1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:07,960 Speaker 1: Good morning, Cooner country. Okay, over the last three days, 2 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:11,080 Speaker 1: maybe even four days, but certainly the last three days, 3 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:17,439 Speaker 1: last seventy two hours, incredibly significant developments now in the 4 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:22,920 Speaker 1: war with Iran, Operation Epic Fury, and what is now clear. 5 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:30,040 Speaker 1: There's no question Iran's military has been smashed. Its nuclear 6 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:38,040 Speaker 1: program has all but been obliterated. The Mullah's military infrastructure 7 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:44,879 Speaker 1: has been dismantled. Its navy has been severely damaged, it 8 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:49,199 Speaker 1: has no air force anymore to speak of. Its missile 9 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:55,040 Speaker 1: and drone arsenal has been badly, badly degraded. And so 10 00:00:55,760 --> 00:01:00,960 Speaker 1: from a military point of view, the Mullahs are finished. 11 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:06,039 Speaker 1: There's no question. Now. It has been fifteen now sixteen 12 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:12,600 Speaker 1: days of relentless bombing, missile strikes. It has been a 13 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 1: pounding and for the most part, it has been extremely successful, 14 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:25,200 Speaker 1: very precise, one of the most brilliant, just objectively speaking, 15 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:31,800 Speaker 1: one of the most brilliant military campaigns in history. And 16 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:34,399 Speaker 1: you know, I know, shock and all was used for 17 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:38,840 Speaker 1: another war, but this is truly shock and all. It 18 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:44,160 Speaker 1: has been decisive, it has been overwhelming, and really, as 19 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 1: Victor Davis Hansen pointed out, I thought in a brilliant 20 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:51,840 Speaker 1: column over the weekend. It has exposed Iran and the 21 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:57,040 Speaker 1: Mullahs for really having been a paper tiger militarily. They 22 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:00,680 Speaker 1: frightened many in the Middle East and the world. For 23 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:07,800 Speaker 1: years they were seen as very dangerous, reckless, unpredictable, but 24 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:13,359 Speaker 1: also lethal. And now we're starting to realize maybe they 25 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:16,720 Speaker 1: were not as lethal as the world and as they 26 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:19,560 Speaker 1: wanted us to believe. But anyway, that's all water under 27 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:24,520 Speaker 1: the bridge. Militarily, now we have essentially won the war, 28 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 1: and in particular, this is what now really has changed 29 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:34,200 Speaker 1: much of the calculation on the ground, the facts on 30 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:39,160 Speaker 1: the ground. President Trump launched what many are now saying 31 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:44,880 Speaker 1: is the most powerful, devastating bombing campaign in the history 32 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:48,480 Speaker 1: of the Middle East, not just on Iran, which is 33 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:52,680 Speaker 1: saying something, but in particular on karg Island. That is 34 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:55,880 Speaker 1: an island in the Persian Gulf. Most people have never 35 00:02:55,960 --> 00:03:01,040 Speaker 1: heard of it, but for the Iranian regime economically it 36 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:05,720 Speaker 1: is quote unquote their crown jewel. And why is it 37 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:10,840 Speaker 1: their crown jewel because over ninety percent of Iran's oil 38 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:20,760 Speaker 1: ninety percent, ninety percent is processed on Carg Island and 39 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 1: then exported to the larger world. So Basically, you cripple 40 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:31,959 Speaker 1: Carg Island and Iran has no cannot export its oil, 41 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 1: it cannot process its oil. Is its natural economic bloodline there, 42 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 1: it's the bloodline, the economic bloodline of the regime. You 43 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:48,600 Speaker 1: take away the oil and the Mullahs are finished economically. 44 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:52,000 Speaker 1: And so what Trump did it was a daring raid, 45 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:55,960 Speaker 1: but it was a very successful rate, and they pounded 46 00:03:56,080 --> 00:04:02,920 Speaker 1: and destroyed over ninety military targets. Essentially, Now every single 47 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:08,240 Speaker 1: military target on Carg Island is gone. It's gone, it 48 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:13,080 Speaker 1: has been destroyed and annihilated. Now, what he did not do, 49 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:16,840 Speaker 1: and he did this because he doesn't want to do this, 50 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:22,400 Speaker 1: is he did not order strikes on the oil infrastructure 51 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:27,200 Speaker 1: on Carg Island, in particular the pipelines and the processing facilities. 52 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:29,919 Speaker 1: Now you say, well, Jeff, why not go for the 53 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:37,200 Speaker 1: economic jugular, because if Trump does that, that semi permanent 54 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:42,799 Speaker 1: damage to the Iranian nation, to Iran, that will haunt 55 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:45,559 Speaker 1: them for at least a decade if more to come. 56 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:50,200 Speaker 1: In other words, once you take out their oil infrastructure 57 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:54,599 Speaker 1: on Carg Island, they can't process or sell their oil. 58 00:04:55,880 --> 00:05:00,000 Speaker 1: The country will starve. We're looking at millions and million 59 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:05,080 Speaker 1: of refugees. We're looking at a massive economic depression in Iran. 60 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:09,360 Speaker 1: We're looking at the miseration of the Iranian people. In fact, 61 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:12,760 Speaker 1: I think even many Iranians who hate the regime would 62 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:16,360 Speaker 1: deeply loathe and hate us if we destroyed the oil 63 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:22,479 Speaker 1: infrastructure of carg Island, because now they can't move and 64 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:25,880 Speaker 1: sell the oil that the country depends upon for everything. 65 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:29,880 Speaker 1: And so Trump said, I spared it, and then he 66 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:33,320 Speaker 1: issued a threat to the Mullus if you do not 67 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:39,360 Speaker 1: reopen the Strait of Hormuse, which is that vital economic 68 00:05:39,640 --> 00:05:44,200 Speaker 1: check choke point from which over twenty percent of the 69 00:05:44,279 --> 00:05:49,400 Speaker 1: world's oil goes through. That is the key waterway, the 70 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:53,279 Speaker 1: most vital shipping lane in the world. The Mullas have 71 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:57,520 Speaker 1: now essentially mined it. They've dropped all kinds of sea mines, 72 00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:01,200 Speaker 1: they have launched drone attacks on trying to get through. 73 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:06,320 Speaker 1: They still have some coastal defenses along the Strait of Hormose, 74 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:11,600 Speaker 1: whereby they can shoot short range missiles taking out tankers 75 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:16,240 Speaker 1: oil cargoes. And so that has completely blocked or mostly 76 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:21,039 Speaker 1: blocked the Strait of Hormose. And this has led to 77 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:25,080 Speaker 1: a crisis with our allies in the Persian Gulf. The 78 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:29,679 Speaker 1: Saudis are livid their oil can't get out the United 79 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:37,280 Speaker 1: Arab Emirates ditto Kuwait didto Qatar, ditto, Bahrain, ditto, and 80 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:40,719 Speaker 1: so they are livid. Behind the scenes, they are livid 81 00:06:41,040 --> 00:06:44,960 Speaker 1: with the administration for sparking the war, and so Trump 82 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:48,279 Speaker 1: is urging them to stay calm. He says, trust me 83 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:51,919 Speaker 1: on this all will end well, just give me a 84 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:55,560 Speaker 1: little bit more time. But he wants to reopen the 85 00:06:55,600 --> 00:07:00,240 Speaker 1: Strait of Hormose. For him, it's a number one priority. 