Valuetainment - March 04, 2026


ā€œHardest Hits Have Yet To Comeā€ - Rubio WARNS Iran As Missile Stockpile Raises Concerns


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274

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00:00:12.840 Marco Rubio and the comments some of the media members are asking,
00:00:16.500 the two clips, Rob, the one that shows him saying,
00:00:21.680 do you know which one I'm talking about?
00:00:23.920 Hey, is this because of Netanyahu?
00:00:26.140 Is this because of Israel?
00:00:27.260 And then, you know, they're both on the same.
00:00:31.160 What I'm trying to say is, like, they're on the same page, Rob.
00:00:34.080 Okay, so if this is one of them, let me see if this is one of them.
00:00:39.360 No, Rob, this is not one of them.
00:00:40.700 Their plays refuse.
00:00:41.380 So, listen, you can play this clip.
00:00:42.680 You can play this clip because Rubio right now is on fire.
00:00:45.680 I'm going to explain to you guys this in simple English, okay?
00:00:48.520 Iran is run by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics.
00:00:51.860 They have an ambition to have nuclear weapons.
00:00:54.140 They intend to develop those nuclear weapons behind a program of missiles and drones and
00:00:59.180 terrorism that the world will not be able to touch them for fear of those things.
00:01:02.700 And this is the weakest they've ever been.
00:01:04.600 Now is the time to go after them.
00:01:05.960 The president made the decision to go after them, take away their missiles, take away
00:01:09.440 their Navy, take away their drones, take away their ability to make those things so
00:01:13.520 that they can never have a nuclear weapon.
00:01:15.600 That's why the president made this decision.
00:01:17.220 It was the right decision.
00:01:18.420 And the world will be a safer place when these radical clerics no longer have access to these
00:01:22.900 weapons.
00:01:23.440 You see how they're using them now.
00:01:24.900 Imagine how they would use them a year from now if they had more of these.
00:01:27.220 So, Rubio is front and center right now.
00:01:29.560 And by the way, yesterday, two days ago when he did the 12-minute message that everybody
00:01:33.180 was talking about, at the end of it, he says, if you think this was bad, wait till you see.
00:01:39.220 Go to the last 30 seconds of that.
00:01:40.820 The one you just had, Rob.
00:01:41.620 I actually have that.
00:01:42.420 I pulled that separately.
00:01:43.060 Okay.
00:01:43.600 Wait till you see.
00:01:44.580 The hardest part is coming.
00:01:46.260 Is this it?
00:01:46.840 Yes, sir.
00:01:47.140 Go ahead, Rob.
00:01:49.900 No, not at this time.
00:01:50.980 I mean, look, we always have people that reach out from inside of governments.
00:01:54.000 You don't know if they're authorized to reach out or not.
00:01:56.120 They're suffering a tremendous amount of damage.
00:01:58.300 Honestly, again, I'm not going to give away the details of our tactical efforts, but the
00:02:02.460 hardest hits are yet to come from the U.S. military.
00:02:05.860 The next phase will be even more punishing on Iran than it is right now.
00:02:09.200 Someone was screaming, how long will it take?
00:02:10.640 I don't know how long it'll take.
00:02:11.680 We have objectives.
00:02:12.740 We will do this as long as it takes to achieve those objectives.
00:02:15.420 And we will achieve those objectives.
00:02:16.740 The world will be a safer place when we're done with this operation.
00:02:22.440 Yeah, that's crazy when you're hearing that.
00:02:25.240 But how are you thinking, Mark?
00:02:27.760 I'm going to show that clip on what you just showed, Rob.
00:02:29.780 Mark just showed me something about Iranians' missile stockpile versus U.S. interceptor
00:02:35.080 capacity.
00:02:35.680 If you can post that, I think Rubio posted that.
00:02:37.980 Mark, where are you at with what Rubio is doing right now?
00:02:40.640 Yeah, I mean, what Rubio is talking about is just a preemptive move to take somebody out
00:02:45.300 when they're weak.
00:02:46.060 And what he's talking about is religious fanatics.
00:02:48.640 And so, you know, Trump wants to make a deal.
