Aug. 15, 2025

Ryan McBeth - Intelligence Analyst, Novelist, Content Creator

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Ryan and I discuss current events as we tackle the tensions in the Middle East, influencers, Revisionist History, Ukraine, and China's ultimate goal. This a great conversation for anybody wanting an update on the current geopolitical tensions and what to expect next.

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All right, Ryan macbeth, thank you for being back on

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the show. I feel this is a do over with

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you because the first time I try to do a

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video episode and I had technical difficulties, so I felt

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bad about that, although the audio episode did do pretty

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well by the way, But this time I'm glad to

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have you on video since I mean, your your audience

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based is YouTube and that's what you do. You specialize

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and you're making like very informative, awesome videos, and you

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do deep dives, and you have a way of explaining

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it in a way that people can just understand it

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without feeling like they have to go to school. You know.

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He basically removed that difficulty out and say, look, let

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me break it down easy for you to digest, and

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this is what's really going on. So I'm glad to

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have this again with you in video format. I just

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they need to see you, they really do to get

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the whole thing. So since we last talked, the first

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time we talked, were talking about was going on in Ukraine.

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I do want to get to that because there's new

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developments and I know you made a video recently about that,

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and then you also made another video about what was

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going on with Israel, what's going on in Gaza, and

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that whole issue as well. So let's start there, if

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you don't mind, Because you know, after the bombing, the

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US sent their B two bombers and whatnot, and we

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basically bomb nuclear facilities in Iran. I ran, surprisingly to me,

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by the way, to me, backed off and I didn't

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expect that they would, but they did. They did settle

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down a bit. A lot of people were really well

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I was. I know you were, because I know you

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mentioned it. But people are concerned that there might be

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sleeper cells here in the US that might be activated

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and retaliation to that. I want to start with that,

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with that first, and see what you think, you know,

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coming from your perspective, because I don't. I don't believe

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it's over. I really don't. I think that that is

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a reality that's extremely plausible. I believe that that is

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a thing that we will have to face. And I

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have done the data. I've done the dive Inpu off

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the border, and I know that this year alone, at

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least until May, there was about seven hundred and fifty

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two or somewhere around there. I don't have the exact

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but it was like seven fifty two in terms of

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terrorists that they knew about that they detained when I

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broke it down, was enough to put fifteen terrorists in

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every state of the United States of America. And that's

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not counting the ones they don't know about. So what

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do you think about that situation? So it would be concerned?

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Should the average American citizen be vigilant, be watching out

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for that or at least have an idea that, yeah,

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it could go bad.

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So well, that's a tough one because it feels like

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I'm in two thousand and two. Right, are we are

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we red? Are we yellow? Or we blue? Or we green?

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Is it a high alert day? Is it a low

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alert day? Right? That's a really good question. You know,

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I don't think the average American should be concerned in

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the sense that there's really not a lot you can

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do to prevent it. But in general, the security services

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of the US need to be concerned about it, mainly because,

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and I don't want to get into politics, but for

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about four years our borders were essentially wide open. We

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don't necessarily know who's here, and instead of you know,

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arresting people at home depot, maybe we should be kind

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of looking for bad guys. I think kind of the

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problem here is that arresting people at home depot is

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good for the president's base, and arresting bad guys is

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hard and takes time. Right, you don't have that immediate payoff,

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So it's kind of easy to see what someone might

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might choose to do, even though finding the bad guys

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could eventually stops for a teris incident. When it comes

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to Iran, I think I don't want to say they've

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learned their lesson, because they haven't learned their lesson. They're

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in a weird place right now. We can get into

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that when it comes to funding and how they're going

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to rebuild their military. But essentially, I would if I

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were part of the security services, I would be concerned

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about a terist start within the United States that might

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not activate now but could activate in the future. So

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the average person knows security services, yes.

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Right, I feel the same way. I just well, I'm

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agreeing with you, But there's also that side of me

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that is like, well, I'm a civilian, like, what's the

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possibility what might I have to go through if that

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did come to it? And interestingly enough, you know, we

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had the instant Colorado where you know, we had the

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extremists that burned a few Cherish people, right, and then

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they recently all so arrested a few Iranians that they

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I don't know the exact details, but they're said to

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be terrorists or non terroists that they deported. That was

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also just just happened recently. So yeah, it is a

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real thing. But I understand what you're saying. You know,

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that's that's for security forces to deal with, and they

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should be dealing with that. So in your opinion, maybe

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we should just you know, hey, be aware, but move on,

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live on, right.

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Yeah, I mean, God, again, it sounds like it's it's

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two thousand and two. If we don't just continue to

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live our lives, terrorists win, right, right. And I even

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remember when I want to say it was in god,

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November October of two thousand and one, President Bush said

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go buy something. Stop watching television and go to the

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store and buy something. And I remember only I was

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dating this for all the time, and I went and

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I bought her like a six hundred dollars eleven jacket.

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You know, I did my part for the economy, you know,

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because like our economy was actually suffering because people were

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hiding inside their homes watching the news.

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Right, they were, they were they they weren't outdoors.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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There was a great South Park episode about that where

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the I think Randy is sitting on the couch and

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his eyes are just wide and how like, and uh yeah,

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I mean it's we have to live our lite. Ye,

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fair enough. If we live in fear, then the terrorists

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really do win.

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Yeah, hence terrorism, right yeah, okay, fair enough on that.

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What about what about your thoughts on what's going on

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in Gaza? I mean, it's we're getting really into what

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are getting close to two years or so or about

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two years correct, so we're run there? What what is

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what is your thoughts on on how that is being

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handled by Israel at the moment. And the reason I

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asked as we because the sentiment is a lot of

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people will agree that they had a right to do

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what they had to do. I mean, I saw your

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video where you said you didn't forget October seventh. I

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didn't either. Most people shouldn't have forgot about that, do

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you think in your in your opinion and this isn't

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this is just an opinion opinion spot, but do you

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think Israel is going a little too far or are

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they trying to deal with the situation where it's a

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matter of geography because it's not a very big place,

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not a very big place for you know, Hamas, for example,

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to spread out and hide. And I've seen that they're

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pretty much just using the people as shields and they're

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basically their captain. They can't necessarily leave either. But at

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the same time, do you believe Israel should probably try

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a different tactic. Are they going a bit too far

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at this point or are they just doing what they

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have to do.

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So one of the things that Israel has done is

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they've started to create a militious and these militias are

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made up of Palestinians who no longer want Hamas in charge,

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and they give them guns and they say, okay, get

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at it, because you know, these guys, they know where

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the hostages are. They no, they know where Hamas is located.

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So it's one of those things where it's like, all right,

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you know, this is kind of how we have to

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do this. And some of these these guys, they're honestly

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got criminal gangs, right, they're criminal gangs. But again, to

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kind of go back to the era of Donald Rumsfeld.

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You go to war if the army have not the

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army you want or you wish you had at a

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later date. So what choice do you have, right they

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you know, those are the allies that are willing to fight,

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So I guess we kind of have to stick with

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those allies. So they're doing that. They are getting aid in,

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which is good. I believe they control about sixty to

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sixty five percent of Gaza and they will ideally that

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the ceasefire is coming up. Supposedly there may be a

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ceasefire soon where most will return. I believe, Oh my,

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this is kind of put me on the on the spot.

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I believe there are forty remaining hostages and twenty two

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I think are still alive. Something like that. There's fifty

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hostages remaining and we know that twenty two are still alive.

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So you know, I believe the ceasefire gives ten hostages back.

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And I can't even imagine what condition the hostages are, right,

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I mean, it must be absolute hell on earth, right,

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because God knows where they're getting fed, right, Like, where

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are these people getting food to feed these hosages? So

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they must be at the point of starvation. Right, No,

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that's not.

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You're not in good shape whatsoever.

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Yeah, they can't be, but they can't.

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You dressed this a little bit. But what about what

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about what's going around mostly on social media or you know,

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we are the media now, right, social media? But what

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about what was being said of Israel willingly holding back supplies,

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right and aid and killing people who are trying to

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get aid? Because from the reports I've seen, and you

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know way more than I do. You have more access,

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but from the reports that I've seen, it's it's really

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not necessarily the case. It's Hamas intercepting a lot of

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these you know, a lot of this aid and then

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trying to redistribute or sell it back to their own people. Yeah,

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so how much of it is true that Israel is

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actually doing this versus it's just propaganda being spread by Hamas?

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That's uh, that's an excellent question. And uh, you know,

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I got to tell you that in some cases, if

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if Israelies are rushed by people and they feel threatened,

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they're going to open fires. Right, That's just kind of

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the way it is. If you feel threatened, then well

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you gotta do what you gotta do to stop the threat.

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That being said, you know, for the most part, Israel

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is getting aid in. It seems like it is mostly successful.

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I want to say it's about one hundred and fifty

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trucks per day roughly. But one of the issues is

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the security situation. That's why you want to work with

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these Palestinians. The criminal gangs who will hopefully take that

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food and distribute it. Now they're probably distributing it in

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a way that makes their gang more powerful. That one

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of the big issues that a lot of people don't

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talk about. This is actually the case in Africa as well,

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is you know, we say Palestinians, but there are tribes

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within Palestinians, and I'm trying to I'm actually trying to

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google it right now. All the but like you know,

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there's there's different plans and we tend to think of, oh,

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here's Palestinians. We tend to think of Arabs in general.

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There's Arabs, but there's different plans and factions and families

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within those societies. And that's why, like democracy doesn't always

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work quite right because like let's say you get hired

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onto the police force, You're going to try to get

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your cousin hired. He's part of your plan, he's part

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of your family. And that's how you end up with

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a mostly Shia police force in Iraq. Right, That's just

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kind of how that part of the world works because

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a lot of it is still tribal, right, and we

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just don't have any concept of that inside the United States.

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No, we don't. I was trying to look it up

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while you're talking. I can't. I can't find like a

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definite number. But it does does echo exactly what you're saying.

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Generation Sucsans was. Yeah, there was exact sorts of plans,

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and you know, and this happened in Afghanistan. Didn't happen

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to me personally, but I know a guy. I know

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a guy right who who said that they built a

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like a water uh, like a irrigation system for this

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one town, and this other town went and blew it

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up because like they thought they should get it first.

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you know, like and we kind of thought like, all right, well,

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we're gonna go to Afghanistan, We're gonna create Jeffersonian democracy,

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and you know, we just kind of ran into that

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tribal issue. You know, for the longest time. You know,

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Ahmad Karzai was essentially mayor of Kabble, right, he was president,

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but he was Breck. You step outside of Cobble, you

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might as well be stepping back into the year two

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thousand while over the year seven hundred, depending on the

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definition you want to go through here. Yeah, but yeah,

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the tribal thing is it's just not something that that

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we can ignore and uh, it's uh, it's something that

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we have to think about whenever dealing with these societies

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where when we look at it and go, well, we

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gave you this freedom, how come you're not well because

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you put this other tribe in charge, not my tribe,

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so I have to fight this other tribe. God's Yeah.

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Our misunderstanding of the of the region and its history,

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as just as you said, between tribes has been an issue.

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But I'm going to I'm going to get to some

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before we move on. I'm going to get to something

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that that touches on because you know, you mentioned Afghanistan,

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like when when we went in there around two thousand

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and one, right, or War on Terror but before that,

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we helped to supply the rebels and help push back

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against the Soviets at that time. And a lot of

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people don't even know this, but Afghanistan they went through

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a period where they were literally a communist country. I

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was backed by the Soviets before the Soviets invaded in

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seventy eight or seventy nine. So and before that, they

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weren't even in Islama State. They were a monarchy. They

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ran by, you know, under the rule of a monarchy.

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You know, at that time, Islam wasn't even a governing body.

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It was literally just a religion, you know, and it

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was spread out among different tribes.

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But yeah, they're absolutely right, and there are people who

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were wearing many skirts and kabble, you.

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Know, wouldn't But the reason I brought that up is

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because you bring up a You brought up Afghanistan, and

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the US gets the blame for creating these terrorist organizations

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all the time. If it wasn't for US, this wouldn't

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have happened. Right, if we didn't back Israel, nobody would

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hate Israel or hate the United States, which which is false.

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They're still going to have an issue with Israel. They

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always have but the reality is, you know, like I

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just did a deep dive on this the other day.

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Islamic let me correct myself. Extreme Islamist terrorism has been

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around in that region for thirteen hundred years literally, and

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it's not a new concept. And primarily it was terrorism

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against other Muslims. It wasn't about being against the West.

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It was about power and control, subjecting the other people

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that they believe didn't hold up or lived to the

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standards of Islam, at least to their extreme view of

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it anyway. So it's a long history of terrorism and

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a religious war within the people that literally practiced the

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same religion, which is crazy. And you know, we always

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see in the media how the Western powers are to

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blame for the situation. The United States is to blame,

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not We're not infallible at all. We did things that

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we probably shouldn't have. We don't have a full understanding

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of why we should be there. We just knew that, hey,

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we're going to spread democracy and free the people. But

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there was way more to the story than just that.

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So it's it's like, what do you say to those

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who always always believe that we should just not ever

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get involved, Should we not ever involved, or we are

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we just perpetuating perpetuating the problem, or is it something

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that we really should always have a bit of a

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hand in to make sure it doesn't get too out

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of control as far as our interests are concerned, or

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maybe in the world's interest.

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Well, the question kind of comes up as before we

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get involved, what is the definition of when okay? And

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that's I did a video about that. Essentially it was

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about how how Vietnam can kind of parallel what the

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conflict with China might look like in the sense that

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if we go into Taiwan without a full understanding with

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but win actually means we're gonna have a lot of

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trouble because the Yeah, the idea behind Robert McNamara during

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Vietnam was well, we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna apply

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graduated pressure until they realize that all right, well we

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probably can't win against the United States, so we're just

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gonna come to the peace table. And that didn't seem

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to work, right, like you know Vietnam, you know, Vietnam

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just are oh, we can wait these guys out. That's

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exactly what they did, right, So yeah, you know it's

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by that that's a. I think before getting involved any place,

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we should kind of get that definition of win, Like

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what does definitely what what does win actually look like?

