And what can you tell us about Ansarullah? What am I not understanding?

Well, it's a good question, and I think that's why so many people are captivated by what's happening.

Even if they despise Ansar Allah, they're still captivated by it because it doesn't really make a lot of sense when you lay it out in the way you did, when you have these great powers stacked against the Houthis.

And...

You know, it's multifaceted why they're so capable.

They're capable in these big swooping operations, taking the entire Red Sea coast, as we saw 5,200 square kilometers in a matter of 72 hours, 48 hours, something like that it was in the opening operation.

And now we see this, you know... what we would describe as very gruesome, bloody urban warfare that is going to be and is already taking place in the Thais government.

And I'm sure you've seen the gruesome videos of the PLC forces just driving over them, mowing them down.

So what do you make of these developments, the, the ones I've just mentioned, but also everything over the past few weeks?

Yeah.

Thanks for having me on, Mario.

It, none of it is really all that surprising.

We saw Yemen's Ansar Allah basically put up a final ultimatum to the Saudis when they were on their way back from Iran, from the funeral of Sayyed Ali Khamenei when they were...

The Saudis were, uh, firing missiles at the Sana'a International Airport, and they said, "Look, you guys need to end this siege and blockade on our country or something bad's gonna happen.

Uh, but we just need the siege to end." They're, they weren't asking for anything more.

And know more about Yemen than you ever will.

And therefore, effectively, Ukraine might well cease to

exist.

It's definitely possible.

It's definitely possible.

And if you just look at the map and see where Russia is utilizing the highest proportion of its missiles and advanced technologies trying to shut down the Ukrainian military and shut down the transfer of military cargo...

It would line up to what you're pointing out here.

It would line up with going all the way to Odessa and beyond on the coastline and making Ukraine a landlocked country.

to famine proportions for so many years they might be they are god-fearing people they might pity the ruling houses of the neighboring countries on the other hand they might say we've come this far maybe we should go all the way what do you think

This is a truth that's been largely forgotten, certainly not present in the mainstream narrative.

Yes.

And it all started, uh, you know, with the first, the first shot was fired in the city of Sloviansk, which to those, uh, in the audience that are following this, uh, this battle very closely, you'd know that Sloviansk and Kramatorsk are the two last major cities in Donetsk controlled by the Ukrainians.

But very soon there's gonna be Russian forces inside the city centers of both of those respective towns.

And, uh, this was all started by Ukrainians.

It, it was Ukrainians who wanted either sovereignty, freedom, independence, or, or unity with Russia because they knew their government, which had been couped by the West, by, by London and by the United States, no longer represented them, and there was no chance at, uh, having their democratic will reflected in the halls of power in Kiev.

And, uh, it, it, it is kind of poetic when you look at it and think about the fact that, uh, so many years ago it all started back in this city, and now it's, now it's coming back.

Mm-hmm

Are they seeking a separate deal with Saudi Arabia or are they going to coordinate more closely on that front with Tehran?

I think what it comes down to is simply the siege on their country.

I mean, Ansar Allah already controls 70% of the population in Yemen, despite the fact that it's a relatively small patch of the map if you look at it.

A lot of it is just... dry, arid land with no population centers when you move into these regions that are not controlled by Ansar Allah.

So I think what they care about is being able to use their airports right now, making sure they can use their ports effectively as well.

But Looking into the future, of course, they want international acceptance.

They don't want Russia and China to have a charge d'affaires in Riyadh to the Saudi-backed SPC government in wherever.

now we saw this, uh, a couple of weeks ago, uh, Putin went out to the Kural islands and I don't know, maybe you're not, maybe you don't know enough about this, but it's pretty in the West treated as sort of like a Gonzo story, but he went to the Kural islands, aggravated the Japanese, um, uh, Is it possible though, the reason that he's, and he gave apparently orders to the Russian Pacific fleet to seize or potentially seize French and Italian cargo ships in retaliation for the so-called shadow fleet being, uh, you know, taken by the British and the U S um, Is it possible, though, that the Russian government is looking to pivot east after they do whatever they're going to do in Ukraine?