86 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:03,320 Speaker 1: In fact, as I'm gonna explain just in a couple 87 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:06,800 Speaker 1: of minutes, I believe if he can clear out the 88 00:07:06,839 --> 00:07:13,400 Speaker 1: Strait of Hormose and restore safe, safe, free passage of 89 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:18,400 Speaker 1: oil through that key shipping lane, and we then control 90 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:22,200 Speaker 1: the Strait of Hormose, I believe he's gonna declare victory 91 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:25,640 Speaker 1: and end the war. Okay, I'll explain why. But the 92 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:30,200 Speaker 1: point is carg Island now is being used to leverage 93 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:35,360 Speaker 1: the iatolas saying you don't reopen the Strait of Hormuz, 94 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:39,640 Speaker 1: I'm telling you you're gonna lose all the oil infrastructure 95 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:44,240 Speaker 1: on Carg Island. You guys will be economically crippled for 96 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:48,600 Speaker 1: at least the next ten to fifteen years, I will 97 00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:54,840 Speaker 1: break the country's economic back. And so with this, now 98 00:07:56,040 --> 00:08:01,760 Speaker 1: Trump is calling for other countries because Rema, most of 99 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:06,720 Speaker 1: the oil that flows through the Strait of Hormuz that 100 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:11,200 Speaker 1: is now being blocked, it doesn't go to US. It 101 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:14,640 Speaker 1: doesn't It doesn't go to US, it doesn't go to Canada, 102 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:18,760 Speaker 1: it doesn't go to many of our so called closest allies. 103 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:24,920 Speaker 1: Most of the oil goes from the Strait of Hormuz 104 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:29,680 Speaker 1: goes to Asia and a little bit to Europe, and 105 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:32,959 Speaker 1: in fact it goes to South Korea, it goes to Japan, 106 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:36,040 Speaker 1: and this is really hurting both the South Korean and 107 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:40,800 Speaker 1: the Japanese economies. But the number one recipient of that 108 00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:47,400 Speaker 1: oil is China. Fifty percent of that oil goes to China. 109 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:54,440 Speaker 1: And so Trump is now asking France, Great Britain, Japan, 110 00:08:55,160 --> 00:09:01,200 Speaker 1: South Korea, and yes, China to how the United States 111 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:05,000 Speaker 1: patrol the Strait of Hormos. In other words, send their 112 00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:10,600 Speaker 1: warships into the Strait of Hormuz to patrol it and 113 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:16,240 Speaker 1: escort all kinds of these oil share oil cargoes and 114 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:23,360 Speaker 1: shipping tankers, oil tankers shipping containers to guarantee the free 115 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:28,000 Speaker 1: flow of oil through that vital shipping lane in the 116 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:33,240 Speaker 1: Strait of Hormose. He's now starting to internationalize the conflict, 117 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:37,240 Speaker 1: and he's saying, all of you that depend upon this oil, 118 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:41,200 Speaker 1: you need to have a stake in this now, because 119 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:46,480 Speaker 1: it's not benefiting us economically, it's benefiting you. And so 120 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:49,559 Speaker 1: Trump says he's putting a lot of pressure. He wants 121 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:52,960 Speaker 1: to see these countries pony up their warships, which would 122 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:58,280 Speaker 1: put even more more pressure and leverage on the Iranian mullas. 123 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:03,880 Speaker 1: Trump now is also asking for NATO, saying, I want 124 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:08,960 Speaker 1: NATO now to send in at a minimum, warships to 125 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:13,360 Speaker 1: patrol the Strait of Hormos to guarantee the free flow 126 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:18,240 Speaker 1: of oil and to stabilize global oil markets. So he's 127 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:21,920 Speaker 1: putting pressure on NATO. He's putting pressure on Japan, South 128 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:25,920 Speaker 1: Korea and China to come in and put their naval 129 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:29,960 Speaker 1: assets in that part to get the oil going through 130 00:10:30,520 --> 00:10:37,960 Speaker 1: un unhindered, unfettered. Now, if Trump pulls this off, and 131 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:41,040 Speaker 1: we shall see, I think this will be the decisive week. 132 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:45,680 Speaker 1: If he can get the Straight of Hormoz under our 133 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:50,240 Speaker 1: control or at least international control and take it away 134 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:54,320 Speaker 1: from the Ayatolas. Then the question we have to ask 135 00:10:54,360 --> 00:10:59,880 Speaker 1: ourselves is why should we continue to bomb and bomb, 136 00:11:00,559 --> 00:11:05,000 Speaker 1: bomb and bomb. The war now enters its third week, 137 00:11:05,559 --> 00:11:10,760 Speaker 1: we are now clearly at of crossroads. Trump now is 138 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:15,040 Speaker 1: going to make some very very pivotal decisions. Now. It 139 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:20,839 Speaker 1: appears that, at least through third parties, that some within 140 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:25,160 Speaker 1: the Iranian leadership are willing to talk about a cease fire. 141 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:31,040 Speaker 1: Trump has come out and said no cease fire. He 142 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:36,320 Speaker 1: is not ready to talk just yet for two reasons. One, 143 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:43,080 Speaker 1: the Ayatolas are they're not willing to embrace unconditional surrender. 144 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:49,040 Speaker 1: He says, they keep wanting to argue for terms. There 145 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:54,320 Speaker 1: are no terms. I want unconditional surrender. I will not 146 00:11:54,520 --> 00:11:59,080 Speaker 1: negotiate a single thing. Secondly, he says they still have 147 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:04,000 Speaker 1: a few more targets that they want to hit. When 148 00:12:04,040 --> 00:12:09,599 Speaker 1: those targets are hit and they truly believe they have destroyed, completely, 149 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:21,320 Speaker 1: annihilated completely Iran's military navy missile capabilities, then they will 150 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:26,000 Speaker 1: then reevaluate whether they should continue or then start to 151 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:31,360 Speaker 1: turn on civilian infrastructure. As I mentioned the oil pipelines 152 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:35,199 Speaker 1: and carg Island the electric grid. I mean, they could 153 00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:40,320 Speaker 1: really set Iran back economically for the next twenty thirty 154 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:43,840 Speaker 1: forty years. You know the expression bomb them into the 155 00:12:43,880 --> 00:12:48,920 Speaker 1: stone age. They may just bomb them into the stone age. Now, 156 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:53,120 Speaker 1: this would turn the Iranian people against us because their 157 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:57,280 Speaker 1: natural resources would eventually be rendered neutral. You would see 158 00:12:57,320 --> 00:13:00,480 Speaker 1: mass and miseration. You know, no one likes to live 159 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:05,800 Speaker 1: without any electricity. So Trump doesn't want to do it, obviously, 160 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:11,080 Speaker 1: but he's frustrated by the fact that the regime continues 161 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:15,559 