The Culture War - Tim Pool - March 03, 2026


ISRAEL SLAMMED After Rubio Says THEY FORCED US Into Iran War


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Learn English with Michelle Obama. Michelle Obama speaks on the Iran crisis and why the U.S. should not have been dragged into it, and why it s a good thing Israel attacked Iran with or without the support of the United States.

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00:00:30.000 There was an imminent threat to the United States.
00:00:33.940 This is the reason why we entered the war in Iran.
00:00:37.540 Indeed, entered, did not start.
00:00:40.800 I'm going to say it again.
00:00:41.980 The information that we got from Marco Rubio is going to piss off a lot of people.
00:00:47.060 And I'm not going to bury the lead.
00:00:48.960 Israel was preparing to attack Iran with or without the United States.
00:00:53.520 The United States knew that if Iran were to be attacked by Israel,
00:00:57.520 the retaliation would be against the United States.
00:01:00.820 And thus the question was, should we assume a defensive posture or should we strike hard with Israel?
00:01:09.200 Well, I share in everyone's criticism of Israel in this capacity. 0.94
00:01:14.380 We are being dragged into a war they sought to initiate.
00:01:18.500 That is a fact.
00:01:20.140 Now, many of you may say it's good that the U.S. engaged in the war in Iran.
00:01:22.960 It is fairly split on the right.
00:01:25.540 I do think most people in this country are rather upset that this war has begun at all.
00:01:30.940 We do have some breaking news as of earlier today.
00:01:35.740 As the Iranian Council of Experts were meeting to discuss the new leadership for the country,
00:01:40.120 Israel launched a strike blowing up the building and apparently killing every single one of them.
00:01:44.860 So I'm going to stress this again.
00:01:46.940 According to the latest reporting, Israel was going to attack with the U.S.
00:01:52.520 currently in negotiations that seemingly were not going so well.
00:01:55.920 And with many U.S. assets in the region, the fear, Rubio states, is that if we assumed a defensive posture,
00:02:02.420 we were going to get bombarded with missile strikes.
00:02:06.080 If we did not take out Iran's capability to strike at us, we were going to get slammed. 0.99
00:02:13.420 And then you're presented with your rock and hard place.
00:02:15.840 If the U.S. did not engage in this conflict with Iran, how many dead U.S. men and women would there have been?
00:02:23.020 As of the latest reporting, as of the recording of this video, it's six, which is still, in my opinion, unacceptable.
00:02:29.660 I know, again, there's a big debate.
00:02:31.660 A lot of people are in favor of Trump going in and crushing this Iranian regime, which I believe was a very, very bad government. 0.57
00:02:37.740 I believe it is ultimately a good thing to see their government toppled if there can be a proper new government formation,
00:02:45.840 which we have no guarantee of.
00:02:47.120 The Iranian regime was bad. 0.98
00:02:48.680 They were bad people.
00:02:49.500 The problem is, if this wasn't what the American people wanted and our alliance with Israel forced our hand. 0.65
00:02:58.660 Guys, I'm going to say it.
00:03:00.580 I know there are a lot of people that are very pro-Israel.
00:03:02.400 I know there are a lot of people that are very anti-Israel.
00:03:04.060 But this alliance cannot stand if this is the result.
00:03:07.560 The American people largely did not want this conflict.
00:03:11.140 And it is explicitly reported.
00:03:14.580 Israel dragged us into it. 0.84
00:03:16.300 Now, there are many pro-Israel people who say the U.S. should not be funding Israel's wars.
00:03:20.800 And I would agree we should not be.
00:03:22.740 And there are many anti-Israel people that think we should not be.
00:03:25.500 So I think the consensus is going to be clear.
00:03:28.220 And this was the controversy around my meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu last year,
00:03:32.240 in that I expressed to him, U.S. support for Israel is over.
00:03:40.480 I think this issue they knew about.
00:03:43.420 I'm not saying it had anything to do with me.
00:03:45.100 I think they knew.
00:03:46.740 And this is why a war with Iran was likely going to be inevitable, at least in the short term. 0.90
00:03:52.740 On the right, the MAGA base is divided.
00:03:56.260 Many of the MAGA people say no Middle Eastern wars.
00:03:59.860 The left says they hate Israel.
00:04:02.460 The younger generations, it's clear, overtly anti-Israel.
