Speaker 1: You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast, let make
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Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts. As President Trump going
Speaker 1: to strike Iran, it's increasingly looking like that's the case.
Speaker 1: In fact, some of you may know the answer, because
Speaker 1: it could have happened by the time you listen to
Speaker 1: this podcast.
Speaker 2: It's of high concern for all of us.
Speaker 1: Because, well, this is the sort of situation that can
Speaker 1: get out of control very quickly. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: concern about possible second order effects. What will Ron do
Speaker 1: in response?
Speaker 2: Here's what we know.
Speaker 1: The Mullahs are running a theocratic totalitarian theocracy or a
Speaker 1: dictatorship and a kleptocracy. Actually so, because they're stealing from
Speaker 1: the people all the time. And it's enough people have
Speaker 1: decided that the ruination of Iran is in fact not
Speaker 1: something that they will sit idly by and allow to continue. Now,
Speaker 1: I think that this would be great for the region
Speaker 1: if you just had a different government, a democratic government
Speaker 1: in Iran, for example. Wouldn't that make such a difference.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be something that you know, they've had democratic
Speaker 1: elections next door in Iraq?
Speaker 2: It is possible.
Speaker 1: We don't want this place to be a constant problem
Speaker 1: for the whole region, really for the whole world. They've
Speaker 1: got substantial oil supplies, oil reserves, and they've been funding
Speaker 1: terrorism with that for a long time. Trump is now saying, look,
Speaker 1: if you, meaning Iran, continues with the large scale slaughter
Speaker 1: of protesters, you are going to be done. And now
Speaker 1: there's also reporting up here of Iranian authorities who are
Speaker 1: targeting starlink users Elon Musk. Starlink has been a means
Speaker 1: of communication, right because the Iranians don't control those satellites,
Speaker 1: they can't just shut it off. But Iran has cut
Speaker 1: off public internet access no surprise there. While starlink is
Speaker 1: illegal in Iran, there are some starlink terminals that have
Speaker 1: been smuggled into the country and they have been able
Speaker 1: to slow The government has been able to slow connectivity,
Speaker 1: but there are still some people who are able to
Speaker 1: get footage out of Iran of what's going on there.
Speaker 1: And so if they're actually going to be tracking these
Speaker 1: people down and executing them, possibly hanging them, Trump is
Speaker 1: saying that he's going to he's going to unleash the
Speaker 1: fury on Iran.
Speaker 2: On the Mullas.
Speaker 1: Let me just say this could be a huge pivot
Speaker 1: point in the history of the twenty first century. And
Speaker 1: I will reiterate somewhat what I said earlier when I
Speaker 1: was with Clay on radio, and it is I think
Speaker 1: that the deciding factor here is Trump and his role
Speaker 1: as commander in chief and what he does. I do
Speaker 1: not think the Iranian people on their own will be
Speaker 1: able to topple this regime. I could be wrong. I
Speaker 1: hope I'm wrong, but I don't think that's the case.
Speaker 1: I think that it will require assistance from the United States.
Speaker 1: You know, we got assistance in our revolution against King
Speaker 1: George from the French, pretty substantial assistance.
Speaker 2: We don't need that much, I think in this case.
Speaker 2: But we don't need to do that much.
