Is the Iran War ACTUALLY Over? w/ Professor Jiang: LIVE 6 pm PST

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You are waiting for my death, like white stone, carry my, raise up the horn, and hear me roar. loses war. Correct. Got it. So just to clarify. Okay. So my thinking back then was that in 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. And this changed the geopolitical map because Ukraine and Russia together controlled about a third of the world's carbohydrates. And if Putin were allowed to consolidate his gains in Ukraine, this would put tremendous pressure on global trade. And so there's a very famous theory called McKenna thesis, McKenna -Hartland thesis. And this is what governs Anglo -American grand strategy in the world. So both Britain and America are primarily naval powers that control maritime choke points around the world. Now, there's only one counter to naval supremacy, and that is to control the world. And that is to control the world. And that is to create something called the Eurasian Heartland, which is that one power would emerge

to unify Europe and Asia and create intercontinental trade, which would negate Britain and America's control over the seas. So there was always fear that either Russia or Germany or the Ottoman Empire would arise. And so for the past 400 years, Anglo -American foreign policy has been to destabilize the Eurasian continent, primarily through the Middle East. And so if Russia were to control Ukraine, then what Russia could do is work with Iran and China to create a Eurasian heartland, a trade bloc called BRICS, right? And so America would need to destabilize this alliance. And the best way to do that is to attack Iran, primarily because Iran doesn't have nuclear weapons. And also they can use their proxies, which is Israel. In order to destabilize the region. So that's, that was my basic thinking. But then I asked myself, okay, well, are there historical precedents for this, where an empire goes and attacks a nation unprovoked for no particular reason?

Well, historically, there have been lots of examples. The most famous example is during the Peloponnesian War, Athens attacks Sicily, for no particular reason. And, and then but if you look at these historical examples, what happens is you recognize that when you do that, when an empire goes and attacks a foreign land, for no particular reason, the empire ends up losing this war. It doesn't mean that Sicily or Iran will win the war, but it means that the empire will lose the war. And the reason why is that the empire is overextended. It's over leverage. And it doesn't really have the political will to win the war. So just by studying some historical patterns, I came to the conclusion that America will probably lose this war, meaning that it will be forced to retreat from the Middle East.

Yeah, and I mean, I've talked about that a ton on my show as well. I call this a no one's winning war, right? Everybody loses is kind of the way I'm looking at it. The United States is losing. I don't think Iran's really winning. I mean, but they kind of don't have to, I guess we'll talk about that. And then really, the rest of the world, for the most part is losing, maybe not China, and maybe not Russia. But we'll talk a little bit more about that. But yeah, it feels like to your point, that's, that's an even more impressive prediction. Of understanding that Iran doesn't necessarily win, but they also don't have to win. The United States just has to lose. And so that kind of brings us to where we're at currently. So currently, the United States is kind of got its, you know, its thing caught in a bear trap, it feels like we doesn't feel like we have a way out.

But we also feels like we don't have a way through currently. So you know what I mean? The way through is a protracted, invasion, massive regime change, hundreds of 1000s of US soldiers probably die. But the way out doesn't seem like it's really maybe there is maybe we could talk about maybe the way you see the war moving forward from its current state, if the United States even has a way out. But currently, what we're looking at is a little bit of a pause, sort of, but it sounds like you know, talks are falling through Iran just said, today, and I'll put kind of pull these things up as we go. Iran's state media came out and said today that is not true. What Donald Trump said they have no interest, and they're not willing to give up any of their uranium. And they also are announcing they're potentially reclosing the straight because Israel bombed Lebanon today after the new ceasefire.

So what's what's your feelings about the current state of the conflict? As of today?

Well, I'm getting whiplash just from Yeah, right, because every hour, are the news changes. It's either we're going to have peace tomorrow or they're going to send in ground troops tomorrow. So it's very confusing, and there's a lot of conflicting signals coming from the Trump White House. So for me, one big question I try to do is look at why this is happening. Because before the ceasefire, it seemed as though that the Americans and the Iranians were committed to total war. Trump himself said that he wanted to bomb the Iranians back to the Stone Age. And then he gave the Iranians a few ultimatums. The last ultimatum was for Tuesday. And then when Tuesday, when the deadline came, he said that, okay, we're going to surrender to the Iranians. We're going to agree to the Iranian 10 -point plan, and we're going to have negotiations in Pakistan. And then when the negotiations happened in Pakistan, G.D.

Vance went and said, basically, when you have to go to the Iranians, you have to go to the Iranians. You have to do whatever we tell you, or we will start bombing you again. So this is all very confusing. And so I want to propose a theory to you as to why this is happening. And you're going to know a lot more about this than I do, okay? But I think, like, why this war has turned a radical turn, why peace negotiations have started in the first place, is something that happened two weekends ago that the news media is covering up, that Trump is desperately trying to cover up, which is two weekends ago. Remember, this was the... This was the successful pilot rescue, right? Right. This F -15 got shot down near Esafan, and one pilot was rescued, but the other pilot, the weapons operator, he climbed to a mountain ridge, and then he was extracted successfully by a special forces operation, okay?

So that's what was reported to us by the Trump White House. But what people are suspecting is, because a lot of this story doesn't really make sense, what people suspect is... That this was actually a failed uranium heist. A special forces operation was sent in to Esafan to try to extract the uranium from that facility. I don't know why they would do something like that, and I don't actually know the specifics, but it would explain a lot. For example, why was that two C -30s... Sorry, two C -130s were destroyed. And then why is it that the pilots... We have absolutely no idea who they are. And why have not they talked to news media so far? Because if you go back to 2003, during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Jessica Lynch was captured by the Iraqis. True. That was a big cover -up. And that was a big, big news story, and she was paraded in America.

So this is very strange, okay? But what the Iranians are saying, and this is being reported by the Chinese news media, and so I know this for the Chinese news. What the Iranians are saying is they have 50 Delta Force operators as hostages. The operation failed. They captured 50 Delta Force operators, and now they're holding them as hostages. And if that were the case, this would explain a lot about Trump's behavior, where now he's desperate to make a deal as soon as possible, because I think if this were to come out, if the American people were to know that... that the Iranians have 50 hostages, this is a replay of that 1979 Tehran hostage situation, you know, where the students overran the U.S. Embassy and held U.S. Embassy staff as hostages. And remember that that incident sunk the Carter presidency. That is what allowed Reagan to defeat Carter in 1980.

So this represents a huge domestic political crisis for Trump. But that is one possible theory. To explain why things are happening the way they are. So what is your take on the situation?

Yeah, you're not going to like it. Yeah, I don't believe that story at all. And I'll walk you through why. I think a lot of it is misunderstanding one around how the 123rd STS pararescue actually operates. The story that the official narrative, I guess you could call it, is actually completely normal for how you act pararescue, how they actually operate. And so... I did a video on this and the pictures are actually very important to understand. Let me see if I can pull up the... Was it this? Yeah, let me pull this video up and actually show you in the audience some pictures here for people who actually... The 23rd STS, let me show you. So a lot of people... I'll talk about it and then I'll show the pictures of how this actually works to where you're going to see that it actually is not that crazy of a story. So understanding... Here's why I have a big problem with that story, okay?

What that story... It sounds awesome. First of all, I'll tell you I've trained to clear underground nuclear bunkers back in 20... Was it 2018 when the North Korea... Potential North Korea war with the United States was kicking off. First Special Forces Group, which I was in, was the lead planners for that. And we had to actually sort of plan for a lot of those types of things, trying to get into underground nuclear facilities and things like that. I can tell you it's a massive undertaking that would have taken... In far more assets than we saw deployed, first of all. But really what you have is you have two competing stories here. The first competing story is the narrative you're just talking about, which it is kind of an interesting thought. And I could see maybe the United States go for it. The problem is, is the real story is actually more of a knock on Donald Trump than the uranium story.

Because the uranium story suggests, and I saw a lot of different versions of this, that Delta Force, Army Special Forces went in. Tried to do this big uranium heist. And maybe there's hostages taken. I've also heard 1,500 Iranian soldiers were killed. There's a thousand different stories on this. The idea that 50 Delta Force operators are held hostage. I've got friends, active duty friends in Delta Force that I've talked to. That's not a thing. Unless they're covering it up too. But from the guys in Delta Force that I know, nobody has said a word about that at all. So that's a little bit hard to believe. But really what we... We talked about the official story. The official story is really important for people to understand and not overlook. And that is that the United States carried out the biggest bombing campaign of the war.

Bombing civilian infrastructure, bridges, all sorts of different power infrastructure and things like that, which is all war crimes. So what really, what in my opinion happened, looking at all of it, the United States committed a bunch of war crimes. Got a pilot shot down while committing those war crimes. And then the rescue operation. The rescue operation, which what happened, the 123rd STS goes in and they get what they have A -10 aircraft. These are close air support aircraft that are naturally part of rescue operations that are guarding the 123rd STS that go in. Two of those were shot down. The government still hasn't admitted to one of those being shot down. I actually posted about or I've made a video about that before it even technically happened. That's not to say how I knew that. And then we got a UH -60 shot down. Then what happens is... You do have that pilot, the weapons systems operator.

The first pilot gets recovered. The A -10 pilot gets shot down and gets recovered. The weapons operator, everybody thinks it's this crazy story because he was so far away from the other pilot. Well, understanding those pilots do not eject at the same time. The first pilot or the, excuse me, the second pilot ejects first, the rear pilot, because if he, if the front pilot were to eject first because they're like this, he ejects here, he would smash into that back pilot and kill him. So there's a. Separation when they eject and then also they're under parachute also that fighter jet is moving at potentially, you know, 1500 miles per hour. So you can get, you know, tens to 50 plus miles of separation between these pilots, between the aircraft, because they're also coming at elevation under a parachute winds at elevation or hundreds of miles an hour. That

parachute, I mean, I was on a military free fall team where we do military skydiving jumps from distances of 20,000 feet and above. And I mean, you can fly the distances you can cover. So there's potential that those pilots aren't going to be close to each other. But the big tell here is where everybody thinks there's no way this is what a rescue operation would look like because we lost two MC one thirties and then four little bird helicopters. Everybody thought there's no way you would use all that for a rescue operation. That's not actually true because the one 23rd STS literally does this to get into areas they wouldn't be able to get into. Otherwise, let me pull this up. So everybody them actually training to do this. So they'd actually do this. What they'll do is they'll take MC one thirties. They'll put two little bird helicopters inside of the MC one thirty.

That's because these helicopters can't hold that much fuel. So if they need to fly from Iraq all the way to outside Tehran, for example, the helicopter won't make it there. But you can put them on these big MC one thirties and as you can see here, they wheel them off. They set them up. They put. the blades on and off they go the reason why they do this is now those 123rd sts operators plus delta force or it was we believe dev grew which is seal team six that actually assisted them they can then take those little bird helicopters get up into the mountains get onto terrain and they can actually go and rescue that pilot wherever he may be now what happened was whoops jason and this is again the rescue operation here was botched it was a terrible plan jsoc this up when they did it and they sent in the two

mc -130s with the four little birds plus the air force pair rescue plus the dev group operators where they landed they thought was going to be a um a runway that was a typical aircraft runway what it turned out is a bunch of moon dust so if you're in the middle east or been in the middle east you can get huge moon dust you know that sits they land those aircraft and they realize they're not going to be able to do that they're going to be able to do that they're going to be able to do that they're going to be able to do that they can't take those aircraft back off so what they got to do they download the helicopters they actually go retrieve the pilot come back and because the aircraft are stuck they can't get the helicopters back on they had to have two uh casa south like cessna aircraft fly

in to actually get all these pot to get the pilot and get everybody else out and then what they couldn't do is leave all these american aircraft they're only about two and a half miles outside of the city center with two million people where they had to just uh destroy the aircraft blow up the aircraft because they're not going to leave it back cuz they're just in control of the plane they're just going to just leave it on the ground and they're just going to go get all these optical satellites with the other type of to that other area and they're going to destroy the aircraft with those satellites so they're going to die and they're going to be hard to record you know it's going to be a long blast and they're going to be in a big mess so it's like the troops are going to be in power you know that's the

only option so let's start with the third one we said before so that's it absolutely one is the data monitor you can actually do data monitoring and you can do data tracking uh of the data and data tracking and of course data monitoring but again that's the first one so let's go back to going to try to take down uranium to me when as someone who knows how special operations works and knows how all these things are done it's not that ridiculous of a story it's kind of a it's not even that impressive of a story if you go back to like mac v sog and vietnam and look at their pararescue operations those are a thousand times crazier and more impressive so anyway for me i don't believe that narrative at all just because i just think it's a little bit of um one it lets donald trump off and pete hegseth off the

hook for committing a bunch of war crimes against iran and uh two if there was 50 delta force operators kidnapped people in my community would hear about it you wouldn't be able to keep that keep that completely quiet and also iran would not keep that a secret iran would use that as massive massive leverage against the united states in that big pr propaganda campaign so anyway okay a little bit a little bit long -winded there but just so for you i mean if so you have some context of you know how we're sort of looking at it

and in the special operations realm right well well that's fantastic and that clarifies the situation for me so this leads to another speculation and the speculation actually much much worse which is that donald trump is almost intentionally trying to lose his war against iran it does feel that way and the reason why okay so so so so let's um let let me explain my logic here and feel free to interrupt me uh to clarify oh you're good or or to ask that okay all right let me explain my logic here and feel free to interrupt me uh to clarify oh you're good or to ask that okay all right so donald trump has always had issues with the current global economy where um the two major pillars of the global economy are the gcc which provides cheap energy to the world and china which provides manufacturing to the world these are the two major pillars

of the current global economy and donald trump thinks that for the longest time he thinks that america is a sucker in this relationship because it's american consumer who goes into too much debt in order to finance the gcc in order to finance the gcc and china so he's tried uh throughout his presidency to try to change this relationship mainly by imposing tariffs on the world right but the supreme court told him you can't do that that's the authority of congress you don't have the authority as president states to impose tariffs on the world so then you look at what's been happening these past few months you know first uh journey third delta force goes into venezuela and kidnaps maduro uh you have one -third of america's naval assets but the second third is uh in the northern part of the caribbean to enforce something called the trump corollary to the monod doctrine or the darnwell

doctrine right and now and now you have this um war in the middle east but not only that but if i'm not sure if you've been following this very closely but these past 45 days there's been 45 fires in oil refineries around the world the most prominent being uh in geelong australia and australia is really suffering uh because of this right? They're basically run out of jet diesel. So this attack or this accident, we don't know fully yet what actually happened in Australia. It's a major setback for Australia. And so if we just speculate as to why this is happening, well, ultimately, it's the United States who benefits from all this because the GCC is destroyed in this war. If the Middle East can no longer export oil, the entire world becomes dependent on North America and Venezuela for oil. So remember that after Trump's victory in Venezuela, he convened in the White House a meeting of oil executives.

And basically, Trump said, listen, we now have the world's largest oil reserves. Go in and exploit it. Let's make America great again. And the oil executives were basically like, well, this would cost us five years and $20 billion. Half a trillion dollars for the infrastructure. Yeah. We're not going to do that. We're not going to do that. We're not going to do that. this man but now if the entire world is destroyed if the world's not getting oil they're not incentivized to go into venezuela and um you know drill baby drill so so basically what what what's going to happen is that if this war continues basically the world enters famine um that the world runs out of energy and the world becomes entirely dependent on greater north america for um energy and fertilizer and this would make america great again because america would switch from uh an economy focus on

finance to economy focus on manufacturing and resource development um and so this almost goes back to america in 1930s 1940s when the world was at war but america was safe because it was secluded in a continental fortress and it could supply resources to to the world became very wealthy because of this um so if you just look at what what what nations trump has been threatening in north america right there greenland there are canada mexico colombia and the u.s. and the u.s. and the u.s. and the u.s. and the u.s. and the colombia uh venezuela cuba nicaragua honduras you add them all up and what you get is something called great north america or the technate uh which is a continental fortress that is completely self -sufficient and which can provide resources to the rest of the rest of the world so this may be the grand plan all along

to destroy the middle east um and make the world dependent on north

american energy so i actually had this conversation with a buddy to where i do think i do think you know i have a theory where that could 10 15 years from now actually put america in a place of absolute dominance it would have to be done correctly but what you pointed out there i think is a big linchpin is that it and that is that american oil conglomerates have no interest in investing in the infrastructure to do this because it's all done up in canada they already have it why why spend a trillion dollars investing in this when we don't really need to and so well i think the big problem with that theory is understanding oil as a global commodity and the idea is that it's not a global commodity it's a global commodity and it's a global commodity okay, if you destroy the Middle East and you shut down 35 % of the world's oil, that's fine.

