the precipice0.63
00:14:04.840of that in the coming days, because if anybody thinks that Netanyahu is going to lose this
00:14:09.800election quietly and under the normal processes and just say, hey, good election, I'll go ahead
00:14:15.480and take my seat and face my prosecution in my criminal cases and just, you know, potentially
00:14:20.460go to jail for the rest of my life. If anybody thinks that Benjamin Netanyahu is going to do
00:14:24.820that, then you haven't been paying attention, which I think most people haven't been paying
00:14:28.760attention. And we know that he's not going to do that. And a similar time period, people can look
00:14:33.180at past behavior being best indicator of present and future behavior is, of course, October 7th,
00:14:38.640October 7th, and the political pressure and threat Netanyahu was under then due to the court
00:14:42.960system. And there's even more pressure now. And I want to go to this because it ties into what
00:14:47.100you're just talking about there. On the American side, our side, which we care about, Pentagon is
00:14:52.140preparing a doomsday fortress scenario. I wanted to ask you about this. The Pentagon is equipping
00:14:57.600U.S. military facilities to operate for up to 90 days without outside support as it prepares for
00:15:03.000potentially devastating consequences of a major war. What are your thoughts on that and the
00:15:07.160Operation Fortress. Yes. So this is this is not this would not be the first time that we've seen
00:15:14.880this in war zones to where the Department of Defense has put out and said it this this has
00:15:19.880the potential to go high and right as when we we took out when we were still in Syria and we
00:15:26.440conducted a special operations raid to kill al-Baghdadi. There was then prior to that this
00:15:32.180point of hate. This may now go all out in the region between northern Iraq and northeast Syria
00:15:37.640to where our special operations bases in these small locations, these small austere combat
00:15:43.500outposts with U.S. military personnel in northeast Syria, we may not be able to support you. So
00:15:50.720you may be able to have you may have to support yourselves for the next 60 to 90 days,
00:15:56.460depending on how this goes. So we've seen this before, but seeing this now in the region in
00:16:02.080bases outside of the war zone, so to speak. And I would contend that this entire region has now
00:16:08.680been turned into the war zone. But outside of Iran, outside of Israel in these bases that we0.82
00:16:15.120still have, we still have U.S. bases and U.S. service members in Kuwait. We have over 2,500
00:16:21.880of them. We have nearly 3,000 service members with the surge of Air Force personnel to assist
00:16:28.340with targeting data for Operation Yemeni Dawn, which is Saudi Arabia's operation in Yemen against
00:16:34.200Ansar Allah, we're now at almost 3,000 service members in Saudi Arabia. We have service members
00:16:40.960in Jordan. We have a whole deployment of special operations in Israel at the secretive OVDA airbase
00:16:51.440and at the Nevatine Air Base. We have U.S. service members at these bases.
00:16:57.580So if the United States, let's look at what the United States has done in the last
00:17:01.36010 days, in the last week. On the 12th of October, the Department of State warning
00:17:07.440to embassies and consulates and Americans in the region, I'm talking about the Middle East,
00:17:13.060went to level three, which is the second highest of the four levels. It's don't travel there.
00:17:18.620If you don't have to be there, get out. If you're non-essential, leave. Now, we saw on December 21st, the renewed strikes that happened against Conoroc Island, against Sarik Island. We saw Israel yet again with power projection of their F-16s and their F-35Is conducting an aerial run. And then we saw the Department of State level increase to level four for U.S. personnel in the region.
00:17:43.800if you're not there you're not going there if you're there get out which is what we saw right
00:17:49.920right before we invaded iraq right before we invaded afghanistan are we are we headed are we
00:17:56.320headed towards that and what is this staging for that look like because everything you were talking
00:18:00.680about earlier with the weapon systems the munitions the bunker busters the mother of all bombs i know
00:18:05.860that's not the technical term for it but whatever all the stuff like that we have a very finite
00:18:09.940amount of these resources even us you say they don't have any like we don't have these things
00:18:13.860just throw away right that's right and even when we use them they don't achieve the goal i mean
00:18:17.940we saw 39 days of war we saw thousands of strikes what did that achieve other than strengthening
00:18:23.280the regime the thing that's hurt the regime has been you know the economic reality of the war but
00:18:27.660it's hurting us more because they're an existential crisis or we're an exit or yeah they're an
00:18:32.200existential crisis we're not so they're willing to feel a lot more pain what do you think about that
00:18:36.020So there's an interesting report that just came out on Thursday. And in that report, it was looking at the munitions further in depth because, you know, the Operation Epic Fury report from the inspector general came out in August, but it only covered through August.
