So they're obviously panicking and desperate to make this work.

so what has succeeded thus far in creating a desert where they're where they're formerly was done what do I mean by that the the world that you and I knew on the Arabian Peninsula all these Emirates these oil protectorates and statelets and Saudi Arabia itself that we inherited from the British Empire they're going out of existence they're not going to survive that is a disaster for us because that's been the cornerstone of our influence and power in the region All of our bases have been destroyed or so badly damaged that they're not usable.

Why is that? Because Iran understands in order to defeat Israel, Iran must drive us out of the region.

We're out for all intents and purposes.

It's pretty clear we're not going to go back in again.

We can't afford it.

Now, why didn't somebody think of that before we started this? Because they didn't understand the capabilities that we have been witnessing in Ukraine and now seeing in the Gulf.

I mean, what do you make of this firing? What do you think this has to do with?

Are we doing this?

It looks bad.

Uh, in, in fact, it looks like it could happen on 4 or 5 November.

The reason I bring that up, it just so happens to be a full moon, which would lend credence to the argument that lunatics are ruling us in Washington DC.

You know, you, you've gone down the list of reasons, and there are a couple that I would add, because I recently went into DC and I talked to some people.

Some of the people I talked to are just below the decision-maker level.

And these are the usual smug resume builders who come in and out through every administration, hoping that at some point they'll get a high-level appointment.

Yeah.

They charge 0%

interest for the money that they provide to banks, and then the banks charge you 7% interest for a mortgage.

When three out of five Americans discover that they're broke, all they have to do is look carefully at the Federal Reserve.

And the Federal Reserve thrives on something else.

In fact, my good friend that contributed to my remarks today, Dave Ramaswamy, he's standing up against the wall in the back.

He loves the term fake money.

because that's really what we're dealing with right now.

Seems to be a good business model, at least for the people that want to do that.

Yes, I've s- but why don't you explain it to us?

Well, I think this is very important because you can't view what happens in Ukraine and what's happening in the, in the Middle East as entirely separate.

I think there's a great deal of connectivity.

The French decided to board a Russian tanker at sea.

That's, of course, illegal.

Uh, you can't just board a ship, uh, with your national armed forces.

French military did it.

And so, obviously, this money laundering scheme is more important than any peace talks or any will of the American people, don't you think?

LBJ himself signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty for the United States, but nobody respects international law.

Yeah.

I, I think there are some people out there who try to, but, you know, it's like everything else.

When you put the name international in front of it, somebody has to enforce it.

Who's going to do that? That's the problem with the United Nations.

It's a good idea, well intended, but no one is going to enforce anything.

Uh, y- I think President Trump is also very concerned about the state of affairs in Israel.

... from what your friends have told you?

Do you think the Russians understand that, uh, there are two disparate teams that whisper into his ear? The American firsters, like the vice president and Mr., uh, Witkof and the Neocons like, uh, Sebastian Gorka and Marco, uh, Rubio?

I don't know what, uh, the vice president is saying because the vice president is equally uninformed about Ukraine and Russia.

I don't see much evidence he understands what's happening over there.

The only thing he has said, which is to his credit is, "I think we should, uh, terminate this and move on." Okay, thank you very much.

Uh, but there's no understanding of what that means.

How do you terminate it? And you have to terminate it along the lines we just discussed.

You can't make statements and say, "Well, I've had it.

Do we have that already?

Where is he going with all this?

Mr. Netanyahu has, right now, in his mind and in the minds of his countrymen, the unconditional backing of the United States and access to the employment of the United States Armed Forces in whatever way he chooses.

That's very important to understand.

The man wants to settle, in his mind, accounts with all of his neighbors.

That means they have to be subjugated, killed, uh, destroyed, if necessary, in order to make the world safe for Israel and the greater Israel project.

That's where he is.

So, he's unafraid and, and would seem to be, at a distance, incautious, but for the reasons I just outlined, he's unafraid to challenge anybody, because he thinks he can take on the world, at least in his part of the world, in the Middle East, because he has our unconditional backing.

Does Iran pose the remotest threat to the national security of the United States of America, Colonel McGregor?

So, why are we still talking to this guy?

Well, uh, I'm still wondering why he was not, uh, picked up and forcibly removed from the Oval Office when he made a fool out of himself and, uh, challenged the president of the United States, uh, in front of, uh, the American and global public.

I thought the man was insulting and out of touch with reality.

Uh, for whatever reason, Donald Trump overlooked that, which is incomprehensible to me, and continued to treat him seriously.

I, I think we have to understand something.

Donald Trump was never accurately informed about what was happening in Ukraine.

Uh, when people tried to tell him, and there were a few of us that did, that this, uh, war was going to end disastrously for Ukraine, and I certainly did in April of 2022, and that, uh, every effort should be made to stop the war as soon as possible.

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Mm-hmm.

Now, can we escape this, uh, trap that he finds himself in? And he is trapped, and the trap was set for him long before he was elected.

You saw that at the convention, uh, when they displayed the Israeli flag, and above it, it said, "Israel first." And then you look at the people who were appointed to the key positions, all of whom, uh, effectively swore allegiance to Israel first and said, "Whatever Israel needs and wants, we're gonna provide it.

Uh, that's our number one priority." I think this is really Donald Trump, more than anything else, who's just not comfortable with the whole idea of going to war.

It's, it's not, it's not what he wants to do.

Now, I just don't know if he can withstand the tremendous pressure that's being brought against him, uh, to do something.

You know what I mean? This is also true from the Hill.

Mm-hmm.

Well, what do you think of what he said? He's trying to gainsay the fact that this was an operational plan with timing and military equipment listed, but because it didn't include other things, somehow it doesn't fulfill the requirement of an attack plan.

Uh, first of all, he's, he's in territory he's not familiar with, let's face it.

Uh, Mr. Hegseth has not operated at high levels in the Department of Defense or in the Intelligence Committee or State Department or anywhere else that I'm familiar with.

So, I don't think he has the background and the experience that he probably needs to fully grasp what he's done.

And obviously, he's trying to defend himself against attacks.

And I, I certainly understand how he feels because he's watching people attack him for what he considers to be modest or minor in the way that, uh, people formally, uh, attacked, uh, members of the, you know, the Biden administration, whether it was Lloyd Austin or somebody else, uh, on what he considers to be equally specious grounds.

The point is, though, Judge, he's wrong.

Colonel, um, what do you think would be the reaction in Moscow or Beijing to an American attack on Tehran?

Right.

... and everybody said, "Oh, no, that's a lie.

He's working for Putin or something." And then they were attributing these losses the Ukrainians were taking to the Russians.

Well, now at least we have the true picture, and you're, you're showing it, and it needs to be shown to people, because this has been a terrible, terrible disaster for Ukraine.

Uh, Russia, of course, has suffered.

It's paid a price.

It's lost 100,000 Russians, probably, uh, 10,000 Chechens on top of that.

Yeah.