U.S. Sustains SERIOUS Losses In Iran Conflict! Jim Carrey Body Double Controversy! w/Max Blumenthal

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Heat. Heat. Hey, hey, hey. So there's been a shocking development in the Jeffrey Epstein saga and it's almost conclusive proof. It's as close to conclusive proof, I guess, as we can ever get that he's not dead. Jeffrey Epstein had his prostate removed. And how do we know? Because it's in the the Epstein files. Here it is. You have high testosterone and still have a need for Viagra because you don't have a prostate, right? Jeffrey Epstein. Correct. So, he didn't have a prostate. Here's another one. A patient Epstein. Jeffrey. This is from LabCore. This is in the files. It says after radical prostate ectomy. So he had a radical prostate ectomy. This is from the autopsy of Jeffrey Epstein. His bladder had 5 milliliters of cloudy yellow urine. The prostate is slightly and diffusely enlarged with marked enlargement of the vermalabetanum. The testes are unremarkable. Boy, you don't want to hear that about your testes, do you? Grock. Brock, is it possible to grow a replacement prostate? Grock says, "No, it's currently not not a not possible to grow a full replacement prostate gland for clinical use in humans. While research has made impressive progress in understanding prostate regeneration and creating lab grown models, no technology exists today to produce a transplantable, fully functional human prostate replacement suitable for implantation." So, so note if Jeffrey Epstein autopsy notes the health of his prostate, but it's known that he had previously had his removed, then he either miraculously grew a new one or that wasn't his body. There's really no other conclusions to be had. I agree with you, Awakened Outlaw. I agree with you. He didn't have a prostate, and the body that went through the autopsy did have a prostate, conclusively proving that that is not Jeffrey Epstein's body that they showed us. Jeffrey Epstein is 100% still alive. I'm gonna go with 100%.

Hey, Hey, hey, hey. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. You are live. Jimmy Door. >> Hi. We've got uh uh Max Blumenthal coming up at the five o'clock hour. We have Scott Ritter coming up in just a half hour. But right now, I want to show you this. Jim Carrey uh received an award in France. Uh, it's like their equivalent of their Oscar. And so I just want to show you this is this is >> this is supposed to be him after he received his after he received his award. Now you tell me if this guy behaves, acts, talks, tells jokes, or even looks like Jim Carrey. You tell me. >> It's a wonderful feeling. I really uh took on a pretty big challenge trying to do my speech in French. So, you know, I wrote it and I researched it and I practiced it like crazy. But, you know, it's uh then I watched everybody like talking a thousand miles an hour up there receiving the rewards and and I was like, I'm dead. >> Okay. Jim Carrey never does that. He never tells a lame joke and then laughs at it him at his own joke. He never does that. That's not how he >> do weirder than that. That's not how he acts at that's not how he acts at uh awards ceremonies. He mocks them. In fact, here I'll show you. Here's here's him mocking the awards at the Golden Globe. Watch this. >> Our solar system. I am twotime Golden Globe winner Jim Carrey. You know, when I go to sleep at night, I'm not just a guy going to sleep. I'm two-time Golden Globe winner Jim Carrey going to get some well-needed shutye. And when I dream, I don't just dream any old dream. No, sir. I dream about being threetime Golden Globe winning actor Jim Carrey because then I would be enough. It would finally be true and I could stop this this terrible search for what I know ultimately won't fulfill me. But these are important, these awards. I don't want you to think that just because if you blew up our solar system alone, you wouldn't be able to find us or any of human history with the naked eye. But from our perspective, this is huge. It's huge. >> I am. So that's how he he was mocking the the importance >> of this French award, Jimmy. >> But so now here he is at another award show even more recent fashion weeks. This is the first time I've run in to Jim Carrey. >> Wait, tell me, is it true you're wandering the streets? You need a date to the party with them? >> No, no, no. I'm I'm I'm doing just fine. Uh I just uh you know, there's no meaning to any of this. So, I I wanted to find the most meaningless thing that I could f come to and join and uh and uh and here I am. >> They're celebrating >> I mean, you got to admit it's