The Ben Shapiro Show - America's Bad Friends

00:00:00.000 Well, folks, America's allies are finally ready to step up to the plate after years of dithering on the Iranian threat and now weeks of Iran firing off missiles and drones at America's allies.

00:00:09.000 Those allies are ready with all their combined strength.

00:00:11.000 Germany, France, the UK, Italy, the Netherlands, Canada, and Japan.

00:00:16.000 They are firing on all cylinders with urgency and resolve and action.

00:00:21.000 Yes, that's right.

00:00:22.000 Our allies, who have been reliant on our largesse and mutual defense for decades, they finally announced that they are going to help us, their patron state, the United States, with a very strongly worded letter.

00:00:36.000 The reality is our allies are doing what they do best.

00:00:38.000 They are saying things.

00:00:40.000 At some point, the question has to be asked: who actually are our allies?

00:00:44.000 Who is actually stepping up to the plate?

00:00:46.000 Who is merely judging from the sidelines?

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00:01:09.000 Well, in lieu of any real-world support, our valiant allies have now issued a strongly worded letter.

00:01:15.000 Here's what the letter says: quote, We condemn in the strongest terms recent attacks by Iran on unarmed commercial vessels in the Gulf, attacks on civilian infrastructure, including oil and gas installations, and the de facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz by Iranian forces.

00:01:29.000 We express our deep concern about the escalating conflict.

00:01:31.000 We call on Iran to cease immediately its threats, laying of mines, drone and missile attacks, and other attempts to block the strait to commercial shipping, and to comply with UN Security Council Resolution 2817.

00:01:42.000 Uhu, the UN Security Council.

00:01:45.000 We call for an immediate comprehensive moratorium on attacks on civilian infrastructure, including oil and gas installations.

00:01:51.000 We call on all states to respect international law and uphold the fundamental principles of international prosperity and security.

00:01:58.000 Whoa, dude, harsh stuff.

00:02:01.000 Iran must be quaking in its boots. 0.96

00:02:04.000 Our allies are saying things.

00:02:07.000 Whoa.

00:02:08.000 The Europeans, Japan, they're expressing, wait, wait, deep concern, not just like regular concern, deep concern.

00:02:17.000 They are calling on Iran to do things and to stop being so mean.

00:02:21.000 But wait, isn't there some sort of commitment to action in the letter?

00:02:24.000 Well, the statement does say this: quote: We express our readiness to contribute to appropriate efforts to ensure safe passage through the strait.

00:02:33.000 We welcome the commitment of nations who are engaging in preparatory planning.

00:02:37.000 That sounds good, right?

00:02:38.000 Well, what does appropriate efforts mean?

00:02:41.000 Who decides what is appropriate?

00:02:43.000 According to Axios, all of this is just mushmouth nonsense.

00:02:46.000 Quote: On Thursday morning, NATO head Mark Rudy and British Prime Minister Kier Starmer spoke with French President Emmanuel Macron and convinced him to lift his opposition to the political statement of support while leaving the discussion on the practical steps for later.

00:03:00.000 Now, to be fair to Mark Rudy, there's not much he can really do.

00:03:03.000 He's ahead of NATO, but he can't just deploy force.

00:03:06.000 He certainly recognizes the Iranian threat, and he would like to not alienate the United States.

00:03:12.000 We all agree, as we always did, that it was crucial for Iran not to get its hands on a nuclear capability, a ballistic missile capability. 0.86

00:03:23.000 And what the U.S. is doing at the moment is degrading that capability of Iran.

00:03:28.000 And I think that's very important.

00:03:29.000 This is important for European security, for the Middle East.

00:03:33.000 It is vital for Israel itself.

00:03:36.000 Well, the Japanese are also paying lip service. 1.00

00:03:39.000 Here is the Japanese Prime Minister Sanai Taikaichi.

00:03:43.000 I firmly believe that it is only you, Donald, who can achieve peace across the world.

00:03:59.000 And to do so, I am ready to reach out to many of the partners in the international community to achieve our objective together.

00:04:11.000 So, what are our allies actually committing to?

00:04:14.000 Well, nothing. 0.99

00:04:16.000 Now, listen, this sort of stupidity is nothing new for our allies, who are quite fond of empty verbiage as a substitute for credible threat of force. 0.99

00:04:23.000 Go all the way back to 1919, when the covenant of the League of Nations was integrated into the Treaty of Versailles. 0.99

00:04:29.000 That attempt to form a family of nations, well, it was not a success.

00:04:34.000 In 1928, actually, just a few years later, 15 countries came together to sign what was called the Kellogg-Briand Pact.

00:04:40.000 It outlawed war.

00:04:41.000 Yeah, did you actually know that?

00:04:42.000 That war was outlawed in 1928.

00:04:45.000 The signatories included France, the U.S., the UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Belgium, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Italy, and Japan.

00:04:54.000 47 more nations joined in as well.

00:04:57.000 And then, three years later, in 1931, Japan invaded Manchuria and nobody did anything.

00:05:04.000 And then, by 1941, every single nation that had signed the treaty, with the exception of Ireland, which basically stayed out of the war and sided with Germany, was enmeshed in World War II.

00:05:12.000 So, yay, empty verbiage.

00:05:15.000 Well, the same thing holds true today.

00:05:18.000 For decades, our allies have pretended to oppose the Iranian terror regime while doing pretty much nothing to hold them accountable.

00:05:24.000 They've done some rather minor sanctions targeting specific officials, unless the United States has pushed them into broader sanctions.

00:05:30.000 We've had to do all the hard work as per our usual arrangement.

00:05:32.000 So, here's the deal: if we're going to do all the work and undertake all the sacrifice and spend the blood and spend the treasure, then we ought to reap the benefit.

00:05:42.000 There's been a lot of talk about what the United States ought to do next with regard to Iran.

00:05:46.000 The most obvious move, and one I've been advocating for, is the United States should seize Kharg Island. 0.97

00:05:51.000 President Trump is clearly thinking about it.

00:05:53.000 We'll get to President Trump's considerations in just one moment.