00:04:07.460 Young generation on the right is, we don't care what you do, Israel. 0.95
00:04:10.700 We don't want to be involved.
00:04:12.000 Some young Gen Z right-wingers are, we hate Israel.
00:04:15.560 Most leftists, younger generation, hate Israel.
00:04:19.560 In the next 10 to 20 years, without boomers, Israel loses U.S. support. 0.99
00:04:23.940 And they know this.
00:04:26.580 They absolutely know this, which is why I think they decided to force the U.S. into action against Iran. 0.98
00:04:32.840 This would be their only opportunity.
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00:04:38.320 You know, it's going to be a little short today.
00:04:39.900 I'm coming off being sick and I'm still recovering a bit.
00:04:43.120 But, you know, I'm a workaholic.
00:04:44.220 So hopefully I don't screw myself over and get sicker.
00:04:47.400 So I'm going to keep it light today so as not to make it worse and then miss even more work.
00:04:51.640 I will just stress, I am turning 40 in less than a week.
00:04:55.440 And boy, oh boy, working 16 hours a day when you're turning 40 just ain't possible anymore.
00:05:01.560 And I'm just going to say this, guys.
00:05:03.160 I know a little off topic, but it's not even 16-hour days.
00:05:06.340 I work a morning show.
00:05:08.680 Then I exercise.
00:05:09.680 I do physical exercise.
00:05:11.180 Then I do a nightly show.
00:05:12.480 It's legit, not just 16 hours per day.
00:05:15.360 It is like eight hours of content production, two hours of intense exercise, which has subsided to a certain degree because I'm literally dying.
00:05:26.880 And then I've got more work after that for the nightly show.
00:05:32.020 Then I've got family.
00:05:34.400 And then I've got weekend where I've been doing – we've been working on vlog content strategies as well as poker content.
00:05:40.840 And I'm probably going to keel over and die.
00:05:42.960 So, you know, I do what I can do.
00:05:45.360 Let's talk about the news.
00:05:47.000 What did Rubio say?
00:05:48.440 And additionally, the IDF striking the Iran Assembly of Experts to pick Khomeini's successor.
00:05:55.360 Look, I think we're – I think Iran's flattened. 0.89
00:05:58.240 I think Iran is completely flattened by this.
00:06:00.660 But this is going to ignite extreme anti-Israel sentiment.
00:06:05.360 And I'm going to stress it again.
00:06:06.280 Pew Reaches has already shown 54% of Americans hold a negative view of Israel.
00:06:12.160 We are going to see rapidly a disconnection here from U.S. support for Israel because this is unacceptable.
00:06:21.500 It is absolutely unacceptable.
00:06:23.220 I rely on Donald Trump.
00:06:24.660 Let me put it like this to Trump supporters.
00:06:26.000 If what Rubio is saying is true.
00:06:28.800 Trump had been working on negotiating.
00:06:31.480 Trump had been working on solving these problems.
00:06:35.220 Israel decided they were going to attack whether we did or didn't, forcing our hand.
00:06:39.720 By all means.
00:06:40.640 Many people can say that the U.S. doesn't need to.
00:06:45.440 Iran was going to strike us. 0.98
00:06:46.560 And I agree Rubio is correct.
00:06:48.080 And what this really shows is that the alliance with Israel was the mistake. 0.85
00:06:52.640 And we need to be decoupling well before things like this happen.
00:06:57.000 The reason why the U.S. has the alliance with Israel, conspiracy theorists, there's the door. 0.68
00:07:02.100 The anti-Jew people, there's the door.
00:07:04.520 Because I know you're not going to want to hear it.
00:07:06.580 Trump wants Greenland.
00:07:07.900 He wants Northern Canada.
00:07:09.400 He wants Panama. 0.97
00:07:10.440 And he wants Egypt, Israel.
00:07:12.460 Why?
00:07:13.760 Global trade.
00:07:14.700 The Suez Canal, the Panama Canal, and the Northwest Passage.
00:07:18.300 The U.S. controls the world's oceans with something like 20 aircraft carriers or whatever, 13 maybe.
00:07:23.820 We control, we police the oceans.
00:07:25.680 We police the trade routes.
00:07:27.920 That's why we are upset with Iran because they've been destabilizing the Red Sea and the Suez. 1.00
00:07:32.440 The reason Trump wants Greenland is he wants a military base at the Northwest Passage to control this.