And now all the world comes to the United States. Well, one, we don't have the capacity to pump that much oil, nor do we have the ability to refine the oil correctly. And so really what you now have is to have a system of, okay, you destroyed 35 % of the world's oil production, but the United States can't make up that 35 % and your basic global oil supply and demand, right? The quantity gets reduced all the way down to, let's say, 70 % of what it was. Okay, this is awesome for America oil, like Chevron, Exxon, and Mobil. They're really non -incentivized for this now because why now oil prices are $150 a barrel and they're selling to everybody. And so what you have here is Asia, Australia, Korea, Japan, all of our allies who have to run the United States because they can't get the oil. They're getting 90

% of their oil out of the Strait of Hormuz. That's great, but that's just entered all of that. into the American oil market. So now American consumers are competing with all of Asia for access to that oil. And if you're Chevron, Exxon, and Mobil, now you can sell that oil to our Asian allies for double the cost. So you're really not incentivized to actually jack that production up because you're making money hand over fist. So my big problem with, if that's, I do think, what your theory is there, if it was done correctly, it could lead to massive American dominance around the world. And so I think that's a big problem. But I don't believe that the, because of the things I just mentioned, that the political establishment, the billionaires, the tech conglomerates, the oil conglomerates, I don't see why they would have any incentive to want to foot that bill, to want to build all that capacity out when they can, again, they're just getting massively enriched right now.

So that's my big problem, I think, with Donald Trump playing the 7D chess there is that I don't see that happening. I just see it causing a global oil crisis and a famine, like you said, because it's not going to have the capacity to make up for it. I don't know your thoughts on that.

All right. So let's game theory this and say, okay, you're right in that XR Mobile, Chevron, they don't want to do this. It's too much of a long -term investment for them. They're not incentivized to do this. But let's just say Trump goes to China in mid -May. And I think President Xi and Donald Trump will meet four times this year. And let's just say they come to an arrangement where it's not the Americans who are developing the infrastructure in Venezuela. It's the Chinese who are doing this, because it's the Chinese who are desperate for the energy.

In America? Like the refineries? Okay.

Venezuela, right? So the Americans aren't going to go to Venezuela to develop that infrastructure. The Chinese will, because the Chinese have been doing this in Venezuela anyway, as well as Africa. So the Chinese have tens of billion dollars invested in Venezuela anyway. They have the expertise. They have the political will. They have the resources, the manpower to go do this, because we have to assume that if this were to happen, then this would require tremendous manpower. So is that a possibility, do you think?

Well, yeah, I could see that. But you can't have China and the United States sort of be massive adversaries at that point. I mean, the hard thing is our economies are already so intertwined that the idea that we would ever go to war with China is a non -sequitur to begin with. But yeah, I guess I never thought about that. With China being as invested as it is in Venezuela already. But that would be a massive shift in the optics of that and politics. If Donald Trump were to pitch that, we're going to ally with China, and they're going to build the refinery infrastructure in Venezuela, and we're going to take all the oil. I guess anything's possible, but I just could not see American American politics signing off on that right because it would massively well it'd be great for the United States but it'd also be great for China and that's that's one

of those things where we're like well you know do we want to bite off our our nose to spite our face um interesting

interesting theory not something I thought about before so so something I will mention is look at this Iranian this peace negotiations between Iran and the United States right they're happening in Pakistan so let's think about why this is happening because the United States have been asking for these negotiations for a long time because they because like you know for these past seven eight weeks the war's not going well Iran has always been like no why would we negotiate with you because you guys are dishonest you're going to send Jared Kushner and Steve Woodcock and screw us over again what's the point of negotiating with you guys right so the question then is why would Iran agree to go to Pakistan and risk you know getting bombed by the Israelis or another stick attack by the Americans and if you look at the reporting it seems like China is playing a major role behind the scenes

Pakistan is the front man they're the ones organizing uh the peace negotiations right but it's China that's pulling strings behind the scenes remember China is Iran's largest customer so if China is like you have to negotiate a peace treaty then Iran has no choice in the matter and why would China want a peace treaty because China is really suffering from this war because China receives fifty to six percent of its energy needs from the Middle East not just from Iran but also from Saudi Arabia and Qatar so Qatar and Saudi Arabia has been applying pressure on China to say you know what we're gonna destroy it out here and if this war goes sideways you're the big loser in this war because you you're you know you lose half of your energy and China has these AI ambitions it's trying to build up as a technological state and so it needs all this energy from

wherever it can uh Venezuela Russia and Iran provides a third of China's energy needs and because of America's naval blockades a lot of this energy uh has gone offline right so if you're China and you're you're thinking about like you know what what I do because United States can impose a naval blockade on me and if this war in the Middle East continues for too long then all my strategic reserves go like gets depleted right so China's in a really bad situation so that's why I think China is the one pushing for a ceasefire uh uh talk and and try it's China that's really trying to um come to an agreement as soon as possible they want this

war to end as soon as possible yeah I agree I actually uh I actually thought that when when we were starting to talk about how do we get peace negotiations on the table I I started talking about well you got to have somebody like China be an intermediate intermediary here because there's no way the United States and any Iran will talk to anybody talk to each other it's much like Ukraine and Russia right like why is the United States the one that's always trying to negotiate between the well yeah you need that third intermediary because those two countries at war and they hate each other right now and there's no way to your point and to me yeah I think I think it makes a hundred percent 100 sense that China is the one that's sort of forcing and leading those negotiations and they they kind of make sense as being the country that would

do it being being allied with Iran but also not being you know necessarily at war or total enemies with the United States here's a question for you though China definitely is everybody's being hurt by the war right American consumers at the gas station are being hurt by the war however there are certain countries that are being hurt worse than others and I would argue that China to your point is not being hurt as bad as our Asian allies if you look at Japan if you look at Korea I mean Japan China may have 50 of its oil and energy that's coming out of the Strait of Hormuz Japan has 95 percent right Philippines Indonesia Korea uh Taiwan um Australia these are all countries that are almost solely dependent on oil coming out of the Strait of Hormuz or Mandov uh and so for me it kind of feels like if you're China and you're looking

at this situation you're China and Russia you're bricks if you can continue to keep Iran afloat and keep this going and continue to punish allies the United States allies in Asia you almost start to force them to sort of capitulate like we saw India start to do and say hey you know what we can't get any more oil out of the Strait of Hormuz right now but we can get it if we buy it in Chinese Yuan right and so maybe we start to see an actual long -term attack on the U.S. petrodollar by using this war if you're China and Russia it almost feels like you depending on who's getting like who's getting to your point everybody's losing who's losing the worst and it feels like China is probably not the ones losing the worst comparative to like Japan Japan is basically working off all strategic or oil reserves right now and at

some point our allies have to look at the United States and go hey you got to provide the oil right now Japan has to make sure that the which you can't do at this point, you know, not at the levels that is currently coming out of the Middle East, or we got to turn to China. And, you know, I think I was going to ask you about this. We just saw Taiwan, the opposition opposition leader in Taiwan meeting with Xi Jinping for the first time in 10 years. If you're Taiwan and you go, hey, we can't get any oil in the United States isn't really a good ally anymore. Maybe we got to hedge our bets and maybe reunification is something we want to consider. What's your thoughts on sort of us, this war driving our Asian allies potentially towards relationships with China and away from us?

I think you're absolutely right. I think like it is actually Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Thailand. These countries are really suffering a lot more than China. So I'm based in Beijing. And I can tell you that this war hasn't really impacted us much. As say in Thailand, where they're forced to fuel ration, they're forced to work from home, they're running out of gas. So the Philippines has declared a state of emergency. So these other nations are really suffering. And I'm based in Beijing, I haven't really felt the pressure, like maybe airplane tickets have gone up in price. But you know, that's a big deal for a lot of people. So you're right in that China can probably sustain this war. A lot longer. The problem is that if you think midterm or long term, China is still in a world of hurt. Right. So Sergey Lavrov, the foreign minister of Russia has just visited

Beijing and China and Russia have signed an agreement where Russia will supply more energy to China. Okay. And that's fine. Okay. But there's certain problems with this agreement. First of all, I mean, the... China's energy needs are so insatiable that Russia by itself cannot supply all its needs. That's the first problem. Second problem is that it's still going to take time for Russia to build capacity, right? So this trans -Siberian pipeline, it's been about five to 10 years before it comes online. So if China waits 10 years, yeah, it'll be fine. But it has to wait five to 10 years, and that's going to be a huge problem for the Chinese economy. And the third problem is, okay, if you are a Chinese geopolitical strategist, if you're working in Beijing, and you're like, okay, well, before we were reliant on a diversity of sources for energy needs, including Venezuela, the Middle East, Russia, even the Western Hemisphere.

And now we're completely reliant on Russia, completely reliant on Russia. Is that a good thing for us in the long term, given our history of Russia, given the fact that we share a border with Russia, and given the fact that Russia has always been militaristic, aggressive, and expansionist? I mean, is this really a situation we want to be in, in the long term, where we are just completely reliant on Russian energy, so they can set prices, they can turn off the tap whenever they want? I mean, is this a really good situation for us? Right?

That's a great point. Yeah. The long term, if you look at it, that's why I said, hey, potentially the United States, 10, 15 years, if you actually do this as an actual strategy, and you do this, you're going to be able to do a lot of things. You're going to be able to do a lot of the correct things to do it, right? First, I have to actually secure Venezuela's oil. That's still a little... I know we're working now with... Keep in mind, the Maduro regime is still in power. I think a lot of people forget the fact that when you change a leader, that doesn't mean you change the regime. It does seem like the vice president, who's now the president, is more apt towards working with the United States and getting involved with us economically. So there's that. But yeah, I didn't think about the fact that if you cut off Venezuela, you

cut off the Middle East, China can diversify a little bit to Russia, but Russia can't supply all of China's oil to begin with. So I mean, even if they wanted to, it would kind of be like the United States just turning it on and supplying the rest of the Asian world right now. We wouldn't be able to do that without ramping that production and everything up too. Now, I also wanted to ask, you had three major visions for the way forward in the world. I just watched some of that. A little bit earlier. Do you want to explain what those are, the current state of the world, I guess, where it could be headed? Or that not you had necessarily, but there's three major visions for that.

Right. So I see in the next 10, 20 years, three major nations trying to dominate the world and achieve their own vision for the world. And these three nations are America, Russia, and Israel. China has one vision for the world.

I thought you were gonna say, China for sure.

Right? Well, well, China is the Middle Kingdom, as you know. The Middle Kingdom sees itself as the universe onto itself and does it really want to deal with the rest of the world. That's why it built on the red wall. So China doesn't really have a global vision, it has a vision for itself. But doesn't really have a global vision. and if you look at Chinese history in times of major international tumult, what China often does is turtle up. Basically, it It basically retreats into its borders and closes off naval trade. Okay, so these three nations are America, Russia, and Israel. America wants to achieve something called the Greater North America. And this was first proposed in the early 20th century, something called a technate. And the idea of the technate is that democracy is inherently flawed because it leads ultimately to political polarization. Once you have political polarization in place, it's impossible for the government to work properly.

I mean, we're kind of looking at that in America right now.

Right. And so what's the solution to this? And the idea is rule by technocrats, rule by engineers who use data, statistics, artificial intelligence in order to develop policies that benefit the people. Okay, that's the first plank. The second plank is to expand America to a point where it becomes entirely self -sufficient. And you do that by annexing Canada, Mexico, right? Canada for its resources, Mexico for its labor. But then you also need to defend yourself. And you do that by taking over Greenland and then blocking off access to North America. You also do that by taking over Colombia and Venezuela. Okay, so that's the idea of the technate. And this is something that's interesting because one of the early proponents of the technate is Elon Musk's grandfather. And Elon Musk... Yeah. Interesting. Yep, very, very interesting. And if you just see what's been happening these past few months, right? So Peter Hegstaff in a press conference said that he sees greater North America.

He actually used the phrase greater North America as a defense perimeter for the United States. So that's the first point. Second point is if you look at the National Security Strategy, which came out a few months ago, it actually calls for America to exert greater control over the Western Hemisphere. Basically see the Western Hemisphere as America. It's America's territory. And then you see this push towards AI data centers. And you ask yourself, why are they investing so much in AI data centers when they actually don't produce any profit? Right, yeah. So you can make the argument like America is slowly moving towards the vision of the technate. That's the first major vision. Do you have any questions about the technate before I move on to the second one?

No, I mean, it's basically... The idea of decoupling globalism and turning it to regionalism, sort of, but America at the head of that, right? To where, and I'll ask you some questions. I'm well aware of it, right? And also, what you're looking at in the United States is exactly what you're explaining is exactly what's happening. We're watching it with the AI bubble and the entire stock market basically being propped up by AI and the data centers everywhere and the move into things like Palant. Everybody's worried about Palant. Palantir and things like that, surveillance type, surveillance state type, technocrat type stuff. So I think, I mean, you're looking, America is on that path right now. I don't think anybody could argue and say we're not headed that way.

Okay, so the second major vision is something called the third Rome, okay? And this is proposed by Alexander Dugan, who is basically Putin's brain. And Dugan's understanding of the world is almost like Samuel Hamilton's, sorry, Samuel Huntington's idea of the class of civilizations. And Dugan's understanding of the world is almost like Samuel Hamilton's idea of the class of civilizations. Where a civilization is the main constituent unit of the world and not the nation state. And so what he proposes is that Russia is fundamentally at odds with the West because Russia is an orthodox society that is traditionalist and family orientated. Whereas the West is the Antichrist. It's the Antichrist system. It's secular materialism. It's focused on individualism. It's focused on consumerism. It's focused on secularism, materialism. And this is all part of the Antichrist system. And so he sees this as a fundamental conflict driving geopolitics for the next 10, 20 years. And so what he proposes is an alliance between religious societies, okay?

So he sees Russia as a third Rome, right? The first Rome was Rome. The second Rome was Constantinople. The third Rome was Moscow. And the idea is there will be no fourth Rome. And so Moscow will. It will unite with the Iranians, which is Islamic. It will unite with the Islamic world. It will reconcile with the Catholic world.

That's what I was just going to ask you. Would they reconcile with Europe? Exactly.

Exactly. And they will also reconcile with Israel because Israel is also fundamentally like a extreme religious society, right? So if you're religious.

Russia is very pro. People don't realize Russia is very pro -Israel. You think about how many Russians and, you know, if you think about Ashkenazi Jews, a lot of those come from Russia. So.

Exactly. Exactly. That's right. And Putin has never really criticized Israel for what happened in Gaza, right? So. Yeah. So, yeah. So that's a vision. And so this sets up a conflict ultimately between Russia and the religious community versus the anti -Christ system, which will include. This is very important to remember, which will include America and China. Okay. So in this grand vision. Wow.

Interesting.

Yes. Because China and America. Yes. Are actually more similar than they're different in that they're both extremely materialistic societies. Secular. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah.

I wouldn't have even thought of that. Yeah. That's interesting.