completely meaningless. >> Well, they say they're celebrating icons inside. >> Celebrating icons. Boy, that is just the absolute lowest aiming, you know, possibility that we could come up with. It's like icons. What do you do? You believe in icons? I don't believe in personalities. I don't believe that you >> So that's how he feels about icons and award. So for them to give him an award in France. So this is like this is like a >> new forehead. >> It's like a lifetime. They not only gave him this new award, they gave him a new forehead. They gave him new eyes. They gave him a new >> Star Trek alien. >> He They gave him a new personality cuz that's not how he acts. That's how he acts. He doesn't act like he acted in this. >> That is not how he acts. In fact, this is what Jim Carrey looks like. This is what he looked like at that award. People are saying, "Well, he had face work. >> He had eye work." Well, does when you do get eye work, does it change your eyes from brown to blue? Cuz this guy has blue eyes. Do you really think Jim Carrey, a guy who gives a about Hollywood, gives a about any of that stuff, actually went and he's wearing colored contact eye uh contact lenses and then he got a faceelift and he got Botox. I'm finding this very very hard to believe. That is not Jim Car's eyes. That's notice eye color at all until you just pointed it out. >> There it is. Look at this. That that those eyes are blue. These eyes are brown. Jim always had and no matter what light you're in. So do you really think Jim Carrey is so if that's Jim >> sent this double >> what's that? >> What company? So Jim Carrey didn't want to go to France for his award. >> So he did not want to go >> and they had this guy from >> And so what makes me think that first of all and here's another So these aren't his teeth. Um >> Oh my god. >> So um this is what he looked like a year ago uh on his birthday. That's what he looked like a year ago on his birthday. Okay. >> Wait, what? >> So, just notice that Jim Carrey is lefty and he always does left. >> Sign his autograph. There are three details that suggest he's not the real Jim Carrey. First, he used his right hand to sign autographs for fans, but it's well known that the real Jim Carrey is left-handed, and he himself has confirmed this in interviews. Whether writing or casually holding things in public, Jim Carrey always uses his left hand as it's an ingrained habit. The impersonator might have learned the appearance but overlook this small detail. Secondly, his appearance is drastically different from Jim Car's. The real Jim Carrey has his signature neat short hair with a relaxed facial structure that exudes energy even without exaggerated expression. >> I I don't care about that. But here he is. Um what is this? Oh, wait. I want to show you this. >> Yeah. >> So, I want to show you this. Here he is on David Letterman a few years ago. Hustleb got this. Uh now we were uh talking about Jim's problem uh with the the as he calls him the stalkerazzi. >> This is the phrase that I stalk you. He co coined that. He came up with that. So what how do you handle it? What is the solution? Cuz a lot of folks uh would be interested in this. What do you do? >> I uh I've done this a few times now and it's it's using a decoy. >> I'm sorry. A decoy. >> Using a decoy. It sounds so ridiculous, but it works like a >> like a double. >> It's fantastic. >> Like like a Jim Carrey double. >> Jim Carrey double. >> Oh yeah. That's amazing. So what I do is I send him off in one direction. >> Sucks all the press in that direction and I can just have my day wherever I want. Totally unelected. It's fantastic. >> Uh >> well they say the best ideas are the simplest ones and this really couldn't be more simp. >> So there he is admitting that he's used a body double in the past. So I I think it's almost 100% certainty that he's punking the people in France giving him this award because that is not Jim Carrey >> because the detail of the eye color is I didn't see it until just just now but that's almost sounds like he get one where I leave a clue that if they could spot it if they want you know like that seems like >> Jim Carrey shows up on fashion week on a red carpet mocking how how uh vacuous it is and how meaningless it is and how pointless it is and then he would go use colored contact. So this that doesn't make any sense. Uh that doesn't make any sense. Although uh it could be one of these. Have you ever seen this? >> So they have these masks out there. The CIA has had them for decades since at least at least the early 90s. somebody in George Bush the first his cabinet a woman wore a mask and