Valuetainment - August 15, 2025


＂Iran Has NO Friends＂ - Andrew Bustamante SLAMS CIA’s Role In The Shah’s Fall


Episode Stats

Length

7 minutes

Words per Minute

173.143

Word Count

1,310

Sentence Count

105

Misogynist Sentences

1

Hate Speech Sentences

15


Summary

In this episode, I discuss the relationship between Israel and the United States, our relationship with Taiwan, and our relations with other countries in the Middle East, including Russia and China, and how they feel about us.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 They know that we set them up.
00:00:03.320 When you're saying we set them up, where else could have given them their land?
00:00:08.720 That's by Jerusalem.
00:00:09.960 So it's not like it's a setup, right?
00:00:11.920 That was the location.
00:00:13.760 That's what you're getting.
00:00:16.000 We didn't have to help you.
00:00:17.740 We helped you.
00:00:18.560 You got the land.
00:00:19.560 You're grateful.
00:00:21.600 Explain to me the setup part because I don't understand why they would think that we set them up for failure.
00:00:26.440 I don't think they think we set them up for failure.
00:00:27.980 I think they know that they can't trust us fully.
00:00:30.620 I think they know that.
00:00:31.900 Tell me why they don't trust us.
00:00:33.740 Same reason Taiwan doesn't trust us.
00:00:35.580 Why?
00:00:36.120 Because they see that we have rhetoric that shifts.
00:00:39.780 It shifts every four years with politicians.
00:00:41.680 It shifts every two years with midterm elections.
00:00:43.760 It shifts with the marketplace.
00:00:45.960 And it was the end of World War II that many of these, quote, unquote, new countries were born.
00:00:53.300 Israel obviously doesn't believe they were born after World War II,
00:00:56.180 but many Americans believe that that's when Israel was born.
00:00:59.680 So Taiwan came about as a result of the nationalists being forced out of China.
00:01:05.460 Israel came about as Jewish populations were forced out of Europe,
00:01:11.360 and they were given this land.
00:01:14.080 That's how so many people believe it.
00:01:15.740 That's not how they see it themselves.
00:01:17.240 And then from that point forward, their economy was kind of forced on them.
00:01:21.400 Their trade with the United States was forced on them.
00:01:23.900 It's the same way with Japan.
00:01:25.100 It's the same way with Germany.
00:01:26.140 It's the same way with France, Poland.
00:01:27.860 All these countries that were devastated after World War II,
00:01:31.560 the United States swept in and was like, hey, we'll help you rebuild.
00:01:35.160 And we'll put you in debt.
00:01:36.620 And you'll build markets that benefit the United States.
00:01:39.600 And this long list of things, including ideologies,
00:01:42.460 you'll have to be a democracy,
00:01:43.740 and you'll have to follow our democratic principles.
00:01:46.520 All of that worked, Pat.
00:01:48.260 It worked for a long time until about 2020
00:01:51.820 when 20 years of an American conflict in the Middle East
00:01:56.400 started to show that we didn't know as much as we thought we did.
00:02:01.380 And then strongman leadership started to pop up and started to work.
00:02:05.160 People like Putin, people like Netanyahu.
00:02:07.780 In other countries of the world,
00:02:09.100 we started to see a shift towards socialist beliefs
00:02:12.420 and socialist practices rather than democracies.
00:02:14.300 And they were working.
00:02:16.720 Economies were building and growing.
00:02:19.080 Militaries were winning in a way other than America was distracted for 20 years.
00:02:23.120 That's what changed everything recently.
00:02:25.440 So let's move on from how they feel about us and how we feel about them.
00:02:29.300 How does Russia and China feel about Israel?
00:02:35.640 I think that Russia and China look at Israel
00:02:38.800 and they see pragmatic decision-making.
00:02:41.620 And that is something that our adversaries appreciate
00:02:46.180 because there's no ideology involved there.
00:02:49.220 Whether you like Netanyahu's ideology or not,