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00:06:56.000 Okay, now, folks, we'll get more in a second.

00:06:58.000 First, remember, you only get your questions answered in the Daily Wire live chat.

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00:07:04.000 Savvy, do we have any early questions?

00:07:06.000 We do.

00:07:07.000 So, a member's asking: Could you expand on the role of Iran's Assembly of Experts in selecting and overseeing the Supreme Leader?

00:07:13.000 And from a U.S. foreign policy perspective, should Washington treat that body as strategically significant when dealing with the regime?

00:07:19.000 So, the Iranian Assembly of Experts is basically a group of mullahs who get together and they quote unquote appoint the next supreme leader.

00:07:24.000 They haven't really been super important up till now because it's really the Ayatollah who's been running the show. 0.91

00:07:30.000 The reality is that, yes, the United States should treat them as strategically important.

00:07:33.000 We probably should take them out because obviously, they are the people in charge of selecting, I don't know, the next non-dead leader because Moshtaba still has not been seen. 0.99

00:07:42.000 This would be the gay possible pirate whose leg may have been blown off, maybe in a coma, maybe dead. 0.95

00:07:49.000 Ayatollah's son, they actually had to change a fatwa that you're not supposed to allow your children to succeed you. 0.97

00:07:56.000 But yes, I mean, do they have sort of final power?

00:07:59.000 They have some power, but it's kind of like the College of Cardinals.

00:08:02.000 They have power only for like a brief moment in time, and then they don't really have so much power anymore.

00:08:07.000 Okay, back to Kharg Island.

00:08:10.000 So my recommendation is that we should seize it.

00:08:12.000 President Trump has been suggesting for a while that this may happen.

00:08:17.000 We can take out the island anytime we want.

00:08:22.000 I call it the little oil island that sits there so totally unprotected.

00:08:27.000 We've taken out everything but the pipes.

00:08:29.000 We left the pipes.

00:08:32.000 Well, here's the thing.

00:08:34.000 Kharg Island is the location of Iran's oil refineries.

00:08:36.000 90% of Iranian oil comes through Kharg Island.

00:08:39.000 The Iranians have already shut the Strait of Hormuz in large part. 0.99

00:08:43.000 They've already upped the ante in terms of attacks on surrounding gas and oil facilities.

00:08:46.000 So the U.S. doesn't have tremendous downside here.

00:08:48.000 Like, what's Iran going to do?

00:08:49.000 Attack more oil facilities?

00:08:51.000 We ought to seize control of the oil, and then we ought to let American companies keep pumping it.

00:08:56.000 And then we ought to send it to its final destination, China. 0.91

00:08:58.000 China would then know that we are in charge of this figure.

00:09:01.000 Iran's terrorist government would be deprived of their monetary flow.

00:09:05.000 What about the Europeans? 0.65

00:09:06.000 Well, if the price of oil rises, they can buy it from us, not the Iranians. 1.00

00:09:10.000 And if they're not going to join us as allies, they can pay our companies for oil.

00:09:15.000 This, by the way, is the sort of thing President Trump might well do. 0.98

00:09:18.000 That is because Trump is not bound by the stupidity of Wilsonian neoconservatism. 0.98

00:09:22.000 The sort of strange belief that the best way to justify war is if the United States gets nothing out of it. 0.98

00:09:27.000 This was the line that you used to hear about Iraq, Afghanistan, that basically, sure, we had interest there, but the real interest was in liberating the Iraqi people.

00:09:35.000 The real interest was in liberating the people of Afghanistan.

00:09:39.000 The way you knew America was moral is that we got nothing out of it, that there were no resources to grab.

00:09:43.000 President Trump is like, you know what?

00:09:45.000 When we go into a conflict, we should get paid for it.

00:09:47.000 Here's President Trump back in 2017 talking about what we should have done in Iraq.

00:09:53.000 He said, we should have kept the oil, but okay, maybe we'll have another chance.

00:09:57.000 What did you mean by that?

00:09:58.000 Well, we should have kept the oil while we got out.

00:10:00.000 And you know, it's very interesting.

00:10:01.000 Had we taken the oil, you wouldn't have ISIS because they fueled themselves with the oil. 0.92

00:10:06.000 That's where they got the money.

00:10:07.000 So you believe we can go in and take the oil?

00:10:09.000 We should have taken the oil.

00:10:12.000 Okay, so we'll get into why he is right about that in a moment.

00:10:16.000 This has been his model in Venezuela, of course.

00:10:20.000 What are we going to do with the oil that we have?

00:10:22.000 We're going to do with what?

00:10:23.000 The oil that has been seized.

00:10:25.000 The United States seized 1.9 million barrels of oil on December 10th.

00:10:30.000 We're going to keep it.

00:10:33.000 Are we going to sell it or put it in the strategic?

00:10:34.000 Maybe we'll sell it.

00:10:35.000 We'll keep it.

00:10:36.000 Maybe we'll use it in the strategic reserves.

00:10:40.000 We're keeping the ships also.

00:10:44.000 President Trump was right about Venezuela, and he is right about Iraq, and he is right here too. 0.98

00:10:49.000 The truth is, if you go back historically, if the United States and Great Britain had simply maintained American and British ownership of the oil resources in the Middle East that we developed, you know, the oil companies that we built that drew the oil out of the ground in the first place, none of the terrorist regimes of the Middle East would have been able to turn themselves into serious threats.

00:11:08.000 Not a single Middle Eastern regime found its own oil.

00:11:11.000 Not one.

00:11:12.000 Not a single one pumped it originally or even built their own original infrastructure.

00:11:16.000 The so-called Seven Sisters, these would be the big oil companies, built the entirety of the Middle East's oil industry.

00:11:22.000 In Iran, it was the Anglo-Persian company, later British Petroleum, that unearthed the oil.

00:11:26.000 In Saudi Arabia and Iraq, it was Standard Oil of California, now Chevron, and the Texas company, Texaco, which has now become Chevron, and Standard Oil of New Jersey, and Standard Oil of New York, now ExxonMobil.

00:11:37.000 In Kuwait, it was Gulf Oil, now Chevron.