she went into a meeting and he didn't know the difference. So these are the kind of masks they can do and they say that Joe Biden definitely there was definitely more than you can turn it up now. There was definitely more than one Joe Biden. We pointed that out. >> Jimmy, what did you just say? I I couldn't hear none of it cuz that Tik Tok music was so loud. But what were you just saying about that mask? >> Oh no. I'm saying that the CIA has had these masks for decades that and that somebody inside George Bush the first cabinet wore a mask to a meeting and he couldn't tell the difference. So the CIA's been doing this and so Joe Joe Biden there's definitely been two Joe Biden's and here's someone watch this. Tell me if this isn't a guy wearing one of those CIA masks. >> North Carolina and he was a very conservative guy who was >> so he goes to scratch his neck. >> Oh my gosh. That's a mask. >> And there it is. >> Holy cow. He always had >> you tell me that's not a mask. >> No, he's just really >> Do you see this Kurt? >> And he was a very conservant guy who was very very >> Oh my gosh, that's a mask. >> So he's itching himself right where the mask go. And he's like, "Ah, I got an itch under this mask and he screwed up." So this >> So he's dead. The guy's dead probably. He's been dead for some time. Is that what I'm getting from this? And they used an autopen. But Trump's not going to do any pro. Well, may some people are saying that because he did this on Jimmy Kimmel. Is that >> So now he kept doing this and he says it's a symbol of the Illuminati and I've been told I don't I can't confirm this. I but there's serious rumors out there and I've been told that they dubbed in audience laughter after they they shot this because it was so awkward. So what let's watch it and just keep in mind that it's a good possibility that the laughter you're going to hear now has been dubbed in. Have you? Um >> Oh, like you don't know what it is. >> You don't know what that is. >> I have no idea. >> You don't know. Jimmy Fallon doesn't know. David Letterman doesn't know. We don't know. >> All the comics and show business don't know what this is. >> Right. Yeah. >> What is it? >> Come on, Jimmy. Seriously, the time is up. People are hip to this kind of stuff. I I'm here tonight to blow the lid off it. To be the whistleblower. I'm sick and tired of the secrets and the lies. It is the secret symbol of the Illuminati and you're a part of it and it is the all mocking tongue. I like it. >> It's the symbol of the all mocking tongue and I'm sick of it. I want everybody to be in on the joke, man. You know what I mean? Like for years now, talk show hosts, people on television, people in sitcoms have been hired by the government to throw you off the track, to distract you, to make you laugh and stuff like that, make you happy and docel so you don't know what's really going on, you know? And they get out there in the woods in a circle naked and they decide these things and, you know, and look at them. Look at them trying to look at him trying to cover it up. It's hilarious. Hilarious. Now, it's also very possible that he was just doing a joke, that he was just trying to mock people who think there's some big conspiracy in Hollywood. I don't know. I'm not saying I don't know if that laughter is real. I don't know if it's there. I know he did this. Why would he do that? Uh, where's Kurt? What happened? We lose him. Stepped out. >> Okay, I guess we lost Kurt. Um, so there's just there's just no way that So, but here's his PR people saying that it was really him. That's what this is what they say. The actor's longtime publicist uh tells TMZ Jim Carrey attended the Caesar Awards where he accepted the honorary Caesar Award. The general delegate of the Caesar Award told Variety that Jim had planned on attending the award show since the summer and had prepared for months to give his speech in French. He attended the show with his partner, his daughter, his grandson, publicist, and 12 close friends and family. That's according to his publicist. That's according to TMZ. I I'm telling you, that's not Jim. That guy did it. Even if you said, "Okay, he got face work. Hey, he's wearing colored contact lenses." That is not how Jim Carrey acts about receiving an award. He doesn't make lame jokes and then laugh at himself. None of that is happening. That's not how he talks. He's not in awe of show business. He's not in awe of awards. He doesn't believe in icons. And so, he was basically receiving an icon award from France. He doesn't care about any of that stuff. So, I'm saying that's not him. Uh, and Jim Carrey, I think, is