Ryan McBeth - Intelligence Analyst, Novelist, Content Creator

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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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A lot of it is made up by extended families

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throughout the.

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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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And it's like we, you know, and yeah, these tribal politics, man,

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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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smartest thing George Washington ever did was quit after two terms, right, right,

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that just kind of set the precedent. And we we've

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had this precedent for two hundred and fifty years. While

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a little bit less years, we've had this precedent.

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Where for the most part we have this peaceful transition

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of power, right and for the most part elected officials

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at least they try their best to do the right thing,

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you know, at least that they're answerable to their constituents

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because if they don't answer to their constituents, they get unelected.

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And uh, you know the in in some societies, you

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don't necessarily see that they're they're when if you take

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a look at sad on the Saints, Iraq, there's only

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one party that was the Bath Party, right, and I

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guess it was nominally a democracy. I mean I could

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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 is51200:29:46.079 --> 00:29:50.359



they're they're they're their own nation. They do command respect51300:29:50.440 --> 00:29:54.920



for who they are there right now, they've been the51400:29:55.000 --> 00:29:58.400



leading supporter of terrorism since nineteen eighty four, at least51500:29:58.440 --> 00:30:01.279



officially that's how they were labeled, right.51600:30:01.079 --> 00:30:03.519



Since Prizes nineteen seventy nine, well.51700:30:03.359 --> 00:30:06.400



Before, but officially nineteen eighty four. Is when they're like, hey,51800:30:06.599 --> 00:30:09.799



you know, these guys are arg just state as supporter51900:30:09.920 --> 00:30:11.200



of terrorism?52000:30:11.720 --> 00:30:12.000



Now?52100:30:12.519 --> 00:30:18.200



Is is theirs necessarily? Do you think a religious war?52200:30:18.319 --> 00:30:21.279



Or is it just is that just nothing but a52300:30:21.319 --> 00:30:25.480



cover for their ultimate goal of being the power in52400:30:25.519 --> 00:30:28.640



the region because they used proxies to do their own bidding,52500:30:28.680 --> 00:30:31.559



Like they're not directly going out and attacking people and52600:30:31.960 --> 00:30:35.119



causing all of this, all of this harm and and52700:30:35.200 --> 00:30:37.160



all this chaos. You know, they get they get to52800:30:37.200 --> 00:30:39.319



have like the Mafia's that right, the boss would always52900:30:39.319 --> 00:30:40.960



have a buffer, so that their buffer has always been,53000:30:41.480 --> 00:30:44.920



you know, like these proxies. So how do we how53100:30:44.920 --> 00:30:47.839



do we hold a country like that accountable for doing53200:30:47.880 --> 00:30:50.359



those things? You can easily deny they never had direct53300:30:50.400 --> 00:30:53.519



involvement because they never really did anything except for recently53400:30:53.559 --> 00:30:56.559



between what happened with Israel and Iran, you know, with53500:30:56.640 --> 00:30:59.440



the bombings and but not the missiles. But before they53600:30:59.480 --> 00:31:03.160



weren't always recon fault. So so how should that be approach? Like,53700:31:03.200 --> 00:31:05.599



how how were they to be held accountable for their actions?53800:31:05.640 --> 00:31:08.680



But at the same time we allow them to thrive53900:31:09.039 --> 00:31:11.880



and develop and continue to grow as a society.54000:31:13.720 --> 00:31:19.319



Well, you bomb them. You did exactly what I look.54100:31:19.880 --> 00:31:22.400



I've often said, like you got, we got as a nation.54200:31:22.519 --> 00:31:24.839



We have to get back to our core competencies. And54300:31:25.039 --> 00:31:27.640



we're not very good at nation building, but we are54400:31:27.759 --> 00:31:30.119



really good at a bombing piece like that. That's one54500:31:30.160 --> 00:31:33.559



of the things where we really excel at. It's been54600:31:33.640 --> 00:31:38.319



that way since scott when Reagan operational Dorado Canyon, when54700:31:38.759 --> 00:31:42.759



we realized Kadafi was his terrorist leader. Uh. He blew54800:31:42.839 --> 00:31:46.599



up uh pan Am he pan Am flight over locker54900:31:46.640 --> 00:31:52.599



room in Scotland. He was helping fund the ira He55000:31:52.759 --> 00:31:56.519



was helping fund Uh. There was an operation uh to55100:31:57.240 --> 00:32:01.240



Iranian affiliated terrorists who blew up a disco in Berlin.55200:32:01.359 --> 00:32:03.720



I want to say it was Berlin. They killed a55300:32:03.720 --> 00:32:06.839



couple of US service members. There isn't even a situation55400:32:07.000 --> 00:32:11.519



where Easter and East Germany they caught some I want55500:32:11.559 --> 00:32:14.640



to say it was Iranian terrorists trying to smuggle a55600:32:14.680 --> 00:32:17.319



bomb on board and the bomb wasn't for the East55700:32:17.319 --> 00:32:19.480



German flight, it was going someplace else, and they're going55800:32:19.559 --> 00:32:21.000



to put the bomb on that plane, and the East55900:32:21.000 --> 00:32:23.359



Germans turn them in. They don't want those idiots in56000:32:23.400 --> 00:32:28.400



their country either, right, you know. But once we bombed,56100:32:29.480 --> 00:32:33.960



once we bombed uh Libya, Kadelfi shut up for a56200:32:34.039 --> 00:32:38.240



good let's say ten twelve years, yeah, roughly, you know.56300:32:38.720 --> 00:32:43.240



And look, the reason Iran uses proxies is that it's cheap,56400:32:44.240 --> 00:32:46.359



and that's actually probably one of the reasons why they56500:32:46.480 --> 00:32:52.279



lost their air battle against Israel. You know, Iran, they56600:32:52.359 --> 00:32:58.359



can't build an aircraft carrier, they can't build an ICBM56700:32:59.119 --> 00:33:03.240



and are continental ballistic missile that can reach the United States.56800:33:03.680 --> 00:33:08.799



But what they can do is fun terrorist organizations around56900:33:08.799 --> 00:33:14.000



the globe that can perform kinetic actions that can give57000:33:14.039 --> 00:33:16.839



them leverage over certain areas of the world like Lebanon,57100:33:17.000 --> 00:33:22.039



the Houkis, and Yemen Hasblahamas, right, so they can do that.57200:33:23.200 --> 00:33:26.519



And what's interesting is that I think that the reason57300:33:26.640 --> 00:33:32.200



Iran kind of failed against these Israeli attacks isn't just57400:33:32.279 --> 00:33:36.599



the skill of the Israeli air force, which is undeniably skillful,57500:33:37.400 --> 00:33:41.079



but they were kind of putting so many eggs in57600:33:41.160 --> 00:33:46.480



the IRGC and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard corner basket. They57700:33:46.519 --> 00:33:51.160



were funding terrorist organizations all over the world that they57800:33:51.160 --> 00:33:53.759



were kind of neglecting the RSH. They were neglecting their57900:33:53.799 --> 00:33:57.359



own military, and you can see that just by looking58000:33:57.400 --> 00:34:00.799



at their jet fighters. I mean the jet fighters remains58100:34:02.079 --> 00:34:07.640



are from the nineteen seventies. I'm sure there's been some upgrades.58200:34:08.159 --> 00:34:12.760



And supposedly Iran they want to purchase a couple of58300:34:12.760 --> 00:34:16.559



suit thirty four's from Russia, like a deal went through58400:34:16.639 --> 00:34:19.000



to purchase these to thirty fours. I think they've got58500:34:19.000 --> 00:34:22.480



a single suit thirty four. I think they've got a58600:34:22.480 --> 00:34:24.400



single one because Russia is like, yeah, we kind of58700:34:24.440 --> 00:34:27.679



need these right now, no surprise, right. And a couple58800:34:27.679 --> 00:34:31.920



of years ago, Russia helped Ron launch a satellite and58900:34:32.159 --> 00:34:35.199



UH I remember the spy satellite, and they said to59000:34:35.239 --> 00:34:37.519



Iran like, we're going to use this for a little while.59100:34:37.599 --> 00:34:43.400



Consider it a consider it a feet right, So yeah,59200:34:43.599 --> 00:34:49.519



the the UH I think that Iran's way to affect59300:34:49.599 --> 00:34:53.440



changes through the proxies, which was cheap. But for every59400:34:54.159 --> 00:34:57.239



proxy that you fund with a dollar, it's one less59500:34:57.280 --> 00:35:00.559



dollar that you can fund your conventional mil military with59600:35:01.199 --> 00:35:04.679



and that's how you get into a situation where you59700:35:04.800 --> 00:35:11.880



have this military that is essentially very brittal. Right, they59800:35:11.920 --> 00:35:18.239



can't even destroy Israeli planes coming into their own country, right,59900:35:18.280 --> 00:35:22.199



they can't launch sorties against Israeli planes that are flying60000:35:22.239 --> 00:35:24.960



into their own country. I think Israel established air dominant60100:35:25.000 --> 00:35:27.920



and then three to five days to the point where60200:35:27.920 --> 00:35:35.199



they're operating during the daytime, which is absolute madness. Yeah,60300:35:35.599 --> 00:35:36.480



it's crazy.60400:35:36.599 --> 00:35:38.840



They obviously didn't have any fear of what Iran could do.60500:35:39.880 --> 00:35:43.599



No, No, they didn't have any fear. And that's kind60600:35:43.599 --> 00:35:45.760



of not how it's supposed to be. Like, you're supposed60700:35:45.760 --> 00:35:47.920



to have air sovereign to be over your own country,60800:35:48.559 --> 00:35:52.599



and after three to five days, I believe Iran didn't.60900:35:53.280 --> 00:35:56.159