00:11:39.000 In Iraq, Qatar, UAE, it was Royal Dutch Shell, which is now Shell.

00:11:43.000 In the 1970s, all of these countries began moving toward nationalization of resources they did not find or build.

00:11:50.000 That would be Saddam Hussein in Iraq, who is the power behind the throne. 0.95

00:11:54.000 Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, the Mad Colonel, the Shah in Iran started this process, but it was consolidated by the Ayatollahs in Iran, among others.

00:12:02.000 The United States government, which had in fact resisted similar moves successfully in the 1950s, went totally wobbly in the 1970s during the nationalization of oil resources.

00:12:12.000 The United States had not developed its own domestic production infrastructure well enough, so it could be held hostage.

00:12:17.000 The political class was significantly more interested in spending money domestically than in protecting our oil assets overseas.

00:12:23.000 So the result was a Middle East dominated by potentates who are independently wealthy and also capable of spreading their terrorism and toxicity both at home and abroad. 0.96

00:12:32.000 And it has not gone amazingly well.

00:12:34.000 So here is the question.

00:12:36.000 Why precisely should we allow the Iranian government to threaten the region with oil we found developed and pumped while they oppress and impoverish their own people at the same exact time? 0.99

00:12:47.000 Why not instead seize Kharg Island and force the Iranian government to its knees? 0.95

00:12:51.000 If the Europeans don't like it, they could send us a strongly worded letter.

00:12:55.000 See, here's the thing about our erstwhile allies.

00:12:58.000 If they wish for a post-war global order to hold, the one they're constantly talking about, they have to do their part. 0.57

00:13:04.000 Free riding turns them from allies into strategic partners.

00:13:08.000 And strategic partners might be on our side sometimes, but they don't get to help formulate shared policy together.

00:13:14.000 This was President Trump's rather hilarious point yesterday in a meeting with Japan's new prime minister.

00:13:18.000 He was asked why he had not told the Japanese about what he was going to do in Iran.

00:13:25.000 One question.

00:13:26.000 Why didn't you tell U.S. allies in Europe and Asia, like Japan, about the war before attacking Iran?

00:13:34.000 So we are very confused about Japanese situations.

00:13:38.000 Well, one thing you don't want to signal too much, you know, when we go in, we went in very hard.

00:13:43.000 And we didn't tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise.

00:13:48.000 Who knows better about surprise than Japan?

00:13:51.000 Hey, why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?

00:13:54.000 Okay?

00:13:56.000 Right?

00:13:59.000 I'm sorry, it's funny.

00:14:00.000 There's nothing you can do about it.

00:14:01.000 It's really, really funny.

00:14:03.000 Tough.

00:14:04.000 So who are our allies?

00:14:05.000 The people who stand with us, the people who are willing to take actual action alongside us when they adjudicate in the same way that we have that a threat emerges.

00:14:13.000 It's not as though these European countries don't know Iran is a threat. 1.00

00:14:16.000 They know full well that Iran is a threat. 1.00

00:14:18.000 It's not as though they have no interest in the Strait of Hormuz.

00:14:21.000 In many ways, they have significantly more of an interest in the Strait of Hormuz than we do because LNG needs to get to Europe in a way that we don't need here in the United States.

00:14:31.000 So if they want to be our allies, they could, you know, actually be allies instead of useless hangers on who only show up like the little red hens friends when the cake is already baked.

00:14:43.000 And it's bad enough that we have allies who are basically useless in this fight.

00:14:46.000 Then there are countries who are mouthing off in support of Iran.

00:14:49.000 Take, for example, Spain. 0.90

00:14:50.000 Here's the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who is despicable.

00:14:55.000 Europe is with multilateralism and is with international law.

00:15:00.000 And we are against this war.

00:15:01.000 We are against this war because it is illegal, there's no reason behind it, and it's causing a lot of damage.

00:15:08.000 Civilians, of course, refugees, and the economic consequences that the whole war this schmuck has declared solidarity, by the way, with both the Hamas in Gaza as well as Iran. 0.96

00:15:22.000 The prime minister of a country that historically colonized the entirety of South and Latin America, as well as half of North America, as well as Cuba and the Philippines and a bunch of other places, he thinks it's super bad that the U.S. is not colonizing Iran, it's liberating it.

00:15:22.000 Yes, that's right.

00:15:36.000 Well, he can take his advice and shove it up his gulata. 0.92

00:15:40.000 And for good measure, perhaps, maybe we should just go ahead and recognize the state of Basque.

00:15:43.000 I don't know, maybe.

00:15:45.000 Then there are our pro-Iran friends here at home.

00:15:48.000 Their goal domestically is to seize the reins of Trumpism away from Trump, as I have explained over and over and over again.

00:15:54.000 Their agenda seems to mirror, strangely, that of the Mullahs or Russia's Alexander Dugan.

00:15:58.000 Very strange.

00:16:00.000 In fact, our anti-American contingent is so strong, we can easily play a game.

00:16:04.000 It's called Who Said It?

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00:17:19.000 We do.

00:17:19.000 Landon Corps, Ben, could the U.S. start our own UN with people who like us, like Israel, Argentina, and Japan, maybe El Salvador, Hungary?

00:17:27.000 Yes, we could.

00:17:27.000 And I think we should.

00:17:28.000 I think we should pull out of the UN. 0.77

00:17:29.000 I think we should blow up the building, salt the ground, and build a Trump Tower on it. 0.94

00:17:32.000 I think the United Nations is a joke. 0.98

00:17:34.000 The idea that there is a family of nations that has shared priorities whereby China and Russia and the United States are somehow on the same page is absolutely ridiculous and counterproductive for sure.

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00:17:51.000 Okay, so back to the game, I promised.

00:17:53.000 Who said it?

00:17:54.000 Members of the grievance party or a literal terrorist?

00:17:58.000 So here's our first quote.

00:18:00.000 So now, the strange hypothesis that Zionists killed Charlie Kirk doesn't seem weird at all.

00:18:05.000 Who said it?

00:18:06.000 Candace Owens or Alexander Dugan?

00:18:08.000 If you guessed Candace Owens, you are wrong.