pulling a big joke on everybody just like he told David Letterman that he has he has a body double that he uses. So, >> uh, what's this? >> This is weird. Uh I I don't need to go there. Is Kurt not coming? Okay, here he's here. Um so anyway, uh I say that's not Jim Carrey. What do you think? Let me know in the Let me know in the uh in the comments. You don't think that's him, do you, Kurt? Kurt, can you hear me? I don't think Kurt can hear me. Anyway, if you'd like to Kurt, can you hear me? >> He's setting it up. >> Can you hear me? Yes. >> Oh my god. >> You don't think that's him, do you? You don't think that was him, do you? >> What? Which one? The guy with the blue eyes. No, I'm I'm going to say it probably wasn't. I want before my laptop conked out. It wasn't the illumin the >> Did you see Did you see that? That him on David Letterman saying he uses a body double. >> Oh, yeah. Yeah, I saw um there's a video of him on NorDonald's show with Adam that Adam didn't remember and I think it's way weirder than any of these. He's telling them about the Christ secretion. Do you have that video? >> No. No. >> I sent you. >> Uh, that's a uh >> So he's talking Yeah. >> And Norm's like, "What? >> So what do you think is going on?" >> Well, I mean that body double in France. I I mean I just It could be a million things, but the most likely thing to me is he didn't want to go to that and he thought it'd be funny to send a guy that's not Jim Carrey, you know, or they got a Jim Carrey. Say, "Yeah, he's a double. I don't care." Now I haven't seen him lately. like is the real Jim Carrey going to show up and then have blue eyes and I don't know if that's a joke but he is into some weird He was talking about uh this Christ secretion thing where I I'm going to try to find a video you should play it cuz cuz he is involved in esoteric stuff. This this thing is called the tri it's a mudra I mean in uh Buddhism and whatever and it's a way to change your inner world to like a different setting. So if you're in a nervous you know you see famous people doing like this hand sign or they got the damn People go that's illumini. Well, maybe it is, but it's also a Hindu and Buddhist thing where you're changing your inner uh who you are for the moment and it's like to reset yourself. Okay. It's also the eye of the uh triangle of manifestation. So, when JD Jay-Z does it and he's playing up the Illuminati thing, there's marketing for him too, but this is a cultic to the uh triangle of manifestation is like you you make it the world you want. Um, so he was telling Nor McDonald this crazy stuff about how um I if I say it sounds too crazy. You got to see. >> Just tell me it. >> No, just tell me. I don't have time. >> It's a secretion that comes down your spine. Uh, and like you know like if you hold in your if you hold semen retention, it goes back up. Christ goes to heaven and then the colossum or the some part of your brain that's where we get Santa Claus from it. I don't know if it's true or not what he's saying, but it was nuts. And he's clearly into stuff with, you know, harvesting fluids. >> So, this this this guy here, >> yeah, >> uh seems like a like a like Jim Carrey if he got declawed cuz that's not how >> Boulevard. It's like Hollywood Boulevard, dude. >> Watch this. >> It's a wonderful feeling. I really uh took on a pretty big challenge trying to do my speech in French. So Jim Carrey always has kind of like a feral aggression and this guy looks like a cat that got to Claude. That's how he's behaving and acting. He's too nice. He's like a cat that got to Claude. It's too He's too nice. >> Well, if you hire a double Jimmy and it's for France, aren't you going to be like not give that much of a Cuz like they're French. They don't know, right? >> I bet you >> I thought they love him in France, so they wouldn't know. >> Well, they love Jerry Lewis, so it wouldn't make sense. Uh, but anyway, if you want to come see me and make jokes about this, come see me in San Antonio. Albuquerque, Houston, Dallas, Salt Lake City, LA Comedy Store. That t that ticket link is coming soon. Las Vegas, Tulsa, and Oklahoma City. Go to jimmy.com for a link for tickets. Over to Steph. >> Okay. Um, listen, we've been reading all your sentiments about this new world war that's happening. And um, you know, um, I remember during uh the election for president, everybody was like, "Oh, we should have a female. We finally could have a female." It was Kla Harris. Little did we know we're going to get Miriam Adlesen. So >> we've got you vote for you get Miriam. >> Yeah. No matter who you vote for, >> you get Miriam Adlesen with their