Jul 9, 2026 · 53 min · 10 segments
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Cory DoctorowGuestBro
Jack Shalom
Prairie MillerHost
Amanda PeetGuestAnd as you've probably noticed, the U.S. empire has continued to trade blows with Iran, even though there's talk of, you know, ceasefires and deals and all these things.
The reality is that the kinetic conflict has never stopped.
And I can't see how it can stop until there's a definitive victor.
Let's talk.
Hello, Garland here.
And a couple of things.
One thing is obvious.
Notwithstanding the discussions that are going on, the talk of the Trump administration or the U.S. wanting, quote, some kind of a deal, what that means, let's be honest.
We don't even know what the definition of a deal would be anymore.
We don't even know what the definition.
We've heard this term deal when it comes to Ukraine.
We've heard, oh, Trump wants a grand bargain with China and Russia and whoever.
We've heard these types of things.
A, what Trump wants, right? Trump wants this, Trump wants that.
We've heard other discussions of what the trajectory of kind of the imperial foreign policy, you know, of the global, whatever term you like.
If you like imperial, if you like globalist, if you like neocon, whatever term you like, we all know what it means, right? And meanwhile, what we get in America, particularly in the West, is this very biased view of the world in which, number one, the US is smarter than everyone else.
It's really, I'll put it to you like this, US foreign policy, it's really kind of a weird and contradictory way of viewing the world, right? In one way, it's a recognition that the people that run this country are degenerate, the Epstein class that run the West, the Epstein class are degenerates.
It's a recognition that they're really incompetent.
They're diabolical and evil.
But let's get back to this.
They're degenerate and incompetent.
There's a recognition of that.
Right.
However, the contradiction is that many people who who will say things like that, they'll say, well, look at Trump and Rubio and Hexeth.
And as you've probably noticed, the U.S. empire has continued to trade blows with Iran, even though there's talk of, you know, ceasefires and deals and all these things.
The reality is that the kinetic conflict has never stopped.
And I can't see how it can stop until there's a definitive victor.
Let's talk.
Hello, Garland here.
And a couple of things.
One thing is obvious.
Notwithstanding the discussions that are going on, the talk of the Trump administration or the U.S. wanting, quote, some kind of a deal, what that means, let's be honest.
We don't even know what the definition of a deal would be anymore.
We don't even know what the definition.
We've heard this term deal when it comes to Ukraine.
We've heard, oh, Trump wants a grand bargain with China and Russia and whoever.
We've heard these types of things.
A, what Trump wants, right? Trump wants this, Trump wants that.
We've heard other discussions of what the trajectory of kind of the imperial foreign policy, you know, of the global, whatever term you like.
If you like imperial, if you like globalist, if you like neocon, whatever term you like, we all know what it means, right? And meanwhile, what we get in America, particularly in the West, is this very biased view of the world in which, number one, the US is smarter than everyone else.
It's really, I'll put it to you like this, US foreign policy, it's really kind of a weird and contradictory way of viewing the world, right? In one way, it's a recognition that the people that run this country are degenerate, the Epstein class that run the West, the Epstein class are degenerates.
It's a recognition that they're really incompetent.
They're diabolical and evil.
But let's get back to this.
They're degenerate and incompetent.
There's a recognition of that.
Right.
However, the contradiction is that many people who who will say things like that, they'll say, well, look at Trump and Rubio and Hexeth.
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