00:18:11.000 It is Vladimir Putin's brain, Alexander Dugan.

00:18:14.000 And he's saying this sort of stuff in order to divide Americans.

00:18:17.000 Okay, let's try another quote. 0.98

00:18:18.000 Here's a quote: Zionist thugs like you who push the cheering of the killing of innocent human life is the enemy of our nation and the world. 0.97

00:18:26.000 Who said it? 0.98

00:18:28.000 Kerry Prejan, newfound super Catholic, or former Hamas leader Yak Ya Sinwar?

00:18:34.000 The answer is Kerry Prajan.

00:18:36.000 Although, to be fair, we cheated a little.

00:18:38.000 If we'd included a key phrase, you would have gotten it.

00:18:40.000 She'd said that Ted Cruz pushes, quote, an anti-Christ end times fantasy.

00:18:44.000 Got to slide some accusations of Christian heresy in.

00:18:46.000 They've just got to be in there.

00:18:47.000 Okay, who said this one?

00:18:48.000 Quote, Trump betrayed diplomacy and Americans who elected him.

00:18:52.000 Was it Marjorie Taylor Greene or Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araki?

00:18:58.000 Oh, no, sorry.

00:18:59.000 It was Abbas Araki.

00:19:01.000 That was a really hard one because Marjorie Taylor Green says kind of exactly the same thing, which is the point.

00:19:01.000 I know.

00:19:06.000 Okay, one more.

00:19:07.000 The neocons will try, quote, manufacturing another 9-11 style terror attack on U.S. soil.

00:19:13.000 Tucker Carlson or Ayatollah Khamenei before his untimely demise.

00:19:18.000 That's Tucker.

00:19:19.000 Okay, okay.

00:19:19.000 You knew that one.

00:19:20.000 One last one about the Jews.

00:19:23.000 Gold is their pagan history.

00:19:25.000 Candace Owens or Adolf Hitler? 0.70

00:19:28.000 Sorry, no, that was Candace Owens.

00:19:30.000 Even Adolf Hitler would likely have looked at Candace Owens' latest rants with a bit of embarrassment these days. 0.99

00:19:36.000 But you know whose historical material Hitler would probably have enjoyed? 0.72

00:19:40.000 Tucker's.

00:19:41.000 His takes on history.

00:19:42.000 Spot on.

00:19:43.000 Yesterday, Tucker Carlson explained once again for the 100th time that in World War II, the bad guy was Winston Churchill, this time because of the jailing of one Oswald Mosley.

00:19:53.000 Here's how Tucker Carlson describes it.

00:19:56.000 Winston Churchill, who I know were required to deify, presided over the imprisonment of his opposition party during the entire length of the war and their families and their wives.

00:20:07.000 They're rotting in prison away from their little kids.

00:20:09.000 In some cases, they're infants.

00:20:10.000 And their crime was being the opposition party and being disloyal and unpatriotic.

00:20:14.000 They weren't.

00:20:15.000 The opposition party was led by a First World War war hero who fought not just as, you know, a pilot in the sky, but and in the trenches, like one of the great war heroes former member of parliament the country ever produced.

00:20:24.000 And he and his wife and his compatriots and their wives were interned without charges by Winston Churchill for the duration of the war.

00:20:32.000 And that happened in Britain, which is like much more humane than a lot of places.

00:20:35.000 FDR interned the Japanese, including American citizens.

00:20:38.000 That stuff happens during the war.

00:20:40.000 And so I think we should be on guard. 0.99

00:20:46.000 So this is total crap. 0.99

00:20:47.000 Oswald Mosley was not the leader of the opposition. 0.99

00:20:50.000 Clement Attlee of the Labor Party was.

00:20:52.000 And Clement Attlee was part of the coalition war cabinet.

00:20:56.000 Later, he would succeed Winston Churchill as prime minister.

00:20:58.000 Mosley was the leader of a group called the British Union of Fascists, which held zero, zero slots in parliament.

00:21:05.000 As Douglas Murray notes today in the New York Post, he was, quote, a traitor to his country.

00:21:10.000 He married his second wife, like him, a fascist and friend of Hitler, in Berlin in 1936.

00:21:15.000 They married in a small private ceremony at the home of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.

00:21:20.000 One of the only other people to attend the wedding was Adolf Hitler, who gave the newlyweds a silver-framed photograph of himself.

00:21:28.000 It's not a giant wonder that Tucker is now an Oswald Mosley apologist.

00:21:32.000 Mosley explained in 1934, quote, what they call today the will of the people is nothing but the organized corruption of press, cinema, and parliament ruled by Jewish finance.

00:21:41.000 I mean, sounds kind of like that.

00:21:43.000 I mean, Tucker might have, by 1939, Mosley had, wait for it, recast himself as a peace campaigner, blaming, you guessed it, the nefarious Jews for swiveling British sentiment against Hitler and campaigning on, wait for it, Britain first. 0.84

00:21:58.000 Sounds a little like an Alp adult podcast host, we know.

00:22:02.000 Mosley actually was allowed to live in a small house with his wife during his internment with a small garden as well.

00:22:06.000 He was released in 1943 controversially on health grounds.

00:22:10.000 So, are we supposed to believe all these people who you cannot distinguish from Alexander Dugan or in some cases Adolf Hitler are America first?

00:22:18.000 Like, how?

00:22:19.000 If so, how?

00:22:20.000 When is the last time they said something that was actually pro-America?

00:22:23.000 It seems to have been a while.

00:22:25.000 Which brings us to current status in Iran.

00:22:27.000 Well, the Iranians are running out of government figures, like literally running out of them.

00:22:31.000 The expiration date on new appointees to top levels in the Iranian government is sooner than that bag of cheese you bought on discount a week ago.

00:22:39.000 This is a chart of the Iranian leadership killed.

00:22:42.000 Wow.

00:22:43.000 Okay, so this is from the New York Times.

00:22:45.000 And as you will see, in the defense establishment, everyone is dead.

00:22:48.000 Everyone.

00:22:49.000 So not just Ali Khamenei, who is, of course, the head of the regime.

