00:03:34.040Okay, awesome. Yeah. Obviously, this bothers me. I'm not happy about it. This is a big reason why I was very concerned about getting involved in this conflict, that this was always going to be a reality.
00:03:45.300I know that the Iranians had procured some significant air defense equipment from the Chinese.
00:03:51.760When the attack first happened, I was wondering, why didn't they utilize this equipment that they purchased from the Chinese?
00:03:57.180and what could have been done was they kind of you know kind of trapped the united states and
00:04:02.560said hey they got air superiority or they think they have air superiority and then what might
00:04:06.300have happened is they broke broke out some of the actual real equipment now so i hope that you know
00:04:12.380we're able to find our boys before they catch them because i would agree with some of the other
00:04:15.420panelists here that if these guys are captured it's going to be a political nightmare and it's
00:04:21.000going to put us in a very unfavorable position uh when it comes to diplomacy right now um the
00:04:26.540rate is closed we saw a barrel of crude hit 104 yesterday it stabilized a bit but we're still well
00:04:31.860over 100 um trump gave his address where i'll be honest with you guys he didn't really address a
00:04:37.320lot of the main issues he kind of talked about military wins and everything else like that
00:04:40.780he's kind of banking on people not understanding the more uh deeper and significant geopolitical
00:04:45.000ramifications of this conflict um but right now i just hope that we get to those guys before the
00:04:50.480iranians do because if they're captured this is going to be a big fucking problem
00:04:53.520Yeah. I also have some small updates. So Iranian state media is claiming that the US forces are searching for the pilot of the fighter jet using Black Hawk helicopters to see 130 Hercules aircraft and reconnaissance drones. The fighter pilots are usually connected to GPS systems that can signal their location after ejection. However, the large area is being searched that the US doesn't know the exact location of their pilot and using other methods to find them.
00:05:22.620So this is from the Iranian state media, Tasneem News.
00:05:24.740And also they claim that armed tribes and villagers are looking for the possible—to confront possible U.S. forces amid speculation about the U.S. rescue operation for the Daan pilot.
00:05:40.800And locals are armed, especially are armed with their weapons, and they're carrying out searches in the mountains and plains.
00:05:48.800And at the same time, also Iranian state media, they denied that U.S. forces have entered by helicopters into the Ilan province.
00:05:57.940Also, there's reports, actually, that U.S. forces, they landed on Khark Island.
00:06:09.020And also Iranian state media is saying that some Hebrew media sources are saying that America is looking for the two pilots.
00:06:16.960But I think they mean with the Axios report, basically.
00:06:20.520So until now, I didn't see any major confirmation of any U.S. media apart from Axios that usually has very good sources.
00:06:28.640And also, actually, Tasneem News is publishing also a tweet claiming that Iranian defense systems have downed a U.S. Black Hawk helicopter in Iraqi airspace.
00:06:39.240But it also notes that this is unconfirmed, but it's being spread on Iraqi media.
00:06:43.720And also they published also another post claiming that the Iranian forces for the U.S. rescue bid for the downfighter pilot.
00:06:54.020So it's mostly until now still coming from Iranian state media.
00:06:58.760Thanks, Vladimir. Let's go to Zen. I see your hand up. Zen, what are your thoughts on this news that we're breaking and discussing?