Yes. Yes. Yes. Okay. Um, but, but I mean, Dugan proposed this in 1997 in his book, The Foundation of Geopolitics. And because Russia and China have become very close these past 10 years, he's changed this. But, but if you actually look at his, at his, at his initial theory, then there will eventually be a breaking off. Like, like a. Divorce between China and Russia because of their, of their worldviews, right? Because of their civilizational, like, like fundamentals. Okay. So, and, and like living in China, I can tell you, like China is not going to be a religious society. Like, like China does not believe, you know, like the world should be. Yeah. So, so yeah, that's, that's the third Rome idea. Okay. Now, last idea is the idea of Pax Judaica. Right. So you can make the argument that what's, what's happening in the Middle East. What's driving this war is Israel trying to achieve the greater Israel project.

Yeah. We talk about that a lot on the show.

Right, right. So, I mean, it doesn't make perfect sense because the GCC, the GCC is being destroyed. Turkey might be brought into this war.

Oh, for, I think that's, I think that's coming for sure. That's coming for sure. By the end of Trump's presidency.

Right, right, right. So, so, so Turkey is destroyed. The GCC is destroyed. Iran is destroyed. And America is destroyed. The only one left standing is Israel. Yeah, exactly. And then you. And then you achieve the greater Israel project. And this is important because Israel, the Levant, has historically been a pivot of global trade. So you want to access Africa, you have to go through the Levant. Right. And Africa has the youngest population in the world, which means that it will be probably the most economically vibrant part of the world in the next hundred years. And they have the natural resources for it too. And they have the natural resources.

They can never, they can never get the actual systemic or the actual systems in place. You know. Get rid of the warlords and everything going on. Africa could become a massive superpower.

Exactly. Right. And Israel can control Africa and therefore creates Pax Judaica. So these are the three major visions of the world. Okay. The Techneid, North America, Third Rome, Moscow, and Pax Judaica.

Yeah. And then, then we come to the, you know, you really expand that out. And then if you have potentially all three of those going on at the same time or in some form or fashion. That actually, I think, becomes a. A setup for the future of the world that is unstable. I mean, you're going to see war everywhere if that's what happens. If we, you know, America abandons globalism, which I don't really have a whole, a huge problem with. And then goes to strict regionalism. And then that, you know, also talk about greater Israel project happening with that, with Russia doing that and their sector of the world. You could have all three of those happen. Not, not perfectly simultaneously. But all three of those things could be working at the same time. And potentially why we see all the, you know, political and foreign conflict strife that we see in the world right now.

I mean, right now we have more wars going on than there was during World War II, you know, in 2026. And so that's a little bit scary, I think, is like, that means we're not ushering to de -escalation and peace. We're ramping our way towards essentially, you know, wars all over the world. I don't see how you really, especially if you talk about oil as a, as a, you know, the lifeblood of the world. Being cut off from different countries. And it gets super chaotic. It feels like with that.

Yeah. And also we have, we have to remember that these systems are inherently unstable as well. Right? Because Israel has prevailed in the Middle East. And so once they achieve Peshmerga, we can, we can expect a lot of Israel's disease. A lot of resistance from the local peoples against Israel.

Well, and really the entire world right now. If you look at what's happening in Europe. Right? Sure. Europe has completely abandoned Israel at this point, even in America. I mean, it's, we're at an all time low support. So that becomes, how does, let me get your theory on this. The United States, very, just the, the, the people, not the political establishment. The people have become very, very anti -Israel across the board. The politicians, not at all. And so I think we've, we've got a, definitely have a time window in which Israel can achieve everything they want to achieve. Before they lose the support of the United States. Are they able to achieve, you know, greater Israel project without the United States military? I feel like they can't. I feel, or what do they, what do they have instead? If, if the United States, you know, cause this is going to take some time, maybe.

Cause you talk about it, talk about Turkey, right? I talked about this on the show. My prediction weeks ago was when Donald Trump started talking about leaving NATO, I said, he's doing that. So because, because Turkey is a NATO ally. The reason why we abandoned NATO is so that way we can start a war with Israel against NATO and we're not attacking a NATO ally. That was my prediction on, on what might happen with that. What's your thoughts on that? Do you, do you think one, potentially United States leaves NATO to attack Turkey with Israel? And two, what happens to the greater Israel project if they no longer have the United States?

Yeah. Turkey is very interesting because both Pax Judaica and the third Rome call for the dismantling of Turkey. Right. So in the third Rome prophecy. Yeah. You know, which goes, which is, which is a very important part of the Orthodox tradition. Moscow becomes a third Rome when it returns the Greeks to Byzantium, which is modern day Istanbul. Okay. So basically the idea is that at some point Russia and Turkey will go to war. And. With each other. With each other. Yes. Okay. And, and, and the reasoning is this. The reasoning is that. Turkey. Turkey, will join NATO in Ukraine. And they will do so by, by blocking off the Bosphorus, right? So basically blockading Russia into the black sea. Got it. And then Russia will, will retaliate by attacking Turkey and destroying Turkey. And then, and then allowing the Greeks to return to Byzantium, Constantinople, which is modern day Istanbul. And once, once, Russia does that then it will.

Then we will become the leader of the Orthodox world. It can reconcile the Greek and the Russian Orthodox. And then this will lead to reconciliation between the Orthodox and the Catholic. So that's what the prophecy says. So eventually, Russia and Turkey will go to war. And we know for greater Israel, Israel also wants a war with Turkey. So it seems possible that there's a secret agreement between Israel and Russia where Russia attacks from the north and Israel attacks from the south to carve up Turkey.

Oh, interesting.

So Turkey is in a very bad situation. They are an extremely corrupt, ossified system. Erdogan has been in power for a long time. And honestly, there's some people who believe that Erdogan is a very – I mean he is a spy. He is – he works for – I think there's – He works for the CIA or the Mossad, okay? So let me explain who runs modern -day Turkey. And it's called – people call it the Domei. The Domei. Have you heard of the Domei?

Mm -mm.

Okay. So in the year 1666, there was a Jewish prophet, a Jewish religious man named somebody named Zevi. And he declared himself the Messiah, right? Because the Christians believed that Jesus is the Messiah. He's come and he will return, right? But the Jews believe the Messiah. And when the Messiah comes, they will be reunited with God. And Zevi declared himself the Messiah. And a third of Jews at the time, about a million people, believed he was the Messiah. They were primarily based in Turkey, the Ottoman Empire. And so he's the Jewish equivalent of Jesus Christ. And even – and then what happened was that the sultan said to Zevi, Zevi, okay, there are a lot of Jews who follow you. And they believe you're the Messiah. But if you're the Messiah, that means you can overthrow me, the sultan. So either your head or the turban, right? The turban basically means you convert to Islam and swear fealty to me or I will cut off your head.

And Zevi said, fine, I'll cut off your – sorry, fine, I will convert. And at that time, this was traumatic for Jews. But this is a very important point. So let me explain. What people don't understand is that – that the Jewish Messiah, he's come to redeem the Jewish people, right? And then the question then is like, how do you redeem the Jewish people? Well, Jesus redeemed the people by sacrificing himself in order to atone for the original sin of disobedience, right? Yeah. Well, what's the original sin in the Jewish world? The original sin in the Jewish world is conversion, right? So you had historically – Oh, I didn't know that. Yes. Historically, you had a lot of Jews who converted into Christianity, into Islam, in order to save their lives. Yeah, it makes sense.

Yeah.

But the Jewish faith is one of blood, right? You're born into the Jewish faith. You don't convert into Jewish faith. So does that mean, like, if you are Jewish by blood, but you convert, does that mean you burn in hell for all eternity? Because that's what the Jewish faith says, right? What Zevi did was he atoned for everyone by saying, like, if I'm the Messiah and I can convert, well, so can you. Because ultimately, it doesn't matter what your faith is. What matters is your relationship with God, right? What matters is in your heart. So you can be any religion you want. It doesn't matter. That's the clothing. What matters is your soul, your connection with God, right? So that's what Zebediah the Zevi did. And there were about 300 families that converted with Zebediah the Zevi, and they were called the Dolmei, which means churn coat. Oh, well, yeah, that makes sense. And, okay, but this is – they're 1666, okay?

These 300 families were, on the surface, Islamic, but they were – they were still Jewish secretly. They practiced Judaism secretly. And over time, they accumulated a lot of power for themselves. And the reason why was that in the 19th century, Turkey entered into the Crimean War against Russia. And Turkey could not defeat Russia, so the French and the British financed the Ottoman Empire. But in return, the Ottoman Empire had to surrender financial system to the French and the British. And when the French and British took over the Ottoman system, who did they – The banking system, yeah.

Yeah. Who did they have run the banking system for them? Oh, I wonder.

The Dolmei.

The Dolmei, right? I wonder. Right? Okay. And then what happened was this. The Germans came along and said, you know what? The French and the British are screwing you over, so let us run the banking system for you. And the Ottomans were like, yeah, thank you, okay? And then this started something called the Young Turks Movement. Okay. So the French and the British, through the Dolmei, financed Ataturk and the Young Turks to overthrow the Ottoman Empire and to establish the Turkish Republic. Interesting. And guess who runs Turkey today? The Dolmei run Turkey today. Wow. Okay.

Yeah, that's a real back story.

Right? Interesting. So you can see how maybe secretly Israel and Turkey get along very, very well because the people who run both nations are the same people.

Interesting. Could you see something like what we saw in Syria with Al -Jilani, I call him, because he was the leader of Al -Qaeda and a global war on terror veteran. But what we saw with that is we actually put someone in charge who's very, very connected to Israel, who is willing to just give Israel the Golan Heights. Could you see a situation where Israel doesn't even need to go to war with Turkey because they have a system like that where you can just start taking things diplomatically? Through, you know, potentially if you've got somebody who's a Mossad agent who's in charge of the country, maybe you don't even need a war between the United States and Israel. Or, you know, I'm not sure how that goes, but I wouldn't have, I had no idea when it came to Turkey that that was actually the ruling class right now.

Yes. Yes. I think so. I mean, like, look, there are three major strengths of Israel that makes it a very formidable enemy, right? First, it has nuclear weapons. It's the only country in the Middle East that has nuclear weapons. Mm -hmm. So you can actually attack Israel because they will use deception option against you. That's number one. Number two is that it has Mossad, and we all know that Mossad is the most effective intelligence agency in the world. No doubt. And the third is they have the Jewish diaspora, right? Yeah. So there's, I mean, like, and the Jewish diaspora.

A lot of control around the world.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So that's why I think that Israel will achieve the Pact of Judaea Cup project.

As we're talking about, we were just kind of talking about, we're still talking about greater Israel. Yeah. I think it's very relevant because it's extremely relevant to what's happening today, and that is Israel and Lebanon. That's a huge linchpin in the peace to this. It's the linchpin in the peace to this. If the United States, because Iran has made it very clear that you are going to stop bombing Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, and that is part of their requirements to the peace deal. We know that. We also know Israel's got no interest in stopping that because that's the end to the greater Israel project. Right there. And if peace is reliant on Israel not at war with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, the United States basically either can leash Netanyahu or they can't. And I think we're really going to find out the power, who's in charge of things going forward. What's your thoughts on that?

Because, I mean, again, again, from what I heard today, it was an hour into the new ceasefire that Israel, you know, began bombing southern Lebanon again. And so I and if that can't get figured out, there's no peace, which means this Iran war just continues. What's your thoughts on what's going to happen between Israel, Lebanon, the United States and Iran in those negotiations? How does how does that actually pan out in the long run? One final thing before I give it to you, because we could come to a full peace agreement. Everything's worked out. The straits open. And then Israel starts bombing Lebanon and Iran immediately goes, OK, well, the straits closed again. And we just after months and months of war. We go right back to stage one with, you know, I mean, that fast we could evaporate all peace from that. What's your thoughts with that?

If I'm Netanyahu, I would continue to bomb Lebanon. OK, why? Interesting. OK, because because Lebanon is a wedge issue in Iran. Right. You have the reformers in Tehran, the political leadership, basically. You have the IRGC. And so the proxies are very important part of the IRGC. Strategy for defeating the United States. And so if if I'm Israel, basically, I want to create a situation where the political leadership in Tehran is having a major argument with the IRGC over Lebanon. Right. So basically, the United States says, we'll give you everything we'll give. Well, we'll give the short for moose. We will uranium sanctions gone. Yeah, exactly. But the proxies have to go. Right. Just that. And that's it. Right. Now it's a wedge issue. Now the conflict is not between the political leadership in Tehran and the IRGC. And you can imagine civil war breaking up over this issue.

Right. Especially, especially if the United States does the full nine other points. I mean, exactly. Basically, full, full surrender. The United States says we will surrender and give you everything you want. That's right. One condition is, is Israel is allowed to continue its war against Hezbollah, Hamas and the proxies. I could see that. I could see that being something. We eventually got. I don't know if Donald Trump. I think the problem might be Donald Trump. Can can he politically. I think I think it makes sense. But can he politically come out to his base and say that, hey, we gave up. We gave Iran everything they want. But at least Israel gets what they want. Americans are not. I mean, across the board, Americans will go. What what is this? You know, so.

But go on with your point. So I think that Yahoo and Trump are a lot more politically savvy. Then people give them credit for. I mean, like Trump has been able to pull off so much crap. These. That's true. You feel weird. Can you imagine? Can you imagine like like like like a year ago? You know, we're having this conversation where, OK, Trump's going to win the election. Max is going to fully support him. And then he's going to do whatever the Israel lobby tells him to go start a war against Iran. You and I would both be like, well, the base will turn on him. You would have riots in the streets. And that does not happen. OK. The base is still behind him.

He just blasphemed Christ and made him portrayed himself as Jesus. And his base was like his evangelical base was like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. It's OK. It's OK. And it's like if that, you know, he attacked Pope and you're like you're you're you're like the most religious fanatics and protest. Most fanatical Protestant, you know, evangelicals in the country. And they're OK with stuff like that. To your point, that's a great point with the cult base. Maybe maybe it would. His base probably. Would be fine with it because he would portray it as a win. You're right. That's that's actually kind of a misstep on me. You're right. His base would not care at all. I would care. Right. I would go a lot of us who go, what the hell is this? Why did we spend one hundred billion dollars and lose 13 service members lives for Iran to be ten times stronger?

But at the same time, if it gives Israel everything they want, then, yeah, his base probably does go.

No, we're fine with it. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, again, I don't want to underestimate Trump's political savvy. I think I mean, this guy's a lot smarter than people give him credit for.

Yeah. So I will say, though, is we are on a timeline for Trump because to your point, he basically currently he's pretty much done the opposite of almost everything he ran on. His base does support him for it. However, independents do not. Right. And his overall approval rate approval rating is insanely low. Anywhere from thirty four to Fox News is the most generous poll out there has him at the last one was thirty nine percent. The midterms are coming. And so you also have that in America. It's politics change up into the midterms, right, where all of a sudden this this war with Iran and five dollar gas prices when we lead into the midterms. That might not be something anybody is willing to accept, even within his political base. Especially, I think, if Democrats sweep the midterms and they take the House, the Senate, and they actually have enough to actually just vote through war power resolutions and they just got him completely.

And then you just impeach him 17 times. The back half of his lined up presidency could be, you know, him basically not being able to do anything other than maybe, you know, using the State Department through Marco Rubio to leverage a little bit of conflict that way. But I do think there's a pretty extreme timeline. And with Israel, it's interesting that you say if you're Israel, you continue to do it. Yeah, I think you do. I think Israel doesn't want this. If you're Israel, why the hell would you want this ten point plan to go through? You want none of those ten points. Right. You're trying to be the hegemonic superpower. And if if we lift all think about this, if we lift all sanctions from which I hope we do. I mean, I hope the Middle East could have peace and Iran could be brought into the world and and we could all live in harmony.

Is that going to happen? Probably not. But if if I'm Israel, I don't want Iran to be on sanctions. I don't want them to have control of the Strait of Hormuz. I don't I don't want them to be able to enrich uranium. That doesn't do anything. It's I think it's good for America and Iran and the rest of the world. But they're the big loser there. And so to your point, well, why the hell would they? Why the hell would they let the ceasefire go through?

