43 - KERVIN AUCOIN - GEOPOLITICAL INTELLIGENCE EXPERT

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You are listening to a fonts media network, but.

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Like you just let me in my ways.

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Welcome home to the Blaze listeners. I'm excited to have Curvin. Sorry,

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I'm just gonna mispronounce it. Can you just pronounce it yourself?

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We keep going over that, Curvin O quick?

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All right, Curvin, Sorry to do that to you, but yeah.

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We could stick with first names. I'm good with that.

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Uh my my first my last name has gotten me

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in and out of trouble for for many years.

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So you and I were kind of introduced through John

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and another podcaster, and he's he's been around a while,

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but yeah, we got a little chat on next He's like, hey,

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you guys should actually get together and do an episode.

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So definitely wanted to thank him for that, and then

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I I started listening a little bit more to yours.

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Actually it was funny is I came across your podcast

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before that interaction on X and listen to you and

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your wife, and I thought it was interesting on how

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you're able to take so much information and kind of

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like just explain it in a way that people can grasp,

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you know, while not trying to be too over the

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top or you seem to be in the middle on

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most things. I noticed. You know, I'm not going to

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ask your political leaning so much. If you want to

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give it to me, great, But I do like I

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try to take a neutral position to really just explain

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what's going on then you know, letting people form their

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own opinions. So I really liked that. I thought that

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was cool because there's very few of those type of shows.

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I tried doing that in the beginning, but it got

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harder as time went on for me.

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Anyway, Well, the world makes it harder right to kind

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of try to stay neutral. But first of all, I

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want to say thank you for that, because that's the

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hope that I have that comes through and I get

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back last on both sides of the political isles. I'm

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not a very political person. I used to be when

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I was younger, and then I got disillusion to it,

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became very a political and started to do this sort

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of neutral thing that you're talking about, where something happens

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right in a certain side. I know, we'll get into

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Israel and the Middle East and what's going on there,

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and that's really highlighted this kind of divisiveness. Right, So

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if somebody says something about Israel in a positive aspect,

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and I push back in a negative not really a

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negative aspect, but just saying, well, to understand what the

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people in Gods or the people in Lebanon are going

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through right now. You know, they'll say, oh, you're you know,

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a left wing Hamas supporter, and then the same thing

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for Palestinian supporters. I will push back and say, well,

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Israel's the only Jewish nation, Jewish state, surrounded by Arab

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states that have been calling for the entire destruction of

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the Jewish people. I think they have a right to

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defend themselves, and so what they're doing, maybe they're carrying

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it out in the wrong way, but they have a

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right to do what they're doing. And then I get,

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you know, pushed back on on both sides of that.

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It's tough.

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Well, that's that's that's a particular topic. We're too hard

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to be neutral because there's such and we're talking about

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a land with so much history, I mean history in

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regard to you know, everybody argues that it's their land

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number one, no matter how far back to go, And

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a lot of people dismissed the fact that there were

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multiple people's displaced in that land and dispersed throughout the

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world and forced to do so, and then coming back

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to try to claim it again, and then it's there's

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just so much going on. Then from what I understand,

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I'm not and you can definitely correct me on this

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is it seems like a lot of it outside of

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the land is really centered around a faith or religious belief,

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and in the in the issue that I see is

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it's such a closely related belief, but there's always those

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little differences that just for some reason just lead to

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so much bloodshed and it almost makes you scratch or

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hit us and like, why can't they just shake hands

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and really get along? But I think it goes beyond that.

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It's really about the claim to the land and the

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fact that hey, you killed my ancestor, my grandfather, whatever,

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and then the revenge cycle just began and just never

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ended and kept going and going and going. And I

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might be slightly off on that, but.

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Now you're you're absolutely right.

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And it's and also we're talking about history, right, We're

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talking about ancient history, and so what ancient history do

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you actually believe? Because there is so much we know

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so little about our ancestors and the ancestral history. So

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do you trust biblical history? You know where Abraham started

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all of this. You know, he came from Er, which

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is a city south of Baghdad. You know, I deployed

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to Baghdad. If you take a plane and fly a

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mission around that area, you will see Er, one of

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the original settlements in the area. You and Abraham was

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supposed to have walked from there and entered what was then.

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You know, the people not even called the Jewish people

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of that time, but the tribes of Judah entered into

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Israel and they were told that God gave them this land.

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We're talking thousands of years ago and then more recently.

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And I say more recently, but we're still talking about

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a thousand years ago to fifteen hundred years ago. You've

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got a man in Mohammad who was a was a

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prophet or claimed to be a prophet, depending on how

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you and I always say it's depending on how you

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interpret the history. So he claimed to be a prophet,

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and by force he came in and claimed these lands

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for his own people. It's the people, the people of

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the Arab lands, and he claimed these lands. And so

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what you know, when people say, well, this is the

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land of the Palestinians or this is the land of

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the Israelis. How far are we going to go back?

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Right?

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That's always been kind of my take and stance on that.

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And I'll throw I'll throw them out there, and it says,

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you know, and I don't mind bringing up certain other

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personalities and podcasters only because some of these guys are

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very public and they're very openated. But you know, you

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take Dave Smith for example, who I do listen to

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and I respect because he's a pretty smart, intelligent person.

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He does read books, which is great, but it's a

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pretty hard line about you know, it's not Israel's land

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never you know, they were not there, and you know

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it was really Palestinian land, and you can't just drive

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them out and claim that you now have claimed to

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this land. And I get it, but I think I

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think even with him, and the problem with someone like

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Dave is he's super intelligent, but he'll never stop arguing

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until he feels he's right or he's bored of the

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conversation literally, and so he can go forever trying to

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argue that point. But I think when he makes a point,

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he deliberately omits that it was a tribal land that

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did belong to the then Jewish people at the time

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who were displaced. And you can say, hey, the land

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was conquered. Great, if we use that argument, then conquerors

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own and rule that land, just as we did in

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America here with the Native Americans, you know. And unfortunately,

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every country in the world has been developed and made

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and borders have been set based on being conquered. That

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that was just a bloody history of humanity, and that

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is exactly what happens, is just how the world was shaped, unfortunately.

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And the thing with the Jewish people from what I understand,

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from what I researched, and like again you can correct me,

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is they were displaced back then, you know, I mean,

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come on, the Ottoman Empire came in. They ruled most

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of the world back then, and they helped drive the

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Jews out. And at the time, the Palestines before they're

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considered Palestine, sided with the Ottoman Empire so that they

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can remain in the land and live in the land

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and support the Ottoman Empire. What do you think the

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native tribal Jewish people were going to do? Just forget

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about it, and they never did. And so there's that

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part of that history that nobody really talks about. Yeah.

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I mean, look, the Jewish people have been conquered their

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entire lifetime. Yes, right, the Egyptians brought them in, and

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we're learning more about that history because there was a

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brief time where historians thought, well, no, that wasn't Jewish

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people that the Egyptians brought in to Egypt to work

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and do certain things. And now we're finding out through

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certain tablets that have been and scrolls that have been found,

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that the words that they were using for the people

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that they brought in were the same words that were

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used for Jewish people throughout throughout history. And listen, the Romans.

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You know the Jewish people. Yes, it's a very tribal religion,

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but the tribes were there in Israel when Rome had

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their empire and they taxed the Jewish people, and it's

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written record. I mean, you can debate history in ancient history,

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but we have written record of the Jewish people living

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on that land being controlled by the Romans. Like you said,

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you're exactly right. The Ottoman Empire came in, they laid

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waste to that land. People had to either leave or surrender.

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Jewish people said they would not surrender. They left, and

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the Palestinian what are now the Palestinians or where the

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Palestinians then sort of broke her to deal and said,

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if we can just get this sort of land carved

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out right here, there's not really much in it, we'll

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stay here and we'll abide by your rules, which is

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really what the Jewish people said to the Romans. We'll

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abide by your rules, pay your taxes, and then you know,

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that'll be it. Then the Roman Empire started to put

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the fist down on the Jewish people. They had uprisings

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in the early first century, went to war with the Romans,

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and the Romans thought they could defeat them very easily,

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and the Israelis were able to push back on them. Now,

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the Palestinians didn't have to do that because they just understood, Hey,

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the Ottomans are going to let us live here and

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we're going to remain here. Now, if you want to

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go more recent history, and we talk about, you know,

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after World War two and the Holocaust, which was such

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a tragedy, and I want to put that out from

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the very beginning. What happened in the Holocaust and what

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is factually documented that US and British soldiers found as

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they got into the concentration camps was absolutely horrific, and

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millions of people died in World War Two. And so

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they understood that the Jewish people needed, they needed a place.

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They didn't want to go back to Europe. They didn't

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want to go back to their homes because there was

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still a large part of society that didn't want them there.

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You know, they were they were indoctrinated to hate these

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people for their religion, for where they came from. And

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so nations got together and decided, you know, apart from

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everyone else, right, they just said, hey, let's put these

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people back into what we think is the land that

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they deserve. They were put in that land, and immediately

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the Arab nations went to war with Israel because they

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didn't want the Jewish people there. And that I don't

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think that's something that gets highlighted a lot, especially among

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like pro Palestinian crowd, is that the Jewish people went

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there and they said, hey, we're going to live in

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this land, and we're just this is where we're going

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to be settled. They put us here, they were invaded.

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They went to war with places like Egypt and Lebanon

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and Syria, and they won those wars. And when you

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went to war, you get to decide what you're going

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to do, so they kept that land. Then the Palestinian

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question came up, what are we going to do with

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all these Palestinians because they don't want to be ruled

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by the Jewish people, so they need.

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Their own rule, their Arab rule.

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So the Palestinian people got their own government up, their

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own military. A two state solution was brought up. The

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Israelis agreed to the two state solution. The Palestinians and

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the other Arab nations said no, we want all of

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that land because it's our land. And so another war

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kicked off, and so we just have a cycle of wars.

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And it's not just that one side won't agree with

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the other side, it's the israel The Israelis were put there,

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where do you want them to go? The Palestinians say,

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we've been here, where are you going to put us?

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And so now we have a land of just people

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going where are you going to put us? And I

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think if you just took the people and put them

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together and ask them, you know, do a little to

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do a meeting with everybody and say, hey, what do

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you guys think we'd probably find a solution. Our problem

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is we have governments who just don't like each other

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and don't care about the people who want to go

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to war, and they want to put down their fist

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and make this a complete victory for one side or another.

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And that's what we're seeing right now now with with

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Israel and Hamas. Right, Israel now has a choice, right

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because they just killed Yahya Sina Sinhwar. He's the leader

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of Hamas. Hamas is in shambles. There is a chance

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if you're a if you're part of the ceasefire, you're

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pro ceasefire in Palestine, that you can have a ceasefire.

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And Hamas is completely dismantled right now. That's something a

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lot of people said would never happen. And they're completely dismantled.

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And the Israelis could say, okay, let's do the sea.

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Spire Net Yahoo has just said if you release all

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the hostages, release all your arms, everything will be fine

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and we'll have a ceasefire. And the Hamas is saying,

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we don't trust you, we don't trust the Israel, we

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don't trust Israel. We don't trust the Jews, and they don't.

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You know, there's the history of not trusting the Israelis

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for right reasons. You know, they say one thing, some

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nen Yahoo especially says one thing and does another and

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and so Israel has a choice do they do. Do

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they try to broker that deal or do they do

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the knockout punch and say we'd because they've said their

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whole goal is the annihilation of Hamas, and so unless

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Hamas is completely annihilated, every single member is gone, they're

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not going to agree to a peace deal which is

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separate from a ceasefire, you know, a full peace deal

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that kind of sets boundaries. So that that's where we

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stand right now. And it's just god be a never

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ending cycle.

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It's the truth of It's kind of an unfortunate truth

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of the situation because the classic example of how the

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people suffer because governments disagree. You know, the problem is

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everybody in the world just wants to live, like literally live,

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you know, food, shelter, enjoy their life, and governments disagree

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and they pull everybody in with them. I mean, why

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can't we just put the leaders of every government in

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the ring and have them just find it out and

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then whoever walks out watch out right. I mean, it's ridiculous.