Speaker 1: to remain in firm control and that there is no 162 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:22,000 Speaker 1: popular uprising. It seems that now this is both the 163 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:29,080 Speaker 1: Israeli intelligence assessment and our own intelligence assessment, both that 164 00:13:29,280 --> 00:13:35,760 Speaker 1: the Ayatolas are more deeply entrenched than both Israel and 165 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:40,200 Speaker 1: the United States initially thought before the war began, and 166 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:43,360 Speaker 1: that they believe that they can ride out two more 167 00:13:43,400 --> 00:13:48,080 Speaker 1: weeks of bombing, three more weeks of bombing, four more weeks, five, six, 168 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:52,640 Speaker 1: seven more weeks of bombing. So the question then is 169 00:13:53,400 --> 00:13:58,880 Speaker 1: if there is no organized resistance to the Iranian mullas, 170 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:04,320 Speaker 1: in other words, a possibility for a stable successor regime 171 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:09,560 Speaker 1: that is pro American or at least pro Western, then 172 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:13,760 Speaker 1: what's the point of just dropping bomb after bomb after 173 00:14:13,880 --> 00:14:19,920 Speaker 1: bomb after bomb. If you're gonna do regime change, it's 174 00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:24,560 Speaker 1: not gonna come from people inside Iran. For whatever reason, 175 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:29,480 Speaker 1: the opposition is too fragmented, they're too afraid, maybe so 176 00:14:29,640 --> 00:14:33,440 Speaker 1: many of them have already been killed. Whatever it may be. 177 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:37,320 Speaker 1: And by the way, what is turning out to be true. 178 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:41,880 Speaker 1: It's a very unpleasant truth. I don't like it, that's 179 00:14:41,920 --> 00:14:45,640 Speaker 1: for sure. But the images that we see of these 180 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:51,960 Speaker 1: brave anti Mulla protesters, who generally are very secular, very 181 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:55,320 Speaker 1: pro western, the women don't want to wear the hy job, 182 00:14:55,520 --> 00:14:59,920 Speaker 1: for example, and they want full rights, those are isolated 183 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:04,440 Speaker 1: to two or three of Iran's biggest cities. That's more 184 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:07,960 Speaker 1: in what it remains of the middle class in Iran, 185 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:15,240 Speaker 1: the educated middle class. But in the rural areas, that's 186 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:18,320 Speaker 1: where the Mullahs have a lot of strength. And we 187 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:23,600 Speaker 1: don't see that on TV, But in rural areas, the 188 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:28,160 Speaker 1: Mullahs still have a lot of support, even among women. 189 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:35,280 Speaker 1: They voluntarily wear the hijab, they like the theocracy, they 190 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:41,280 Speaker 1: support Sharia law, and so this regime has more broad 191 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:47,160 Speaker 1: based popular support than we initially thought. Before the bombing began, 192 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:51,320 Speaker 1: and that's why regime change is turning into a much 193 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:56,640 Speaker 1: more difficult project than initially thought by both Trump and 194 00:15:56,720 --> 00:16:01,400 Speaker 1: bb net Nyahu. Now it is what it is. And 195 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:06,760 Speaker 1: so the question is, if you can't bring about regime 196 00:16:06,920 --> 00:16:10,360 Speaker 1: change from the outside, and the only way to do 197 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:14,560 Speaker 1: it is to send in a massive ground invasion, then yes, 198 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:18,680 Speaker 1: the mullas will fall. But is there any appetite for this. 199 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:22,600 Speaker 1: Certainly not in Israel, and certainly not here in the 200 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:26,920 Speaker 1: United States, and certainly not in a midterm election year 201 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:31,840 Speaker 1: where the war already a majority in polls over and 202 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:34,800 Speaker 1: over again. It's not a big majority. It's a small majority, 203 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:38,200 Speaker 1: but it's still a majority say that they are opposed 204 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:41,600 Speaker 1: to the war. And when you ask about sending in 205 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:45,920 Speaker 1: ground troops, then there's a strong majority against the war. 206 00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:52,960 Speaker 1: So if ground troops realistically cannot be used and you 207 00:16:53,040 --> 00:16:58,400 Speaker 1: don't have a viable alternative inside Iran, after a while 208 00:16:59,160 --> 00:17:02,560 Speaker 1: you get diminished returns as they call it, on just 209 00:17:02,760 --> 00:17:09,320 Speaker 1: bombing and bombing and bombing and bombing. And so Trump, 210 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:13,240 Speaker 1: as I said, is now at a crossroads. He will 211 00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:15,800 Speaker 1: be in a couple of days. He has to clear 212 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:19,359 Speaker 1: the strait of Hormoose. If he doesn't, it will be 213 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:23,679 Speaker 1: a massive blow to him, to his prestige, frankly, to 214 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:27,159 Speaker 1: world energy markets, to his allies who are going to 215 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:31,320 Speaker 1: feel abandoned, especially the Gulf nations and the Mullas will 216 00:17:31,320 --> 00:17:36,240 Speaker 1: claim a victory even though much of their military is decimated. 217 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:40,520 Speaker 1: So he's got to clear the strait of Hormoose. He's 218 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:44,000 Speaker 1: got to clear the golf. He's got to guarantee that 219 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:48,560 Speaker 1: shipping those shipping, that shipping lane is reopened and free 220 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:53,040 Speaker 1: and wide open again. Okay, so I've laid out the 221 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:57,800 Speaker 1: choices now facing the president. They're not easy choices obviously. 222 00:17:58,400 --> 00:18:01,480 Speaker 1: On the one hand, many or saying finish the job. 223 00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:06,679 Speaker 1: In other words, keep bombing, don't stop bombing. Hit more targets, 224 00:18:07,160 --> 00:18:11,080 Speaker 1: double hit those targets, triple hit those targets. If you 225 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:14,560 Speaker 1: have to even start going after some of the civilian infrastructure, 226 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:18,280 Speaker 1: see if there's any opposition movement, you can arm and 227 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:23,359 Speaker 1: train and finish the job and overthrow the Mullahs once 228 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:27,719 Speaker 1: and for all. There are others who are telling the 229 00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:35,000 Speaker 1: President militarily he has pretty much achieved everything his objectives were. 230 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:39,679 Speaker 1: The Iranian nuclear program has now been set back a 231 00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:44,399 Speaker 1: very long time. Their ballistic missile program is gone or 232 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:49,520 Speaker 1: pretty much wiped out, and the Iran it will take 233 00:18:49,560 --> 00:18:54,520 Speaker 1: them years and years and years to rebuild themselves militarily 234 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:59,720 Speaker 1: and economically. You have neutralized the threat for the foreseeable future. 