Yeah, no, I completely agree. I mean, Israel has this once in a lifetime opportunity to achieve the greater Israel project. This is it. I think this is their chance. This is it. This is it. Also, like, you know, you would think the Democrats, you know, if they really want to win the midterms, they could easily just go to like a no war platform. Like, you know, you think of it like organized rallies all around the world, all around the United States calling for like no war and the end of this war. Instead, they're just sitting back and like doing nothing. You know, they do some congressional vote.

You just they're not just doing nothing. They're supporting the war in a lot of political establishment is supporting the war. The blue mag of Democrats, Chuck Schumer, Cory Booker, Chuck Schumer, just voted to continue the war and give Donald Trump full power.

So so so I mean, I mean, everyone expects, OK, the midterms, the Democrats win and then they impeach Trump. And that's what happened last time. But I mean, maybe not. The Democrats may run blue dog candidates and then they.

Well, they're definitely going to do that.

Right. Like like and then and then what happens? Right. Then the Trump, if it does not escalate the war.

Yeah. Yeah, that's true. And and we already saw that. I mean, they just the Democrat Party just voted on or the DNC just voted on banning or limiting a pack and the vote failed. So the Democrat Party, which has basically like an eight percent support for for Israel and the United States. And then a lot of these expectations. But the the the the way the right party is able to impose that vote on the entire party, the actual power establishment is in lockstep with Donald Trump on a lot of these things.

And, you know, there was, you know, I think yesterday or the day before there was this congressional vote right to force Trump to seek congressional approval. Right. That's what I'm talking about. Yeah. And like it like it failed by one vote. Right. This was and it was theater, man. This was it was a Democrat. It was a Democrat. crack that was the tiebreaker yeah yeah so so i mean these parties aren't cahoots with each other

like 100 in this war yeah yeah and you can see that when um especially with you know uh when it comes to israel when when netanyahu shows up to congress he gets a standing ovation from all 500 members there's like four members who aren't you know you know calling him his excellency and things like that so that's that's a good point uh all right i want to talk about three more three more uh topics if you don't mind uh interesting ones i want to talk about our nato allies and europe a little bit because this is very this is very very different for the united states if we go back to you know and except for you know the revolutionary war i mean europe and the united states have been lockstep allies obviously america you know his lineage is from europe or descendants of europeans um but what we're seeing now is you know not

a single member of nato or uh europe has been willing to come to the aid of the united states 100 of them have now declined to send actual naval power um and then you in even more extreme countries like spain spain is now cut off all trade with both israel and the united states um and there's a lot there's a lot of movement towards that france has had a lot of issues with us stopping us from being able to use military bases in airspace what do you see going forward happening between the united states and europe and nato do you think nato is going to be able to do that or is it going to be able to do that or is it going to be able to do that or is nato is is pretty much on its way out and you're going to see this sort of regional break to where the united

maybe in the in the you know 21st century israel or not excuse me not israel europe and the united states sort of break away and and we don't find ourselves as allies anymore i mean you know maybe not enemies but look look i think

that europe is a dumpster fire i mean there's no other way to put it i mean the problems that they're facing right now are just i mean they're it's it it's it's threatening the survival of their right so you've got this mass immigration problem in the in europe so it's almost like population replacement uh true where yeah in 50 years time you know they're not going to be majority white

anymore that's the first issue and oh and some of the uh france is almost there yeah france is like 35 percent uh uh muslim at this point you know good bad or indifferent whether you like like that or not i mean sweden is getting up there as well so is germany so is the uk um i mean when you look at it as a actual percentage i mean we have nowhere near the immigration problem as europe does at the moment sorry to interrupt yeah well that's the first

point second point is that europe is committed to total war against russia especially you know germany uh poland um they're calling up for a draft right so i i think there i think there's there was a rumor or a proposal to bar uh men under 45 uh from leaving germany for more than three months of our army permission wow yeah so yeah yeah yeah i think they brought it back because of a public outcry but they're moving towards a national draft and what they've said what the germans have actually said is that well we're not going to allow muslim men to join the army so this is it's a ridiculous situation where the germans are going to stand yes yes you're going to send you so you're going to send all your

your ethnically germans off to die your young ethnically german men off to die but not your young immigrant men ah okay that's that sounds like a great plan yeah exactly okay

right um so that's point two where they're gonna continue to fight russia even though it is in their best long -term interest to seek peace as soon as possible because they're not gonna beat russia in ukraine okay i mean they're not yeah and russia's not gonna go and like invade europe because that's that that's that that's retarded we never just something like that no i agree point number two point number three is that you have a huge asian crisis in europe where the population is becoming much older and therefore much more authoritarian and um much more delusional okay so the europe has has this fascination with dei that america was able to get rid of um you know they're obsessed with work politics they're obsessed with dei um they're obsessed with bureaucracy and this is stifling innovation this is stifling in entrepreneurship it's killing the young people in uh in europe right you've got this

aging crisis um and and and then the last issue is their economies are no longer viable right the european economy was basically based on importing cheap russian energy and then making manufactured goods for china and now they have no no have access to cheap russian energy they don't even have access to like gulf energy as well right yeah and as you point out the world doesn't make enough energy uh america doesn't make a lot of enough energy to uh supply both asia and europe so europe and us and and yeah and america yeah and canada in a lot of senses yeah and then you have like these political these political leaders in europe who are extremely unpopular who are just incompetent like macron starmer super unpopular yeah and you know and macron it has been unpopular for the past 20 years and still he's still in power which is just unbelievable but but yeah no

i mean like like i just think that europe is completely screwed and it's just a question of like like how screwed are they and will they drag america into um you know the era

well well they tried with the ukraine war that i mean to your point europe in in really france macron has been a huge huge problem of this the main reason why that war never came to any conclusion is because europe gets in there during every time we come to close to a peace deal europe's the one that goes in there and tries to it all up because europe has got no interest in that war between ukraine and russia ending and you know they did try to pull us into that conflict that's europe did right and still kind of are trying to pull us into that conflict and so yeah i mean to your point they're not going to beat russia i mean history says what was europe going to try to invade russia like history is shown uh good luck that's like trying to invade afghanistan right it's the graveyard of empires for a reason

nobody no or even or persia right it's like there's a reason why no one since alexander the great has been able to you know even step foot in any of these countries for a lot of you know afghanistan and at least long term uh that's really interesting uh on take on on nato and with that do you a final part of that question was do you think that the united states and and europe break apart alliance wise because i mean culturally that you're not wrong there's a huge there's going to be a huge difference in cultures and things like that is europe's moving one direction and and we're not moving that direction could you see us just completely break i mean nato falling apart it feels like the uh we just cut off trade with spain i mean it feels like we're we're headed

there like in the next couple years even well what trump wants to do is support right -wing local factions in europe right so trump yeah we just saw that i'm hungry yeah jd vance went to hungary to support victor orber and that didn't really work out um he supports um the afd in germany uh he supports um vox in spain he supports maryland pan's party in uh france so i think that trump wants to support these right -wing populists in uh europe because they align more with his vision but uh the eu bureaucracy is just completely authoritarian right and they will they will do whatever possible in order to sabotage these uh populist factions um so i think at the end of the day america and europe are heading towards a major

divorce i was just going to say to your point um there's sixteen thousand people in prison in britain for things they've said on social media posts right now that's not russia sixteen thousand people in the united kingdom are currently in prison for you know saying mean things online that's i mean that's uh i believe there's more i believe the crackdown on that is worse than like objectively worse than it is in the places we like to call authoritarian russia china places like that you're actually seeing seeing europe be far more extreme and australia which is is kind of scary but europe is definitely moving towards this like extreme surveillance state mixed in with uh bureaucracy woke politics and authoritarianism so right yeah that is scary

and this would be fine if say crime was being reduced but crime's not being reduced right right so so so if you are a criminal you are much likely you are much much less likely to get visited by the police than if you are a person a normal person complaining about the

rise of crime in britain yeah in a social media but it's just absurd yeah okay uh second second to last one uh last one's gonna be predictions just because i'm gonna force you to make some some predictions because uh well i mean that's what you do literally that's that's your thing but before we do that last one i want to talk about when i had you on it's a little bit of an aside i wanted to talk about china taiwan that's sort of my lane of expertise militarily i mean you you're from china you live in china so you know even more than i do what is your feeling because there are a lot of rumors about this right like this war in iran all the focus on it if the united states you know is is here in venezuela and it's looking at cuba and it's also looking you know fighting a war with

iran we're spread too thin people think this is the perfect time to take for china to uh militarily take taiwan on i always say just at least because i know the united states plan if uh if the uh that war were to kick off and i can talk about that but i want to get your take first and then i'll give you what i thought um now let me give you what i thought first so that way everybody can see if i'm sure i'm wrong or not but my feeling and at least um you know in first group we have a lot of chinese national green berets guys who actually are from mainland china who you know go to places like guam and actually enlist and join the u.s military so we have a lot of uh you know actually chinese -born um green berets and and worked with quite a few and talking

to one who uh mainland china he grew up in beijing i believe uh he was telling me i was asking him about it uh do you think china will invade and he said you know really uh it's more likely that china sort of plays a long game and takes taiwan diplomatically much like they did hong kong me personally i think that's sort of seems like a much better route for china uh they also have a much you know you guys have a much much longer outlook on things than we do in the united states uh but also i mean the difficulty of taking taiwan the island is going to be extremely hard and also you know i'll let you explain it but you know china taiwan it's like you know it's like kind of like the american civil war in a way right you've got americans killing americans at the end of the day even

though i know taiwanese and chinese don't say they're the same but i mean you know people from taiwan are those who fled right um the chinese communist party so ethnically pretty much all the same what's on do you do you personally think china makes a play militarily for taiwan uh in the near future let's say given all of the insanity that is geopolitics right now right so um i've always

believed that china and taiwan will come to a diplomatic solution and we're seeing this play out with the kmt chairman um visiting china and being greeted by the top leadership in beijing sea and so i think there are elements within taiwan and within china who believe that over time reunification is almost an inevitability because of these very close diplomatic family and economic relationships okay and i i and i think that's a strategy uh in both taiwan and in china the problem is japan okay this is okay right okay so interesting because a few months ago taiwan is core to japan's strategic interests meaning that if there were ever a chinese invasion of taiwan that japan would come in the aid of taiwan and this caused a huge up war as you can imagine in china so much so that chinese given that back that back history between your two countries especially given given so i

mean like it's the backlash is so severe now that japan has broken off diplomatic relationships and before you had thousands of chinese tourists going every day to visit japan for sure yeah but but now that's only the case uh uh tourists tour groups have all cancelled visits to japan i i work at a school and i was told by my school that you know if you visit uh japan you might be blacklisted by the government um so this it

sorry to interrupt is this so i i lived in japan from 2020 to 2023 and so we would see chinese tourists all the time everywhere i was in okinawa and a lot of people don't realize okinawa is a 20 -minute fighter fighter pie it's very close 20 20 -minute fighter like our fighter jets are to taiwan and 20 minutes from okinawa so i mean they're extremely extremely close and so this must have been somewhat recently where um in the last couple years that this happened no

well well the last three months okay so oh it's a very very recent okay yeah it's a huge uh break off the logic is very simple from the japanese perspective right because you're japanese you're japan you've been you know japan it's a ex it's a it's a trade dependent economy it doesn't have its own natural resources yep if if taiwan and china were reunified in theory taiwan could be used to embargo japan cutting japan off from the street of malacca in the straight

yeah straight straight malacca into the straight of taiwan that's where all the it's for for the viewers guys that's where all of the oil that comes out yes and actually go ahead you keep

the map right here i'll pull up and show them right so so this is an existential crisis for japan right so japan cannot permit taiwan and china to reunify and so um i i think that that's the real issue facing china in the short term uh we remilitarize a resurgent japan and you know japan because of the um war in the middle east it is it is re -militarizing it's uh yep for sure it's a real issue and because i mean this is a essential crisis for japan and you talk about this where japan's going to suffer a lot more this war continues to china right so you can imagine japan trying to send an exponential force to the straight moves to in order to open it up and look at the end of the day and you know this but japan has the best blue water navy in east asia china doesn't have a

blue water navy so um and we can expect more conflicts arising in the south china sea uh um especially yeah that's a territory so the real issue is not

actually taiwan china the real issue is china japan interesting interesting i didn't even i mean again that's that was recent because you know in 2023 um you know uh we definitely didn't have that going on and also you have you in the south china sea is such a such a diplomatic sort of chaos you talk philippines you know i worked a decent amount in the philippines and just like understanding you know the chinese and american connection there with the government there's just power and control in the south china sea right now um and so that i didn't even think about the fact that i mean taiwan as an island to your point i mean that's one that's one of the fears for as you know for china is you know taiwan and the united states potentially cut off the straight of taiwan and sort of and can stranglehold beijing because we did all the planning

and everything for if the united states and china or excuse me if china invaded taiwan the united states what our plan would be so that's one of those sort of safe holds that that taiwan has with the united states is hey we can we can use artillery to sink your ships if you try to put them through much like iran is doing right right now with the straight of uh hormuz taiwan has that but if taiwan is reunified i didn't even think about that if taiwan is reunified with mainland now they can embargo korea both south korea and japan from their oil coming out of the strait of hormones that's a and there's nothing they could do about it there's nothing japan or south korea could do to stop that so that's a that's so your your thought process is um you see a diplomatic reunification between the two that's what i think is going

to happen no i mean instead of instead of uh right instead of i'm not saying it's for sure to happen but you could see if the two were to reunify you see it through diplomatically rather than china launching a massive war and you know killing a couple million taiwanese and that that i i just don't see that happening it just doesn't really feel like that's what and also i don't see a lot of anger and backlash because you mentioned families right and economic ties i think people don't realize that there's tons of people that have family in taiwan and family in in mainland and then economically i don't think people in america realize how close taiwan and china actually are economically tied to each other i think we think like oh they're they're enemies and it's like well that's a little bit more nuanced than that right no there are

millions of taiwan taiwanese who are doing business in mainland china they settle down they have families uh china and taiwan do tremendous trade so if china were just to like i kind of isolate taiwan basically and impose tariffs but

taiwan taiwanese economy would be in a lot of trouble yeah and and man i mean uh but i mean china also doesn't really want to do that because you know taiwan has things like you know super chip semiconductors that well it sells it's the it is the country that produces those and makes them us the united states and china china is also relying on that so you know it's one of those things where i feel like they could you know you can hurt each other but why you know what what would be the what would be the you know strategic uh positive outcome for either of those countries to go to full -scale war with each other it just doesn't seem like again i'm asking you as someone who knows the cultures and everything like that a lot better than i do look look i'm chinese

culturally and i can tell you that chinese are very pragmatic people uh chinese care about the economy and that's about it yeah yeah so so if we can use money to resolve conflicts we'll use money to resolve the conflict and going to war is going to be much more expensive than right yeah right so yeah so chinese are very pragmatic people um and that's why china is not going to militarily challenge the supremacy of the united states because it's too costly in the

long term right that makes sense okay that's that's i wanted to i wanted to get your take on that while i had you on because typically it's just just me you know ranting and raving and i'm i'd like to think i know a decent amount but nowhere near as much as you do on that all right final one i want to do before we before we wrap it up is predictions okay i want you to give if you're willing to you've probably already done it right but um obviously you predicted that uh the united will united states will lose the war that doesn't mean iran wins obviously as you mentioned but what's your what's your prediction what's your actual like final predictions of how does this end i think that's that's the big one does it end in a nuclear war does it end in a ground invasion where 500 000 people die or does

it end where we give up you know there's a lot of options here where what's your actual prediction right now for how

does this war with iran actually end right so i think in round one of this war like me in the past seven eight weeks iran overperformed and uh the americans were completely surprised by the frost the other in response trump himself said he didn't expect the iranians to close up the charitable moves and he didn't expect the iranians to attack the gcc okay so yeah the americans i didn't either but they did it we're completely taking them back but i think in round two once the ceasefire ends i i think i think they'll go back to war i think that the americans will we calibrate and the americans will develop a much more effective strategy to strangle um iran so my predictions for how the world will progress over the next few months is threefold okay first um the americans will launch a ground incursion and the main purpose okay yeah the main purpose is

