The 12 Day War is Over. Michael Reacts.
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Summary
Trump announces a Ceasefire between Israel and Iran and calls for a ceasefire. Iran responds with a missile attack on U.S. bases in the Middle East and the panic begins to set in. President Trump announces a ceasefire between the United States and Iran.
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President Trump has just announced a full ceasefire, not only between the United States
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and Iran, but between Israel and Iran, which is the real heart of that war.
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It's over. The panicans are totally defeated. Some of us, I'm not going to say who,
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some of us are totally vindicated here. Everyone was losing their mind. This is World War III.
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Trump isn't allowed to hit the Iranian nuclear sites. He's going to get us dragged into a long
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regime change war. Actually, that didn't happen. What just broke earlier today, and we'll talk
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about this more in the show tomorrow, but what just broke earlier today is that Iran retaliated
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against the United States by striking bases primarily in Qatar, but also in Iraq and maybe
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in Kuwait. It lobbed some missiles. When I saw this, all the panicans on Twitter were saying,
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this is it. We're in a full war. This is George Bush 2.0. Here is World War III.
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I said, hold on, hold on. I said, first of all, we need to see where the missiles land.
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God forbid if they injure an American serviceman, now we're in a different situation. Then it's
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an escalation. I said, right now what it's looking like is nothing. Right now what it's looking
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like is Iran is trying to save face. The U.S. just came in, completely obliterated their chief
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strategic objective, their nuclear program, and they need to save some face, so they're going
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to put on a fireworks show. I didn't say this publicly. Publicly, I said all of that,
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but the thing I said privately was, I wouldn't be surprised if they called the U.S. to get
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permission beforehand. Then what happens? We find out, according to reporting, Iran called Qatar
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and back-channeled to the United States to tell them, hey, we're going to hit your bases,
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so let's minimize casualties. They lobbed some missiles. They basically put on a glorified firework
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show. And then that's it. Trump announces, I'll just read it for you right here. I got
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the truth social right here. Congratulations to everyone. It has been fully agreed by and
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between Israel and Iran that there will be a complete and total ceasefire in approximately
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six hours from now when Israel and Iran have wound down and completed their in-progress final
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missions for 12 hours, at which point the war will be considered ended. Officially, Iran will start
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the ceasefire, and upon the 12th hour, Israel will start the ceasefire, and upon the 24th hour,
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an official end to the 12-day war will be saluted by the world. Notice the branding here. He already
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brands it, because we have the 6-day war. He's going to call it the 12-day war, and Trump's the
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one who ended it. That's how he's viewing this. I'm quite confident. I hate to speak for the
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president, but that's what I'm seeing here. During each ceasefire, the other side will remain peaceful
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and respectful on the assumption that everything works as it should, which it will. I would like to
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congratulate both countries, Israel and Iran, on having the stamina, courage, and intelligence to end what
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should be called the 12-day war. He's hitting it again. He's branding right again. The 12-day war
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brought to you by Trump. Actually, the end of it brought to you by Trump. This is a war that could
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have gone on for years and destroyed the entire Middle East, but it didn't and never will. God bless
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Israel. God bless Iran. God bless the Middle East. God bless the United States of America. God bless
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the world. Donald J. Trump, president of the United States of America. We'll get into the president's
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takes on some of those missiles earlier as this was unfolding. Delightful posts. But this is really
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what it's about, because the fear for a lot of people was not that we take out the Iranian nuclear
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program. The vast majority of Americans and the vast majority of Trump's base wanted that. The fear
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was we don't want to get bogged down in a protracted war. So once Iran had the weak retaliation today,
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my only concern was, okay, I'm not concerned about the Iranians so much. They have sleeper cells of
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terrorists. I mean, we have to be on guard for that. But the official response seems to have been
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kind of weak. My fear was that Israel would not be happy with merely taking out the nuclear sites,
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but would want to go further for regime change and take out the Ayatollah. So I thought, actually,
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now what Trump has to do, he's dealt with the Iranians. Now he's got to rein in our Israeli
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friends to make sure they don't keep going further and bog us down even more. The fact that Trump can
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then announce a ceasefire means, as I predicted earlier, you can check the timestamps on X, that this
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whole episode may have come to an end. This brief episode of the show that I have to keep showing
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up for because events keep happening around the world. This has come to an end, but we will have