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If you if you take a look at the Huthies,

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what does win mean? Does it mean regime change? Does

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it mean the who aren't capable of launching attacks against

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the against shipping in the Red Sea anymore? Does it

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mean treading them to the point where the loyalists I

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used to say the loyalists, but the people in the

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western half of the Yemen would be able to actually

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fight back against the hoo Thies because right now, Yemen's

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kind of a fractured state. The Hoopies are just one tribe, right,

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they are a tribe that are inside of Yemen, and

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you know they were able to take over a good

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portion of the western half. So what does win mean? Right?

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So that's kind of the direction that you should probably

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go in. It's before you get involved in any kind

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of conflict to figure out what win actually means.

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So literally, a better understanding of the area in the situation,

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Like what's the impact of our involvement?

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Yeah, I get where you're coming from. As far as

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what is a win? I mean, it's basically defining what

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the mission is, right and why are we here? Really,

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I don't think we ever know the whole story. But

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at the same time, I mean, I just I guess

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it's really about do you do you believe that? Not

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that I wouldn't say the world, it's it's more like media, right,

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there's this rhetoric in this, this whole movement of you know,

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America bad, anti America, America needs to be dismantled, America

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needs to go away because everything we do just makes

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the world turn to shit. And I don't believe that

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at all. I really don't. So I want to get

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your opinion on that, and you know where that's coming from,

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I mean, outside of obvious propaganda that's being spread to

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divide us. What do you think about what's going on

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right now with that, with that push for that talking

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point about America just being the enemy of the world,

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or rather every time we get involved, we just create

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a worse situation.

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Boy, that's a very good question, you know, I think. Yeah,

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back after the terrorist attacks, one of the excuses we

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kind of had was, well, they hate our freedoms, and

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I think that some people they they look at their

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government and they go like, man, my government is a

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government for the people in charge. Right, They don't think

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like you look at an Arab spring, Well, how did

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Arab spring start? Well, it's started because there was a

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fruit cart vendor who didn't have the money to pay

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for a license for his fruit cart. And he also

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didn't have the money to pay for a bribe to

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this policewoman who kept harassing him. Right, and so what

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does this guy do? Well, he sells fruit illegally and

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then the police come and smashes fruit cart. Now, then

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he goes and sets himself on fire in protest. Right. So,

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I think that you have people who they don't understand

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why their government treats them the way they do. And

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they look at America and it's this amazing kind of

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why does ever want to come here? They hate us

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so much? But I would bet you if you went

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to an average Palestinian and said would you like to

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come to America, They'd be on the next fricking flight

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as long as they can bring their family with, right, Right,

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they like we there is this magical part of America where,

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for the most part, we really do live in a security.

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We live in a society where we do generally follow laws.

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Most people do pay their taxes. Most police aren't really corrupt,

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at least not to the extent that you know, you

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can pay a bribe to get out of the ticket

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or something like that. Right, Like, I can't even imagine

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what would happen to me if I tried. You know,

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if the police came and I held out one hundred

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dollars bill, probably wouldn't go, right. They probably arrestd me

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for for trying to bribe them. Right right now, I'm

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sure there is corruption, right we saw that. He saw

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that in New York, Yes, with Mary Eric Adams, who like,

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let me do all these favors for Turkey, and you know,

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I get to fly to Turkey for fifty dollars whatever,

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you know, Like for Menendez, that was always a good one,

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Robert Menz It's.

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Like, I mean, we'll always be corrected bars and it's

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never to the level that we see in these other

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third work countries for example, right.

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Now, not even close. Like if I want to start

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a business here in the US, I have a I

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have an Indian friend of mine and he was telling

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me how great the US is, How like this guy

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he moved from India to Texas and like now he

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wears a cowboy hat, he owns a gun, he's driving

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a Ford f one fifty. Like America has this way

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of just turning evil into Americans, right, And he told me,

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like how like in India, if you want to start

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a busines, you got to go pay a bribe to someone,

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and then you go to another agency and you gotta

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pay another bribe, and everything's set up so that everyone

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kind of gets their palms greased on the way to

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starting this business. And in America, if I want to

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start a business, I literally go on to the State

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of Maryland website and I pay fifty dollars and I

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start an LLC.

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Literally, just go online, you can start one.

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And that I think that is for the most part,

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the engine of our growth, the engine of our success.

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It's that people can just you want to start a business,

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you want to start cleaning business, You just all right,

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you'll get some fabulous so get some rags, get some buckets,

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form the LLC poof you just started a business. And

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I think that people in some other countries they look

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at America and they don't they don't get it. They

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don't understand, like, how come they're successful, but we're not.

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And they may realize like, oh, it's because our leaders

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are corrupt, but they can't fix that. So it's just

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kind of it might be easier to blame America of

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your problems than it is to kind of look internally right,

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because you can't fix that. The only way you fix

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that is the way the Syrians did. Now, a lot

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of Assyrians died to make that happen.

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The thing with the well, so I see where you

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come from. I agree with that. But the reality is

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the Middle East is always, always had had some kind

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of conflict, and I know, as you stated before, a

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lot of it is tribal. It's like that area has

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never well, we consider it modernization, right, because Western culture

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is just completely different. We always look at them as

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not progressing there. They seem to be very traditional in

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their ways after all these years, and and what happens

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is from what I see, I may be wrong, and

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that's why you're here, you know, correct me, But what

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I see is as soon as as soon as one

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faction rises right on behalf of the people, it's always

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starts out as on behalf of the people by the people,

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and they want to overthrow the regime that becomes authoritarian

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or dictator like, and then they themselves become the same

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thing they overthrew. It's almost like once they have power,

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it becomes so infectious that they just keep repeating the cycle.

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What is your opinion on why that happens. Is it

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literally just always because it's a tribal thing, or is

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it because they're they're just they're just so used to

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not being able to have any kind of power or

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control whatsoever, that once they have it, it's like it

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just gets to their head. They just can't they can't stop.

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They must take it all out at that point. Well,

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that that's a fantastic question. You know, maybe I look

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at you, like at George Washington. Probably out of the

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00:26:51.599 --> 00:26:56.200
smartest thing George Washington ever did was quit after two terms, right, right,

465
00:26:56.279 --> 00:27:00.200
that just kind of set the precedent. And we we've

466
00:27:00.240 --> 00:27:03.000
had this precedent for two hundred and fifty years. While

467
00:27:03.400 --> 00:27:06.599
a little bit less years, we've had this precedent.

468
00:27:06.920 --> 00:27:10.400
Where for the most part we have this peaceful transition

469
00:27:10.480 --> 00:27:15.359
of power, right and for the most part elected officials

470
00:27:15.440 --> 00:27:18.640
at least they try their best to do the right thing,

471
00:27:19.359 --> 00:27:22.559
you know, at least that they're answerable to their constituents

472
00:27:22.640 --> 00:27:26.559
because if they don't answer to their constituents, they get unelected.

473
00:27:29.200 --> 00:27:36.279
And uh, you know the in in some societies, you

474
00:27:36.319 --> 00:27:40.519
don't necessarily see that they're they're when if you take

475
00:27:40.559 --> 00:27:42.440
a look at sad on the Saints, Iraq, there's only

476
00:27:42.480 --> 00:27:45.240
one party that was the Bath Party, right, and I

477
00:27:45.319 --> 00:27:48.440
guess it was nominally a democracy. I mean I could

478
00:27:48.480 --> 00:27:55.200
say you, I mean you could you could technically iron

479
00:27:55.319 --> 00:27:58.440
as a democracy if you want to get technical. They

480
00:27:58.440 --> 00:28:03.000
do elect their leaders, right, they do that. I think

481
00:28:03.240 --> 00:28:06.799
it's required in their constitution that one Jew and one

482
00:28:06.880 --> 00:28:14.680
Christian be in parliament for representations. They're not. It's not

483
00:28:14.720 --> 00:28:17.480
called the parliament. I can't remember the dar name of

484
00:28:16.680 --> 00:28:22.119
their governance, their governor structure right now. But yeah, so

485
00:28:22.200 --> 00:28:26.799
there's there's that, right, like there are nominally democracies. But

486
00:28:27.279 --> 00:28:29.319
when you get to the point where you can't actually

487
00:28:29.319 --> 00:28:32.079
affect change, I think that that just drives some people

488
00:28:32.160 --> 00:28:34.720
absolutely nuts.

489
00:28:33.960 --> 00:28:37.240
So it's to me almost like a really it's a

490
00:28:37.279 --> 00:28:39.160
false sense of democracy. I mean, when you have the

491
00:28:39.160 --> 00:28:41.640
same leader year after year after year, I mean some

492
00:28:41.680 --> 00:28:44.839
of these people going twelve years, twenty years, I mean, hell,

493
00:28:44.960 --> 00:28:51.359
Russia's allegedly, you know, they're elected democratically. Putin's been there

494
00:28:51.400 --> 00:28:53.640
for I couldn't even I just been there for so long.

495
00:28:53.920 --> 00:28:56.640
I I want to say since two thousands now, but

496
00:28:56.759 --> 00:28:59.680
weren't two thousand because he was he was president I

497
00:28:59.720 --> 00:29:04.920
think twice, and then Medev Medievev took over and then

498
00:29:05.200 --> 00:29:06.480
Putin took over again.

499
00:29:07.599 --> 00:29:11.000
So yeah, but he's been there at least twenty at

500
00:29:11.119 --> 00:29:13.400
least twenty two to twenty somewhere between twenty two twenty

501
00:29:13.400 --> 00:29:15.519
five years that I don't remember the exact date he

502
00:29:15.519 --> 00:29:18.359
became into power, but it's around that. You know, it's

503
00:29:18.359 --> 00:29:21.160
been two decade. Over two decades, right, But we we

504
00:29:21.160 --> 00:29:24.799
see the situation where, you know, these leaders that come

505
00:29:24.799 --> 00:29:26.839
into power, don't they just don't want to relinquish it.

506
00:29:28.359 --> 00:29:31.000
And when the when the when they feel that there's

507
00:29:31.079 --> 00:29:33.200
change in the air, it seems like that's when they

508
00:29:33.240 --> 00:29:35.680
start turning the screw to their own people and then applying,

509
00:29:35.880 --> 00:29:38.759
applying the fear right to keep them in line. And

510
00:29:39.119 --> 00:29:42.599
since you did bring up Iran, so the thing is

511
00:29:42.920 --> 00:29:45.160
the thing we I need to understand about Iran is

512
00:29:46.079 --> 00:29:50.359
they're they're they're their own nation. They do command respect

513
00:29:50.440 --> 00:29:54.920
for who they are there right now, they've been the

514
00:29:55.000 --> 00:29:58.400
leading supporter of terrorism since nineteen eighty four, at least

515
00:29:58.440 --> 00:30:01.279
officially that's how they were labeled, right.

516
00:30:01.079 --> 00:30:03.519
Since Prizes nineteen seventy nine, well.

517
00:30:03.359 --> 00:30:06.400
Before, but officially nineteen eighty four. Is when they're like, hey,

518
00:30:06.599 --> 00:30:09.799
you know, these guys are arg just state as supporter

519
00:30:09.920 --> 00:30:11.200
of terrorism?

520
00:30:11.720 --> 00:30:12.000
Now?

521
00:30:12.519 --> 00:30:18.200
Is is theirs necessarily? Do you think a religious war?

522
00:30:18.319 --> 00:30:21.279
Or is it just is that just nothing but a

523
00:30:21.319 --> 00:30:25.480
cover for their ultimate goal of being the power in

524
00:30:25.519 --> 00:30:28.640
the region because they used proxies to do their own bidding,

525
00:30:28.680 --> 00:30:31.559
Like they're not directly going out and attacking people and

526
00:30:31.960 --> 00:30:35.119
causing all of this, all of this harm and and

527
00:30:35.200 --> 00:30:37.160
all this chaos. You know, they get they get to

528
00:30:37.200 --> 00:30:39.319
have like the Mafia's that right, the boss would always

529
00:30:39.319 --> 00:30:40.960
have a buffer, so that their buffer has always been,

530
00:30:41.480 --> 00:30:44.920
you know, like these proxies. So how do we how

531
00:30:44.920 --> 00:30:47.839
do we hold a country like that accountable for doing

532
00:30:47.880 --> 00:30:50.359
those things? You can easily deny they never had direct

533
00:30:50.400 --> 00:30:53.519
involvement because they never really did anything except for recently

534
00:30:53.559 --> 00:30:56.559
between what happened with Israel and Iran, you know, with

535
00:30:56.640 --> 00:30:59.440
the bombings and but not the missiles. But before they

536
00:30:59.480 --> 00:31:03.160
weren't always recon fault. So so how should that be approach? Like,

537
00:31:03.200 --> 00:31:05.599
how how were they to be held accountable for their actions?

538
00:31:05.640 --> 00:31:08.680
But at the same time we allow them to thrive

539
00:31:09.039 --> 00:31:11.880
and develop and continue to grow as a society.

540
00:31:13.720 --> 00:31:19.319
Well, you bomb them. You did exactly what I look.

541
00:31:19.880 --> 00:31:22.400
I've often said, like you got, we got as a nation.