to uh strangle iraq economically mainly by by um taking over kirk island and kassam island um and sending troops in in the coastline to block iran's ability to export oil as well as block iran's ability to collect toll tolls right and these are the two main income streams for uh iran and so the two main income streams for iran and so the two main income streams for iran and so now iran's going to face financing issues okay that's the first pillar second pillar is to activate uh ethnic institution groups throughout iran mainly the kurds and also the uh bollocks

uh near well the kurds isn't going to work because we already armed them in iran this con this is the green beret mission set we this is literally what we do and uh the kurds took all the weapons and uh said off to the united states but to your point but to your point there's 10 different ethnic groups that we could that we could arm and equip as a resistance force so i get what you're saying

right but but the point is like you know the curse didn't want to be abandoned and betrayed again like they they've been right right yeah you know yeah we them over over and over and over again right no i get it if i was the cards i'd be like i don't know but but but the point is like you know if they see the tide of the war turning in favor of the americans if the americans have for an operating basis throughout iran that can protect them right if they're protected by arrow american supremacy then they'll be much more likely to fight they're opportunists right so that's the second pillar and the third pillar which which i think um will be the most effective is the americans are going to try to strangle tehran okay meaning this meaning torrent city of 10 million people it needs water it needs electricity and it needs food right

well what you can do is you can bombard the roads and infrastructure so you can't get food uh you can destroy the reservoir so it lacks water and you destroy the power plants just commit a bunch of war crimes

this is war man no i get it no you're you're you're giving your prediction of what will happen and and we've already keep in mind the united states has already committed a ton of war crimes in this war so right we will 100 do that and and the intention is to

um decimate the state's capacity to provide basic services to the people so the people become angry and revolt against you right which forces a political solution um so so so the idea is to apply as much pressure as possible on the people of tehran so that the leadership the political leadership is forced to um accept american terms in negotiations okay so so that that's how i think the americans will um will fight this war in in round two it'll be much more strategic it's it's going to apply pressure points as much as possible in order to force a

political solution real quick on that what because there is there is concerns right you launch ground potentially you put boots on the ground people die there will there's going to be a lot of us especially if we try to take karg island right ballistic missiles start raining down drones start raining down 100 we're going to have substantially more u.s soldiers killed that's part of war right i went and fought the wars myself i know what it includes do you think that i mean look at the backlash off 13 dead soldiers you start seeing hundreds of soldiers killed thousands of soldiers killed do you think that'll have because i mean we look at vietnam we look at afghanistan and iraq the reason why we abandoned those was public discontent at the fact that you know young boys are dying and there's already such this war is already so unpopular do you think that would have

i don't think trump would give a but do you think that would have enough effect uh to stop that plan for the united states once like you know all of a sudden hey you start taking more losses than you thought and then the backlash becomes extreme you got you got to carry through at that point do you think the united states has the will for it

well first of all you can't really fight this year this this war from the ear right the americans are losing too many earrings as nothing yeah right yep right but also you're losing airframes which is very expensive right so you've lost like 13 soldiers but like you've lost i i don't know how many planes right these are close to 30 now right like what if 15 is 90 million dollars one if 35 is 100 million dollars so if you continue to fight this war from the air you're going to bankrupt your military i mean i mean these these are very expensive sophisticated so you need ground troops in order to establish aero supremacy like you know this 100 but like yeah but you have to worry about economics right so you have to use ground troops that's point one point two is you're right in that there's political backlash but you'd be surprised by how

people become desensitized over time and the classic example is oh my god is gaza where you know this really is committed genocide in gaza and people became normalized decentralized

to that over time they're doing it right now they're doing it right now and they're doing it they don't even they don't even report the news on it anymore it's not even a story so so i mean

you're right in that yes like we we hope that there's backlash because innocent people are getting killed but this is a good point you're making i mean gaza just showed us that people become it can become extremely decentralized especially especially if the global economy is suffering right if you're worried about gas prices if you're worried about um not having a job if you're if you're worried about the global economy collapsing you're not gonna be that concerned

about ground troops in in iran you know you know why that's such a good point is because no one cared when anybody when american soldiers died in afghanistan iraq in the back half back decade of the war i mean we had we had guys getting killed you know 2018 was my my last trip and we had dudes getting killed in 2018 that wasn't even on the news nobody americans now americans care right like they they care but does that was that affecting policy no nobody gave a so to your point we lost thousands of u.s troops over that back that the back decade and it was never on the news nobody cared um to your point i didn't even think about the desensitizing factor of this is a new fresh war and the media cycle is on it yeah but after six months after a year and it's like people get they they get

uh they get uh fatigue right where they're just like you know what i don't want to hear about this war anymore and so to your point all of a sudden then you know that's the backlash i didn't even think about the desensitization of desensitize i can't even say it you know what i'm trying to say desensitization of of the populace and that's um that's a real thing that you know that i didn't even i didn't even think about so that's an that's definitely uh i will agree with you um there is no way the united states can achieve anything without putting boots on the ground it's just it's what are you gonna and i know this and we all know this and this is not just this is not just iran this is every war we've and and you understand this but for the audience really what you see right now is you see the

united states engaging in a con a world war ii style conventional war and you have iran engaged in asymmetric unconventional war and those two things are at a head right now so the united states to your point has to recalibrate because like this is the this is the silliest thing to think uh and this is why i hate when donald trump says it we we destroyed their their uh their air force and we control the skies sort of okay that's great we did in vietnam we did in syria we did in afghanistan we did in iraq there was no there was no planes in afghanistan the afghans didn't have any planes or the taliban right they were in man jams and sandals and we couldn't we couldn't eventually win that war even with here's the thing even with boots on the ground so i i could see that i i could see that being something

we have to do i would just be i hope we don't do it because again it's gonna it's gonna involve a ton of dead american soldiers i mean that's just the way these things go but uh do you do you think the united states well actually this is kind of interesting now that you said that because you're you're looking at forcing a political solution do you see that as an actual regime change where the iranian people rise up and overthrow the government or do you see it as a hey the regime understands our people are pissed off and we need to capitulate and you know start to work with the united states to come to uh a agreement the reason why i asked that is because man the the idea that the the people are going to rise up to uh take down the leadership is just not the way it's ever gone for us

once we were there as a green beret i know that you you think you're going to go in there and arm the populace because that's what we do we arm them train them and go fight with them and then you find out once they're there that uh maybe they don't want america is there as much as you thought right so i think

there's now a major disconnect between the military leadership and the political leadership in iran where the political leadership is still interesting could you explain that sure sure okay so um the the iranian government system the iranian political system is actually very complicated um and so it's a dual system where um there's a religious authority run by the atatola and under him is a private militia called the irgc okay so the irc reports directly to the atatola and then you have a traditional government a political system you know with elections uh and so uh there's a secular leadership and there's religious leadership um and and these often competition and um the the agreement is that the religious leadership would take care of foreign policy and the political leadership would take care of domestic policy right the economy essentially really okay i didn't know that yeah so um the proxies is part of the irgc as opposed

to the iranian military but there's iranian military and then there's the irgc right so right so they're actually uh different um uh parts and so what i see happening is i mean the irgc is locked in right now because they're very careful with their their their their economy and and i'm kind of leader the absolute campaign has been martyred he's been killed they now have something called the mosaic defense um and the thing is that once you activate the mosaic defense which is a decentralized um command and control you're we've explained it on we've explained it on the show before so well well i mean like like like you you well now it's just you're all in right because you you fight to the death and and these people are eschatological um they believe you know this is to the death and so they're locked in they're not going to surrender they're going to fight

to the death okay that's the irgc the people in tehran the political leadership is like okay uh we're mainly interested in maintaining political stability we don't want the people to starve we don't want the nation to collapse we want to maintain our relationships with our allies china and russia so they want an off -ramp and as time progresses the conflict between the political leadership and the military leadership will just become much more exaggerated right because the military leadership is like screw this this this is a uh this is the end of the world let's let's fight let's fight to the end let's destroy america the great satan once and for all yeah and the political leadership is like well that might involve nuclear weapons that might involve the discussion of our nation of a nation state and and so i don't think it's possible of that um that we can come to a a political

solution but what the originalists and americans can do is further this rift between the political and the military leaderships in in iran interesting interesting yeah again

with with the uh with the way they use the mosaic defense on that completely destruct completely decentralizing the command across the 31 provinces how they do it but that but there's two prongs to that that also makes it nearly impossible for the united states to regime change right because now you have you've got three three three hundred thousand people in iran and you're talking about 31 decentralized provinces acting on their own there's no you know and this is this is kind of part of the problem with the peace talks right now is because of that is it's like who are you actually negotiating with are you negotiating with the irgc are you negotiating with the political apparatus and then you also have basically warlords essentially 31 different warlords who are all acting independently so it's like you might come to a ceasefire and then province 29 is like ballistic missiles to tel aviv tonight baby

that's right so and so i could see i think that being i think that's a smart uh if if you were if the united states military and you're and you're actually trying to achieve this and you're willing to put boots on the ground i think it's a very good strategy um again i just man uh i don't like the idea of it because i know what war entails and i know what we're sending our uh our sons and daughters to go do and i think it's and i don't think there's any like and here's what i'll ask what what's the strategic victory for the united states at the end of this we go right back to where we started i mean right like let's say that all plays out and we force iran to finally capitulate and come to the bargaining table and what it's like okay uh we won't develop nukes and we'll lift

all sanctions on you guys all right handshake we did it and you're like okay well so we're right back where we started but iran is a little bit stronger than they were what does the united states get out

of this well i mean i mean what the united states gets out of it i mean we just talk about like like from a strategic perspective um the united states is trying to prevent a russia iran china coalition from arising which would unite the eurasian continent and and then it could absorb europe you can absorb um africa the middle east uh southeast asia in africa very quickly right yeah that's that's a great point yes and and then you could just um you know embark on the united states into the western hemisphere and the united states has 39 trillion dollars in debt europe and asia continue to buy u.s treasuries and so this would cause a sovereign debt crisis in america it would basically destroy the american economy so so america is not fighting uh to gain america is trying to survive and like that's a major difference so it's kind of kind of looking

at it as i mean i don't i personally don't think starting a war with iran that we just then back out of that war and make iran even stronger i don't think that is success on the world states for the пог coworkers but i don't think that that actually can deer people starve and own a whole hell of a few million jobs have been do you agree with that it's it's a tough question um i mean i think this is a tough question and i shut my mouth and iways insulated it a little bit so that the conundrum that is uh inside of the um currency story and and so i think the me it's like is was that worth 100 billion dollars and you know because again to your point if if the attempt if the goal is to keep china russia and iran from building a coalition and taking over how does emboldening

and making iran stronger help stop that right now we we suggest like this

war is eschatological meaning there are these extreme religious elements that have co -opted the trump white house okay yes including yes including jews but also including you know these evangelical christians 100 right it's a holy war to them it's yeah it's a holy war and and so that's that's the other explanation and um they want destruction they want death because they believe right exactly so so it's hard for people to understand um but but this is a religious war for a lot of people and they want all this stuff into destruction and that's why we can expect this war to continue to escalate and i agree for americans to send in ground troops yeah no i

think your prediction uh i don't want it to happen but i think you right i think you're spot on in your assessment on the idea that donald and also donald trump just seems like the type of guy that's like we said at the very beginning of the episode there's two ways out there's there's there's through or retreat right and so your your prediction is the united states takes the we we're going through the wall we're not backing out of the wall uh one last question on that do you think there is any backing out for the united states because it feels like there we can't back out and so maybe to your point i mean for the best prediction you have there is if how does the united states donald trump already sort of suggested it which was like when he agreed to that full 10 -point plan i mean the backlash from his own

base was extreme and so that's kind of what it felt like we were when he was like well actually we we don't we're not actually coming to that deal and then we sort of ramp things up do you think there is any actual off -ramp uh that can be considered here to where we don't have to do that or are we we don't know? we're going through but that that's that's beneficial to the united states without you know i would say without us like without the united complete surrender is too easy right because that that is a way out but anyway the united states has an off -ramp that isn't just

complete surrender look i mean i'm completely with you and like i want this war to end as soon as possible this war has exhausted me i can't even sleep uh i'm doom schooling every day so like right yeah me too i want this thing to go away as soon as possible and that's why at the beginning of our talk i asked you about the possibility that iran has 50 hostages of delta force right because then that's an off -ramp where if the american people recognize that iran has actually 50 hostages then you have protests in the streets yeah it will be like but that's

why that's what you're saying there is why i'm telling you that's another reason why we know

that's not a thing it's because iran iran would leverage that yeah well and that is an off -ramp right where where you know both democrats and republicans would force trump to negotiate a political settlement in order to free the hostages that was an off -ramp and but you've shut it down so now i

don't know what the off -ramp is well well well i'm not saying that like i don't know everything i wasn't there but i might know people who were i'll just say that so right but uh but again okay yeah that's um that's where i'm at too on this thing i say every day i hope it ends i hope there's a good way out but i i don't believe there is i talked about it a lot but i don't know if it's gonna eventually continue as far asFOB overall but bringing we talked about it today on my show you know we jokingly made the episode it's over right we but i said in that episode you know what's the likelihood that there's so many things working to your point working against uh this being over soon which is you have uh the fact that what you just talked about and then you have the fact that

you know our other ally involved in this we talked about earlier they don't want this to end either and and i don't and to your point i don't think a lot of the trump administration wants it to end i don't think want i don't think pete hegseth and marco rubio want this thing to end i think they want to commit a full ground invasion if they could or at least you know um to karg island and we've talked a lot about that not just karg island but also sort of uh potentially you know the islands around hormuz where those tankers are coming through keeping getting control of those my worry there and and let me let me posture you this on there or or put this to you the idea that we put boots on the ground in karg island i look at things i'm always thinking when i'm looking at this strategically okay if

i do x what does my enemy do my big fear with karg island is one it's an island so let's say we use the 31st mu and i actually my special forces oda is trained to take down islands in the south china sea in case we went to war with china but again i got a lot of reference on how this works let's say we actually do a big vehicle boat assault we use the 82nd airborne we come in we put thousands of troop on troops on karg island we take the island and then we have all those troops well if i if i'm iran then i'm not actually bombing the island what i am doing is sinking those 31st mu ships that brought all those troops that's right and i'm going to drone strike the out of all of those and now i have a thousand or i probably have 3 000 american troops

sitting on that island and then i don't let anybody come near that no u.s tankers nothing comes there that and i just drone strike the out if you try you talk about a hostage situation now i got 3 000 americans sitting on island that can't get resupplied and i can ballistic missile strike the out of them if i want and i tell the united states hey here's my new bargaining chip and so that's that's my big worry with um a ground invasion with boots on the ground if it's not done with someone who really has a lot of tactical brilliance behind it because we could find ourselves in a really ugly situation really fast

right okay but but look there's certain advantages to that right first of all you shift the focus the iranian focus from attacking gcc any energy infrastructure to containing karg island i think you're absolutely right in that the iranians would rather have them as hostages rather than to kill them i mean it

just makes more political sense right it's the pr move they have yeah it's a pr move but but then

you're committed resources uh you're committed drones and ballistics that you would have committed to against the gcc energy infrastructure right so the the gcc is like happy that that's a to happen second of all this becomes a major uh media event um and you have the rise of patriotism across america because obviously you would want to send in more ground troops to free uh the people from karg island right and you do that that's why i don't that's why i don't

think they'll kill them right we've talked about that on the show exactly exactly and that's not their strategy is actually the opposite of that they're not trying to kill americans purposely

that's right that's right they're trying to drag america further into the war um so i mean from an from a i know it's just from economics it does make sense right um um i mean look look the reality is that saudi arabia uae are really suffering in this war and they're the ones pulling a lot of strings behind the scenes primarily for jared kushner and they're doing a lot of pressure on trump to to send in ground troops to end this war because if you're uae and um trump withdraws from the release you are completely screwed okay like you're finished

right so you need to escalate yeah especially especially if you leave giving iran everything they want exactly because iran becomes the big dog in the region if you if you rem i mean the fact that iran's as strong as they are now after being sanctioned for 30 straight years is is pretty impressive the pers i mean you see a rise of the persian empire if if you just if the united states does which part of that 10 -point plan is the united states withdraws all troops from the region which includes the middle east which includes the gulf states if you were to do that i mean yeah iran none of those countries can stand up to obviously can stand up to iran israel the uae qatar qatar saudi arabia they got no chance of of standing up to iran militarily without the united states there so yeah i yeah that's a great point there's just

and there's pressure coming from the gulf uh there's pressure coming from israel there's pressure coming from the evangelical lobby in the united states to push this war forward yes i mean

i mean also this is sunk cost fallacy where the military has already committed so many airframes

so many resources to this war and you're telling me okay guys the global war on terror is a great

example of something else fallacy exactly exactly yep all right uh we got a we got a couple we just

had our buddy real bays just tuned in with a big donation uh we'll do a couple of these and then and then i'll let you get out of here but he's got a question directly for you real bays is another uh haven't been able to watch but i'm gonna watch tomorrow thank you for having professor jang i'm a big fan i used bay's theorem for my own research and wanted to ask if he uses it too i appreciate everything you guys do you both always have my full support uh i'm embarrassed to say

but i don't even know what base there is okay but i don't use mathematics in in in my analysis

um yeah well mathematics is not is not really the greatest thing to understanding uh the complexity of foreign conflict and foreign policy anyway you know what i mean so So, yeah. All right. Anything. I'm not going to keep you here too long. Let's get we'll get a couple more of these. Teresa says shout out to Professor Jay. Found him early in December. I'm wondering if he still feels the same as his Jimmy Dore interview that the powerful of the world want 90 percent of us dead.