That's a pretty big issue. And that's I think it's61000:35:56.159 --> 00:36:01.079



directly because they funded their proxies so much. There's essentially61100:36:01.079 --> 00:36:04.360



no money left over for their conventional forces, the surface,61200:36:04.400 --> 00:36:09.320



their missile forces, their air force. So you're you're you're61300:36:09.400 --> 00:36:12.800



running how to reduce capacity, and then you actually get61400:36:12.840 --> 00:36:17.840



into that fight and now you get smacked around by61500:36:17.880 --> 00:36:20.920



a country that's twenty times smaller than you.61600:36:21.519 --> 00:36:25.039



It's right, it's interesting, but you brought up Russia because61700:36:25.920 --> 00:36:28.840



the what I've seen, what I've seen happen with Iran,61800:36:28.960 --> 00:36:34.119



so out out the gate right, Pakistan is like, oh,61900:36:34.119 --> 00:36:36.800



we support Iran and we will back them and if62000:36:36.840 --> 00:36:38.960



we have to, we'll launch a nuclear weapon if we62100:36:39.039 --> 00:36:44.079



need to. So they Iran has these I don't even62200:36:44.119 --> 00:36:46.320



know if they're real allies or pseudo allies because Russia62300:36:46.320 --> 00:36:48.360



is supposed to be an ally. But what we've seen62400:36:48.440 --> 00:36:51.760



is we've never really seen Russia really come to their62500:36:51.880 --> 00:36:55.639



need necessarily. I know, Iran helped Russia in the in62600:36:55.679 --> 00:36:57.760



the Ukraine War by sending them like I think it62700:36:57.800 --> 00:36:59.719



was like technology like drones, different things.62800:37:00.079 --> 00:37:01.480



Yeah, sad drones, okay.62900:37:01.480 --> 00:37:03.960



And and then same thing with China. China supposed he63000:37:04.159 --> 00:37:07.119



you know, says hey, they also stand by Iran, but63100:37:08.000 --> 00:37:10.840



China doing what China does. They haven't really done much63200:37:11.119 --> 00:37:15.000



or said anything outside of just saying we support a run.63300:37:15.599 --> 00:37:20.199



After the bombings, everyone got quiet. So I don't know63400:37:20.199 --> 00:37:23.519



if that's a testament to still, you know, how strong63500:37:23.599 --> 00:37:25.519



the US really is in the world stage that people63600:37:25.559 --> 00:37:28.480



actually saw that, Okay, we're not we're not sleeping anymore.63700:37:28.559 --> 00:37:30.320



We will take care of things if we have to,63800:37:31.559 --> 00:37:34.519



or if Iran their true colors just came out and63900:37:34.800 --> 00:37:37.599



this whole thing has just been you know, one giant64000:37:37.679 --> 00:37:40.079



charad really, you know, in terms of what Iran can64100:37:40.159 --> 00:37:41.519



really do and what power they really have.64200:37:43.960 --> 00:37:47.360



Yeah, I mean, look, if you're Russia, what exactly are64300:37:47.400 --> 00:37:51.360



you going to do right now to support Iran? Much64400:37:51.480 --> 00:37:55.239



like that's that mean, like can you send aircraft? But64500:37:55.320 --> 00:38:00.599



you kind of need those aircraft right, So oh what64600:38:00.639 --> 00:38:03.599



do you do? Because I don't really have an answer.64700:38:03.679 --> 00:38:06.000



Oh no, no, I get it. It's just it just seems64800:38:06.079 --> 00:38:08.039



it just seems like they don't really have the allies64900:38:08.079 --> 00:38:10.840



they think they do. You know, as soon as as65000:38:10.840 --> 00:38:13.280



soon as the US did step into back Israel, which65100:38:13.320 --> 00:38:16.400



we always do, which it's gonna be another question for you,65200:38:16.920 --> 00:38:21.880



but it seemed like everybody just kind of stepped back.65300:38:22.519 --> 00:38:25.960



They just didn't want to get involved anymore. In my opinion,65400:38:26.000 --> 00:38:28.760



I think China is just watching all these conflicts, and65500:38:28.880 --> 00:38:31.239



just while they're doing that, they're testing the waters over65600:38:31.280 --> 00:38:33.960



there with Taiwan. Sorry Taiwan. I don't know why I65700:38:33.960 --> 00:38:37.079



said Taiwan. So Taiwan and also you know, also the65800:38:37.119 --> 00:38:42.920



Philippines and just recently, they basically laser targeted a German65900:38:43.360 --> 00:38:46.679



I think with a helicopter or some military craft when66000:38:46.679 --> 00:38:50.000



they were having an exercise out there. So to me,66100:38:50.079 --> 00:38:52.840



I think China is saying what people want to hear,66200:38:52.920 --> 00:38:57.000



while at the same time plotting to do what they66300:38:57.039 --> 00:38:59.440



want to do in the region. And I mean, I66400:38:59.679 --> 00:39:02.320



know they're end goal is to eventually take Taiwan. But66500:39:02.480 --> 00:39:04.880



you know, if Russia You're correct, obviously, it's like they66600:39:05.400 --> 00:39:09.159



don't have any means to really separate and and fight66700:39:09.199 --> 00:39:11.519



two wars. They just can't. I mean, they're barely even66800:39:11.559 --> 00:39:13.360



able to handle what's going on in Ukraine right now,66900:39:14.000 --> 00:39:18.119



and that's a much smaller country, you know, So I67000:39:18.199 --> 00:39:23.320



get you now. As far as Israel and Irando, I67100:39:23.800 --> 00:39:26.320



always ask I've asked a question by you know, two67200:39:26.360 --> 00:39:30.480



other guests that I've had recently, and do you do67300:39:30.519 --> 00:39:34.400



you believe at some point that Israel needs to stand67400:39:34.440 --> 00:39:36.880



on their own without knowing that the USA is going67500:39:36.920 --> 00:39:37.400



to step in?67600:39:40.079 --> 00:39:40.320



Hmm.67700:39:41.760 --> 00:39:43.559



I know we're allies. I'm not saying we shouldn't help67800:39:43.599 --> 00:39:47.760



our allies, but there have been situations where and historically67900:39:48.679 --> 00:39:51.239



that they they have done They've done things that have68000:39:51.320 --> 00:39:54.639



really made it hard, right, especially for US. I mean,68100:39:54.639 --> 00:39:57.280



if you look at the geopolitical relationships, like what if68200:39:57.280 --> 00:40:00.199



we're in negotiation with another country or we're trying to68300:40:00.239 --> 00:40:02.760



do something to where we can improve relations, and then all68400:40:02.760 --> 00:40:06.320



of a sudden, Israel's another war with somebody you know,68500:40:06.400 --> 00:40:09.320



or there's another conflict. How do you feel about that68600:40:09.400 --> 00:40:11.360



or at least your opinion on that situation.68700:40:12.519 --> 00:40:18.360



Well, usually Israel doesn't necessarily start, right, you could say that,68800:40:19.039 --> 00:40:22.559



you know, one war that Israel I'm really trying to.68900:40:22.639 --> 00:40:25.039



I mean, really the only war that hasn't really started69000:40:25.199 --> 00:40:31.920



was nineteen forty eight, right, so kind of like what69100:40:31.960 --> 00:40:36.000



do you know, even the Siini can't say was the69200:40:36.039 --> 00:40:38.840



Siani campaign? Was that? I think that was instigated by69300:40:39.000 --> 00:40:44.079



Egypt and they were like, well, let's just keep going.69400:40:44.559 --> 00:40:47.360



You know, let's say when the Egyptian forces are collapsing,69500:40:47.840 --> 00:40:50.079



let's just keep going. You know, might as well keep69600:40:50.079 --> 00:40:57.880



going here. So I usually it seems like other people69700:40:58.000 --> 00:41:03.119



kind of roll in and and they cause trouble with Israel,69800:41:03.159 --> 00:41:05.119



and Israel decides to respond, and that's when they have69900:41:05.159 --> 00:41:08.760



to step in. Now, for the most part, Israel does70000:41:09.199 --> 00:41:12.760



and on its own when they need a little extra help.70100:41:12.800 --> 00:41:16.920



They can call the US for the most part. Like70200:41:17.079 --> 00:41:19.159



you look at Israel's air force and they were able70300:41:19.199 --> 00:41:24.360



to do a lot with I think it's eleven fighter70400:41:24.800 --> 00:41:28.360



eleven fighter squads, right, I think it's three F thirty fives,70500:41:30.159 --> 00:41:37.880



three F sixteen eyes well one of sixteen e welling laughs,70600:41:38.159 --> 00:41:41.920



F fifteen. I I think they have two F fifteen70700:41:42.079 --> 00:41:48.760



c's these squads A fifteen C. I'm trying to do70800:41:48.800 --> 00:41:50.400



this memory, but I think it's eleven squad.70900:41:50.480 --> 00:41:54.440



Yeah, but it's not a large, not a very large.71000:41:54.599 --> 00:41:57.760



Passive, but it's it's a respectable air force for the71100:41:57.840 --> 00:42:05.000



Reeds veritably, Yeah, paratively, and you know, like they can71200:42:05.440 --> 00:42:08.599



usually handle themselves. It's kind of when things got out71300:42:08.599 --> 00:42:11.840



of control that the US gets called in and you know,71400:42:11.880 --> 00:42:14.960



normally they don't start it, they shut us all, finished it.71500:42:14.960 --> 00:42:19.199



Well, history is shown they yeah, technically typically do not71600:42:19.719 --> 00:42:21.880



Typically in tech you don't start it. You're correct.71700:42:22.599 --> 00:42:26.000



Sixty seven sixty seven is a real startup, but only71800:42:26.039 --> 00:42:29.360



because they saw the Egyptians building up on the border. Right.71900:42:30.199 --> 00:42:32.800



They essentially took out the Egyptian air force in one day.72000:42:34.119 --> 00:42:36.480



Right, Yeah, they're they're a powerful nation for their size.72100:42:37.519 --> 00:42:40.480



But it's still do you think we should always have72200:42:40.559 --> 00:42:44.480



to step in, because that's that's been that's been the72300:42:44.559 --> 00:42:47.519



rhetoric going around. You know, it's as if we shouldn't72400:42:47.519 --> 00:42:51.320



support Israel anymore. I think if we're no longer their ally,72500:42:51.360 --> 00:42:54.239



we lose a major position there in terms of an72600:42:54.280 --> 00:42:57.119



ally military position, everything.72700:42:58.599 --> 00:43:00.320



A major technical position. Same.72800:43:00.719 --> 00:43:00.800



Like.72900:43:01.119 --> 00:43:05.519



Look one of the reasons Israel and the United States73000:43:05.920 --> 00:43:10.119



when it came to Oman just their guitar guitar a73100:43:10.119 --> 00:43:13.800



couple of weeks ago, when around launched all dismissiles, We've73200:43:13.840 --> 00:43:18.480



gotten all that data from Ukrainian intercepts, Like whenever Ukraine73300:43:18.639 --> 00:43:25.760



intercepts a Russian missile with a Patriot, we get that data, right,73400:43:26.559 --> 00:43:30.039