542
00:31:22.519 --> 00:31:24.839
We have to get back to our core competencies. And

543
00:31:25.039 --> 00:31:27.640
we're not very good at nation building, but we are

544
00:31:27.759 --> 00:31:30.119
really good at a bombing piece like that. That's one

545
00:31:30.160 --> 00:31:33.559
of the things where we really excel at. It's been

546
00:31:33.640 --> 00:31:38.319
that way since scott when Reagan operational Dorado Canyon, when

547
00:31:38.759 --> 00:31:42.759
we realized Kadafi was his terrorist leader. Uh. He blew

548
00:31:42.839 --> 00:31:46.599
up uh pan Am he pan Am flight over locker

549
00:31:46.640 --> 00:31:52.599
room in Scotland. He was helping fund the ira He

550
00:31:52.759 --> 00:31:56.519
was helping fund Uh. There was an operation uh to

551
00:31:57.240 --> 00:32:01.240
Iranian affiliated terrorists who blew up a disco in Berlin.

552
00:32:01.359 --> 00:32:03.720
I want to say it was Berlin. They killed a

553
00:32:03.720 --> 00:32:06.839
couple of US service members. There isn't even a situation

554
00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:11.519
where Easter and East Germany they caught some I want

555
00:32:11.559 --> 00:32:14.640
to say it was Iranian terrorists trying to smuggle a

556
00:32:14.680 --> 00:32:17.319
bomb on board and the bomb wasn't for the East

557
00:32:17.319 --> 00:32:19.480
German flight, it was going someplace else, and they're going

558
00:32:19.559 --> 00:32:21.000
to put the bomb on that plane, and the East

559
00:32:21.000 --> 00:32:23.359
Germans turn them in. They don't want those idiots in

560
00:32:23.400 --> 00:32:28.400
their country either, right, you know. But once we bombed,

561
00:32:29.480 --> 00:32:33.960
once we bombed uh Libya, Kadelfi shut up for a

562
00:32:34.039 --> 00:32:38.240
good let's say ten twelve years, yeah, roughly, you know.

563
00:32:38.720 --> 00:32:43.240
And look, the reason Iran uses proxies is that it's cheap,

564
00:32:44.240 --> 00:32:46.359
and that's actually probably one of the reasons why they

565
00:32:46.480 --> 00:32:52.279
lost their air battle against Israel. You know, Iran, they

566
00:32:52.359 --> 00:32:58.359
can't build an aircraft carrier, they can't build an ICBM

567
00:32:59.119 --> 00:33:03.240
and are continental ballistic missile that can reach the United States.

568
00:33:03.680 --> 00:33:08.799
But what they can do is fun terrorist organizations around

569
00:33:08.799 --> 00:33:14.000
the globe that can perform kinetic actions that can give

570
00:33:14.039 --> 00:33:16.839
them leverage over certain areas of the world like Lebanon,

571
00:33:17.000 --> 00:33:22.039
the Houkis, and Yemen Hasblahamas, right, so they can do that.

572
00:33:23.200 --> 00:33:26.519
And what's interesting is that I think that the reason

573
00:33:26.640 --> 00:33:32.200
Iran kind of failed against these Israeli attacks isn't just

574
00:33:32.279 --> 00:33:36.599
the skill of the Israeli air force, which is undeniably skillful,

575
00:33:37.400 --> 00:33:41.079
but they were kind of putting so many eggs in

576
00:33:41.160 --> 00:33:46.480
the IRGC and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard corner basket. They

577
00:33:46.519 --> 00:33:51.160
were funding terrorist organizations all over the world that they

578
00:33:51.160 --> 00:33:53.759
were kind of neglecting the RSH. They were neglecting their

579
00:33:53.799 --> 00:33:57.359
own military, and you can see that just by looking

580
00:33:57.400 --> 00:34:00.799
at their jet fighters. I mean the jet fighters remains

581
00:34:02.079 --> 00:34:07.640
are from the nineteen seventies. I'm sure there's been some upgrades.

582
00:34:08.159 --> 00:34:12.760
And supposedly Iran they want to purchase a couple of

583
00:34:12.760 --> 00:34:16.559
suit thirty four's from Russia, like a deal went through

584
00:34:16.639 --> 00:34:19.000
to purchase these to thirty fours. I think they've got

585
00:34:19.000 --> 00:34:22.480
a single suit thirty four. I think they've got a

586
00:34:22.480 --> 00:34:24.400
single one because Russia is like, yeah, we kind of

587
00:34:24.440 --> 00:34:27.679
need these right now, no surprise, right. And a couple

588
00:34:27.679 --> 00:34:31.920
of years ago, Russia helped Ron launch a satellite and

589
00:34:32.159 --> 00:34:35.199
UH I remember the spy satellite, and they said to

590
00:34:35.239 --> 00:34:37.519
Iran like, we're going to use this for a little while.

591
00:34:37.599 --> 00:34:43.400
Consider it a consider it a feet right, So yeah,

592
00:34:43.599 --> 00:34:49.519
the the UH I think that Iran's way to affect

593
00:34:49.599 --> 00:34:53.440
changes through the proxies, which was cheap. But for every

594
00:34:54.159 --> 00:34:57.239
proxy that you fund with a dollar, it's one less

595
00:34:57.280 --> 00:35:00.559
dollar that you can fund your conventional mil military with

596
00:35:01.199 --> 00:35:04.679
and that's how you get into a situation where you

597
00:35:04.800 --> 00:35:11.880
have this military that is essentially very brittal. Right, they

598
00:35:11.920 --> 00:35:18.239
can't even destroy Israeli planes coming into their own country, right,

599
00:35:18.280 --> 00:35:22.199
they can't launch sorties against Israeli planes that are flying

600
00:35:22.239 --> 00:35:24.960
into their own country. I think Israel established air dominant

601
00:35:25.000 --> 00:35:27.920
and then three to five days to the point where

602
00:35:27.920 --> 00:35:35.199
they're operating during the daytime, which is absolute madness. Yeah,

603
00:35:35.599 --> 00:35:36.480
it's crazy.

604
00:35:36.599 --> 00:35:38.840
They obviously didn't have any fear of what Iran could do.

605
00:35:39.880 --> 00:35:43.599
No, No, they didn't have any fear. And that's kind

606
00:35:43.599 --> 00:35:45.760
of not how it's supposed to be. Like, you're supposed

607
00:35:45.760 --> 00:35:47.920
to have air sovereign to be over your own country,

608
00:35:48.559 --> 00:35:52.599
and after three to five days, I believe Iran didn't.

609
00:35:53.280 --> 00:35:56.159
That's a pretty big issue. And that's I think it's

610
00:35:56.159 --> 00:36:01.079
directly because they funded their proxies so much. There's essentially

611
00:36:01.079 --> 00:36:04.360
no money left over for their conventional forces, the surface,

612
00:36:04.400 --> 00:36:09.320
their missile forces, their air force. So you're you're you're

613
00:36:09.400 --> 00:36:12.800
running how to reduce capacity, and then you actually get

614
00:36:12.840 --> 00:36:17.840
into that fight and now you get smacked around by

615
00:36:17.880 --> 00:36:20.920
a country that's twenty times smaller than you.

616
00:36:21.519 --> 00:36:25.039
It's right, it's interesting, but you brought up Russia because

617
00:36:25.920 --> 00:36:28.840
the what I've seen, what I've seen happen with Iran,

618
00:36:28.960 --> 00:36:34.119
so out out the gate right, Pakistan is like, oh,

619
00:36:34.119 --> 00:36:36.800
we support Iran and we will back them and if

620
00:36:36.840 --> 00:36:38.960
we have to, we'll launch a nuclear weapon if we

621
00:36:39.039 --> 00:36:44.079
need to. So they Iran has these I don't even

622
00:36:44.119 --> 00:36:46.320
know if they're real allies or pseudo allies because Russia

623
00:36:46.320 --> 00:36:48.360
is supposed to be an ally. But what we've seen

624
00:36:48.440 --> 00:36:51.760
is we've never really seen Russia really come to their

625
00:36:51.880 --> 00:36:55.639
need necessarily. I know, Iran helped Russia in the in

626
00:36:55.679 --> 00:36:57.760
the Ukraine War by sending them like I think it

627
00:36:57.800 --> 00:36:59.719
was like technology like drones, different things.

628
00:37:00.079 --> 00:37:01.480
Yeah, sad drones, okay.

629
00:37:01.480 --> 00:37:03.960
And and then same thing with China. China supposed he

630
00:37:04.159 --> 00:37:07.119
you know, says hey, they also stand by Iran, but

631
00:37:08.000 --> 00:37:10.840
China doing what China does. They haven't really done much

632
00:37:11.119 --> 00:37:15.000
or said anything outside of just saying we support a run.

633
00:37:15.599 --> 00:37:20.199
After the bombings, everyone got quiet. So I don't know

634
00:37:20.199 --> 00:37:23.519
if that's a testament to still, you know, how strong

635
00:37:23.599 --> 00:37:25.519
the US really is in the world stage that people

636
00:37:25.559 --> 00:37:28.480
actually saw that, Okay, we're not we're not sleeping anymore.

637
00:37:28.559 --> 00:37:30.320
We will take care of things if we have to,

638
00:37:31.559 --> 00:37:34.519
or if Iran their true colors just came out and

639
00:37:34.800 --> 00:37:37.599
this whole thing has just been you know, one giant

640
00:37:37.679 --> 00:37:40.079
charad really, you know, in terms of what Iran can

641
00:37:40.159 --> 00:37:41.519
really do and what power they really have.

642
00:37:43.960 --> 00:37:47.360
Yeah, I mean, look, if you're Russia, what exactly are

643
00:37:47.400 --> 00:37:51.360
you going to do right now to support Iran? Much

644
00:37:51.480 --> 00:37:55.239
like that's that mean, like can you send aircraft? But

645
00:37:55.320 --> 00:38:00.599
you kind of need those aircraft right, So oh what

646
00:38:00.639 --> 00:38:03.599
do you do? Because I don't really have an answer.

647
00:38:03.679 --> 00:38:06.000
Oh no, no, I get it. It's just it just seems

648
00:38:06.079 --> 00:38:08.039
it just seems like they don't really have the allies

649
00:38:08.079 --> 00:38:10.840
they think they do. You know, as soon as as

650
00:38:10.840 --> 00:38:13.280
soon as the US did step into back Israel, which

651
00:38:13.320 --> 00:38:16.400
we always do, which it's gonna be another question for you,

652
00:38:16.920 --> 00:38:21.880
but it seemed like everybody just kind of stepped back.

653
00:38:22.519 --> 00:38:25.960
They just didn't want to get involved anymore. In my opinion,

654
00:38:26.000 --> 00:38:28.760
I think China is just watching all these conflicts, and

655
00:38:28.880 --> 00:38:31.239
just while they're doing that, they're testing the waters over

656
00:38:31.280 --> 00:38:33.960
there with Taiwan. Sorry Taiwan. I don't know why I

657
00:38:33.960 --> 00:38:37.079
said Taiwan. So Taiwan and also you know, also the

658
00:38:37.119 --> 00:38:42.920
Philippines and just recently, they basically laser targeted a German

659
00:38:43.360 --> 00:38:46.679
I think with a helicopter or some military craft when

660
00:38:46.679 --> 00:38:50.000
they were having an exercise out there. So to me,

661
00:38:50.079 --> 00:38:52.840
I think China is saying what people want to hear,

662
00:38:52.920 --> 00:38:57.000
while at the same time plotting to do what they

663
00:38:57.039 --> 00:38:59.440
want to do in the region. And I mean, I

664
00:38:59.679 --> 00:39:02.320
know they're end goal is to eventually take Taiwan. But

665
00:39:02.480 --> 00:39:04.880
you know, if Russia You're correct, obviously, it's like they

666
00:39:05.400 --> 00:39:09.159
don't have any means to really separate and and fight

667
00:39:09.199 --> 00:39:11.519
two wars. They just can't. I mean, they're barely even

668
00:39:11.559 --> 00:39:13.360
able to handle what's going on in Ukraine right now,

669
00:39:14.000 --> 00:39:18.119
and that's a much smaller country, you know, So I

670
00:39:18.199 --> 00:39:23.320
get you now. As far as Israel and Irando, I

671
00:39:23.800 --> 00:39:26.320
always ask I've asked a question by you know, two

672
00:39:26.360 --> 00:39:30.480
other guests that I've had recently, and do you do

673
00:39:30.519 --> 00:39:34.400
you believe at some point that Israel needs to stand

674
00:39:34.440 --> 00:39:36.880
on their own without knowing that the USA is going

675
00:39:36.920 --> 00:39:37.400
to step in?

676
00:39:40.079 --> 00:39:40.320
Hmm.

677
00:39:41.760 --> 00:39:43.559
I know we're allies. I'm not saying we shouldn't help

678
00:39:43.599 --> 00:39:47.760
our allies, but there have been situations where and historically

679
00:39:48.679 --> 00:39:51.239
that they they have done They've done things that have

680
00:39:51.320 --> 00:39:54.639
really made it hard, right, especially for US. I mean,

681
00:39:54.639 --> 00:39:57.280
if you look at the geopolitical relationships, like what if

682
00:39:57.280 --> 00:40:00.199
we're in negotiation with another country or we're trying to

683
00:40:00.239 --> 00:40:02.760
do something to where we can improve relations, and then all

684
00:40:02.760 --> 00:40:06.320
of a sudden, Israel's another war with somebody you know,

685
00:40:06.400 --> 00:40:09.320
or there's another conflict. How do you feel about that

686
00:40:09.400 --> 00:40:11.360
or at least your opinion on that situation.

687
00:40:12.519 --> 00:40:18.360
Well, usually Israel doesn't necessarily start, right, you could say that,

688
00:40:19.039 --> 00:40:22.559
you know, one war that Israel I'm really trying to.

689
00:40:22.639 --> 00:40:25.039
I mean, really the only war that hasn't really started

690
00:40:25.199 --> 00:40:31.920
was nineteen forty eight, right, so kind of like what

691
00:40:31.960 --> 00:40:36.000
do you know, even the Siini can't say was the

692
00:40:36.039 --> 00:40:38.840
Siani campaign? Was that? I think that was instigated by

693
00:40:39.000 --> 00:40:44.079
Egypt and they were like, well, let's just keep going.