Speaker 1: But there does need to be there has to be
Speaker 1: something that helps with this final show. There has to
Speaker 1: be some ability to call upon outside resources and help,
Speaker 1: just because the people of Tehran and around the country
Speaker 1: are quite literally outgunned. And it's another reason why the
Speaker 1: way second Amendment we need it. You always have to
Speaker 1: have the ability as a populist to fight back against
Speaker 1: the tyrannical government. Otherwise you went up in a situation
Speaker 1: like this where the government can be fully tyrannical and
Speaker 1: execute people and go into their homes and take them
Speaker 1: from their family members and torture them and do horrible things,
Speaker 1: and you're largely helpless. You're largely helpless. So you have
Speaker 1: these protests going on in the streets. I do wish
Speaker 1: that you had an arm populace, you don't. I do
Speaker 1: wish that you had a better likelihood of success for
Speaker 1: the Iranian people to do this on their own, But
Speaker 1: I think it's very, very unlikely. So it's really going
Speaker 1: to come down to what President Trump thinks, what President
Speaker 1: Trump decides here. There are reports that there have been
Speaker 1: evacuations of US service members, members of our military from Cutter,
Speaker 1: from the airbase there, and this is at least a
Speaker 1: precaution in case of a major strike by the United States,
Speaker 1: because what is Iran likely to do fire off a
Speaker 1: bunch of missiles in retaliation out People have worried about this,
Speaker 1: but you know, they said that about that. You know,
Speaker 1: Trump was very clear too. Trump said, these are the
Speaker 1: claims they made about the nuclear program and it turned
Speaker 1: out not to be true, meaning that we struck their
Speaker 1: nuclear sites and they did not rain down holy hell
Speaker 1: fire upon us.
Speaker 2: They were not able to.
Speaker 1: Take out massive US military infrastructure or cause severe casualties
Speaker 1: for US, So why would they be able to do
Speaker 1: that this time?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: The argument would be that this is the survival of
Speaker 1: the Iranian regime at stake, and so they will lash
Speaker 1: out in ways far beyond what we have seen thus far. Maybe,
Speaker 1: But keep in mind, if we, let's say, strike some
Speaker 1: strategic targets inside of Iran and just provide further support,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things we can do. Some of
Speaker 1: it we would be talking about publicly. Some of it
Speaker 1: would be of the covert variety. But if we did
Speaker 1: do that kind of stuff, if we did take those
Speaker 1: kinds of actions, the Iranians responding by trying to blow
Speaker 1: up a lot of Americans, we have a much bigger,
Speaker 1: better military than they do.
Speaker 2: We know where they are.
Speaker 1: We can own the sky in a matter of hours
Speaker 1: over Iran if we want to. The Israelis are certainly
Speaker 1: certainly willing to help out with whatever we are going
Speaker 1: to need in terms of intelligence, air strikes, whatever it is.
Speaker 2: So what exactly is the is the fear.
Speaker 1: I understand the fear of the concern again spoke with
Speaker 1: us on radio that we don't want to be in
Speaker 1: a nation building exercise. I don't even think that's part
Speaker 1: of the part of the conversation here. In fact, I
Speaker 1: think that the Iranian regime is so ugly and so
Speaker 1: vile and so evil that the notion of something worse
Speaker 1: taking over is it's hard to fathom. I think somebody
Speaker 1: within that existing mellocracy taking over. If you know, the
Speaker 1: head of the IRGC currently or someone like that, who's
Speaker 1: already a part of this thing, steps up and becomes
Speaker 1: the day factor, well yeah, then it's just a perpetuation
Speaker 1: of what we've already had. But if you truly have
Speaker 1: a new regime, new power players, new people making decisions
Speaker 1: in Iran, I don't see how it could be worse
Speaker 1: really than what we have had up to this point.
Speaker 1: I just don't think that's a realistic. Of course, it could.
Speaker 1: Something can always be worse. I don't think that's a
Speaker 1: realistic concern. So I wouldn't put that. I wouldn't waive
Speaker 1: at against the benefits of trying to help these Remember
Speaker 1: these protesters, really they're not just protesters, I mean they
Speaker 1: they are calling for the end of the Iranian regime,
Speaker 1: which they should. And this is not the first time
Speaker 1: this has happened. Back in two thousand and nine, the
Speaker 1: Green Revolution and the Obama administration did nothing.
Speaker 2: Was completely useless and.
Speaker 1: Not a surprise, but they were really, if anything, I think,
Speaker 1: unhelpful because the Iranian people would have expected more.