00:22:53.000 His son is probably at this point likely dead as well.

00:22:55.000 We have not seen him in weeks.

00:22:57.000 At the very least, he's in a coma.

00:22:59.000 The entire defense establishment, every single human dead.

00:23:03.000 Ali Larajani, who's a top member of the inner circle and sort of the guy who is seen as running the country, is dead.

00:23:09.000 Basically, the only major figures in Iran who are still alive are Mazood Pazeshkian, the president, who's widely seen in international circles as kind of a weakling.

00:23:18.000 He is not one of these sort of hardcore malahs. 1.00

00:23:20.000 And then the speaker of parliament, a man named Mohammed Khalibaf.

00:23:25.000 And then the head of the judiciary, like a couple of stray figures.

00:23:29.000 And every single day there is news that a person who has relieved another person as head of the besiege has been killed.

00:23:34.000 So the United States and Israel are doing an extraordinary job of just devastating the leadership class in Iran. 0.95

00:23:39.000 When you hear this dumb nonsense about how, you know, every time you kill a terrorist, you make a thousand new terrorists. 0.84

00:23:45.000 Well, that's weird because, you know, we've killed a lot of our enemies over the course of American history, and that's kind of how you win. 0.96

00:23:51.000 My favorite part about that logic is the catch-22.

00:23:54.000 You must leave your enemies in place to grow stronger because if you kill them, they will grow stronger.

00:23:59.000 Secretary of War Pete Hegseth pointed out how rough it is being a replacement Mullah's little helper these days.

00:24:06.000 The last job anyone in the world wants right now?

00:24:09.000 Senior leader for the IRGC or Besiege.

00:24:14.000 Temp jobs.

00:24:15.000 All of them.

00:24:17.000 And to borrow a page from Admiral Ernest King in World War II, we've decided to share the ocean with Iran.

00:24:25.000 We've given them the bottom half.

00:24:30.000 Well, with all of that said, the Washington Post reports that the Pentagon is now seeking resupply on our stocks of weaponry, given the current war, which makes sense.

00:24:38.000 We should always be stocked up.

00:24:40.000 The Washington Post reports: quote, that number, it's like $200 million, $200 billion, rather, would far surpass the cost of the administration's massive airstrike campaign to date and instead seek to urgently increase production of critical weaponry expended as U.S. and Israeli forces have struck thousands of targets over the past three weeks, according to three other people familiar with the pack and with the matter who confirmed the Department of Defense is seeking packages of that size.

00:25:04.000 So the media are trying to say that if you want to fill in the gap, that is support for the Iran war, but that's actually not the point of the funding.

00:25:11.000 We are already expending resources in Iran.

00:25:14.000 So your choice now is to leave the larder empty.

00:25:17.000 That is your choice.

00:25:18.000 The reason you want additional funding is to maintain our preparation.

00:25:21.000 Again, the cost of the war right now is about a billion dollars a day, not $200 billion.

00:25:25.000 The reason you need $200 billion is to not only restock the larder, but to prepare for the possibility of future conflict and to push your enemies off the ball.

00:25:34.000 Regardless of what you think about the action in Iran, having an empty cupboard is really terrible policy.

00:25:41.000 This is the point that Pete Hegseth was making yesterday.

00:25:44.000 $200 billion, I think that number could move, obviously. 0.97

00:25:51.000 It takes money to kill bad guys. 0.95

00:25:54.000 Correct. 0.96

00:25:55.000 The worst thing we could do right now is leave that cupboard empty.

00:25:58.000 President Trump is changing the geopolitical map in real time in ways that will benefit Americans for generations to come.

00:26:04.000 Imagine for a second a Middle East that is not a draw on American resources because the cancerous Iranian regime can't spread terror anymore. 1.00

00:26:13.000 Imagine a barrel of Brent crude down basically permanently in the $40 to $50 range.

00:26:18.000 That's what we're talking about.

00:26:19.000 Because if we open up Iranian production, say with American companies, then we will be making more money and the price of oil will dive.

00:26:26.000 And imagine the Chinese government having to tiptoe around American interests because guess who controls their flow of oil from the Strait of Hormuz?

00:26:33.000 And imagine the Russian government pressed because of that drop in the price of oil.

00:26:37.000 Remember, they make more money when the price of oil goes up.

00:26:39.000 And imagine the Russian government losing money and its sway in Syria and the Caucasus as a result of the downturn of Iranian power.

00:26:47.000 It takes an awful lot of dislike of American power in the world to oppose our military having the resources that they require in a time of war.

00:26:54.000 But then again, you can leave it to Democrats and presumably Rand Paul to try.

00:26:58.000 So by the way, where is the American public on all of this at the moment?

00:27:02.000 There's a brand new poll from Politico breaking it down.

00:27:04.000 Believe it or not, and you should believe it, 43% of Americans overall, that's Democrats, Republicans, and Independents are in favor of the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran, including killing Khamenei and striking nuclear sites, compared to only 33% against.

00:27:20.000 Among MAGA, the people we're told are breaking and leaving.

00:27:23.000 Among MAGA Republicans, that number is 81% approval, 7% disapproval.

00:27:29.000 Among non-MAGA Republicans, 61% approval, 19% oppose. 0.70

00:27:35.000 And imagine how much better those numbers would be if you didn't have the relentless drumbeat of anti-Trump, pro-Iranian propaganda.

00:27:43.000 The question here is not whether America is going to win.

00:27:45.000 We already are winning.

00:27:46.000 We have destroyed pretty much everything there is to destroy in Iran except for their desultory capacity to fire off cruise missiles. 1.00

00:27:53.000 and ballistic missiles at a wide range of countries in the surrounding areas and to fire off some drones at shipping.

00:28:00.000 That's pretty much the last tactic there.

00:28:02.000 The reason they're upping the ante today, they were firing ballistic missiles at the old city of Jerusalem, presumably in an attempt to spur some sort of regionwide conflagration in case they should hit, say, the dome of the rock.

00:28:14.000 Well, the only way we lose is if we quit.

00:28:17.000 The only way we lose here is if people in the United States undermine us.