694
00:40:44.559 --> 00:40:47.360
You know, let's say when the Egyptian forces are collapsing,

695
00:40:47.840 --> 00:40:50.079
let's just keep going. You know, might as well keep

696
00:40:50.079 --> 00:40:57.880
going here. So I usually it seems like other people

697
00:40:58.000 --> 00:41:03.119
kind of roll in and and they cause trouble with Israel,

698
00:41:03.159 --> 00:41:05.119
and Israel decides to respond, and that's when they have

699
00:41:05.159 --> 00:41:08.760
to step in. Now, for the most part, Israel does

700
00:41:09.199 --> 00:41:12.760
and on its own when they need a little extra help.

701
00:41:12.800 --> 00:41:16.920
They can call the US for the most part. Like

702
00:41:17.079 --> 00:41:19.159
you look at Israel's air force and they were able

703
00:41:19.199 --> 00:41:24.360
to do a lot with I think it's eleven fighter

704
00:41:24.800 --> 00:41:28.360
eleven fighter squads, right, I think it's three F thirty fives,

705
00:41:30.159 --> 00:41:37.880
three F sixteen eyes well one of sixteen e welling laughs,

706
00:41:38.159 --> 00:41:41.920
F fifteen. I I think they have two F fifteen

707
00:41:42.079 --> 00:41:48.760
c's these squads A fifteen C. I'm trying to do

708
00:41:48.800 --> 00:41:50.400
this memory, but I think it's eleven squad.

709
00:41:50.480 --> 00:41:54.440
Yeah, but it's not a large, not a very large.

710
00:41:54.599 --> 00:41:57.760
Passive, but it's it's a respectable air force for the

711
00:41:57.840 --> 00:42:05.000
Reeds veritably, Yeah, paratively, and you know, like they can

712
00:42:05.440 --> 00:42:08.599
usually handle themselves. It's kind of when things got out

713
00:42:08.599 --> 00:42:11.840
of control that the US gets called in and you know,

714
00:42:11.880 --> 00:42:14.960
normally they don't start it, they shut us all, finished it.

715
00:42:14.960 --> 00:42:19.199
Well, history is shown they yeah, technically typically do not

716
00:42:19.719 --> 00:42:21.880
Typically in tech you don't start it. You're correct.

717
00:42:22.599 --> 00:42:26.000
Sixty seven sixty seven is a real startup, but only

718
00:42:26.039 --> 00:42:29.360
because they saw the Egyptians building up on the border. Right.

719
00:42:30.199 --> 00:42:32.800
They essentially took out the Egyptian air force in one day.

720
00:42:34.119 --> 00:42:36.480
Right, Yeah, they're they're a powerful nation for their size.

721
00:42:37.519 --> 00:42:40.480
But it's still do you think we should always have

722
00:42:40.559 --> 00:42:44.480
to step in, because that's that's been that's been the

723
00:42:44.559 --> 00:42:47.519
rhetoric going around. You know, it's as if we shouldn't

724
00:42:47.519 --> 00:42:51.320
support Israel anymore. I think if we're no longer their ally,

725
00:42:51.360 --> 00:42:54.239
we lose a major position there in terms of an

726
00:42:54.280 --> 00:42:57.119
ally military position, everything.

727
00:42:58.599 --> 00:43:00.320
A major technical position. Same.

728
00:43:00.719 --> 00:43:00.800
Like.

729
00:43:01.119 --> 00:43:05.519
Look one of the reasons Israel and the United States

730
00:43:05.920 --> 00:43:10.119
when it came to Oman just their guitar guitar a

731
00:43:10.119 --> 00:43:13.800
couple of weeks ago, when around launched all dismissiles, We've

732
00:43:13.840 --> 00:43:18.480
gotten all that data from Ukrainian intercepts, Like whenever Ukraine

733
00:43:18.639 --> 00:43:25.760
intercepts a Russian missile with a Patriot, we get that data, right,

734
00:43:26.559 --> 00:43:30.039
So we got a heck of a lot of data

735
00:43:30.039 --> 00:43:34.000
on the performance of the Patriot and the performance of

736
00:43:34.000 --> 00:43:36.119
the Patriot in Israel. We got a heck of a

737
00:43:36.119 --> 00:43:39.840
lot of data on that, right. One of the things

738
00:43:39.920 --> 00:43:44.880
that Israel helped create with US money was the iron

739
00:43:44.920 --> 00:43:47.679
Dome syst Well, now we have access to that tech.

740
00:43:47.800 --> 00:43:51.840
You know, iron Dome really isn't that useful for us,

741
00:43:52.320 --> 00:43:55.360
but we can use some of that tech to develop

742
00:43:55.440 --> 00:43:59.280
other systems that might be useful in the future. Another

743
00:43:59.480 --> 00:44:03.159
good example is the Trophy system. Trophy system is on

744
00:44:03.320 --> 00:44:06.239
I want to say, one hundred and fifty US tanks

745
00:44:06.239 --> 00:44:08.960
that are in Germany. Trophy system is kind of like

746
00:44:08.960 --> 00:44:13.320
an iron dome for tanks intercepts incoming rockets. Right, So

747
00:44:13.440 --> 00:44:17.840
we have this this tech transfer with with Israel that

748
00:44:17.920 --> 00:44:20.360
would be lost if they were no longer allies. So

749
00:44:21.280 --> 00:44:24.360
I mean, when you essentially have a country that's in

750
00:44:24.400 --> 00:44:26.920
a very bad part of the world's kind of willing

751
00:44:27.000 --> 00:44:28.880
to test out some of your weapons for you and

752
00:44:29.000 --> 00:44:32.400
bring back the data, wellck, why not do that, right?

753
00:44:33.199 --> 00:44:35.239
And then we would also lose some of that intelligence

754
00:44:35.280 --> 00:44:35.559
as well.

755
00:44:35.639 --> 00:44:41.079
No, yeah, absolutely so. And plus Israel is a democracy.

756
00:44:41.480 --> 00:44:44.320
You know, we need to be able, we need to

757
00:44:44.360 --> 00:44:46.519
support democracies around the globe.

758
00:44:47.239 --> 00:44:50.079
Yeah, you know, I just want to clarify that I

759
00:44:50.119 --> 00:44:52.519
that question wasn't to put you on the spot and

760
00:44:52.679 --> 00:44:53.880
have you say Israel bad.

761
00:44:53.920 --> 00:44:54.840
I was just want a.

762
00:44:54.880 --> 00:44:59.000
Dropeena because you know, there is as I stated earlier,

763
00:44:59.039 --> 00:45:02.159
as a sentiment that akabad right where the for the

764
00:45:02.199 --> 00:45:05.079
cause of all iron the world? And then now it's like, well,

765
00:45:05.159 --> 00:45:08.079
let's not support Israel anymore. Let's just let them do

766
00:45:08.159 --> 00:45:09.840
whatever they got to do and stand on their own

767
00:45:09.880 --> 00:45:14.239
and then you know, well, at the same time support Ukraine,

768
00:45:14.239 --> 00:45:16.519
which was never really an ally. But you know, with

769
00:45:16.639 --> 00:45:18.880
that situation, you know, we don't want to see the

770
00:45:18.920 --> 00:45:21.440
little guy get taken over by the larger aggressor right

771
00:45:21.519 --> 00:45:25.559
for no reason. So it's just like this whole, this

772
00:45:25.639 --> 00:45:28.480
whole thing right now, with the way the media is

773
00:45:28.559 --> 00:45:31.599
pushing their talking points in their narrative, it's like we're

774
00:45:31.639 --> 00:45:34.559
living in an upside down world. And I don't I

775
00:45:34.599 --> 00:45:35.960
don't know where it's coming from.

776
00:45:36.039 --> 00:45:36.119
It.

777
00:45:36.239 --> 00:45:39.639
I don't know who's who is behind this propaganda. But

778
00:45:40.079 --> 00:45:42.239
you know, even on us soil, we have you know,

779
00:45:42.440 --> 00:45:46.440
people that are marching for Hamas. I mean, I get

780
00:45:46.599 --> 00:45:49.159
supporting the people of Palestine are stuck in the middle

781
00:45:49.159 --> 00:45:51.559
of the actual you know, people civilians that are that

782
00:45:51.599 --> 00:45:55.119
are being killed because of the decisions made by Hamas.

783
00:45:55.840 --> 00:45:59.400
I understand that, but I don't understand how we can

784
00:45:59.400 --> 00:46:01.800
get behind to rist organizations to say no, they're actually

785
00:46:01.840 --> 00:46:04.920
the good guy. You know, it's America that's bad. We're

786
00:46:04.960 --> 00:46:06.400
the reason that all this is happening.

787
00:46:07.480 --> 00:46:09.000
I had a whole theory about that.

788
00:46:09.920 --> 00:46:12.960
Okay, Well, I just won Daro's coming from it is.

789
00:46:13.039 --> 00:46:16.559
I think I honestly, I think one of the reasons

790
00:46:17.079 --> 00:46:22.719
that the US are college students in the United States

791
00:46:23.360 --> 00:46:29.400
got so involved with the whole conflicting gaza was that,

792
00:46:29.719 --> 00:46:34.480
you know, these are students who for four years three

793
00:46:34.519 --> 00:46:38.159
four years, three years at least, they couldn't go to class,

794
00:46:38.239 --> 00:46:40.400
they couldn't wear masks, they couldn't go out on the

795
00:46:40.480 --> 00:46:43.119
date with a girl. Then all of a sudden, like

796
00:46:43.599 --> 00:46:46.599
here's this opportunity to meet other people in real life

797
00:46:47.679 --> 00:46:50.519
on a subject that they're passionate about. I'm kind of

798
00:46:50.559 --> 00:46:56.360
reminded of reminded of my old first sergeant when I

799
00:46:56.400 --> 00:47:01.920
first joined in nineteen ninety four. My first sergeant was

800
00:47:02.079 --> 00:47:05.800
like he told me he was a Vietnam vet. And

801
00:47:05.880 --> 00:47:08.960
this guy said, you know, uh what he used to do.

802
00:47:09.079 --> 00:47:11.639
He used to work at the Pentagon. After work, he

803
00:47:11.639 --> 00:47:13.719
would change into civilian clothes and he would go to

804
00:47:13.760 --> 00:47:17.599
the protests and in civilian clothes and like tell the

805
00:47:17.639 --> 00:47:20.239
girls that he was a soldier. And you know, he

806
00:47:20.719 --> 00:47:23.000
got he got to sleep with all sorts of girls

807
00:47:23.079 --> 00:47:25.039
that way because they thought, like, we're bringing them into

808
00:47:25.079 --> 00:47:28.840
our side. So if you're if you're a kid, if

809
00:47:28.880 --> 00:47:33.360
you're a boy, right, and you know you, uh, you've

810
00:47:33.400 --> 00:47:35.599
never kissed a girl before, and I've been out on

811
00:47:35.599 --> 00:47:38.480
a date with a girl before, and here's an opportunity

812
00:47:38.519 --> 00:47:41.039
to meet girls in real life. You don't have to

813
00:47:41.039 --> 00:47:43.239
worry about a mask, you don't worry about tender and

814
00:47:43.280 --> 00:47:45.920
they're passionate about this thing. Yes, I'll be passionate about

815
00:47:45.920 --> 00:47:48.679
this too. Can we go back to your dorm afterwards? Right?

816
00:47:48.760 --> 00:47:54.039
So I think I and I I I had, though

817
00:47:54.880 --> 00:47:59.159
I don't think I am. I really know, because it's

818
00:47:59.800 --> 00:48:03.000
it's it sounds like a very open and shut thing, right.

819
00:48:03.199 --> 00:48:05.079
It sounds like one of those things where you can

820
00:48:05.119 --> 00:48:10.559
go like, oh, you know, I'll do this thing and

821
00:48:10.679 --> 00:48:15.199
I'll get this girl, and you know, I'll be able

822
00:48:15.239 --> 00:48:17.840
to socialize with people. I'll be able to feel a

823
00:48:17.880 --> 00:48:20.280
part of something. I think a lot of these kids,

824
00:48:20.960 --> 00:48:23.400
you know, if you're if you're wearing a mask in

825
00:48:23.480 --> 00:48:27.199
high school for three years and you can't do organized sports,

826
00:48:27.239 --> 00:48:30.199
so you can't go to homecoming dance because of COVID,

827
00:48:31.000 --> 00:48:33.800
and then you go to college and now you have

828
00:48:33.880 --> 00:48:36.639
all this freedom and look at all the cool kids

829
00:48:36.679 --> 00:48:41.079
are out here protesting. I'm going to go protest as well. Right, Yeah,

830
00:48:41.360 --> 00:48:46.079
I think a lot of it was was just I

831
00:48:46.079 --> 00:48:47.880
don't want to say, and there are some people who

832
00:48:47.960 --> 00:48:50.679
might feel genuinely bad, but I would not be surprised

833
00:48:50.719 --> 00:48:52.880
if there were a lot of kids I did a

834
00:48:52.920 --> 00:48:56.480
whole video about this who just wanted to make friends

835
00:48:56.559 --> 00:49:00.639
and this was just an easy way to do that.