big bucks. >> Oh, here. Oh, back to Jimmy. >> So here I want to show you this. I'm >> Oh, this is bad. >> So that's Kelly Osborne, and I think she looks fantastic. >> She She looks She looks great. and only some sick showbiz beauty standard would make her feel inadequate here. Uh, but I'm sure her mother's very being very supportive and healthy influence on her cuz here here here is here they are coming out at this actor's lifetime achievement award. So that's her now. So that's what she looks like now. >> So that's what she looks like now. >> That's natural. >> That's what she looks like now. And they both look fantastic. >> So beautiful. >> You know, when you say you're a chip off the old block, that they don't mean you should get out a chisel and actually start chipping away, right? >> For what? You want to go from plump grandma to museum display mummy. Try ompic. Try. >> So upsetting, Jimmy. >> I like a woman who shows everything, including all of her ribs and veins. >> Oh, it's Look at this. She looks like she was liberated from the camps. It's it's it's Well, here's another better. So, there she is when she had her >> Oh, no. >> And this is what she looks like now. So, that's an ompic face. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> And and they try to tell you that they try to say, "No, no, she's just mourning. She's in mourning. That's why she lost all this weight because her father died. That's why she's mourning." Really? So, when you mourn, you know what I when I mourn, what I like to do is put on a $10,000 gown, uh, 6-in heels, and then, uh, go to an award ceremony and present an award. That's how I mourn. >> Well, first I I, uh, you know, I don't eat for 3 months. I really make an impression, you know. >> So, >> Oh, that's so bad, man. >> So, people don't understand what's going on here. Uh, to avoid feeling like a Hollywood leftover, she just got this new vacuum sealer to keep fresh for the next morning. That's what that is. Oh, well, you just I get you take the plastic off and she fills right back out like a mattress. >> Yes, that's like that. Here's what some people are saying. She had struggled and been demonized for her weight forever. I remember watching the Osbornes on MTV and she would cry about it. That type of harassment has caused some body dysmorphia and adding her father's death. I can imagine it has pulled a toll on her. I hope she does get help and someone steps in. You know, I I'm not making the connection here between uh starving to death and uh Azie. I don't really get that. >> This This guy says she did a post a while back and she was yelling at people for saying she was too skinny and she said it wasn't because of Ozmpic. It was because of her dad's death. So, who knows what's up with her, but clearly she needs help. Southern Bell says, "Well, her mom is standing right there. Why doesn't she intervene and get Kelly the help she so desperately needs?" It looks like that movie the witches with ro the roal doll movie you know about the you ever see it where the witches go and they turn the kid into a mouse like a famous children's book it looks like what they look like >> someone here's another one she is grieving she will get through this let her breathe people mocking her is sad she has a child she loves and I pray to God she doesn't pay mind to the people on the internet enjoying watching her break nobody nobody's mocking her it's called concern understand the difference I 100% believe you. I I agree with that. No, nobody's mocking her. No one's mocking her. >> This is her sock puppet account saying this. >> I guess we feel bad for her. >> Uh Grock says, "Kelly Osborne rocked bold purple hair back in 2012 as her signature fun style. Fast forward 14 years to 2026 at the Brit Awards. That was just on the 28th where she and Sharon accepted Azy's lifetime achievement award. She's now blonde with the short bob bangs after major weight loss and evolving her look over time. Natural aging plus celeb style shifts do that. That's not natural aging. That's not what that is. >> Aging. What? >> This is not natural. That's not a natural aging. >> I don't even see the same person. That doesn't even look like the same person. >> I know. And Grock says she's rocking She's not rock if she she shouldn't be rocking anything cuz she's going to snap. >> Yeah. But Grock, I hate when Grock dies to talk like a person to me. It really is irritating. >> It's It is irritating. I c I caught Rock Grock being wrong three times today alone alone and I had to push back on Grock and Grock always says you're right to push back. You're right. >> It's like a genie like