00:02:52.300 whether you care that he's a right-wing supporter or not,
00:02:56.560 what he is pragmatically doing
00:02:58.640 is destroying, step by step,
00:03:01.940 the enemies that surround Israel,
00:03:04.120 which will guarantee Israel security
00:03:06.820 for five years, a decade, 15 years, 20 years.
00:03:10.220 He's doing as much damage as he can to Israel's enemies,
00:03:13.900 which are all America's enemies,
00:03:15.140 in the time that he can
00:03:17.140 before he's essentially forced to back off of his war path.
00:03:21.580 And when he has to back off of his war path,
00:03:24.120 then we'll see what the criminal courts of Israel have to say about him.
00:03:27.120 So he doesn't quite know what the future holds.
00:03:29.260 But other strongman leaders, China and Russia,
00:03:31.820 see that and they say,
00:03:33.040 America's supporting that.
00:03:34.280 So what America says to its people
00:03:37.040 and what America does in policy
00:03:39.220 is not always the same.
00:03:40.660 And how can we use that?
00:03:42.700 So criminal courts in Israel,
00:03:44.800 when he's done,
00:03:45.600 it could be very nasty for Bibi.
00:03:47.300 Could.
00:03:47.800 So Bibi could,
00:03:48.660 but he could end up being a useful individual
00:03:51.920 for people that want peace there.
00:03:54.060 But to Russia,
00:03:55.840 what issues does Russia have with Iran?
00:03:57.720 Doesn't Russia have a better relationship with Iran than Israel?
00:04:00.100 Oh yeah, for sure.
00:04:00.860 So then does Russia indirectly view Israel as,
00:04:10.620 would Russia rather see Israel get weaker
00:04:12.680 or Iran get weaker?
00:04:13.640 Because they help Iran.
00:04:14.880 So.
00:04:15.240 And Iran buys from them, no?
00:04:16.540 Like they go back and forth.
00:04:17.880 So what Russia wants is Iran dependent on Russia.
00:04:23.160 And as long as Iran can be hurt,
00:04:27.280 damaged, put in a box,
00:04:28.420 they will just become that much more dependent on Russia.
00:04:32.360 What Russia and China need are strong, dependent,
00:04:36.280 I want to call them allies,
00:04:37.620 but allies implies that you have a common ideology, right?
00:04:41.320 What they want is partnerships
00:04:42.820 that are pragmatically predictable.
00:04:45.620 And as long as Iran has no other friends in the world,
00:04:48.500 they're going to keep going to China and Russia.
00:04:50.300 As long as China has no other friends in the world,
00:04:52.500 it's going to keep going to Russia and vice versa.
00:04:54.960 Okay.
00:04:55.560 And I know Iran has these drones that they sell to Russia.
00:04:59.040 They're known for the weapon that they're selling.
00:05:01.440 So that's like where the revenue comes from as well for them.
00:05:04.180 But say somebody wants to, now flip it.
00:05:08.660 So we just saw the motivation.
00:05:10.220 Why would U.S. want to see Iran fall?
00:05:12.340 For what?
00:05:12.700 It's not our problem.
00:05:13.300 Let Israel deal with it, right?
00:05:15.340 Let somebody else deal with it.
00:05:16.440 But then why did they back then create a coup
00:05:19.900 and allow Iran to fall?
00:05:22.540 Those were the years before government oversight.
00:05:26.380 So that was the left hand and the right hand
00:05:28.480 not knowing what each other was doing.
00:05:31.840 And so Kissinger promised Shah that they would help
00:05:36.260 and that they would allow him to use the hospitals
00:05:39.120 and all this other stuff.
00:05:40.460 And at last minute, they didn't help him.
00:05:42.420 And there could be a possibility that Kissinger
00:05:46.100 wasn't necessarily reporting everything to Carter,
00:05:48.260 that Kissinger may have been more powerful than Carter was.
00:05:50.820 And these are all suspicions that can't be validated
00:05:55.140 but are completely probable.
00:05:57.460 And that's what sucks so much about the days before oversight.
00:06:03.720 This guy was a very powerful guy.
00:06:05.740 Oh, yeah.
00:06:06.120 Feared, hated, powerful, interesting, womanizer, all in one.
00:06:13.500 Very interesting.
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