836
00:49:00.639 --> 00:49:05.440
That's that's yeah, I mean, I'm that can it seems

837
00:49:05.440 --> 00:49:09.000
to track. I have another I have another person that

838
00:49:09.119 --> 00:49:13.679
mentioned that some of this support also is we have,

839
00:49:14.360 --> 00:49:19.119
you know, generations removed from at least the atrocities that

840
00:49:19.159 --> 00:49:23.360
we saw right with September eleventh, that don't understand what

841
00:49:23.440 --> 00:49:25.719
the US went through. And then you know, this new

842
00:49:25.760 --> 00:49:31.039
generation of people, these younger people in their lifetime hasn't

843
00:49:31.079 --> 00:49:34.159
haven't really seen the effects of true terrorism or or

844
00:49:34.239 --> 00:49:35.960
not even not on a broad scale like it used

845
00:49:35.960 --> 00:49:38.800
to be. It never really went away, but it wasn't

846
00:49:38.840 --> 00:49:41.679
as bad now as it used to be until recently.

847
00:49:41.760 --> 00:49:45.360
Now we're looking at this war between you know, Hamas

848
00:49:45.400 --> 00:49:47.679
and Israel, and this is the first time they've been

849
00:49:47.679 --> 00:49:50.679
able to see a conflict like this of this scale,

850
00:49:51.119 --> 00:49:53.039
and they don't know what to make of it. They

851
00:49:53.039 --> 00:49:55.400
don't know how to make the connection as to why

852
00:49:55.800 --> 00:49:59.639
amass is considered bad. You know, who really is Palestine?

853
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:02.440
Elin's not a nation, you know, they were region. They

854
00:50:02.440 --> 00:50:04.639
were always referred to as a region, a region that

855
00:50:04.800 --> 00:50:08.159
encompassed a lot of other tribes and nations, not nations,

856
00:50:08.159 --> 00:50:12.679
but you know, tribes and other cultures together. It was

857
00:50:12.719 --> 00:50:16.960
always considered region, not a nation. So they don't get that,

858
00:50:16.960 --> 00:50:19.000
they don't understand that, they can't make the connection, so

859
00:50:19.199 --> 00:50:21.679
they just see, oh, this is bad, there's no reason

860
00:50:21.719 --> 00:50:24.360
this war should be happening. And then you also have

861
00:50:24.480 --> 00:50:27.960
Ukraine going on. But it seems like everybody, really the

862
00:50:28.039 --> 00:50:32.960
younger people, really attach themselves to this Palestinian or Palestine

863
00:50:33.000 --> 00:50:36.119
versus Israel hoss Israel war. And I think it's because

864
00:50:36.119 --> 00:50:41.599
they just don't understand or see what is behind it all,

865
00:50:41.639 --> 00:50:44.159
Like what is the true history, not just what they hear,

866
00:50:44.239 --> 00:50:46.840
Because it seems like this is really what pisses me

867
00:50:46.880 --> 00:50:49.960
off lately. Ryan. I don't know if you agree, but

868
00:50:50.000 --> 00:50:52.599
it seems like we're living through a period of revisionist history.

869
00:50:52.679 --> 00:50:55.039
You know, we got like you don't have to say

870
00:50:55.039 --> 00:50:57.119
anything because I know you can't, but I'll just say,

871
00:50:57.199 --> 00:51:00.360
you have guys like this martyr made guy who believe

872
00:51:00.360 --> 00:51:02.519
suddenly that Hitler's a good guy. You know, he wasn't

873
00:51:02.519 --> 00:51:04.159
all that bad and he said a few things, but

874
00:51:04.199 --> 00:51:06.960
all in all, his intent was good. And you know,

875
00:51:07.039 --> 00:51:08.639
Winston Churchill was the bad guy, and if it wasn't

876
00:51:08.719 --> 00:51:11.079
Winston Churchill, we wouldn't have had to go to war

877
00:51:11.119 --> 00:51:14.000
with Germany, et cetera. And it just makes you scratch

878
00:51:14.000 --> 00:51:16.559
your heads, like where is all this revisionist history stuff

879
00:51:16.599 --> 00:51:18.960
coming from? You know, it's really easy to be, you know,

880
00:51:19.039 --> 00:51:21.760
twenty thirty forty years removed from something and then go

881
00:51:21.880 --> 00:51:23.960
back and say, well, it should have been done this way.

882
00:51:24.519 --> 00:51:27.000
You didn't live through it, You didn't understand what was

883
00:51:27.039 --> 00:51:30.639
really happening. So I believe that could also be what's

884
00:51:30.679 --> 00:51:32.519
going on right now. You know, we have a generation

885
00:51:32.559 --> 00:51:36.000
of people that have never really had to deal with

886
00:51:36.000 --> 00:51:39.159
this situation, and right now, with the way social media is,

887
00:51:40.119 --> 00:51:43.480
it's so prevalent you cannot turn it off. You know,

888
00:51:43.519 --> 00:51:45.599
every time you turn your phone on, it's another headline,

889
00:51:45.639 --> 00:51:49.440
it's another picture, it's another video, So that's fake. But still.

890
00:51:50.800 --> 00:51:55.199
I recall how there is this one college professor of

891
00:51:55.239 --> 00:51:58.119
an interview with him, and he's starting to realize that

892
00:51:58.440 --> 00:52:01.880
a lot of his students have no real concept of

893
00:52:01.920 --> 00:52:07.079
September eleventh, no, no actual concept of what happened that day,

894
00:52:07.920 --> 00:52:13.000
and so he'll actually play the phone calls from the tower,

895
00:52:13.119 --> 00:52:16.000
he play the video footage. He'll show like the horror

896
00:52:16.840 --> 00:52:21.119
of that day, and that kind of brings it home

897
00:52:21.320 --> 00:52:24.559
for a lot of these people who who were hearing

898
00:52:24.599 --> 00:52:26.800
their you know love you know, people call their loved

899
00:52:26.840 --> 00:52:29.599
ones and say goodbye, right leaving a message on an

900
00:52:29.599 --> 00:52:34.880
answering machine, having to say goodbye, which is like, God,

901
00:52:34.920 --> 00:52:40.559
I remember that day. That was a horrible, horrible day. Yeah. Yeah,

902
00:52:40.840 --> 00:52:43.400
that's one of those everybody remembers where they were kind

903
00:52:43.400 --> 00:52:48.840
of day. Everybody, everybody remembers where they were. Yeah, I

904
00:52:49.199 --> 00:52:53.400
got I remember just uh, you know, we were all

905
00:52:53.440 --> 00:52:57.039
like ready to go. Let's go. Let's go kill who

906
00:52:57.039 --> 00:52:58.800
were supposed to kill. I don't know, let's just go.

907
00:52:59.119 --> 00:53:01.880
It was one of those it didn't matter if you

908
00:53:01.920 --> 00:53:04.519
were in the military or civilian. Everybody was ready to go,

909
00:53:04.599 --> 00:53:06.599
pick up a pitchfork whatever. It was like, Hey, we're

910
00:53:06.639 --> 00:53:10.079
going to defend our soil. Yeah, and I don't know

911
00:53:10.199 --> 00:53:12.519
if we It's just it's just funny how throughout the years,

912
00:53:12.519 --> 00:53:15.400
we just lose that connection, you know, as as being

913
00:53:15.440 --> 00:53:18.719
Americans and being proud of who we are as a people.

914
00:53:19.039 --> 00:53:20.920
And it's sad to see where we're at right now.

915
00:53:20.960 --> 00:53:21.920
But I don't know.

916
00:53:22.000 --> 00:53:23.440
I hope, I hope we could turn that around and

917
00:53:23.480 --> 00:53:27.800
bring back the pro American sentiment, not not isolationism by

918
00:53:27.840 --> 00:53:30.119
the way, just being more proud of who we are.

919
00:53:30.400 --> 00:53:33.000
And and I hope that we can understand why things

920
00:53:33.000 --> 00:53:36.239
were done the way they were done. It wasn't all

921
00:53:36.519 --> 00:53:41.239
bad intentions, you know. Oh, and it's a sad thing. Uh.

922
00:53:41.639 --> 00:53:44.440
Let me ask you this question. What's next?

923
00:53:44.440 --> 00:53:44.639
Man?

924
00:53:44.800 --> 00:53:47.679
What do you think's next with with Iran and Israel

925
00:53:47.679 --> 00:53:48.599
and where this is going to go?

926
00:53:49.519 --> 00:53:53.239
Ah, I don't think it's gonna go anywhere. No, No,

927
00:53:55.440 --> 00:53:59.840
you know, both sides are pretty much spent, you know.

928
00:53:59.840 --> 00:54:04.000
They they just don't have the internal resources. That's why

929
00:54:04.280 --> 00:54:06.440
when people said, oh my god, this is gonna be

930
00:54:06.440 --> 00:54:11.039
World War three, it's not. We don't. There's just no

931
00:54:12.519 --> 00:54:18.199
there's no capacity for waging a long war. Now. Granted,

932
00:54:18.320 --> 00:54:23.159
Israel is waging along war inside Gaza, but that's not

933
00:54:23.239 --> 00:54:27.320
as expensive as keeping aircraft running twenty four to seven, right, right,

934
00:54:27.719 --> 00:54:31.039
and you know, Iran doesn't have It's not like they

935
00:54:31.039 --> 00:54:35.440
can sail to Israel and drop the landing ships and invade,

936
00:54:36.119 --> 00:54:40.440
right true, there's no World War three, right, So I

937
00:54:40.480 --> 00:54:45.440
think what happens is both sides kind of take a breather,

938
00:54:45.639 --> 00:54:49.480
they take lessons from that. Iran is probably gonna they

939
00:54:49.519 --> 00:54:52.800
probably have a shopping list, but there's not a lot

940
00:54:52.840 --> 00:54:58.199
of people that can actually fulfill that shopping list. They're

941
00:54:58.199 --> 00:55:00.760
gonna need new surf scare systems, They're going to need

942
00:55:00.800 --> 00:55:04.800
new radar systems, and kind of one of the issues

943
00:55:05.039 --> 00:55:10.400
is that there's just no capacity around the world for

944
00:55:10.559 --> 00:55:13.840
them to gain the systems that they need to defend

945
00:55:13.880 --> 00:55:18.400
their airspace. You look at you look at Russia. You know,

946
00:55:18.480 --> 00:55:21.400
try placing an order for a missile system in Russia

947
00:55:21.480 --> 00:55:24.480
right now, right they're going to fill their orders first. Absolutely,

948
00:55:24.599 --> 00:55:27.639
Try placing a system for a missile system order from

949
00:55:27.719 --> 00:55:30.920
China right now. Well, they're going to fill their orders first.

950
00:55:31.000 --> 00:55:31.760
So who's left.

951
00:55:32.119 --> 00:55:35.039
Yeah, China is not concerned with anyone else having more

952
00:55:35.079 --> 00:55:36.039
power than that China.

953
00:55:36.719 --> 00:55:40.239
China is. China's always going to do it's best for China,

954
00:55:40.280 --> 00:55:43.119
and right now it's best for China's manufacturing weapons for

955
00:55:43.159 --> 00:55:46.719
a fight against Taiwan, right right, agree, that's what's best

956
00:55:46.719 --> 00:55:47.199
for China.

957
00:55:47.639 --> 00:55:51.320
I thought I thought we could have been on the

958
00:55:51.400 --> 00:55:55.840
verge of World War three. And the reason I thought

959
00:55:55.880 --> 00:55:57.719
that was what I kind of mentioned earlier, because you know,

960
00:55:57.719 --> 00:56:00.000
when Pakistan stepped up and they were right away going

961
00:56:00.039 --> 00:56:01.599
and oh, we'll use neicerent weapons that we have to,

962
00:56:02.519 --> 00:56:05.119
we'll do it. And then Russia right away stepped up

963
00:56:05.239 --> 00:56:08.400
and he said, oh, we're behind Iran and in so

964
00:56:08.480 --> 00:56:11.719
Dia China. But you know, it does make sense what

965
00:56:11.719 --> 00:56:14.840
you're saying, because from a financial standpoint, none of them

966
00:56:14.920 --> 00:56:18.280
could could enter into this and have an extended war,

967
00:56:18.320 --> 00:56:21.559
none of them, none of those nations whatsoever. I think

968
00:56:21.599 --> 00:56:24.119
I was more I would think I took it more

969
00:56:24.159 --> 00:56:28.079
seriously just because of what Pakistan said, you know, a

970
00:56:29.000 --> 00:56:32.360
shooting a nuclear weapon off. But who knows. I mean, yeah,

971
00:56:32.480 --> 00:56:35.119
you're probably right. It probably did come down to literally

972
00:56:35.159 --> 00:56:37.960
just finances, like there's just nobody could afford to do it.

973
00:56:38.320 --> 00:56:44.079
Nobody. Yeah, And I was not actually familiar with with

974
00:56:45.800 --> 00:56:48.320
Pakistan saying they're going to use the nuclear weapon, because

975
00:56:48.360 --> 00:56:50.480
when someone says we're going to use the nuclear weapon,

976
00:56:51.119 --> 00:56:56.079
the next question needs to be okay against whom, Like,

977
00:56:56.599 --> 00:57:01.000
what's the what? What is the I've often said this,

978
00:57:01.199 --> 00:57:03.719
there's really only four cases in what you'd use a

979
00:57:03.800 --> 00:57:07.400
nuclear web, right. That is to establish a breakthrough. Let's

980
00:57:07.400 --> 00:57:10.559
talk about a taxical weapons to establish a breakthrough. That's

981
00:57:10.599 --> 00:57:13.320
a valid use case. You blow up a nuclear weapon

982
00:57:13.800 --> 00:57:16.679
above a troop concentration. You do it as an air bursts.

983
00:57:16.719 --> 00:57:19.400
There's very little ground radiation or very little radio I

984
00:57:19.440 --> 00:57:22.039
could fall out, and you run your troops through that

985
00:57:22.159 --> 00:57:25.079
hole that you made in the front lines. That would

986
00:57:25.079 --> 00:57:27.599
be an ideal weapon for Russia to use against Ukraine

987
00:57:27.920 --> 00:57:30.119
if they had the troops to actually exploit a breakthrough.