00:07:37.680 And the reason why he renegotiated Panama is because he wants access to global water-based trade routes.
00:07:44.740 Israel is causing the U.S. many problems, this being one of them, because Trump is reeling from this.
00:07:52.260 And again, I know the pro-war with Iran people are going to be like, no way, we're happy it's happening.
00:07:56.040 You are, but look at the polls.
00:07:57.640 The American people did not want this war.
00:08:00.580 Check it out.
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00:08:06.660 We're going to keep this one relatively short because I'm trying not to pass out and die.
00:08:11.060 The Daily Mail reports the U.S. launched preemptive strikes against Iran after learning Israel was about to attack.
00:08:17.260 And American troops in the region faced imminent threat of retaliation.
00:08:20.380 Marco Rubio said Monday.
00:08:21.220 There absolutely was an imminent threat.
00:08:24.520 And the imminent threat was that we knew that if Iran was attacked, and we believe they would be attacked, that they would immediately come after us. 0.80
00:08:33.060 And we were not going to sit there and absorb a blow before we responded.
00:08:37.280 Rubio said the Department of War determined that a defensive posture following an Israeli attack would only open the U.S. to more casualties.
00:08:44.400 Five American soldiers have died so far in common.
00:08:46.280 I believe it's six.
00:08:46.940 I could be wrong.
00:08:47.380 We went proactively in a defensive way.
00:08:50.260 Oh, heavens to Betsy. 1.00
00:08:52.140 Proactively in a defensive way to prevent them from inflicting higher damage.
00:08:57.480 Had we not done so, there would have been hearings on Capitol Hill about how we knew this was going to happen.
00:09:03.520 And we didn't act preemptively to prevent more casualties and more loss of life.
00:09:07.740 I agree.
00:09:08.880 A hundred percent.
00:09:10.360 Because that's the nature of politics.
00:09:11.940 If this is true, again, if Israel said we're going to attack, we don't care if you're involved. 0.55
00:09:17.380 In fact, Iran would strike U.S. targets, civilian targets, and you would find that U.S., U.S., you know, Trump administration, administrative personnel would be having congressional hearings, a Democrat saying you knew there was going to be a breakout of war.
00:09:35.800 And you let this happen.
00:09:39.600 Indeed.
00:09:40.660 Don't get me wrong.
00:09:41.860 I'm not arguing they should have done this.
00:09:44.240 I'm saying it is true that would have happened.
00:09:46.500 I don't have all the answers for you.
00:09:48.480 Talk about an impossible situation.
00:09:50.240 Well, we've heard reports.
00:09:53.040 I believe it was Steve.
00:09:53.700 Steve Whitcoff said at the initial onset of negotiations, Iran came out and said, we have enough fissile material for 11 nuclear bombs.
00:10:00.540 Let the negotiations begin.
00:10:02.100 And the U.S. got pissed.
00:10:04.180 Basically, like Trump came out and said, we flattened their nuclear program wrong.
00:10:09.240 And a lot of people warned there's no way they actually did.
00:10:11.940 Trump kept saying, of course we did.
00:10:13.200 Of course we did.
00:10:13.880 And Iran comes to the negotiating table saying, we got it.
00:10:17.300 This was them.
00:10:19.680 Man, that was a bold move.
00:10:22.100 They were saying, we got it.
00:10:23.380 What are you going to do about it?
00:10:24.620 And they were trying to take a hard-lined approach.
00:10:27.820 The sad thing is, Iran could have got luxury instead.
00:10:30.820 Indeed.
00:10:31.720 If Iran said, we're going to drop the nukes, we're going to back off, and we're going to invite you in, and we're going to normalize relations, they would be wealthy and successful. 0.98
00:10:40.640 The issue is, my friends, ideology.
00:10:43.220 Many of you may be saying, now hold on, hold on.
00:10:47.020 Why didn't they just take the luxury?
00:10:50.220 Let me ask you this.
00:10:52.180 Let's say that you are in a fight with the woke Marxist left, and you know that they are crushing you and you're about to lose.
00:11:00.780 And they come to you and say, we will give you money and access if you let us take over your country and make it Marxist-communist social justice.
00:11:10.660 You'd say no.
00:11:11.300 Now, I'm not saying the Iran is right. 1.00
00:11:13.920 I'm saying they adhere to their ideology much like you would adhere to yours and not let an enemy take you over.
00:11:18.860 And that's why it comes to war.