00:28:21.000 Because what President Trump is doing here is, again, one of the bravest and great foreign policy decisions I've ever seen in my lifetime. 0.97

00:28:28.000 In just a second, we're going to jump into what I think is one of the stupidest talking points coming from the Democratic Party. 0.96

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00:29:40.000 Okay, before we go into the Democrats, Savvy, have we questions from our subscribers?

00:29:44.000 Yes, Asob is asking, what should we do about America haters in our own country?

00:29:48.000 I mean, ignore them, argue against them.

00:29:51.000 No one's talking about silencing any of these people.

00:29:54.000 Literally no one.

00:29:54.000 One of my favorite gambits that is used by the grievance party is this idea, we're not allowed to, we're not even allowed to talk about Israel.

00:30:01.000 We're not even allowed to talk about, you're allowed to talk about all of it.

00:30:05.000 In fact, many of you are making really good buck off of spewing nonsense on all of this.

00:30:10.000 The answer is that you show that what they're saying is nonsense.

00:30:14.000 That's the actual answer.

00:30:16.000 It's one of the reasons we need our subscribers and we need your help because if you would like to see pro-America messages prevail, then you should support the places that actually promote those.

00:30:16.000 And that you grow, right?

00:30:24.000 I think that's what we're doing here at Daily Wire.

00:30:26.000 Just another reason for you to become a subscriber.

00:30:29.000 Any more questions there, Savvy?

00:30:30.000 Do one more.

00:30:31.000 Let's do one more.

00:30:32.000 If Iran is no longer a threat to the Middle East, do you think that Saudi would still be interested in normalized relations with Israel?

00:30:38.000 Or would the elimination of the biggest threat remove the need for both to normalize?

00:30:41.000 It's a good question.

00:30:42.000 My guess is that normalization would not be on the table, but further economic development between the two parties would be.

00:30:47.000 The Saudis kind of like to play both sides.

00:30:49.000 They are afraid of their own population, and so they are afraid of full normalization with Israel, recognition of Israel and all the rest, because many of these potentates, let's say the crown is not on the same page as the quote-unquote Arab street.

00:31:03.000 With that said, would you see additional economic cooperation and security cooperation?

00:31:08.000 Probably you would.

00:31:09.000 Probably you would.

00:31:10.000 Then again, Saudi, again, likes to play both sides.

00:31:12.000 They've been attempting to forge common cause with the Turks.

00:31:16.000 The real next sort of threat in the region is NATO member Turkey, led by Rasip Tayyib Erdogan, who's truly an awful and dictatorial leader.

00:31:23.000 Alrighty, let's jump into the next segment.

00:31:25.000 It is sponsored by Balance of Nature.

00:31:28.000 Democrats are trying to maintain that they are just trying to rein in spending, right?

00:31:32.000 This is their big complaint about the Iran war.

00:31:34.000 Why are we spending the money?

00:31:35.000 We can't spend the money over it.

00:31:36.000 We have to spend it here. 0.95

00:31:37.000 Now, this is truly one of the dumbest talking points Democrats put out there: that we have to skimp on spending on our military so we can, quote unquote, spend it at home. 0.94

00:31:47.000 Democrats have never had any problem with wild fiscal irresponsibility. 0.97

00:31:51.000 They only seem to draw the defense at, you know, national defense. 0.99

00:31:56.000 Fraud and stupidity are the story of the day in California, where Nick Shirley, again, a dude with a camera, has been reporting from the ground, uncovering what he says amounts to at least $170 million in fraud. 0.99

00:32:07.000 Here's some of his original video. 0.99

00:32:12.000 Word got out that I was inside of the plaza and all the fraudsters started hopping in their cars and leaving the scene.

00:32:18.000 Excuse me, let's see if they can just answer our questions really quick.

00:32:22.000 Hello, can we ask you a quick question?

00:32:25.000 Driving out in a brand new M8.

00:32:28.000 They can't get out that easy.

00:32:31.000 How can I get an M8 as well?

00:32:33.000 Should I open up a hospice?

00:32:37.000 We're driving out in a brand new M8 BMW M8 competition.

00:32:42.000 Listen to this thing.

00:32:44.000 This is the sound of hospice money.

00:32:48.000 We have Angels of Haven, Angels of Peace, Light of Angels.

00:32:55.000 Yet the BMWs.

00:32:57.000 One right here, one right there.

00:33:00.000 Two brand new Mercedes over there.

00:33:03.000 It just is unbelievable the amount of money that these people are making, and they're not even trying to hide it.

00:33:10.000 Don't believe Nick Shirley.

00:33:11.000 Well, here is a letter from California State Assembly member Alexandra Macedo, who just investigated an address in Vanuys, California.

00:33:18.000 Quote: In January, I personally visited a dilapidated building in Vanuis.

00:33:23.000 While the exterior of the building did not have a wheelchair ramp or accessible parking, it did have strings of party lights on the rooftop.

00:33:29.000 California public records reveal a staggering reality.

00:33:32.000 197 hospice agencies are registered at this single address.

00:33:37.000 This ground zero for hospice fraud is not an isolated anomaly.

00:33:40.000 It is a symptom of a systemic collapse in oversight.

00:33:43.000 In California, we are witnessing fraudulent actors who exploit our most vulnerable seniors and their families by license flipping, creating shell agencies, and then selling licenses.

00:33:52.000 Ghost patients enrolling healthy seniors, often without their knowledge, to build care for millions, neglect of care, providing zero actual medical services.

00:34:00.000 Meanwhile, the state of California is also spending a lot of bucks on a crossing for mountain lions above the freeway.

00:34:06.000 I wish I were joking about this.

00:34:08.000 I'm not joking about this in the slightest.

00:34:10.000 Look at a picture of this.

00:34:11.000 This is an image from February of 2026.

00:34:14.000 It is literally just an overpass on a freeway.

00:34:19.000 There are no ramps up to the overpass.

00:34:20.000 I'm not even sure how the animals are supposed to get up there, but the idea is that they are going to walk across the freeway using this overpass.