988
00:57:30.880 --> 00:57:33.880
There's a second thing, which is defending a breakthrough, like

989
00:57:34.000 --> 00:57:37.280
when Ukraine went into curse, using a nuclear weapon on

990
00:57:37.320 --> 00:57:40.719
Russian taxical nuclear weapon on Russian soil, that would have

991
00:57:40.760 --> 00:57:43.800
been a good use case for using a nuclear weapon, right.

992
00:57:43.840 --> 00:57:47.880
It would have stopped that breakthrough like that, and it

993
00:57:47.920 --> 00:57:51.760
would have been on Russian soil that the world probably

994
00:57:51.800 --> 00:57:54.159
would have been mad, but hey, they blew up their

995
00:57:54.199 --> 00:58:00.400
own country, so that's okay. Right. The third thing is

996
00:58:00.440 --> 00:58:05.000
to use a nuclear weapon against the naval fleet American

997
00:58:05.079 --> 00:58:08.039
carriers in the Atlantic. That is an ideal use case

998
00:58:08.119 --> 00:58:12.480
or a nuclear weapon. The fourth thing is an amphibious landing.

999
00:58:12.559 --> 00:58:15.559
So if Taiwan or China lands on Taiwan using a

1000
00:58:15.639 --> 00:58:19.199
nuclear weapon against the amphibious beachhead, that would be an

1001
00:58:19.199 --> 00:58:23.480
ideal use case or a nuclear weapon. So when Pakistan

1002
00:58:23.559 --> 00:58:26.079
says we're going to use a nuclear weapon against what,

1003
00:58:28.320 --> 00:58:30.360
are you going to have exploded over Israel? Good luck

1004
00:58:30.400 --> 00:58:30.599
with that?

1005
00:58:30.679 --> 00:58:34.280
No understood? I believe with h No, I'm with you.

1006
00:58:35.039 --> 00:58:38.039
Where it came from, you know, it's where it came from.

1007
00:58:38.239 --> 00:58:43.079
Was was the belief that when the situation was happening, right,

1008
00:58:43.920 --> 00:58:46.880
it was all based allegedly on the fact that Iran

1009
00:58:46.880 --> 00:58:48.920
wouldn't come to the table with their nuclear data deal.

1010
00:58:48.960 --> 00:58:50.800
We didn't want No, the world does not want them

1011
00:58:50.800 --> 00:58:54.159
to have a nuclear weapon or to develop one. So

1012
00:58:55.320 --> 00:58:57.480
Pakistan at the time, and a lot of the other

1013
00:58:58.119 --> 00:59:03.159
sympathizers of our we're always like, why does Israel he them,

1014
00:59:03.519 --> 00:59:05.239
they're not even part of this agreement or this pack,

1015
00:59:05.280 --> 00:59:07.639
why do they have nuclear weapons?

1016
00:59:07.039 --> 00:59:09.559
Well, that Israel has a nuclear weapon.

1017
00:59:09.920 --> 00:59:13.039
Right, So that's what that's what the rhetoric was. So

1018
00:59:13.159 --> 00:59:15.800
it was it was a response to everything going on

1019
00:59:15.880 --> 00:59:18.880
saying if if Israel dares to launch a nucle weapon,

1020
00:59:18.920 --> 00:59:21.039
if there's a nuclear weapon launched, we're going to launch

1021
00:59:21.360 --> 00:59:24.760
everything we have and back Iran. And and that I

1022
00:59:24.800 --> 00:59:28.079
believe that's where that came from. So, I mean, when

1023
00:59:28.079 --> 00:59:30.440
a country or nation says, hey, we're going to use

1024
00:59:30.480 --> 00:59:34.239
our entire nuclear arsenal if we have to, kind of

1025
00:59:34.239 --> 00:59:36.320
makes me, you know, go, hey, well wait a minute.

1026
00:59:36.679 --> 00:59:38.039
You know, we might be going a bit too far.

1027
00:59:38.079 --> 00:59:39.519
But you know, to your point, you're right, it's like,

1028
00:59:41.400 --> 00:59:41.840
who are.

1029
00:59:41.719 --> 00:59:44.559
They gonna do? Yeah, what are they gonna do? Now?

1030
00:59:44.960 --> 00:59:47.840
A good use case for a nuclear weapon in Israel's case,

1031
00:59:48.079 --> 00:59:52.880
if they have them, might be all right, well, we

1032
00:59:53.320 --> 00:59:59.199
want to reach Fourdoh, we can't reach Floridoh, so let's

1033
00:59:59.599 --> 01:00:05.119
explod the nuclear weapon groundburst small fifteen twenty kiloton nuclear

1034
01:00:05.159 --> 01:00:10.679
weapon against Foorid. Oh that'll take out Florida. Would the

1035
01:00:10.679 --> 01:00:18.000
world be mad? Probably? But in some ways, like I

1036
01:00:18.000 --> 01:00:22.480
think one of the reasons that Israel kind of kind

1037
01:00:22.480 --> 01:00:25.239
of I don't want to say they screwed themselves, but

1038
01:00:25.920 --> 01:00:35.760
when ten days after the ten days after the October seventh,

1039
01:00:37.000 --> 01:00:41.719
there was an explosion at the it was the Urbia hospital,

1040
01:00:43.239 --> 01:00:48.119
and the New York Times immediately publishes Israel dropped a

1041
01:00:48.159 --> 01:00:53.000
bomb on this hospital, yes, and so then they and

1042
01:00:53.079 --> 01:00:55.159
I like when I saw that, I was like, no,

1043
01:00:55.320 --> 01:00:58.119
they did, and I kind of knew why. I watched

1044
01:00:58.159 --> 01:00:59.960
the footage and all that and like that that was

1045
01:01:00.079 --> 01:01:04.760
than the bomb from Israel. And it was later found

1046
01:01:04.800 --> 01:01:07.360
out to be a missile fire by Islamic Jihad that

1047
01:01:07.480 --> 01:01:09.559
just kind of fell short. And that that happens. I

1048
01:01:09.559 --> 01:01:14.599
think twenty percent of all missiles launched against Israel land

1049
01:01:14.639 --> 01:01:16.079
inside Gosy.

1050
01:01:16.320 --> 01:01:18.119
Never really made it never hit Therom markin.

1051
01:01:17.960 --> 01:01:21.320
Oops, right, you know.

1052
01:01:22.159 --> 01:01:24.800
And that's that's an interesting thing. Abought the hospitals because

1053
01:01:24.800 --> 01:01:28.559
it seems like there are two hundred and something hospitals

1054
01:01:29.159 --> 01:01:31.760
in Gaza, you know, I.

1055
01:01:31.679 --> 01:01:32.599
Think it's fewer than that.

1056
01:01:32.639 --> 01:01:35.880
But well, the way they're reporting it, it's it's it's

1057
01:01:36.000 --> 01:01:38.719
just crazy that it seems like every other week there's

1058
01:01:38.719 --> 01:01:43.599
a hospital being blown up. And how much of this

1059
01:01:43.679 --> 01:01:47.760
is true versus just again propaganda, how much of that

1060
01:01:47.880 --> 01:01:50.559
is just you know, trying to win the sympathy of

1061
01:01:50.599 --> 01:01:53.559
the world and turn Israel into the big bad enemy.

1062
01:01:54.360 --> 01:01:57.119
In some cases, I believe it's been true. I would

1063
01:01:57.159 --> 01:02:00.920
have to go overreach each bombing case. But you know,

1064
01:02:01.000 --> 01:02:04.119
if Daddy l daddy is in a hospital. Though hospitals

1065
01:02:04.119 --> 01:02:07.679
are supposed to be exempt from attack according to the

1066
01:02:07.679 --> 01:02:11.119
Geneva Conventions, kind of the issue that you run into

1067
01:02:11.360 --> 01:02:16.400
is that if you are hosting troops in there, and

1068
01:02:16.519 --> 01:02:20.159
I don't mean troops that have been wounded. And you know,

1069
01:02:20.639 --> 01:02:24.199
there was a couple of years ago there was an

1070
01:02:24.239 --> 01:02:26.760
attack against the hospital and I think it was Amnesty

1071
01:02:26.760 --> 01:02:31.400
International said, oh, the Ukrainians were using the hospital as

1072
01:02:31.400 --> 01:02:36.760
a best home, and like that's one of those well yeah,

1073
01:02:37.679 --> 01:02:40.760
like because if you go to the hospital to visit

1074
01:02:40.800 --> 01:02:43.079
your buddy, where are you going to eat? You're gonna

1075
01:02:43.079 --> 01:02:45.719
eat at the hospital, right like that that's kind of

1076
01:02:46.079 --> 01:02:54.039
stretching it as an excuse for attacking the hospital. But yeah,

1077
01:02:54.079 --> 01:02:58.199
that just for the most part, you're not supposed to

1078
01:02:58.199 --> 01:03:00.559
do that. And so if as it is going to

1079
01:03:00.639 --> 01:03:04.119
decide to do that, they're going to go over there,

1080
01:03:05.440 --> 01:03:09.639
uh there, Oh my god, I can't remember the darn

1081
01:03:09.639 --> 01:03:11.000
word for it, but they're going to go over a

1082
01:03:11.039 --> 01:03:14.920
procedure to decide how to actually strike this. They're going

1083
01:03:14.960 --> 01:03:18.119
to do the weaponearing and say this is affect type

1084
01:03:18.119 --> 01:03:21.239
of bomb because Daddy Elbaddie is on the third floor

1085
01:03:21.320 --> 01:03:24.440
in the fourth room, So we're going to use a

1086
01:03:24.480 --> 01:03:28.079
small diameter bomb that will just take out this one room.

1087
01:03:28.400 --> 01:03:36.480
So you have to be very aware of how Israel

1088
01:03:36.559 --> 01:03:39.679
is actually going to undertake these actions, and so they

1089
01:03:39.760 --> 01:03:43.159
might do this, But what was the criteria for striking

1090
01:03:43.199 --> 01:03:44.320
this particular target.

1091
01:03:44.880 --> 01:03:48.440
Yeah, I understand that. I think I think the reason

1092
01:03:49.159 --> 01:03:54.199
people are so so peeved about all of it in

1093
01:03:54.280 --> 01:03:57.800
terms of because it seems to be indiscriminate. That's you know,

1094
01:03:58.039 --> 01:03:59.840
let's just say that's what it is. That's what people

1095
01:04:01.119 --> 01:04:03.719
that's what people are gathering about, you know, from what's happening.

1096
01:04:04.159 --> 01:04:07.599
Uh and and and the reason it seems this way

1097
01:04:07.639 --> 01:04:10.960
is because Israel has proven that they can be very

1098
01:04:10.960 --> 01:04:14.000
strategic and surgical when they want to be. But when

1099
01:04:14.039 --> 01:04:17.840
it comes to Gaza, it's like it's it seems like

1100
01:04:17.840 --> 01:04:19.280
they're just leveling the place.

1101
01:04:20.119 --> 01:04:22.480
But a lot of that, a lot of the leveling

1102
01:04:22.840 --> 01:04:26.960
is those are bulldozers, Those are D nine bulldozers. So

1103
01:04:27.000 --> 01:04:29.440
those aren't necessarily bob buildings. Now, it doesn't make a

1104
01:04:29.480 --> 01:04:32.400
difference for the person who's home is destroyed, right, But

1105
01:04:32.679 --> 01:04:35.760
if you're in a platoon and you have to clear

1106
01:04:35.800 --> 01:04:37.760
a house and you know there's a bad guy in

1107
01:04:37.800 --> 01:04:41.400
that house. You're like, well, is this is this bad

1108
01:04:41.440 --> 01:04:43.800
guy really worth my platoon's life. You might call in

1109
01:04:43.840 --> 01:04:46.199
an air strike, or you might say, just get the

1110
01:04:46.280 --> 01:04:48.480
dn I in up here. Uh, some of the D

1111
01:04:48.559 --> 01:04:52.400
nine bulldozers are actually armored and uh they're remote controls.

1112
01:04:52.440 --> 01:04:54.800
So the dnine just comes in, levels the house and

1113
01:04:55.000 --> 01:04:56.079
move on to the next house.

1114
01:04:57.000 --> 01:04:58.679
So you think a lot of this is is just

1115
01:04:59.039 --> 01:05:01.440
a blown out of portion. You know, it's it's all

1116
01:05:01.480 --> 01:05:05.199
for just getting eyeballs on news feeds and on social

1117
01:05:05.239 --> 01:05:06.000
media posts.

1118
01:05:06.360 --> 01:05:10.360
Possibly it works. Yeah, hey, you talked about God. There's

1119
01:05:10.400 --> 01:05:13.199
that one guy who's saying Hitler was the good guy. Yeah,

1120
01:05:13.239 --> 01:05:17.360
well look, get you on, Tucker Carls. Everybody else says

1121
01:05:17.440 --> 01:05:20.360
Hitler is the bad guy, right, So Tucker Carlson, now

1122
01:05:20.400 --> 01:05:22.639
I was all right, Well, if I bring on this

1123
01:05:22.719 --> 01:05:24.840
guy says Hitler was the good guy, I'm going to

1124
01:05:24.880 --> 01:05:26.800
get lots of people watching my show. I'm going to

1125
01:05:26.880 --> 01:05:30.480
get lots of people talking about my showfa right, And

1126
01:05:31.440 --> 01:05:34.480
he's always been fired from every job he's ever had.

1127
01:05:34.880 --> 01:05:41.239
He needs news, he needs news, all right, and what's

1128
01:05:41.239 --> 01:05:44.360
going to get the views well, talking about how Hitler

1129
01:05:44.440 --> 01:05:46.480
is a good guy. Yeah, miss understood.

