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00:00:32.840Well, it's been an exciting few days. Obviously, the war in Iran continues, though the Trump administration is having a little trouble defining a war.
00:00:43.660Maybe we can do Matt Walsh's next documentary on what is a war so we can have a better idea. We'll dive into that.
00:00:51.140We're also seeing the administration still struggle to put together its justifications for the war.
00:00:57.420They have made some interesting statements about Israel and why we may have entered this conflict when we did.
00:01:05.580They've kind of tried to walk those back, I think, rather unsuccessfully, but we'll dive into that as well.
00:01:11.800We're also going to look at the fact that the DOJ has successfully rounded up everybody involved in the Minnesota church storming and what that means.
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00:02:26.120Last episode on Monday, I was speaking and I was describing an article where they said that Marco Rubio had told the Gang of Eight, the different people in Congress he needs to inform,
00:02:39.720that the reason we went to war with Iran when we did is that we knew Israel was going to strike with or without us.
00:02:49.200And because they basically gave us this ultimatum of, look, we're going with or without you.
00:02:53.480And once we move, they're going to hit you guys anyway, and you're going to drawn in.
00:06:22.900But obviously, many of us, myself included, worried that that one strike would turn into a more large-scale conflict, which, of course, we're here now.
00:06:33.160So, I am equally concerned, just as I was back then, when I was right and predicted exactly where we would be right now, I am concerned that, similarly, we could end up in the same situation.
00:06:47.180And the reason I played the entire clip was that many people were running around saying, people are taking Marco Rubio out of context.
00:06:55.360People are taking Marco Rubio out of context.
00:06:57.760So, I wanted the whole context because you'll notice that the account that posted this is the White House account.
00:07:44.160But even if it is, he's still agreeing to the second part, which is Israel decided when the United States would go to war.
00:07:51.720Now, this is not great, because a lot of people have been suspecting that we kind of have this relationship with Israel, and we've been told, no, no, no.
00:08:01.440No, you silly, you weird, you anti-Semite, you're obsessed with Israel.
00:08:06.520Why are you always talking about Israel?
00:08:08.500I'm not, but, you know, when they're deciding whether or not we, like, go to war, that seems important.
00:08:15.940We might have to talk about a country that gets to decide when the United States goes to war, especially when it's the junior partner.
00:08:25.440Israel, like, their whole military, most of their existence is funded in one way or another by us.
00:08:34.000Israel exists because the United States backs it, gives it massive amounts of military aid, gives it massive amounts of economic assistance back in the day, is a big trade partner for it, provides it diplomatic cover and geopolitical heft that otherwise would not have when it doesn't have the world hegemon behind it.
00:08:55.700Israel is entirely dependent on the United States.
00:09:23.300The problem is, again, very inconsistent messaging.
00:09:26.200Because right after Marco Rubio came out and said this, Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, the Republican Speaker, came out and said the exact same thing.
00:09:35.920We went to war with Iran because Israel was going and Iran was going to hit us if Israel hit them.
00:09:42.360So when it comes down to it, Israel doesn't need to check with the United States.
00:09:50.020Israel tells the United States when we go to war.
00:10:17.880I can take him by myself, knowing at the end of the day that someone else is actually going to have to step in and do the majority of the muscle work.
00:10:26.640So it picks a lot of fights that otherwise wouldn't pick.
00:10:31.320If it's a sovereign nation, then it gets to make all of its decisions by itself and rest on its own ability to fight a war.
00:10:41.700And if we're a sovereign nation, we get to do that, too.
00:10:45.000But that is not the relationship we have, apparently, because Marco Rubio and Mike Johnson said so explicitly.
00:11:09.280And this comes on the heel of, remember, Mike Huckabee, a week beforehand, saying, yeah, Israel could take all of the Middle East if they want.
00:11:55.200And now we have a more or less open-ended conflict with an ally our ambassador has said can conquer the entire Middle East if they want to.
00:12:12.740And to further compound the, like, basically catastrophic PR issue this creates, on top of all the other questions it raises, Donald Trump then says, everybody go watch Sean Hannity.
00:12:29.960Okay, why should we all be watching Fox News?
00:13:13.580And they are doing to our country exactly what George Washington told you they would do.
00:13:19.180I did an entire episode explaining George Washington's farewell address.
00:13:23.620Feel free to go watch that if you want a little more information.
00:13:26.040But I, once again, am encouraging you to just listen to what the founders said about how a relationship like this is a disaster.
00:13:33.880Let's go to, I guess, the guy who gets to brief us on wars now, Bibi Netanyahu.
00:13:38.620What we have to act now is because they were, after we hit their nuclear sites and their ballistic missiles program, you'd think they learned a lesson.
00:13:51.680But they didn't because they're unreformable.
00:13:54.960They're totally fanatic about this, about the goal of destroying America.
00:14:00.040So they started building new sites, new places, underground bunkers that would make their ballistic missile program and their atomic bomb program immune within months.
00:14:11.720If no action was taken now, no action could be taken in the future.
00:14:26.260So, another set of mixed messages, right?
00:14:30.820We've heard several explanations from different proxies of the Trump administration, including, I guess, Bibi Netanyahu, of why we are actually in this war.
00:14:42.540Now, the first one we got from Steve Whitcoff is, Iran is back to being able to make nukes in just a few weeks.
00:14:52.360They're weeks away from having a nuclear weapon again.
00:16:45.660Because then Steve Whitcoff came back out again and said, actually, in a meeting with Iran, they told me that they have uranium already back enriched to 60% and could take it to a bomb inside a few weeks.
00:17:02.180They were already bragging about their ability to build a bomb again.
00:17:08.300So, somebody here is lying or everyone here is dumb?
00:17:11.700Because I'm getting radically different explanations from every sector, right?
00:17:19.700Whitcoff says, yeah, they got the bomb.
00:18:07.840And the reason, you know, look, we, on Monday, I'm sitting there and I'm saying, okay, why are the narratives so sloppy?
00:18:15.960Why don't we have a, why don't we have a plan laid out?
00:18:19.060Why don't we already know who's going to take over?
00:18:21.080If this is something we really had to do, why aren't we prepared to explain that?
00:18:26.320Why are we leaning on all of these weird, you know, global war on terror era slogans, neocon slogans, like we're fighting for Iranian freedom.
00:18:36.920We're bringing democracy and peace to the people of Iran.
00:18:40.840Like, why, why are we throwing that language around?
00:20:04.480Why are we in an alliance that seems to pull us into something we don't want to do, or at least does it before we're ready to do it, and holds us hostage?
00:20:13.880I don't want any country telling me, oh, well, we're going to go fight, so you better come with me.
00:20:30.260Like, if anyone's going to do the real fistfighting, it's going to be, you know, the adult, and I'm not going to let a seven-year-old dictate when or when not I need to get a fistfight.
00:20:39.060It doesn't mean fistfights aren't necessary.
00:20:40.920It doesn't mean at some point you don't need to do it.