00:34:28.000 Now, California's projected budget deficit for 2026-27 is almost $3 billion.

00:34:33.000 The nonpartisan legislative analyst's office projects an $18 billion deficit for the same period, taking into account the potential for tremendous loss of revenue in the tech sector.

00:34:43.000 It is not hard to see why California has a deficit. 0.99

00:34:45.000 They spend on stupid nonsense literally all the time. 0.99

00:34:48.000 So that right there, that $54 million wildlife crossing project, $54 million, that was the original cost. 0.99

00:34:55.000 Now it is costing $114 million, a bridge for animals that literally just looks like cement over a freeway with some bushes.

00:35:06.000 So Chris Ruffo reports for Manhattan Institute.

00:35:09.000 Why has a project primarily consisting of a bridge for animals cost over $100 million?

00:35:14.000 One reason is that Newsome and WAWC's philanthropic supporters apparently don't mind it becoming a patronage program.

00:35:21.000 As the WAWC endorsing Wildlife Crossing Fund notes, citing the California Department of Transportation's estimate, for every $1 billion spent on wildlife crossings, 13,000 jobs are created.

00:35:32.000 Some of the jobs included in the boondoggle include helping hire a nonprofit, which champions its hiring of indigenous team members to help steward the plants that will vegetate the bridge.

00:35:41.000 Experts hired under experts hired include a fun guy whiz, must be a fun guy, who periodically scrutinizes root samples under a microscope for a bridge over a freeway.

00:35:54.000 Gavin Newsom apparently wanted to, quote, replicate projects like this all up and down the state.

00:36:00.000 Well, this makes it a little awkward that Newsom's wife wants to set up a California public financial literacy education program.

00:36:06.000 Here she was announcing that yesterday.

00:36:09.000 Starting in 2027, but already in the works, every California public high school student will be provided financial literacy education because every kid deserves the tools to make every dollar count.

00:36:25.000 I mean, if you're going to learn financial literacy in California, where better to learn it from than members of the AFT, the NEA, and the California government financial literacy from California government, they're going to teach it.

00:36:38.000 Well, the problem is no better in New York City or San Francisco or LA.

00:36:42.000 Data analyst Charles Smirkley has an amazing thread on X running down how much these major cities are spending per homeless person.

00:36:47.000 So according to his thread, New York City is now spending more per homeless person than the median New York City household earns.

00:36:54.000 $81,705 per person in fiscal year 2025.

00:36:59.000 And that's the floor.

00:37:00.000 That doesn't include supportive housing, about $500 million a year, mental health response teams, NYPD encampment costs.

00:37:07.000 They're now projecting almost $100,000 per homeless person per year in fiscal year 2026.

00:37:14.000 And by the way, the population of the homeless increased.

00:37:17.000 As Smirkley points out, spending per homeless person since 2019, New York City, plus 187%.

00:37:23.000 San Francisco, plus 190%.

00:37:26.000 LA, 480%.

00:37:30.000 Homeless population over the same period, up 13%.

00:37:33.000 Spending up 320%.

00:37:35.000 Problem up 13%.

00:37:38.000 Great job, everyone.

00:37:39.000 You have done an amazing, amazing job.

00:37:42.000 Well, it's a good thing then that taxpayers aren't leaving all of these places.

00:37:46.000 I mean, there's so much that has to be paid for by these tax dollars.

00:37:49.000 So it's a good thing nobody is leaving.

00:37:50.000 Oh, wait.

00:37:51.000 Now Governor Kathy Hochul is begging people not to leave for Florida.

00:37:58.000 I need people who are high net worth to support the generous social programs that we want to have in our state.

00:38:05.000 Right?

00:38:06.000 Now, there are some patriotic millionaires who stepped up.

00:38:10.000 Okay, cut me the checks.

00:38:12.000 I mean, just if you want to be supportive, but maybe the first step should be go down to Palm Beach and see who you can bring back home because our tax base has been eroded.

00:38:24.000 Well, I mean, I wonder why it was eroded.

00:38:25.000 Can you imagine?

00:38:26.000 I mean, she's the governor of the state. 1.00

00:38:28.000 The tax base is eroded because you kept taxing people, providing them fewer services, and then demonizing them. 0.98

00:38:33.000 I mean, maybe people were willing to listen to schmucks like Bernie Sanders running around yelling at them when at least their lifestyle was good. 0.97

00:38:40.000 But when the lifestyle declines and they can move, they leave. 0.99

00:38:43.000 But at least Democrats can still feel good having this geriatric socialist loon bag as their leader.

00:38:48.000 Here was Bernie Sanders yelling at Elon Musk again yesterday.

00:38:54.000 60% of our people live in paycheck to paycheck, and one guy, Elon Musk, owns more wealth than the bottom 53% of American households.

00:39:06.000 Think maybe that might be an issue that we should be talking about.

00:39:13.000 I love that Bernie Sanders thinks he has a right to everybody else's money, and somehow this makes him the altruist.

00:39:18.000 Okay, well, speaking of communists who are not doing well, Cuba is having some real problems right now.

00:39:23.000 The Trump administration believes that Cuba, the Cuban communist regime, is basically on its last legs.

00:39:28.000 Joining me on the line to discuss is Carlos Antonio Jimenez.

00:39:32.000 He represents the people of Florida, it's the 28th congressional district, encompassing all of Monroe County and the southwest portion of Miami-Dade County.

00:39:38.000 He was elected in 2020.

00:39:40.000 He's the only Cuban-born member of Congress.

00:39:42.000 Congressman, thanks much for taking the time.

00:39:45.000 Pleasure.

00:39:46.000 Thank you, Ben.

00:39:47.000 And also remember that I used to be the mayor of Miami-Dade County, so I know a little thing about municipal government and what Madame is doing to New York.

00:39:55.000 It's amazing how incompetent he really is. 0.74

00:39:58.000 But he's a communist.

00:40:00.000 He's going to do to New York if he stays in there long enough what the communists did to Cuba.

00:40:07.000 Unfortunately.

00:40:08.000 The only benefit for Florida is kind of the same as the benefit to Florida that happened thanks to the cash row regime, which is a lot of productive people actually came to Florida, a lot of productive people moving down from New York to Florida right now.