00:11:21.500 Take a look at this.
00:11:23.140 This is wild.
00:11:23.920 Let me show you the actual video here.
00:11:26.300 War is a hell of a thing, my friends.
00:11:27.600 Take a look at this video.
00:11:28.300 We'll play it for you now.
00:11:29.040 What you are seeing is the blown out building that is reportedly the Iranian meeting place.
00:11:45.260 Eighty-eight members of the council were holding ballots to choose the next Iranian supreme leader.
00:11:51.300 Not all of them were present, but the attack reportedly occurred during the vote count.
00:11:56.040 And my understanding is it resulted in the death of these individuals.
00:12:00.580 Iranian news agencies reported the building was flattened during the strikes.
00:12:03.500 No injuries or deaths resulting in the strike have been reported, but we are hearing from American sources that they have wiped out the assembly of experts.
00:12:12.720 Maybe there are some survivors, but the assembly itself has been crushed.
00:12:17.000 Now, there is fascinating rumors circulating.
00:12:22.380 Did Iran trigger a 4.3 magnitude earthquake with a nuclear bomb? 0.78
00:12:29.520 I think this should be taken very seriously.
00:12:32.360 Guys, I'm going to say a few things.
00:12:34.860 The hard and harsh realities of war.
00:12:37.000 We don't know what's true.
00:12:38.900 I got called by the Wall Street Journal the other day.
00:12:41.120 A reporter was asking me about my view on the war and all that because my opinion was,
00:12:46.600 I think the Iranian regime is bad. 0.84
00:12:48.160 It's good they're gone, but I'm skeptical on intervention because I fear blowback and instability.
00:12:53.500 And there are, obviously, my tweets on most of these things are tongue-in-cheek, right?
00:12:59.960 And so they're asking me because they can't understand, and I'm just like, I have little faith.
00:13:04.440 I said, is there even one argument?
00:13:07.140 I'm probably going to make a ton of money off the responses on this one.
00:13:09.320 Even one argument for not taking over Iran or Canada or Mexico?
00:13:13.180 And people are like, oh my God, Jim, where are you in Newfoundland?
00:13:15.540 I'm like, oh yeah, I'm actually suggesting we conquer Canada and Mexico. 0.99
00:13:19.160 You people are insane. 0.93
00:13:20.640 And so they called me and asked me about it. 0.99
00:13:23.180 And, you know, the general conversation was just, where do you and, you know, regular people lie?
00:13:29.700 And I said, we don't like Iran, but we're skeptical that this is going to result in anything beneficial. 1.00
00:13:34.460 The point is, I bring this up because the question I get asked is, do you support or oppose this?
00:13:38.840 And I'm like, I wish it were that simple.
00:13:40.820 Any reasonable person is going to say, we don't know what's actually going on.
00:13:46.560 So I up around the best of my understanding based on the reports I'm getting from, to be honest, I have sources who do field work and nothing classified.
00:13:54.680 And then I have the actual general news.
00:13:58.000 And my response is, we should probably not be involved in this.
00:14:01.540 That being said, the possibility that Iran actually has a nuclear weapon is probably high.
00:14:06.400 It really is.
00:14:07.540 I know the anti-interventionists are going to say, no, it's not.
00:14:10.040 Guys, if Iran had a nuclear weapon, the U.S. ain't going to tell you.
00:14:13.000 They're not going to tell you.
00:14:14.880 Many people are like, they told us there was no nuclear program.
00:14:17.800 Yeah, they lied.
00:14:18.380 Trump has to justify striking Iran and ending the 12-day war, which clearly it wasn't.
00:14:25.840 You know what's really funny?
00:14:26.980 That wasn't even that long ago.
00:14:28.460 And I tell you this, what's going to happen next is history will say this, all of this was the war.
00:14:34.040 The war started then.
00:14:35.020 It never stopped because Iran was arming up. 0.86
00:14:38.440 Now, this 4.3 earthquake, there's no indication that, I don't know if they have the images on this, but there was an earthquake in Iran.
00:14:44.300 No indication or evidence it was a nuclear strike, a nuclear test.
00:14:48.020 Sorry.
00:14:49.220 My point is, here's what I think.
00:14:51.820 I think the U.S. did have concerns that Iran was trying to build a nuclear weapon.
00:14:56.440 I believe it is true that Iran said we have fissile material for nuclear weapons.