00:02:50.560 Most of the Middle East wants to make a deal.
00:02:53.200 The UAE wants to make a deal.
00:02:54.640 Dubai, obviously, Saudi Arabia.
00:02:56.200 But then we have in Iran these religious fanatics who don't want to make a deal, and they're
00:02:59.340 irrational actors.
00:03:00.740 The problem that he's talking about is they're the weakest that they've ever been because
00:03:04.300 of some of the pre-strikes that we saw from Israel already.
00:03:07.860 But even bigger than that, you know, talks of the enriched uranium, 60% already getting
00:03:13.040 close to the 90%, way above the 20% threshold they would ever need.
00:03:15.920 But the chart I was just showing you, Patrick, is their ability or their production of ballistic
00:03:20.660 missiles.
00:03:21.260 And it's going up in a parabolic, like hockey stick type move.
00:03:25.260 And our ability to intercept those missiles is not going up at that same rate.
00:03:29.660 And so the problem is right now we're like sort of matched, but they're in the hockey stick
00:03:34.400 growth if we can pull that chart up.
00:03:36.040 Iran is.
00:03:36.540 Yes, Iran is.
00:03:37.680 And the problem is, like, if we don't go now, then every day-
00:03:40.440 Can you text that to me?
00:03:41.020 I'll send it to Rob.
00:03:41.580 Yeah, every day we wait, every day we wait, we get further and further behind.
00:03:48.180 So it's like, if we see this as a significant threat down in the future, you know, would
00:03:52.680 we rather get them today or try to have a much bigger war in the future?
00:03:55.940 Well, they keep referencing missiles.
00:03:57.220 I mean, everybody wants to focus on nuclear weapons, but what I hear constantly is missiles,
00:04:01.060 ballistic missiles, ballistic missiles, ballistic missiles.
00:04:03.200 So that's exactly what the administration is thinking.
00:04:05.580 It's not necessarily about nuclear weapons.
00:04:08.620 And the other part about the weakness, too, is the Iranian government is probably the
00:04:12.320 weakest it's ever been, too, given the uprising.
00:04:14.160 But are you saying that the longer it goes, it's worse for U.S.?
00:04:17.940 Mark, is that what you're saying?
00:04:19.720 Well, yeah, definitely.
00:04:20.360 Because, like, what this chart is showing, I just sent it to you right here, is that their
00:04:23.180 Iranian missile stockpile capacity is going up in a hockey stick.
00:04:26.920 But our ability to intercept these.
00:04:28.160 So we talk about this asymmetric warfare where they have the cheap drones, $20,000 drone.
00:04:32.720 We have to send a $4 million missile at it.
00:04:34.700 And so the problem, there we go.
00:04:35.780 There's the chart right there.
00:04:36.900 You can see here we are 2025, 2026.
00:04:39.580 But look if we wait till 2027 or 2028.
00:04:42.180 We're way off sides on this.
00:04:44.820 And so right now we are somewhat evenly matched, maybe a little bit behind based off of this
00:04:49.300 chart right here.
00:04:49.980 But you could see every year we wait, it just gets harder and harder and harder.
00:04:53.280 That's not even counting the enriched uranium that they have.
00:04:56.240 And so if they do get that uranium from 60% to 90% or whatever that level has to be, I
00:05:00.700 mean, then we're really behind.
00:05:02.340 Tom?
00:05:02.980 Yeah, you have to look at that.
00:05:04.420 You're exactly right, Mark.
00:05:05.780 And so this was the time to do it.
00:05:07.260 And here's why.
00:05:08.200 As this stockpile of increasingly lethal, increasingly accurate missiles for Iran grows up, now you
00:05:16.200 cannot checkmate them in a ground situation.
00:05:19.620 And they neutralize your ability to sanction them, and they neutralize your ability to
00:05:24.760 stop them.
00:05:25.800 While in the background, they're wrenching the uranium, and then they become a nuclear
00:05:29.460 power.
00:05:30.340 And when that, so the missiles here creates a checkmate.
00:05:34.040 And then they're able to become a nuclear power in the background.
00:05:37.400 You can't let it happen.
