The Alex Jones Show Live - August 19, 2026


ā˜¢ļøWW3 UPDATEļ¼š Israel BLOWS UP Negotiation Envoys From Turkey That Were Meeting With Syrian Officials


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00:00:00.000 There's a meeting with Turkey and Syrian officials about them coming into the nuclear defense umbrella of Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey.
00:00:07.640 Because Pakistan's reportedly got over 1,000 nukes.
00:00:10.840 Okay, so there you go.
00:00:12.900 Israel's now in check.
00:00:15.140 And if we go into checkmate, everybody has a nuclear war.
00:00:17.760 So that's insane.
00:00:18.740 That's called mutualist or destruction.
00:00:20.540 So now Syria's already made an alliance with Russia, totally freaking out Washington.
00:00:24.420 I predicted that would happen when they put the al-Qaeda head in two years ago.
00:00:27.940 This is so easy to predict.
00:00:29.660 That's because the entire system in Syria, even though it's run by al-Qaeda now, was always pro-Russia.
00:00:34.620 Russia's moved back into the bases.
00:00:36.140 They're calling them peaceful now.
00:00:37.740 Give me a break.
00:00:39.120 And this is not going the way Israel envisioned it.
00:00:45.000 And now Israel thinks they can blow up a delegation having a meeting about Syria joining this alliance,
00:00:52.960 and that's not going to make them join the alliance?
00:00:56.700 Very stupid.
00:00:57.940 it. That's how this Mexican standoff craziness has gotten. And if you try to figure it out,
00:01:03.040 even understand it, it doesn't make sense because it doesn't make sense. If you look at all that
00:01:06.640 and go, that doesn't make sense. This is what happens at the threat escalation level with all
00:01:11.380 these countries and these dominoes. It's a Mexican standoff. You know what a Mexican standoff is?
00:01:16.340 Let's pull up the definition. It's where you got a bunch of people pointing guns at each other.
00:01:19.520 And if anybody pulls the trigger, it's a circular firing squad and everybody loses.
00:01:23.000 It's a pyrrhic victory.
00:01:24.580 It's a strategic defeat.
00:01:26.020 It is a quagmire.
00:01:27.560 It is a disaster.
00:01:28.760 It is a clusterfuck.
00:01:29.980 It is a fiasco.
00:01:32.800 It is a cattywampus, goes to the World Fair.
00:01:36.140 You can call it whatever you want, but it ain't good.
00:01:39.840 It means stuff is chaos out of control.
00:01:44.460 It's the new great game of alliances in the Middle East.
00:01:46.720 What have I called it?
00:01:47.400 The great game.
00:01:48.380 The great game.
00:01:48.980 Now, what do all the Financial Times of London and Jane's Weapons Quarterly
00:01:52.600 and the Rand Corporation and the Pentagon.
00:01:54.820 What are they now calling it?
00:01:55.720 The relaunch of the great game.
00:01:57.820 Do you not know what the great game is?
00:01:59.080 It's for that exact same region, the British Empire.
00:02:01.540 Better learn about it.
00:02:03.780 I'm not arrogant about this.
00:02:05.340 I'm pissed because I'm telling you real stuff,
00:02:10.600 not things pulled out of my rear end.
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00:02:22.600 do you want to fight you better believe you got one i've been saying for two years that we're in
00:02:30.100 a new world war it just is in the beginning phases and now sliding towards the real kickoff
00:02:36.220 of acceleration a lot of the mainline think tanks and defense groups well now they don't call it
00:02:42.560 defense publications war publications or another department of war agree with me that the dominoes
00:02:49.220 begin to fall. And what got us into World War I and World War II was a smaller alliance with
00:02:54.460 another alliance that's triggered by another fight that then dominoes into another bigger
00:02:59.280 alliance with a larger alliance and then major powers come in. That's the surest way to get a
00:03:04.980 full world war. And I'm not going to go into why we're in a world war. You've heard me talk about
00:03:09.520 it a lot when you've got what's happening in Asia and Europe and the Middle East and all these
00:03:13.180 different power factions fighting each other. And now every week, new people entering it and
00:03:17.860 new alliances forming, and you analyze those alliances that are all massive escalations.
00:03:25.260 And then you look at Israel's Greater Israel Project being the detonator.