00:15:00.080 I believe the U.S. could not come out publicly and say it because it would create massive instability overnight.
00:15:05.180 And this would inhibit the U.S.' ability to surprise attack.
00:15:10.700 I believe it is probably, there is a decent probability, I don't know if greater than chance, that Iran was testing underground nuclear weapons.
00:15:17.020 The U.S. ain't going to tell you.
00:15:19.920 Now, there was a post that I saw.
00:15:22.580 I can't remember who posted this.
00:15:23.940 I may have retweeted, actually.
00:15:25.760 Maybe not.
00:15:26.940 Where they said, the U.S. is not going to be honest about casualties.
00:15:32.220 That it's probably, let me pull this post up from Drama Alert on the war.
00:15:37.160 We don't need to play the fake nuclear explosion video or whatever.
00:15:40.980 Well, it might be a real one, but it's not from Iran.
00:15:43.040 And you can see that there was a remote 4.3 magnitude earthquake, which some people believe was a nuclear strike.
00:15:50.900 But someone made a good point.
00:15:52.500 They said, you know what, let me pull up the Steve Witkoff report.
00:15:58.100 Somebody said that the U.S., if they were to report that there were more U.S. casualties than there were, the Trump administration would be, just like Rubio said, wrapped up in hearings, questioned, challenged under oath, etc.
00:16:11.240 If the amount of U.S. casualties was in the dozens or 30s or 40s or more, or civilian casualties, you're going to get Rubio, you're going to get a lot of people, Hegseth, and they're going to be testifying under oath as to how this could occur and why this war is starting, all of these things.
00:16:30.200 I think that's fair to point out.
00:16:32.220 Let me show you this from Fox News.
00:16:34.520 Steve Witkoff said that at the first meeting with Iran, they said very clearly, we have enough material for 11 nuclear bombs, and that is our starting point.
00:16:44.800 Oh, yeah.
00:16:45.860 Now, you may be saying, but why did the U.S. then go and claim that they didn't have any nuclear materials? 0.98
00:16:49.320 Because Trump is a boisterous blowhard. 0.97
00:16:52.480 I'm being a little bit rude. 0.98
00:16:54.400 The point is, Trump wants to come out and say, we're the best, we've succeeded, no one can stop us.
00:16:59.520 Trump wants to come out and say, we've won, we are the best.
00:17:02.560 But the end result, of course, we are not getting the truth on all of this stuff.
00:17:07.860 And thus, I think it's true.
00:17:10.020 The 12-day war was a failure.
00:17:11.460 I think that is a fair assessment.
00:17:13.360 A lot of people said, look, we got in, we got out, we did it.
00:17:15.800 Where are you now?
00:17:16.740 Because we clearly didn't get in and get out.
00:17:19.500 It's clear that many of the people who supported the 12-day war intervention, bombing the nuclear sites, we saw those trucks.
00:17:27.600 And there were questions as to whether or not they evacuated the nuclear material.
00:17:30.380 And Trump and the administration said, no, no, everything's good.
00:17:33.620 And now we're learning.
00:17:35.720 The claim is they still had nuclear material.
00:17:38.000 So 12-day war, ineffective.
00:17:40.560 Israel then drags us in full speed. 0.94
00:17:46.040 I think the reality is Iran is a big threat. 1.00
00:17:50.340 And this is true.
00:17:51.420 There's a threat against the U.S. because Israel is going to force our hand. 1.00
00:17:54.620 Trump is not going to break from Israel.
00:17:56.340 No way.
00:17:57.400 Again, Suez Canal.
00:17:59.320 You know, what I do find fascinating is that people are like, no, the U.S. is a puppet of Israel.
00:18:05.580 Guys, Israel is a puppet of the United States to a certain degree. 0.85
00:18:10.120 So let me pull up our good old friend Google Earth and show you the Suez.
00:18:15.480 This canal right here, the Suez Canal, connects the Mediterranean to the Red Sea and to the Indian Ocean.
00:18:24.000 Without the Suez, take a look at this.
00:18:25.980 All of our European partners in the Mediterranean and people in North Africa and countries in North Africa that trade, oil or otherwise,
00:18:31.920 if they want access, they ain't going around the, you know, what is this, the Cape Town?
00:18:38.920 Which Cape is that?
00:18:40.200 I don't know.
00:18:40.460 I don't know which Cape that.
00:18:41.800 Good Hope, is it?
