00:02:36.080They fired actual anti-ship missiles at some of these ships,
00:02:39.520and that's the end of their route, the southern route.
00:02:42.440So we don't send Navy ships into the Strait of Hormuz.
00:02:45.400South Vietnam is only one tenth as big as Iran. In South Vietnam, we own the ports. We could just drive ships into port, unload tanks, unload. We had 5,000 combat aircraft and 500,000 troops in South Vietnam, which is only one tenth as big as Iran.
00:03:04.180So when you see people like Kellogg and who are the other ones, General Keene, ex-Spook Jim Hansen on Fox News, talking about taking Karg Island, I think they're out of their minds because it's 600 kilometers, it's 400 miles past the Strait of Hormuz where our best destroyers won't go, right?
00:03:29.400They just tell the tankers to try to sneak out, but our ships don't go there.
00:03:34.500I think our admirals are saving us from this disaster by refusing to send ships in where they know they'll be sunk.
00:03:49.900We're doing man's work here, fighting for the species as our forebears did.
00:08:34.820Obviously, we can go 35,000 foot feet first, the energy war, and then let's drill into what's happening in the Middle East in this new threat to close this other strait.
00:08:46.400Well, you can tell, I think in terms of maps.
00:08:49.700I think, you know, for me, making these maps or I just take maps I find and then add things to them, you know, to make them to make them fit, you know, today's news.
00:09:00.880But Mike Adams, you know, he just wrote a text post today that I think is out of this world.
00:09:07.560I don't think there's anybody that that nails all of the, you know, not it's not just energy, petroleum, gas, oil, all of the other things that are being blocked right now.
00:09:48.600It's just math. So that's the Mike Adams, you know, economic and commodity and, you know, supply chain part of it. But in the just geopolitical part of it, if you can, yeah, that's great. That post, I wish that that could be read in the White House, the Pentagon, everywhere. So much would change if it was.
00:10:12.640But if you put up that my energy world war map again, you mentioned Nord Stream.
00:10:20.060I forgot to put a little bomb symbol over the Nord Stream because that was absolutely part of this whole thing.
00:10:26.600And there's you can say it was the opening salvo three years ago.
00:10:47.620And that ship was carrying a strategic cargo through the Mediterranean to Vladivostok.
00:10:54.440Then you've got the U.S. destroyer disgracefully sinking a virtually unarmed, newly commissioned Iranian,
00:11:01.820smaller than a frigate like a Corvette called the Dina, which was doing a diplomatic port visit in Iran.
00:11:09.580And early in the days of this war that we started, not a defensive war, we torpedoed that ship, you know, which is like using a sledgehammer on a mouse, you know, a mouse that's in a mousetrap.
00:11:23.300And believe me, the Iranians haven't forgot that or the girls at Minab and many other things.
00:11:28.500But, yeah, this is becoming a world war.
00:11:30.780And if you look at the two fronts, the main fronts of this war, the Ukrainians have struck all the way up to Murmansk with drones either provided or engineered with British, American and German help.
00:11:48.840So it stretches all the way from Murmansk to the Bab al-Mandeb Strait and even to Ceylon, which is where the Sri Lanka, which is where that Iranian ship was sunk.
00:12:01.140There's only 800 kilometers, which is 500 miles between these two fronts.
00:12:06.060But it's actually closer than that because the whole Black Sea is now a battlefront because these sea drones are striking Russian ships all over the Black Sea and even in the Sea of Azov.
00:12:21.360And if you consider that our war against Assad, who was a Russian ally in Syria, is also part of this war, it's really close.
00:12:32.320You know, you had Russian bases on the Med, an air base and a naval base right on the Med for decades and decades.
00:12:42.960And our man, who is named Jolani, who was an ISIS head chopper sent to Syria by al-Baghdadi, one of his senior lieutenants,
00:12:54.860He's now renamed Shara, wears suits, has a haircut, visits the White House, yucks it up with Trump right in the Oval Office.
00:13:05.420He's a head chopper, but he's our head chopper.
00:13:08.880And Trump has said maybe we'll send him into Lebanon.
00:13:13.340So look at how close this is all knitting together to being just one world war.
00:13:17.740You have our side, the Brits, America, Germany, supplying deep strike weapons to Ukraine to fire into Russia.
00:13:28.760And this is like a new form of proxy war, where if you have a vassal state that is basically under your complete domination and control, you can use it as a virtual launch pad.
00:14:06.540And he said it's coming very, very soon, including hitting the U.K., Germany, and France, definitely sinking NATO cargo ships with weapons.
00:14:18.100Do you think that's really going to happen?
00:14:20.340And if it does, how do you expect NATO is going to respond?
00:14:25.700But as Russia said, proportionally, they've not escalated up to the level of NATO financing all these deeper and deeper strikes on the energy sector and on civilian targets inside Russia, all extremely provocative.