So we got a heck of a lot of data73500:43:30.039 --> 00:43:34.000



on the performance of the Patriot and the performance of73600:43:34.000 --> 00:43:36.119



the Patriot in Israel. We got a heck of a73700:43:36.119 --> 00:43:39.840



lot of data on that, right. One of the things73800:43:39.920 --> 00:43:44.880



that Israel helped create with US money was the iron73900:43:44.920 --> 00:43:47.679



Dome syst Well, now we have access to that tech.74000:43:47.800 --> 00:43:51.840



You know, iron Dome really isn't that useful for us,74100:43:52.320 --> 00:43:55.360



but we can use some of that tech to develop74200:43:55.440 --> 00:43:59.280



other systems that might be useful in the future. Another74300:43:59.480 --> 00:44:03.159



good example is the Trophy system. Trophy system is on74400:44:03.320 --> 00:44:06.239



I want to say, one hundred and fifty US tanks74500:44:06.239 --> 00:44:08.960



that are in Germany. Trophy system is kind of like74600:44:08.960 --> 00:44:13.320



an iron dome for tanks intercepts incoming rockets. Right, So74700:44:13.440 --> 00:44:17.840



we have this this tech transfer with with Israel that74800:44:17.920 --> 00:44:20.360



would be lost if they were no longer allies. So74900:44:21.280 --> 00:44:24.360



I mean, when you essentially have a country that's in75000:44:24.400 --> 00:44:26.920



a very bad part of the world's kind of willing75100:44:27.000 --> 00:44:28.880



to test out some of your weapons for you and75200:44:29.000 --> 00:44:32.400



bring back the data, wellck, why not do that, right?75300:44:33.199 --> 00:44:35.239



And then we would also lose some of that intelligence75400:44:35.280 --> 00:44:35.559



as well.75500:44:35.639 --> 00:44:41.079



No, yeah, absolutely so. And plus Israel is a democracy.75600:44:41.480 --> 00:44:44.320



You know, we need to be able, we need to75700:44:44.360 --> 00:44:46.519



support democracies around the globe.75800:44:47.239 --> 00:44:50.079



Yeah, you know, I just want to clarify that I75900:44:50.119 --> 00:44:52.519



that question wasn't to put you on the spot and76000:44:52.679 --> 00:44:53.880



have you say Israel bad.76100:44:53.920 --> 00:44:54.840



I was just want a.76200:44:54.880 --> 00:44:59.000



Dropeena because you know, there is as I stated earlier,76300:44:59.039 --> 00:45:02.159



as a sentiment that akabad right where the for the76400:45:02.199 --> 00:45:05.079



cause of all iron the world? And then now it's like, well,76500:45:05.159 --> 00:45:08.079



let's not support Israel anymore. Let's just let them do76600:45:08.159 --> 00:45:09.840



whatever they got to do and stand on their own76700:45:09.880 --> 00:45:14.239



and then you know, well, at the same time support Ukraine,76800:45:14.239 --> 00:45:16.519



which was never really an ally. But you know, with76900:45:16.639 --> 00:45:18.880



that situation, you know, we don't want to see the77000:45:18.920 --> 00:45:21.440



little guy get taken over by the larger aggressor right77100:45:21.519 --> 00:45:25.559



for no reason. So it's just like this whole, this77200:45:25.639 --> 00:45:28.480



whole thing right now, with the way the media is77300:45:28.559 --> 00:45:31.599



pushing their talking points in their narrative, it's like we're77400:45:31.639 --> 00:45:34.559



living in an upside down world. And I don't I77500:45:34.599 --> 00:45:35.960



don't know where it's coming from.77600:45:36.039 --> 00:45:36.119



It.77700:45:36.239 --> 00:45:39.639



I don't know who's who is behind this propaganda. But77800:45:40.079 --> 00:45:42.239



you know, even on us soil, we have you know,77900:45:42.440 --> 00:45:46.440



people that are marching for Hamas. I mean, I get78000:45:46.599 --> 00:45:49.159



supporting the people of Palestine are stuck in the middle78100:45:49.159 --> 00:45:51.559



of the actual you know, people civilians that are that78200:45:51.599 --> 00:45:55.119



are being killed because of the decisions made by Hamas.78300:45:55.840 --> 00:45:59.400



I understand that, but I don't understand how we can78400:45:59.400 --> 00:46:01.800



get behind to rist organizations to say no, they're actually78500:46:01.840 --> 00:46:04.920



the good guy. You know, it's America that's bad. We're78600:46:04.960 --> 00:46:06.400



the reason that all this is happening.78700:46:07.480 --> 00:46:09.000



I had a whole theory about that.78800:46:09.920 --> 00:46:12.960



Okay, Well, I just won Daro's coming from it is.78900:46:13.039 --> 00:46:16.559



I think I honestly, I think one of the reasons79000:46:17.079 --> 00:46:22.719



that the US are college students in the United States79100:46:23.360 --> 00:46:29.400



got so involved with the whole conflicting gaza was that,79200:46:29.719 --> 00:46:34.480



you know, these are students who for four years three79300:46:34.519 --> 00:46:38.159



four years, three years at least, they couldn't go to class,79400:46:38.239 --> 00:46:40.400



they couldn't wear masks, they couldn't go out on the79500:46:40.480 --> 00:46:43.119



date with a girl. Then all of a sudden, like79600:46:43.599 --> 00:46:46.599



here's this opportunity to meet other people in real life79700:46:47.679 --> 00:46:50.519



on a subject that they're passionate about. I'm kind of79800:46:50.559 --> 00:46:56.360



reminded of reminded of my old first sergeant when I79900:46:56.400 --> 00:47:01.920



first joined in nineteen ninety four. My first sergeant was80000:47:02.079 --> 00:47:05.800



like he told me he was a Vietnam vet. And80100:47:05.880 --> 00:47:08.960



this guy said, you know, uh what he used to do.80200:47:09.079 --> 00:47:11.639



He used to work at the Pentagon. After work, he80300:47:11.639 --> 00:47:13.719



would change into civilian clothes and he would go to80400:47:13.760 --> 00:47:17.599



the protests and in civilian clothes and like tell the80500:47:17.639 --> 00:47:20.239



girls that he was a soldier. And you know, he80600:47:20.719 --> 00:47:23.000



got he got to sleep with all sorts of girls80700:47:23.079 --> 00:47:25.039



that way because they thought, like, we're bringing them into80800:47:25.079 --> 00:47:28.840



our side. So if you're if you're a kid, if80900:47:28.880 --> 00:47:33.360



you're a boy, right, and you know you, uh, you've81000:47:33.400 --> 00:47:35.599



never kissed a girl before, and I've been out on81100:47:35.599 --> 00:47:38.480



a date with a girl before, and here's an opportunity81200:47:38.519 --> 00:47:41.039



to meet girls in real life. You don't have to81300:47:41.039 --> 00:47:43.239



worry about a mask, you don't worry about tender and81400:47:43.280 --> 00:47:45.920



they're passionate about this thing. Yes, I'll be passionate about81500:47:45.920 --> 00:47:48.679



this too. Can we go back to your dorm afterwards? Right?81600:47:48.760 --> 00:47:54.039



So I think I and I I I had, though81700:47:54.880 --> 00:47:59.159



I don't think I am. I really know, because it's81800:47:59.800 --> 00:48:03.000



it's it sounds like a very open and shut thing, right.81900:48:03.199 --> 00:48:05.079



It sounds like one of those things where you can82000:48:05.119 --> 00:48:10.559



go like, oh, you know, I'll do this thing and82100:48:10.679 --> 00:48:15.199



I'll get this girl, and you know, I'll be able82200:48:15.239 --> 00:48:17.840



to socialize with people. I'll be able to feel a82300:48:17.880 --> 00:48:20.280



part of something. I think a lot of these kids,82400:48:20.960 --> 00:48:23.400



you know, if you're if you're wearing a mask in82500:48:23.480 --> 00:48:27.199



high school for three years and you can't do organized sports,82600:48:27.239 --> 00:48:30.199



so you can't go to homecoming dance because of COVID,82700:48:31.000 --> 00:48:33.800



and then you go to college and now you have82800:48:33.880 --> 00:48:36.639



all this freedom and look at all the cool kids82900:48:36.679 --> 00:48:41.079



are out here protesting. I'm going to go protest as well. Right, Yeah,83000:48:41.360 --> 00:48:46.079



I think a lot of it was was just I83100:48:46.079 --> 00:48:47.880



don't want to say, and there are some people who83200:48:47.960 --> 00:48:50.679



might feel genuinely bad, but I would not be surprised83300:48:50.719 --> 00:48:52.880



if there were a lot of kids I did a83400:48:52.920 --> 00:48:56.480



whole video about this who just wanted to make friends83500:48:56.559 --> 00:49:00.639



and this was just an easy way to do that.83600:49:00.639 --> 00:49:05.440



That's that's yeah, I mean, I'm that can it seems83700:49:05.440 --> 00:49:09.000



to track. I have another I have another person that83800:49:09.119 --> 00:49:13.679



mentioned that some of this support also is we have,83900:49:14.360 --> 00:49:19.119



you know, generations removed from at least the atrocities that84000:49:19.159 --> 00:49:23.360



we saw right with September eleventh, that don't understand what84100:49:23.440 --> 00:49:25.719



the US went through. And then you know, this new84200:49:25.760 --> 00:49:31.039



generation of people, these younger people in their lifetime hasn't84300:49:31.079 --> 00:49:34.159



haven't really seen the effects of true terrorism or or84400:49:34.239 --> 00:49:35.960



not even not on a broad scale like it used84500:49:35.960 --> 00:49:38.800



to be. It never really went away, but it wasn't84600:49:38.840 --> 00:49:41.679



as bad now as it used to be until recently.84700:49:41.760 --> 00:49:45.360



Now we're looking at this war between you know, Hamas84800:49:45.400 --> 00:49:47.679



and Israel, and this is the first time they've been84900:49:47.679 --> 00:49:50.679



able to see a conflict like this of this scale,85000:49:51.119 --> 00:49:53.039



and they don't know what to make of it. They85100:49:53.039 --> 00:49:55.400



don't know how to make the connection as to why85200:49:55.800 --> 00:49:59.639



amass is considered bad. You know, who really is Palestine?85300:50:00.000 --> 00:50:02.440