00:03:32.000 You know what a detonator is? Take a cartridge for, say, a .357 Magnum. You've got the casing,
00:03:36.920 you've got the cap in the back, highly explosive, white powder. The firing pin hits it. It detonates
00:03:43.640 of a spark fire that lights the gunpowder, and then it explodes in a controlled explosion
00:03:50.500 and fires the projectile down the barrel out towards its intended target.
00:03:57.340 And so you could look at Israel's greater Israel project, them now saying they want
00:04:01.380 parts of Syria and all of Lebanon, and they're going to take over and all this.
00:04:06.400 And we got nukes, you better watch it, as their minister said for the first time,
00:04:10.220 saber-rattling that they've had since the 60s, early 60s.
00:04:15.240 And it's easy to look at threat escalation studies.
00:04:18.560 They've all been done on these developments at different angles.
00:04:24.920 And it would then cause a Pakistani alliance with Turkey and Saudi Arabia,
00:04:30.060 putting them under a nuclear umbrella,
00:04:31.600 and that means actually transferring nukes to them.
00:04:34.400 Now, I've been saying that for years.
00:04:35.660 Nobody was saying that.
00:04:37.940 And then now it's all over the news.
00:04:40.220 okay? So I read the defense publications, but I also have the sources, and I also have a really
00:04:49.580 good memory. And I'm obsessed with all the different factions. A lot of folks are obsessed
00:04:55.480 with football or basketball or baseball. I'm obsessed with how this works. And so when I say
00:05:00.060 these things, and it's a big laughingstock, and people like Mark Lavin goes, oh, a world war,
00:05:05.160 ha ha ha oh yeah you know saudi arabia is going to get a nuke ha ha ha they already have nukes
00:05:10.580 dumbass they decided to deal over 15 years ago with pakistan to keep their nukes in pakistan
00:05:15.560 with their pilots there at an air base now they moved the damn things a few months ago back in
00:05:19.340 to saudi arabia and i said soon they'll announce the official nuclear umbrella which they announced
00:05:23.860 two weeks ago do you even know how these things work no you don't in fact he always admits i don't
00:05:30.060 know how the military works but i believe in our military wow we could take the straight time we
00:05:34.000 want with our Navy? Really, when all the bases, the resupply of the Navy, been blown up, and when
00:05:37.980 they've got Chinese anti-ship missiles, that they stole the technology from us under Clinton?
00:05:42.180 No, we can't send ships in there unless we want to see them sinking. It's the new great game of
00:05:49.400 alliances in the Middle East. What have I called it? The great game, the great game. Now, what do
00:05:53.420 all the Financial Times of London and Jane's Weapons Quarterly and the Rand Corporation and
00:05:58.200 the Pentagon, what are they now calling it? The relaunch of the great game. Do you not know what
00:06:02.360 the great game is? It's for that exact same region, the British Empire. Better learn about
00:06:06.420 it. I'm not arrogant about this. I'm pissed because I'm telling you real stuff, not things
00:06:15.660 pulled out of my rear end. Iran's going to fall in four days, and if we kill the mullahs,
00:06:22.740 they'll give up. A first-year geopolitical military student, a first-year PhD,
00:06:32.360 would instantly tell you that's insane. It would make them stronger and make them get more vicious
00:06:38.040 and dig in deeper. But you don't study those things, Mark Levin. Look, we're winning. Let's
00:06:48.640 expand. The Israeli ambassador to the U.S. Huckabee. Israel can take it all. Yeah, they're
00:06:55.980 going to take it all. Oh, and what's going to happen when you take it all? Pakistan's got
00:07:00.140 modern nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles that's fine we'll just nuke them too and then
00:07:07.460 what's that do everybody nukes each other it's called mutually assured destruction it's been
00:07:13.360 studied more than anything probably it's not something you do you'd have to be what mad
00:07:19.780 to do it meaning cuckoo cuckoo crazy this is all human nature
00:07:27.200 so i knew where we were going i knew what was going to happen and unfortunately it's happening
00:07:35.500 just like i thought it would and all the other experts thought and now you know where it goes
00:07:41.540 next i'll get to that in a moment and trump is now wisely really putting the brakes on israel
00:07:48.820 and saying stop it publicly and they're saying screw you and launching the biggest attacks ever
00:07:52.700 on lebanon and other areas and so the iranians what are they going to do they're on the escalation
00:07:59.220 ladder and they understand it's a game of brinksmanship they're saying okay we're now
00:08:04.520 preparing their official military command to hit european targets that in any way supply or work
00:08:10.740 with the united states or israel all over the middle east here's a map that they put out they're
00:08:17.420 threatening and showing people maps of what their ballistic missiles can hit all the way out to
00:08:22.940 Greece, Algeria, Libya, China, India. And they've proven they can do this. They've proven they got
00:08:36.220 the payloads. And so what they're threatening is to expand this world war a lot worse.