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I was going to go back to that two state

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solution though. That does come up a lot, and nobody

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can understand why it's unacceptable, and it's always put on

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the Palestinians. Really lately Hamas, who has the governing body

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so to speak, of the Palestinians, even though unofficial.

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So Egypt has denied a two state solution up until recently.

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just to argue the other side, that that agreement originally

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when it was put together or that proposal was kind

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of not equal to where I think it was sixty

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percent of the land or maybe more. I might be

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off on that. I think it was at least sixty

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percent really did go to the Jewish people or Israel

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as it is today, and less of it went to

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the Palestinian side. And also you know, cut off routes

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to you know, the access to the ports and everything

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as well. Yeah, and there's that side, and I can

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see that, but at the same time, you're correct, and

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we're like, yeah, no, it's all or nothing, you know,

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is their response, which is not really negotiating, you know,

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a deal, and I'm sure that they could have came

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to an agreement. But do you know, do you happen

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to know what? Because well I was reading your back

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when you sent me you were you were in intelligence

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right in the army. Is that correct? Yep? And so

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being that that was your career what you did, and

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you were deployed and you worked with uh special operations,

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is that also correct?

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Yes?

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Okay, So what what from your experience just being in

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the area and dealing with all this and just analyzing everything,

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and I think today you still are in intelligence correct,

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and in your own business.

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So yeah, my my company, Open Analytics is a private

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intelligence company that provides intelligence to the everyday consumer as

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opposed to your C suite and Fortune five hundred companies.

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So I've kind of cheapened, not say cheap, and I've

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lessened the price of intelligence for people. It's not cheapening

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this way to tell, it's more accessible. Yeah exactly.

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Yeah, Well, you know, being that's what you do, why why,

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in your opinion, does I don't know if it's all

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the person people or just just the governing bodies of

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the time, why are they denying any kind of deal

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when it could have been done. Yeah, it's and now

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it seems too far away for some reason. But at

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the time I think it could have been done.

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I think there was a chance. Even so before like

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October seventh of twenty twenty three changed the entire landscape

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of the Middle East. Before that, I think there could

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have been a two state solution. But there's another thing

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that I say, and then I'll answer that question. We're

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trying to fix Middle Eastern problems with Western solutions and you.

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Can't do that.

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That's exactly right.

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Yeah, we our ideals are very different from their ideals,

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and no one is right or wrong in that. It's

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just a certain culture. And and so I'm also an

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Arabic linguist, or was an Arabic linguist. I'd have to

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I'd have to think for a second to see how

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my language is now, but I haven't used it in

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quite a while. And with that, so I was at

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the Defense Language Institute learning Arabic. With that, I had

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to learn the the Arab culture and the religion of Islam,

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And I learned a lot about the Arab people and

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and the things that So before Islam even came about

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the Arab people were some of the smartest individuals in

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the world. They created mathematics and algebra, things of you know, poetry.

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Some of the great poems are great Arab poems, and

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so we have that in history of these great minds

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that focused a lot on this. And then not to

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disparage religion, and I don't do that. Every religion, I

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think has its pros and cons But as the religion

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of Islam you started to become widespread in the region,

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the leaders in that timeframe started to crack down on

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more education. And it's it's sort of like when you

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think of certain aspects of Christianity in history, where the

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Enlightenment period was kind of they wanted to crack down

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on it because the more you learn about the world

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and history and all of this stuff, it's possible that

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you're going to call out the religious leaders for certain

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things that they're saying that just don't make sense. And

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that happened and they lost a lot of their history

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and a lot of their education because of this. And

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so starting there, getting into right now, there is a

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trust issue between first of all the Arab community and

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the WA but more pervasively the Arab community and Jews.

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And I saw that during my education for Arabic. You know,

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we'd have to watch news every day in Arabic because

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you want to immerse yourself in the culture and kind

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of understand these level three four five dialogues that are

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going on. And so you watch a lot of even

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Al Jazeera in Arabic, not the English language version, but

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the Arabic, the Arab version, or a more conservative, i

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would say, or far right kind of Arab TV station

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like Memory Memory TV. It's sort of a far right.

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It closely aligns with like RT Sputnik TV. And I

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remember a moment where Egypt there was an earthquake in

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Egypt and I'm watching I can't remember if it was

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Al Jazeera or another news organization, but the headline that

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they kept going with that was that it was the Jews.

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The Jews created this earthquake to destroy parts of Egypt.

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And so this is major mainstream news in Arab countries

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that are being that's what's being promoted, and that's what

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you know, kids are seeing and families are seeing. And

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there's a history of that and a history of not trusting,

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not trusting Jewish people, not trusting America because the United

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States has done some terrible things to Arab communities, especially

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in the Middle East. Not going to deny that, and

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so we have a trust issue here.

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I think we can.

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Yeah. I always say, you know, I know what I

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did as far as in my time in uniform and

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my time working in the Middle East, and I had

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a lot of issues with what some other people were

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doing to Arab people just because they were Arab. You know,

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everybody's a terrorist. We had people coming in saying walking

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while Arab, and that's why we picked them up. And

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I was a human collector. I'm an intelligence analyst, and

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they said I was like, so why'd you get this guy?

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And he was like, he's Arab, He's got to be

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a terrorist. And it's like, no, that's that's not the

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right answer. Yeah, no, it wasn't everywhere, but these pockets, right,

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And so that's where the trust issue comes in.

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And it's so bad that so if you fly.

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Into Israel and let's say someone like myself, I have

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visas and stamps from countries like the uae, Iraq, Kuwait,

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all the Arab countries I go into Israel, they will

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first of all, tell me do you have another passport

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because they don't want to stamp that passport because if

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an Israeli stamp is on that passport, you're not allowed

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in another Arab country with that passport, and they will

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deny you.

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Not allowed in any of them.

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As far as I know now, the Gulf States and

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then Saudi Arabia might be a little bit different. But

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go into a place like Kuwait or Iran, God forbid,

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at this point, you know you'd be you'd be rolled

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up and questioned and interrogated. That's not true for for

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Israel if you go in now. Israel does so something

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we don't do in the US because it's it's probably

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rightfully considered racist or you know, sexist or whatever. Is

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We don't target individuals based on the way that they look.

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The Israelis do. They will.

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They're heavily profiling individuals.

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Yes, they so they profile they're with in the UK

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is CCTV or surveillance cameras and stuff. They are heavily

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watching people that they know and listen. They're in the

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culture all the time. So they see a person and

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they can tell you this person's from Iraq, this person's

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from Iran or Syria, and and they're they're targeting and

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profiling these people based just off of what they love,

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and then they go and question them, and then further

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dialogue happens whether they'll release them and send them along

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on their way or they'll send them to secondary questioning.

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So there's a difference there. I would say Israelis really

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don't trust the Arab community, really, but there's a little

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more trust to that. And for all the conversation about

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Hamas controlling Gaza and that's the government and the military

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wing of Gaza in Palestine, Israel actually supports a lot

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of the infrastructure in Gaza. That also causes problems because

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if you have a trust issue, every rolling blackout is

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Israel's fault, Every collapsed building is Israel's fault. The fact

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that no one can work their way up in life

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and that they're poor, that's Israel's fault. And then on

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the Israeli side, every time there's an Arab strike, that's

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the fault to the Arab community. And so that's why

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I go back to fixing Middle Eastern problems with Western solutions.

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We would see that and go, we'll just stop it, right,

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you're human, like have a conversation with each other, and

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they would go no, because when Abraham did this, it

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started a process, a historical process that got us to

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where we are today. And we cannot stop that.

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Yeah, we cannot forget it, and we're not going to

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let it stand. And the whole thing. There's a lot

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I want to go back to in that. But when

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you were when you were talking about how Israel actually

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supported a lot of the infrastructure in Gaza, You're right.

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I don't think people realize that, like power, water, and

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they would always point the Hamas, I believe, would always

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point the finger, Oh, look, you know we don't have

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water because they're shutting it off on us, or you know, they're,

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like you said, killing our electricity. Maybe something that's true.

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It could be what they were using try to control

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and you know, stifle whatever was going on with Hamas

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and what they were trying to do in terms of

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trying to attack Israel. But I'm not gonna I'm not

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I can't sit here and except that Israel is innocent

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in all of us, I'm not saying that's what you're

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saying at all. By the way, I'm just making a statement.

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I don't I don't believe they're innocent in all of

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this at all either. And I understand you know, the

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long history and how they were mad as a people

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being driven out of land and you know, dispersed, and

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then you know they were they were persecuted by the

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Pagrums years years ago and being hunted and literally killed

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on the street, like basically like you said with profiling,

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they would see, uh, a Jewish person and literally hang them,

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hang them in the street, you know, and uh, they've

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they've gone through a lot, but I think a lot

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of everyone in the Middle East has has gone through

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so much because it's like it's just it's just constantly

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just a crazy circular vehicle of of of seems like

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just hatred, to be quite honest. And we don't understand

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it though, like you said, as Westerners, we can't get

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her head around why like why can't we move past?

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Why can't we why can't we get around I think

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I think the biggest thing that needs to be defined though,

481
00:27:12.519 --> 00:27:16.279
because everybody seems to, at least the western side of

482
00:27:16.319 --> 00:27:21.240
the world, seems to equate terrorism with Islam. I would

483
00:27:21.319 --> 00:27:24.920
love to know if it can truly be explained the

484
00:27:24.920 --> 00:27:28.359
difference between Muslims, you know, people of the Islamic faith

485
00:27:28.559 --> 00:27:31.440
because I'm kind of confused in where I see, you know,

486
00:27:31.440 --> 00:27:34.640
as a Westerner that you know, a woman can't show

487
00:27:34.680 --> 00:27:37.279
herself be full. They closed the whole deal stone of death.

488
00:27:37.279 --> 00:27:39.599
Then you see other Muslims where they're just on Instagram

489
00:27:39.920 --> 00:27:43.319
and you know, and whatnot, and just yeah, I'm confused.

490
00:27:43.359 --> 00:27:46.519
It's like, wait a minute, which is it, do you so?

491
00:27:46.680 --> 00:27:47.920
Terrorism? Yeah?

492
00:27:48.000 --> 00:27:50.880
So, terrorism, I would say, first of all, is not

493
00:27:51.480 --> 00:27:54.880
just It's not a Muslim issue or an Arab issue. Right,

494
00:27:54.960 --> 00:27:58.920
We've got Eastern European and terrorists. We've got homegrown terrorists

495
00:27:58.960 --> 00:28:02.440
in our own country on on the right and the left,

496
00:28:02.519 --> 00:28:05.319
so far right and far left, And so I would

497
00:28:05.359 --> 00:28:12.160
break it down for a Western audience much like evangelicalism

498
00:28:12.440 --> 00:28:16.720
in the United States. What I mean there is you see,

499
00:28:16.799 --> 00:28:19.960
so you go if you go to let's say you're

500
00:28:20.000 --> 00:28:23.039
in Seattle, Washington, and you go to a church in Seattle, Washington,

501
00:28:23.440 --> 00:28:27.720
and you're probably gonna see flip flop shorts, women, maybe

502
00:28:27.799 --> 00:28:34.039
not dressed provocatively, but regular, normal, normal dress. Right, if

503
00:28:34.079 --> 00:28:38.920
you go to maybe a evangelical church in Missouri or

504
00:28:38.960 --> 00:28:43.000
where I'm originally from in Louisiana and especially in the

505
00:28:43.000 --> 00:28:48.400
northern Louisiana area, you may see a more a church

506
00:28:48.440 --> 00:28:53.559
that's more aligned with purity laws. Pentecostal. You'll see dresses.

