WEBVTT - 3-24-26 Scott Sloan Show 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:01.840 Do you want to be an American? 0:00:03.000 --> 0:00:06.280 Here we go sloany seven hundred WLW. We jump in 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:09.440 with this. President Trump says Iran wants a deal and 0:00:09.520 --> 0:00:12.039 the war could end in days. But Iran says there 0:00:12.039 --> 0:00:15.600 are no talks, no negotiations, as strait is closed. And 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:18.160 now we're having word that maybe there are some individuals 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:20.599 inside Iran that are talking to God only knows. We 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:23.360 don't have no idea who's telling the truth. And what 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:27.040 happens if this whole thing falls apart. We're now sending troops, 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:30.639 actual physical United States Marines and an expeditionary unit to 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:34.080 the Middle East. We're starting to get troops on the ground, 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:39.720 and certainly Democrats, but particularly a number of Republicans do 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:43.239 not want that to happen. And what happens if we 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:44.720 have to have ground trips? So we're going to go 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:47.120 in and get the nuclear arsenal, We're going to go 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:50.240 get the nukes out. That means boots on the ground. 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:52.120 What does that look like? How do we navigate this? 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:55.680 And every day this war goes on with no off ramp, 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:59.080 problematic for US and our economy. Joining the show is 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:03.319 doctor Markensel, former Director of International Studies and Human Rights 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:06.520 Studies program founder all at the University of Dayton. He's 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:09.039 our Middle Eastern Terrorism and the Leastern expert, doctor Mark. 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:11.240 Good morning, How are you, good morning? 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:11.800 How are you sing? 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:12.640 I'm doing well. Thanks. 0:01:13.000 --> 0:01:16.080 So Trump postponed the strikes on the infrastructure for five days, 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:19.600 cooled off. We saw the economy rebound, the markets reacted 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:22.360 really really well. To that said, We've had conversations, but 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:25.200 there's about a lot of mixed messages in there saying, well, 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:27.200 we decimated everything. There's no one to talk to just 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:29.360 a couple days ago, because we killed everybody, and now 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:33.640 we're somehow negotiating with someone who didn't exist three days ago. 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:36.800 So Iran flatly denies any negotiations that are happening. Who's 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:38.560 telling the truth and why does it matter from a 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:39.600 strategic standpoint? 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:41.200 Oh my. 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:46.440 So there's an old adage, right that the first casualty 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:50.240 of war is the truth. Yes, and that seems to 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:52.440 apply to the commander in chief, President Trump. 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:56.560 We don't know what the truth is. You're right, we. 0:01:56.520 --> 0:02:00.560 Obliterated their nuclear material, but they can get bomb in 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:01.600 two weeks. 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:02.600 That's why we attacked. 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:09.880 No, no, no, there's We'll only accept complete unconditional thrender. 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:12.760 We're having talks and they're going, well, we just don't 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:16.200 know what's going on now. I gotta tell you, Scott, 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:19.080 I've been one of those pessimists to believe that conflict 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:23.880 with the Islamic Republic Iran was was virtually inevitable given 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:28.600 that regime influence the Mid Eastern weapons. But having a 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:32.000 commander in chief who seems not to be sending clear 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:37.680 giving clear answers to the American people about what the 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:39.960 object of this war is is very. 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:40.840 Very very frightening. 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:43.000 Another of us have lived through the last time we 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:47.040 did this, in that we had there's mission creep, right, 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:49.720 we're going to uh, we're gonna go and we're going 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:51.800 to take out Saddam, Who's okay. Great, Well we did that, 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:54.520 and you know, we're in Afghanistan, we're in Iraq, we're 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:57.799 we're all over the place. And we lost a number 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:01.040 of well a lot of really good young people through 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:04.000 the war. But at the same time, we still really 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:06.560 know what the outstraats was. Okay, we toppled regime and 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:09.280 then what happened, I mean ultimately ended with Biden pulling 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:13.080 half acidly out of Afghanistan. And so what did we gain? 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:15.679 We broke trust again in the Middle East? Are we 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:17.079 set to do that all over again here? 