00:05:38.620 And what Rubio said is we're going after their missiles and their ability to manufacture
00:05:43.940 them.
00:05:44.580 So that's why you have all these secondary and tertiary sites that people say, wait, there's
00:05:48.220 no base there.
00:05:48.760 There's no base here.
00:05:49.880 That's armchair quarterbacking by Reuters and BBC, because they don't understand that
00:05:54.180 what's being hit is manufacturing facilities, Pat.
00:05:57.220 They're hitting surface-to-air missile locations, radar locations, actually in order, radar, surface
00:06:03.120 to air, airstrips, aircraft, then military bases.
00:06:08.200 And finally, now you get into the manufacturing.
00:06:10.700 And then you also, you know, you hit the boat over there by Sri Lanka to remove the Navy.
00:06:17.300 But this is the problem.
00:06:18.900 If those missile stockpiles have been allowed to increase, they hold the cards and it's
00:06:23.320 harder to get them to stop.
00:06:25.080 I want to show this.
00:06:26.160 I want to show this and get your reaction, Jeff.
00:06:28.780 So shout out to Breaking Points.
00:06:30.760 They did a great interview with Professor Jung.
00:06:33.840 Those guys do a great job.
00:06:35.560 Crystal and Sagar, they're one of the bigger podcasts out there in the world.
00:06:38.860 They interviewed Professor Jung.
00:06:40.940 This is a prediction he made in 2024 that everybody's talking about right now.
00:06:45.940 This interview got a few million views.
00:06:48.260 And everyone's saying, why would he make a prediction like this?
00:06:51.280 Go ahead, Rob.
00:06:53.560 So in this class, this semester, I'm making three big predictions, right?
00:06:59.260 First is that Trump will win in November.
00:07:03.620 Second is that-
00:07:04.960 This is 2024.
00:07:06.820 The United States will go to war against Iran.
00:07:10.280 And the third big prediction is that the United States will lose this war, which will forever
00:07:17.440 change the global order.
00:07:20.080 So what do you think about what he's saying?
00:07:22.700 For him to say, why would somebody in 2024 make a prediction?
00:07:25.900 Does it go back to the stockpile?
00:07:27.320 Is he talking about-
00:07:28.800 Because his argument, I believe, what he's saying is, they're going to use the small little
00:07:33.020 drones to destroy multi-multi-million dollar properties versus their drones cost them $1,000
00:07:38.440 to make.
00:07:39.340 Tom, are you concerned as much as what he's saying here, the professor?
00:07:43.000 Well, I think many people made those three predictions.
00:07:46.920 And I think what you're seeing here is a multi-point effort against Iran.
00:07:54.200 Also, in the midst of this, so U.S. will lose the war in Iran, who's moving an aircraft carrier
00:07:59.860 to the coast this morning?
00:08:02.700 France.
00:08:03.540 France, yeah.
00:08:03.760 Why?
00:08:04.440 I saw that.
00:08:05.260 Because if our bases are hit and our assets are hit, regardless of who started it, we've
00:08:10.920 never invoked the NATO article.
00:08:13.760 We've never gone to the podium and saying, we hereby call you to support and respond according
00:08:20.160 to the NATO article.
00:08:21.300 And the article is, one attacked, all attacked.
00:08:25.080 And so Europe is very, the NATO players in Europe are very, very nervous right now.
00:08:30.860 That even though, well, sort of you and Israel started it, but they're attacking you.
00:08:36.720 Gosh, don't pull us into this.
00:08:38.660 So Macron, no friend to Trump's right now.
00:08:41.380 No.
00:08:41.520 An ally economically, but certainly not a buddy of Trump's, orders France's nuclear-powered
00:08:49.000 aircraft carrier to move to the Mediterranean.
00:08:52.100 And so you're seeing the rest of the world here, and I think this is well orchestrated.
00:08:56.480 I don't think 0.3 is going to come true at all, because I think everybody knew the risk
00:09:01.300 of 0.3 coming true, and that's what you're seeing here.
00:09:04.240 I would say that those three predictions were not that hard to make.