507
00:28:53.799 --> 00:28:57.559
Women can only wear dresses. Men have to wear this

508
00:28:57.559 --> 00:29:01.119
this certain thing. So and so that's an stream view

509
00:29:01.400 --> 00:29:05.079
of a particular religion, and I think that's what's pervasive

510
00:29:05.480 --> 00:29:08.960
in the Muslim religion, the religion of Islam. So when

511
00:29:08.960 --> 00:29:13.039
people say, well, Islam is a peaceful religion, and for51200:29:13.079 --> 00:29:16.000



the most part it is, did it always start that way?51300:29:16.079 --> 00:29:18.039



If you read the history of Muhammad, it did not.51400:29:18.240 --> 00:29:20.599



I mean he was he was basically a war lord.51500:29:21.759 --> 00:29:23.839



I'll get a lot of flag from the Arab community51600:29:23.880 --> 00:29:27.599



for that because he's the prophet Mohammad, you know, peace51700:29:27.640 --> 00:29:32.599



be upon him, But he really was. He decided at51800:29:32.599 --> 00:29:34.279



a very early age that he was going to take51900:29:34.279 --> 00:29:38.480



over and create this religion, become the prophet, and he52000:29:38.559 --> 00:29:44.400



went to war with other nations in order to spread Islam.52100:29:44.480 --> 00:29:47.559



And the whole point was in the whole point of jihad,52200:29:47.640 --> 00:29:50.960



if you hear jihad, which is just holy war, is52300:29:51.039 --> 00:29:54.440



that Islam is the only religion. So from an extremist52400:29:54.440 --> 00:29:57.119



point of view, Islam is the only religion that should52500:29:57.160 --> 00:30:01.440



be allowed and in if that's true, then we have52600:30:01.519 --> 00:30:04.759



to fight in order to make Islam the only And52700:30:04.839 --> 00:30:09.799



that's that's why the Muslim you know, Islam very early52800:30:09.839 --> 00:30:14.440



they fought the Spaniards who were Catholics. They took over Constantinople,52900:30:15.160 --> 00:30:19.440



made it Istanbul. So they conquered a lot of the area,53000:30:20.480 --> 00:30:24.680



a lot of that region in order to spread the religion.53100:30:26.039 --> 00:30:29.920



And so that's part of it. Especially so if you're53200:30:29.920 --> 00:30:33.200



talking about the US, the United States, we talk a lot,53300:30:33.319 --> 00:30:37.400



especially right now, because you can't talk about Donald Trump53400:30:37.480 --> 00:30:42.359



and Kamala Harris without talking about being far left woke53500:30:42.880 --> 00:30:46.440



person or a far right Christian nationalist. And people are53600:30:46.480 --> 00:30:51.039



very scared about Christian nationalists because they are viewing that53700:30:52.640 --> 00:30:57.640



in some points rightfully so as what's happening in Islam. Right, So,53800:30:57.680 --> 00:31:01.319



there is a far right sect of is that's isis,53900:31:01.559 --> 00:31:05.680



that's al Kaied, the that's that's Hamas and Isbellah and54000:31:05.759 --> 00:31:09.680



the IRGC, which is the umbrella, that's the peak to54100:31:09.720 --> 00:31:13.920



the umbrella of all of this. And so it is54200:31:14.559 --> 00:31:17.920



a select group of extremists that are making the most54300:31:17.960 --> 00:31:23.200



amount of noise. So I wouldn't say, especially in the54400:31:23.240 --> 00:31:28.720



United States. And I've met tons of Muslim people within54500:31:28.799 --> 00:31:33.079



the United States, and no one that I know is54600:31:33.079 --> 00:31:37.039



an extremist there. And that's usually true because they kind54700:31:37.039 --> 00:31:40.400



of try to hide, hide in plane site and they54800:31:40.440 --> 00:31:43.640



probably would not interact with me on most occasions. But54900:31:43.680 --> 00:31:47.039



for the most part, every Muslim I meet is just55000:31:47.880 --> 00:31:49.759



a man, woman, or a child trying to make it55100:31:49.799 --> 00:31:52.880



in America. And so the their view is, yeah, I'm55200:31:52.880 --> 00:31:55.119



a Muslim, but I am also an American and I'm55300:31:55.119 --> 00:31:58.319



here to be a part of this community.55400:31:59.599 --> 00:32:02.240



Are you. I think I think most people have a55500:32:02.279 --> 00:32:08.880



problem separating the fact that they're they're extremes. And you know,55600:32:09.200 --> 00:32:12.039



we can even just take take the Christian Bible. You'll55700:32:12.039 --> 00:32:16.119



have you'll have You'll have some denominations of Christianity or55800:32:16.559 --> 00:32:19.160



or believers for example, that just believe the Old Testament,55900:32:19.559 --> 00:32:22.519



you know, I for and eye that whole bit. Yeah,56000:32:22.599 --> 00:32:24.599



and then there's the New Testament believers that are like, hey,56100:32:24.640 --> 00:32:26.319



you know, that was the past, that was a history56200:32:26.319 --> 00:32:28.599



that has written. Those are the lass set. But the56300:32:28.640 --> 00:32:30.519



world changes and here we are now, and this is56400:32:30.559 --> 00:32:32.640



how we have to move forward as a people. And56500:32:32.680 --> 00:32:36.119



we're nicer and we're forgiving, right, I think that's the56600:32:36.160 --> 00:32:39.519



same thing with with Islam. I personally need to do56700:32:39.559 --> 00:32:41.559



more research on it, and I've always wanted to just56800:32:41.640 --> 00:32:43.359



I just don't have the time right now, but I56900:32:43.400 --> 00:32:45.119



really need to dive into it because I want to57000:32:45.160 --> 00:32:49.440



understand why, why, there's why, there's just you know, all57100:32:49.519 --> 00:32:51.880



we see is the bat and right away it's like57200:32:53.079 --> 00:32:55.759



we don't need that here regardless. But then you know,57300:32:55.880 --> 00:32:58.400



like I've met many people who are Muslim and it's57400:32:58.400 --> 00:33:00.400



like they don't live that way, that's not their believe57500:33:00.640 --> 00:33:02.680



Are they reading from the same book? That's my question,57600:33:02.759 --> 00:33:04.480



you know, like I don't know, I don't know.57700:33:05.039 --> 00:33:07.480



They are reading. So they're reading from the same book, right,57800:33:07.559 --> 00:33:12.039



the Qoran. But it's all about interpretation. Yeah, and look,57900:33:12.119 --> 00:33:16.400



Christians read, we're reading from the same Bibles. We because listen,58000:33:16.400 --> 00:33:20.079



we're in the West. It's the majority Christian reading from58100:33:20.079 --> 00:33:24.319



the same Bible. Why do we have so many different58200:33:24.400 --> 00:33:31.160



sects of Christianity because we've all interpreted different ways. You know,58300:33:31.240 --> 00:33:33.599



the best way to interpret it is to go so58400:33:33.640 --> 00:33:35.640



there are two ways, not two ways. You've got a58500:33:35.680 --> 00:33:39.680



couple two things together. When you're reading ancient texts, especially58600:33:39.720 --> 00:33:42.480



like the Bible, and the Qoran. First, you've got to58700:33:42.519 --> 00:33:44.839



read it in its own language, and that's very difficult.58800:33:45.440 --> 00:33:48.839



Some of the languages like Aramaic, not many people can58900:33:49.039 --> 00:33:52.200



can read that. There's very few studiers of Aramic or59000:33:52.279 --> 00:33:58.480



Greek or or you know, the ancient Hebrew. So you've59100:33:58.519 --> 00:34:00.920



first got to read it in the langue which of59200:34:01.720 --> 00:34:04.119



that it was written in. But it's not just that,59300:34:04.200 --> 00:34:07.279



you've also got to understand the time that it was59400:34:07.319 --> 00:34:12.719



written in. So when was this written and why was59500:34:12.760 --> 00:34:16.239



it written at that point. If you don't understand that,59600:34:16.320 --> 00:34:19.159



you can read a text out of context and say, oh,59700:34:19.239 --> 00:34:22.679



that's that's really what they mean, and then you understand time.59800:34:22.719 --> 00:34:24.840



Period is the big context issue though, right.59900:34:24.760 --> 00:34:27.320



Yeah, and but we go back to we don't we've60000:34:27.360 --> 00:34:31.320



lost so much of our history over time. Yes, we have,60100:34:32.400 --> 00:34:34.440



you know, not to bring a Kamala Harris line in,60200:34:34.559 --> 00:34:37.440



but the passage of time is the passage of time.60300:34:38.280 --> 00:34:42.119



Every year that we are removed from those historical points,60400:34:43.119 --> 00:34:46.400



we we lose what actually happens, so we lose context60500:34:46.519 --> 00:34:50.320



of the text that we are reading, you know. It's60600:34:50.360 --> 00:34:53.800



it's why stoicism right now is so pervasive, is because60700:34:54.400 --> 00:34:59.719



especially among young men, because I think that, Okay, it's60800:34:59.800 --> 00:35:03.480



it's language. It's written in a language that some people60900:35:03.880 --> 00:35:07.719



can can be trained on and understand and read and61000:35:08.239 --> 00:35:14.400



translate it correctly into English. But those Stoics wrote so61100:35:14.679 --> 00:35:19.280



much about the history of their time that we understand61200:35:19.440 --> 00:35:22.559



almost everything about what was going on in that timeframe.61300:35:22.559 --> 00:35:26.199



We've lost bits and pieces, But you talk Marcus Aurelius,61400:35:26.320 --> 00:35:30.159



we can probably go through his entire lifetime and understand61500:35:30.159 --> 00:35:33.159



the wars that he was a part of the history61600:35:33.199 --> 00:35:38.400



of his family because they were very they wrote a61700:35:38.440 --> 00:35:42.039



lot about it. Now the Hebrew people or the Jewish61800:35:42.079 --> 00:35:44.960



people did the exact same thing. The problem goes back61900:35:45.000 --> 00:35:49.960



to being conquered. A lot of the ancient texts were destroyed. Yeah,62000:35:50.800 --> 00:35:55.559



you've got the look at the Library of Alexandria right62100:35:55.599 --> 00:36:00.480



in Egypt that was destroyed, that had anything.62200:36:00.480 --> 00:36:03.920



Who knows it? Yeah, who knows? I mean I think62300:36:03.920 --> 00:36:07.239



about that sometimes, honestly, when you when when you when62400:36:07.239 --> 00:36:09.199



you talk about people being conquered over the years, and62500:36:09.440 --> 00:36:13.639



how the conqueror would suddenly be like, I don't need62600:36:13.719 --> 00:36:16.039



your history or your bullshit. I'm just wiping it out62700:36:16.159 --> 00:36:18.719



and it's all about me now and my people and62800:36:18.760 --> 00:36:22.840



it's like you lose so much, so much, you know,62900:36:23.360 --> 00:36:26.639



it's it's almost like I can say, I know, I'm63000:36:26.719 --> 00:36:28.960



getting away from what we're originally discussed. Was kind of63100:36:29.000 --> 00:36:30.719



I kind of believe, I kind of believe in the63200:36:30.760 --> 00:36:32.920



fact that, well it's not a fact, but I believe,63300:36:32.960 --> 00:36:37.079



my opinion anyway, that civilization over time has probably peaked63400:36:37.119 --> 00:36:40.599



and and has has gone the way of being technologically63500:36:40.599 --> 00:36:42.880



advanced in different forms and then wiped out and rebuilt63600:36:42.880 --> 00:36:46.960



over time, because it seems like almost every year, especially recently,63700:36:47.079 --> 00:36:50.519



it's it's getting they're uncovering more and more of that, like,63800:36:50.559 --> 00:36:53.800



wait a minute, how did this happen? And then as63900:36:53.800 --> 00:36:55.880



you said, you know, like the Library of Alexandra, you know,64000:36:55.920 --> 00:36:58.159



how it was like burn done gone. Who knows what64100:36:58.280 --> 00:36:59.800



was there that could have probably explained a lot of64200:36:59.800 --> 00:37:02.280



what we're seeing when we're when we're finding these new64300:37:02.360 --> 00:37:06.960



artifacts and whatnot. I think, I think the abolition of64400:37:07.000 --> 00:37:09.199



knowledge is horrible, and that's probably one of the worst64500:37:09.239 --> 00:37:13.599



things you could do in humanity in my opinion, you know, well,64600:37:13.599 --> 00:37:17.159



outside of torturing and you know, may mean, you know,64700:37:17.400 --> 00:37:21.280



causing holocausts against you know, fellow man, but still that's64800:37:21.320 --> 00:37:24.559



one thing that I've always hated and and it really64900:37:24.599 --> 00:37:26.960



just causes confusion and hatred for no reason, because then65000:37:26.960 --> 00:37:32.639



we lose understanding and like you said, context.65100:37:30.840 --> 00:37:37.440