00:18:55.180What about September, October, where we've had more strikes? September, the large attack on the Jordanian base where we had a lot of interceptors used.
00:19:03.980So looking at all that, we now know that Israel held back from using their munitions in the early days of that war, in the early days of the 12-day war, held back their own stock from protecting U.S. service members in these regions with ground interceptors.
00:19:24.020because the U.S. Navy had not yet moved the entirety of the Fifth Fleet and U.S. Central
00:19:29.120Command's wartime footing into the area. And they withheld a lot of that for their own protection
00:19:35.540and ended up wasting them anyway. But it's a glimpse into where Israel stands with the United
00:19:40.620States. They are not an ally. They are not a good friend to have in the region. And now with this,
00:19:47.960you know, here's the, as I mentioned before, the massive ordnance penetrator. If you want to think
00:19:52.860about size this is really the the mother of all bombs it's 30 000 pounds uh this is the big one
00:19:58.500but we call the we call the moab um the the mother of all bombs because of the acronym the
00:20:04.200massive ordinance air burst the moab so this one gets the moab name but it's smaller than the mop
00:20:09.920and here's the thing go ahead but here's like here's the thing to me is like these things have
00:20:15.020such cool names trump is going to try to use them again oh absolutely yes so so yeah yeah he he's a
00:20:21.520he's a sucker for a cool name, right? You know, if we if we if we created another missile that
00:20:26.200was 40,000 pounds and we called it the and we called it the Trump bomb, we would be using them.
00:20:30.800I mean, he would have one sitting in the Oval Office. So when you look at this in terms of
00:20:35.240this is what we used in Operation Midnight Hammer. We used 14 of these against the facilities in
00:20:41.680Iran, these nuclear facilities to which we did not destroy or diminish. We damaged them a bit,
00:20:47.740but we didn't even penetrate through the six to seven hundred feet of granite that sits above
00:20:53.340these sites. But if we want to use this again, we only have six of them. Oh, no, there's only six
00:20:59.060left. That doesn't sound that doesn't sound practical. It's not supposed to fight a war,
00:21:03.360right, with only six bombs. I mean, so really, when you look at this in terms of look at all
00:21:11.020of the armament that the United States has short of the B-12 Delta tactical nuclear weapon. That's
00:21:20.320the nomenclature for the U.S. tactical nuke. So let's look at everything short of that. I'm sorry,
00:21:27.260the B-61 is the nuclear bomb, the tactical nuke. The 12 variant is the gravity bomb. That's the
00:21:36.240newer variant that we have here in the United States that's with the B2s. But we also have1.00
00:21:41.800them in the region, the B61-11 variant in the region, ready to go if we need to. So when you0.64
00:21:49.600look at that, let's look at everything short of that. Precision strike munitions aren't going to
00:21:54.260do anything against Pickaxe Mountain or the nuclear facilities. We don't have very many of
00:21:59.320them. If we want to use the massive ordinance airburst, that will do nothing to the nuclear
00:22:06.940facilities. It's in the name. They literally airburst. They are for surface targets. And I
00:22:13.360think the United States is going to use the MOAB GBU-43 against surface targets such as power
00:22:19.860plants, ports, oil refinement facilities, power generation, bridges, bases, and use the remaining
00:22:27.760MOPs that we have to hit specific targets on Pickaxe Mountain by stacking them. And even if
00:22:34.980we were to put all six of those right through the same hole and continue to penetrate, it wouldn't
00:22:40.760penetrate the 600 feet of granite that sits on top of the Natanz Pickaxe facility buried underneath
00:22:51.080another, you know, another six to 700 feet of granite of this pickaxe mountain. So it's not
00:22:58.040going to succeed. Neither will a tactical nuclear weapon succeed in achieving that objective. But
00:23:07.500I look at this and I ask myself diplomatically, what route does Donald Trump have out of this
00:23:14.520that he either hasn't already squandered, wiped his rear end with and thrown away,
00:23:19.760or has destroyed the possibility of, and I'm talking about the April to May Islamabad Accord0.50
00:23:27.700or the 14-point MOU, that was the Islamabad Accord, that's been flushed down the toilet.