Speaker 2: But Obama was president.
Speaker 1: Well Trump is president this time around, and that could
Speaker 1: mean things are very very different in the end. Remember
Speaker 1: how many years have we been talking about the nuclear
Speaker 1: facilities and are we going to strike them? Should we
Speaker 1: strike them? Is isually going to strike them? Trump did it.
Speaker 1: I was in the Oval Office with the President the
Speaker 1: day he did it. As it turned out, so it
Speaker 1: was clay. It's a very historic day. And the Irunian
Speaker 1: response was essentially nothing. So they had been working for
Speaker 1: all these years, all these decades toward a nuclear capability.
Speaker 1: It was blown up and by mostly by the Israelis,
Speaker 1: but we also came in to finish it off with
Speaker 1: the Bunker Buster, and the Iranians really didn't do anything
Speaker 1: in response. I don't think we should overestimate or you
Speaker 1: never want to underestimate your opponent, sure, but we also
Speaker 1: shouldn't overestimate your opponents. Score I think there's very little
Speaker 1: that Iran could do. Now, could they activate some Hesibala,
Speaker 1: sell some IRGC KULDS force unit somewhere and have them,
Speaker 1: you know, kill a bunch of innocent people. Yeah, of
Speaker 1: course that's always a risk, but really any country could
Speaker 1: do that if they chose to do that, and if
Speaker 1: we trace that back to Iran, I mean, now we're
Speaker 1: just going to go on a hunting expedition.
Speaker 2: And blow up all of the leadership of the.
Speaker 1: Iranian regime in their homes and in their buildings and
Speaker 1: their fortresses, whatever they've got. If they do something like that,
Speaker 1: we're just going to treat them like al Qaeda. So again,
Speaker 1: is that the direction they want to go in? I
Speaker 1: think it's very very unlikely. So my sense here is
Speaker 1: that Trump is going to do something, and do something
Speaker 1: pretty definitive or pretty substantial. I should say definitive is
Speaker 1: a tougher one, but pretty substantial, and it's going to
Speaker 1: come very soon.
Speaker 2: But I don't know exactly. I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: Anyone knows exactly than the President himself, because it's still
Speaker 1: in the air, it's still being decided. But just think
Speaker 1: about the chance here that the dictator of Venezuela could
Speaker 1: be taken out and within weeks the molocracy of Iran,
Speaker 1: which has been a complete nightmare for American foreign policy,
Speaker 1: a thorn in our side, an adversary in the Middle East,
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Speaker 1: I hope when you listen to this, we'll already have
Speaker 1: an answer to what the actions are under way that
Speaker 1: Trump has taken.
Speaker 2: Maybe not, but we certainly live in.
Speaker 1: Interesting times and I am hoping and praying for the
Speaker 1: Iranian people. They deserve a better life than what they've
Speaker 1: been given by the Islamo fascist maniacs who have been
Speaker 1: running their country for decades and ruining a historically great
Speaker 1: and proud people. The Persian people, the Kourds who live
Speaker 1: in or on there's many different groups, these Ais, there's
Speaker 1: all these different but in that region, the Persians are
Speaker 1: the ones that people mostly think of and Farsie speaking
Speaker 1: Farsie speaking Iranians, and they deserve something better than what
Speaker 1: they have, and I sincerely hope that they're able to
Speaker 1: get it, and that would be a sight of true
Speaker 1: joy and it would be exhilarating, I think. And of
Speaker 1: course our media doesn't want it to happen because Trump
Speaker 1: would get credit for it, so they're hoping that it
Speaker 1: doesn't happen. All the Democrat aligned media, all the people
Speaker 1: who want Gavin Newsom or whomever to be the next president,
Speaker 1: they are rooting against this, which is grotesque and pathetic
Speaker 1: but true. We're rooting for the Iranian people, whether Trump
Speaker 1: does something or not.
Speaker 2: I hope that the Mullas fall shields high