00:18:43.680 What's the Cape of Good Hope?
00:18:45.320 Which one is that one?
00:18:47.500 That is the Cape of Good Hope.
00:18:50.120 Yeah, South Africa.
00:18:50.820 Hey, there we go.
00:18:51.840 I think there's another one right there.
00:18:55.280 So they're not going to go all the way around.
00:18:57.160 They're going to go through Suez.
00:18:58.440 And so we want control of this, which means you've got the Sinai Peninsula, you've got Egypt, and you've got Israel right here. 0.94
00:19:05.000 Now, we give Egypt a ridiculous amount of money.
00:19:07.860 And so they basically let us do our thing.
00:19:09.980 Israel is basically a U.S. military base.
00:19:13.040 But we have to keep the people there happy, and they have to be on our side.
00:19:17.420 So no, Israel doesn't control the United States.
00:19:19.840 It's the size of New Jersey.
00:19:21.120 But the U.S. is going to be deferential for a lot of reasons because of how important the Suez Canal is.
00:19:27.180 That being said, Panama is substantially easier to control. 0.99
00:19:31.260 The Pano Canal also being extremely important in allowing the U.S., or not just the U.S., but anybody, not have to go all the way around.
00:19:42.720 Which one is this one?
00:19:44.240 I forget my capes.
00:19:49.220 No, okay, not Capricorn.
00:19:50.820 That's India. 0.98
00:19:52.840 Which cape is South America?
00:19:57.980 Cape Horn.
00:19:58.900 You know, I used to know all these things.
00:20:00.480 I just don't follow my capes anymore.
00:20:04.560 Yeah.
00:20:05.060 So anyway, you get the point.
00:20:06.500 Now we've got something interesting happening with Greenland and the Northwest Passage.
00:20:09.380 Take a look at all this.
00:20:10.980 Normally too icy to move through, but it includes the Bering Strait.
00:20:15.100 This means there's going to be a ridiculous amount of trade moving through as Russia, Sweden, Norway, Iceland are going to be able to much more easily transport goods or receive goods from other places, notably like Japan, South Korea, China, etc.
00:20:29.540 Trump wants control.
00:20:31.320 He wants a military base in Greenland to have strong control over the Northwest Passage as the ice begins to melt.
00:20:37.080 So that's the point, ladies and gentlemen.
00:20:39.660 So again, reset to North.
00:20:41.860 Thank you, Google Earth.
00:20:42.560 I am not suggesting that it's a solely one-way street.
00:20:47.480 Israel has undue influence on the United States, but they don't control us like puppets, but they do create serious problems. 0.99
00:20:54.400 So my argument would be Israel should unbuckle, uncouple from the U.S. 0.96
00:20:59.300 The U.S. should uncouple from Israel. 1.00
00:21:00.760 I don't believe the U.S. should be providing for their military and funding, but understand why it is, my friends.
00:21:06.960 The U.S. trying to keep control, keep access to Middle East, like Israel's got intentions and ideology, and there are many Zionists. 0.66
00:21:17.220 There are Zionists in the United States that are going to support this. 1.00
00:21:20.120 The military-industrial complex, their interests are controlling the Red Sea and the Suez.
00:21:25.800 The war with Iran largely has to do with oil trade and the petrodollar.
00:21:31.360 If we cannot control the Strait of Hormuz, 20% of oil production for the world, or transit, sorry,
00:21:37.100 then these countries are going to say, what purpose do we have of being involved in the petrodollar deal?
00:21:41.500 The U.S., this is what we say, we'll police the oceans, you can sell your oil, you got to use U.S. dollars.
00:21:47.780 So when Houthi rebels were bombing carriers, cargo ships in the Red Sea, the U.S. intervened, and everyone criticized Trump for it.
00:21:55.580 When Iran threatens the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf, Trump says no.
00:21:59.400 And then Israel, largely for regional conflict reasons, says we're going to put a stop to run with or without you.
00:22:06.880 The U.S. goes, okay, fine.
00:22:10.020 Not a fan.
00:22:11.260 I'm going to wrap it up there so I don't collapse and die getting off this cold.
00:22:15.040 It was a bad cold.
00:22:16.340 That's all it really was.
00:22:17.360 But I'm an old man, so it is what it is.
00:22:20.720 It's brutal, man.
00:22:23.400 Getting sick.
00:22:23.960 I'm going to wrap it up there.
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