00:23:35.020So we've heard this president, Donald Trump, time and time again refer to,
00:23:40.160Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. We keep hearing that, make its way through all the
00:23:45.320political chaff and the narratives and the disinformation. We keep hearing this president
00:23:50.740going back to, and Marco Rubio and J.D. Vance just said it last week, Iran cannot have a nuclear
00:23:57.740weapon. So Iran does not have a nuclear weapon. But we're once again imposing the threat that
00:24:02.780they do and that they're going to use it. We see Netanyahu saying that now. So the only way to
00:24:08.000eliminate that threat that the United States and Israel has now made as the boogeyman would be in0.90
00:24:14.260addition to other strikes would be to strike pickaxe. The only way you're even going to leave0.79
00:24:20.640a blemish on pickaxe is if you were to stack every existing MOP in addition to then using a
00:24:26.940tactical nuke. And it would have to be very precise, which the United States is capable of.0.64
00:24:30.940But even then, it is not going to destroy pickaxe mountains. We will cover that and a lot more after
00:24:36.140this break. I want to talk Europe, Ukraine and more Iran with you. Thank you, Anthony Aguilar.
00:24:40.380We'll be right back after these messages.
00:27:10.820Musk admits SpaceX throttled Starlink in Ukraine because Kiev violated terms of service.
00:27:16.940Elon said Saturday that SpaceX throttled Starlink service in Ukraine, ending a week in which Washington and SpaceX pointed at each other over who limited the connection to Kiev's drones, the Associated Press reported.
00:27:28.240Musk replied correct on X and wrote that using Starlink, a civilian commercial service for offensive drone strikes to kill people, has never been allowed, nor should it be.
00:27:38.140Adding that Starshield, a different system, is controlled by the U.S. government.
00:27:43.180The rest of the post, as AP quotes it, Ukrainian military violated Starlink terms of service and used it for offensive drone strikes to kill people.
00:27:57.600You know, as I as I look at the Starlink situation, you know, when we I still clearly remember back in the December 2021 period, as Russia was building along the border, you know, Russia was was building up along the region here.
00:28:15.400And there was more indicators that this wasn't a special training exercise, that Russia was certainly going to go into the eastern regions of Ukraine.
00:28:24.900and we deployed the 18th Airborne Corps staff, which I was a part of, to Poland initially to
00:28:31.100set up a joint headquarters with Ukraine and some in Kiev. And we were looking at this and we quickly
00:28:37.400realized that the traditional infrastructure that we rely upon within a country, like that we rely
00:28:43.560upon here in the United States, cell phone towers, internet, all of those things that provide
00:28:49.600battlefield communications and command and control were not so easily used in this battlefield,
00:28:57.180because that's what Ukraine and Russia first took out first with each other to make each
00:29:03.240other blind on the battlefield. So a great advantage of that was Starlink. And I remember
00:29:08.180with the conversations with Starlink from the Secretary of Defense at the time, Lloyd Austin,
00:29:14.000all the way to Elon Musk, having these conversations with the Joint Force Commander
00:29:18.920on the use of Starlink for military operations, how it could be used in the area. And I started
00:29:26.840to think of that, and I was like, wow, Starlink is now, Starlink, a civilian company owned by
00:29:32.920stakeholders, owned by a profit-making entity, is now going to have the ability to throttle
00:29:39.920wartime plans and wartime momentum on the battlefield based on their uh uh desire whether
00:29:47.860it's we want more money uh it's it's a matter of morality whatever to then just determine how
00:29:54.700militaries operate in open systems uh using starlink in fenced-in um regions to conduct
00:30:04.420war i mean how do you think uh when using uh connectivity gps ins and all these other
00:30:09.880connectivity requirements that's being done it's being done by starlink we see there's great
00:30:15.260pictures out there of ukrainian soldiers on the front lines and part of their battle drills are
00:30:20.760you know establish your defense and set up your starlink so we're seeing that happening now once
00:30:26.560again this throttling of it uh to where um it's now become a political tool the ability to control
00:30:32.880command and control on the battlefield has now become, you know, from thousands of miles away
00:30:38.100and thousands of miles up in the air or thousands of feet up in the air, a political tool. We saw
00:30:45.960that when I went into Gaza, of course, the cell phone towers, the internet, everything is destroyed.