Interesting. OK, so let me clarify what I meant. What I meant is that in these coming wars, 90 percent of us are going to die and the elite don't really care because they're only interested. In maintaining their control over the world. And it's just like it's just a cost you're willing to accept. OK, so it's not like the elite are going to engineer our deaths, but like they know that when they come in wars, there's many famines, there's many civil wars. And they're much more interested in protecting their own lives than to preventing this from happening.

So, yeah. Well, I mean, you look at Mark, you look at like Mark Zuckerberg. Why is Mark Zuckerberg building one hundred fifty million dollar underground bunker in Hawaii? You know, let's. What's the point of that? You know, so, yeah, I would agree with you on that as long I think as long as they can maintain their systematic control and live the same luxurious lifestyle that they live, they don't give a shit about how many people die.

And look, honestly, that's why we're in this mess, because if the elite were not so selfish, if they just paid more taxes, if this made less money and redistribute the wealth more properly, if they just stop these stupid wars overseas, we wouldn't be in this mess. Yeah, right. So, yeah.

Yeah. OK, I think. Oh, this is the last one I wanted. We didn't talk about this. I had it written down and there is a comment here. So let's do this as the last one. The classic Trump Friday announcements to manipulate the market. False social posts rarely have any truth to them. So I wanted to ask you about market manipulation, how much we're noticing Friday seems to be some big announcement with Trump and then something the polar opposite of that happens over the weekend. And the future of the. Oil's markets. And we do know there was just another one today. I had it pulled up here. God, somebody somebody shorted oil five minutes before Trump's announcement for eight hundred and ninety million dollars today. So it's like, what's your thought on that? Do you think there's do you think there's some market manipulation for the elites going on here with the way Trump is is, you know, whipsawing us back and forth on this stuff?

Look, for the past five years. The market has become detached from reality right now, for sure, especially now. The reality is that you have a few corporations like BlackRock Vanguard who have consolidate all the wealth in the world and therefore they can rig the market any way they want. And, you know, the markets are a casino. They no longer reflect reality. They no longer reflect common sense. And the entire point of the markets is to basically redistribute wealth from everyone else to the. The elite and that that's just the reality now. Yeah. Yeah.

And I mean, I think that's what we're seeing. You know, it's like it's hard to believe that there's not some insider stuff going on here with understanding like, OK, well, we're going to put out this announcement. Make sure you get your bets in because the market's going to soar, which I mean, we literally just saw that happen with the announcement today.

And then the market is the worst example of this, right?

Now. Well, now that regular people can get in on the action. I'm just betting on random, bizarre stuff like that. So, yeah. All right. Awesome interview. Thank you very much. I learned a ton. I always love interviews where I get to learn a lot from from the guests. Anything anything you want to. Oh, we should have. And I'll make sure I get it up here and get your channel. Do you want the predictive history put up? So everybody, is that where you want them to go or do you want something else for your.

Yeah. So so there are two there are two ways to get more content from you. The first is, of course, my YouTube channel, Predictive History, and the other is my sub stack where I write on geopolitics, where I provide real time geopolitical analysis. It's called it's predictive history dot subject dot com.

And that's where I recommend if you can you email me the link to that and then I'll make sure I put it in the pin comment description for that. All right. Thank you so much for coming on. This was a great interview. Glad to have you. And I mean, I love that. I got to talk a little bit about China, Taiwan from somebody who actually knows what's going on. Any any last anything left for the guests? I think we covered most.

No, no, no. I mean, I learned a lot as well. Nate, you know, you're the first military guy I talked to and and I'm just so so I learned a lot today and I really enjoyed our conversation. You asked some great questions and that special forces thing really helped help me better understand the situation in Iran.

Well, and stuff like that really is just like I don't that's why I don't get too frustrated with like people who are like, oh, this crazy story. And I'm like. As someone who, you know, did the job, I'm like, well, it's maybe not as crazy as we think, you know, things like that. But all right. Awesome. Thank you so much. I'm going to finish up with the with the comments, with the guests, and then I'll be out of here pretty soon. So I'll let you go. Thank you very much.

OK. All right. Bye bye.

Bye bye. See you. All right. All right. We did it. Professor Jang interview complete. We're going to let me real quick. Let me get his YouTube up here. He's got a gigantic YouTube channel, by the way. I think he's got a couple couple million subscribers. Two point three one million. Well, he is crushing it out there. All right. I'll get this up in the pin comment. So for those of you who may be new to his content and want to follow him, then we'll be able to do that. All right. Then we're going to hit the super. Sorry, guys. I know that was not very interactive for the for you guys as the guests. But. Well, when you're talking. Talking to someone as intelligent as Professor Jang, I got to be on my toes. I got to be paying attention to what's going on. That's some high level stuff. All right. Let's I have no idea.

Well, and also when the video is over, I'll get his his sub stack up there. If you're interested in very, very smart guy, very intelligent. Great conversation, I thought. Learned a lot. OK. He's way better live. Yeah. And it was also I think it was a good, good combination, right? He's a very, very smart guy geopolitically. And then I'm able to give him a little bit of military context. So. All right. Let's. Well, thank you, guys. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Let's hit the supers and see what you guys got. And we'll work our way through this. All right. We got to start at the beginning, huh? All right. Frank here says. Word is that Israel already violates violated the ceasefire bombing Lebanon as soon as announced. I believe it was about an hour, an hour after the new ceasefire was announced that they bombed Lebanon again. And that Iran, I believe I had it pulled up here.

Iran put out this on their state media right afterwards. And they because Donald Trump came out and said Iran agreed to give up all enriched uranium. Iran made sure to come out and say right after that no agreement has been reached on the details of nuclear issues. So Donald Trump lied and made that up. Shocker. And then here are the new conditions. And but I believe they just reclosed it. But this is what they were saying. Iran said ships must be commercial military vessels. They were saying. Vessels are prohibited, prohibited, and neither ships nor cargo may be linked to hostile countries. So what this means is the Strait of Hormuz is open for everyone except the United States, Israel and the Gulf states. Donald Trump didn't mention that, did he? But at least the rest of the world can potentially have it open for them. They said ships must pass through routes designated by Iran.

I'm going to show you what that looks like here in a second. Few things I wanted to get to with Professor Jang. We didn't get to, but we can do it now. And vessels must. Be coordinated with Iranian forces responsible for the process. So you basically got to pay the toll. Now, this is a really cool graph that actually shows us where the shipping routes actually are now. And why this is such a problem for the United States and why we can't seem to deal with this. So here in the left is the Strait of Hormuz. Here's the every little yellow line or thread here is a ship that's crossed through. So this is before the war. You can see this is the typical route out where they come up right around the top. Here, what we know is what happened was Iran filled this entire area full of sea mines.

And the reason why they did that, very crafty, very smart tactically, is so that anybody who wants to get through the Strait of Hormuz must come up here through the tiny little islands and then right underneath Karg Island. That way, you're right near the shores of Iran and they can strike you with ballistic missiles and drones. So this is why this has become such a problem. For everybody involved. And here's another here's another good description or demonstration of what's going on here. So you have Hormuz Island, Laroque Island and Kesham Island. And all these ships no longer can come through the Gulf of Oman. And this this route right here, they have to come all the way up to where they can get schwacked. So this is the so -called safe corridor. So that's why the Strait of Hormuz is such a clusterfuck right now, ladies and gentlemen. So, yeah, it's rough out there.

It's rough. Okay. Anyway, I was going to talk about that with Professor Jang, but just didn't get to it. All right. Let's keep moving. Brian says, so Trump wants to leave NATO to attack Turkey. Does he not understand NATO as a defense pact? And we'll article for CD 6090 backgammon or whatever. Yeah. But the thing is, I think Donald Trump's willing to go to war with Europe, too. That's why he's threatening Greenland. That's why he's threatening Spain. That's why he's threatening France. That's why he's now. Well, I don't think he's threatened Turkey yet. But Israel has. Israel has said Turkey is the next great threat. I think he's a great threat behind Iran, Netanyahu has said that himself. So wouldn't be shocked to see that coming soon. Probably as soon as we're done. Soon as we're done. Did you know? Oh, my bad. Sorry, Vanessa. No, you're good. I got to. I'll wait for him.

Oh, my mom. My mom texted me and said, wow, your guest tonight is awesome. Mom, are you tuned in? I think mom's tuned in. I think mom's watching right now when she send me that. That was 40 minutes ago. I don't know. mom's still watching but mom was in the chat so shout out to mommy mama vft if she's still here but mom's been in here with us uh yeah mom's been watching uh okay let's keep moving uh how long until we hear a news report that says the trump administration has intel the vatican is two weeks away from a nuclear weapon but also if you're going to decouple with europe hey attacking the vatican seems like it makes sense thank you for the 2027 midterms that's an interesting one uh super sticker thank you uh i had to jump in love professor jang and yubaha appreciate you shang appreciate you uh what is the

intellectual chad channel what is this intellectual chat oh my channel hey i'm here's what i'll say i'm not excuse me i'm not uh was my mom tall uh no no no but my mom's not super short either she's about five foot five five foot five my dad's tall though my dad's as tall as i am my whole family is super tall though my my uh moms all the men on my mom's side of the family are all super tall all about my height too so we do have a tall family but mom five foot about five foot five i think but the rest of the family's tall but yeah hey don't tell anybody uh you know i've got the uh i've got the image and the physique and everything that i look retarded and so um i like to keep that image going most of the time so don't let anybody know that you know

i'm not completely completely uh retarded okay so but don't tell anybody that's gonna ruin the mystique behind my channel all right uh ryan says howdy everybody this is the place thank you brother remember when we defeated the antichrist this week wars racket says billions spent on weapons and we're being defeated by lego memes did not have that on my bingo card but here we are yeah i do really like that uh professor jane clarified that and his theory that or his prediction that was not that we would win but that um or not that iran would win that we would lose because i say that on the channel all the time that's been my you know i didn't i didn't predict it by any means but that's been what how i feel like the war is going is that you know everybody is losing uh i thought for sure you showed up in the prayer

from samuel l hegsbeth so for those of you guys don't know this is a joke because pete hegseth quoted uh pulp fiction as if it was the bible as if it was a verse out of the bible and he's getting absolutely destroyed for that so shocker uh joanne thank you very much thank you no comment appreciate you being here xdpsp xdsp says now for something entirely different aliens pete when you were in the unit i wasn't in the unit brother that's that's uh delta force i was in i was in special forces uh were you a security century to her 51 no no new mexico how many aliens did you kill asking for a friend egg said no i did spend quite a bit of time in yuma though yuma which is uh got a lot of weird alien going on too but no i didn't ever was never in the unit and never defended area 51.

unfortunately unfortunately uh robert cement says the classic trump friday announcement to manipulate the market false social uh posts really have any truth to them yeah we talked about this one earlier agreed quantum says do you think there's a snowden type left somewhere in the united states government that might release the e -files uh we asked um uh we asked sorry i'm brain farting chris piota that from the fbi if that was possible uh for something like this and the way he explained it was it's like a decentralized system where they keep everything on so probably not probably probably not going to be something we would be able to have somebody like pull off and show us unfortunately that question got asked while he was on the show i don't remember his exact um the the way he exactly explained it because i wasn't in the fbi but but from what he said was

no it probably wouldn't be able to happen is uh cake's breath gonna yeah a lot of a lot of running jokes about uh old uh pete's decision to quote pole fiction is kegs breath gonna pray us boondock saints 420. one of my favorite movies by the way boondock saints i love that movie fantastic movie uh all right megs cheese says hi nate impressed by your mandarin i shouldn't be though you ever need any german translation count me in it's not as good as it used to be uh i haven't spoken mandarin like at all in three years so that was just uh pretty rusty but i used to be pretty good i learned what did i learn i actually in 2014 i think is when i actually went to uh school for it so it's been 12 years but uh you know i learned enough of it to where i can still speak it decently

i think we i think we shocked professor chang a little bit with that i didn't tell him i could speak mandarin before uh before we did the show so i think he was like what the is this uh and it also probably sounded terrible too so there's that uh all right bobby says wait no we got one right here uh do green berets take a polygraph no no we don't nope not for not to become army special forces there's different um jobs or like schools you can go to that yes this is a requirement but not just strictly to become a green beret nope no polygraph but there is there is big and like background investigations into you right so security clearance investigations like they run through your entire life but uh no polygraph no polygraph uh bobby says run inns had hostages we would be seeing it 24 7 on mainstream media 100 like

that they would be blasting that out non -stop they didn't hesitate and they took our boat crew in 2016. great point bobby and that's also why i was explaining professor jang the idea that you know first of all first of all understand delta force is very very small guys right there's there's like maybe 200 guys probably at the most in delta force so that that would be like one -fourth of the entire unit was taken hostage I'll bet you Brent Tucker probably would have heard of that by now, but I've got quite a few buddies in CAG. I've got active duty buddies in the squadrons right now that I talk to, and they said no. Unless they're lying to me, then no, maybe, but why would my buddies lie to me about that? But I asked one of them, and he was like, what the fuck are you talking about? I haven't even heard about that story, so there's that.

All right, Chris said, nothing really makes sense regarding this complete war, so them attempting that SF uranium op makes sense. Maybe the fire pilots were part of an operation to shape the battlefield prior to a larger scale raid on the Ishvan nuclear plant. Maybe, maybe, there might have been, it could have been a situation where they were shaping operations, but they didn't actually ever send anybody in when the pilot got shot down. That I would be willing, that I'd be willing to entertain for sure, but the idea that we actually sent fucking Delta and a bunch of SF guys and went and tried to raid an underground facility and all that, nah, dude, nah, I don't think so. But I do like your theory here. The idea that shaping operations for that, yeah, 100%, that could have been something that was going on, for sure. That's a very good comment.