00:07:04.720think i don't believe it uh they had an internet blackout over there for several weeks now um
00:07:14.760i don't know how any iranian news media is allegedly reporting it was real it's real
00:07:23.100myron myron let's um centcom said that uh we didn't lose a plane this dude's a fucking retard
00:07:32.020bro it's already all over uh mainstream media now dude's a fucking retard okay it's real it's
00:07:38.900happening uh yeah then um i had mentioned this earlier i don't know if you were here but so far
00:07:50.140centcom has denied any of those kind of uh reports but i searched myself too i didn't see anything
00:07:56.140unless i missed it um vladimir if anybody has saw this with their own eyes i didn't see anything
00:08:01.940specific yeah of course they're gonna deny it like they're not gonna they're not gonna acknowledge
00:08:06.280that a fucking american fighter jet was downed in iranian airspace like they're not gonna confirm
00:08:12.100that unless like something comes out at some point there's gonna be pressure on them because
00:08:16.100axios has already reported it um axios has it um defense blog yeah bro it's out there
00:08:26.800it's this dude is a fucking dumbass that that that they asked the zen motherfucker
00:08:31.520like it's 100 real bro they downed an enemy fighter jet over an island in the straight
00:08:40.740of foremost but the fact is that all u.s fighter aircraft are accounted for
00:08:44.240in iran's irgc has made the same false claim at least a half of a dozen times so this is from
00:08:50.100yesterday not from today so far there have been no official comment on this from the pentagon or
00:08:55.240sent contact they sunk the abraham lincoln also they've been saying all kinds of stuff
00:09:02.160yeah i mean this is that fog of war i was talking about earlier but um to clarify one thing you said
00:09:07.700zen regarding the internet blackout there is a difference and i think there's a misunderstanding
00:09:11.700um and of course i did as if he has any updates too on this or any explanation to add on
00:09:16.780the internet blackout is more for civilian use coming out of uran internally they have internet
00:11:02.700For the past few days, the administration has been, especially President Trump, Secretary Hexer, they've been saying, you know, let's bomb Iran to the Stone Age.
00:11:13.400They started attacking infrastructure like a bridge or the Pasteur Institute,
00:11:19.960which is like a pharmaceutics institute in Iran.
00:11:23.900And now we see Iran still has air defense systems.
00:11:28.600Earlier I read some report that they believe still Iran has half of its launchers,
00:11:35.740which begs the question about how Pentagon is going about its target bank.
00:15:25.720yes yes sorry i'm driving um i'll be back in like 10 minutes
00:15:34.800no problem just let us know when you're back i i mean uh we saw i mean even the report of
00:15:46.180axios is basically it doesn't really i'm seems that pentagon and white house they haven't
00:15:51.040responded so far. But also the fact that the CENTCOM, they haven't released any message or
00:15:55.720any U.S. official have not denied the report. That could also be an indication. It could be an
00:16:00.860indication that something is shut down because otherwise they could easily say it's not true.
00:16:06.800Although in general, like CENTCOM, they take always a lot of time to respond to such claims.
00:16:11.040I mean, they will not respond like in a few minutes. I mean, most of the time they take time.
00:16:15.000So we still have to see what the U.S. will say about this incident.
00:16:20.900And also you see now also that the Iranian embassy in Thailand is mocking the downed fighter pilots with a sort of a Lego AI picture.
00:16:31.800And like Iranian media, they keep on reporting more about it.
00:16:36.100And also what's interesting that the Iranian state is denying reports that U.S. boots are already being sent on the ground on the Khark Island.
00:16:43.740i am always pronouncing it i think incorrectly azzy although i have a dutch
00:16:48.160in my language or maybe i pronounce it well no it's fine i think the hormos part is the one that
00:16:54.420gets all of us though because everyone says hormuz but it's hormos like a oh sound yeah
00:17:01.180yeah and at the same time apart from this there's also like a lot of reports about new strikes in
00:17:06.400Tehran. And also Iran, they just launched new ballistic missiles towards Israel.
00:17:12.880At the same time, also, there was also reports that the U.S. Marines are rehearsing
00:17:18.720ambitious assault on Diego Garcia, a drill which was published on Fox News. And also,
00:17:25.840there's a former Iranian foreign minister. He's floating a deal between the U.S. and Iran. But
00:17:32.080there was also a pro-Iranian government journalist saying that Javad Sarif, he doesn't have any
00:17:36.240new influence on Iranian decision-making and that the former Iranian foreign minister is not in the
00:17:42.020loop basically on decision-making policy. So I go back to you, Azzy.
00:17:48.660Thanks. And I'm also trying to look up some news. I know there were several strikes overnight
00:17:54.020while we're waiting to get any updates on this particular F-15. In terms of, you know,
00:18:01.380strikes overnight. We saw continued targeting of infrastructure, a major bridge, the B1 near
00:18:08.760Karaj and Tehran area were struck, causing partial collapse, killing at least eight,
00:18:13.400injuring over 100. Trump publicly celebrated the strike with a video and vowed much more to follow.