00:08:43.160 and so that's the reality you say well they're crazy uh yeah
00:08:51.960 but i mean crazy like a fox what do you think america would do we were surrounded like this
00:08:59.360 this being done we'd probably act just the same at least we would in the past how would we act
00:09:04.640 if russia had us encircled in mexico and canada with nuclear-tipped missiles like russia is
00:09:10.300 circle. We would never have put up with any of this. This is insane level breakfast ship. So
00:09:15.860 what's happened in the last 24 and 48 hours? UAE cuts ties with Iran, warns Gulf states against
00:09:25.580 helping Washington, and UAE's been our big ally. Kepler says U.S. Navy gaining ground in Hormuz
00:09:32.600 or gaining C, you've got Steve Bannon reporting on this. Then we'll get to what Israel did
00:09:40.380 yesterday. They hit the negotiation envoys from Turkey that were meeting with
00:09:50.280 the envoys from Syria and killed them. And Israel said, yeah, we don't want
00:10:01.780 a deal being made between Syria and Turkey, and we don't want Syria entering the nuclear umbrella
00:10:11.260 defense alliance of Pakistan, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia. Turkey, by the way, has the largest
00:10:20.040 ground military in Europe. What did we predict last week? It was actually Thomas, the producer,
00:10:29.220 pointed this out, and as soon as he said it, I said, of course, that's what this is.
00:10:33.480 In fact, it's not like I'm saying, oh, I didn't know it, or I did know it. I mean,
00:10:37.740 as soon as he said it, I was like, of course, I already knew that. Why aren't I saying that?
00:10:41.080 But why wasn't anybody else saying it? That's Trump saying, hey, we might let Syria
00:10:48.160 go into Lebanon if Israel doesn't pull out. And then I said, what, put al-Qaeda in,
00:10:56.820 which I don't support. But then I started getting into Trump's thinking where he's saying to Israel,
00:11:02.340 pull out or I'll make it a full war. Well, maybe that's what Israel wants. See, that's how this
00:11:08.320 Mexican standoff craziness has gotten. And if you try to figure it out, even understand it,
00:11:12.820 it doesn't make sense because it doesn't make sense. If you look at all that and go, that
00:11:15.980 doesn't make sense. This is what happens at the threat escalation level with all these countries
00:11:21.000 and these dominoes. It's a Mexican standoff. You know what a Mexican standoff is? Let's pull up
00:11:25.700 definition it's where you got a bunch of people pointing guns at each other and if anybody pulls
00:11:29.720 the trigger it's a circular firing squad and everybody loses it's a pyrrhic victory it's a
00:11:33.840 strategic defeat it is a quagmire it is a disaster it is a clusterfuck it is a fiasco
00:11:40.340 it is a cattywampus goes to the world fair you can call it whatever you want but it ain't good
00:11:48.140 It means stuff is chaos, out of control.
00:11:54.780 What did the Pentagon say in their public assessment 180 days ago,
00:11:58.500 like five days before we launched this war?
00:12:00.600 They said the probability is less than 10% that the Moodles will fall
00:12:05.240 within the next few years.
00:12:07.140 It's basically 100% they'll close the strait.
00:12:09.160 That will cause major economic problems.
00:12:10.960 It'll cause all sorts of regional problems, probably new alliances
00:12:14.180 and a regional war.
00:12:18.140 and so we recommend you don't do it it is quote
00:12:25.280 a gamble and you shouldn't gamble i mean supposedly on the slot machine you got like a 45
00:12:35.040 chance of winning but we all know the casinos you know stuff kind of rig it more like 70 chance you're
00:12:40.580 going to lose the only gain i guess is a few you can actually have a slight chance of winning
00:12:45.860 that are supposedly fair, but the dealer knows how to manipulate. It's what? Blackjack.
00:12:52.360 And I'm not a gambler myself and not really a card player, but I've
00:12:55.260 had some friends and family that were into blackjack and I've sat there on a cruise ship
00:12:59.140 and I've sat there in Vegas and I've sat there and watched them win tens of thousands of dollars.
00:13:03.280 And then here comes the casino people and they're all over you and they're bringing in other dealers.