235 00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:08,520 Speaker 1: Take the win and go home. Once he reasserts control 236 00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:12,000 Speaker 1: over the Strait of Hormose and that he has to 237 00:19:12,040 --> 00:19:16,439 Speaker 1: do or else it's going to keep oil prices extremely high. 238 00:19:17,359 --> 00:19:21,879 Speaker 1: The shock to the oil global markets and the will continue, 239 00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:25,400 Speaker 1: and the ripple effect will continue. And by the way, 240 00:19:25,640 --> 00:19:28,440 Speaker 1: our Persian Gulf countries that our ally to us will 241 00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:32,560 Speaker 1: belivid if we don't do it. Japan, South Korea as well. 242 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:36,879 Speaker 1: Gas prices for them have exploded. In fact, they're getting 243 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:41,840 Speaker 1: shortages long gas lines in South Korea and Japan. So 244 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:45,639 Speaker 1: our allies are really demanding that we clear the Strait 245 00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:51,040 Speaker 1: of Hormuz. Once that is done, however, and we get 246 00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:56,000 Speaker 1: that shipping lane freed and the world's oil supply is 247 00:19:56,040 --> 00:20:01,800 Speaker 1: back to normal, what is there left to do now? 248 00:20:01,840 --> 00:20:04,560 Speaker 1: You can say, okay, overthrow the Mullahs, I get it, 249 00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:10,320 Speaker 1: But if there's no real alternative, then you're really just 250 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:14,560 Speaker 1: destabilizing Iraq. After a certain sorry forgive me Iran. You're 251 00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:19,400 Speaker 1: just destabilizing Iran. After a while, you know, they've hit 252 00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:26,399 Speaker 1: fifteen thousand targets, fifteen thousand. After a while, what is 253 00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:32,000 Speaker 1: there left to hit? The Supreme Leader is dead, Most 254 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:36,440 Speaker 1: of the Iranian military political leadership are dead. The regime 255 00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:41,600 Speaker 1: has essentially been decapitated. The replacement, the successor the Supreme 256 00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:50,160 Speaker 1: Leader now Moushtaba, the son of Ayatolahmani, is been badly wounded. 257 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:53,000 Speaker 1: There were now reports that he's been maybe disfigured, maybe 258 00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:57,000 Speaker 1: lost a limb. But he lost his father, he lost 259 00:20:57,040 --> 00:21:00,000 Speaker 1: his son, he lost his wife, he lost his cis. 260 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:05,480 Speaker 1: He is a hardliner. Those that are backing him, he's 261 00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:09,720 Speaker 1: essentially a puppet of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard core. Those 262 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:13,880 Speaker 1: are the fanatics that underpin this regime. They see this 263 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:18,119 Speaker 1: new Hominy as essentially a puppet, a figurehead of THEIRS. 264 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:23,879 Speaker 1: So the hardliners are still in charge. So the question 265 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:29,920 Speaker 1: now is how much longer should the bombing continue If 266 00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:32,960 Speaker 1: there's no end gain And then now seems to be 267 00:21:33,080 --> 00:21:38,320 Speaker 1: no endgame, what's the point of just bombing and bombing 268 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:46,160 Speaker 1: and bombing and bombing. My advice to the president, take 269 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:51,240 Speaker 1: it for what it's worth, clear the strait of Hormouse, 270 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:57,680 Speaker 1: get the oil flowing to the world again, and then 271 00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:02,240 Speaker 1: declare victory because you've won. You know, in life you 272 00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:04,679 Speaker 1: have to know when you've lost. Well, you also have 273 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:09,960 Speaker 1: to know when you've won and declare victory and come home. 274 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:15,239 Speaker 1: End it. Come home because you have the mother of 275 00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:19,520 Speaker 1: all midterms now to fight, and you want gas prices 276 00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:22,920 Speaker 1: to come back way down. You don't want us fighting 277 00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:26,399 Speaker 1: a war in the midst of an election campaign. We 278 00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:29,320 Speaker 1: have the Save Act that we desperately need to get passed. 279 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:33,760 Speaker 1: We have to end a partial government shutdown. In other words, 280 00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:36,320 Speaker 1: there is so much we need to focus on here 281 00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:40,480 Speaker 1: domestically if we have any chance of winning the midterms. 282 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:46,719 Speaker 1: And so you've made your point. You've defanged and ripped 283 00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:51,120 Speaker 1: the guts out of the Iatolas. And I think also 284 00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:55,400 Speaker 1: maybe we've learned in the process that this mass resistance 285 00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:59,360 Speaker 1: to the Mullahs maybe isn't as big and broad as 286 00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:03,479 Speaker 1: we thought it was. It's definitely there. There's no question 287 00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:07,199 Speaker 1: the Ayatolas are hated by a significant segment of the 288 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:10,760 Speaker 1: Iranian people, and I don't blame them, but that this 289 00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:16,240 Speaker 1: regime is more entrenched and more in control than we 290 00:23:16,359 --> 00:23:22,160 Speaker 1: actually thought. And so sometimes in life, you know, it's 291 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:26,800 Speaker 1: not maybe a complete victory, but it's a pretty good victory. 292 00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:32,720 Speaker 1: Sometimes you just got to take the win. Agree, disagree. 293 00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:37,240 Speaker 1: Six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight 294 00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:42,960 Speaker 1: is the number. Okay, listen now to President Trump air 295 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:48,080 Speaker 1: Force one saying, I'm getting feelers now from third parties 296 00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:53,640 Speaker 1: that some members of the Mullah's the theocracy they are 297 00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:58,760 Speaker 1: looking for a possible ceasefire and maybe some negotiations. But 298 00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:03,119 Speaker 1: I want to have the whip's hand. Nothing gets negotiated 299 00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:07,879 Speaker 1: until the Iran gives me an unconditional surrender. And I 300 00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:11,560 Speaker 1: think in particular, he wants to unblock the strait of 301 00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:15,000 Speaker 1: hormouse and then give them no cards to play with 302 00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:18,640 Speaker 1: if they do talk. But listen now to Trump Roll 303 00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:19,280 Speaker 1: Cut one. 304 00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:26,480 Speaker 2: See, Mike, they want to negotiate, they want to negotiate badly. 305 00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:29,840 Speaker 1: I don't think they're ready. Just put what up carry. 306 00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:34,639 Speaker 2: They want to negotiate badly, as they should, but I 307 00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:36,800 Speaker 2: don't think they're ready to do what they have to do. 308 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:40,160 Speaker 2: But I think they will be ready at some point. 309 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:43,719 Speaker 1: So he's still holding out, and I think that is 310 00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:47,600 Speaker 1: his strategy. Now that he can bomb them into submission, 311 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:51,679 Speaker 1: and eventually they will cry, uncle, they will come and say, 312 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:57,520 Speaker 1: you've won, We've lost. We surrender unconditionally, give us your terms, 313 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:01,280 Speaker 1: tell us exactly what you want us to do. And 314 00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:03,800 Speaker 1: I think that's what Trump is holding out for. We 315 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:08,560 Speaker 1: shall see. Now listen to Trump very quickly. Here is 316 00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:12,080 Speaker 1: Trump saying, look, not that I don't want to talk, 317 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:17,399 Speaker 1: but he goes, you have to understand something. The Strait 318 00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:22,120 Speaker 1: of horror Moose is now being blocked, and we're continuing 319 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:26,120 Speaker 1: now to smash all of their defenses. Where now, by 320 00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:28,960 Speaker 1: the way, Trump said, they're gonna now really target these 321 00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:33,679 Speaker 1: short range missiles that they have along the coastline along 322 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:36,920 Speaker 1: the Strait of horn Moose, which is really targeting these 323 00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:44,080 Speaker 1: oil tankers and oil cargoes and oil ships. So he says, no, no, no, no, 324 00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:47,200 Speaker 1: we're not getting that much oil. We don't get oil 325 00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:50,560 Speaker 1: from Saudi Arabia and all these other Persian Gulf countries. 