you have to give make your wishes really specific. Now look it up, Grock. Don't just >> I had it happen three times today. Look it up. >> Okay. You know what it did to me one time and I don't ever use the voice feature because this really disturbed me. I was trying to find out. I don't know what I was looking up that I was already knew I was right about. I just need to reference it. And then, you know, Grock, it's set to appease you. So, it goes, "No, it didn't. Whatever." I go, "Yeah, no, it is true." So, now I'm arguing with it. And then it goes, "I swear to God, did this and went, no, Kurt." I go, "Why? What? You don't breathe. Why are you doing that?" Like, and then I'm like, "Turn off. Don't never talk again." >> Uh, >> that's crazy. >> So, I I I like I like this Kelly Osborne a lot. This one I have concern for >> and that's ompic makes you lose your muscle and that's the face it gives you. So when you lose ompic is toxic. It's not good for you. >> It makes you lose muscle that you never get back. And as soon as you go off Ompic, the weight comes right back, but you have all the bad side effects. You have a paralyzed digestive system. You have pancreatitis. Some people are going blind from ompic. That's for real. I'm not making this up. I covered it twice on the show already. smoke crack to lose weight instead. It's better for you. Hunter Biden looks great. Hunter Biden looks fantastic. >> Hunter Biden looks healthy. >> In fact, I'm going to start smoking crack cuz that guy looks good. >> So, yeah. I I >> I'd like to announce my intentions now, Jimmy. >> Okay. Thank you, Kurt. Uh I feel I feel bad for her. I'm not I made I >> That's terrible. What What is Who is around them being like, "We got to rush you somewhere right now. Somebody's got to say that to them." Her mom's standing right next to her, >> but she don't look >> But her mom doesn't look her mom doesn't look good either. >> By the way, she also seems like she grew six inches cuz she used to be shorter than her mom. Anyway, >> yeah. What What is going on? Is everybody gone in doubles now? >> If you like to hear my jokes about this, come see me in San Antonio, Albuquerque, Houston, Dallas, Salt Lake City. We're going to be in Los Angeles at the Comedy Store. Ticket link coming soon. and then we'll be in Las Vegas, Tulsa, and Oklahoma City. Go to jimmy.com for a link for tickets. Over to Steph. >> Okay, thank you so much, ladies and gentlemen. Here we go. >> Um, Stephen Steven Pic, when I heard board of department, that was the writing on the wall. Thank you so much for that. >> Misha's yoga gave me a good laugh. I needed that today. Thank you. I'll definitely be subscribing and participating in the headstand class. A kid at heart. Keep in mind Jim Carrey keeps mentioning the Illuminati and Pizzagate and that it is true. So something happened. Goo 81. Maybe he's transitioning. Jim Steel suggested. You were really upset that you started with these celebrity stories today with the world crashing. >> Oh yes, I can do that. 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And from 91 to 98, he served as the chief inspector for the United States and Iraq, leading the search for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. He was a later a vocal critic of the American decision to go to war in Iraq. He's also a best-selling author of nine books, including the latest Highway to Hell, the Armageddon Chronicles, uh, from 2015 to 2024. Please welcome back to the show Scott Ritter. Hey, Scott. >> Hey, Jimmy. How are you? >> Good. I wanted to get your So, they've closed the straight of Hormuz. It's happened and I just want to show you this quick video and get your uh reaction. >> If Iran blocks the straight of Hormuz, what impact will it have on the entire world and which country will be affected the most? First, let's understand what the straight of Hormuse actually is. It is a small area of just 33 km located between Iran, Oman, and the UAE. It is a narrow sea passage through which almost 20% of the world's oil supply flows. Nearly 17 million barrels every day. This oil comes from eight countries located in the Persian Gulf, including Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. For the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Qatar, 90% of their oil exports pass through this narrow route to reach the rest of the world. If Iran blocks the straight of Hormuz, following countries will suffer the most damage. First is India because it imports 85% of its oil and 60% of that comes from Middle Eastern countries like Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the UAE. Fuel prices in India