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:24.320 It would appear so, I mean, the they the real 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:27.840 goal is to topple the regime. That's that's clearly Israel's desire. 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:31.400 The presidents has said it many times. But at the 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:36.400 same time, he promised as as a political candidate, not 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:40.960 to have these permanent wars, these regime change. 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:42.480 Wars, and that's exactly what we're doing. 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:46.119 So it's it's it's we don't know whether he's confused 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:50.840 or he's deceptive, but either way does not bode well 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:54.560 for the next phase. Now you mentioned the Marines are 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:59.960 on the en route. What they're talking about extracting new 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:02.720 clear material is going to take boots on the ground. Yeah, 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:05.400 you know, we're gonna go in it and it's gonna 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:07.640 be hot. We're gonna fight our way in and extract 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:10.720 that material which is deeply buried deeply unide the country 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:15.720 or who knows. We have a diplomatic off ramp in 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:19.760 the United Nations. The International Atomic Energy Commission goes in 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:21.960 and supervises the extraction that material. 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:25.440 Do you really trust the UN to do that? I 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:27.799 mean the un is pretty worthless in my opinion. 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:30.680 Youah, yeah, I'm with you, But it's gonna be someone 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:33.159 who's gonna have to supervise the extraction of this material. 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:33.960 Uh. 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:37.360 And you know you don't hear it's spoken of very much. 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:42.039 Is it possible? We're worried about the enrichment of the 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:44.719 the uranium and can they develop what weapons? 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:48.080 Sure, they can develop dirty bombs. They can put it 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:48.440 out of. 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:54.320 Low enriched material and fired in a ballistic missile, uh 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:58.080 to tell Aviv and essentially turn into a nuclear wasteland. 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:04.560 So the pre it has really opened up a courvial 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:05.599 cannib worms here. 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:07.720 And I think it's a lot was like me. 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:09.559 I mean, we grew up there and you as well 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:12.560 saw what the Iola did seventy nine. See what we 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:15.440 see the regime and how pre seventy nine it look 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:17.760 very western there. You know, women are going to university 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:21.160 and now today, of course it's a dystopian hellhole and 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:24.920 has been so for fifty years. No problem with decapitating 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:28.960 the regime and provided though that we can kind of 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:31.039 nudge them in the right direction. Now we're not good 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:34.479 at nation building for sure, but right now there's just 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:36.600 no clear picture coming out for I think the American 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:38.800 people to understand that Trump says Iran has agreed to 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:41.239 never have a nuclear weapon. But given their track record 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:45.840 the Obama deal, for example, the Republican Guard lying about 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:48.599 their missiles or missile range, why would anyone believe that, 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:51.640 let alone the un of the United States. And if so, 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:55.359 can't they just move there the fishing ball material somewhere else. 0:05:57.240 --> 0:06:00.640 Yeah, those are all logistical questions, technical questions that are 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:04.120 difficult to answer. One thing's clear to me as a 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:06.839 political scientist, is very interested in the nature of the 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:11.240 regime that deocratic to telitarian state, is that you know, 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:16.120 Israel clearly wanted and Trump seems to have been convinced that, 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:19.880 you know, a blitz creed strike will topple that regime 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:21.800 and we'll get a democratic So we don't have to 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:23.279 put put you on the ground, we don't have to 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:26.440 do what we did with that entertaining and so we 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:30.240 can do it sort of magically. That's just a miss 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:33.839 this miscalculation. So we could find a diplomatic ard ramp 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:36.640 where we deal with the nuclear matil but leave in 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:42.240 place the regime. There's an incredible missile program the strikes 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:47.000 in Tel Aviv yesterday and today are really uptick in 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:51.200 the in the escalation of the violence. One Israeli UH 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:54.839 military commander said, what we got here with yesterday was 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:58.000 something entirely new. No think about this for a second. 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:01.400 They have been We've been bombing them for a month. 