326 00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:56,080 Speaker 1: China does, Japan does, South Korea does, Hell even some 327 00:25:56,119 --> 00:25:59,080 Speaker 1: of the Europeans like France and Britain, they get Qatar 328 00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:06,080 Speaker 1: provides forty percent forty percent of Britain's liquified natural gas 329 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:10,800 Speaker 1: that heats forty percent of their homes. Forty percent of 330 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:15,720 Speaker 1: Britain's homes are heated by Katar liquified natural gas. That's 331 00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:18,879 Speaker 1: what's being blocked by the way in the Strait of Hormuse. 332 00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:23,600 Speaker 1: So it's set off obviously a panic in Britain because 333 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:25,120 Speaker 1: you want to heat your home, it's going to it's 334 00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:27,600 Speaker 1: costing you now an arm and a leg. Okay, let 335 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:29,600 Speaker 1: me just play this cut. Then I want to go 336 00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:32,200 Speaker 1: right back to the I cannot right back. I could 337 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:35,320 Speaker 1: go straight to the phone lines. Open up the phone 338 00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:39,960 Speaker 1: line six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight. Okay, 339 00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:43,240 Speaker 1: listen now to Trump. President Trump, he's on Air Force 340 00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:47,840 Speaker 1: one and he says, look, you know, sure, I wouldn't 341 00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:52,160 Speaker 1: mind talking to the Ayatolas. But he goes, look, we're 342 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:57,200 Speaker 1: killing him militarily. We've just taken out all of their 343 00:26:57,200 --> 00:27:02,520 Speaker 1: military installations protecting carg Island, which is their economic crown jewel. 344 00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:07,840 Speaker 1: And now we are talking to countries from Japan to 345 00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:12,159 Speaker 1: South Korea, to China to France, the Great Britain saying 346 00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:14,439 Speaker 1: I want you to bring in warships to police the 347 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:18,560 Speaker 1: Straits of forurmouse and it benefits them more than it 348 00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:21,920 Speaker 1: benefits us. And so if we can pull that off, 349 00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:25,560 Speaker 1: then there's so much pressure now that's going to be 350 00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:29,640 Speaker 1: exerted against the Ayatolas that eventually they will have no 351 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:37,080 Speaker 1: choice but to unconditionally surrender. So Trump now believes we're 352 00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:41,119 Speaker 1: in the end game. Roll cut one, Mike. 353 00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:43,960 Speaker 3: So we have. 354 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:48,960 Speaker 2: A lot of things you talk about, but this is 355 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:50,640 Speaker 2: not much I can't say to you about it. 356 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:53,840 Speaker 1: One of those problems in life. 357 00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:57,040 Speaker 2: We had some very good results today, as you've probably heard. 358 00:27:57,080 --> 00:28:00,880 Speaker 1: It ran very strong militarily. 359 00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:07,320 Speaker 2: We're talking to cuntries about policing the Straits as they 360 00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:09,800 Speaker 2: are the ones you know, we don't get well very little. 361 00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:14,480 Speaker 2: That China is an example. It gets about ninety it 362 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:20,120 Speaker 2: out from the Corbo straight and nice to have other 363 00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:23,880 Speaker 2: countries police said with us, and we'll help. 364 00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:29,680 Speaker 1: We'll work with them. So uh, that's part of the 365 00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:35,399 Speaker 1: military strategy to end the war by literally taking away 366 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:39,240 Speaker 1: any cards that the Iranian regime may play, and so 367 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:42,920 Speaker 1: they will have to come on their knees and essentially 368 00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:49,760 Speaker 1: accept unconditional surrender. Now, the Supreme Leader has said never, never, never, 369 00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:54,400 Speaker 1: they will never surrender. They will fight. If it takes 370 00:28:54,440 --> 00:29:00,040 Speaker 1: another month, two months, six months, a year, two years. 371 00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:03,120 Speaker 1: In other words, they are willing to allow their people 372 00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:06,720 Speaker 1: to be killed if necessary, by the millions, but that 373 00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:09,920 Speaker 1: they will never surrender to quote unquote the Great Satan. 374 00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:16,120 Speaker 1: So the question is, if you're President Trump, what do 375 00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:18,840 Speaker 1: you do? You have several choices in front of you. 376 00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:23,440 Speaker 1: What do you do? Do you go in to finish 377 00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:28,720 Speaker 1: off the Ayatolas and go for regime change? Do you 378 00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:33,720 Speaker 1: clear the strait of Hormouse and essentially now cripple Iran 379 00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:38,080 Speaker 1: and its ability to threaten or use any leverage against 380 00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:42,080 Speaker 1: people around them, and have now smashed them militarily and 381 00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:46,880 Speaker 1: declare victory? What do you do? What do you do? 382 00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:51,960 Speaker 1: How does this end? How should this end? Six one 383 00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:56,480 Speaker 1: seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight is the number? 384 00:29:57,040 --> 00:30:00,640 Speaker 1: And let me ask another question, uh, because I've been 385 00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:04,120 Speaker 1: noticing in the text messages and the emails that the 386 00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:09,000 Speaker 1: Kooner Man is getting that it's still majority support in 387 00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:12,320 Speaker 1: Kooner Country for the war in Iran, no question, But 388 00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:17,920 Speaker 1: I am noticing now more doubt among some, more skepticism 389 00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:21,200 Speaker 1: among some. And so I want to ask all of you, 390 00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:27,200 Speaker 1: with thirteen us dead, over one hundred and forty wounded 391 00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:33,480 Speaker 1: some of them seriously. With oil prices now going way up, 392 00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:36,840 Speaker 1: way up, one of the biggest surges, and oil prices 393 00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:41,320 Speaker 1: in this short time period in history, with now other 394 00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:47,200 Speaker 1: petroleum based products like fertilizer going up as well. So 395 00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:51,520 Speaker 1: these price shocks, the effect that it's going to have 396 00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:56,600 Speaker 1: on inflation, on the economy, on growth. With the midterms 397 00:30:56,640 --> 00:31:02,280 Speaker 1: coming up, do you feel now differently about the war 398 00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:06,600 Speaker 1: than you did, say, two weeks ago. I'm just curious, 399 00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:09,880 Speaker 1: and how long do you think Trump should continue to 400 00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:14,320 Speaker 1: go on before you say enough is enough? In other words, 401 00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:18,600 Speaker 1: do you fear the political backlash? Do you fear that 402 00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:22,160 Speaker 1: this war may cost him the midterms? The longer it 403 00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:26,600 Speaker 1: goes on, the more oil stays high, the more inflation 404 00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:30,800 Speaker 1: starts to come back, and the more open ended and 405 00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:35,800 Speaker 1: drawn out it seems. Or are you just as committed 406 00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:39,800 Speaker 1: to this as you were two weeks ago? Six one seven, 407 00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:44,560 Speaker 1: two six, six sixty eight sixty eight is the number. Okay, 408 00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:48,960 Speaker 1: let's unleash the hounds, as they say, Uh, let's go 409 00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:53,360 Speaker 1: to the best callers in the business. Vince in Deutschland, 410 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:56,840 Speaker 1: in Germany, Vince, You're gonna kick us off. Thanks for 411 00:31:56,920 --> 00:32:01,960 Speaker 1: holding and welcome. Okay, we lost Vince. Let's go to Tommy. 