00:30:54.820And we, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, had to operate with the ability to have some
00:31:00.780form of navigation. We had maps, we had good old map and compass, but we had to have some
00:31:07.920more navigation for the headquarters that we established to track when Americans were inside
00:31:13.920of Gaza in these few distribution points. So we had to ask Starlink. And what delayed the start
00:31:19.740of operations to start delivering food to a starving population was the approval from Starlink
00:31:25.900to set up a fenced, very specific Starlink constellation over Gaza that we could use.
00:31:35.360And you can imagine the political sensitivities of that with the IDF and Israel and the United
00:31:41.020States and Egypt. So it was quite a conundrum. But we're seeing that now with what's happening
00:31:48.500on the battlefield. And I think that that had an impact on the success of the Russian strikes we
00:31:53.260saw last night, Saturday night, depending on where you are in the world, last night on Dniprochevetsk,
00:31:59.720which is right here. So if you consider here's kind of where the front line where we hear all
00:32:05.360the fighting, here's Kiev, here's Kharkiv, here's Dniprochevetsk right here. And the Russian
00:32:13.780strikes last night with over 120 drones and cruise missiles that killed four and injured 22
00:32:19.040happened pretty deep into the interior here beyond the front line. And I think part of that
00:32:25.720was because the Ukrainian forces are lacking the ability to see these incoming things and then be
00:32:33.460able to do anything about it. Your wire-guided optical drone can only reach so far. You don't
00:32:40.360need internet for that because it's wire-guided optical. But to intercept things like this nature,
00:32:46.420You need some type of network connectivity. And if that's being throttled and reduced, it certainly is having a direct impact on the Ukrainians in the front line.
00:32:55.940What is your prognosis for the Russia-Ukraine war? And what do you think about Trump's behavior on it?
00:33:02.620Because Trump has come out over the course of years and made various conflicting statements about Zelensky, but then has ultimately refused to pull the most essential support, which has really been the thing keeping them operational.
00:33:13.380When is it all truly going to be over? Because, you know, when I first got my warehouse like two years ago or something like that, I remember watching all the talking heads that I really respect and really admire people like Larry Johnson and others talking about the situation with Ukraine, Russia.
00:33:27.800And I thought it would be over by now. It seems to be a stalemate. What is what is the reality of this?
00:33:32.480Well, when we first joined in in the war effort to support Ukraine, kind of an advisory role with joint fires, because at the time when this war first started, the real important thing was the use of mobile long range fires like HIMARS firing ATACMS or MLRS or prison munitions, those long range munitions, which we had limited supply of because they were early in development.
00:34:02.480We already had limited supply of the army tactical missile system, the ATACMS, which is a very capable weapon system, but very expensive.
00:34:10.120And now that we've seen this shift to defending Israel, we've taken a lot of that away from Ukraine in both what we're providing and what we actually had there.
00:34:18.100We didn't just stop providing some. We actually took some away and said, we're taking that out of Europe here.0.74
00:34:25.740And, you know, we in in the news recently, since the strikes last night today, we heard Zelensky publicly.
00:34:31.660it was in the news just hours ago saying, hey, unblock the patriot systems that we were once
00:34:38.160being given. Unblock those. We need interceptors. Look at what happened in the Neftras last night.
00:34:44.140We need interceptors. So what's clear to me is that the United States in its policy and in its0.93
00:34:51.300actions under this administration has abandoned Ukraine. We haven't completely walked away. We
00:34:58.940We haven't completely severed the support, but in terms of the commitment to winning at all costs so that Ukraine will win and not give up an inch of their territory for democracy, for freedom, you know, for the Western way of life against the evil Soviets, the evil Russians, we're not going to give up an inch, has now turned into we've abandoned them.0.62
00:35:19.020We're willing to say, hey, a little glitch there.0.60
00:35:46.380Ukraine has restored its SpaceX Starlink system after restrictions were placed on its use, President Zelensky has announced.