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:03.480 The most sophisticated air force in the worlds were bombing 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:05.839 them for a month, and they still have the ability 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:10.240 to fire rockets at US, you know, so gives you 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:12.480 a sense of what that regime would be and if 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:15.280 they continue to build this missile program for a decade, 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:16.600 another another few years. 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:19.040 So there's a need for conflict. 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:22.120 But you're right, we don't handle it well, and we 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:25.760 certainly don't handle it well when there's uh, there's there's not. 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:28.920 There's a lack of clarity in our strategic objective. We 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:31.360 just can't get that from the president. And if you're 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:36.200 an American citizen, particularly you're a president President supporter, Maggot supporter, Yeah, 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:39.040 who believed what he said about no new wars, no 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:42.840 regime changed wars, Stay stay at home, And suddenly you're 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:46.480 looking at gas prices. You feel this at a really 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:50.640 deep political level. You've been deceived. This is a very 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:51.880 terrible situation where. 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:53.160 They're market slag. Bizarre. 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:53.360 It is. 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:55.840 I'm starting to see the Trump did this. Bumpers are 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:59.160 stickers on gas pumps now, like like with like they 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:02.280 did with Biden and he was in charge. And it's 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:04.000 just it's a bizarre world in which. 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:04.600 We live right now. 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:06.680 What if it worked, if we just simply said it's 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:09.760 in a ray I think ran I think Israel does 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:12.240 this the time to time. It's like, okay, well, you 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:14.280 know what, we think you're getting too powerful, you're starting 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:16.880 to build missiles up, and you're we're going to take 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:18.800 you out. They launch a tactical strike and it's over. 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:21.040 They're not invading, they're not trying to regime change, but 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:23.200 they will as soon as it starts to bubble up 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:25.800 or it looks like their enemy has too much, they 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:27.760 go and they take it out. Should this have been 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:30.600 that they're just simply okay, well, unless you're gonna play 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:33.120 the game, we're gonna swat you back down. We're gonna 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:35.400 take your program back several years and we'll keep you 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:35.720 in check. 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:36.160 That way. 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:40.480 Would that have worked, who knows, But I mean it 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:44.600 really means will will be repeating this conflict every few years. Yeah, 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:47.760 to steem kind of what Israel's doing with Lebanon, with 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:52.080 in Lebanon. Yeah, right, with every few years we've forgotten 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:54.920 about We've gotten with the President's Board of Peace, with 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:58.520 mister Truman, we forgot about that entirely Middle East. It 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:03.160 becomes such a quagmire. Is that Vietnam term? So yeah, 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:06.840 it requurs clarity and thoughts to about our strategic objectives 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:10.600 and what is realistically possible. But we're not hearing that. 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:14.280 We're hearing the president saying one thing one day, one thing, 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:18.840 another thing the same day, and you can tell he's 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:21.839 doing it for political reasons. Clearly he said we're at 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:25.000 these constructive talks. I'm not a betting fellow, but I 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:29.040 would bet on this that was clearly intended to influence 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:30.760 the markets and the gas prices. 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:33.640 So apparently false. 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:38.200 It does not raise confidence in the administration and the president. 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:42.080 Yeah, so what we say, Okay, just a few days ago, 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:44.040 we wiped everything out, there's no one to talk to, 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:47.199 and then hours later it's like, well, we're negotiating and 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:51.480 we're talking to this the most respected Iranian official, I 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:54.240 guess wit Coffin Jerk Kushner are talking to this individual? 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:57.200 Is that really a person? Who would this be? 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:02.640 You reminds me of Back to Iron, Remember Ron Condra 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:06.760 Oliver North. Remember they flew over They had some secret 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:12.120 meeting with the moderate, the Islamic moderates of the regime, 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:18.240 and it was a complete falsehood or challaby in a rock. 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:21.600 He had insights into what's actually inside of a rock. 