00:40:19.000 So you're looking at what's going on in Cuba.

00:40:21.000 What do you think the timeline is?

00:40:23.000 What does the future look like in Cuba?

00:40:24.000 They effectively have no economy to speak of.

00:40:27.000 They have no Venezuelan oil to prop them up.

00:40:30.000 You're seeing protests emerge in the streets.

00:40:31.000 What do you think the next steps look like over there?

00:40:34.000 Well, I think that the next step should be continuing the pressure here, which is the pressure really is: don't give them anything and don't give them a lifeline.

00:40:41.000 Don't give them any oxygen.

00:40:42.000 They will die on it on themselves by themselves.

00:40:46.000 And so that's what's happening right now.

00:40:50.000 There's island-wide blackouts every single day that you may get power maybe one or two hours a day if you're lucky.

00:40:58.000 No food, no medicine, no basic necessities.

00:41:02.000 And it's all due to the incompetence, the corruption of this communist regime that's basically driven this beautiful island that used to be known as the jewel of the Caribbean right into the ground.

00:41:15.000 Well, one of the things that's being talked about by the Cuban government is some sort of deal to be cut with the Trump administration, whereby they would allow private investment dollars to flow back into Cuba, the renewal of private property in Cuba.

00:41:27.000 What do you make of that offer?

00:41:29.000 What should the Trump administration do about it?

00:41:32.000 For one thing, they should absolutely say no.

00:41:35.000 But also, the Cuban government also is asking the Cuban diaspora around the world to, yeah, let's go ahead.

00:41:41.000 You can start investing in Cuba now.

00:41:43.000 You can own property.

00:41:44.000 You can own businesses and all that.

00:41:46.000 And don't worry, we won't expropriate them again like we did before, you know, because we're such, you know, we keep our words.

00:41:52.000 Look, the Cuban government has never kept its word to anybody.

00:41:56.000 They borrow billions of dollars from around the world.

00:41:59.000 They never pay anybody.

00:42:00.000 The only reason that it was able to be sustained this long is because they got subsidies from around the world from Russia, China, and Venezuela.

00:42:08.000 Now that Venezuela has been cut off, and Mexico is not doing the same things it used to.

00:42:14.000 That's why it's finding itself in the position that it is.

00:42:17.000 It's like $50 billion in debt to the rest of the world, and they don't pay their bills.

00:42:23.000 And so, you know, when they announced this, I think on Monday, and I went out right away, I said, anybody who invests in Cuba right now is insane with this regime.

00:42:32.000 Okay.

00:42:32.000 We need total regime change.

00:42:34.000 We need a new government, new laws, new constitution.

00:42:37.000 And then you can start investing in Cuba.

00:42:40.000 Then you can start restoring Cuba to what it used to be. 0.97

00:42:43.000 It had the second highest standard of living in the Western Hemisphere.

00:42:47.000 It was a jewel of the Caribbean.

00:42:49.000 It was beautiful and very prosperous.

00:42:52.000 But not with this regime.

00:42:54.000 You got to wait for a new government to take hold.

00:42:58.000 So, Congressman Jimenez, one of the questions that's been asked is how precisely that would happen.

00:43:02.000 My understanding is that the Cuban government, because they are so repressive, because so many people have left, how organized is the opposition on the island?

00:43:11.000 What is the possibility of there being some sort of organized uprising to push the regime out of power?

00:43:16.000 Or is what's more likely to happen something like what happened in Venezuela, where the U.S. government basically throttles the current Cuban government and forces them to engage in some sort of gradual change?

00:43:30.000 You know, we can talk about Venezuela.

00:43:31.000 I mean, I have some differences of opinion too about what's going on in Venezuela, but what's happening right now in Cuba is every day more and more Cubans are coming out the streets and they're demanding change and they're getting less and less scared of the regime.

00:43:44.000 What I'd love President Trump to do is to do this issue, some kind of same warning that he did in Iran, although in the Cuban case, kind of follow up with it, is that he's not going to stand by while this regime oppresses and slaughters its own people, not in our hemisphere. 0.58

00:44:01.000 And if he did that, I think you'd see more and more demonstrations happen and it would be more organic within Cuba itself.

00:44:08.000 It's already starting.

00:44:10.000 Every day you see at night thousands of Cubans hitting the streets.

00:44:15.000 They're doing with pots and pans and they're shouting for food and they're shouting for freedom.

00:44:20.000 And so every day they're growing less and less scared of the regime.

00:44:26.000 And so to me, just keep the pressure up, keep the pressure up.

00:44:31.000 Don't give any oxygen to the regime and this regime will eventually fall on its own.

00:44:37.000 Congressman Jimenez, obviously Miami is heavily Cuban because all the expatriates who arrived after the rise of the communist regime were in the midst of the communist regime.

00:44:46.000 So what does this mean for Cubans in Miami to watch what's going on right now?

00:44:50.000 We here in Miami are very heartened by what's going on.

00:44:55.000 We're optimistic.

00:44:56.000 I think our level of optimism is as high as it's ever been, higher than it's ever been, that this regime is finally on its last legs.

00:45:06.000 I was born in Cuba.

00:45:08.000 I came here when I was seven years old.

00:45:10.000 The dream of my parents, unfortunately, they never got to see that dream come to life because they passed away, is that Cuba would one day be free and democratic.

00:45:19.000 And again, we can restore Cuba to what it once was and even greater.

00:45:23.000 And so, yeah, there is over a million Cuban Americans here in this town.

00:45:30.000 The politics of the Western Hemisphere is the talk of the town.

00:45:35.000 And so what's happening in Venezuela, what's happening in Cuba right now, the Venezuelans that are here, the Cubans that are here, are hoping that we're going to see a brand new day for both Venezuela and for Cuba.

00:45:49.000 Well, Congressman Jimenez, really appreciate the time and the insight.

00:45:51.000 Thanks so much.

00:45:53.000 It's my pleasure.

00:45:54.000 Have a great one.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - March 20, 2026

America's Bad Friends

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