Elin's not a nation, you know, they were region. They85400:50:02.440 --> 00:50:04.639



were always referred to as a region, a region that85500:50:04.800 --> 00:50:08.159



encompassed a lot of other tribes and nations, not nations,85600:50:08.159 --> 00:50:12.679



but you know, tribes and other cultures together. It was85700:50:12.719 --> 00:50:16.960



always considered region, not a nation. So they don't get that,85800:50:16.960 --> 00:50:19.000



they don't understand that, they can't make the connection, so85900:50:19.199 --> 00:50:21.679



they just see, oh, this is bad, there's no reason86000:50:21.719 --> 00:50:24.360



this war should be happening. And then you also have86100:50:24.480 --> 00:50:27.960



Ukraine going on. But it seems like everybody, really the86200:50:28.039 --> 00:50:32.960



younger people, really attach themselves to this Palestinian or Palestine86300:50:33.000 --> 00:50:36.119



versus Israel hoss Israel war. And I think it's because86400:50:36.119 --> 00:50:41.599



they just don't understand or see what is behind it all,86500:50:41.639 --> 00:50:44.159



Like what is the true history, not just what they hear,86600:50:44.239 --> 00:50:46.840



Because it seems like this is really what pisses me86700:50:46.880 --> 00:50:49.960



off lately. Ryan. I don't know if you agree, but86800:50:50.000 --> 00:50:52.599



it seems like we're living through a period of revisionist history.86900:50:52.679 --> 00:50:55.039



You know, we got like you don't have to say87000:50:55.039 --> 00:50:57.119



anything because I know you can't, but I'll just say,87100:50:57.199 --> 00:51:00.360



you have guys like this martyr made guy who believe87200:51:00.360 --> 00:51:02.519



suddenly that Hitler's a good guy. You know, he wasn't87300:51:02.519 --> 00:51:04.159



all that bad and he said a few things, but87400:51:04.199 --> 00:51:06.960



all in all, his intent was good. And you know,87500:51:07.039 --> 00:51:08.639



Winston Churchill was the bad guy, and if it wasn't87600:51:08.719 --> 00:51:11.079



Winston Churchill, we wouldn't have had to go to war87700:51:11.119 --> 00:51:14.000



with Germany, et cetera. And it just makes you scratch87800:51:14.000 --> 00:51:16.559



your heads, like where is all this revisionist history stuff87900:51:16.599 --> 00:51:18.960



coming from? You know, it's really easy to be, you know,88000:51:19.039 --> 00:51:21.760



twenty thirty forty years removed from something and then go88100:51:21.880 --> 00:51:23.960



back and say, well, it should have been done this way.88200:51:24.519 --> 00:51:27.000



You didn't live through it, You didn't understand what was88300:51:27.039 --> 00:51:30.639



really happening. So I believe that could also be what's88400:51:30.679 --> 00:51:32.519



going on right now. You know, we have a generation88500:51:32.559 --> 00:51:36.000



of people that have never really had to deal with88600:51:36.000 --> 00:51:39.159



this situation, and right now, with the way social media is,88700:51:40.119 --> 00:51:43.480



it's so prevalent you cannot turn it off. You know,88800:51:43.519 --> 00:51:45.599



every time you turn your phone on, it's another headline,88900:51:45.639 --> 00:51:49.440



it's another picture, it's another video, So that's fake. But still.89000:51:50.800 --> 00:51:55.199



I recall how there is this one college professor of89100:51:55.239 --> 00:51:58.119



an interview with him, and he's starting to realize that89200:51:58.440 --> 00:52:01.880



a lot of his students have no real concept of89300:52:01.920 --> 00:52:07.079



September eleventh, no, no actual concept of what happened that day,89400:52:07.920 --> 00:52:13.000



and so he'll actually play the phone calls from the tower,89500:52:13.119 --> 00:52:16.000



he play the video footage. He'll show like the horror89600:52:16.840 --> 00:52:21.119



of that day, and that kind of brings it home89700:52:21.320 --> 00:52:24.559



for a lot of these people who who were hearing89800:52:24.599 --> 00:52:26.800



their you know love you know, people call their loved89900:52:26.840 --> 00:52:29.599



ones and say goodbye, right leaving a message on an90000:52:29.599 --> 00:52:34.880



answering machine, having to say goodbye, which is like, God,90100:52:34.920 --> 00:52:40.559



I remember that day. That was a horrible, horrible day. Yeah. Yeah,90200:52:40.840 --> 00:52:43.400



that's one of those everybody remembers where they were kind90300:52:43.400 --> 00:52:48.840



of day. Everybody, everybody remembers where they were. Yeah, I90400:52:49.199 --> 00:52:53.400



got I remember just uh, you know, we were all90500:52:53.440 --> 00:52:57.039



like ready to go. Let's go. Let's go kill who90600:52:57.039 --> 00:52:58.800



were supposed to kill. I don't know, let's just go.90700:52:59.119 --> 00:53:01.880



It was one of those it didn't matter if you90800:53:01.920 --> 00:53:04.519



were in the military or civilian. Everybody was ready to go,90900:53:04.599 --> 00:53:06.599



pick up a pitchfork whatever. It was like, Hey, we're91000:53:06.639 --> 00:53:10.079



going to defend our soil. Yeah, and I don't know91100:53:10.199 --> 00:53:12.519



if we It's just it's just funny how throughout the years,91200:53:12.519 --> 00:53:15.400



we just lose that connection, you know, as as being91300:53:15.440 --> 00:53:18.719



Americans and being proud of who we are as a people.91400:53:19.039 --> 00:53:20.920



And it's sad to see where we're at right now.91500:53:20.960 --> 00:53:21.920



But I don't know.91600:53:22.000 --> 00:53:23.440



I hope, I hope we could turn that around and91700:53:23.480 --> 00:53:27.800



bring back the pro American sentiment, not not isolationism by91800:53:27.840 --> 00:53:30.119



the way, just being more proud of who we are.91900:53:30.400 --> 00:53:33.000



And and I hope that we can understand why things92000:53:33.000 --> 00:53:36.239



were done the way they were done. It wasn't all92100:53:36.519 --> 00:53:41.239



bad intentions, you know. Oh, and it's a sad thing. Uh.92200:53:41.639 --> 00:53:44.440



Let me ask you this question. What's next?92300:53:44.440 --> 00:53:44.639



Man?92400:53:44.800 --> 00:53:47.679



What do you think's next with with Iran and Israel92500:53:47.679 --> 00:53:48.599



and where this is going to go?92600:53:49.519 --> 00:53:53.239



Ah, I don't think it's gonna go anywhere. No, No,92700:53:55.440 --> 00:53:59.840



you know, both sides are pretty much spent, you know.92800:53:59.840 --> 00:54:04.000



They they just don't have the internal resources. That's why92900:54:04.280 --> 00:54:06.440



when people said, oh my god, this is gonna be93000:54:06.440 --> 00:54:11.039



World War three, it's not. We don't. There's just no93100:54:12.519 --> 00:54:18.199



there's no capacity for waging a long war. Now. Granted,93200:54:18.320 --> 00:54:23.159



Israel is waging along war inside Gaza, but that's not93300:54:23.239 --> 00:54:27.320



as expensive as keeping aircraft running twenty four to seven, right, right,93400:54:27.719 --> 00:54:31.039



and you know, Iran doesn't have It's not like they93500:54:31.039 --> 00:54:35.440



can sail to Israel and drop the landing ships and invade,93600:54:36.119 --> 00:54:40.440



right true, there's no World War three, right, So I93700:54:40.480 --> 00:54:45.440



think what happens is both sides kind of take a breather,93800:54:45.639 --> 00:54:49.480



they take lessons from that. Iran is probably gonna they93900:54:49.519 --> 00:54:52.800



probably have a shopping list, but there's not a lot94000:54:52.840 --> 00:54:58.199



of people that can actually fulfill that shopping list. They're94100:54:58.199 --> 00:55:00.760



gonna need new surf scare systems, They're going to need94200:55:00.800 --> 00:55:04.800



new radar systems, and kind of one of the issues94300:55:05.039 --> 00:55:10.400



is that there's just no capacity around the world for94400:55:10.559 --> 00:55:13.840



them to gain the systems that they need to defend94500:55:13.880 --> 00:55:18.400



their airspace. You look at you look at Russia. You know,94600:55:18.480 --> 00:55:21.400



try placing an order for a missile system in Russia94700:55:21.480 --> 00:55:24.480



right now, right they're going to fill their orders first. Absolutely,94800:55:24.599 --> 00:55:27.639



Try placing a system for a missile system order from94900:55:27.719 --> 00:55:30.920



China right now. Well, they're going to fill their orders first.95000:55:31.000 --> 00:55:31.760



So who's left.95100:55:32.119 --> 00:55:35.039



Yeah, China is not concerned with anyone else having more95200:55:35.079 --> 00:55:36.039



power than that China.95300:55:36.719 --> 00:55:40.239



China is. China's always going to do it's best for China,95400:55:40.280 --> 00:55:43.119



and right now it's best for China's manufacturing weapons for95500:55:43.159 --> 00:55:46.719



a fight against Taiwan, right right, agree, that's what's best95600:55:46.719 --> 00:55:47.199



for China.95700:55:47.639 --> 00:55:51.320



I thought I thought we could have been on the95800:55:51.400 --> 00:55:55.840



verge of World War three. And the reason I thought95900:55:55.880 --> 00:55:57.719



that was what I kind of mentioned earlier, because you know,96000:55:57.719 --> 00:56:00.000



when Pakistan stepped up and they were right away going96100:56:00.039 --> 00:56:01.599



and oh, we'll use neicerent weapons that we have to,96200:56:02.519 --> 00:56:05.119



we'll do it. And then Russia right away stepped up96300:56:05.239 --> 00:56:08.400



and he said, oh, we're behind Iran and in so96400:56:08.480 --> 00:56:11.719



Dia China. But you know, it does make sense what96500:56:11.719 --> 00:56:14.840



you're saying, because from a financial standpoint, none of them96600:56:14.920 --> 00:56:18.280



could could enter into this and have an extended war,96700:56:18.320 --> 00:56:21.559



none of them, none of those nations whatsoever. I think96800:56:21.599 --> 00:56:24.119