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:24.960 Trust him. So they may be talking to someone, they're 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:28.000 clearly not talking to someone who's in the senior leadership 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:31.840 of a deeply entrenched utilitarian state. So they're talking to somebody, 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:36.280 but the person they're talking to can't can't speak for 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:37.520 the regime. 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:39.080 Yeah, he is. 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:41.439 Doctor Mark Anseilaco from the University of Daton on the 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:44.679 show this morning, seven hundred ww R Resident Middle Eastern 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:47.240 Expert and terrorism expert on the show and contemplating with 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:47.840 the move is here? 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:49.120 What the play is here? With Trump? 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:51.240 And you know, he's really good at pivoting and saying 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:53.160 what's on his mind, but it seems like he's making 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:55.199 this up from one second to the next. And even 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:56.760 if you're mad, I think you agree. Is like, just 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:58.320 tell us what's going on with the plan? Is there 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:01.319 a plan here, And with each passing day it feels 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:03.560 less and less like there's a plan, but more and 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:05.440 more like we're going to be involved in something. It's 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:07.120 a drag on for a long time, we hope not. 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:10.000 And we're trying to find an off ramp here. And 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:12.319 you wonder what the Trump administration inside the White House 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:14.200 is trying to figure on the same what the play is. 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:17.680 Right now, you've got people saying, well, this is Vietnam 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:20.800 and Tet Offensive all over again. You know, thirty years ago, 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:22.480 I couldn't tell you what the Tet Offensive was. But 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:23.960 when you're older and you watch a lot of doctor 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:26.280 Menors and War, as my wife calls it, you learned 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:29.280 that the Tet Offensive was during the Vietnam conflict, in 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:31.280 which in the Tet the holiday their New Year's they 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:36.280 launched the North Vietnamese launched huge attacks on US installations 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:39.400 throughout Vietnam, and people go, my guy, who was a 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:41.280 turning port in the war, we got hand. No, we 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:43.880 actually turned them back and beat the hell out of 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:47.760 the Vietnamese in that. But it's a situation where and 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:51.520 again everything repeats itself. Historically, we won militarily, but we 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:54.440 lost politically. Is that a similar parallel here. 0:11:57.400 --> 0:11:59.839 Let me take a different angle at that the Vietnam thing. 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:05.000 You know, when the United States simply declared victory and left, 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:09.600 and we left ourselves at decent interval before when we left, 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:11.400 before the North Threet and these took over. It was 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:14.440 the two years that seems to be the president. Remember, 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:18.680 the President has said he's the one who will decide 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:21.720 when they've capitulated, when they've given. 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:24.160 A gut feeling, right, the gut feeling. 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:26.920 So he'll just say, like we won, we're leaving, okay. 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:30.360 And it meantime, by the way, the damage to the 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:33.920 infrastructure in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of all Na, right, 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:37.680 all the all the everything that's been struck by in 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:41.440 the in the petroleum industry, everything's been struck by both 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:45.440 sides in this has really damaged oil production that has 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:48.679 affected multiple countries in the in the Golf and affected 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:52.120 the global economy. So for the president to say, we 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:56.120 launched this war for this reason, I'm going to declare victory. 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:57.120 Even though we didn't achieve. 0:12:57.160 --> 0:13:01.719 The subjectives still left behind, uh a tremendous amount of 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:04.280 damage that will affect their economy for some time. 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:06.599 So, I mean good, I was a view that a 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:07.280 war was good. 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:11.120 I'm going to come with with Iran given the nature 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:14.800 industry team and their militarization. But the president of the 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:20.400 United States does not inspire confidence. Does not inspire confidence, 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:21.200 is all I can put in. 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:24.840 I sense that. And now the report out this morning. 