00:18:20.200So, you know, this is kind of on par with what he said in his speech to the nation the other night,
00:18:25.040you know, that he wants to get the electrical grids potentially, potential power plants and
00:18:31.500other civilian adjacent sites. So we saw some explosions also reported. Bahrastan and the
00:18:36.720Asfahan region were continuing to see strikes against steel plants. This one was really big.
00:18:44.600There was a pharmaceutical research center. And for those that are not aware, the Pasteur Institute
00:20:37.920Today is Friday. Of course, it's going to be the end of the day in a lot of areas of the markets.
00:20:42.740Where do you see them ending today? What do you see the potential impact of this?
00:20:49.540Well, look, I don't think the world can handle $147 crude oil for three, four, five, six months.
00:20:55.600You're seeing airlines across the board cancel flights.
00:21:00.520You're going to have some bankruptcies of airlines just getting some funding in.
00:21:05.900you have france uh you have uh about 80 of the gasoline in france is shut down uh
00:21:13.000look this is uh i think you're gonna see cal i'm gonna just say this i think you're gonna
00:21:20.740see california gas prices near near ten dollars here in three months all right so guys um yeah
00:21:27.520it's official bro they shot down uh an f-15 for those of you that don't know those of you guys
00:21:32.600is joining the broadcast right now um let me make sure i'm muted here okay good um
00:21:38.380this is the f15 right here okay it's uh the f15 strike eagle is an american all-weather
00:21:44.260multi-role strike fighter derived from the mcconnor or mcdonald douglas f15 eagle intended
00:21:49.080for the dual role fighter program initially called enhanced tactical fighter so this it's
00:21:54.880very important that this is doesn't have like the same stealth elements as like an f35 this is more
00:21:59.900of like one of the workhorses so stentcom is lying right they denied that this thing got shut
00:22:07.780down but it's 100 real and they're gonna have to come out and admit it uh that that this was shot
00:22:12.360down um so basically this is what was shot down it looks like we got two crew members um
00:22:23.160and the iranian media is already saying that there's a reward for capturing them so
00:22:31.820uh the purpose is not to shut some other thing you don't do these actions i keep asking hey
00:22:42.920what else is happening that this is disguising right because also it's important for you guys
00:22:49.400realize that like you don't have aircraft flying that low it's very dangerous to do that so they
00:22:56.000would only take a risk like that if they're trying to find um these two guys because we know if
00:23:07.680they're captured um before the u.s can rescue them that's going to be a fucking problem bro
00:23:13.200okay just so you guys know the last time uh an american was captured by iranians it created
00:23:22.620a fucking diplomatic crisis what's going on here you got farm people shooting at fucking
00:23:33.760run wow but insurance you could build the case every industry is now uninsurable
00:23:44.500i mean these insurance companies are making payouts if they're making the payouts
00:23:49.320uh we're having deaths all over the place from covid that like we we continue not to talk about
00:23:55.980like that hasn't stopped yet so your demand is being deaded right people are dying so
00:24:03.240And by the way, we are at this point in our demographics in America where the older people who have most of the money, they have stopped spending, man.
00:27:06.260Okay. Well, let's see. I see he's coming back. One second. While we get him back,
00:27:16.060you know, Robert, I want to get your thoughts on some of this too. I know you're in these spaces
00:27:19.880in the mornings frequently. And based on what I was just talking through with Gary,
00:27:25.940when we talk about market psychology versus physical supply, you know, the market seemed
00:27:31.360to spike on headlines, but they don't tend to fully come back down. Does that suggest traders
00:27:35.920no longer believe in near-term resolutions.
00:27:38.760Are we seeing perhaps the beginning of demand destruction in real time?
00:27:43.160Or do you think that that's still ahead of us that remains to be seen?
00:27:46.860Where are we exactly right now with this?
00:27:50.700Yeah, I mean, I kind of follow Gary's flow there.
00:27:54.840I mean, a lot of things have already occurred that are going to really affect things.