Yeah, and I have gone. Every year I have it,65200:37:37.480 --> 00:37:40.559



I get closer to the opinion that you know there65300:37:40.559 --> 00:37:43.039



were ancient there's a first of all, there's ancient civilizations65400:37:43.039 --> 00:37:46.360



that we've never heard of. I'm not a conspiracy theorist.65500:37:46.639 --> 00:37:49.800



I'm very much, like you said, a moderate intelligence I'm65600:37:49.800 --> 00:37:52.760



an intelligence analyst. I try to figure out what's going on,65700:37:53.159 --> 00:37:57.599



but within that, I take information and try to assess65800:37:57.800 --> 00:38:01.760



what actually happened or what is going to happen. And65900:38:01.800 --> 00:38:04.920



the more I read about history, there are ancient cultures66000:38:04.920 --> 00:38:08.840



that we have no idea who they are and what66100:38:09.000 --> 00:38:12.480



sort of technologies that they have. And I see how66200:38:12.519 --> 00:38:15.320



we're using technology right now, and I could very much66300:38:15.400 --> 00:38:17.800



be far off. But I have fun with this. It's66400:38:17.840 --> 00:38:20.920



something that really helps my mental health a lot because66500:38:20.920 --> 00:38:24.119



I can research into this stuff and I'm not I'm66600:38:24.119 --> 00:38:26.800



not married to it, so if I'm wrong, who cares?66700:38:27.119 --> 00:38:29.840



It was just fun to research it. But the more66800:38:29.880 --> 00:38:35.559



technology we get, the closer we get to wanting to66900:38:35.599 --> 00:38:37.920



go back to those ancient times, and we see it67000:38:37.960 --> 00:38:41.760



all the time. I'm on X, you're on X, Instagram,67100:38:42.039 --> 00:38:44.719



all these things, and every day it's like, why do67200:38:44.800 --> 00:38:47.000



I even do this? Don't why don't I pick up67300:38:47.000 --> 00:38:49.880



a book or a newspaper. Let's go back to newspapers,67400:38:49.960 --> 00:38:52.320



let's let's help go back my wife. All the time,67500:38:52.800 --> 00:38:54.559



I feel like every year I just keep getting dumber67600:38:54.559 --> 00:38:57.039



and dumber. Yeah, I mean I used to be very,67700:38:57.159 --> 00:39:00.719



very studious and just reading and just soaking. I mean67800:39:00.760 --> 00:39:01.360



I was out a point.67900:39:01.360 --> 00:39:04.599



I'd be reading a five six hundred page novel whatever,68000:39:04.599 --> 00:39:07.119



and I'm done in a few hours. And now I68100:39:07.159 --> 00:39:09.559



fall asleep if I write to read a book, you.68200:39:09.599 --> 00:39:13.360



Know, And there is a huge difference too, because you68300:39:13.360 --> 00:39:15.559



could read the same amount of words in a day68400:39:15.599 --> 00:39:20.280



through news articles or posts on Instagram and Twitter. But68500:39:21.679 --> 00:39:25.760



for the most part, a book, a novel, or a68600:39:25.880 --> 00:39:33.119



historical text is supposed to be completely researched, backed by editors, true,68700:39:33.239 --> 00:39:36.519



backed by historical documents, and it's not allowed to be68800:39:36.559 --> 00:39:39.840



released until every until you're sourced out every single thing.68900:39:40.440 --> 00:39:43.239



A post on X is just a post on X,69000:39:43.440 --> 00:39:45.639



and it could be four pages long. Now, if you69100:39:45.679 --> 00:39:47.239



have a blue check Mark. You can write as many69200:39:47.239 --> 00:39:50.039



words as you want and it could be the dumbest69300:39:50.039 --> 00:39:52.559



thing you've ever read. And the problem is a lot69400:39:52.559 --> 00:39:54.679



of times, and it happens to me as well. If69500:39:54.719 --> 00:39:57.719



it aligns with your worldview, you're going to keep reading69600:39:57.760 --> 00:40:00.679



it and it's gonna infuriate you from time to time69700:40:01.000 --> 00:40:03.960



because you're going to go, I knew that that that's69800:40:04.000 --> 00:40:05.639



what they were going to be doing. I knew that's69900:40:05.679 --> 00:40:08.159



what's going to happen. And this guy, this girl, this70000:40:08.280 --> 00:40:11.320



whatever is saying would I say it? I'm not saying70100:40:11.320 --> 00:40:15.000



whatever in the context in a negative context. I'm just saying,70200:40:15.079 --> 00:40:18.559



whoever it is it's posting it that agrees with you.70300:40:18.559 --> 00:40:20.239



You're going to read everything and you're going to go,70400:40:20.360 --> 00:40:23.679



that person's right. Anybody who's in the comment saying they're wrong,70500:40:24.079 --> 00:40:25.000



those people are wrong.70600:40:25.079 --> 00:40:27.639



Well, everybody likes affirmation in their belief They want to70700:40:27.679 --> 00:40:30.320



be they want to feel that that that what they70800:40:30.360 --> 00:40:33.840



believe is correct, and they want that reinforcement. And the70900:40:33.920 --> 00:40:36.119



problem is, now we start creating these echo chambers for71000:40:36.159 --> 00:40:41.159



ourselves because we feel comfortable in our beliefs. I gotta71100:40:41.159 --> 00:40:43.639



step back and question myself sometimes, where you know, I71200:40:44.199 --> 00:40:46.559



just start doom scrolling. You're just like and after a71300:40:46.599 --> 00:40:49.400



while I'm like, wait a minute, what's the other perspective,71400:40:49.440 --> 00:40:51.360



what's the other side saying about this? You know, you71500:40:51.400 --> 00:40:53.280



got to be able to break yourself free. But it71600:40:53.119 --> 00:40:55.360



was it's funny what you said about about that, because,71700:40:57.320 --> 00:41:00.199



as you said, you know, books, novels, articles us to71800:41:00.239 --> 00:41:02.079



be fact check. You couldn't release them until they were71900:41:02.119 --> 00:41:05.719



they were cited. You knew exactly where the information came from.72000:41:05.880 --> 00:41:08.960



I came across this. It's been said before, but Jay72100:41:09.320 --> 00:41:12.599



Van I think is Babel or Babel PhD. He put72200:41:12.639 --> 00:41:14.599



a post out there. I want to read it because72300:41:14.679 --> 00:41:19.039



this is totally relevant. He's talking about how social media72400:41:19.079 --> 00:41:22.199



distorts perceptions of normser point one percent of users share72500:41:22.360 --> 00:41:25.280



eighty percent of fake news, yea, which is a tiny72600:41:25.480 --> 00:41:27.840



portion of bad actors. You saw that, right, Yeah, and72700:41:28.519 --> 00:41:30.239



it has this whole article. I didn't go into the72800:41:30.280 --> 00:41:33.199



whole thing yet, but it's it's so true. It's a72900:41:33.239 --> 00:41:37.280



tiny percent is just viewing all the nonsensical bullshit. And73000:41:37.320 --> 00:41:40.440



the thing is with social media, like, let me get73100:41:40.440 --> 00:41:42.920



back to civilization real quick, because it's going to tie73200:41:42.960 --> 00:41:44.920



into what I'm trying to say The point I'm trying73300:41:44.960 --> 00:41:49.679



to tick across is that I feel for advance as73400:41:49.760 --> 00:41:52.159



we are now, I don't think we're as advance as73500:41:52.239 --> 00:41:55.679



we've ever been. And I'm not sure if that makes73600:41:55.719 --> 00:41:58.480



any sense to you. But you know, just because we73700:41:58.480 --> 00:42:02.159



have an iPhone doesn't mean we're you know, far in73800:42:02.199 --> 00:42:04.920



a way from where we could have actually possibly been73900:42:05.159 --> 00:42:10.239



as a species. Absolutely, And the thing that I see74000:42:10.280 --> 00:42:13.039



with social media is it's nice. I'm just social media.74100:42:13.119 --> 00:42:16.079



Let's just say, just having the World Wide Web at74200:42:16.079 --> 00:42:18.960



your fingertips is all about access. But the problem is74300:42:19.320 --> 00:42:23.360



you can't. It's hard to filter true information versus false information,74400:42:23.800 --> 00:42:26.679



or information that might not be completely false but done74500:42:26.679 --> 00:42:30.920



in a way to guide you and manipulate you to74600:42:31.440 --> 00:42:33.639



fall on either side of the aisle, so to speak.74700:42:34.360 --> 00:42:36.039



And I think that's a big issue, and it's really74800:42:36.079 --> 00:42:39.800



hard to especially these days, it's so hard to decipher74900:42:39.920 --> 00:42:43.199



what is right what is wrong. I always say sometimes75000:42:43.199 --> 00:42:45.039



on my show, to be quite honest, is you know,75100:42:45.199 --> 00:42:47.199



I usually like to give all the facts and say75200:42:47.199 --> 00:42:48.679



here's where I got it from. But there's times where75300:42:48.679 --> 00:42:51.440



I'm like, you know, what, do your own research If75400:42:51.440 --> 00:42:53.159



you don't believe that what I'm saying is correct, and75500:42:53.199 --> 00:42:55.320



prove me wrong. Go find it, you know, because I75600:42:55.360 --> 00:42:57.960



think it's important for people to start to be that75700:42:58.000 --> 00:43:00.400



type of person where you start to question, go, hold on,75800:43:00.679 --> 00:43:02.599



is this guy saying the truth or is he just75900:43:02.639 --> 00:43:06.599



speaking out of his ass here? And I think everybody76000:43:06.679 --> 00:43:09.079



should start to start to do that, get back to76100:43:09.320 --> 00:43:12.159



actually fact checking for themselves and not just believe the76200:43:12.199 --> 00:43:13.039



first thing you read.76300:43:13.920 --> 00:43:15.079



Yeah, and you've got people.76400:43:15.239 --> 00:43:15.440



You know.76500:43:15.480 --> 00:43:18.719



There was a show on ESPN a while back called76600:43:18.840 --> 00:43:23.880



Numbers Never Lie, And as an intelligence analyst, I can76700:43:23.920 --> 00:43:26.480



tell you that that's false. Numbers numbers can lie. You76800:43:26.519 --> 00:43:30.199



can manipulate data to make it say what you want76900:43:30.360 --> 00:43:32.760



it to say. And I say that listen the So77000:43:32.840 --> 00:43:35.559



the FBI just came out, So they came out a77100:43:35.599 --> 00:43:40.159



month or two ago saying that extreme crime was down77200:43:40.519 --> 00:43:45.199



a certain percent, right, familiar. They just changed that recently77300:43:45.239 --> 00:43:48.639



in the last week that it's actually up by four77400:43:48.639 --> 00:43:52.280



point eight percent. So they and the way this all77500:43:52.320 --> 00:43:55.320



came about was that I believe it's the Institute of77600:43:55.320 --> 00:44:00.679



Criminal Justice Studies had they do their own data, and77700:44:00.800 --> 00:44:05.960



they were actually saying that violent crime is on the77800:44:06.039 --> 00:44:07.679



rise in the United States, has been on the rise77900:44:07.679 --> 00:44:11.599



since twenty twenty and twenty twenty four, it increased year78000:44:11.639 --> 00:44:13.960



over or twenty twenty three, it increased year over year78100:44:13.960 --> 00:44:15.719



from twenty twenty four and twenty twenty four. Is on78200:44:15.760 --> 00:44:19.800



the same trajectory. And then the FBI released and said no, actually,78300:44:19.840 --> 00:44:22.599



it's it's going down. And they both used different types78400:44:22.639 --> 00:44:25.119



of They use the same data, but they also use78500:44:25.159 --> 00:44:29.440



different pieces of data that they can collect. There's a78600:44:29.440 --> 00:44:34.239



lot of pushback to the FBI saying, you're saying it's down.78700:44:34.880 --> 00:44:38.440