I was more I would think I took it more96900:56:24.159 --> 00:56:28.079



seriously just because of what Pakistan said, you know, a97000:56:29.000 --> 00:56:32.360



shooting a nuclear weapon off. But who knows. I mean, yeah,97100:56:32.480 --> 00:56:35.119



you're probably right. It probably did come down to literally97200:56:35.159 --> 00:56:37.960



just finances, like there's just nobody could afford to do it.97300:56:38.320 --> 00:56:44.079



Nobody. Yeah, And I was not actually familiar with with97400:56:45.800 --> 00:56:48.320



Pakistan saying they're going to use the nuclear weapon, because97500:56:48.360 --> 00:56:50.480



when someone says we're going to use the nuclear weapon,97600:56:51.119 --> 00:56:56.079



the next question needs to be okay against whom, Like,97700:56:56.599 --> 00:57:01.000



what's the what? What is the I've often said this,97800:57:01.199 --> 00:57:03.719



there's really only four cases in what you'd use a97900:57:03.800 --> 00:57:07.400



nuclear web, right. That is to establish a breakthrough. Let's98000:57:07.400 --> 00:57:10.559



talk about a taxical weapons to establish a breakthrough. That's98100:57:10.599 --> 00:57:13.320



a valid use case. You blow up a nuclear weapon98200:57:13.800 --> 00:57:16.679



above a troop concentration. You do it as an air bursts.98300:57:16.719 --> 00:57:19.400



There's very little ground radiation or very little radio I98400:57:19.440 --> 00:57:22.039



could fall out, and you run your troops through that98500:57:22.159 --> 00:57:25.079



hole that you made in the front lines. That would98600:57:25.079 --> 00:57:27.599



be an ideal weapon for Russia to use against Ukraine98700:57:27.920 --> 00:57:30.119



if they had the troops to actually exploit a breakthrough.98800:57:30.880 --> 00:57:33.880



There's a second thing, which is defending a breakthrough, like98900:57:34.000 --> 00:57:37.280



when Ukraine went into curse, using a nuclear weapon on99000:57:37.320 --> 00:57:40.719



Russian taxical nuclear weapon on Russian soil, that would have99100:57:40.760 --> 00:57:43.800



been a good use case for using a nuclear weapon, right.99200:57:43.840 --> 00:57:47.880



It would have stopped that breakthrough like that, and it99300:57:47.920 --> 00:57:51.760



would have been on Russian soil that the world probably99400:57:51.800 --> 00:57:54.159



would have been mad, but hey, they blew up their99500:57:54.199 --> 00:58:00.400



own country, so that's okay. Right. The third thing is99600:58:00.440 --> 00:58:05.000



to use a nuclear weapon against the naval fleet American99700:58:05.079 --> 00:58:08.039



carriers in the Atlantic. That is an ideal use case99800:58:08.119 --> 00:58:12.480



or a nuclear weapon. The fourth thing is an amphibious landing.99900:58:12.559 --> 00:58:15.559



So if Taiwan or China lands on Taiwan using a100000:58:15.639 --> 00:58:19.199



nuclear weapon against the amphibious beachhead, that would be an100100:58:19.199 --> 00:58:23.480



ideal use case or a nuclear weapon. So when Pakistan100200:58:23.559 --> 00:58:26.079



says we're going to use a nuclear weapon against what,100300:58:28.320 --> 00:58:30.360



are you going to have exploded over Israel? Good luck100400:58:30.400 --> 00:58:30.599



with that?100500:58:30.679 --> 00:58:34.280



No understood? I believe with h No, I'm with you.100600:58:35.039 --> 00:58:38.039



Where it came from, you know, it's where it came from.100700:58:38.239 --> 00:58:43.079



Was was the belief that when the situation was happening, right,100800:58:43.920 --> 00:58:46.880



it was all based allegedly on the fact that Iran100900:58:46.880 --> 00:58:48.920



wouldn't come to the table with their nuclear data deal.101000:58:48.960 --> 00:58:50.800



We didn't want No, the world does not want them101100:58:50.800 --> 00:58:54.159



to have a nuclear weapon or to develop one. So101200:58:55.320 --> 00:58:57.480



Pakistan at the time, and a lot of the other101300:58:58.119 --> 00:59:03.159



sympathizers of our we're always like, why does Israel he them,101400:59:03.519 --> 00:59:05.239



they're not even part of this agreement or this pack,101500:59:05.280 --> 00:59:07.639



why do they have nuclear weapons?101600:59:07.039 --> 00:59:09.559



Well, that Israel has a nuclear weapon.101700:59:09.920 --> 00:59:13.039



Right, So that's what that's what the rhetoric was. So101800:59:13.159 --> 00:59:15.800



it was it was a response to everything going on101900:59:15.880 --> 00:59:18.880



saying if if Israel dares to launch a nucle weapon,102000:59:18.920 --> 00:59:21.039



if there's a nuclear weapon launched, we're going to launch102100:59:21.360 --> 00:59:24.760



everything we have and back Iran. And and that I102200:59:24.800 --> 00:59:28.079



believe that's where that came from. So, I mean, when102300:59:28.079 --> 00:59:30.440



a country or nation says, hey, we're going to use102400:59:30.480 --> 00:59:34.239



our entire nuclear arsenal if we have to, kind of102500:59:34.239 --> 00:59:36.320



makes me, you know, go, hey, well wait a minute.102600:59:36.679 --> 00:59:38.039



You know, we might be going a bit too far.102700:59:38.079 --> 00:59:39.519



But you know, to your point, you're right, it's like,102800:59:41.400 --> 00:59:41.840



who are.102900:59:41.719 --> 00:59:44.559



They gonna do? Yeah, what are they gonna do? Now?103000:59:44.960 --> 00:59:47.840



A good use case for a nuclear weapon in Israel's case,103100:59:48.079 --> 00:59:52.880



if they have them, might be all right, well, we103200:59:53.320 --> 00:59:59.199



want to reach Fourdoh, we can't reach Floridoh, so let's103300:59:59.599 --> 01:00:05.119



explod the nuclear weapon groundburst small fifteen twenty kiloton nuclear103401:00:05.159 --> 01:00:10.679



weapon against Foorid. Oh that'll take out Florida. Would the103501:00:10.679 --> 01:00:18.000



world be mad? Probably? But in some ways, like I103601:00:18.000 --> 01:00:22.480



think one of the reasons that Israel kind of kind103701:00:22.480 --> 01:00:25.239



of I don't want to say they screwed themselves, but103801:00:25.920 --> 01:00:35.760



when ten days after the ten days after the October seventh,103901:00:37.000 --> 01:00:41.719



there was an explosion at the it was the Urbia hospital,104001:00:43.239 --> 01:00:48.119



and the New York Times immediately publishes Israel dropped a104101:00:48.159 --> 01:00:53.000



bomb on this hospital, yes, and so then they and104201:00:53.079 --> 01:00:55.159



I like when I saw that, I was like, no,104301:00:55.320 --> 01:00:58.119



they did, and I kind of knew why. I watched104401:00:58.159 --> 01:00:59.960



the footage and all that and like that that was104501:01:00.079 --> 01:01:04.760



than the bomb from Israel. And it was later found104601:01:04.800 --> 01:01:07.360



out to be a missile fire by Islamic Jihad that104701:01:07.480 --> 01:01:09.559



just kind of fell short. And that that happens. I104801:01:09.559 --> 01:01:14.599



think twenty percent of all missiles launched against Israel land104901:01:14.639 --> 01:01:16.079



inside Gosy.105001:01:16.320 --> 01:01:18.119



Never really made it never hit Therom markin.105101:01:17.960 --> 01:01:21.320



Oops, right, you know.105201:01:22.159 --> 01:01:24.800



And that's that's an interesting thing. Abought the hospitals because105301:01:24.800 --> 01:01:28.559



it seems like there are two hundred and something hospitals105401:01:29.159 --> 01:01:31.760



in Gaza, you know, I.105501:01:31.679 --> 01:01:32.599



Think it's fewer than that.105601:01:32.639 --> 01:01:35.880



But well, the way they're reporting it, it's it's it's105701:01:36.000 --> 01:01:38.719



just crazy that it seems like every other week there's105801:01:38.719 --> 01:01:43.599



a hospital being blown up. And how much of this105901:01:43.679 --> 01:01:47.760



is true versus just again propaganda, how much of that106001:01:47.880 --> 01:01:50.559



is just you know, trying to win the sympathy of106101:01:50.599 --> 01:01:53.559



the world and turn Israel into the big bad enemy.106201:01:54.360 --> 01:01:57.119



In some cases, I believe it's been true. I would106301:01:57.159 --> 01:02:00.920



have to go overreach each bombing case. But you know,106401:02:01.000 --> 01:02:04.119



if Daddy l daddy is in a hospital. Though hospitals106501:02:04.119 --> 01:02:07.679



are supposed to be exempt from attack according to the106601:02:07.679 --> 01:02:11.119



Geneva Conventions, kind of the issue that you run into106701:02:11.360 --> 01:02:16.400



is that if you are hosting troops in there, and106801:02:16.519 --> 01:02:20.159



I don't mean troops that have been wounded. And you know,106901:02:20.639 --> 01:02:24.199



there was a couple of years ago there was an107001:02:24.239 --> 01:02:26.760



attack against the hospital and I think it was Amnesty107101:02:26.760 --> 01:02:31.400



