The Anthony Cumia Show - June 24, 2025


Decoding Trump's Latest Middle East Strategy ｜ 06-22-25


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On this episode of the WBC Minicast, host Alex Blumberg is joined by host Kevin in Long Beach, CA to talk about the latest in the latest news regarding the Israeli strike on Iranian targets in the Middle East.

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00:01:00.080 Listen, all you New Yorkers.
00:01:02.580 You mean taxi?
00:01:04.000 Okay, then you want to look around?
00:01:05.300 This is the 77
00:01:07.140 WABC Minicast.
00:01:10.720 Without
00:01:11.320 delay, we will go right to Kevin
00:01:13.700 in the Long of Beach.
00:01:16.100 Long Beach. How you doing,
00:01:17.780 Kev? Yeah, hey,
00:01:19.760 Ant. Yeah, Midnight Hammer.
00:01:21.480 Quite an operation, right? Yeah,
00:01:23.340 Midnight hammer, yo.
00:01:26.080 They used a lot of different delivery systems, though.
00:01:28.840 You know, they used submarines and B-2 and all of that.
00:01:33.600 And they're only in the Iranian airspace for like four or five minutes.
00:01:38.080 Yeah, yeah.
00:01:38.820 Very quick, in and out, no air defenses.
00:01:41.560 They didn't even see them.
00:01:42.520 Very strategic.
00:01:43.800 But I think there's a lot of information we're not privy to.
00:01:46.820 You know, something happened. 0.87
00:01:48.100 You know, Israel did it first when they went and did that catapultation move
00:01:51.660 and took out all the senior officials, but something else is going on.
00:01:56.300 And then Trump, I think, probably got a little angry that they did it,
00:01:58.900 and then they wanted help when they, you know, secondary action there.
00:02:03.420 But, yeah, I think there's a lot more going on than we know.
00:02:06.300 You know, we'll find out as time goes on.
00:02:08.580 Oh, there always is a lot more going on, Kevin, always.
00:02:12.080 And, you know, we unfortunately are left to the devices of the government
00:02:17.840 telling us what they did.
00:02:20.080 First of all, why would they tell us anything?
00:02:23.380 And then kind of filtering it through the mainstream media, which is a propaganda wing of the left and of the government in some sense.
00:02:33.580 I think they've kind of lightened up a little bit on some of the subject matter as far as Trump goes. 0.96
00:02:40.920 But they're still liars. 0.87
00:02:42.680 We really don't have anything.
00:02:44.040 I mean, we saw three or six holes in a mountaintop, and we're told that it was an incredible success.
00:02:54.480 It was completely destroyed.
00:02:55.980 Now, I understand.
00:02:56.920 I know how these bunker busters work, and there was a lot of cement dust and whatnot covering the mountaintop,
00:03:06.260 so I assume it got down through the cement to some extent,
00:03:10.940 But we really are only left to what they say.
00:03:14.080 There's no other confirmation like with other bombings, satellite photos, other countries sending pictures and stuff.
00:03:21.640 We really are only dependent on the government to tell us that it was a success.
00:03:28.160 And, you know, of late, we're not very trusting.
00:03:31.840 Like when they told us there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, right?
00:03:36.340 Yeah. 0.94
00:03:37.280 These are all the same people cheering this on.
00:03:39.720 You know, it's the neocons, you know, Lindsey Graham, Mickey Haley, all of Fox News, Sean Hannity, the Rob, pounding their chest, you know.
00:03:47.840 But their kids aren't going over there.
00:03:49.660 You know what I mean?
00:03:50.700 I mean, I'm on a lot of I'm on a lot of maggot chat lines.
00:03:53.580 And, yeah, a lot of them are angry because he promised no boots on the ground.
00:03:56.840 But I don't think it'll come to that.
00:03:58.280 You know, I really don't.
00:03:59.200 Well, we'll see. 1.00
00:04:00.160 And Israel can take it. 0.95
00:04:02.480 Go ahead. 0.98
00:04:02.940 We'll see, Kevin.
00:04:03.860 Thanks.
00:04:04.300 Thanks for the call, bro.
00:04:06.020 Yeah, I mean, to jump the gun and just say, he said no foreign wars, no new wars, no boots on the ground, and we're not in that.
00:04:18.460 You know, to say we're not in that right now.
00:04:21.080 Well, does that mean we're not going to be?
00:04:24.620 There's a lot of ifs and what ifs with this whole situation.
00:04:31.300 What about retaliation?
00:04:32.940 if if this does happen we have to respond what if american soldiers are killed um at some overseas