00:35:53.020Now, the reason why we've had to pull all of our support from Ukraine, which I am a fan of, by the way, reason why I've had to do this is not out of some good thing out of trying to put America first, trying to reestablish our military and our munitions for our own purposes.
00:36:05.140It's because the war in Iran is far too expensive and you can't fight a war in Iran for hundreds of billions of dollars while also giving hundreds of billions of dollars to Ukraine.
00:36:14.120I want to ask Anthony, when he's able to rejoin us, if my suspicion is truly correct and they're really just running off the fumes of the Biden money that they were given.
00:36:23.120And, you know, the numbers are different. It's between 200, 300 million.
00:36:26.680The EU issued them like over 100 billion dollar loan that is backed when they win.
00:36:31.740This is what the actual terms of loans say anything.
00:36:34.660I'm talking about that 100 plus billion dollar loan that the EU issued Ukraine.0.60
00:36:38.420Of course, the payback promises, oh, get us back when you defeat Russia.0.92
00:36:42.440But my whole just view on all this stuff and why we're abandoning Ukraine, pulling out of there is because we can't afford to do it while we're also doing Iran.0.95
00:36:52.500And I the way the way I see it in terms of, you know, I use the word abandon, not necessarily as an emotional word, but as a technical word.
00:37:01.440And I, too, agree that the United States should pull back from giving blank checks on billions of dollars in military aid and billions of dollars in munitions to not just Israel, but also Ukraine in this to where this open checkbook that's coming out of the American taxpayers pocket every day.
00:37:23.000And when Americans have the inability to put food on the table or put gas in the car and these rising prices from what we're seeing in the Strait of Hormuz and the cost of munitions, and believe me, those munitions are not cheap.
00:37:35.060And you know who's getting rich off of those is all the people selling them to Ukraine and to Israel because, and again, we're not just giving them to them.
00:37:43.220We're buying them from these companies, and then the U.S. government gives them.
00:37:47.160But they're being bought by somebody, and that's the U.S. tax dollar.
00:37:49.800so when i say in terms of abandoning i mean in a way of like imagine if you will you and a friend
00:37:56.420go to a bar for the night and he has a little too many that's ukraine and he decides hey this guy
00:38:02.100that's always been starting with me he's pushing in i'm gonna i'm gonna i'm gonna punch back and
00:38:06.200you're in the united states you're like hey i wouldn't do that you're gonna bite off more than
00:38:10.560you can chew hey you got my back though right no matter what happens you got my back and the u.s
00:38:15.940says, yes, no matter what happens, I got your back. And they get into this fight. And then at
00:38:20.160one point, the United States is saying, whoa, this has come to be a little too much. We don't have
00:38:24.120your back anymore. The wise decision would have been to counsel in the beginning to say, hey,
00:38:28.660we're not going to give you a blank check, open checkbook, free for all to everything that we
00:38:33.360have. There are constraints and limitations. Biden opened up that Pandora's box. Trump continued it.
00:38:39.940And now we're in a position to where it's not just a matter of, hey, we're going to reduce this and
00:38:45.200reduce that because you now have your own capabilities. We're just cutting off the
00:38:49.020umbilical cord, which is going to lead to, you know, if you're Russia at this point,
00:38:53.020and we already know from Steve Witkoff visiting Moscow last month and having conversations with
00:38:59.800Zelensky, that the United States is now looking towards frameworks for a deal, an agreement,
00:39:07.080a trilateral agreement between Ukraine, Russia, and the United States. Whereas months ago,
00:39:12.160you would have heard, oh, no, no way. We're going to back. We're going to back Ukraine till the end
00:39:16.060to the last inch. Not anymore, because Iran has become so expensive that we can no longer support1.00
00:39:22.760our allies in Ukraine. God forbid what would happen. And I'm not saying there's an indication0.91
00:39:28.680of it happening, but I'm just saying in terms of scenarios, God forbid if China were to decide
00:39:33.220right now to militarily move on Taiwan, what would we do? Right now? And that's the big question.