00:27:59.640I mean, the LNG field that got hit in Qatar, they supplied 33% of the Earth's helium.
00:28:05.920which is required to make chips and electronics.
00:28:11.020Japan got 65% of their helium from those guitar fields.
00:28:15.340These things are not easily replaceable.
00:28:17.680I saw one company said that they were canceling production of SIM chips,
00:28:25.080and that's the direct effect already seen from the supply constraint on the helium.
00:28:33.960So that's just one piece there. So as we continue to go tit for tat with them and they are hitting strategic things around the Middle East, energy areas, it's going to constrain, you know, it's going to put a big constraint on everything, really.
00:28:58.100Things are going to get triaged as to who gets access to what, you know?
00:29:04.580Especially when you're looking at a time where, you know,
00:29:06.900they're talking about building all these data centers and stuff like that.
00:29:10.320I mean, that can't happen if you've got a helium shortage.
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00:33:24.280But he did say that the U.S. and Trump, they were all surprised that they were able to hold their own so far.
00:33:31.220And they were surprised with some of their capabilities.
00:33:33.280they miscalculated, you know, the amount of munitions and military weaponry and assets that
00:33:42.220they had. So I thought that was really interesting to hear that from the president that night. And
00:33:47.200I don't know if you had a follow up thought on that, or if anybody else has a thought on what
00:33:50.420I just said. Sure. Well, okay, first, I'll say that this war serves zero US strategic benefit,
00:33:59.300If we're going to be very blunt and honest here, I don't think it serves any real benefit for what we're putting in between the cost of conducting the war, the war, you know, getting our bases blown up in the region, getting our radars destroyed.
00:34:11.280The enormous amount of money that we've had to spend on interceptor missiles and protecting not just our base, but also protecting Israel.
00:34:18.300It's cost us quite a bit of money. And to be honest with you, I don't really see any strategic benefit.
00:34:21.980Now, what Trump did was he tried to make this a nuclear problem so that he can go ahead and garner support from the U.S. base and say, look, this is why we need to attack them, because their nuclear capabilities.
00:34:32.500Well, I thought we took out their nuclear capabilities during Operation Man and Hammer.
00:34:39.460So what he's had to do is he's kind of had to change the story multiple times.
00:34:42.500another thing that they grossly underestimated was they were hoping that by killing the ayatollah
00:34:47.520and 50 of his top guys that the people would rise up and attack the government and do a regime
00:34:52.700change in that manner the goal was regime change they just didn't um anticipate that the people
00:34:58.080would not follow along with their narrative they tried to crash the riel earlier in the year with
00:35:01.700the uprisings they put massad assets cia assets to try to go ahead and stimulate more um ruckus
00:35:06.620in the streets with the um with the protesting um they obviously over exaggerated the amount of
00:35:11.240people killed saying it's 40,000 i also don't believe the iranian government that was 3,000
00:35:14.720either but it definitely wasn't 40,000 that's ridiculous um and they tried to smuggle star
00:35:19.920links and all of this has been documented been proven now at this point the israelis have already
00:35:23.220taken credit uh mike pompeo was talking about masada agents walking alongside protesters so
00:35:27.860the original strategy was let's kill the leadership and let's hope that people rise up it backfired
00:35:33.400the people rallied around the flag and supported the government even more so even people that were
00:35:38.060pissed off at the government that had their grievances for the sanctions and everything else
00:35:41.520rallied around the government because at the end of the day they hate the united states and israel
00:35:45.560far more than they hate their government so it completely backfired that's not true myron i mean
00:35:51.140there's also there's no internet in iran so we really don't know if there's a rally to the flag
00:35:55.920effect or not because there's nothing coming outside of iran so okay i've seen so we don't
00:36:00.100know hold on i'll tell you this i've seen this i've seen people people on the streets and they
00:36:05.340get bombed instead of running in circles you know what they do they fucking scream a lot over so i
00:36:09.780don't know about you but if that's like iranian state media videos that are coming out i mean
00:36:14.780that's like propaganda by iran look look the point i'm trying to make to you is this okay even the
00:36:19.460people that don't like the government okay i'm not doubting that there's people that have issues
00:36:23.820with the government however if a foreign nation bombs you and attacks you and tries to destroy
00:36:28.760your country and they've been doing so since 1953 the people are more than likely going to rally
00:36:33.280around the flag so our goal of getting a regime change via the people clearly did not work because
00:36:38.700if it did we would have had a regime change and we didn't which is why we have to readjust our
00:36:42.100strategy and we're figuring things out as we go so i'll add this latimir i i think you're both
00:36:48.720there's there's truth to what you're both saying okay so um pragmatically objectively bro these
00:36:54.460motherfuckers can't touch me bro they need to shut the fuck up these niggas don't understand
00:36:58.440There is a rally around the flag. We are seeing video footage now, whether it's, you know, engineered or promoted in a way to engineer the sentiment and what we see as a public in the West or a reality, which I think it kind of is somewhere a little bit of both.