00:04:42.500 bases in the middle east which are easily targeted and delivered uh weapons can be delivered to them
00:04:48.700 from iran we will have to do something obviously uh this this nuclear facility hit was very very
00:04:59.040 surgical it uh didn't claim the lives of civilians it wasn't a a uh in a city where people are
00:05:08.400 wasn't uh apartment buildings or a hospital it was what trump had said he wanted to go after
00:05:16.760 especially um even through his campaign saying we need to make sure they don't get nuclear weapons
00:05:23.000 And this could fit that bill, as I said, but does it go further?
00:05:28.900 And then you have to ask, well, what?
00:05:31.400 So we're not supposed to do anything because they might retaliate after?
00:05:36.220 That's not really a good excuse to not use force because you're afraid of what the other side might do in response to that.
00:05:46.780 If you do that, you can be threatened by anyone, anytime.
00:05:51.260 time well i don't want to touch him he might he might hit me sometimes you know you gotta hit but
00:05:56.900 let's um let's go to uh tommy tommy in brooklyn what's up tommy hey at uh just saying as a long
00:06:06.120 time listener talking to you over terrestrial station is wild i wasn't around for the ona days
00:06:10.780 but this is pretty awesome it's insane yeah so i love it a primary motivation of the 9-11 attacks
00:06:16.160 was america getting involved in the middle east in no way am i saying we should just lie down and
00:06:20.540 take anything, but the Trump ticket in MAGA was foundational on being America first, staying out
00:06:25.720 of the Middle East, no foreign wars. On the 2015 trail, I know I'm going back a while, but Trump
00:06:30.300 literally in front of Jeb Bush said, your brother destabilized the Middle East. How does bombing
00:06:35.120 Iran and getting involved in yet another conflict in the Middle East benefit any American? And
00:06:41.360 doesn't this cause more conflicts than solve anything? In your opinion, what would 2016 Trump
00:06:46.360 to think of this because as of now it's dividing the MAGA movement i don't know if you saw with
00:06:51.060 tucker carlson and uh ted cruz that spat on x but it's something to watch and the whole right
00:06:56.600 is crumbling and i'm not being over dramatic but i'm punching out man thank you for your time and
00:07:00.360 thank you for all the last men no problem tommy and i will uh i will say especially what would
00:07:05.780 the 2015 the first term trump think well the first term trump uh he's he had an airstrike
00:07:15.300 in iran it was you know he it was a strike i think a lot of people are looking at this like
00:07:23.740 we were we're getting involved in a much wider conflict which again we might be i don't know
00:07:33.420 if we're this will lead to something else but right now i really don't see that trump
00:07:39.540 has done anything more than he's done in the past, taking out terrorists, taking out
00:07:47.380 missiles, retaliation for shooting at American bases years ago.
00:07:54.160 This is stuff Trump has done, and every single president has done strikes such as these.
00:08:04.320 And it didn't necessarily mean we were going to war with them.
00:08:09.540 It was just necessary at the time to do this.
00:08:14.960 Now, again, you bring in the Israel factor and a lot of people start talking about being a puppet to Israel and being under Netanyahu's, you know, spell.
00:08:27.580 And I think that's why so many people have more of a problem with this than they had with so many of these other strikes that a lot of presidents have done in the past.
00:08:40.500 I have a list of them I'll go through when we start talking about some of these politicians like Schiff, of course,
00:08:46.300 and Crockett, AOC, and Pelosi, who are saying that Trump didn't consult with Congress
00:08:54.640 and get approval and War Powers Act, which is all nonsense.
00:08:59.420 I mean, they're, again, lying.
00:09:02.500 But, you know, these things had happened before,
00:09:05.940 and there wasn't this issue of what is going on?
00:09:11.760 Why did he do this?
00:09:12.900 Is it going to put us in a deeper way?
00:09:14.560 They talked about it, but not to this extent. And it hadn't fractured what I seem to have seen as a very strong coalition within the right MAGA, Republican, you know, conservative.
00:09:30.100 But we're kind of seeing that now, that fracturing. So I don't know.
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