00:39:38.700and that's the real war on three fronts that America faces because it's put itself in these
00:39:43.560regional proxy wars. How do you think this is going to boat out for the midterms, Anthony?
00:39:48.480What's your prediction for the midterm elections? So, you know, the the Israel elections on Tuesday
00:39:54.760and the U.S. elections one week later were nine days away from three November, which is not this
00:40:00.460coming Tuesday, but the next. So as we have the Israeli elections this Tuesday, the next Tuesday
00:40:05.620is U.S. elections. What's happening with the war in Iran, the losses that are becoming more and
00:40:12.720more evident. And even from the beginning, when the Department of War, the Department of Defense
00:40:18.240was concealing a lot of the truth, and there were people that said, oh, look,
00:40:21.580Pete Hexford said we're doing fine. The president said this war would take a couple days,
00:40:27.220maybe a few weeks. Myself and others who have been to war, who have been part of joint planning,
00:40:32.640who understand how these things unfold, who have experienced it firsthand, we're like,
00:40:36.460no, it's not. And here we are going on eight months of that conflict, and we have not moved
00:40:42.440the needle. In fact, we've pulled the needle even back in our favor, both economically and
00:40:48.760militarily. That is going to weigh heavily on the midterms, which is why this dilemma that we're in
00:40:55.300right now. Donald Trump does not want to go at it again with Iran until after the midterms.
00:41:01.340netanyahu can't afford to wait until after his elections this tuesday to do nothing so you have
00:41:09.020this collision of timelines to where netanyahu has to do something before tuesday and trump
00:41:15.160doesn't want to do anything until after next tuesday their calendars aren't aligned unfortunately
00:41:20.460so what we're going to see is that regardless of what donald trump wants to do or not want to do
00:41:26.280before or after the midterms, we are wedded to whatever Israel is going to do. And I think that
00:41:32.040it's possible to do something before or on Tuesday. And it's going to be down to the last
00:41:37.820minute, right? The one yard line. Oh, we got to suspend elections. Look at this. It was unforeseen.
00:41:43.260And then, well, whatever Israel does, whether they go and conduct airstrikes or they start0.83
00:41:49.660conducting strikes, Iran is going to respond. And there's not going to be a week of time in between0.84
00:41:55.780that the united states has the convenience to do nothing so donald trump will be pulled and
00:42:01.520compelled and once again by israel to involve the united states in this again in escalation
00:42:06.660before the u.s midterms and i think that will weigh heavily on the midterms in terms of term
00:42:12.940it'll be fresh in people's minds as they go to the bowling as they go to the polling sites
00:42:17.260as they as they either the night before or the day of go to fill up their vehicle with gas to
00:42:23.360go to said polling site and gas is still so high and the price of diesel is still so high and the
00:42:29.120breakfast that they made at home because they're trying to save some money by not buying out in
00:42:33.160town still cost them twenty dollars because of the price of eggs and milk and butter and bread
00:42:38.060all of those things are going to weigh in the minds of the average american when they go to the
00:42:41.760polls and it's going to have an impact how that shapes the u.s congress both the house and the
00:42:50.720and the Senate after the midterms. And I think Donald Trump is very afraid of what that could
00:43:00.480look like after the midterms. And I've said this before, and it's important for people to understand
00:43:04.780Donald Trump doesn't care about impeachment. He was impeached twice in his first term.
00:43:12.940What he is scared of, same thing that Nixon found himself in this position,
00:43:16.760is impeachment in the House with conviction in the Senate.
00:43:22.620And if the elections go blue come the midterms
00:43:25.880and there's Democratic control of the Senate and the House,
00:43:28.820it's very likely that that impeachment will move forward
00:43:32.840from articles of impeachment voted on in the House
00:43:34.780to conviction in the Senate with a conviction.
00:43:37.800And now Donald Trump is in dangerous territory.
00:44:37.040I'm glad you mentioned that because I, too, have been reminiscing on that quote from Marco Rubio on the 1st of March at the State Department headquarters when he was approached on this and asked that specifically.