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:27.480 The breaking element here is there may be negotiations with 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:31.240 the US and around held in Pakistan. We're continuing striking 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:33.599 military targets as well. We've kind of laid off the 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:36.439 straight of our moves to say, okay, well, let's maybe 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:38.760 have some negotiations here, but we'll see if this is 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:41.880 indeed true, if it plays out in the meantime. Of course, 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:44.240 we have all sorts of juice on our side. I mean, 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:45.720 you look at it, with all the stuff we've been 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:48.640 talking about, Mark Zelaco, you know, maybe for the first 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:50.480 time in a long time, we have the bulk of 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:52.760 not all of the Middle East going, hey, we got 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:55.439 to do something about Iran. Because they're launching missiles of 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:58.800 Tel Aviv, which is nothing new, but Oman Dubai is 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:02.640 under attack. It's everyone around them in the region wants 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:06.400 this regime gone. This should be a lot easier than 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:07.480 what we're talking about. 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:08.000 Your shouldn't it. 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:12.880 Yeah, what's happened since October twenty seventh when when Hamas 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:16.320 attacked Israel. What's happened the destruction of Hamas and the 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:21.960 serious debilitation of Hamas. Now his Bolah, the Jutis Siri 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:25.040 has fallen, you know. So there's been there's been major 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:30.840 geopolitical transformation in the Middle East. Uh, and the future 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:33.560 is there to whole. I mean like in Lebanon for example, 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:37.000 right now Israel bringing h the force of the bear 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:42.760 on his Bela people, Shia who are you know, linked 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:46.400 to his Belah are turning against it because yet again 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:50.960 these fanatics have exposed us to another Israeli war. This 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:57.479 happened Hamas now with his Belah in Lebanon. So there's 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:00.280 a transformation in Middle East. But it's this small, it's 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:03.120 got to clear, it's still it's still burunning. But yeah, 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:06.840 the global community now with all these brackets from far 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:12.800 from around hitting other Gulf states. Yes, he has woken 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:15.640 them to the threat. They they've actually known about the 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:17.760 thread for a very long time. We've always been fearful 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:23.320 of Shia aggressive iron and yeah, so there's there's really 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:26.360 a world war, a regional war going on right now, 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:28.600 and we're deb in the middle of it. 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:30.200 Yeah, I want to think that. 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:33.280 You know, there are back channels, and what happened was 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:35.400 we're able to sit down and we're gonna negotiate with 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:37.680 someone and around because you know, clearly look at the 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:40.120 regime right now, and they lost not just the head 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:42.480 of the beast, but pretty much the middle and part 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:44.200 of the tail right now, and they're struggling. And we 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:46.840 still have no word if the newly installed Ayatola is 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:49.000 even alive at this point because no one seen the guy. 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:52.720 We have someonetile rise to power for sure. Uh, but 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:55.240 I'm sure they want an end of this thing as well. 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:58.440 Can will There's be some capitulation here. I don't know 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:01.080 if it'll be like Trump said, Hey, listen, we'll decide 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:03.840 who goes into who's going to be in power in Iran, 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:07.280 and we'll work together. I don't see that happening, but 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:09.440 I'm clearly Iran wants it in this thing. 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:14.320 Who knows what Iran wants? And you're absolutely right, we 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:16.480 do not know who we're speaking to. We do not know, 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:19.200 you know, we could be speaking to someone who's an eatola, 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:21.600 but they can't. If they didn't make promises, they can't 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:21.920 deliver it. 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:22.880 That Yeah, that's true. 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:24.640 So we simply don't know. 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:28.440 Now, Israel's got a greater visibility into Iran. I mean, 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:32.000 they have penetrated Iron for quite some time, you know. 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:35.960 That's why the decapitation's rights were so simple, and because 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:39.200 they've been they penetrated for for decades. But we don't 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:40.800 have that, We don't have that visibility. 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:43.200 We don't have it. And we talked about this in 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:44.800 the program last time I was on. 