00:14:39.060You know, another another similarity between Iran and Russia at this point is that the populations seem to be ahead of their leaders in terms of wanting to accelerate.
00:14:50.460You know, that Putin is being criticized for not attacking these factories.
00:14:55.700for not escalating, for just taking it.
00:14:58.500You can't call it a special military operation anymore.
00:15:01.220You know, when they're hitting practically to Lake Baikal.
00:15:04.880They've hit refineries near Lake Baikal to Murmansk.
00:16:05.840So this was one of the two ways to circumvent the Strait of Hormuz for large amounts of oil.
00:16:12.560You know, so like several million barrels per day were going out of that pipeline through Fujairah.
00:16:19.120That port's been struck. And also on the Red Sea, there's a port called Yambu where Saudi oil has been going westward across Saudi Arabia to the Red Sea.
00:16:31.460That can now be closed by the Houthis when they decide to come in with Iran.
00:16:38.380You've got the United States Navy. They're outside of the Gulf of Oman.
00:17:02.520But I wanted to get your take on that.
00:17:04.340And just the fact that Trump continues to look incredibly weak, saying we got a deal, we don't have a deal, we control the strait, we're going to get 20 percent out of it.
00:17:12.220The day later, OK, we can't do that. I mean, this is this is a disaster. Can you elaborate on what this means to the world?
00:17:18.300It is. It is a disaster. And and, you know, this this is obviously showing the world that America is, in many respects, a paper tiger.
00:17:27.560There's so many aspects to this. When when we started this war, we really weren't prepared for it because our bases in the Gulf states are above ground.
00:17:38.120They were all built on the assumption that our defenses would protect us from anything Iran could throw at them.
00:17:45.020Or maybe they just didn't think that deeply.
00:17:47.460But our bases are basically, you know, thin-skinned buildings on parking lots.
00:20:00.760They fought with the Greeks and so forth.
00:20:02.600But, you know, in fact, Persia is a Greek word. It's like us calling German German instead of Deutsch. So, yeah, but the Persians could never be kicked out of there either. Even when Islam took over in a, you know, slow, the way that Islam can, it's Islam with Persian characteristics. And it's still the Persian people in Persian culture and Persian language, Iranian language.
00:20:27.740So, yeah, they're never going to be kicked out of there.
00:20:30.960And one of the things that drives me the craziest is people are still thinking if we just bomb them harder, they're going to surrender.
00:20:39.400They don't understand this is the fountainhead of the Shia religion, right?
00:20:43.600This is like the Rome of the Shia religion.
00:21:10.100Kill us and the people after us won't do it.
00:21:12.440So for saying Americans saying if we just bomb them harder, they're going to surrender, they're going to they're going to submit is like telling a bunch of Texas cowboys, you know, if you don't put on lipstick and and say you're gay and, you know, we're we're just going to keep pounding on you.
00:21:30.800The Texans would it's like totally missing the culture.
00:22:34.040I think we have to just ignore them and point out the foolishness of their belief system.
00:22:40.120But, you know, there's a big cost to all of these wars that we've been involved in, mostly on Israel's behalf, and they do understand the psychology of these peoples, and they understand the American psychology.
00:22:53.480They can work them against each other, like getting us to be the big ogre bear to attack Iran that they could never do.
00:34:29.600You know, you've got secret doors, like five stories, they share a wall.
00:34:33.700So what the FBI has of the Epstein files is probably nothing compared to what the Mossad vacuumed out of there over the years, that they still have on Trump or Trump's associates.
00:34:47.300And he doesn't want to blow them all up.
00:35:30.340So he seemed to be having a clear a clear period there when he signed the MOU.
00:35:35.520I think that Robert Barnes has the best take on the disintegration of of Donald Trump's mind, the way that it's it's it's he contradicts himself in the same paragraphs.
00:35:50.780As you've pointed out, he'll wake up in the night.
00:35:55.840It's like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and go 180 to what he said during the day.
00:36:02.200So whoever is around him, it's almost like he needs to be given the Biden treatment.
00:36:08.720Biden was, I think, less dangerous because he didn't know what he was saying.
00:36:12.420But but the the the shadow government around Biden using the auto pen could at least keep our country out of wars.
00:36:21.200And by the way, and by the way, that's a key point.
00:36:23.780That's why none of the other presidents would ever do this, because the Pentagon explained what you and I explained, which is a fact.
00:36:29.180I want to just back up what you're saying. Trump already can be easily influenced the first term.
00:36:32.700That's why they had headlines. Our job's keeping away from Alex Jones and Infowars.
00:36:35.900Now you see reporters can tell him about something that's true.
00:36:38.900He'll instantly go fire the people and do something back when he was doing more of that.