I'm witnessing with my own eyes certain things that kind78800:44:38.440 --> 00:44:41.559



of tell me that it's up. So you know what,78900:44:41.719 --> 00:44:44.519



say you? And so now with all that pushback to79000:44:44.559 --> 00:44:48.880



the FBI tried to quietly push out, no, you know79100:44:48.960 --> 00:44:52.639



it really is. We read, we redid the data, and79200:44:52.679 --> 00:44:56.559



it the numbers are actually up by four point eight percent. So, yes,79300:44:56.679 --> 00:44:59.760



data can lie as long as you can manipulate it79400:44:59.800 --> 00:45:00.519



in a certain way.79500:45:00.639 --> 00:45:03.400



Well, was that manipulation or suppression of information from the79600:45:03.440 --> 00:45:03.719



get go?79700:45:04.400 --> 00:45:06.920



Well, so the FBI would tell you they didn't have79800:45:07.159 --> 00:45:11.719



all the data that they needed in order make the assessment,79900:45:11.760 --> 00:45:14.760



and I tell that to people when I'm doing my assessment.80000:45:14.840 --> 00:45:17.360



So if somebody asked me, can you do an intelligence80100:45:17.400 --> 00:45:19.239



product and assess a certain thing.80200:45:19.480 --> 00:45:21.599



I've done for.80300:45:23.760 --> 00:45:28.079



Cross border with Ukrainian people, getting them to safety. I've80400:45:28.079 --> 00:45:32.119



put out some products for nonprofits to help them move80500:45:32.159 --> 00:45:34.800



out there. And at the end it will always say80600:45:35.440 --> 00:45:38.960



all this is all the data that I have, and80700:45:39.079 --> 00:45:42.880



new data may change my assessment, and that's part of80800:45:42.920 --> 00:45:47.960



the intelligence cycle. The last part is it used to80900:45:48.000 --> 00:45:54.440



be just called dissemination, but it's always dissemination and reevaluate.81000:45:54.920 --> 00:45:58.280



So give it to the customer, but continue to evaluate81100:45:58.480 --> 00:45:59.159



what's going on.81200:45:59.280 --> 00:46:03.119



Okay, So not disagreeing with you because this is what81300:46:03.159 --> 00:46:05.519



you do, so I can't. I mean, you're at the experts,81400:46:05.559 --> 00:46:10.000



not me in this, but I agree in the state81500:46:10.119 --> 00:46:12.840



in that in that statement, and you know, hey, this81600:46:12.960 --> 00:46:15.840



is based on basically you're saying, this is based on81700:46:15.840 --> 00:46:17.599



the information at hand, which is the only way that81800:46:17.639 --> 00:46:21.960



you can can give information making assessment on what's going81900:46:22.000 --> 00:46:25.199



on your your your conclusion is only as good as82000:46:25.199 --> 00:46:29.639



the info that you have understood. But are we to82100:46:29.639 --> 00:46:31.880



believe the FBI really didn't have the information?82200:46:32.480 --> 00:46:34.800



No, I mean they did an organization.82300:46:34.880 --> 00:46:37.239



Maybe they didn't have it, they had access, they have82400:46:37.360 --> 00:46:39.719



access to it. It's the FBI, it's the Federal Bureau82500:46:39.800 --> 00:46:43.440



of an Investigation. If they tell a police force that82600:46:43.440 --> 00:46:45.719



they need the data, the police force is going to82700:46:45.760 --> 00:46:48.360



give them the data. I didn't work in the FBI82800:46:48.880 --> 00:46:51.840



or on the police force, so I don't know sort82900:46:51.880 --> 00:46:53.519



of the doctrine that.83000:46:53.760 --> 00:46:55.199



Or how that works, how they interact.83100:46:55.360 --> 00:46:58.719



Yeah, so there could be, like I said, I don't83200:46:58.760 --> 00:47:01.679



know this, so I'm just going to say this as83300:47:02.440 --> 00:47:08.360



a blanket statement. They there could be requirements that if83400:47:08.400 --> 00:47:11.360



the FBI reaches out, the police force has to give83500:47:11.440 --> 00:47:15.880



up that information, so that that would then mean the83600:47:15.960 --> 00:47:19.360



FBI didn't go out searching for that stuff, and their83700:47:19.360 --> 00:47:22.360



blanket statement would be, well, we just didn't have access83800:47:22.440 --> 00:47:25.559



to it. You have access to everything. You're you're the FBI.83900:47:25.639 --> 00:47:27.719



It's like the CIA saying we didn't have access to84000:47:27.760 --> 00:47:31.920



the intelligence. Yeah you did, right, you're read on everything84100:47:32.039 --> 00:47:32.840



you have need to know.84200:47:33.639 --> 00:47:34.960



Yeah, what don't they know?84300:47:36.280 --> 00:47:38.000



Right, that's what we're trying to figure out.84400:47:38.280 --> 00:47:42.960



Right, Well let's let's uh, we kind of went went84500:47:43.039 --> 00:47:45.440



veered off. Yeah, but that's fine. You know, I I'll84600:47:45.559 --> 00:47:47.760



sometimes I'll do that because I have my mind. Just84700:47:48.880 --> 00:47:50.400



my wife will tell you she thinks I have add84800:47:50.480 --> 00:47:52.239



but it just never stops, and I'll say, hey, wait84900:47:52.280 --> 00:47:52.599



a minute.85000:47:52.679 --> 00:47:55.480



You know, so I think there should be a study.85100:47:55.480 --> 00:47:58.000



I think our whole generation, uh we just go we85200:47:58.000 --> 00:48:01.599



have ADHD. It's like there's probably a reason for that.85300:48:01.880 --> 00:48:04.039



Oh on how we were brought up.85400:48:04.119 --> 00:48:06.159



Now we're gonna get go down a different roads if85500:48:06.159 --> 00:48:08.280



we keep talking about that, and then I'll just start going85600:48:08.280 --> 00:48:11.519



into the food. But anyway, well, I was going to85700:48:11.559 --> 00:48:16.199



try to get back to Israel. So here's my question,85800:48:16.760 --> 00:48:20.280



because you helped establish the history and you gave us85900:48:20.679 --> 00:48:22.559



a lot based on your knowledge and your experience from86000:48:22.599 --> 00:48:24.159



the area in which you did in the military and86100:48:24.159 --> 00:48:29.639



and intelligence and analyzing all that data. But fast forward,86200:48:29.880 --> 00:48:33.079



I believe Israel had a right to respond. Any country86300:48:33.119 --> 00:48:37.320



should respond the way they were attacked on that October seventh, okay,86400:48:37.599 --> 00:48:41.480



last year twenty three. So do you think at this86500:48:41.599 --> 00:48:44.880



time though, are they going too far or are they86600:48:44.960 --> 00:48:47.639



not going far enough? Or what does your opinion on it?86700:48:47.679 --> 00:48:51.039



I mean, at some point when do you have to say,86800:48:51.440 --> 00:48:53.880



you know what you kind of you kind of proved86900:48:53.880 --> 00:48:57.039



your point, or is it correct for them to believe87000:48:57.039 --> 00:49:03.800



in the total destruct and extermination of not the Palestine87100:49:03.840 --> 00:49:06.679



is by the I don't think that's their end game here. Obviously,87200:49:06.760 --> 00:49:08.960



they want to get rid of Hamas has blow any87300:49:09.039 --> 00:49:12.920



anyone they consider a terrorist to their state. So do87400:49:12.960 --> 00:49:14.599



you think they're going too far? Or do you think87500:49:14.639 --> 00:49:17.519



they're approaching this rationally as any other nation would.87600:49:18.880 --> 00:49:21.679



I So, all right, this is my opinion. Okay, I87700:49:21.719 --> 00:49:23.599



just want to I do that on the podcast as well.87800:49:23.679 --> 00:49:25.719



When I'm going to give my opinion on something, I87900:49:25.719 --> 00:49:28.920



want to state it. And that's a point where if88000:49:28.960 --> 00:49:32.119



you as an individual listening, can hear my opinion and88100:49:32.119 --> 00:49:35.199



then you can go research the facts and form your88200:49:35.239 --> 00:49:41.039



own opinion off of that. I will say, so, this88300:49:41.119 --> 00:49:46.480



is what Israel did immediately after October seventh is and88400:49:46.559 --> 00:49:48.480



I'm going to say this. I'm not a supporter of88500:49:48.639 --> 00:49:50.800



Russia and what they did in Ukraine, but from a88600:49:50.840 --> 00:49:55.559



military standpoint, they did what Russia should have done if88700:49:55.559 --> 00:49:58.559



they really wanted to take Ukraine, which is what I88800:49:59.000 --> 00:50:01.000



what the US is called with the US did in88900:50:01.039 --> 00:50:04.360



Iraq and Afghanistan, which is shock and awe, Okay, you89000:50:04.400 --> 00:50:07.320



do shock and all. That's what Israel did. The problem89100:50:07.360 --> 00:50:10.679



that I have is that they're still doing it they're89200:50:10.719 --> 00:50:13.360



still taking and they go, well, we can't go in89300:50:13.400 --> 00:50:16.320



because of the tunnels. And I understand that. You it's89400:50:16.360 --> 00:50:18.320



a tough decision for a commander on the ground to89500:50:18.400 --> 00:50:20.679



make to tell his forces you're going to go in89600:50:20.719 --> 00:50:24.239



this tunnel. There could be twenty Hamas fighters in there,89700:50:24.400 --> 00:50:26.760



and those Hammas fighters have the advantage because they know89800:50:26.840 --> 00:50:29.639



you're coming, they can hear you. You don't know where89900:50:29.639 --> 00:50:31.760



they're at, where they're at, and they know exactly where90000:50:31.760 --> 00:50:36.119



you're at. So you're sending those troops to die, so90100:50:36.159 --> 00:50:39.480



they couldn't do that. You can do a ground war90200:50:40.119 --> 00:50:43.840



in Gaza, I believe. Like I said, it's my opinion,90300:50:44.800 --> 00:50:48.920



once the shock and all was over with, you can90400:50:49.000 --> 00:50:52.440



send troops into Gaza and go just like the US90500:50:52.559 --> 00:50:56.960



military did, door to door, house to house and root90600:50:57.000 --> 00:51:02.000



out those individuals. Now, the problem that the US military90700:51:02.639 --> 00:51:05.880



had was, if you remember, George W. Bush went on90800:51:06.000 --> 00:51:11.079



the aircraft carrier and put mission accomplished back in two90900:51:11.159 --> 00:51:13.480



thousand and five or two thousand and.91000:51:13.519 --> 00:51:14.280



Six, I believe.91100:51:14.679 --> 00:51:17.679



I believe so in Iraq you said mission accomplished, and91200:51:17.960 --> 00:51:19.400



he got a lot of flak for that. It was91300:51:19.440 --> 00:51:21.599



two thousand and five because there was an election prop91400:51:21.960 --> 00:51:23.880



the election process was going on, and he got a91500:51:23.880 --> 00:51:26.000



lot of flak for that. The truth of the matter91600:51:26.159 --> 00:51:29.760



is it was true. Mission was accomplished. We got Saddam usin.91700:51:30.599 --> 00:51:35.719



We crippled the entire Saddam government. Had the US left91800:51:36.199 --> 00:51:39.039



and told Iraq, hey, this is now yours, you do91900:51:39.119 --> 00:51:41.400



with it what you want, we'd probably still be in92000:51:41.400 --> 00:51:44.119



the same situation we are now, but we would have92100:51:44.159 --> 00:51:47.599



lost a lot less US troops. What happened was we said,92200:51:48.039 --> 00:51:51.719



the international communities going to call us bullies and they're92300:51:51.719 --> 00:51:55.400



going to hate us if we don't do peacekeeping in92400:51:55.440 --> 00:51:56.079



this region.92500:51:57.079 --> 00:52:00.159



So with that, do you think the US felt all92600:52:00.199 --> 00:52:02.039



it was like obligatory for them to stay there.92700:52:04.079 --> 00:52:08.280



Absolutely, And then you know that's the al Qaeda uprising92800:52:08.639 --> 00:52:14.159



started and a lot of Iranian proxies popped up in92900:52:14.199 --> 00:52:17.440