00:37:19.020there are people that are kind of changing their tune when it comes to the war.
00:37:25.360I know many people personally that are opposed to the regime, want to see regime change,
00:37:33.300have been very, very public about, you know, even, and for those that are not aware when
00:37:38.460Iranians use the word mullah, that's in a direct, direct criticism and a direct attack on the
00:37:43.820regime when they circulate terms like mullahs. So there are a lot of people that say, oh,
00:37:48.400the Mullah regime, I'm done. I want them out. I'm, you know, a revolutionary. I want them gone.
00:37:54.200Now switching their tune a little bit during the war saying, you know what, it's wartime. They just
00:37:58.160hit Pasteur Institute. They just hit this. Right now, our focus is on the war and then we'll deal
00:38:03.260with the government that we want to get rid of later. So there is a little bit of that that
00:38:06.640we're seeing. So even in those videos that circulate and those imageries of people getting
00:38:11.600in the streets and rallying around it, there are some people in there that are still vehemently
00:38:16.300opposed to the regime, but right now see it as some foreign issue that is impacting their country
00:38:23.320and their right to do what they want with their agency to get rid of the regime. But hold on,
00:38:27.640Myra, but I want to say also that Vladimir isn't necessarily wrong in the fact that
00:38:31.320they are also using that to garner more support around the rally of the flag, but
00:38:37.000they're a sweet spot in there, okay? And so that still remains to be seen what comes after this,
00:38:43.540but I tend to, you know, I look at anecdotal evidence and I look at what we saw last year
00:38:49.100with the 12 days with the rally around the flag. A lot of the sentiment changed.
00:38:53.440The violent protests that occurred in January really impacted the way that people see this
00:38:58.880and what their expectations were with the war. And I personally saw a shift in the sentiment of
00:39:04.620people that were aligned with the war, thought this war is good. This was going to achieve the
00:39:08.640outcomes that they want as Iranians. But then when Trump's speech happened the other night,
00:39:12.580I saw an immediate shift in many people since Trump's speech that kind of have walked that back and said, OK, maybe this is not what we signed up for.
00:39:21.440This is not he explicitly said this is not regime change.
00:48:26.060Here, let's go. We'll go on anonymously, Chad. Let's see who's yapping now.
00:48:29.920Being killed, you naturally are going to go against that country, even if you don't support the regime.
00:48:37.240And that's just, you know, historically how wars have been fought and worked in not just this region, but the course of history.
00:48:45.560Oh, look, I come in and the person is saying I'm correct. This bitch is stupid.
00:48:49.300I'm not going to jump to definitive conclusions one way or the other, but I do think it's important to kind of highlight that, you know, a lot of people here in the U.S. feel like this is an unnecessary war.
00:49:02.680We went to war on behalf of Netanyahu and Israel, and we are seeing the consequences of this war in real time.
00:49:10.360Now, that being said, you know, we do have, unfortunately, or fortunately, if you take the other side of the angle, right, the neocon, war hawk, war heavy kind of faction in power in the US at the moment. And, and of course, they are very much in favor of this. And of course, the midterms are coming up as well, Ozzie, which pretty much every Republican that I've talked to has given up.