International said, oh, the Ukrainians were using the hospital as107201:02:31.400 --> 01:02:36.760



a best home, and like that's one of those well yeah,107301:02:37.679 --> 01:02:40.760



like because if you go to the hospital to visit107401:02:40.800 --> 01:02:43.079



your buddy, where are you going to eat? You're gonna107501:02:43.079 --> 01:02:45.719



eat at the hospital, right like that that's kind of107601:02:46.079 --> 01:02:54.039



stretching it as an excuse for attacking the hospital. But yeah,107701:02:54.079 --> 01:02:58.199



that just for the most part, you're not supposed to107801:02:58.199 --> 01:03:00.559



do that. And so if as it is going to107901:03:00.639 --> 01:03:04.119



decide to do that, they're going to go over there,108001:03:05.440 --> 01:03:09.639



uh there, Oh my god, I can't remember the darn108101:03:09.639 --> 01:03:11.000



word for it, but they're going to go over a108201:03:11.039 --> 01:03:14.920



procedure to decide how to actually strike this. They're going108301:03:14.960 --> 01:03:18.119



to do the weaponearing and say this is affect type108401:03:18.119 --> 01:03:21.239



of bomb because Daddy Elbaddie is on the third floor108501:03:21.320 --> 01:03:24.440



in the fourth room, So we're going to use a108601:03:24.480 --> 01:03:28.079



small diameter bomb that will just take out this one room.108701:03:28.400 --> 01:03:36.480



So you have to be very aware of how Israel108801:03:36.559 --> 01:03:39.679



is actually going to undertake these actions, and so they108901:03:39.760 --> 01:03:43.159



might do this, But what was the criteria for striking109001:03:43.199 --> 01:03:44.320



this particular target.109101:03:44.880 --> 01:03:48.440



Yeah, I understand that. I think I think the reason109201:03:49.159 --> 01:03:54.199



people are so so peeved about all of it in109301:03:54.280 --> 01:03:57.800



terms of because it seems to be indiscriminate. That's you know,109401:03:58.039 --> 01:03:59.840



let's just say that's what it is. That's what people109501:04:01.119 --> 01:04:03.719



that's what people are gathering about, you know, from what's happening.109601:04:04.159 --> 01:04:07.599



Uh and and and the reason it seems this way109701:04:07.639 --> 01:04:10.960



is because Israel has proven that they can be very109801:04:10.960 --> 01:04:14.000



strategic and surgical when they want to be. But when109901:04:14.039 --> 01:04:17.840



it comes to Gaza, it's like it's it seems like110001:04:17.840 --> 01:04:19.280



they're just leveling the place.110101:04:20.119 --> 01:04:22.480



But a lot of that, a lot of the leveling110201:04:22.840 --> 01:04:26.960



is those are bulldozers, Those are D nine bulldozers. So110301:04:27.000 --> 01:04:29.440



those aren't necessarily bob buildings. Now, it doesn't make a110401:04:29.480 --> 01:04:32.400



difference for the person who's home is destroyed, right, But110501:04:32.679 --> 01:04:35.760



if you're in a platoon and you have to clear110601:04:35.800 --> 01:04:37.760



a house and you know there's a bad guy in110701:04:37.800 --> 01:04:41.400



that house. You're like, well, is this is this bad110801:04:41.440 --> 01:04:43.800



guy really worth my platoon's life. You might call in110901:04:43.840 --> 01:04:46.199



an air strike, or you might say, just get the111001:04:46.280 --> 01:04:48.480



dn I in up here. Uh, some of the D111101:04:48.559 --> 01:04:52.400



nine bulldozers are actually armored and uh they're remote controls.111201:04:52.440 --> 01:04:54.800



So the dnine just comes in, levels the house and111301:04:55.000 --> 01:04:56.079



move on to the next house.111401:04:57.000 --> 01:04:58.679



So you think a lot of this is is just111501:04:59.039 --> 01:05:01.440



a blown out of portion. You know, it's it's all111601:05:01.480 --> 01:05:05.199



for just getting eyeballs on news feeds and on social111701:05:05.239 --> 01:05:06.000



media posts.111801:05:06.360 --> 01:05:10.360



Possibly it works. Yeah, hey, you talked about God. There's111901:05:10.400 --> 01:05:13.199



that one guy who's saying Hitler was the good guy. Yeah,112001:05:13.239 --> 01:05:17.360



well look, get you on, Tucker Carls. Everybody else says112101:05:17.440 --> 01:05:20.360



Hitler is the bad guy, right, So Tucker Carlson, now112201:05:20.400 --> 01:05:22.639



I was all right, Well, if I bring on this112301:05:22.719 --> 01:05:24.840



guy says Hitler was the good guy, I'm going to112401:05:24.880 --> 01:05:26.800



get lots of people watching my show. I'm going to112501:05:26.880 --> 01:05:30.480



get lots of people talking about my showfa right, And112601:05:31.440 --> 01:05:34.480



he's always been fired from every job he's ever had.112701:05:34.880 --> 01:05:41.239



He needs news, he needs news, all right, and what's112801:05:41.239 --> 01:05:44.360



going to get the views well, talking about how Hitler112901:05:44.440 --> 01:05:46.480



is a good guy. Yeah, miss understood.113001:05:47.039 --> 01:05:48.480



Yeah, I know there's a lot of guys that are113101:05:48.519 --> 01:05:51.679



that are that are taking that stance and again trying113201:05:51.719 --> 01:05:54.400



to reread history. But you know that, to me, that's113301:05:54.400 --> 01:05:56.719



a whole other conversation. I mean that that's another rabbit113401:05:56.760 --> 01:05:59.840



hole that we can dive down. But I just think113501:05:59.880 --> 01:06:04.119



it's so ridiculous how people don't see what's going on113601:06:04.280 --> 01:06:07.079



and they're just they're just eating it up. They're just113701:06:07.119 --> 01:06:09.559



eating it up. I mean, it's so easy to do113801:06:09.639 --> 01:06:11.920



research these days. It's not like you have to find113901:06:11.920 --> 01:06:14.679



the library that might have a specific collection of books anymore.114001:06:14.679 --> 01:06:16.559



I mean, the internet is vast. I mean you've got114101:06:16.559 --> 01:06:18.960



to vet your sources on the internet, but it's it's114201:06:18.960 --> 01:06:20.960



not as hard as it used to be to find information,114301:06:21.119 --> 01:06:24.639



you know. So it's as if they just take these114401:06:24.800 --> 01:06:27.880



people for their word just because they have a huge114501:06:27.920 --> 01:06:32.280



following or a podcast that's popular. But you know, nobody114601:06:32.360 --> 01:06:34.960



seems to be questioning what they're saying. They're just eating114701:06:34.960 --> 01:06:35.280



it up.114801:06:36.159 --> 01:06:41.599



Yeah, I mean that that's some of that is some114901:06:41.639 --> 01:06:44.760



of that is the attention culture, right, Like you know115001:06:44.800 --> 01:06:48.679



when you have when you have some Instagram video, you know,115101:06:48.760 --> 01:06:52.039



you're scrolling through this thing. And that's how a lot115201:06:52.079 --> 01:06:54.360



of people get their news these days from Instagram. Like115301:06:54.800 --> 01:06:57.880



have you ever waked? Like, have you recently watched the115401:06:57.920 --> 01:07:02.280



evening news, ABS Evening News, ABC Evening News? Like once115501:07:02.320 --> 01:07:05.639



in a while, I might. I've tried the news. I115601:07:05.679 --> 01:07:08.440



watched the morning news. I do. I do watch the115701:07:08.480 --> 01:07:10.480



morning news to find out like the weather or hey,115801:07:10.480 --> 01:07:12.639



these roads are going to be closed in DC or whatever.115901:07:13.119 --> 01:07:16.559



I do watch the morning news. But for the most part,116001:07:16.599 --> 01:07:19.199



like when you watch the evening news, one of the116101:07:19.199 --> 01:07:26.599



interesting things you see is commercials for medication. It's like,116201:07:26.800 --> 01:07:31.559



literally every single commercials for medication. Why is that? It's116301:07:31.599 --> 01:07:34.440



because the only people who watch the news are old people.116401:07:36.039 --> 01:07:39.239



Enough, the only people well, you know, that's one of116501:07:39.239 --> 01:07:42.320



the reasons I don't watch mainstream news or televised news,116601:07:42.400 --> 01:07:47.039



because it's it's ninety percent commercials and advertising and maybe116701:07:47.159 --> 01:07:49.599



ten percent of actual content, you.116801:07:49.559 --> 01:07:53.079



Know, probably less than that, right, I think I'm gonna116901:07:53.079 --> 01:07:55.440



say in ten minutes of commercials, I'm gonna say it117001:07:55.840 --> 01:07:56.599



seems like every.117101:07:56.400 --> 01:07:58.719



Time I'm watching it, I run into like, you know,117201:07:58.920 --> 01:08:00.400



ten commercials in a row, and then all of a117301:08:00.400 --> 01:08:02.840



sudden they talk for thirty seconds. It's another ten commercials.117401:08:03.159 --> 01:08:05.679



It's almost as bad as watching an NFL game sometimes.117501:08:05.880 --> 01:08:09.880



So you have another issue that you kind of run into,117601:08:10.920 --> 01:08:15.320



is you have with the Internet. You have this hyper117701:08:15.320 --> 01:08:21.439



specialization when it comes to viewing content. So if you117801:08:22.399 --> 01:08:26.600



see someone's opinion and you like that opinion, well they're117901:08:26.640 --> 01:08:28.600



going to show you more things that are associated with118001:08:28.640 --> 01:08:33.279



that because they want to keep your eyeballs on you know,118101:08:33.439 --> 01:08:37.880



they want to keep your eyeballs on the on the screen. Absolutely.118201:08:38.279 --> 01:08:41.640



Well, since we're talking about this, it's I've seen it118301:08:41.640 --> 01:08:43.640



with and I know you've seen it because you've been118401:08:43.640 --> 01:08:47.119



doing this longer than I have. I just started getting118501:08:47.119 --> 01:08:50.279



into video right and utilizing YouTube and rumble and whatnot.118601:08:50.680 --> 01:08:53.000



And what I've noticed is the difference between my audio118701:08:53.039 --> 01:08:56.319



podcasts and what works on YouTube are two different things.118801:08:56.760 --> 01:08:59.000



I could throw a two hour interview on YouTube and118901:08:59.039 --> 01:09:01.840



get almost views, but I've turned into a bunch of119001:09:01.880 --> 01:09:03.920



shorts and all. It's like you've got thousands of Look,119101:09:04.039 --> 01:09:07.279



I'm like what because people can't get past thirty seconds,119201:09:07.760 --> 01:09:09.680



and even within those thirty seconds for like they if119301:09:09.720 --> 01:09:13.479



they stick around for fifteen of those some can't, right,119401:09:13.640 --> 01:09:16.039