00:13:06.860 And then all of a sudden you're not winning because you know they're cheating.
00:13:09.140 so it's fine if you want to take your extracurricular money discretionary income and go
00:13:15.980 blow it and you know give it to the the corrupt gambling houses because i i don't like gambling
00:13:21.980 i'm not judging you if you do it but notice now with uh young people it's their main investment
00:13:29.000 now is sports gambling well that's not a good investment long term is it my my point is you
00:13:35.760 sure don't want to make it your business model as an individual, unless you're some kind of
00:13:40.240 idiot savant like Rain Man. And you sure as Hades don't want to do it for your national security
00:13:47.480 strategy. So we'll get into what Israel's up to right now. And Israel said in the last year,
00:13:53.000 Turkey and Egypt, the next enemy, Yahoo's now said it. And they think we're going to be led
00:13:58.400 along with them into this. That's crazy. So here's Steve Bannon talking about the situation.
00:14:04.360 Say what you want about Steve Bannon. He's very smart geopolitically. Here it is.
00:14:08.960 Hang on a second. Hang on a second. Hang on a second.
00:14:11.680 The 12-day war obliterated, and I'm quoting the president, total obliteration of the nuclear program, okay?
00:14:19.160 I understand his priority, and it's a priority I think a lot of people support.
00:14:22.240 They can't get a nuclear weapon.
00:14:23.400 That being said, part two started on February 27th.
00:14:26.580 Let's just be blunt about it.
00:14:28.020 This was bad information, bad intelligence fed by the Mossad and Netanyahu that said,
00:14:33.240 And you had Lindsey Graham skipping around on video that, hey, if you hit them with five or six days of strategic bombing, it's going to collapse.
00:14:40.560 They're going to come out in the street like they did in January, and they're going to overthrow their government.
00:14:44.580 This was a decapitation move, OK?
00:14:47.780 Because you can go look at the target set of his first days.
00:14:51.380 That's a decapitation move.
00:14:53.220 And guess what?
00:14:53.800 The Persians hit back, expanded it to the after the Israelis did strikes on the oil, on the gas fields in Qatar, all of it.
00:15:03.440 The center of gravity of battle shifted to the Persian Gulf and now to the Strait of Hormuz.
00:15:08.640 The Koreans got their hands.
00:15:09.900 Look, the government over there right now is more CCP aligned.
00:15:12.640 We don't love that government whatsoever.
00:15:14.460 But the South Korean people have been, if you go back to the Korean War in Vietnam, I mean, they've been a great ally of the United States
00:15:22.100 and stood in the breach in some very tough times, including in Vietnam,
00:15:25.280 where they actually sent combat troops and did some fighting.
00:15:28.440 They got their hands full.
00:15:30.220 You know, Japan, Korea, and yes, they sent naval vessels,
00:15:33.680 but I don't know why we're bitching at South Korea when NATO hasn't done anything.
00:15:37.960 You got the Royal Navy, you got the French Navy, you got the Italian Navy.
00:15:41.420 We've been paying for these guys forever.
00:15:43.380 They haven't given us anything.
00:15:44.940 The strait of the Suez Canal and Red Sea, that ain't Korea's problem.
00:15:50.560 That's Europe's problem.
00:15:51.600 And they got nothing. This is why we're so stretched out. So to ding them at the very moment that we have up tempo, not these are not exercises. These are preparations for an invasion of Taiwan. I don't see the strategic logic when we have so many deadbeat allies, including the Israelis, America's greatest ally that continue to drag us in there.
00:16:11.640 I mean, Kushner had to go over and try to get their attention on Gaza that President Trump's got a plan, and he wants to fulfill it, and we don't want to go back into a shooting war in Gaza.
00:16:20.800 So I understand that these guys didn't step up and help, but that's kind of marginalia, given that we have an existential threat, and we have Japan, we have South Korea, we got the Philippines, we got some pretty good allies, but they have to know we're committed.
00:16:35.820 And one way to show you committed is not to pull the carrier out, the one carrier battle group you've got in the Western Pacific, and send it through Malacca back to the North Arabian Sea.
00:16:46.600 Hit pause.
00:16:47.860 And then slob the knob of Kim Jong-un and say we're not going to have these drills or we're going to cut them back to nothing because our ships aren't there.
00:16:57.760 And then run down South Korea that has been going into the orbit of China and North Korea and has a communist leadership.