00:44:50.660And, you know, I remember as a kid, you go through the history books and you see, how did World War I start?
00:44:56.000You know, most people think, oh, the assassinated Prince Ferdinand was the spark.
00:45:00.920And then you learn really about the history of you're like, OK, and then how did World War II start?
00:45:04.200we got involved to fight the Nazis. And you're like, OK, Gulf War, Iraq War, 9-11. And you're
00:45:10.400like, OK, no, obviously there's a lot of lies in that. But but it's a believable story. Can you
00:45:15.620imagine in the history books when my children are in school, high school and college one day doing
00:45:20.120history reports on how the war with Iran started? Because it could still be going on in years from
00:45:26.220now good lord was actually mike waltz on on thursday mike waltz the u.s ambassador to the
00:45:33.980united nations a retired green beret someone that i have worked with and i have known remember he
00:45:39.380was the national security advisor who was fired after the chats yeah for the chats exactly when
00:45:46.340they threw under the bus and a constellation prize they made him the u.n ambassador to the u.s to the
00:45:51.900UN. He said on Thursday, expect this war to last longer than a year or more. Well, no, no shit,
00:46:00.500Sherlock. We're in this. It's going to last longer. So imagine looking through the history1.00
00:46:06.480books one day and seeing, how did this war begin? And you see the quote there in like a little
00:46:10.800bubble in the history book, you know, from Marco Rubio. We knew that Israel was going to strike0.87
00:46:18.200Iran and that Iran was going to retaliate and that Israel would retaliate against that0.82
00:46:23.140justifiable retaliation. So we, the United States, decided to strike Iran first based on the0.80
00:46:30.660preemption to one of our allies striking them first to preempt the rightful justification of0.89
00:46:35.680a response from the strike that Israel was going to do. So that's why we struck and that's why we0.88
00:46:40.800attacked. Makes sense, right? And everybody's like, oh, I guess. And for those of us with a brain,
00:46:45.740We're like, that doesn't make sense. Yes. The quote from Elf, you sit on a throne of lies.
00:46:52.020And that's they use their authority to pass off the most inane stuff.
00:46:56.820Yeah. I mean, and they they they try to serve it to us like we're all stupid or that we're not listening.1.00
00:47:04.180And I think, you know, and I well, I don't think I know that the average American is not stupid and that the average Americans are listening.0.97
00:47:12.200And just because the average or most Americans aren't involved in political discourse or maybe don't read the New York Times every morning, they're still informed and attuned to what's going on, especially when it hits them in the pocket and they get told the price of gas will never be lower.0.76
00:47:29.940Just give it a couple of days. Here we are eight months in. The price of diesel has never been
00:47:35.560higher. And it's it's carrying the cost over into everything we do in America from leisure time to
00:47:42.020recreation, to running your lawn equipment, to putting gas in your car, to going to the grocery
00:47:46.860store, to your power bill. It touches everything. I guarantee that every American in the United
00:47:54.860States, from the West Coast to the East Coast, from the Canadian border to Mexico, from Florida
00:47:59.940to Ferndale, can take their power bill over the next eight months and look at it and see the
00:48:04.760marked increase in their power bill, see the marked increase in that fuel bill, see the marked
00:48:10.960increase in every aspect of their lives because of this conflict, because we've been lied to.
00:48:18.520100%. Thank you so much, Anthony Aguilar. Look forward to talking to you again. People can find
00:48:23.360you all over doing a wide variety of interviews. Really appreciate every single time you're able
00:48:28.380to join us. We will see you very soon. Thank you, Anthony Aguilar. Do you see that? That is eight
00:48:34.240knives that have been sold out for six months to a year to pay on a knife that are finally all
00:48:40.360back in stock at the same time. Many of these were limited editions. We have new versions of
00:48:47.400that are proprietary, laser-etched, the World War II trench knives, badass daggers, flip knives,
00:48:54.000you name it, these are badass, and they fund our operation. So, take advantage of it right now
00:49:01.660at thealexshowstore.com. It funds our operation. Some of these knives we're selling for $50,
00:49:06.960sell for $100 in stores, and they're not even laser-etched. They're not even limited edition.
00:49:12.500So there's never been a better chance to support the information war and get an incredible product.