00:09:07.540 And the reason why I say that, number one, I mean, after we had President Biden here and
00:09:11.380 we saw who was running against Trump, Kamala, I mean, Trump seemed to be a pretty easy pick.
00:09:15.980 I think the deep state was maybe throwing a little bit into the mix, but I mean, Trump
00:09:19.660 winning was obvious, number one.
00:09:20.960 Number two, would he attack Iran?
00:09:22.760 Well, I mean, Hillary Clinton, you saw that news or that video clip surface in 2008.
00:09:27.180 She said, if I'm elected, I'll attack Iran.
00:09:29.140 And we understand in his first term, he put heavy pressure in Iran.
00:09:32.420 So Obama had given him pallets of money and had eased the negotiations on nuclear weapons.
00:09:37.880 Trump went full court press on them.
00:09:39.360 Of course, then when Biden came in, he pulled all that back again.
00:09:42.040 So you would realize that if Trump came back in, the first thing he's going to do is go
00:09:45.120 back after them again.
00:09:46.020 So I think prediction number two.
00:09:47.580 As far as prediction number three, what I would say is because during the Ukraine-Russia
00:09:51.980 war, many commentators that I follow were talking constantly about the U.S. is losing
00:09:57.100 that war against Russia.
00:09:58.740 We couldn't produce the munitions for Ukraine to fight back against Russia.
00:10:02.080 And so the world just saw the U.S. lose.
00:10:05.380 A lot of people said that.
00:10:06.340 So I would say those three predictions, as you said, a lot of people made those predictions.
00:10:09.760 They weren't that hard to make at that time.
00:10:11.400 But what does losing to Iran even mean?
00:10:14.480 And so I think what happens, again, Trump wants to make a deal.
00:10:17.040 This is going to be negotiated out.
00:10:18.520 Some deal looks like this morning Iran's already floating the deal out there, which is
00:10:21.800 why markets are up this morning.
00:10:22.900 We haven't talked about that.
00:10:24.180 But I think there's going to be a deal made.
00:10:26.000 Both sides are going to say they won.
00:10:27.400 And so his prediction is going to come true.
00:10:30.020 Oh, Iran won.
00:10:31.020 Yeah.
00:10:31.280 From what lens?
00:10:33.040 Got it.
00:10:33.440 That's really the important point, isn't it?
00:10:34.920 What are we actually talking about here?
00:10:36.620 What is it the U.S. is actually trying to accomplish?
00:10:38.840 Right.
00:10:39.220 You know, how can we lose a war if we don't really know what we're trying to do?
00:10:41.600 What do you think they're trying to accomplish?
00:10:43.000 What they're trying to accomplish here is, as I keep saying, this is Cold War II.
00:10:46.520 This is bigger than just Iran.
00:10:48.040 Yeah.
00:10:48.300 Not that Iran is not a big thing, but this is bigger than just Iran.
00:10:51.280 That's the point right there.
00:10:52.180 You know, we've talked about this before, Pat.
00:10:53.920 Panama, Venezuela, Iran, Cuba is next, Greenland.
00:10:58.860 The Trump administration is executing a strategy.
00:11:01.980 They're doing it exactly one by one.
00:11:04.260 And it has to do with China encountering China.
00:11:06.480 And by the way, where are the Chinese?
00:11:09.340 Where are they in all this?
00:11:10.660 Yeah.
00:11:10.940 I think the Chinese are stunned.
00:11:13.040 They are absolutely stunned by the fact that the Trump administration had the cojones to do all these things.
00:11:17.260 And they don't know how to effectively encounter it.
00:11:19.020 Because what is Trump really doing?
00:11:20.660 He's going to all these Chinese allies and saying, I'll take you out.
00:11:24.600 Beijing ain't going to help you.
00:11:25.860 You're on your own here.
00:11:26.800 Yeah.
00:11:27.340 And you brought up the point about NATO and bringing NATO into this.
00:11:31.140 But Iran has a deal with Russia.
00:11:33.480 And Russia is supposed to be defending Iran.
00:11:36.000 So did Venezuela, right?
00:11:37.040 But they're standing down.
00:11:37.920 Comrade, I'm busy at the moment.