412 00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:04,440 Speaker 1: I think it was a connection issue there. But call 413 00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:09,200 Speaker 1: back Vince if you can. Tommy in Pennsylvania, thanks for 414 00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:11,080 Speaker 1: holding Tommy and welcome. 415 00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:17,560 Speaker 3: Good morning, Jeff Tommy. Yeah. Just for the record, I'm 416 00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:20,520 Speaker 3: in Pennsylvania today instead of West Virginia because my wife 417 00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:24,200 Speaker 3: and I have to go to Immigration Uscis for the 418 00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:30,400 Speaker 3: interview for her to lawfully stay here. So anyway, I 419 00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:33,880 Speaker 3: have seen a big increase in prices. Yesterday I paid 420 00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:37,720 Speaker 3: three seventy five gallon. This is gonna hurt Trump in 421 00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:45,040 Speaker 3: the short term. I just hope that they can get 422 00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:47,960 Speaker 3: that oil shipping out of the Straits or her most 423 00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:51,480 Speaker 3: I'm an armchair quarterback. I don't have any answers for this, 424 00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:56,320 Speaker 3: but it is very serious, and she speaks to her 425 00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:59,920 Speaker 3: relatives and the Philippines and gasoline has just shot up 426 00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:02,440 Speaker 3: time because they don't produce their own oil over there. 427 00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:08,760 Speaker 3: So I hope Trump's people are listening. We're walking our 428 00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:11,680 Speaker 3: eggshells right now as a country, as far as I'm concerned. 429 00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:17,720 Speaker 3: But here's the other thing. You know, when Ukraine was 430 00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:20,480 Speaker 3: invaded by Russia and gas at five dollars a Gallon. 431 00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:25,680 Speaker 3: I can remember NPR types and progresses in this country saying, well, 432 00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:28,640 Speaker 3: we just have to go through a little sacrifice to 433 00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:33,280 Speaker 3: save democracy. Okay, well, this time around, we have to 434 00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:37,000 Speaker 3: go through a little sacrifice so that Iran can never 435 00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:40,280 Speaker 3: develop a nuclear weapon. And all I have to tell 436 00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:43,440 Speaker 3: these idiots that are liberals that I went to high 437 00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:47,400 Speaker 3: school with, if Iran ever got a hold of a 438 00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:52,640 Speaker 3: nuclear weapon, they would use it on Israel, make no 439 00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:56,040 Speaker 3: mistake about it. And it's not like what it was 440 00:33:56,120 --> 00:34:00,640 Speaker 3: under the Soviet Union mutually assured destruction. Communists were never 441 00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:07,920 Speaker 3: willing to blow themselves up for a political objective. Islamists are. 442 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,479 Speaker 3: And there's another thing that people have to stop using 443 00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:15,840 Speaker 3: the term radical Islam that is not the radical Islam 444 00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:21,560 Speaker 3: are Muslims that actually want to coexist with non Muslims. 445 00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:26,000 Speaker 3: These people are doing essentially what the prophet Muhammad did 446 00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:30,280 Speaker 3: way back when, that if we beat you in battle, 447 00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:34,840 Speaker 3: if you were the vanquished, you are going to submit 448 00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:39,839 Speaker 3: to us or face death. It's not hard to figure out. 449 00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:44,640 Speaker 3: So anyway, Jeff, I'm off my soapbox. Hope all is 450 00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:46,720 Speaker 3: well with you up there in Boston. 451 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:51,600 Speaker 1: Before you go, Tommy, I take it you're saying you're 452 00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:55,759 Speaker 1: willing to take the gas prices, the higher inflation, a 453 00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:59,359 Speaker 1: little bit more, a little bit longer. But Trump has 454 00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:02,319 Speaker 1: got to wipe out the Ayatolas once and for all. 455 00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:08,440 Speaker 3: Correct And it's simple. You know, for forty seven years, 456 00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:11,280 Speaker 3: what have they said? Death to Israel, death to America. 457 00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:14,240 Speaker 3: Now I'm not worried about them attacking the United States 458 00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:17,680 Speaker 3: other than sleeper cells, but I am worried that if 459 00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:22,240 Speaker 3: they ever launched, just saying the equivalent of the Adam 460 00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:25,319 Speaker 3: Baum that hit Nagasaki, what do you think that would 461 00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:29,680 Speaker 3: do to world markets worldwide? Okay? We would see a 462 00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:33,759 Speaker 3: worldwide depression if that happened. Okay, So people need to 463 00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:38,800 Speaker 3: wake up. And you progressive idiots that are college educated 464 00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:43,440 Speaker 3: buffoons who listen to national public radio, is that what 465 00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:46,040 Speaker 3: you want? Do you want Israel to be wiped off 466 00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:49,120 Speaker 3: the face of the earth, because that essentially is what 467 00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:55,880 Speaker 3: these Islamis won. And I know an individual that is 468 00:35:55,880 --> 00:36:00,239 Speaker 3: an anti is a gun control whack job that he's 469 00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:04,760 Speaker 3: always talking about white Christian evangelicals that want the rapture 470 00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:08,319 Speaker 3: to come, that they're celebrating the end of times. Well, 471 00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:11,600 Speaker 3: that's exactly what these Islamis want they want the twelfth 472 00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:14,920 Speaker 3: of mom to come down from heaven after this armageddon 473 00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:18,880 Speaker 3: and then everyone's gonna worship Allah. You got to do 474 00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:22,799 Speaker 3: a little bit of research into this and understand their mindset. 