00:17:05.820 but Trump thinks glazing Kim Jong-un is going to make him somehow be a little buddy or little pal
00:17:14.400 when clearly he is a creature of China and isn't going anywhere into a U.S. alliance. So very bad
00:17:20.940 moves by Trump. And there's no naval or military or geopolitical expert that would disagree with
00:17:27.880 me there. And Steve Bannon is a naval expert. And he talks to the other top people. I mean,
00:17:32.640 this is dumb. And if you think turning against our ally who's already going against us
00:17:39.360 with the people they're starting to go with is 3D chess, no, it's just plain stupid.
00:17:46.560 And to pull the last aircraft carrier out of there is nuts because our aircraft carriers
00:17:52.360 are ineffectual in the Middle East because of the threat pattern. And that's a whole nother
00:17:59.100 discussion and you've seen that demonstrated so i'm not going to elaborate on it they got
00:18:03.020 reportedly hundreds of those damn chinese anti-ship missiles we can't stop and that's why
00:18:09.260 the navy won't go anywhere near there all right let's go back to bannon here it is
00:18:13.460 and right now there's not logic and you can't argue it's about their nuclear program their
00:18:18.940 nuclear program is totally obliterate the other secondary attacks have done even more maybe now
00:18:24.360 You have some special forces from the Israelis that can go in and clean up the dust.
00:18:28.160 But, I mean, we're making major geostrategic moves, and I just don't understand where this all ties together on the logic of it, sir.
00:18:37.300 Yep. No, I agree, Steve.
00:18:38.500 Look, I spent a lot of time in Korea.
00:18:40.060 I have a lot of friends there, friends of mine in Korea about my age.
00:18:44.040 They tell me that they learned English watching armed forces television.
00:18:46.980 I love Lucy.
00:18:47.760 And they're very, very pro-American, so I agree with that completely.
00:18:51.320 I'm not saying what Trump's doing is a good idea.
00:18:54.360 I was just trying to explain the White House logic, how Trump thinks about it, which is, you know, you hit me, I hit back.
00:19:00.080 Whether hitting back is a good idea when we need South Korea and Japan and Taiwan, for that matter, and the Philippines to contain China.
00:19:08.180 I don't think it is a good idea.
00:19:09.460 I was just trying to explain how the White House is thinking about it at the moment.
00:19:15.340 The aircraft carrier, I mean, we have enough aircraft carrier strike forces.
00:19:20.560 The idea of rotating it makes sense.
00:19:22.920 So, you know, let's get the George H.W. Bush in there.
00:19:26.840 Yeah, George H.W. Bush.
00:19:30.380 All right, that's enough.
00:19:31.900 That's babble.
00:19:33.260 So I'm going to recap this.
00:19:36.320 There's a meeting with Turkey and Syrian officials about them coming into the nuclear defense umbrella of Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey.
00:19:46.000 Because Pakistan's reportedly got over 1,000 nukes.
00:19:49.440 Okay, so there you go.
00:19:51.200 Israel's now in check.
00:19:53.460 And if we go into checkmate, everybody has a nuclear war.
00:19:56.060 So that's insane.
00:19:57.040 That's called mutualist or destruction.
00:19:58.840 So now Syria has already made an alliance with Russia, totally freaking out Washington.
00:20:02.740 I predicted that would happen when they put the al-Qaeda head in two years ago.
00:20:06.260 This is so easy to predict.
00:20:07.940 That's because the entire system in Syria, even though it's run by al-Qaeda now, was always pro-Russia.
00:20:12.920 Russia's moved back into the bases.
00:20:14.440 They're calling them peaceful now.
00:20:16.060 Give me a break.
00:20:16.720 and this is not going the way Israel envisioned it and now Israel thinks they can blow up
00:20:25.940 a delegation having a meeting about Syria joining this alliance and that's not going
00:20:32.200 to make them join the alliance? Very stupid. Erdogan urges Trump to continue talks with Iran,
00:20:41.620 laments, continued IDF strikes in Gaza, all of this with Ben Gavir saying we're going to kill
00:20:46.980 40 Palestinians a day just as a quota, all that's broadcast in the Arab and Muslim world.
00:20:54.520 And why are they doing that? Meanwhile, Trump is threatening Arab countries that are
00:20:58.280 allied with us, that he'll attack them if they don't get behind an attack on Iran.
00:21:03.300 I mean, that's just nuts that there's no other word to describe it. And I'm not going to sit
00:21:08.000 in a lot of people just because i wish trump was succeeding i wish trump wasn't doing this i just
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