00:11:39.280 Yeah.
00:11:39.540 They're standing down.
00:11:40.780 And so we're seeing that their potential allies are standing down.
00:11:45.140 NATO allies will stand up.
00:11:46.380 And so, yeah, I think Jeff has the bigger picture, right?
00:11:49.280 I think a lot of people just say Israel, Israel, Israel, but they don't understand the bigger picture.
00:11:52.800 Lock down the Western Hemisphere.
00:11:54.340 If you look at the sequence of orders, first close the borders, then get the dangerous criminals out of the U.S., secure the homeland, number one.
00:12:03.020 Then go after Venezuela, which was a big piece, not just for oil, of course, but obviously with Trent de Agua and all of that that we have potentially there.
00:12:10.700 Then you move over to Iran.
00:12:12.040 It's very sequential.
00:12:13.260 If you look back, right, we're really in a ā€“ also we're in a technology race with China, right?
00:12:19.340 So they keep threatening the rare earth elements.
00:12:22.280 And so this is like the bargaining chip.
00:12:23.720 So Trump wants to cut them off from our high-powered chips.
00:12:26.140 They want to come back, and they want to take away our rare earth elements, which, of course, we need.
00:12:30.220 And as much as we need technology and the race to AI, you need oil at the end of the day.
00:12:35.880 And China is dependent on the world for oil.
00:12:38.800 So if we can restrict the oil, we have the biggest bargaining chip.
00:12:41.740 And now we have a level playing field, and I think Jeff is right with that.
00:12:45.060 And by the way, what a great move for them to go take out Venezuela.
00:12:48.820 Like imagine if they did it the other way around.
00:12:50.900 Yeah.
00:12:51.080 So imagine they go Iran first and Venezuela second.
00:12:53.640 No, let's take out Maduro first.
00:12:55.680 We have control of the oil here.
00:12:57.120 Now let's go there.
00:12:57.860 So if China wants oil, you've got to come through us.
00:13:00.400 And if you don't get it through Iran, because I think it's like 80 percent of the oil that they get from Iran,
00:13:05.700 puts them in a tough place.
00:13:06.920 But the part I do want to show you, because online social media guys are reacting to it,
00:13:10.560 this was the clip of Rubio that they're saying, look what happened.
00:13:13.960 The messaging changed within 24 hours.
00:13:16.380 One is March 3rd.
00:13:17.660 The other one is March 2nd.
00:13:18.780 Go ahead, Rob.
00:13:19.720 And this is Midas Touch.
00:13:21.080 The other one is that Israel was going to strike Iran,
00:13:23.720 and that's why we needed to get involved.
00:13:26.020 Today the president said that Iran was going to get...
00:13:28.780 Yeah, your statement is false.
00:13:29.900 So that's not what I was asked very specifically.
00:13:31.700 Were you there yesterday?
00:13:32.540 Yes, I asked that question.
00:13:33.600 Okay.
00:13:33.740 And so the president made the very wise decision.
00:13:36.180 We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action.
00:13:38.720 We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces.
00:13:41.760 And we knew that if we didn't preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks,
00:13:45.740 we would suffer higher casualties and perhaps even higher those killed.
00:13:50.140 And then we would all be here answering questions about why we knew that and didn't happen.
00:13:53.840 Yesterday.
00:13:54.380 Jeff, how do you react to this?
00:13:55.600 Yeah, look, there's more going on here than people keep giving credit for.
00:13:59.560 You know, it's tough to make statements like that to begin with when you're under pressure.
00:14:05.180 I mean, he's responding to a specific question.
00:14:08.220 Again, I think, you know, as Mark and I were talking about, it's somewhat of a distraction.
00:14:12.540 This is not really about Israel.
00:14:14.500 Israel and the U.S. have a strategy that they're developing and a game plan that they're following specifically to deal with the Iranian threat.
00:14:21.580 And the U.S. is using that as leverage in their bigger Cold War strategy against the counter China, Russia, and the other side.
00:14:29.180 So, you know, focusing on Israel here and making it seem like we're just following along with Israel is just missing the point.
00:14:35.880 Totally missing the point.
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