Shane says, what about the ground covered by an injured pilot? Oh, yeah, this one's easy to explain, too. It don't make sense how he, she got up a mountain injured. Sounds like what happened during Nixon. Nixon admin. Yeah, no, so not true. Like the idea, again, I explained that. Maybe, maybe it was already explained, but ejecting from, ejecting front of plane, being under canopy, you know, you could end up 50 to 75 miles away from a plane pretty easily. You got to keep in mind, again, people discount winds at elevation, right? So when we jump out doing military freefall at 18,000 plus feet, let's say, the winds, the wind can be whipping at like 150 to 200 miles an hour. Think about how fast you're flying and how much. You can cover and also people don't fall the same, right? If, if that first pilot ejects, poof, he's gone. That jets potentially still moving at 1500 miles per hour.

The second violet ejects a couple seconds later. They're different, different elevations. One pilot weighs more than the other, right? And they're coming down. Winds also don't go the same direction at elevation. Okay. They're like winds can be moving in every different direction, depending on where you are elevation as you come down. So that can drastically shoot people in different directions. Under canopy. So that, that was a big thing they said, you know, people said, oh, he traveled a hundred miles on foot. Like, no, he didn't travel because he was a hundred, hundred miles away from the crash site. No, that's because they're not factoring in the parachute portion of that. So a hundred percent, a hundred percent possible, right? It's not as my whole point is. I don't know for sure. Right. I don't know. I wasn't there, but for people to say like, it's crazy. There's no way they would use MC one thirties to do this.

And it's like, well, yeah, but that's actually exactly what they do. Right. And that's why I showed the actual pictures of the one 23rd STS literally practicing that exact same thing that actually happened. Right. So again, just one of those things that if you've done the job, it's not quite as, it's not quite as ridiculous as it sounds. Right. And again, my point, my, my final point with that is that exonerates Donald Trump from committing war crimes, which do we want to do that? I don't know. But anyway, again, I wasn't there. So I don't know for sure, but I'm just using all the information I have plus, you know, my experience. And that's the conclusion I've come to. You're free to believe anything you want. I could be wrong for sure. Bobby says the US produces 9 million barrels of gasoline per day. China produces 2 million per day.

You can produce it if it doesn't come to market. US refineries were both built to refine Venezuela and crude. Excuse me. This is a power game, plain and simple. I mean, you're the expert, Bobby. I'm not going to disagree with you on that. From what I've heard from what the oil executives told Donald Trump is that they're not interesting in building out the refinery infrastructure in the United States because it's already built in Canada. And that's, that's just what the Chevron executive said to Donald Trump. So, but I'm not going to argue with you because you know way more than me about it. So maybe we get a little bit more context on that. But again, you're the expert, not me. So I don't argue with that. I've learned over the years. Over my time, I don't argue with people who are experts when I'm not an expert on that topic. I'm

not, you know, I just, I'm not saying you're wrong and I'm not going to argue with you. I'm saying I'm just going to default to your expertise on that and assume it's true. All right. Rogue says, who else bought the dip, talked mad trash to heretics and got strange this month? Yeah. I mean, you got to be careful. Is it a dip or is it a dead cat bounce? Because if this war doesn't end, that ramp up we've seen since the war. As Donald Trump keeps saying, the war is over, the war is over, the war is over, the war is over. And then we find out there's a ground invasion into the best. So be careful. Be careful. It's called a dead cat bounce. Be careful. Or it could go to the moon. Who knows? Stock market, like Professor Jang was saying, completely manipulated at this point. Idiot Garrett. Hey, all. Just wanted to share with everyone.

One of our sisters have fallen to cancer. Oh, that's not great. Sergeant Major Christie Adora Hartman Fields, mother of two. I would request you pray for her family. Well, that's horrible to hear. Sorry to hear that. And yes, prayers, prayers to you and your family and to Sergeant Major Hartfield. So prayers from the channel. Sorry to hear that, man. That's sad. And also very, very common. Unfortunately, cancer is so prevalent in the Special Forces community, especially in my dad's generation. Well, in the military in general. But man, they're all dying from cancer. From Agent Orange. In fact, we're going to one of my dad's best friend is being inducted into the Special Forces Hall of Fame tomorrow. Riley Lott, the NCOIC of Mike Force for seven and a half years in Vietnam. He spent six straight years in Vietnam. Never left as a Green Beret just in the jungle six years straight.

But anyway, he died from he died from bladder cancer this year. So he's being inducted in the Hall of Fame tomorrow. But yes, very, very. Very, very common. Sadly. AJ, thank you, brother. Thank you, brother. Teresa says, shout out to Professor J. Oh, we got this one already. We got this one on read. He answered your question on that one. Great conversation. Thank you. Ryan says, So what little country spelled that twice wants to put big boy pants on the U.S. and the Russia? Just say no. Yeah. Well, you would think we'd be able to tell them no, but it doesn't seem like we're able to tell them no. Why can't we tell them? No. No country with nine million people that doesn't know. It has no military outside of what we give them. We can't tell them. No, I don't know why. Why can't we tell them? No, guys. Why can't we tell them?

No, it wouldn't have anything to do with blackmail or the Epstein files. No way. No way. So I know information on the rescue pilot because active duty. I know you guys want the F -15 pilot. I know something crazy about that pilot personally that would make you laugh your ass off. And I can't tell you that because if I did, that would burn my source. But I know who he is and a hilarious story about all of this. Right. So, again, if I told you guys, you would literally laugh your ass off. But I can't tell you because, again, that would burn my source on where I get a lot of this information from. But no, he's active duty. So why would they tell you who he is? It's not how it works unless he's receiving a Medal of Honor or something like that. Keep it. Think about it this way. Do you guys know the two Medal of Honor pilots?

The Medal of Honor recipients in Benghazi? The two Delta Force operators? Do you know who they are? No, you don't because they're still active duty. And they have Medal of Honors. You don't even know their names. So, again, we don't just necessarily tell the public the identities of active duty fighter pilots or any of our Green Berets or special operators. It's just not something we're ever going to do. So, again, one of those things everybody said is crazy. Like, you didn't show the face and his picture and his name. And it's like, yeah, they're not going to do that. Because he's still, guys, understand, that pilot that was shot down is still flying planes. Right? Right now. Currently. Actively. So they're not going to just tell you who he is. Right? So just things to think about, guys. When you hear, like, crazy stuff on Twitter, like, I saw another one that was, like, he was a colonel.

There's no pilots that are colonels. And then you have somebody tell you, like, actually the vast majority of pilots are lieutenant colonels and colonels. And you go, oh. Wow. I didn't know that. Right? So just things to think about. Right? DB. U.S. Marine Corps. Thank you very much. $20. Dono. No comment. Appreciate you, though, brother. Also good looking puppy dog right there. Poleslew says a schizo to possibly beat me. Okay. Okay. Shobsy folded like 7 -2. Okay. The laurel will be green again. Bullheim. I can't even say that. 1321. All right. There we go. I don't know. I don't know the context on that. Something historically relevant. Bobby says, doesn't Turkey have 20 to 30 nuclear gravity bombs at the air base due to NATO affiliation? If the war kicks off, what would stop them from taking them? I do believe they do. Right?

I do believe they do. I believe that's correct. I got corrected on that the other day. I thought, yeah, Turkey is a nuclear armed nation. Right? Right, chat? I'm pretty sure they were. I'm pretty sure they are. I think they're not. Yeah. I said no the other day on a podcast, and I was corrected that they do. Well, maybe I was right. Let's chat GPT it. Well, and again, that we know of is always important to say, right? Because our greatest ally doesn't have any, supposedly. Let me look this up quick. I didn't think they did, but. Oh, it says, I think Bobby might be right. It says, Turkey itself does not have 20 to 30 nuclear gravity bombs at the air base due to nuclear weapons, but it is a complicated situation. Under this agreement, the United States is believed to store B61 nuclear bombs. Yeah. Look at that. Bobby nailed it. Boom.

There it is. Well, we don't argue with Bobby. 100 % correct. Exactly what he said. It's exactly what Bobby said. So there you go. He was correct. According to chat GPT, he literally said exactly what you said. So there it is. Nailed it. Nailed it, buddy. Nailed it. Now, so that makes me, here's the thing that may be technically right. When I was talking about it, technically, okay, Ryan says, I'm a fan of any conversation where Sabadi Zevi is mentioned in detail. Cheers, Nate and the professor. Yeah. Yeah, man. That dude knows a lot of history. Huh? Holy shit. Puts my historical knowledge, just crushes my historical knowledge, the way you rattle off some of that stuff. You're like, God damn, this guy's well -read. Well -read. Nate, we should have a weekly Friday wrap -up with you and Professor Jang. At this point, man, with how crazy everything is, might not be a bad idea.

I'd love to have him back on the show. If especially, we'll definitely reach out and ask him to come back on the show. If the United States launches a ground operation, like he said it is, we'll have to have him back on the show because he will be, have been right again. And the way he actually explained it, it's kind of like makes me not feel very good because a lot of it makes sense. And I could very easily. See the United States do exactly what he's predicting. And like, you know, he said, he doesn't like, he's like me, he doesn't want it to happen, but I think it's, I think it's pretty likely that we're going to see something like that.

Oof.

Oof. NATO is always rigorously overlooking situation. Steve Brown here. We don't. Holy shit, Steve. Oh God. Are you still in here, Steve? Steve Brown here. We dealt poker together for many years. Nate, love to see you here. Post -military. Been watching you since beginning. Love your content. Tell your dad I said hi too. I will tell my dad. Hi, man. Hell yeah. Dude, hit me up on a text me. Text me, man. I'd love to talk to you and see how you're doing, man. Yeah. I used to work. I worked with Steve. Well, God, what was that? 20 years ago? 20 years ago now? Almost. Yeah. Almost 20 years ago. That's crazy, man. Awesome, dude. Yeah. Text me if you're still here, bro. Very, very cool. Very, very cool to see, you know, people I used to know back in the day. Awesome. All right, Ryan. Ryan. Why can't we be friends? You all know the song.

Yeah, buddy. Yeah, buddy. Do you think that China will seek retribution against Japan for the treatment of the Chinese during the Sino -Japanese War? Well, I mean, we didn't talk about that exactly, but that's what Professor Jang was sort of alluding to when he talked about the back history between Japan and China. Those two countries really do not like each other historically and for your exact reason here. World War II. And yeah. And so there's a lot of bad blood. And so, you know, the fact that, you know, it's a little bit scary. I didn't know that. That was a that that happened with Japan. The thing what he was talking about earlier with basically China and Japan completely cutting off diplomatic relationships with each other over the last couple of months. Yikes. Yikes, yikes, yikes. All right. Do you think China will seek retribution against? Oh, we did this one. Bobby says China will seek retribution against China.

It's scary times, brother. The world is tenor box and its leaders are playing with the matches. Yeah. And they don't. That's what we talked about the end. They do not care. They do not care who gets burnt as long as it's not them. Right, Bobby? You know what I'm saying? Yes, I agree with you that way. The war is not over. No, it turns out it turns out one hour after the war was over, it was back on, back on. I thought we were going to make it 24 hours. I was talking to Aaron Love about that. I asked him. I was like, what's your time frame on when Israel breaks the ceasefire? And I don't think either of us were guessing one hour. I was hoping we'd get 24 hours. We got 13 hours last time. Would have been nice if we hit 24 hours at least. But we didn't.

It was about an hour. God bless you all. And thank you, Nate. Racial glory. Thank you, brother. Thank you. Will native Europeans take their countries back? I doubt it. That was a good conversation, too, because, yeah, Europe is fucking struggling out there, ladies and gentlemen. Again, that talk about how authoritative. Europe has become to again, they're putting people in prison for saying mean things online like in a lot of people, not like onesies and twosies who say something crazy, tens of thousands. Scary, scary. And that could come here and that could come to the United States very easily. It's already sort of starting the censorship and deplatforming and everything like that. The next step is prison, right? They can delete your YouTube channels and social media. The next step is they just throw you in jail. So we're not very far away from it, especially with the new FISA stuff. Donald Trump. Have you guys seen that?

Donald Trump? MAGA, right? Spying on American citizens, spying on American citizens is MAGA now. Did you guys see Donald Trump's post? Hold on. Let me let me see if I can pull this up. This is like where he literally says he's willing to give away his rights as America's American citizen to be surveilled. Let's let's see if I can find this. Oh, is this it? I think this is it. Let's see if I can pull this up here real quick, guys. Yeah. Here it is. Oh, my God, dude. Look at this. Look what Donald Trump posted. Talks about FISA. Anyway, I'm not going to read the whole thing. Well, he's asking for an extension of FISA 702 through the House of Representatives this week. And then he says down here, right here, after crashing out about James Comey, I am willing to risk the giving up of my rights and privileges as a citizen for our great military and country.

Let me repeat that. MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, the party of don't tread on me. Right here. The president says, I am willing to risk the giving up of my rights and privileges as a citizen for our great military and country. That is psychotic. That is Donald Trump and MAGA, everyone. Spying on American citizens is good now. Oh, these fucking people. And they'll defend it. You're going to have Officer Tatum, I'm sure, has done a video about it. You're going to have a video about why this is a good thing. Ben Shapiro is going to explain why this is a good thing. Just wait. Just wait. It's fucking crazy. Isn't that crazy? That's where we're at right now. The president of the United States talking about and tweets how he's willing to give up his rights as a citizen for the military and the government. Okay. Imagine if Joe Biden had said some shit like that.

Oh, my God. The backlash. Anyway, have Doug McGregor on a show. Oh, I would love to do that. that man i would love to do that that might be i could reach out to him i i um vanessa's really good at tracking down guests vanessa's the one who got us professor jang so uh maybe i'll sick uh sick vanessa on him he would be a good guest too if vanessa's still in the chat remind me remind me on that i don't know if she's still here or not uh all right grand bear the only way the us gets anything out of this conflict is to completely distance itself from that new jersey size nation state yeah america that's the best possible outcome right but they aren't gonna let that happen very easily ryan says many sides want to provoke god and that's dangerous and we're seeing that

we're seeing that bays thank you brother we gotta ask this one i guess he doesn't use the base theory unfortunately appreciate you brother they appreciate you uh james why wouldn't china just work on using their coal and conversion to gas tech instead of investing in oil refineries overseas well because oil is the lifeblood of society homie it's not just gas you know petroleum is usually is actually used for literally everything in uh human society so unfortunately yeah oil is is is far more important than uh just for gasoline and so it's not that like for strictly for energy purposes right as in like powering your home or your car uh yeah petroleum yeah petroleum is used for a lot of different um things that we don't think about a lot of the time yep exactly correct correct so again it's it's not as easy as just saying we don't need oil in any more unfortunately

epstein class don't pay taxes true absolutely true six's mom says zuckerberg's bunker is here in kawaii nate i did not know that i knew it was in hawaii somewhere though uh -oh i always knew it was coming but i predicted 2050 and i'd be dead man i've seen too much war aloha from kawaii great interview thank you six's mom appreciate you yeah i i didn't know it was in kawaii but i did know that he built there well what is it like 150 million dollar bunker that he built why do you need 150 150 million dollar underground bunker unless you think that mayby you might need it you're not vacationing there i don't think right but oh my gosh stacy that was a gigantic donation thank you so much i could not say what i wanted to i was censored i sent you uh ig uh you're on patreon too right if you message shoot

me it on patreon too but i'll look for it it's just uh our instagram inbox gets flooded stacy so if i don't reply if i don't respond to you there send it to me on uh on patreon and i'll uh take a look at it appreciate it you this very very generous of you thank you so much thank you but yeah i'll take a look for it when we when we get done here tonight uh bobby said i can't wait for your new studio you grab guys like this you'll be the next sean ryan yes we're gonna be able to do it in person bobby so the studio god it's it's it was done guys it was done and by i mean it's like completely renovated everything's put together it's painted the internet's there we got the fiber optic dug into it except there's not enough power running to So now the electrician has to divert power from the shop or the gym so that we can have it there.