00:37:09.080And like, we're going to go to the we're going to go see ponies and go, you know, see the movies and get candy.
00:37:15.120They're like, let's go. I mean, there's the brain is gone.
00:37:17.780Taking your dog to the vet. Yeah. It's like taking your dog to the vet.
00:37:20.800You've got to. Yeah. But that's that's the unfortunate situation we're in.
00:37:25.780And and he had the off ramp. He could have, as you've said, after the MOU, just relax, pull the Navy back, say declare victory.
00:37:35.240You know, most people have such a shallow understanding of this.
00:37:39.180Fox News will read the party line regardless.
00:37:43.700So if he declared victory after the MOU and pulled the Navy out, we'd be back.
00:37:48.380We'd be at least having a chance of recovering from the damage.
00:37:52.100But the problem is now he's escalating.
00:37:55.760He's either gearing up for some kind of a land incursion at one of the points inside
00:38:01.260or outside of the Persian Gulf, which is insane because our Navy won't even go into the Strait
00:38:06.240of Hormuz. People talk about this southern channel as if the Navy is escorting ships through.
00:38:13.120The Navy is not getting anywhere near the Strait of Hormuz, which I call a real chicken shit move
00:38:18.420to say to big, slow tankers, hey, why don't you take this route? Now, our warships will be a few
00:38:25.040hundred miles over here out of missile range, but why don't you take it? We'll have Apache0.69
00:38:29.920helicopters and F-16s to protect you. Well, that didn't work last week. You know, they fired actual
00:38:36.320anti-ship missiles at some of these ships, and that's the end of their route, the southern route.
00:38:41.400So we don't send Navy ships into the Strait of Hormuz. And you still-
00:38:45.860Spend a little time, though. Spend a little time, because we know there's 10,000 Army Rangers in
00:38:50.040Israel, 5,000 Marines on amphibious ships. They've talked about sending them into Kirk Island at
00:38:55.220first and then fully you're an expert on this uh can you put up number five that's the um that's
00:39:01.280the yellow but explain what explain what it would really take and then they just resupply even if we
00:39:06.400took it and we had the iran iraq war you give them tens of millions of dollars killed millions of
00:39:10.960people and they didn't give up this this to me would make vietnam look like a cakewalk i mean
00:39:18.320can you explain what what would happen if we did a ground invasion and just stick up that number
00:39:23.180five, the yellow Persian Gulf map. But the, you know, South Vietnam is only one-tenth as big as
00:39:30.760Iran. In South Vietnam, we owned the ports. We could just drive ships into port, unload tanks,
00:39:37.500unload. We had 5,000 combat aircraft and 500,000 troops in South Vietnam, which is only one-tenth
00:39:44.900as big as Iran. So when you see people like Kellogg and, who are the other ones, General
00:39:53.000Keene, ex-Spook Jim Hansen on Fox News, talking about taking Karg Island. I think they're out of
00:40:01.740their minds because it's 600 kilometers, it's 400 miles past the Strait of Hormuz, where our best
00:40:08.860destroyers won't go, right? They just tell the tankers to try to sneak out, but our ships don't
00:40:15.200go there. I think our admirals are saving us from this disaster by refusing to send ships in where
00:40:21.980they know they'll be sunk well that's right trump has ordered them in and then they have arguments
00:40:25.660with him and even kicked him out of the situation room that was confirmed two months ago because
00:40:30.260and they he finally about a month ago i should find this and play it again i don't know if you
00:40:33.640saw it matt he goes yeah we gotta in this now they can keep the straight clothes they've got so many
00:40:38.680uh rockets and missiles and and cannons he called it not knowing it's artillery now they've explained
00:40:44.580that that is all decades of those things and all they gotta do is have artillery or missiles pop
00:40:49.200up. They fire it. The operators run away. Even if we find it and blow it up, they've got thousands
00:40:55.260and thousands and thousands of these up and down that damn coast. And all they've been planning
00:40:59.800this for decades. They've been planning this for decades. And on the other hand, our installations
00:41:05.560in the Gulf region are basically containers sitting on parking lots. And now the Russians,
00:41:13.580Remember, this is becoming one global war, so the Russians are now providing satellite and other imagery, electronic and satellite imagery, so that as soon as a C-117, a C-17 Globemaster lands in Kuwait and unrolls the latest Atakums, the Iranians know it in real time.
00:41:34.020They hit the Atakum's installation on the Kuwait-Iraq border before they were even set up.
00:41:41.500And it's debatable whether any Americans were hurt there.
00:41:44.820But as opposed to on the other side, the Iranians are dug into hundreds of kilometers of caves and cliffs.
00:47:30.280They got a shorter trailer that just shows the guns and the battle scenes.