00:49:35.380So, yeah, it's going to be a very kind of interesting kind of show of events in the next few days and weeks.
01:40:52.000um let's get back to this so now you guys should um know what's going on during this
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01:48:47.020I've suffered from depression for most of my life.
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01:49:36.700so i don't care what anyone tells me i don't care what anyone believes about me
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01:56:05.740If this is confirmed, how unusual, first of all, is the downing of a U.S. fighter jet in combat?
01:56:13.660Well, given the pace of combat and the duration, it's to be expected.
01:56:18.280It's something that, you know, you plan for. But, of course, it's traumatic. And given the fact that there's, you know, Iran is—the Iranian republic was born in a hostage-taking incident, you know, it has a potential to revive rather unpleasant memories for Americans in specific.
01:56:38.860but you know the f-15 is a 40 year old platform uh they've been flying uh 500 800 missions uh for
01:56:47.920about a month now so it would be uh surprising if we had not lost uh one yeah i'm not going to be
01:56:53.440on youtube much longer guys so get ready to switch over to kick in a little bit here i have
01:56:57.160confirmation i think on the sort of aircraft is it what's the significant significance rather if
01:57:03.460it's an F-15? Would that mean more than one crew member? So what I've seen, and this could be
01:57:12.220staged or it could be debris from other accidents or training flights or even the three F-15s that
01:57:20.680were shot down by the Kuwaitis. But what I've seen is the indications that it is an F-15E,
01:57:27.460which is a two-person model from the 494th Fighter Squadron, which is based at RAF Lake
01:57:35.220and Heath in England, but is operated extensively in the Middle East. So that's a modified version
01:57:42.180of the standard F-15 only has one crew member. I've also seen a photograph, and I don't know
01:57:48.360how authentic it is, but it shows an ejection seat without somebody in it. So that would indicate
01:57:53.400that there's at least one of the crew members has safely ejected and is evading capture.
01:57:59.760I've also seen social media from Iran that shows the kind of assets that would be normally
01:58:05.860associated with a downed crewman rescue inaction. So I think right now, I think it's more likely
01:58:13.640than not that it was an F-15E, that it was brought down. It looks as though it was brought down
01:58:20.800use due to enemy action, which was probably a portable air defense system, which, you know,
01:58:26.700even though the overall air defense network is gone, they can still function. And it looks like
01:58:30.960there's at least one crew member and hopefully two that are still low. I was going to ask you
01:58:35.020precisely about that, David, the fact that, you know, over a month now into this conflict,
01:58:40.140I mean, we've heard the U.S. say that they have air superiority. They claim air superiority in
01:58:45.180Iran. The fact that the Iranians are able to carry out. I'm going to explain the latter for
01:58:49.820you guys here in a second. Touching that, what does that signal about their capabilities a month
01:58:54.660into this conflict? Well, it signals that a lot of people don't know what air superiority means.
01:59:00.480So, you know, the United States has air superiority over the continental United States. But if
01:59:05.440somebody has a man-powered, man-portable air defense weapon and they get on the flight path
01:59:09.760from Los Angeles International Airport, they can bring down a jet. So when you talk about air
01:59:15.180superiority, what you mean is the ability to mass forces and conduct basically unopposed air
01:59:22.780operations in those areas that you've massed forces. But the country on the ground still has
01:59:27.700the ability to move small units, particularly manned portable units in areas where they
01:59:34.280can put low-flying aircraft particularly at risk. So air superiority is a sort of general term,
01:59:41.420but it doesn't indicate that you have, you know, total freedom for carte blanche over the area
01:59:46.740there. An enemy can always amass small assets in areas that are vulnerable for low-flying aircraft
01:59:55.580and achieve an effect like this. And it's also quite possible this could be a mechanical failure,
02:00:00.680but I think that that's increasingly unlikely. Not a mechanical failure, bro.
02:00:04.700As you say, we don't know what's happened, whether it's a mechanical failure or whether
02:00:08.460it was indeed shot down by the Iranians,
02:00:10.400there is going to be, no doubt, a propaganda