So that way that the HVAC can come out and we can actually power air conditioning and heating as well as everything in the studio. So we're almost there. We're almost there. I think I think we're going to be there probably by this next Friday. We should have the new studio up. And then, yes, it's two. Well, it's one studio, but it's going to be two different studios. OK, so it's going to be the solo person studio like this. It's not going to look exactly like this, but it'll be pretty close. Different colors and different little bit of different stuff here and there, getting some new cool signs made. And then the second studio will be set up for in -person podcasting with guests. So that should be up in the next couple of weeks. And then I'm planning on having like as cool a guest as I can.

Unfortunately, where's J.D. at? J.D. in here. J.D. will be the first guest, of course. Right. Because J.D. lives down the street. But and he's the homie. But but, yeah, we're going to we're we're going to start doing that. Also, we're going to be able to do some really cool stuff because we're going to build we're building a gun range and we've got a combative gym coming in and all that different stuff. So we're going to be pumping out the cool content on on Patreon as well. Patreon as well. A lot of different shooting content, fitness content. We can do it from the house. So we'll put that stuff up. All right. But thank you, Bobby. Appreciate you. This is a great interview. Thank you. Thank you, Katie. Appreciate you always being here. Appreciate it. Appreciate the good feedback. Paul says Trump has won his 10th war.

He's won this. No, it's a lot more than that, because he's won this one like 18 times. And then he also has the nine other ones he supposedly won. Remember, you know, remember those or no, he ended those ones. But this one, he's won. This guy's won more wars than anybody's ever seen in their life. He's the goat of winning wars. He's the goat of starting wars, but he's also the goat of winning wars. Right. If you can win the same war 50 times like you're breaking records, baby, you're breaking records. Hell, yeah. You love to see it. Trump about to make Greece militarily defend Turkey. Are we in a Twilight Zone episode? That was that was a very interesting breakdown of Turkey's history. I did not know that about the ruling class in Turkey and who they actually are. That was very, very informative. Glad I learned that gives me a lot more context to potentially moving forward.

What's going to go on with that country? Is Netanyahu real name? I'm not going to say that out loud because it's dangerous on YouTube to even acknowledge. But that's his actual name. Just so you know, for everybody who didn't know. No, it's not his real name. His real name is that interesting. How do you respond to claims of J.D. DeLay stating that you are a Canadian psychological operation? Well, he's right. So that's true. I'm actually Canadian. And this entire thing is a psyop. So thanks to J.D. for spilling the beans on that. Appreciate it, dude. The real the real war hero. In the friend group is J.D. is J.D. J.D., as I've told you before, obviously, as a Marine, he's very, very humble. He doesn't like to talk about it. But that's the actual real that's the actual real war hero in the group.

For those who don't know. So make sure you thank J.D. for his service, because he doesn't he doesn't he's very humble. He doesn't like people to know about it. But but yeah, make sure make sure you guys thank him for his service. OK, because he was yeah, he's in the Marine Corps. People don't know that about him. All right. Let's keep moving here. Thank you, Paul. How big of a mess would a Cuban invasion in Cuba be? I don't think it will. I think Cuba is going to fold. And the reason I say that, I hate to say this because it gives Donald Trump credit. But if you're Cuba at this point, watching what happened in Venezuela and Iran, if you're Cuba, you've got to take Donald Trump's threat seriously. When Donald Trump says he's going to invade your country and kill your leader, if you're that leader, you should probably take that seriously.

Because he's psychotic and he'll fucking do it. And so I could actually see Cuba just being like and let me give you some context. If I'm Cuba, here's what I do. Donald Trump, whatever Donald Trump wants, I'm going to promise to give him. OK, and then when the midterms come and, you know, he gets all his power gutted from him and he gets impeached 17 times and you're Cuba, you just don't do anything you said you were going to do. That's that's how you survive if you're Cuba, in my opinion. That's what I would do, at least. Right. Because it's very clear, Marco Rubio. He wants to do this and Donald Trump is going to do it for him. So. So, yeah, if I'm Cuba, it's you know, it's coming. You might as well play the game a little bit. You know what I mean? Oh, also, just give him a fake peace prize.

Right. If you're Cuba, like you come to the White House and give him some fake peace prize and you're good, bro. You're good. He's not going to fuck with you. He's going to be like, I like Cuba. I like Cuba. Right. So just promise to do anything he wants. Give him a fake peace prize and you're good, man. Just be be strategic about it. And I don't think it's that hard to. To figure it out if you're Cuba with this guy. You know, I mean, that's what I would do, at least. The real supercell in America are Nate's cabs. That would make him a threat. And they're not a threat to anybody. So I'll add on to the joke. Thank you, brother. James says, are little birds the supposed choppers, the Saudis, what he's used in the Vegas paddock attack? Ian Carroll mentioned John Cohen talking about small arms deal involving portable choppers on Tucker Carlson interview.

I don't know. I don't know the context of what you mean here, but I will show. Yes, I will show you there. These are the helicopters that Delta Force and the one twenty third STS. So pararescue use. And I'll show you what these what these actually look like. Let me get a good picture of one with. We'll get some guys riding one right here. There's tons of pictures, but I want one that actually shows the whole thing. I will just pull this up. But where to go? I want to go. Nice. All right. So that's image six right here. That's a little bird helicopter. So that is what they were. That's what they had broken down on those MC one thirties that they were pulling out of the back. Is this this aircraft right here fit for four operators in it? And this is why they're so beneficial, right?

So think about it this way. If you need to rescue somebody from a mountain range, then a little bird has a much higher chance of being able to fit. They figure out somewhere to land on the side of a mountain than a Chinook helicopter in a plane. Right. The MC one thirty can't land on the side of a fucking mountain. So that's why they use this type. You use the MC one thirty to get far distances. You land it and then you have the little birds that can go into austere areas and actually be able to retrieve people. So that's why they use it that way. So so, yep, that's that's how that works. That's how that's how the little birds work. And then they're also used by Delta Force for, you know, point target target raids and things like that as well. But everybody knows who Tim Nisha Kennedy is, didn't he choke out UBL or something? I don't know.

I mean, I think he's the one that actually rescued the pilot. As far as I know, I'm pretty sure Tim actually was the one who pulled off that heroic rescue. We'll know when he writes the next book on it for sure. OK, he says, I hope you make a short clip of you speaking Mandarin. It was quite surprising. You're the first I've seen to do do that with him. Yeah, well, I'm probably the probably the first American that he's done an interview with that can speak to speak Mandarin Chinese. So there's that. And I'm not that good at it, but but I'm decent enough to carry on a conversation. Ryan says it's boner time. OK, hey, glad to have you here regardless. Karina says we can't go get our village idiot to stop illegals and rubber dinghies. Never mind open the straight of hormones. Yeah. Retruth is hilarious, not a huge fan, but reminds me of the Sacha Baron Cohen Truthberry skits on Who Is America?

I haven't seen those. I haven't seen those. I do like his stuff. I'm a big fan of Borat, obviously, but and Ali G. A.J. says, Officer Tatum likes spying so much he's asking for a two inch diameter. OK, let me restart because it made me laugh halfway through. Officer Tatum likes spying so much he's asking for a two inch diameter endoscope for his colonoscopy. That's also that's a closeted gay joke mixed in with that. I do like that. That was two jokes in one. That was two jokes in one. I do like that. A.J. Well done. This guy says, I knew you were just B.S. Commie propaganda. Yeah. Yeah. We talked a lot about communism on this stream. I literally literally not word one word about communism or socialism on this entire episode. And that's your comment. Nice job, bud.

For much can treat. Hell yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it. Interesting that Pakistan came forward as the mediator here. The Pakistani population overwhelmingly supports Iran in this war. Do you think popular? Do you think the popular with in Pakistan is impacting negotiations? Well, the professor's Jane points is like this is being sort of conducted by China through Pakistan, which makes far more sense than again, like when I first heard this, too. I was like, why the fuck would Pakistan be involved with this? But then you think about the entire region and how connected, obviously, Pakistan and China are. We're like, OK, this kind of makes more sense that way. So that was a good take, I think. I buy Jeng on that. With all the students they talk, you should have on Annie Jacobson. Great show tonight, brother. I don't know who Annie Jacobson is. I don't know who that is, but I always do.

When you guys tell me these names, I put them up or I let's see if I recognize her. Sometimes I don't know their names. Hmm. I don't think I recognize her, but I'll look into her stuff whenever you guys suggest people. I always look them up. Thank you, though. Boomers lead poisoning. It shows up on test. Yeah, probably. Probably. Probably. It's the fluoride not letting you go to bed because J.D. Delay left to get milk 18 years ago and didn't come back because our love child isn't famous. No, J.D. is not old enough. We were me and J.D. have been friends since I don't know how long ago now. Since I was twenty one. So twenty years almost. Whoa. Oh, shit. Shit. We're old, bro. We're old. We're old. We weren't old. We didn't used to be old. Now we're old. That was a long time ago. All right. Ryan

said effing outrageous defies a shot in Congress is like one of us, one of us to fuck. I know. Right. Like what? Who says that? But like MAGA, though, right? MAGA is going to cheer it on. OK, let's let's talk about why surveilling people without a warrant is good. That's good now. Yay. Chris has discovered you a couple of weeks ago. Love your show. Greetings from Vancouver Island. Well, appreciate you having here. That's a good looking puppy dog, by the way, right there. Stacey again. Geez, thank you so much, Stacey. Very generous of you tonight. J.D. said we need more supers. There's one. I want to protest the freaking Trump. Oh, God, I know it's putting up that's bigger than Lincoln. So many dirty words. God, he's so obsessed with this thing. And I feel like, no, that's the ballroom shit. I saw there was a judge. I don't know if it was a

Supreme Court or not, but there was a judge that's blocked the construction of the ballroom right now, and he's super pissed about it. But we need to get that with the with the arc because God or just tear it down. Right. This the second he leaves office, you just tear it down. That's probably a good way to do it, too. I don't know if we'll be able to stop him from putting it up at this point. Oh, my God. The narcissism on this guy building building arcs to himself. Jesus Christ. Arc to Trump. Is that what he's calling it? Arc to Trump. Oh, ask this man. How come he speaks such clear English? This dude speaks. English too well to just be a high school teacher. Smells like an operative that literally he literally sounds like every educated Chinese person who speaks English as a second language I've ever talked to in my life, so I don't know, maybe you can't hear the accent.

But as someone who can speak Mandarin, I can very clearly hear his accent. So, OK, Jesus Christ, man. Also, like, what is he what is his psyop? He just does predictive history. He just talks about history and predicts things. It's not like he's out. He's not pushing an agenda. So what exactly what exactly would be the psyop, right? He's not like Laura Loomer, Mark Levine, like these people shilling for the government. He just literally has a social media channel where he does really cool stuff about history. I don't know. You're missing me on the psyop with that one. Oh, by the way, like I said, we literally have Chinese nationals from China. That are green berets with top secret security clearances. They're like the sketchiest backgrounds ever that are definitely spies. So I'm not too worried about Professor Chang. OK, yeah. And there you go. He's a Yale graduate, so he's pretty smart fucking guy.

Yeah. All right. I know everything's a psyop, though, right? Everybody's a fed. Everything's a psyop. Now that's where we're at. There's no real people anymore. So his mom says, trust me, it's the talk of the island. What about Zuckerberg's bunker here? Why? I spent a lot of time on that land before he bought it. It's beautiful now. Kind of scary. Aloha from quite interesting. Interesting. Yeah. Yeah. You never like to see that in a place like where you live. Billionaires coming in, buying up land and doing crazy shit like that with it. Hmm. Steve Bannon might be pissed. His C -band might have pissed his pants on TV today. Just seeing that. Is that real? Like he actually might have. I got to see that. That'd be funny. We could prove them unfit. No, serious. It's the leaded gas. Oh, boomers. August says, do you think

the Comtards dropping messages are legit or how are these government dipshits or are they just retarded? Love your show, brother. I mean, I don't know, dude. I don't know. We get crazy people in here all the time, man. Never know what to expect. I don't know. And most likely they're just fucking retarded. It's usually how that works. Should do should do film prayers like Hegseth. Oh, well, life of Brian. But he's next, the Messiah. He's a naughty boy. Yeah. He Hegseth's Pulp Fiction quotes quoting as if they were scripture from the Bible, by the way. Boy, theater kid. David says, I like your take as a left leaning military guy. Can you possibly make a short episode of your direct military experience and how it affects your current view? Yeah, I mean, I've done a bunch of stuff like that already in the past. My current military experience. And how does it affect my current view?

Sure. Right. This is this is why I'm antiwar. OK, you know, the amount of people I know that are dismembered, missing limbs. And not only that, but the psychological toll of war, even for guys active duty special operators that don't realize that at the time, the amount of phone calls I've gotten from my buddies or teammates putting a gun in their mouth, I'm just fucking tired of it. I know. The toll that it's paid. I've had so many buddies kill themselves that that I do not that I'm not willing to needlessly send the next generation in to go fight a worthless war for a different for for a foreign country like I did. Right. And so just my generation got fucking tricked into doing it. And so as veterans and combat veterans, I think it's very important that again, I'm not antiwar completely if there's a valid war to fight in the United States to fight it, I'm all about it.

But, you know, random wars in the Middle East for no reason. Yeah, man, I've seen just too much. I've seen too much negative from it that I just refuse to support it. So that's that's the main reason. You know what I mean? The main reason is the PTSD and the suicide from veterans. Veteran suicide is out of control. For those of you don't know, you've heard 22 a day, right? That's the physical act of pulling the trigger to gun to your head. What people don't realize is that doesn't count drug overdoses. And when you count drug overdoses, the the veterans shouldn't say the S -word on live streams because YouTube will demonetize it, but the amount of the amount of oh, if you factor in overdoses as well, it's about 20 more than that. So it's close to forty five veterans a day and active active duty and veterans forty five a day when you put both together.

So, yeah, we don't we don't take care of our veterans at all. That's why we have one hundred thousand homeless veterans on the street. So I'm sorry if we can't take care of our veterans, I'm not going to support sending them off to go get maimed and die in a foreign war. So hopefully that explains it. But that's that's why I have the take that I do. It's my it's my job as a veteran with the platform to make sure that doesn't happen or do the best I can to protest it when it does, you know. So. All right. Last one here. Do they speak English and what? Pete Higgseth, probably. All right, guys, we made it to the end. Thank you all so much. This is a really fun episode. Hope you guys had fun. I hope everybody learned something. I definitely learned some stuff I didn't know tonight, which was which was nice.

One last one. Million man marched to pee on the arch once built. That thing's definitely getting vandalized. There's no doubt about that for sure. J.D. says, oh, I don't want to do it. I would do a poll, but it would probably get our channel banned if I even talked about it. So let's let's not do that because I know how you guys are going to answer that question and then it's going to get clipped and I'm going to make the the the next top ten anti -Semite list if we do that. So I don't want to do that. I've already already had hit pieces done on me. Right. So we don't want to we don't want to make the top ten. Ian Carroll made the top ten. If you guys didn't see Ian Carroll, our buddy Ian made number eight on that's from Israel.

Israel put out their list of top ten Dan Bilzerian, number one, the number one spot. She you see who won number two, Greta Thunberg. Greta, I guess we have to like Greta. Greta now. Well, I didn't have that on my twenty twenty six bingo card. Yeah. Greta Thunberg right behind Dan Bilzerian. Wow. Wow. And then, yeah. So all right, guys, nine o 'clock. Pretty good episode. We start a little bit late tonight as well. So we will be back Tuesday night. I'm sure we will have plenty of new things to talk to. This weekend is going to be interesting because, again, Donald Trump announced peace on Friday, which typically means, of course, not peace right over the weekend. Whatever he announces on Friday, usually the opposite comes from that. So, yeah, we'll have to wait and see what happens there. So thank you all. Thanks to all the moderators. Thanks to all our regulars. Thanks to all of you who've been on the show.

Thanks to all the super chat donators. Appreciate it. Thank you to Professor Jang as well for coming on the show. And yes, we will be back Tuesday with our regular scheduled live stream. Five p.m.. All right, guys, I'm out of here. Thank you so much. I'll catch you all in the next one. See you later. Have a good night.