00:47:32.900But the point is, is it shows these German guns they're rolling out that are blocking the whole area of the Mediterranean.
00:47:38.840And just so people understand what that means, you're right.
00:47:40.860The missiles of Navarone is what we're talking about here.
00:47:42.700Yeah, and it's not just one cliff along the beach like you had in the cliffs of Dover, and then it's just the fields of Norfolk, England behind that, right? Or that part of East Anglia. It's cliffs, then more cliffs, then more cliffs.
00:48:01.980So you start at the beach and you've got like Arizona mountains, you know, these sharp, angular canyon mountains, and they just get tougher and tougher and tougher up to 18,000 feet right from the beach.
00:48:14.320You've done your homework. Their biggest mountain is 18,000 feet tall.
00:48:17.460It would take it would take millions of troops to conquer Iran.
00:48:22.800I mean, without just dropping 100 nuclear bombs on it, it would take millions of troops.
00:48:28.560And after that, you'd have to occupy it forever because they're never going to surrender and say, you're right, we'll become Christians and act like you.
00:48:37.300If you conquered it in a decade with millions of troops suffering hundreds of thousands of casualties, then you'd have to occupy it forever.
00:48:48.960Remember what happened a month and a half ago?
00:48:50.100They sent those C-130s into that air base to dig up uranium, used the cover story of a pilot, and there was countless videos of the local sheep herders and farmers with heavy machine guns the government's giving them, shooting at helicopters and hitting them.
00:49:37.260They train on that gun hidden in a barn.
00:49:40.460Well, let me tell you, it's true. I've not only read about it in their cantons.
00:49:43.160Rob Doob spent one winter as an exchange student in college where he got paid to work up on a mountain and, you know, live there at the ski resort.
00:49:54.480And when they would go up and do stuff and work on things, they would open up these big, giant iron doors that were like hidden and go in.
00:50:01.900And there'd be like artillery and rocket launchers and machine guns and ammunition.
00:50:05.720and then they'd get out some of the whiskey that the manager had
00:50:11.440and drink some of it before they went back down for the day.
00:50:13.600And that's what they told them, and I've actually seen documentaries about it,
00:50:17.180is every Swiss house has to have hidden guns.
00:50:19.420The government tries to come and find them every few years.
00:50:28.540Another country that has mountains coming from the sea is Norway,
00:50:32.720and their fjords in some ways are analogous to protecting the Strait of Hormuz
00:50:38.040that, you know, if you went up into the major fjords of Norway,
00:50:42.920you'd be taking crossfire from artillery.
00:50:45.140And they even have torpedo rooms underwater in Norway
00:50:50.260where the torpedoes would launch underwater
00:50:53.980and the local militia has like the access to the torpedo room to fire them
00:50:59.000in case Soviet submarines were coming into their fjord.
00:51:02.020The only thing that they were worried about was having a radioactive leak if they sank a submarine right in their fjord, but they were prepared to do it.
00:51:10.460They would take the turret off old tanks, put them up in the mountains of Norway, and the local farmers, that was like their gun position.
00:51:21.680And that goes back to the Dutch did that, too, for pirates, and they never got invaded.
00:51:26.240They had the Dutch night guard in all the little Dutch sea towns, similar stuff, which shows the militia is not just an American thing.
00:51:35.280In the Norwegian example, when the Germans invaded, they did kind of a Trojan horse or speed invasion where they rolled into towns like Narvik with destroyers loaded with extra German troops, just stormed up to the dock, took over the armories, found the mayor, the radio station.
00:53:44.840What is your view on that situation in the Israel lobby, openly coming in with $1.3 billion buying off influencers and talk show hosts?
00:53:52.600I mean, to me, this is totally legal foreign interference, and the public is pretty pissed off about it.
00:53:58.020Where do you see this going, Matt Braggen?
00:54:00.300You know, this merger with Israel and then what you were mentioning before the break with Patrick Byrne and the summary judgment, these things are so un-American.
00:54:10.540What a farce of a democratic republic or whatever you want to call our constitutional republic. It's a total farce when they're going to merge us with a pariah state, a genocidal pariah state, merge our intel and Pentagon, which means that the little master blaster evil dwarf will really be running the Pentagon and the CIA officially instead of informally.
00:54:38.300And when a judge can just say, no jury, no trial, you're guilty, I don't recognize this country.
00:54:45.760So I'm pretty black-billed about how do we pull out of this.
00:54:49.340It's like we're in an airplane, the engines are on fire, losing altitude, mountains ahead.
00:54:55.820I don't have a great prescription other than maybe you better have your own parachute.
00:55:01.520And just kind of on that line, I got my blue cup here today.
00:55:05.840The reason that I have my blue cup is it's the only thing that doesn't get stained by the methylene blue.
00:55:11.960So if you don't support the program, the program goes away.