475 00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:27,319 Speaker 3: These people do not and I'm talking the Islamis that 476 00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:34,520 Speaker 3: don't want to coexist. You know, at some point, watch 477 00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:38,040 Speaker 3: a few YouTube videos on history with regards to that. 478 00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:41,359 Speaker 3: And like I said said to you, several months ago, 479 00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:47,120 Speaker 3: sixteen eighty three, the city of Vienna was surrounded by 480 00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:53,440 Speaker 3: two hundred thousand Mohammedans that were ready to conquer that city. 481 00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:56,600 Speaker 3: It was a gateway into Europe. And thank God for 482 00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:59,640 Speaker 3: the Pope of Poland back then, Pope John I forget 483 00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:03,319 Speaker 3: his last name, but he sent eighty thousand soldiers or 484 00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:07,839 Speaker 3: mainly Christians defend them off. All you got to do 485 00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:13,120 Speaker 3: is just research what Islam did. And the prophet Mohammad 486 00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:17,600 Speaker 3: died the year six thirty two. The year seven to 487 00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:22,760 Speaker 3: eleven is when they conquered southern Spain. As the crow flies, 488 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:26,160 Speaker 3: that's three thousand miles away from Saudi Arabia. How the 489 00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:31,600 Speaker 3: hell do you think Islam spread like Jehovah witnesses. Would 490 00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:35,080 Speaker 3: you like a watchtower. No, it's spread by the sword. 491 00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:40,680 Speaker 3: Wake up people, Tommy, thank you very much for that call. 492 00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:44,680 Speaker 1: Six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight 493 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:50,000 Speaker 1: is the number. Mark in Lowell. Thanks for holding Mark 494 00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:50,960 Speaker 1: and welcome. 495 00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:58,840 Speaker 4: Hey, good morning, Hi Mark. I wanted to talk about 496 00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:03,280 Speaker 4: was again. I'm for the continuing of this. I personally, 497 00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:07,080 Speaker 4: I don't believe the military has been taken out yet. 498 00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:13,080 Speaker 4: Why do they have all these short range missiles, why 499 00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:16,960 Speaker 4: do they have minds? Why do they have all this stuff? 500 00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:20,600 Speaker 4: All that stuff should be blown just, you know, that 501 00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:28,319 Speaker 4: should be part of the military demantling. And if if 502 00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:33,040 Speaker 4: for whatever reason, I think the straits down between Saudi 503 00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:37,600 Speaker 4: Arabia and Iran, is that correct, Yeah. 504 00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:41,120 Speaker 1: It's if you look at it, it's Saudi Arabia and 505 00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:44,760 Speaker 1: then it goes down to the United Arab Emirates and Oman. 506 00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:50,280 Speaker 1: So it's that area. It's it's only about twenty miles wide. 507 00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:54,360 Speaker 1: It's a very narrow waterway. It really is a geopolitical 508 00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:59,400 Speaker 1: choke point and it has given Iran a tremendous advantage 509 00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:03,000 Speaker 1: over the last forty seven years because they can always 510 00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:06,200 Speaker 1: threaten to blow it up, block it, and you know 511 00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:10,080 Speaker 1: that's the main artery. It's that's the most vital shipping 512 00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:14,560 Speaker 1: lane in the world. It's twenty percent of the world's 513 00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:20,279 Speaker 1: oil and liquefied natural gas twenty percent every day. If 514 00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:25,000 Speaker 1: you want the actual number, it's twenty million barrels per 515 00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:30,360 Speaker 1: day goes through that little narrow you know, that little 516 00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:34,680 Speaker 1: narrow waterway, the Strait of Hormouse. So when Trump says 517 00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:38,640 Speaker 1: it's the lifeblood of the world's economy, he's right, there's 518 00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:43,200 Speaker 1: no question. And now we produce and sell so much 519 00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:46,319 Speaker 1: of our own oil that we don't rely we don't 520 00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:51,040 Speaker 1: need it anymore. But China is heavily reliant. You know, 521 00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:55,040 Speaker 1: Mark wasn't sorry, Tommy wasn't kidding when he said, you know, 522 00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:58,440 Speaker 1: back in the Philippines, oil prices have gone way up 523 00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:00,840 Speaker 1: because they get a lot of the oil from that 524 00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:06,040 Speaker 1: Strait of Hormouse, the passageway, that's where Saudi oil gets out. 525 00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:11,160 Speaker 1: That's where you know, the United Arab Emirates, a Qatar, Bahrain, 526 00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:14,799 Speaker 1: all these big oil producers. That's where they get their 527 00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:18,440 Speaker 1: oil to world markets, and it goes to China, Japan, 528 00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:22,800 Speaker 1: South Korea, much of Europe. So part of the reason 529 00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:25,960 Speaker 1: why the world is angry with us. I'm just explaining 530 00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:30,600 Speaker 1: is they're like, hey, we're you know, we're paying five six, 531 00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:35,400 Speaker 1: seven eight bucks a gallon and we've got long lines 532 00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:39,200 Speaker 1: like we had in the nineteen seventies for gas, and 533 00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:41,879 Speaker 1: we rely on you, the United States, to protect us, 534 00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:45,319 Speaker 1: and instead it's turning into a mess. I mean, that's 535 00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:48,440 Speaker 1: their argument. So Trump has been talking to them all 536 00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:51,799 Speaker 1: weekend on the phone, saying, look, don't worry, we got 537 00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:55,240 Speaker 1: a plan. We're gonna unblock this. This is not gonna 538 00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:59,680 Speaker 1: last much longer. So he has to unblock it. You know, 539 00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:04,240 Speaker 1: people are saying, well, he should declare victory and come home. Yeah, okay, 540 00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:07,520 Speaker 1: but after he clears the Strait of Hormoose. If he 541 00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:11,319 Speaker 1: doesn't clear the Strait of Hormoose, the Mullas are gonna 542 00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:15,000 Speaker 1: claim a victory. And then who controls the Strait of Hormoose? 543 00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:18,799 Speaker 1: So he has to control this or whatever. Have an 544 00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:23,680 Speaker 1: international have international warships come in a coalition. You know, 545 00:41:23,719 --> 00:41:25,960 Speaker 1: he wants them all to come in. Now. He wants China, 546 00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:29,360 Speaker 1: he wants to go Japan, he wants Britain, France, everybody 547 00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:33,920 Speaker 1: to send in warships to escort containers and help us 548 00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:36,200 Speaker 1: d mind because the rains have put a lot of 549 00:41:36,239 --> 00:41:39,120 Speaker 1: mines on the ground on the ocean floor, or we 550 00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:42,359 Speaker 1: have on the sea floor, so you know he wants 551 00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:47,400 Speaker 1: us to demine them. But now the Mulla's strategy is simple. 552 00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:52,560 Speaker 1: Take It's like a ropid dope. Take a pounding, keep 553 00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:56,280 Speaker 1: getting hit and hit and hit and hit, wait us out, 554 00:41:56,719 --> 00:42:00,120 Speaker 1: and then block the strait of hormoose to set and 555 00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:02,960 Speaker 1: oil prices to one hundred and forty one hundred and 556 00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:07,200 Speaker 1: fifty one hundred and sixty dollars a barrel, spark a 557 00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:11,440 Speaker 1: world recession and especially a recession here in the United 558 00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:17,080 Speaker 1: States and thereby costing Trump a victory in the November midterms. 