1130
01:05:47.039 --> 01:05:48.480
Yeah, I know there's a lot of guys that are

1131
01:05:48.519 --> 01:05:51.679
that are that are taking that stance and again trying

1132
01:05:51.719 --> 01:05:54.400
to reread history. But you know that, to me, that's

1133
01:05:54.400 --> 01:05:56.719
a whole other conversation. I mean that that's another rabbit

1134
01:05:56.760 --> 01:05:59.840
hole that we can dive down. But I just think

1135
01:05:59.880 --> 01:06:04.119
it's so ridiculous how people don't see what's going on

1136
01:06:04.280 --> 01:06:07.079
and they're just they're just eating it up. They're just

1137
01:06:07.119 --> 01:06:09.559
eating it up. I mean, it's so easy to do

1138
01:06:09.639 --> 01:06:11.920
research these days. It's not like you have to find

1139
01:06:11.920 --> 01:06:14.679
the library that might have a specific collection of books anymore.

1140
01:06:14.679 --> 01:06:16.559
I mean, the internet is vast. I mean you've got

1141
01:06:16.559 --> 01:06:18.960
to vet your sources on the internet, but it's it's

1142
01:06:18.960 --> 01:06:20.960
not as hard as it used to be to find information,

1143
01:06:21.119 --> 01:06:24.639
you know. So it's as if they just take these

1144
01:06:24.800 --> 01:06:27.880
people for their word just because they have a huge

1145
01:06:27.920 --> 01:06:32.280
following or a podcast that's popular. But you know, nobody

1146
01:06:32.360 --> 01:06:34.960
seems to be questioning what they're saying. They're just eating

1147
01:06:34.960 --> 01:06:35.280
it up.

1148
01:06:36.159 --> 01:06:41.599
Yeah, I mean that that's some of that is some

1149
01:06:41.639 --> 01:06:44.760
of that is the attention culture, right, Like you know

1150
01:06:44.800 --> 01:06:48.679
when you have when you have some Instagram video, you know,

1151
01:06:48.760 --> 01:06:52.039
you're scrolling through this thing. And that's how a lot

1152
01:06:52.079 --> 01:06:54.360
of people get their news these days from Instagram. Like

1153
01:06:54.800 --> 01:06:57.880
have you ever waked? Like, have you recently watched the

1154
01:06:57.920 --> 01:07:02.280
evening news, ABS Evening News, ABC Evening News? Like once

1155
01:07:02.320 --> 01:07:05.639
in a while, I might. I've tried the news. I

1156
01:07:05.679 --> 01:07:08.440
watched the morning news. I do. I do watch the

1157
01:07:08.480 --> 01:07:10.480
morning news to find out like the weather or hey,

1158
01:07:10.480 --> 01:07:12.639
these roads are going to be closed in DC or whatever.

1159
01:07:13.119 --> 01:07:16.559
I do watch the morning news. But for the most part,

1160
01:07:16.599 --> 01:07:19.199
like when you watch the evening news, one of the

1161
01:07:19.199 --> 01:07:26.599
interesting things you see is commercials for medication. It's like,

1162
01:07:26.800 --> 01:07:31.559
literally every single commercials for medication. Why is that? It's

1163
01:07:31.599 --> 01:07:34.440
because the only people who watch the news are old people.

1164
01:07:36.039 --> 01:07:39.239
Enough, the only people well, you know, that's one of

1165
01:07:39.239 --> 01:07:42.320
the reasons I don't watch mainstream news or televised news,

1166
01:07:42.400 --> 01:07:47.039
because it's it's ninety percent commercials and advertising and maybe

1167
01:07:47.159 --> 01:07:49.599
ten percent of actual content, you.

1168
01:07:49.559 --> 01:07:53.079
Know, probably less than that, right, I think I'm gonna

1169
01:07:53.079 --> 01:07:55.440
say in ten minutes of commercials, I'm gonna say it

1170
01:07:55.840 --> 01:07:56.599
seems like every.

1171
01:07:56.400 --> 01:07:58.719
Time I'm watching it, I run into like, you know,

1172
01:07:58.920 --> 01:08:00.400
ten commercials in a row, and then all of a

1173
01:08:00.400 --> 01:08:02.840
sudden they talk for thirty seconds. It's another ten commercials.

1174
01:08:03.159 --> 01:08:05.679
It's almost as bad as watching an NFL game sometimes.

1175
01:08:05.880 --> 01:08:09.880
So you have another issue that you kind of run into,

1176
01:08:10.920 --> 01:08:15.320
is you have with the Internet. You have this hyper

1177
01:08:15.320 --> 01:08:21.439
specialization when it comes to viewing content. So if you

1178
01:08:22.399 --> 01:08:26.600
see someone's opinion and you like that opinion, well they're

1179
01:08:26.640 --> 01:08:28.600
going to show you more things that are associated with

1180
01:08:28.640 --> 01:08:33.279
that because they want to keep your eyeballs on you know,

1181
01:08:33.439 --> 01:08:37.880
they want to keep your eyeballs on the on the screen. Absolutely.

1182
01:08:38.279 --> 01:08:41.640
Well, since we're talking about this, it's I've seen it

1183
01:08:41.640 --> 01:08:43.640
with and I know you've seen it because you've been

1184
01:08:43.640 --> 01:08:47.119
doing this longer than I have. I just started getting

1185
01:08:47.119 --> 01:08:50.279
into video right and utilizing YouTube and rumble and whatnot.

1186
01:08:50.680 --> 01:08:53.000
And what I've noticed is the difference between my audio

1187
01:08:53.039 --> 01:08:56.319
podcasts and what works on YouTube are two different things.

1188
01:08:56.760 --> 01:08:59.000
I could throw a two hour interview on YouTube and

1189
01:08:59.039 --> 01:09:01.840
get almost views, but I've turned into a bunch of

1190
01:09:01.880 --> 01:09:03.920
shorts and all. It's like you've got thousands of Look,

1191
01:09:04.039 --> 01:09:07.279
I'm like what because people can't get past thirty seconds,

1192
01:09:07.760 --> 01:09:09.680
and even within those thirty seconds for like they if

1193
01:09:09.720 --> 01:09:13.479
they stick around for fifteen of those some can't, right,

1194
01:09:13.640 --> 01:09:16.039
But in general, you know, I know, generalizing, but it

1195
01:09:16.079 --> 01:09:19.000
just seems like everybody has a very short attention spans

1196
01:09:19.000 --> 01:09:23.239
when it comes to video content. I've noticed anyway. So

1197
01:09:23.279 --> 01:09:26.079
it's like I could have a two hour episode on

1198
01:09:26.119 --> 01:09:29.039
a conversation on a podcast audio format that does extremely well,

1199
01:09:29.079 --> 01:09:31.119
but then in video format it seems like everybody just

1200
01:09:31.159 --> 01:09:32.960
wants to get right to it. It's like, where's the

1201
01:09:33.000 --> 01:09:35.079
short at I want to see these little clips. They

1202
01:09:35.119 --> 01:09:37.439
don't want to go through the whole thing and really

1203
01:09:37.479 --> 01:09:39.359
take it. In the majority, I'm not saying all, but

1204
01:09:39.399 --> 01:09:43.279
the majority, So I've noticed the difference. It's it's it's

1205
01:09:43.399 --> 01:09:47.279
it's crazy. And again, different audiences too, right, Maybe maybe

1206
01:09:47.319 --> 01:09:50.079
people asn't audio or just an older generation of people

1207
01:09:50.119 --> 01:09:52.800
that are used to just wanting to hear those long conversations,

1208
01:09:52.800 --> 01:09:55.159
But it seems like the younger people or the newer

1209
01:09:55.199 --> 01:09:57.279
generations are like, nope, I want to quick, I want

1210
01:09:57.279 --> 01:09:58.680
to fast, I want to the point and I'm done.

1211
01:09:58.680 --> 01:10:01.199
I want to move on now. That's what seems like

1212
01:10:01.239 --> 01:10:06.720
that that's my opinion anyway, from my perspective. Yeah, So, uh, Ukraine,

1213
01:10:08.640 --> 01:10:09.399
what's going on.

1214
01:10:09.319 --> 01:10:13.319
Man, Well, we're about to us our time box, but

1215
01:10:13.439 --> 01:10:14.520
I know, let's keep We're.

1216
01:10:14.359 --> 01:10:18.000
Getting there, but before before we go, I wanted to

1217
01:10:18.039 --> 01:10:20.279
get your opinion on what's going on with a sudden

1218
01:10:20.319 --> 01:10:24.239
shift to send Ukraine weapons and support when Trump was

1219
01:10:24.279 --> 01:10:26.680
against it or seemed to be no.

1220
01:10:27.039 --> 01:10:29.239
Honestly, I don't think that was President Trump. I think

1221
01:10:29.279 --> 01:10:33.520
that was uh crap. I can't remember his name. I

1222
01:10:33.520 --> 01:10:36.479
think there are some people in the d O D.

1223
01:10:36.560 --> 01:10:38.840
I can't remember the specific guy's name, but he's a

1224
01:10:38.840 --> 01:10:42.439
big China hawk, and I think that was him. And

1225
01:10:42.520 --> 01:10:45.760
when Trump kind of realized what had happened, that this

1226
01:10:45.920 --> 01:10:49.880
happened without his authority, I think he uh kind of

1227
01:10:49.880 --> 01:10:55.239
put the kabash on that real quick. Albridge Colby, what's

1228
01:10:55.279 --> 01:10:59.000
the guy's name, Elbridge Colby. He's a big we need

1229
01:10:59.039 --> 01:11:01.840
to be ready to fight China guy. He's not wrong,

1230
01:11:03.119 --> 01:11:05.720
but we can. We can do both. And kind of

1231
01:11:05.520 --> 01:11:08.319
the scary thing here, The thing I've mentioned is that

1232
01:11:09.279 --> 01:11:13.520
by supporting Ukraine, we are deterring China because we were

1233
01:11:13.560 --> 01:11:15.920
saying we're gonna stand with our allies no matter what.

1234
01:11:16.399 --> 01:11:19.000
So China, if you decide to take Taiwan, you're gonna

1235
01:11:19.000 --> 01:11:19.279
have a.

1236
01:11:19.199 --> 01:11:22.520
Bad day, right, And that was definitely in question for

1237
01:11:22.520 --> 01:11:24.439
a while. Wouldn't we stand on the Hunter allies? It

1238
01:11:24.439 --> 01:11:27.760
seemed like we wouldn't. But I mean we've definitely turned

1239
01:11:27.760 --> 01:11:29.279
that corner and showed the world that we build.

1240
01:11:30.159 --> 01:11:33.079
Well. One of the one of the huge issues is

1241
01:11:33.119 --> 01:11:36.199
that there are a finite amount of weapons. We burned

1242
01:11:36.199 --> 01:11:39.640
through a lot of interceptors. We burned through a lot

1243
01:11:39.680 --> 01:11:46.119
of interceptors in Israel, and I think Lockie Raytheon has

1244
01:11:46.159 --> 01:11:52.000
the capability of manufacturing five hundred and fifty factories per year.

1245
01:11:53.760 --> 01:11:58.159
It's not a lot, right, No, And you know, I'd

1246
01:11:58.239 --> 01:12:01.439
love to say, like, well, we should, we should fund

1247
01:12:01.479 --> 01:12:06.000
that more, right, we should. We should put more money

1248
01:12:06.079 --> 01:12:10.279
into developing missiles, should hire more people working at these factories.

1249
01:12:10.680 --> 01:12:13.159
And that's great, But who's going to pay for that? Right?

1250
01:12:13.279 --> 01:12:13.680
I agreed?

1251
01:12:13.720 --> 01:12:14.960
Yeah, exactly.

1252
01:12:15.359 --> 01:12:20.479
So, so you know, in some ways, like maybe one

1253
01:12:20.520 --> 01:12:24.800
of the solutions is maybe we need to look at

1254
01:12:24.960 --> 01:12:31.920
a less expensive interceptor, right that has eighty percent of

1255
01:12:31.920 --> 01:12:36.479
the capabilities. Right, Like I'm surprised andrel hasn't worked on

1256
01:12:36.560 --> 01:12:38.800
something like that. Like here's this thing, here's this new

1257
01:12:38.840 --> 01:12:41.039
missile we developed, It's one hundred and fifty thousand each

1258
01:12:41.119 --> 01:12:43.199
week and make ten thousand of them. It'll fit on

1259
01:12:43.239 --> 01:12:46.720
the pack three launcher and it has eighty percent of

1260
01:12:46.760 --> 01:12:48.720
the capabilities of the Patriot.

1261
01:12:48.319 --> 01:12:55.199
Is is supporting Ukraine with munitions enough? I mean, do

1262
01:12:55.279 --> 01:12:57.840
you do you think because we first talked about this,

1263
01:12:57.920 --> 01:12:59.720
and I think when you and I first talked was

1264
01:12:59.720 --> 01:13:04.720
like back in January or so and so, do you

1265
01:13:04.920 --> 01:13:08.479
think that at this point just giving them munitions and

1266
01:13:08.600 --> 01:13:10.439
money is enough? Are we ever going to get to

1267
01:13:10.439 --> 01:13:12.279
the point where you think we may have to actually

1268
01:13:12.279 --> 01:13:16.479
get involved with real troops to push back on Russia

1269
01:13:16.560 --> 01:13:18.800
just because there's such a much I mean, there's just

1270
01:13:18.840 --> 01:13:22.159
a much bigger country. You know, it's a little different

1271
01:13:22.159 --> 01:13:24.880
than the Israel Iran situation we're looking at. Russia is

1272
01:13:24.880 --> 01:13:27.960
just so much bigger and has so many more capabilities,

1273
01:13:28.079 --> 01:13:31.359
you know, at least depth anyway, right depth. So do

1274
01:13:31.399 --> 01:13:33.640
you think we'll ever come to that or we'll just

1275
01:13:33.720 --> 01:13:35.560
the support of munitions be enough?