Iraq just based on the fact that US troops were93000:52:17.519 --> 00:52:20.639



staying there, and so the people of Iraq very disillusion93100:52:20.719 --> 00:52:26.039



to US troops as the war went on because of93200:52:26.119 --> 00:52:29.400



things that I've mentioned before, walking while Arab and having93300:52:29.480 --> 00:52:32.880



certain people in US military uniforms. Look, the Abu Gharab93400:52:33.679 --> 00:52:38.800



prison pictures came out showing that we put in US93500:52:39.280 --> 00:52:43.079



interrogators put Iraqis that were in prison on top of93600:52:43.119 --> 00:52:45.880



each other and stripped them of their clothes and took93700:52:45.920 --> 00:52:48.519



pictures with them and did all of these despicable things.93800:52:49.679 --> 00:52:52.239



All of that would never have happened. We would have93900:52:52.280 --> 00:52:55.199



just left and said, this is now your country. You94000:52:55.320 --> 00:52:57.880



formed the government do whatever. What we wanted to do94100:52:58.440 --> 00:53:02.760



was force them to start a government that's pro us94200:53:03.519 --> 00:53:08.280



so that we can influence Middle East operations, that's oil,94300:53:08.599 --> 00:53:11.239



that's you know, other services and goods.94400:53:11.400 --> 00:53:13.800



Tried that time and time again, and it never and94500:53:13.840 --> 00:53:18.079



it failed, never works because that just because like you said,94600:53:18.119 --> 00:53:20.840



Western view versus you know, Eastern view.94700:53:21.800 --> 00:53:26.440



Now, Israel is more attuned to Middle Eastern society, right,94800:53:26.519 --> 00:53:31.000



so they understand this. But to just keep it is94900:53:31.119 --> 00:53:34.960



it is targeted, right, the destruction of buildings because a95000:53:35.079 --> 00:53:38.800



terrorist is inside of it, that's targeted. But there are95100:53:38.840 --> 00:53:42.679



also families in there. Well, those families are dying, and95200:53:42.719 --> 00:53:45.239



you're creating new terrorists. Every time that happened.95300:53:45.280 --> 00:53:47.800



Absolutely, every time someone's father or brother dies, you know,95400:53:47.840 --> 00:53:50.639



another one will uprise, uprises or rises up to take95500:53:50.679 --> 00:53:53.639



their place. And I hear what you're saying. You know,95600:53:54.199 --> 00:53:59.199



I personally think enough enough, enough is enough. But I95700:53:59.239 --> 00:54:01.039



know I'm so sometimes I'm fumbling.95800:54:01.159 --> 00:54:03.000



Well, it's been a lot where I want to I've95900:54:03.000 --> 00:54:06.679



been thinking about this in like a football analogy, like96000:54:06.719 --> 00:54:07.679



American football.96100:54:08.199 --> 00:54:08.400



You know.96200:54:09.199 --> 00:54:11.480



So I'm a Saints fan. That's not good this year, but.96300:54:12.239 --> 00:54:15.360



I've watched Actually I'm liking what the Saints have been doing.96400:54:16.119 --> 00:54:20.079



I've been supporting them, you know. Ever good, So yeah,96500:54:20.280 --> 00:54:22.119



we're definitely watching them as one of our teams this year,96600:54:22.159 --> 00:54:23.679



for sure. Good deal.96700:54:24.360 --> 00:54:27.760



I just I know, I've sat down so many times96800:54:27.800 --> 00:54:30.719



and watched a game and seeing a team be up96900:54:30.920 --> 00:54:36.000



forty to fourteen in the by halftime, right, and that's97000:54:36.119 --> 00:54:40.360



the arbitrary number or whatever, And then I go check97100:54:40.400 --> 00:54:42.119



the score at the end and it was forty two97200:54:42.159 --> 00:54:45.280



to forty, and you go, what happened? It was like, well,97300:54:45.400 --> 00:54:47.320



they had their foot on the throat and they took97400:54:47.360 --> 00:54:51.880



it off and they decided to let the other team97500:54:52.000 --> 00:54:55.159



come back. Now that analogy does not speak anything to97600:54:55.199 --> 00:54:59.679



the humanitarian crisis or anything like that. It might be97700:55:00.639 --> 00:55:03.400



sort of a dumb down analogy. But what I'm trying97800:55:03.400 --> 00:55:06.599



to get to here is Israel can take their foot97900:55:06.639 --> 00:55:11.360



off the throat of Hamas. Hamas is going to re establish, reorganize,98000:55:11.440 --> 00:55:15.639



and get bigger. That's what Israel thinks. So that's where98100:55:15.639 --> 00:55:17.239



it comes into you have to annihilate.98200:55:17.480 --> 00:55:20.920



I can't blame that way of thinking, though. I mean, realistically,98300:55:20.960 --> 00:55:25.480



I think that Israel has gotten to the point with98400:55:25.519 --> 00:55:28.440



all of this that they're like, you know what, screw this,98500:55:28.119 --> 00:55:30.760



we this time, let's just really end it. And that's98600:55:30.800 --> 00:55:34.320



they're trying to do. People don't like it because it's98700:55:34.400 --> 00:55:37.400



messy and it's warning. It is what it is. Unfortunately,98800:55:37.440 --> 00:55:41.920



you know, innocence die. But Israel also approached it very98900:55:42.360 --> 00:55:45.719



messy from the get go by just targeting towns, villages99000:55:45.719 --> 00:55:47.679



and cities and saying, oh, well, you know their tunnel99100:55:47.719 --> 00:55:50.239



underneath and we couldn't decipher who was who, which, to99200:55:50.280 --> 00:55:53.920



be honest, was bullshit, you know, and they made it99300:55:54.039 --> 00:55:58.719



very evident when they were able to suddenly blow people's99400:55:58.760 --> 00:56:01.360



pagers up, Well, that seems pretty precise and you know99500:56:01.840 --> 00:56:04.960



to me. And and so now after that, I think99600:56:05.000 --> 00:56:08.840



that there they've been better at targeting exactly who they99700:56:08.840 --> 00:56:13.119



want to go after. But you know, how do you99800:56:13.119 --> 00:56:17.719



how do you explain them, you know, going ahead and99900:56:18.519 --> 00:56:21.239



just telling you know, NATO memory, and I know they're100000:56:21.239 --> 00:56:22.960



not a NATO nation, but you know members of NATO100100:56:23.000 --> 00:56:25.519



who are also allies of the US like, hey, screw you,100200:56:25.559 --> 00:56:26.760



I don't care what you say. We don't need you.100300:56:26.760 --> 00:56:30.199



We're gonna do what we want. They blew up that100400:56:30.360 --> 00:56:34.000



French gas company, well company, I believe, whatever it was,100500:56:34.639 --> 00:56:39.320



and France didn't respond, you know, not militarily anyway, They100600:56:39.320 --> 00:56:40.760



were stern to say, hey, we're no longer going to100700:56:40.760 --> 00:56:44.079



support you, and then Israel just raises their middle fingers like, well,100800:56:44.119 --> 00:56:47.320



we don't need you. At what point is Israel not100900:56:47.480 --> 00:56:50.960



going like they're not realizing I'm not saying they don't101000:56:50.960 --> 00:56:52.880



have a right to what they're doing because we went101100:56:52.960 --> 00:56:56.239



after bin Laden, we didn't care. We went after everybody101200:56:56.280 --> 00:56:58.360



we wanted to go after, and that's what Israel's doing.101300:56:58.679 --> 00:57:01.760



But at what point does Israel or net net to101400:57:01.920 --> 00:57:05.719



Yahoo not take a step back and go while we101500:57:05.760 --> 00:57:07.760



are doing what we have to do, what are the101600:57:07.800 --> 00:57:11.920



consequences of this with everybody else in the world. All101700:57:11.960 --> 00:57:15.119



it takes us for them to do the wrong thing101800:57:15.400 --> 00:57:19.119



and get one of the NATO members involved because they101900:57:19.159 --> 00:57:22.440



have to, and then we're in a very messy situation102000:57:23.199 --> 00:57:24.440



with Article five, right.102100:57:25.559 --> 00:57:27.880



And yeah, if so, what's your host five?102200:57:28.000 --> 00:57:31.159



Like you mentioned, is is the NATO article that says,102300:57:31.159 --> 00:57:34.159



if one NATO nation is attacked, all NATO nations have102400:57:34.199 --> 00:57:36.079



been attacked and they have to come to the defense102500:57:36.119 --> 00:57:39.079



of that one NATO nation. Article five has only been102600:57:39.119 --> 00:57:43.960



invoked once, and that is after nine to eleven. So102700:57:44.000 --> 00:57:48.840



the United States was attacked for nine to eleven, all102800:57:48.840 --> 00:57:51.679



the NATO nations came together. The Iraq War was not102900:57:51.719 --> 00:57:55.079



a NATO war. We had NATO nations that did not103000:57:55.320 --> 00:58:00.280



decide to go with us on that. But here's what103100:58:00.320 --> 00:58:04.079



I'll say, Yeah, so sorry. Here Here's what I'll say103200:58:04.280 --> 00:58:11.000



about the Israel conundrum is that at some point, and103300:58:11.039 --> 00:58:13.199



you asked, and I don't know if I said definitive103400:58:13.280 --> 00:58:17.000



you you asked if I thought they've gone too far definitively.103500:58:17.039 --> 00:58:19.039



What I will say is, at points they have gone103600:58:19.039 --> 00:58:25.599



too far. In my opinion, the nations that are supplying103700:58:25.960 --> 00:58:30.280



goods and services militarily to Israel, the United States being103800:58:30.360 --> 00:58:33.400



the key one there, is going to have to decide103900:58:33.599 --> 00:58:38.639



when enough is enough, because right now they are it's hey,104000:58:38.679 --> 00:58:41.639



don't do this, Israel. Just like you said, Nan Yaho, says,104100:58:41.679 --> 00:58:43.719



screw you, I'm going to do it anyway. They do it,104200:58:44.000 --> 00:58:47.000



and the US just goes, well, don't do it again,104300:58:47.880 --> 00:58:50.679



and then don't do it again. And so when I104400:58:50.719 --> 00:58:53.400



when I was a human intelligence analyst out in Iraq,104500:58:53.719 --> 00:58:56.840



I had another analyst. This was years ago, and I'm104600:58:56.840 --> 00:58:59.159



still study I still studying Israel at that time, and104700:58:59.599 --> 00:59:02.159



he was educating me on some things. And you know,104800:59:02.280 --> 00:59:06.079



Israel in the United States, Israel's like that friend at104900:59:06.119 --> 00:59:08.039



the bar you always go to the bar with that105000:59:08.199 --> 00:59:10.599



gets too drunk and then starts a fight, and then105100:59:10.599 --> 00:59:11.760



you have to get into the fight.105200:59:12.480 --> 00:59:13.440



And you keep going to.105300:59:13.400 --> 00:59:15.800



The bar because you like the guy and you guys105400:59:15.840 --> 00:59:18.480



have a great time, but sometimes he takes it too105500:59:18.559 --> 00:59:21.119



far and then you have to get involved. And at105600:59:21.159 --> 00:59:23.400



some point you have to tell that guy either you're105700:59:23.440 --> 00:59:27.280



gonna stop doing that or I'm not going to be105800:59:27.400 --> 00:59:31.360



associating with you anymore. And so we're close. I don't105900:59:31.400 --> 00:59:33.800



think we're at that level. We are very close to106000:59:33.840 --> 00:59:37.400



that level. The response that Israel is going to take106100:59:37.400 --> 00:59:40.639



on Iran is going to say a lot about future106200:59:41.079 --> 00:59:42.599



dialogue with the United States.106300:59:42.760 --> 00:59:46.000



Yeah, I look, Spain's already announced they're cutting him off106400:59:46.000 --> 00:59:48.480