But in general, you know, I know, generalizing, but it119501:09:16.079 --> 01:09:19.000



just seems like everybody has a very short attention spans119601:09:19.000 --> 01:09:23.239



when it comes to video content. I've noticed anyway. So119701:09:23.279 --> 01:09:26.079



it's like I could have a two hour episode on119801:09:26.119 --> 01:09:29.039



a conversation on a podcast audio format that does extremely well,119901:09:29.079 --> 01:09:31.119



but then in video format it seems like everybody just120001:09:31.159 --> 01:09:32.960



wants to get right to it. It's like, where's the120101:09:33.000 --> 01:09:35.079



short at I want to see these little clips. They120201:09:35.119 --> 01:09:37.439



don't want to go through the whole thing and really120301:09:37.479 --> 01:09:39.359



take it. In the majority, I'm not saying all, but120401:09:39.399 --> 01:09:43.279



the majority, So I've noticed the difference. It's it's it's120501:09:43.399 --> 01:09:47.279



it's crazy. And again, different audiences too, right, Maybe maybe120601:09:47.319 --> 01:09:50.079



people asn't audio or just an older generation of people120701:09:50.119 --> 01:09:52.800



that are used to just wanting to hear those long conversations,120801:09:52.800 --> 01:09:55.159



But it seems like the younger people or the newer120901:09:55.199 --> 01:09:57.279



generations are like, nope, I want to quick, I want121001:09:57.279 --> 01:09:58.680



to fast, I want to the point and I'm done.121101:09:58.680 --> 01:10:01.199



I want to move on now. That's what seems like121201:10:01.239 --> 01:10:06.720



that that's my opinion anyway, from my perspective. Yeah, So, uh, Ukraine,121301:10:08.640 --> 01:10:09.399



what's going on.121401:10:09.319 --> 01:10:13.319



Man, Well, we're about to us our time box, but121501:10:13.439 --> 01:10:14.520



I know, let's keep We're.121601:10:14.359 --> 01:10:18.000



Getting there, but before before we go, I wanted to121701:10:18.039 --> 01:10:20.279



get your opinion on what's going on with a sudden121801:10:20.319 --> 01:10:24.239



shift to send Ukraine weapons and support when Trump was121901:10:24.279 --> 01:10:26.680



against it or seemed to be no.122001:10:27.039 --> 01:10:29.239



Honestly, I don't think that was President Trump. I think122101:10:29.279 --> 01:10:33.520



that was uh crap. I can't remember his name. I122201:10:33.520 --> 01:10:36.479



think there are some people in the d O D.122301:10:36.560 --> 01:10:38.840



I can't remember the specific guy's name, but he's a122401:10:38.840 --> 01:10:42.439



big China hawk, and I think that was him. And122501:10:42.520 --> 01:10:45.760



when Trump kind of realized what had happened, that this122601:10:45.920 --> 01:10:49.880



happened without his authority, I think he uh kind of122701:10:49.880 --> 01:10:55.239



put the kabash on that real quick. Albridge Colby, what's122801:10:55.279 --> 01:10:59.000



the guy's name, Elbridge Colby. He's a big we need122901:10:59.039 --> 01:11:01.840



to be ready to fight China guy. He's not wrong,123001:11:03.119 --> 01:11:05.720



but we can. We can do both. And kind of123101:11:05.520 --> 01:11:08.319



the scary thing here, The thing I've mentioned is that123201:11:09.279 --> 01:11:13.520



by supporting Ukraine, we are deterring China because we were123301:11:13.560 --> 01:11:15.920



saying we're gonna stand with our allies no matter what.123401:11:16.399 --> 01:11:19.000



So China, if you decide to take Taiwan, you're gonna123501:11:19.000 --> 01:11:19.279



have a.123601:11:19.199 --> 01:11:22.520



Bad day, right, And that was definitely in question for123701:11:22.520 --> 01:11:24.439



a while. Wouldn't we stand on the Hunter allies? It123801:11:24.439 --> 01:11:27.760



seemed like we wouldn't. But I mean we've definitely turned123901:11:27.760 --> 01:11:29.279



that corner and showed the world that we build.124001:11:30.159 --> 01:11:33.079



Well. One of the one of the huge issues is124101:11:33.119 --> 01:11:36.199



that there are a finite amount of weapons. We burned124201:11:36.199 --> 01:11:39.640



through a lot of interceptors. We burned through a lot124301:11:39.680 --> 01:11:46.119



of interceptors in Israel, and I think Lockie Raytheon has124401:11:46.159 --> 01:11:52.000



the capability of manufacturing five hundred and fifty factories per year.124501:11:53.760 --> 01:11:58.159



It's not a lot, right, No, And you know, I'd124601:11:58.239 --> 01:12:01.439



love to say, like, well, we should, we should fund124701:12:01.479 --> 01:12:06.000



that more, right, we should. We should put more money124801:12:06.079 --> 01:12:10.279



into developing missiles, should hire more people working at these factories.124901:12:10.680 --> 01:12:13.159



And that's great, But who's going to pay for that? Right?125001:12:13.279 --> 01:12:13.680



I agreed?125101:12:13.720 --> 01:12:14.960



Yeah, exactly.125201:12:15.359 --> 01:12:20.479



So, so you know, in some ways, like maybe one125301:12:20.520 --> 01:12:24.800



of the solutions is maybe we need to look at125401:12:24.960 --> 01:12:31.920



a less expensive interceptor, right that has eighty percent of125501:12:31.920 --> 01:12:36.479



the capabilities. Right, Like I'm surprised andrel hasn't worked on125601:12:36.560 --> 01:12:38.800



something like that. Like here's this thing, here's this new125701:12:38.840 --> 01:12:41.039



missile we developed, It's one hundred and fifty thousand each125801:12:41.119 --> 01:12:43.199



week and make ten thousand of them. It'll fit on125901:12:43.239 --> 01:12:46.720



the pack three launcher and it has eighty percent of126001:12:46.760 --> 01:12:48.720



the capabilities of the Patriot.126101:12:48.319 --> 01:12:55.199



Is is supporting Ukraine with munitions enough? I mean, do126201:12:55.279 --> 01:12:57.840



you do you think because we first talked about this,126301:12:57.920 --> 01:12:59.720



and I think when you and I first talked was126401:12:59.720 --> 01:13:04.720



like back in January or so and so, do you126501:13:04.920 --> 01:13:08.479



think that at this point just giving them munitions and126601:13:08.600 --> 01:13:10.439



money is enough? Are we ever going to get to126701:13:10.439 --> 01:13:12.279



the point where you think we may have to actually126801:13:12.279 --> 01:13:16.479



get involved with real troops to push back on Russia126901:13:16.560 --> 01:13:18.800



just because there's such a much I mean, there's just127001:13:18.840 --> 01:13:22.159



a much bigger country. You know, it's a little different127101:13:22.159 --> 01:13:24.880



than the Israel Iran situation we're looking at. Russia is127201:13:24.880 --> 01:13:27.960



just so much bigger and has so many more capabilities,127301:13:28.079 --> 01:13:31.359



you know, at least depth anyway, right depth. So do127401:13:31.399 --> 01:13:33.640



you think we'll ever come to that or we'll just127501:13:33.720 --> 01:13:35.560



the support of munitions be enough?127601:13:36.640 --> 01:13:42.720



All Ukraine has ever wanted was weapons, Like they haven't127701:13:42.760 --> 01:13:45.079



asked for any troops, they haven't asked for anyone to127801:13:45.119 --> 01:13:52.039



come to their aid. Now, could they? Could we do127901:13:52.119 --> 01:13:56.079



something more like established the no fly zone that I128001:13:56.119 --> 01:13:58.680



mean back when the war first started, I made a128101:13:58.760 --> 01:14:01.720



video about that where like, look, it'd be really difficult128201:14:01.760 --> 01:14:04.039



to establish no fly zone because we would have to128301:14:04.079 --> 01:14:09.760



take out Russian surface stair missiles, would have to Now128401:14:09.800 --> 01:14:15.600



kind of the question there becomes like, well, could the128501:14:15.720 --> 01:14:20.239



UK and France establish a no fly zone? And they128601:14:20.359 --> 01:14:21.239



might be able.128701:14:21.079 --> 01:14:23.720



To do that, That is the question actually, right, and.128801:14:23.680 --> 01:14:28.960



No fly zone would would really help Ukraine because it128901:14:29.239 --> 01:14:32.720



essentially mean any missiles fired into ukraineould get shot down129001:14:33.479 --> 01:14:37.359



and they have the capability. I don't know if they129101:14:37.359 --> 01:14:45.479



have the ability to run a WAX twenty four to129201:14:45.479 --> 01:14:48.319



seven like the United States does, and you're gonna need129301:14:48.359 --> 01:14:53.880



those airborne warning control planes in order to detect those129401:14:53.880 --> 01:14:59.319



incoming missiles. But yeah, I certainly think that maybe establishing129501:14:59.319 --> 01:15:04.399



a no fly zone, at least from the European side129601:15:04.399 --> 01:15:06.920



of the European run no fly zone, that might not129701:15:07.000 --> 01:15:07.760



be a bad idea.129801:15:07.960 --> 01:15:10.800



So that in combination with the continued support of munitions129901:15:10.840 --> 01:15:16.279



and money to fund this should be enough, I think. So.130001:15:16.520 --> 01:15:19.960



I mean, that's like I said, that's all they really wanted, right,130101:15:20.880 --> 01:15:22.000



give us the weapons we need.130201:15:22.039 --> 01:15:24.520



They never called for actual troops I agree, You're correct,130301:15:24.560 --> 01:15:26.560



they never did. I guess.130401:15:26.640 --> 01:15:26.920



I guess.130501:15:26.960 --> 01:15:31.640



The other factor is will hooting back off eventually? You know,130601:15:31.760 --> 01:15:34.239



the longer this goes out, it goes on. But will130701:15:34.239 --> 01:15:35.680



he eventually back off?130801:15:36.640 --> 01:15:40.600



That's that's that's a good question. I you know, his130901:15:40.600 --> 01:15:45.840



his goal. The goal of Russia is to turn Ukraine131001:15:45.880 --> 01:15:49.720



into a satellite state. So one of two things is131101:15:49.760 --> 01:15:52.359



going to happen. They're either going to turn Ukraine into131201:15:52.359 --> 01:15:58.079



a satellite state, Russia is eventually going to collapse. And131301:15:58.399 --> 01:16:02.399