1276
01:13:36.640 --> 01:13:42.720
All Ukraine has ever wanted was weapons, Like they haven't

1277
01:13:42.760 --> 01:13:45.079
asked for any troops, they haven't asked for anyone to

1278
01:13:45.119 --> 01:13:52.039
come to their aid. Now, could they? Could we do

1279
01:13:52.119 --> 01:13:56.079
something more like established the no fly zone that I

1280
01:13:56.119 --> 01:13:58.680
mean back when the war first started, I made a

1281
01:13:58.760 --> 01:14:01.720
video about that where like, look, it'd be really difficult

1282
01:14:01.760 --> 01:14:04.039
to establish no fly zone because we would have to

1283
01:14:04.079 --> 01:14:09.760
take out Russian surface stair missiles, would have to Now

1284
01:14:09.800 --> 01:14:15.600
kind of the question there becomes like, well, could the

1285
01:14:15.720 --> 01:14:20.239
UK and France establish a no fly zone? And they

1286
01:14:20.359 --> 01:14:21.239
might be able.

1287
01:14:21.079 --> 01:14:23.720
To do that, That is the question actually, right, and.

1288
01:14:23.680 --> 01:14:28.960
No fly zone would would really help Ukraine because it

1289
01:14:29.239 --> 01:14:32.720
essentially mean any missiles fired into ukraineould get shot down

1290
01:14:33.479 --> 01:14:37.359
and they have the capability. I don't know if they

1291
01:14:37.359 --> 01:14:45.479
have the ability to run a WAX twenty four to

1292
01:14:45.479 --> 01:14:48.319
seven like the United States does, and you're gonna need

1293
01:14:48.359 --> 01:14:53.880
those airborne warning control planes in order to detect those

1294
01:14:53.880 --> 01:14:59.319
incoming missiles. But yeah, I certainly think that maybe establishing

1295
01:14:59.319 --> 01:15:04.399
a no fly zone, at least from the European side

1296
01:15:04.399 --> 01:15:06.920
of the European run no fly zone, that might not

1297
01:15:07.000 --> 01:15:07.760
be a bad idea.

1298
01:15:07.960 --> 01:15:10.800
So that in combination with the continued support of munitions

1299
01:15:10.840 --> 01:15:16.279
and money to fund this should be enough, I think. So.

1300
01:15:16.520 --> 01:15:19.960
I mean, that's like I said, that's all they really wanted, right,

1301
01:15:20.880 --> 01:15:22.000
give us the weapons we need.

1302
01:15:22.039 --> 01:15:24.520
They never called for actual troops I agree, You're correct,

1303
01:15:24.560 --> 01:15:26.560
they never did. I guess.

1304
01:15:26.640 --> 01:15:26.920
I guess.

1305
01:15:26.960 --> 01:15:31.640
The other factor is will hooting back off eventually? You know,

1306
01:15:31.760 --> 01:15:34.239
the longer this goes out, it goes on. But will

1307
01:15:34.239 --> 01:15:35.680
he eventually back off?

1308
01:15:36.640 --> 01:15:40.600
That's that's that's a good question. I you know, his

1309
01:15:40.600 --> 01:15:45.840
his goal. The goal of Russia is to turn Ukraine

1310
01:15:45.880 --> 01:15:49.720
into a satellite state. So one of two things is

1311
01:15:49.760 --> 01:15:52.359
going to happen. They're either going to turn Ukraine into

1312
01:15:52.359 --> 01:15:58.079
a satellite state, Russia is eventually going to collapse. And

1313
01:15:58.399 --> 01:16:02.399
I actually believe one of the reasons that our strategy

1314
01:16:02.560 --> 01:16:07.199
at one point during the early administration was let's get

1315
01:16:07.239 --> 01:16:10.319
out of Ukraine. Let's just let Russia take it, because

1316
01:16:10.359 --> 01:16:15.920
then absolute nightmare scenario is what happens if Russia and

1317
01:16:16.039 --> 01:16:20.600
Ukraine continued to fight for the next four years, and

1318
01:16:20.640 --> 01:16:25.720
then China invades Taiwan, right, and then Russia collapses, and

1319
01:16:25.760 --> 01:16:30.720
now we have a collapse state with nuclear weapons. We

1320
01:16:30.800 --> 01:16:34.199
have to go secure those weapons right now. The first

1321
01:16:34.239 --> 01:16:39.680
time that Russia collapsed, people didn't leave their post, right

1322
01:16:39.840 --> 01:16:42.039
even though they weren't getting paid or they didn't really

1323
01:16:42.119 --> 01:16:44.960
know if they had a country anymore, they stayed by

1324
01:16:45.039 --> 01:16:49.159
their post and they guarded those nuclear weapons. But I

1325
01:16:49.279 --> 01:16:53.800
don't know if that's going to be the case if

1326
01:16:53.880 --> 01:16:57.479
Russia collapses to the point where you have regional warlords

1327
01:16:58.039 --> 01:17:01.960
who take over and you know, now they're not gonna

1328
01:17:01.960 --> 01:17:05.600
be able to use those nuclear weapons because all the

1329
01:17:05.640 --> 01:17:09.560
permissive action links are in Moscow. Right But eventually you

1330
01:17:09.600 --> 01:17:11.800
can take the plutonium out of there, you can give

1331
01:17:11.840 --> 01:17:15.079
it to another nation, they can build their own bob

1332
01:17:15.119 --> 01:17:16.760
eventually some of all fear style.

1333
01:17:17.239 --> 01:17:21.479
Yeah, do you do you think do you think Russia

1334
01:17:21.560 --> 01:17:23.880
may be on the ridge of plausiphist does extend any

1335
01:17:23.920 --> 01:17:25.479
longer it keeps going.

1336
01:17:26.760 --> 01:17:32.199
I think they could collapse mainly because you know, at

1337
01:17:32.279 --> 01:17:39.560
some point there's just no there, there's they're fighting their

1338
01:17:39.600 --> 01:17:44.399
own economy, so you know when right now.

1339
01:17:44.359 --> 01:17:45.960
We're trying to stay ahead of it, right with this

1340
01:17:46.239 --> 01:17:46.600
this war.

1341
01:17:47.439 --> 01:17:51.760
So they're paying. So they have laborers and they have soldiers,

1342
01:17:51.880 --> 01:17:56.000
and right now in the factories in Russia, like you

1343
01:17:56.079 --> 01:17:58.600
can either join the army or you get a job

1344
01:17:58.680 --> 01:18:03.479
at a factory, and so Russia is paying money. These

1345
01:18:03.479 --> 01:18:07.720
are compracti key, These are not conscripted soldiers. These guys

1346
01:18:07.800 --> 01:18:11.159
are being paid to join the army, and right now

1347
01:18:13.039 --> 01:18:16.960
they're paying them enough money that people think, well, I'm

1348
01:18:16.960 --> 01:18:20.199
going to roll the dice and run the risk of

1349
01:18:20.520 --> 01:18:24.079
joining the army for all this this fucking full of money.

1350
01:18:25.600 --> 01:18:30.640
And the issue is that some of the weapons manufacturing

1351
01:18:30.680 --> 01:18:34.720
companies they can't find workers, so they raise wages. So

1352
01:18:35.159 --> 01:18:38.079
now people go to the weapons manufacturing company instead of

1353
01:18:38.119 --> 01:18:41.279
joining the army. So the army raises wages, so then

1354
01:18:41.600 --> 01:18:45.079
the other companies raise wages, and they just keep raising wages.

1355
01:18:45.159 --> 01:18:48.239
The Army raises and the French companies raised wages. I

1356
01:18:48.239 --> 01:18:50.640
think twenty percent of Russia's economy is geared towards the

1357
01:18:50.640 --> 01:18:53.760
war right now. And you know, one of the scary

1358
01:18:53.800 --> 01:18:56.920
parts I've said is that if you turn that off,

1359
01:18:58.159 --> 01:19:02.319
that's going to be a big problem because you can't

1360
01:19:02.359 --> 01:19:07.199
just let's say Russia wins the war, right if they

1361
01:19:07.199 --> 01:19:10.720
don't have a soft landing with their economy. There's going

1362
01:19:10.800 --> 01:19:16.680
to be a huge issue, a massive issue, because you

1363
01:19:16.840 --> 01:19:20.760
have all these people who they had a job one

1364
01:19:20.840 --> 01:19:24.199
day and now they don't have a job, and maybe

1365
01:19:24.319 --> 01:19:28.680
demobilize soldiers, and these soldiers they come back and yeah,

1366
01:19:28.760 --> 01:19:31.279
they have a bunch of money that only lasts so long,

1367
01:19:31.760 --> 01:19:35.680
right then they might drink it all a way. Eventually

1368
01:19:36.960 --> 01:19:40.760
people You know, when you have a society and you

1369
01:19:40.880 --> 01:19:42.920
just taught all these people how to use guns and

1370
01:19:42.960 --> 01:19:47.000
they come back to their job, what happens, Well, people

1371
01:19:47.039 --> 01:19:48.960
like that have always figured out how to get a gun.

1372
01:19:49.560 --> 01:19:53.520
And Russia's gun laws are not the same as the

1373
01:19:53.640 --> 01:19:58.119
United States, but you can buy a gun. So I

1374
01:19:58.159 --> 01:20:02.039
think that's the kind of the nightmare scenario for Russia

1375
01:20:02.079 --> 01:20:04.840
where let's say they win, but then they kind of

1376
01:20:04.880 --> 01:20:09.039
lose as well because their economy collapses and we need

1377
01:20:09.079 --> 01:20:12.399
to the point where you can only raise wages so much. Right.

1378
01:20:13.039 --> 01:20:19.239
What is Russia's main export right now? Cold natural gas oil, right,

1379
01:20:19.720 --> 01:20:21.359
and the rest of the world can only buy so

1380
01:20:21.479 --> 01:20:26.079
much of that. So and a lot of their extraction

1381
01:20:26.159 --> 01:20:28.119
equipment is made in the West, so they can't get

1382
01:20:28.159 --> 01:20:31.800
spare parts for that. They also don't really have machine

1383
01:20:31.840 --> 01:20:34.199
tool industry. A lot of the machine tool industry is

1384
01:20:34.239 --> 01:20:38.560
in Germany, the Netherlands, the United States. China doesn't even

1385
01:20:38.640 --> 01:20:43.199
have a real machine tool industry. We see and C manufacturing.

1386
01:20:43.720 --> 01:20:47.920
So you're pumping oil as fast as you can for

1387
01:20:48.039 --> 01:20:51.880
the hard currency that can that you can use to

1388
01:20:51.920 --> 01:20:54.439
pay your people and buy weapons and keep this war

1389
01:20:54.520 --> 01:20:57.159
going that at some point you're going to reach the

1390
01:20:57.159 --> 01:20:59.560
limit to how much oil you can actually pump and

1391
01:20:59.640 --> 01:21:04.359
things breaking down so there's less oil. So right, so

1392
01:21:04.399 --> 01:21:08.039
they can only keep this up for so long, and

1393
01:21:08.319 --> 01:21:11.079
I don't know how long that's going to be, but

1394
01:21:12.640 --> 01:21:16.079
there is a finite limit to how long Russia can

1395
01:21:16.159 --> 01:21:16.920
keep pumping oil.

1396
01:21:17.880 --> 01:21:20.199
Yeah, no, that's true. And then there's the other the

1397
01:21:20.279 --> 01:21:22.560
other factor as to whether or not or when do

1398
01:21:22.640 --> 01:21:26.560
the people start to really turn on Putin and not

1399
01:21:26.680 --> 01:21:29.560
support them anymore, because for the most part, most Russians do.

1400
01:21:30.680 --> 01:21:36.600
I can tell you when if Russia ever establishes a

1401
01:21:36.640 --> 01:21:39.760
general conscription again, like they tried that. I want to

1402
01:21:39.800 --> 01:21:43.439
say it was in September of twenty and twenty two.

1403
01:21:44.479 --> 01:21:48.479
Russia did a general mobilization and the people hated it

1404
01:21:48.960 --> 01:21:54.279
because there's always been this deal between Moscow, Saint Petersburg

1405
01:21:54.600 --> 01:21:57.359
and Russian politicians, which is, do whatever the hell you

1406
01:21:57.399 --> 01:22:00.359
want to, just don't touch our kids. Right, So, as

1407
01:22:00.359 --> 01:22:04.600
long as the elite in Saint Petersburg and Moscow aren't

1408
01:22:04.640 --> 01:22:08.199
being sent to the front lines, do whatever the heck

1409
01:22:08.279 --> 01:22:11.680
you want. But the second your kids are being sent

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to the front lines, that's that's an issue, and that's

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where you get to actually see real change. You know,

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right now, the whole, the whole thing is being funded

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by taxes on these Russian oligarchs. They can't possibly enjoy

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those high taxes. They want to live in their mansion

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and buy their football teams in England and stuff, right right,

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that's not really good for them either.

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All right, well, I think we're at your time here.

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I'd love to keep talking to it. I can't keep

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you forever, so I appreciate that. Oh yeah, I want to.

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I want to thank you for coming back on man,

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and I'll see you in touch with you, but it's

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always informative and I like talking to you, so appreciate it.

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And you know, hopefully we talk again soon. I know

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you're a very busy guy though.

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Thank you so much.

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Thank you.

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Dot doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo

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do
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Ryan McBeth

Intelligence Analyst / Author

Ryan McBeth is an intelligence analyst, software architect, cybersecurity guy, and YouTube content creator of military, intelligence and disinformation topics. He appears on NEWSMAX as an intelligence consultant and consults for Veloxxity on OSINT and information warfare.

Ryan spent 20 years as an anti-armor and heavy weapons infantryman with two overseas deployments and developed C4ISR software for Accenture Federal Services. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland with a large humidor and whiskey library.