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:48.160 I don't trust the intelligence community right now, given the 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:49.560 quality of their leadership either. 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:51.520 So we're in it. 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:54.320 We're in a global crisis right now, and we have 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:57.480 serious concerns about our ability to manage our way through it. 0:16:57.560 --> 0:16:59.840 Yeah, we're not losing sleep over over bombing the hell 0:16:59.880 --> 0:17:02.560 of a ran long time overdue. But what does an 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:05.560 accept American win look like here? And is it achievable? 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:07.720 That's the big question. What's the off ramp? Doctor Mark 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:10.800 and Sulaco at the University up Dton. As always, thanks 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:14.240 to the inside, appreciate it, Thank you, take care. We've 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:16.239 got a news update here happening in just minutes as 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:18.399 we count down to opening Day twenty twenty six on 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:22.439 seven hundred WLW protein soda. There you go, There you go, 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:25.240 Sloani here, seven hundred WW. Thanks for joining the show 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:31.080 this morning. I love the criticism. Talk badly about Trump. 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:33.919 You get killed by the AMaGA crowd. And if you go, hi, man, 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:35.679 you know this is something Trump did. It's really good. 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:38.280 You get killed by the progressive crowd. So that means 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:39.760 I'm doing what I do here, and that is I 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:42.120 make my own mind up based on what's happening at 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:46.520 that exact moment in time. And if you subscribe to 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:49.359 the political kool aid, and let me back up a second, 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:51.840 how about some good news? You know, generally news and 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:54.520 talk great, it's all negative. The world's ending, it's crime, 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:56.400 it's all my god, we're gonna get This is why 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:57.919 you got to buy gold and you got to buy 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:00.760 an emergency medical kid, and you need a raider and 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:04.879 more gold and how bad are things right now? Some 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:08.080 perspective for you. And I thought of this because I 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:10.320 keep hearing and we play them here. But the Thomas 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:15.119 Massey is I love Thomas Massey as a libertarian leaning person. 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:19.640 I think he's refreshing we should you know, you should 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:22.520 call the the other side should be held accountable. Okay, 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:24.840 but I think it says a lot more if you 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:28.320 can hold your own side accountable, which he does. However, 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:31.040 these ads he's running against Ed gall Ryan, and Ed's 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:34.359 been on the show many times, a great guy. The 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:36.600 tagline and it is not just a Trump hater a 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:41.879 Trump trader. Now, I just wonder who that's targeted to. 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:46.359 Not you, I don't think, or me, because waitn hold on, 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:48.880 let me christ my. So Trump is endorsing a guy 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:53.359 that hates him? How does that even How does that 0:18:53.400 --> 0:18:56.560 even make sense? Except in the world of politics. If 0:18:56.600 --> 0:19:00.000 you're so into the political identity that you're a whole 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:02.880 identity is whether you're a Trump supporter or Trump hater, 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:07.080 I kind of feel bad for you. Why would he 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:11.000 endorse then? Why would Trump endorse a guy who hates 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:15.239 him or is a trader? To maga, it just it 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:18.440 doesn't make any sense. But it's politics. It's not supposed 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:20.320 to make any sense. You have the people who tell 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:22.359 you politics is the most important thing in the world 0:19:24.800 --> 0:19:26.840 really believe this kind of stuff. What makes you think, like, 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:29.920 am I normal? Or are they abnormal? I think he 0:19:30.040 --> 0:19:33.760 got that right, you're normal. But I mentioned how we 0:19:34.040 --> 0:19:36.199 got to pump the brakes on this whole thing in granted, 0:19:36.240 --> 0:19:39.120 Iran is illustrative of where we are with Donald Trump 0:19:39.160 --> 0:19:41.480 right now. I was like, from one minute to the next, 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:44.159 it's a different story. We wipe them completely out, they 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:45.600 have no nukes left, but we got to go get 0:19:45.600 --> 0:19:48.040 the nukes. You know, We're going to do this all 0:19:48.080 --> 0:19:50.159 from a tactical position, and we're going to strike them 0:19:50.240 --> 0:19:52.199 until they scream uncle. And we're going to put our 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:53.960 own people in there and they're going to go with it. 0:19:54.040 --> 0:19:56.760 And that's not happening. And also, no boots on the 0:19:56.800 --> 0:20:00.120 ground except for all the Marines we're sending there. Okay, 0:20:00.600 --> 0:20:04.480 that only maybe makes sense and true social but the 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:06.600 reality is this. I mean, you think the sky is 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:10.199 falling for you, it probably is because we live in 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:13.840 a it's like a vibe pression, right, Vibe depression will 0:20:13.840 --> 0:20:19.399