I actually believe one of the reasons that our strategy131401:16:02.560 --> 01:16:07.199



at one point during the early administration was let's get131501:16:07.239 --> 01:16:10.319



out of Ukraine. Let's just let Russia take it, because131601:16:10.359 --> 01:16:15.920



then absolute nightmare scenario is what happens if Russia and131701:16:16.039 --> 01:16:20.600



Ukraine continued to fight for the next four years, and131801:16:20.640 --> 01:16:25.720



then China invades Taiwan, right, and then Russia collapses, and131901:16:25.760 --> 01:16:30.720



now we have a collapse state with nuclear weapons. We132001:16:30.800 --> 01:16:34.199



have to go secure those weapons right now. The first132101:16:34.239 --> 01:16:39.680



time that Russia collapsed, people didn't leave their post, right132201:16:39.840 --> 01:16:42.039



even though they weren't getting paid or they didn't really132301:16:42.119 --> 01:16:44.960



know if they had a country anymore, they stayed by132401:16:45.039 --> 01:16:49.159



their post and they guarded those nuclear weapons. But I132501:16:49.279 --> 01:16:53.800



don't know if that's going to be the case if132601:16:53.880 --> 01:16:57.479



Russia collapses to the point where you have regional warlords132701:16:58.039 --> 01:17:01.960



who take over and you know, now they're not gonna132801:17:01.960 --> 01:17:05.600



be able to use those nuclear weapons because all the132901:17:05.640 --> 01:17:09.560



permissive action links are in Moscow. Right But eventually you133001:17:09.600 --> 01:17:11.800



can take the plutonium out of there, you can give133101:17:11.840 --> 01:17:15.079



it to another nation, they can build their own bob133201:17:15.119 --> 01:17:16.760



eventually some of all fear style.133301:17:17.239 --> 01:17:21.479



Yeah, do you do you think do you think Russia133401:17:21.560 --> 01:17:23.880



may be on the ridge of plausiphist does extend any133501:17:23.920 --> 01:17:25.479



longer it keeps going.133601:17:26.760 --> 01:17:32.199



I think they could collapse mainly because you know, at133701:17:32.279 --> 01:17:39.560



some point there's just no there, there's they're fighting their133801:17:39.600 --> 01:17:44.399



own economy, so you know when right now.133901:17:44.359 --> 01:17:45.960



We're trying to stay ahead of it, right with this134001:17:46.239 --> 01:17:46.600



this war.134101:17:47.439 --> 01:17:51.760



So they're paying. So they have laborers and they have soldiers,134201:17:51.880 --> 01:17:56.000



and right now in the factories in Russia, like you134301:17:56.079 --> 01:17:58.600



can either join the army or you get a job134401:17:58.680 --> 01:18:03.479



at a factory, and so Russia is paying money. These134501:18:03.479 --> 01:18:07.720



are compracti key, These are not conscripted soldiers. These guys134601:18:07.800 --> 01:18:11.159



are being paid to join the army, and right now134701:18:13.039 --> 01:18:16.960



they're paying them enough money that people think, well, I'm134801:18:16.960 --> 01:18:20.199



going to roll the dice and run the risk of134901:18:20.520 --> 01:18:24.079



joining the army for all this this fucking full of money.135001:18:25.600 --> 01:18:30.640



And the issue is that some of the weapons manufacturing135101:18:30.680 --> 01:18:34.720



companies they can't find workers, so they raise wages. So135201:18:35.159 --> 01:18:38.079



now people go to the weapons manufacturing company instead of135301:18:38.119 --> 01:18:41.279



joining the army. So the army raises wages, so then135401:18:41.600 --> 01:18:45.079



the other companies raise wages, and they just keep raising wages.135501:18:45.159 --> 01:18:48.239



The Army raises and the French companies raised wages. I135601:18:48.239 --> 01:18:50.640



think twenty percent of Russia's economy is geared towards the135701:18:50.640 --> 01:18:53.760



war right now. And you know, one of the scary135801:18:53.800 --> 01:18:56.920



parts I've said is that if you turn that off,135901:18:58.159 --> 01:19:02.319



that's going to be a big problem because you can't136001:19:02.359 --> 01:19:07.199



just let's say Russia wins the war, right if they136101:19:07.199 --> 01:19:10.720



don't have a soft landing with their economy. There's going136201:19:10.800 --> 01:19:16.680



to be a huge issue, a massive issue, because you136301:19:16.840 --> 01:19:20.760



have all these people who they had a job one136401:19:20.840 --> 01:19:24.199



day and now they don't have a job, and maybe136501:19:24.319 --> 01:19:28.680



demobilize soldiers, and these soldiers they come back and yeah,136601:19:28.760 --> 01:19:31.279



they have a bunch of money that only lasts so long,136701:19:31.760 --> 01:19:35.680



right then they might drink it all a way. Eventually136801:19:36.960 --> 01:19:40.760



people You know, when you have a society and you136901:19:40.880 --> 01:19:42.920



just taught all these people how to use guns and137001:19:42.960 --> 01:19:47.000



they come back to their job, what happens, Well, people137101:19:47.039 --> 01:19:48.960



like that have always figured out how to get a gun.137201:19:49.560 --> 01:19:53.520



And Russia's gun laws are not the same as the137301:19:53.640 --> 01:19:58.119



United States, but you can buy a gun. So I137401:19:58.159 --> 01:20:02.039



think that's the kind of the nightmare scenario for Russia137501:20:02.079 --> 01:20:04.840



where let's say they win, but then they kind of137601:20:04.880 --> 01:20:09.039



lose as well because their economy collapses and we need137701:20:09.079 --> 01:20:12.399



to the point where you can only raise wages so much. Right.137801:20:13.039 --> 01:20:19.239



What is Russia's main export right now? Cold natural gas oil, right,137901:20:19.720 --> 01:20:21.359



and the rest of the world can only buy so138001:20:21.479 --> 01:20:26.079



much of that. So and a lot of their extraction138101:20:26.159 --> 01:20:28.119



equipment is made in the West, so they can't get138201:20:28.159 --> 01:20:31.800



spare parts for that. They also don't really have machine138301:20:31.840 --> 01:20:34.199



tool industry. A lot of the machine tool industry is138401:20:34.239 --> 01:20:38.560



in Germany, the Netherlands, the United States. China doesn't even138501:20:38.640 --> 01:20:43.199



have a real machine tool industry. We see and C manufacturing.138601:20:43.720 --> 01:20:47.920



So you're pumping oil as fast as you can for138701:20:48.039 --> 01:20:51.880



the hard currency that can that you can use to138801:20:51.920 --> 01:20:54.439



pay your people and buy weapons and keep this war138901:20:54.520 --> 01:20:57.159



going that at some point you're going to reach the139001:20:57.159 --> 01:20:59.560



limit to how much oil you can actually pump and139101:20:59.640 --> 01:21:04.359



things breaking down so there's less oil. So right, so139201:21:04.399 --> 01:21:08.039



they can only keep this up for so long, and139301:21:08.319 --> 01:21:11.079



I don't know how long that's going to be, but139401:21:12.640 --> 01:21:16.079



there is a finite limit to how long Russia can139501:21:16.159 --> 01:21:16.920



keep pumping oil.139601:21:17.880 --> 01:21:20.199



Yeah, no, that's true. And then there's the other the139701:21:20.279 --> 01:21:22.560



other factor as to whether or not or when do139801:21:22.640 --> 01:21:26.560



the people start to really turn on Putin and not139901:21:26.680 --> 01:21:29.560



support them anymore, because for the most part, most Russians do.140001:21:30.680 --> 01:21:36.600



I can tell you when if Russia ever establishes a140101:21:36.640 --> 01:21:39.760



general conscription again, like they tried that. I want to140201:21:39.800 --> 01:21:43.439



say it was in September of twenty and twenty two.140301:21:44.479 --> 01:21:48.479



Russia did a general mobilization and the people hated it140401:21:48.960 --> 01:21:54.279



because there's always been this deal between Moscow, Saint Petersburg140501:21:54.600 --> 01:21:57.359



and Russian politicians, which is, do whatever the hell you140601:21:57.399 --> 01:22:00.359



want to, just don't touch our kids. Right, So, as140701:22:00.359 --> 01:22:04.600



long as the elite in Saint Petersburg and Moscow aren't140801:22:04.640 --> 01:22:08.199



being sent to the front lines, do whatever the heck140901:22:08.279 --> 01:22:11.680



you want. But the second your kids are being sent141001:22:11.720 --> 01:22:14.159



to the front lines, that's that's an issue, and that's141101:22:14.159 --> 01:22:16.199



where you get to actually see real change. You know,141201:22:16.319 --> 01:22:20.520



right now, the whole, the whole thing is being funded141301:22:20.560 --> 01:22:24.880



by taxes on these Russian oligarchs. They can't possibly enjoy141401:22:24.920 --> 01:22:26.880



those high taxes. They want to live in their mansion141501:22:26.880 --> 01:22:30.359



and buy their football teams in England and stuff, right right,141601:22:30.840 --> 01:22:32.159



that's not really good for them either.141701:22:32.319 --> 01:22:35.319



All right, well, I think we're at your time here.141801:22:35.640 --> 01:22:37.319



I'd love to keep talking to it. I can't keep141901:22:37.319 --> 01:22:41.399



you forever, so I appreciate that. Oh yeah, I want to.142001:22:41.439 --> 01:22:42.760



I want to thank you for coming back on man,142101:22:42.800 --> 01:22:45.079



and I'll see you in touch with you, but it's142201:22:45.079 --> 01:22:48.680



always informative and I like talking to you, so appreciate it.142301:22:49.279 --> 01:22:52.600



And you know, hopefully we talk again soon. I know142401:22:52.640 --> 01:22:53.600



you're a very busy guy though.142501:22:54.640 --> 01:22:55.479



Thank you so much.142601:22:56.039 --> 01:23:00.000



Thank you.142701:23:00.119 --> 01:23:06.520



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