France cutting him off in terms of support for all106500:59:48.519 --> 00:59:52.159



of this. What I see is, I think this is106600:59:52.199 --> 00:59:54.920



an opinion, but I think most people from NOLASA looking106700:59:54.960 --> 00:59:58.760



and can probably agree with this assessment that Israel does106800:59:58.800 --> 01:00:01.800



what they do because they know the US is behind them.106901:00:03.159 --> 01:00:03.400



Yeah.107001:00:03.480 --> 01:00:06.960



I believe that I do, and we have a long history.107101:00:08.079 --> 01:00:10.199



We'll get off this topic soon because I wanted to107201:00:10.280 --> 01:00:12.679



go into you know, your neck of the woods of107301:00:12.679 --> 01:00:14.360



Witch you specialized, and I think it was like Russian.107401:00:14.920 --> 01:00:16.000



I've got a few more minutes.107501:00:16.119 --> 01:00:21.199



Okay, We'll move out out of this pretty soon. But anyway, Yeah,107601:00:21.239 --> 01:00:23.199



I think they just they just do do what they107701:00:23.239 --> 01:00:26.719



do because of because we're behind them. And then if107801:00:26.760 --> 01:00:29.199



you look at the history of what they have done107901:00:29.239 --> 01:00:33.079



over the years, all over the years, they have been108001:00:33.119 --> 01:00:35.480



told to calm down, and more than one one occasion108101:00:35.519 --> 01:00:39.000



throughout the years because of how they've approached certain situations108201:00:39.000 --> 01:00:41.880



and gone after other nations. So they do have a108301:00:42.039 --> 01:00:44.840



history or a pattern of doing this. Now we can108401:00:44.920 --> 01:00:49.239



argue whether all of that was justified. But still I108501:00:49.239 --> 01:00:52.480



don't know. There's I just hope all this ends soon,108601:00:53.559 --> 01:00:55.719



you know, and and it ends in a way that108701:00:55.760 --> 01:00:59.840



doesn't drag everybody into a world war. And then with that,108801:00:59.880 --> 01:01:01.679



I I kind of want to move. Let's quickly go108901:01:01.719 --> 01:01:05.159



over a few other things. So just got just came109001:01:05.159 --> 01:01:07.639



out and I think you saw this. What do you109101:01:07.639 --> 01:01:10.440



think about North Korea sending troops over now? Oh yeah,109201:01:10.519 --> 01:01:11.159



in the world.109301:01:11.079 --> 01:01:15.519



Over about twelve thousand North Korean troops going out to109401:01:16.440 --> 01:01:21.159



Ukraine to fight. So, first of all, for a big picture,109501:01:21.519 --> 01:01:25.239



is now you're seeing what we would consider in World109601:01:25.280 --> 01:01:29.760



War two the Axis Alliance, which is and Iran has109701:01:29.800 --> 01:01:32.920



called their own group the Axis of Resistance. I think109801:01:32.920 --> 01:01:36.199



that's going to be coined for this entire axis, which109901:01:36.239 --> 01:01:41.199



is Russia, China, North Korea, Iran. So those groups are110001:01:41.239 --> 01:01:44.599



coming closer, and now you've got twelve thousand to thirteen thousand.110101:01:45.119 --> 01:01:48.159



I've seen some say as much as seventeen thousand North110201:01:48.239 --> 01:01:52.239



Koreans moving to Russia because they need more fodder. And110301:01:52.280 --> 01:01:54.800



it's very interesting that all those troops are going to110401:01:54.840 --> 01:01:57.559



the Curse Region. And if you haven't been following that110501:01:57.760 --> 01:02:01.320



war recently, the Curse Region is where Ukraine successfully did110601:02:01.320 --> 01:02:04.760



a counter offensive and took over Russian land in Kursk110701:02:05.960 --> 01:02:09.559



to push back those Russian munitions. So they can't hit110801:02:09.639 --> 01:02:15.079



places like Kievan Leviv areas within Ukraine. So Russia is110901:02:15.119 --> 01:02:18.159



not only conscripting these North Koreans, they are going to111001:02:19.880 --> 01:02:24.199



one of the bigger hotbeds where Russia wants to show111101:02:24.280 --> 01:02:28.000



force and push back Ukrainians back across the border. So111201:02:28.199 --> 01:02:29.159



that's very interesting.111301:02:29.880 --> 01:02:33.519



Do you think this is something that may pull China111401:02:33.599 --> 01:02:34.519



into the fold on this.111501:02:36.039 --> 01:02:38.079



I think China's going to be So. China's got their111601:02:38.119 --> 01:02:40.400



own thing that they want to do with Taiwan, and111701:02:40.440 --> 01:02:43.360



I think they're going to stay out publicly, out of111801:02:43.400 --> 01:02:47.559



everything until they can do that. Now, China's got an111901:02:47.599 --> 01:02:51.440



issue with manpower. You know, we see China. They've got112001:02:51.639 --> 01:02:54.719



millions to throw at this war. They've got to do112101:02:54.719 --> 01:02:57.559



it very quickly. When I say very quickly, within the112201:02:57.559 --> 01:03:00.880



next five years, because a lot of them in the112301:03:01.119 --> 01:03:06.360



men's male service members in China are aging out of112401:03:06.360 --> 01:03:07.199



being able to fight.112501:03:07.280 --> 01:03:08.320



They are, so.112601:03:08.239 --> 01:03:10.960



They're not going to send I absolutely do not think112701:03:11.000 --> 01:03:13.239



I have it as unlikely that China is going to112801:03:13.280 --> 01:03:16.960



send p l A into Russia to help that battle.112901:03:18.000 --> 01:03:20.679



What they're going to hope so they're gonna they they're113001:03:20.679 --> 01:03:27.119



helping monetarily, They're helping with you know, certain missile defenses,113101:03:27.400 --> 01:03:31.119



things of that nature, militarily on the through back channels.113201:03:31.280 --> 01:03:34.039



They won't publicly state that they're doing this, but they are.113301:03:34.519 --> 01:03:37.440



I think that's where it's going to stay. The country113401:03:37.440 --> 01:03:40.519



I'm looking at getting heavily involved as Belarus.113501:03:41.599 --> 01:03:41.960



Uh.113601:03:42.000 --> 01:03:46.159



And the problem with Belarus is it's right there with Poland,113701:03:47.360 --> 01:03:51.440



and there could come a time where Russia says, screw it,113801:03:51.960 --> 01:03:55.039



we're going full on Belarus. You've got the nukes. So113901:03:55.440 --> 01:03:58.639



Russia last summer sent nuclear weapons believe it was last summer.114001:03:59.800 --> 01:04:02.639



Timeline could be all off, but the Russia is nuclear114101:04:02.639 --> 01:04:06.039



weapons to Belarus to store them along the border there,114201:04:06.960 --> 01:04:10.360



and so now Belarus has it. There could come a114301:04:10.440 --> 01:04:16.599



time in the near future where Putin says to Lukashenko114401:04:16.679 --> 01:04:20.159



and Belarus, hey, all bets are off.114501:04:20.599 --> 01:04:21.480



Go into Poland.114601:04:22.320 --> 01:04:24.599



We're going through Ukraine and we're going to get into114701:04:24.639 --> 01:04:28.800



Poland and we're going to war with NATO because we're114801:04:28.840 --> 01:04:31.320



at odds and this is this is going to be114901:04:31.400 --> 01:04:34.960



a full war. So Belarus could be very important. Lukashenko115001:04:35.639 --> 01:04:39.159



was put in place by Russia, so he has certain115101:04:39.239 --> 01:04:43.480



obligations to the Russian state and the Russian military that115201:04:43.559 --> 01:04:46.440



he is going to have to accept once Putin says115301:04:46.480 --> 01:04:49.960



Belarussian forces, even if it's just put them in Ukraine,115401:04:50.119 --> 01:04:50.920



that's going to happen.115501:04:52.639 --> 01:04:57.239



What a mess, man, it is, it really is. I115601:04:57.280 --> 01:04:59.000



know you're going to have to go here soon, so115701:05:00.039 --> 01:05:01.719



I'm gonna I'm just gonna quickly go over a few115801:05:01.760 --> 01:05:04.480



other things. So let's let's go back to the USA itself,115901:05:04.880 --> 01:05:05.400



I mean.116001:05:06.119 --> 01:05:07.800



And always if you want me back on, we can116101:05:07.840 --> 01:05:10.119



spend some more time. When I have more time, you116201:05:10.119 --> 01:05:10.639



gotta go there.116301:05:12.199 --> 01:05:17.280



Let's let's really quickly election opinion. What do you think?116401:05:17.599 --> 01:05:19.480



And how's that going to go? And then I would116501:05:19.519 --> 01:05:21.800



like you to talk more about your podcast, so everybody116601:05:21.800 --> 01:05:24.800



knows you know where to find that and listen to116701:05:24.840 --> 01:05:26.800



you and your wife and you know, go over all116801:05:26.840 --> 01:05:29.079



that as well. So let's start with your opinion. What's116901:05:29.079 --> 01:05:29.639



going on with the election?117001:05:30.679 --> 01:05:34.360



Yeah, look, so I've said it. I was recently on117101:05:34.400 --> 01:05:37.079



a podcast with some people that I say are very117201:05:37.079 --> 01:05:40.519



good friends of mine. It is called Songs and Stories.117301:05:40.559 --> 01:05:43.280



It's by the band Emery. I was on there and117401:05:43.280 --> 01:05:46.519



I talked heavily about the election. I don't give I'm117501:05:46.519 --> 01:05:47.960



not going to give who I'm going to vote for,117601:05:48.639 --> 01:05:52.920



but I will give how I'm assessing things are going117701:05:52.960 --> 01:05:56.719



to go. And so right now everything flows through Pennsylvania.117801:05:57.440 --> 01:06:02.119



You can run twenty twenty thousand simulations. The person who117901:06:02.199 --> 01:06:05.320



wins Pennsylvania wins the presidential election. We all know that118001:06:05.360 --> 01:06:08.880



we can agree with. That's evident. That's why Trump and118101:06:09.280 --> 01:06:14.039



Harris both have been going into to Pennsylvania recently. What's118201:06:14.079 --> 01:06:16.320



been happening that's been interesting to me is Michigan and118301:06:16.360 --> 01:06:21.280



Wisconsin have sort of turned over to Trump. Something has118401:06:21.400 --> 01:06:25.119



happened within Michigan and Wisconsin that has made them more118501:06:25.239 --> 01:06:29.199



palatable to Trump. And if he can win Wisconsin and Michigan,118601:06:29.559 --> 01:06:32.960



he doesn't need Pennsylvania. I didn't see that coming a118701:06:33.000 --> 01:06:37.760



couple of months ago. That's another key one to go on.118801:06:37.920 --> 01:06:41.079



So depending on who you trust the polsters. The polsters118901:06:41.119 --> 01:06:45.599



still have Kamala Harris winning at least the national vote119001:06:45.679 --> 01:06:49.679



by one point eight percent. They still have her favored119101:06:50.000 --> 01:06:54.039



in Pennsylvania and a couple of other states, including Nevada,119201:06:54.039 --> 01:06:56.599



which I think is trending more towards Trump. So do119301:06:56.639 --> 01:06:59.440



you trust the pollsters or do you trust Vegas? Meaning119401:07:00.079 --> 01:07:03.239



people are putting bets on the election, and Vegas doesn't lose.119501:07:03.440 --> 01:07:05.519