Talk to us a little bit about what's going on in the US and some of the pushback just for reporting the truth on the ground in Iran.

Yeah, you'd think that, uh, someone would be charged with treason or have their passport revoked or be charged with some sort of a felony if they were a sitting member of Congress and taking money from a foreign government and then using that money, uh, a-as a bribe to then go and cheerlead genocide in Gaza and the nuking of Iran.

You'd think that would be, like, the qualifying threshold, uh, for, for someone to be charged with treason.

But instead, we are the targets of that because we're reporting the truth.

Uh, just like George Galloway in his home country, he has become a target as well.

And, uh, I guess, I guess that we, we... we're not gonna get a pat on the back for saying the truth.

We're not gonna get a pat, and no one should expect that.

What do you make of it?

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I think that the big problem here is whether or not America can survive for the foreseeable future.

I mean- We, for the first time in 41 years, have zero, uh, oil imports coming from Saudi Arabia for a full month.

First time in 41 years that's ever happened.

And I guess for the, uh, oil executives in America, thank God that Trump, uh, kidnapped Venezuelan President Maduro, because as you and myself and many others predicted, that was the necessary step that the regime had to take before launching Epstein fury, uh, so they could safeguard our energy imports, 'cause they knew that everything would be shut down effectively, uh, if they launched this large-scale war on Iran.

But, you know, the, the overwhelming majority of the American people, I don't need to repeat this, but they, they oppose this war, they oppose what our government is doing.

Do you?

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Um, the, uh, no, the, the, I mean, the funeral was ongoing.

We were in Tehran.

There was a bunch of people there, obviously.

And we went to that square angle of square, which means revolution square.

And they hold these like night nightly rallies there.

And, um, The moment we got there, initially, we were having a little bit of difficulty getting into the backstage area.

But I still prefer Western values, American values to Chinese values, an autocratic system like China or an autocratic system like Russia.

Uh, but what did it feel like to be there, uh, with your boots on the ground, as it were? Did you experience, for example, any enmity from Iranian people? After all, it was your country that killed him.

No, I, I, there was, there was no enmity whatsoever.

I mean, I think a, a lot of Iranians were happy to, to see that there are Americans willing to come visit and to learn about their country, their culture, their faith, and, uh, you know, it's a multi-faith society.

I went to the Armenian Christian Church.

Uh, we went to the synagogue that got...

Jewish synagogue, which got blown up, by the way, by Israel in the Ramadan War, and seemingly none of the, you know, Zionist Jewish leaders in Washington, D.C. are upset about that.

Uh, but ev- everyone was just very pleased, and all I had to say to them was, "There are many more Americans at home who feel the same exact way I do, uh, who not only oppose this war, but have a deep love for the Iranian people," because it's the people that power the revolution in that country, which is striking much more than a bloody nose at the empire, which is oppressing the same Americans, uh, back at home that hold these beliefs.

Uh, it is quite an uns- potentially, quite an unstable political situation in the US right now.

Is the war against Iran over or not?

Thanks for having me on, George.

Uh, I don't think it's over.

I, I...

You look at the positioning of the military assets that the US is placing in the region, and they are only increasing.

And we know that they've sent, uh, two of these bands of marine expeditionary units into the region.

Uh, we know that they've sent about 6 to 10,000 troops from the 82nd Airborne Division.

In fact, it, it recalls the murder of the schoolgirls in Manab on the first day of the 39-day war.

Is it going to come to an end anytime soon? And if so, how?

I think that's the question on everyone's mind.

I mean, it could have come to an end, hypothetically, the day that Trump first entered the Oval Office.

As I was saying before my internet cut out, my apologies, uh, it is quite simple to end these conflicts.

Everyone makes it seem like Trump has so many problems that he has to solve, but the truth is, you and I both know, is he's creating all the problems.

All he has to do is drop the sanctions on Russia, drop the sanctions on Iran, give these countries their frozen assets back to them, uh, the assets that they illegally seized all across the world.

And of course, you know, there has to be a new security framework for Europe in the case of Russia and for the Gulf and, uh, you know, Arab countries in the case of Iran.

Uh, again, I ask, is this madness, or is there something that we're not seeing?