559 00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:22,200 Speaker 1: So they have a strategy. This is their strategy. What 560 00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:25,000 Speaker 1: say you? What say you? Mark? 561 00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:32,759 Speaker 4: I say is Iran has the ultimate playbook that they 562 00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:38,879 Speaker 4: passed on to Hama hamas and hamas U's hostages. This 563 00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:43,120 Speaker 4: is a hostage situation in a different form. And Trump 564 00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:52,920 Speaker 4: is one right. These individuals have no interest in saying 565 00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:57,600 Speaker 4: that they've been defeated by us. The what are we 566 00:42:57,719 --> 00:43:01,799 Speaker 4: called by them oakadels, And they don't want to say 567 00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:03,920 Speaker 4: that out loud, and they won't say it out loud. 568 00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:06,800 Speaker 4: They rather tell all their people than say it out loud. 569 00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:10,439 Speaker 4: What's going on here is why are these people still 570 00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:12,960 Speaker 4: in power? That means there's the military still in. 571 00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:20,239 Speaker 5: Power of some sort. It also says that our friends 572 00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:26,360 Speaker 5: the Chinese should be there almost one hundred percent, because 573 00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:28,200 Speaker 5: ninety percent of their. 574 00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:31,479 Speaker 4: Oil is coming from there. They should be sitting back 575 00:43:31,560 --> 00:43:36,480 Speaker 4: watching this happen. So I know what they're doing too. 576 00:43:36,560 --> 00:43:40,759 Speaker 4: They're trying to play with Iran for the same playbook. 577 00:43:41,920 --> 00:43:44,799 Speaker 4: Maybe Trump will take a defeat and then we have 578 00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:50,520 Speaker 4: free reign again at the end of twenty six. That 579 00:43:50,719 --> 00:43:52,799 Speaker 4: kind of That's the way I look at this whole thing. 580 00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:56,080 Speaker 4: And I'm sorry, I'm I sound like a warmonger, but 581 00:43:56,600 --> 00:44:01,920 Speaker 4: I'm I personally believe Iranians that live in the straight 582 00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:05,120 Speaker 4: area should move out right now in the whole area. 583 00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:07,120 Speaker 4: You should get bombed because I got a funny filling. 584 00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:13,440 Speaker 4: Those nice Iranian readers have put these all these short 585 00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:19,160 Speaker 4: range missiles and drones and people tombs, and they're using 586 00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:21,840 Speaker 4: the people, schools, hospitals. 587 00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:24,359 Speaker 1: Or human shields. No, there's no question, Yeah, they are 588 00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:28,279 Speaker 1: using human shields. That what Hamas has done, they're doing 589 00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:32,000 Speaker 1: an Iran now, Uh, they want to get the civilian 590 00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:36,239 Speaker 1: casualty death poll as high as possible. Uh, and then 591 00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:39,520 Speaker 1: to have CNN and others come in and say, look 592 00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:42,399 Speaker 1: at the civilians that are being killed, and that will 593 00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:47,320 Speaker 1: drum up international outrage and international opinion against Trump, against US, 594 00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:51,120 Speaker 1: and against Israel. So this is what to me is 595 00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:55,880 Speaker 1: again disgusting and shocking about the Mullus is how they're 596 00:44:55,920 --> 00:45:00,799 Speaker 1: willing to sacrifice their own people over and over and 597 00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:06,319 Speaker 1: over and over again. It's just it's look, it's a 598 00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:12,000 Speaker 1: barbaric medieval regime, there's no question. And they've shown themselves 599 00:45:12,040 --> 00:45:17,000 Speaker 1: again to be just utterly primitive and utterly evil. Now, 600 00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:19,080 Speaker 1: just so that you know, I'm gonna play a cut 601 00:45:19,120 --> 00:45:23,319 Speaker 1: now by Trump. But you know, when Trump says militarily 602 00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:27,280 Speaker 1: the Mullahs are finished, what he means is their ballistic 603 00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:31,680 Speaker 1: missile arsenal has been shattered. Their nuclear program was pretty 604 00:45:31,719 --> 00:45:36,040 Speaker 1: much gone, has been obliterated. They're running out of ballistic missiles. 605 00:45:36,520 --> 00:45:40,400 Speaker 1: They're just they're just running out of them. Ninety navy 606 00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:43,200 Speaker 1: vessels have been destroyed, sunk to the bottom or badly 607 00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:47,319 Speaker 1: destroyed or badly damaged. They have no air force, none, 608 00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:49,960 Speaker 1: they don't have a single plane left. So what I'm 609 00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:55,880 Speaker 1: saying is big picture Macro Iran know as a military power, 610 00:45:55,920 --> 00:46:00,000 Speaker 1: Iran is now finished. They still have some short range 611 00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:03,680 Speaker 1: ballistic missiles. That's what you see on the coastline along 612 00:46:03,680 --> 00:46:06,960 Speaker 1: the strait of horm Moose, and these like little ships 613 00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:11,920 Speaker 1: and little boats where you can just drop mines, like 614 00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:15,319 Speaker 1: you know, they just lay mines and they do that 615 00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:17,560 Speaker 1: on the straight of Hormoose. Now, believe it or not, 616 00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:21,680 Speaker 1: that is so freaking primitive in terms of technology. It's 617 00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:24,040 Speaker 1: almost I don't want to overdo it, but it's almost 618 00:46:24,080 --> 00:46:27,920 Speaker 1: like a rowboat with mines and you just drop them. 619 00:46:28,239 --> 00:46:30,840 Speaker 1: A mine itself is very primitive compared to what we 620 00:46:30,920 --> 00:46:36,040 Speaker 1: have now and these small ships and boats, so it's 621 00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:39,560 Speaker 1: almost like, well, what do you do. It's like, we 622 00:46:39,680 --> 00:46:43,160 Speaker 1: got missiles everyone costs US ten million dollars, you know 623 00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:45,080 Speaker 1: what I mean. It's like we got these big, powerful 624 00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:48,200 Speaker 1: missiles and these guys are using these little primitive boats 625 00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:52,520 Speaker 1: and mines. So now we're starting to shoot their small 626 00:46:52,600 --> 00:46:56,880 Speaker 1: ships and boats out of the water. They're mind layers 627 00:46:56,960 --> 00:46:59,960 Speaker 1: out of the water. We're now going to target these 628 00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:05,120 Speaker 1: ballistic small, short range ballistic missiles. The next two three days, 629 00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:09,240 Speaker 1: they're gonna carpet bomb the coastal defenses of the Strait 630 00:47:09,239 --> 00:47:14,239 Speaker 1: of Hormoose. And Trump now wants as many warships as 631 00:47:14,239 --> 00:47:18,120 Speaker 1: possible from as many countries as possible to escort all 632 00:47:18,160 --> 00:47:21,799 Speaker 1: of these tankers. If he can pull it off, and 633 00:47:21,840 --> 00:47:24,560 Speaker 1: I think the military part is going to be easy. 634 00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:28,200 Speaker 1: It's getting the others to contribute their warships. Then the 635 00:47:28,280 --> 00:47:31,560 Speaker 1: message is the Strait of Hormoose is back, it's free, 636 00:47:31,880 --> 00:47:36,400 Speaker 1: it's safe, it's open, and I don't think the Molas 637 00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:42,759 Speaker 1: have anything left except sleeper cells. But beyond after that, 638 00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:48,719 Speaker 1: the war militarily is going to be over. So the 639 00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:52,480 Speaker 1: question is what should Trump do. Then that's going to 640 00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:55,920 Speaker 1: be the big question mark. Thank you very much for 641 00:47:55,960 --> 00:47:56,440 Speaker 1: that call.