I think I think I at this point, I don't119601:07:05.519 --> 01:07:08.559



trust the polls. I'm I think I'm leaning more towards119701:07:08.559 --> 01:07:11.000



how Vegas is going to be, Yeah, judging how this119801:07:11.079 --> 01:07:13.440



is going to go. Yeah, Well, we'll see how this119901:07:13.519 --> 01:07:17.960



all unfolds. Well, let's let's talk about your uh, your120001:07:18.000 --> 01:07:20.920



podcast really quick before you have to head off, and120101:07:20.960 --> 01:07:23.119



then you know, whatever else you want people to know120201:07:23.159 --> 01:07:25.119



about you, and we'll get you out of it.120301:07:25.559 --> 01:07:27.960



One more thing on the election. Yeah, and now I'm120401:07:28.000 --> 01:07:32.239



extending my time a little bit, but yeah, so one thing,120501:07:32.360 --> 01:07:34.320



one more thing on the election. My hope is that120601:07:34.360 --> 01:07:38.119



it's not a hotly contested election either way. Whoever wins,120701:07:38.920 --> 01:07:41.159



it probably will be because Pennsylvania is one of those120801:07:41.159 --> 01:07:45.800



states that can't assess the election right after the polls120901:07:45.800 --> 01:07:48.199



are done, so it's going to go through the night.121001:07:48.800 --> 01:07:53.159



But I hope someone wins with more so than the121101:07:53.239 --> 01:07:56.880



last election or the one before that, because that's what121201:07:56.960 --> 01:07:59.719



China wants. Honestly, that's what they've been trying to do,121301:07:59.800 --> 01:08:03.039



is hotly contested election that no one approves of, and121401:08:03.079 --> 01:08:05.960



we have a civil war in this country. So that's121501:08:06.039 --> 01:08:08.440



my hope. So I said, I don't care, like I'm121601:08:08.480 --> 01:08:11.599



not going to support one candidate or another, but my121701:08:11.679 --> 01:08:13.320



hope is somebody wins by a lot.121801:08:13.360 --> 01:08:16.000



I'll just try. I believe what that post was that121901:08:16.039 --> 01:08:20.239



came out about the UK Labor Party sending one hundred122001:08:20.279 --> 01:08:25.119



people over here to campaign for Harris. But anyway, Yeah,122101:08:25.199 --> 01:08:27.680



let's let's go over your podcast here and what you122201:08:27.880 --> 01:08:30.640



offer and you're scheduling and when that comes out and122301:08:31.520 --> 01:08:32.359



how that came together.122401:08:32.720 --> 01:08:36.319



Yeah, so the podcast is this week explain it's a122501:08:36.359 --> 01:08:41.079



geopolitical intelligence podcast, just based off of my history, my122601:08:41.279 --> 01:08:44.840



experience as an intelligence analyst. And you set it up122701:08:44.840 --> 01:08:47.439



perfectly at the beginning. We try to break down these122801:08:47.520 --> 01:08:50.640



big events and we don't get technical, we don't get122901:08:50.680 --> 01:08:54.000



bogged down. And so that's if you know anything about123001:08:54.000 --> 01:08:57.720



intelligence analysis. The reports have to be concise and they123101:08:57.720 --> 01:09:00.199



have to be easy to understand. I say for a123201:09:00.239 --> 01:09:04.399



fifth grader. Usually we'll usually say a two star general123301:09:04.439 --> 01:09:07.479



needs to understand it. That's a fifth grade education level.123401:09:07.560 --> 01:09:10.720



Sometimes on these big picture things, that's just a dig123501:09:11.000 --> 01:09:15.760



at the at the officer corps. But that's what we're123601:09:15.800 --> 01:09:19.239



really trying to do, is everybody's talking about these these123701:09:19.239 --> 01:09:22.039



big picture things in a very technical sense, and so123801:09:22.079 --> 01:09:25.279



no one really understands it except for the people who123901:09:25.279 --> 01:09:29.079



are in these certain technical things. So you talk about tanks,124001:09:29.239 --> 01:09:31.760



people who understand tanks, they're gonna be able to speak124101:09:31.920 --> 01:09:37.319



very fluently about it. But not everybody understands that, and124201:09:37.439 --> 01:09:41.199



every I think everyone needs to understand these big geopolitical events,124301:09:41.359 --> 01:09:43.680



so we try to break it down. And I was124401:09:43.680 --> 01:09:46.479



gonna do it by myself when this all started and124501:09:46.560 --> 01:09:48.800



I started, I did what everybody tells. You want to124601:09:48.800 --> 01:09:51.239



start a podcast, you start recording. So I hit record124701:09:51.279 --> 01:09:55.720



and I started talking Ben Shapiro type of kind of124801:09:55.760 --> 01:09:58.119



thing where it's just me and I'm just talking and124901:09:58.159 --> 01:09:59.840



you can say whatever you want about that guy, but125001:10:00.119 --> 01:10:02.000



he's got to be brilliant to be able to talk125101:10:02.159 --> 01:10:04.000



for an hour and a half by himself.125201:10:04.319 --> 01:10:05.159



I could not do that.125301:10:07.159 --> 01:10:09.720



So I said, man, I can't do this, but I125401:10:09.720 --> 01:10:12.680



think it's important. I think what I'm doing is very125501:10:12.720 --> 01:10:15.159



important and people want to hear it. So I went125601:10:15.199 --> 01:10:16.880



to my wife and I was like, I really need125701:10:16.920 --> 01:10:19.720



to somebody else, and I don't have any like I125801:10:19.760 --> 01:10:22.079



have friends and stuff, but that would kind of get125901:10:22.119 --> 01:10:26.079



bogged down into stories about our past and kind of126001:10:26.119 --> 01:10:29.479



goofing off and things like that. And I was like, Tinna,126101:10:29.520 --> 01:10:32.079



you know, we we have these conversations all the time,126201:10:32.359 --> 01:10:34.319



Like we sit at the dinner at the dining room126301:10:34.359 --> 01:10:36.880



table or in our bed and we just talk about126401:10:36.880 --> 01:10:39.359



this stuff and we bounce things off of each other126501:10:39.439 --> 01:10:42.159



and we go to one side and the other. Let's126601:10:42.159 --> 01:10:45.520



do that as a podcast, and we set up and126701:10:45.560 --> 01:10:49.319



we hit record. And I won't say those early episodes126801:10:49.319 --> 01:10:54.119



were the greatest, but it's set the foundation for it126901:10:55.079 --> 01:10:57.920



where we could sit and it's become a part of127001:10:57.960 --> 01:11:01.560



our relationship and our marriage where Thursday nights we sit127101:11:01.640 --> 01:11:04.359



down and we have a conversation and that's the podcast127201:11:05.119 --> 01:11:07.239



and then Fridays it gets released.127301:11:07.720 --> 01:11:09.720



I like that you too can come together and have127401:11:09.760 --> 01:11:13.479



these conversations about politics and you know, major events are127501:11:13.520 --> 01:11:15.960



going on in the world. Not too many couples can127601:11:16.000 --> 01:11:18.199



actually do that, to be honest.127701:11:18.000 --> 01:11:21.199



And we get bogged down sometimes, especially Israel Israel Hamas127801:11:21.279 --> 01:11:24.920



Israel has blog. I mean, this episode was his real127901:11:25.079 --> 01:11:26.880



So yeah, it's a tough one.128001:11:26.920 --> 01:11:30.239



A lot going on out there, and how how do128101:11:30.279 --> 01:11:31.800



people find you outside of that? I mean, I know128201:11:31.800 --> 01:11:33.920



your podcast is built everywhere. I've heard a few times128301:11:33.920 --> 01:11:34.880



already myself.128401:11:35.479 --> 01:11:37.000



I like it. I appreciate that.128501:11:37.159 --> 01:11:40.039



And then anything else in terms of socials, websites, anything128601:11:40.039 --> 01:11:40.319



like that.128701:11:40.760 --> 01:11:44.800



Yeah, So our our Instagram at Open Analytics, we post.128801:11:45.640 --> 01:11:47.840



So if you listen to the podcast, if you're on128901:11:47.880 --> 01:11:50.000



that Instagram account, you'll see a lot of the posts129001:11:50.439 --> 01:11:53.399



leading up to it, just talking about big events that happen.129101:11:54.920 --> 01:11:58.159



So the way we do it is put out the event,129201:11:58.520 --> 01:12:00.800



have a headline, kind of give you a basis on129301:12:00.920 --> 01:12:04.439



it as a screenshot there, and then within the caption129401:12:04.800 --> 01:12:07.279



I will have an assessment. I think that's very important.129501:12:07.359 --> 01:12:10.039



Don't just put out what's going on, like you know,129601:12:10.199 --> 01:12:14.920



Israel bombed this area, killed twenty civilians. We want the assessment,129701:12:15.199 --> 01:12:18.199



why did they do? What are the secondary and tertiary129801:12:18.239 --> 01:12:20.600



repercussions of that? And that's what we're trying to do129901:12:20.960 --> 01:12:25.199



on Instagram, you know, X and Facebook could find this130001:12:25.319 --> 01:12:29.840



everywhere on the socials except for TikTok, just because through130101:12:29.880 --> 01:12:33.199



my experience, I don't I don't trust TikTok at.130201:12:33.039 --> 01:12:35.560



All and I don't do it either.130301:12:35.560 --> 01:12:38.399



That probably gets a lot of people to not see130401:12:38.439 --> 01:12:41.279



what we're doing. But I'm going to sleep well at130501:12:41.359 --> 01:12:44.680



night knowing that I am not a part of that album.130601:12:44.720 --> 01:12:47.119



What I can tell people are finding you, and uh,130701:12:48.359 --> 01:12:50.640



I think from what I can see, you're growing and growing.130801:12:50.720 --> 01:12:54.039



So whatever you're doing, you're doing it right, you know,130901:12:54.079 --> 01:12:56.159



and you're presenting you're presenting the info in a way131001:12:56.199 --> 01:13:00.800



that you know that everyone could consume. Like on my show. Yeah,131101:13:00.800 --> 01:13:03.439



I'm sure it can get one sided, and I have131201:13:03.479 --> 01:13:06.239



a certain audience. I get it. But at the same time,131301:13:06.920 --> 01:13:09.920



you know, we need we need people like you who131401:13:09.960 --> 01:13:14.359



can just stay correct me, correct others. They go, Nope,131501:13:14.399 --> 01:13:16.600



this is where it's at and this is the facts,131601:13:16.600 --> 01:13:19.159



and that's an important thing. So anyway, I appreciate you,131701:13:19.199 --> 01:13:20.760



and yes, I would like to have you back if131801:13:20.760 --> 01:13:23.159



you ever have the time. I know you're super busy.131901:13:23.239 --> 01:13:25.319



So with that being said, hey, let's get you ad132001:13:25.359 --> 01:13:26.479



here so we could do what you got to do,132101:13:27.479 --> 01:13:29.680



and next time, hopefully we can spend more time together132201:13:29.720 --> 01:13:31.359



and have a longer conversation.132301:13:31.439 --> 01:13:33.600



Yeah, let's go for two to three hours, right, once132401:13:34.239 --> 01:13:36.760



I have some time, I think I think there's enough132501:13:36.760 --> 01:13:38.159



in the world that you and I could have a132601:13:38.199 --> 01:13:41.960



conversation for three hours and it would feel like two minutes.132701:13:42.119 --> 01:13:44.920



Oh yeah, and I love learning. So you know, you132801:13:45.000 --> 01:13:46.479



have a bunch of knowledge that I don't, and so132901:13:46.800 --> 01:13:49.880



I'm yeah, very happy to ask questions and get get educated.133001:13:50.720 --> 01:13:51.159



Same here.133101:13:51.199 --> 01:13:53.680



I love bouncing ideas off of smart people like yourself.133201:13:54.159 --> 01:14:01.439



That's debatable. Thank you. Have a good night there, Ran. Yeah,133301:14:01.520 --> 01:14:02.800



let's definitely stay in touch off of this.133401:14:02.840 --> 01:14:04.640



Okay, thank you so much for having me. As I133501:14:04.680 --> 01:14:06.239



always say, stay safe out.133601:14:06.039 --> 01:14:14.359



There days your content, you feel attention, devils high, if133701:14:14.399 --> 01:14:15.760



be high, redemption133801:14:16.199 --> 01:14:18.680



Hug stands on my get