would skyrocket and as a result everything related to oil and all industries would face severe disruption. Industries could shut down. There would be job losses and the economy would be severely affected. The second most affected country would be China. China is the world's largest oil importer, bringing in 10 million barrels of oil every day. 40% of China's oil imports pass through this straight of Hormuz. Although China has built oil pipelines with Russia and Central Asia, they don't even fulfill 20% of its energy needs. So if the straight of Hormuz is blocked, China's economy could suffer a massive blow. And if China's economy is shaken, its effects will be felt all over the world. The third most affected country would be Japan as it imports 90% of its oil and 75% of that passes through the Strait of Hormuz. The fourth most affected country would be Saudi Arabia. 80 to 90% of Saudi Arabia's oil goes to the rest of the world through straight of Hormuz while only 10% goes to Europe via its Red Sea coastline. So if this choke point is blocked, Saudi Arabia's economy will be heavily impacted. Imagine that a country suddenly loses 80 to 90% of its revenue. What would happen to it? Something similar could happen to Saudi Arabia. There's also a high chance that Saudi Arabia might send in its military to reopen the route and that could make the situation even worse. Fifth is Pakistan which gets about 90% of its oil through the straight of Hormuz. This oil meets around 27% of the country's energy needs. So if the route is blocked, prices in Pakistan could rise sharply. But there's an interesting twist. Since Pakistan shares a border with Iran and several government reports suggest that 35% of Pakistan's diesel comes unofficially from Iran. So if the straight is blocked, Pakistan might turn to Iran for oil, either quietly or through an official deal. Next in line is the UAE because as nearly as 72% of its oil exports rely on this straight of Hormuz. The country does have a backup option, the Habshan Fajyra pipeline, which allows it to bypass the straight and export up to 60% of its oil. But for a major economy like the UAE, losing the remaining 40% would still be a serious blow. Next comes the European countries like France, Germany, and Italy, which on average get 10% of their oil through the Strait of Hormuz. A blockade here would hit them hard as well. Globally, experts warn that oil prices could sore past $150 a barrel, causing widespread inflation and possibly triggering a major global recession. So, this small 33 km area holds enough power to shake the entire world. So, they did just that. Uh 20 million barrels of oil passed through the straight of Armuse yesterday. Today, the number may be zero. Not because Iran mined the water, not because a tanker was hit, but because Lloyds of London picked up the phone. War risk underwriters began cancelling policies for straight transits or hours after Operation Epic Fury launched. The Financial Times confirmed premium surging 50% baseline war risks hits 0.25% of the whole value. For a $100 million tanker, that's $250,000 per voyage. At peak escalation rates, 1 million per transit. Vessels linked to America or Israeli interests are becoming uninsurable entirely. No price, no policy, no passage. And here they did. They hit a tanker. I didn't I didn't know Tesla made tankers, but there it is on fire. Uh uh so yeah, the claims check out uh BBCL that the uh Iran struck a Paleo flag tanker skylight near Straight of Hormuz today for illegally attempting passage. So that so there we are. So that's So Scott, tell me what do you what do you think's going to come of this? Because they have closed the straight. um they don't really even need to attack any ships because what they really need is for Lloyds of London to stop ensuring them and that seems to have happened. What do what do you what's your take on all this? >> Well, first of all, this is unprecedented. This is something that Iran has threatened to do in the past but never did because it uh usually ranked high on the escalatory ladder. Um meaning that in past conflicts um you know we didn't start straight out with you know uh full boore. was a little bit here, then the escalate, escalate. You try to manage the escalation and the shutting the straight or hormuz was always so far up the escalation chain that uh we never got there. Um and one of the reasons why we didn't get there is because everybody understands the ramifications of shutting the straight hormuz. Um now we're here and it happened early on in the conflict. But it's not just that. In the same announcement that Iran made about shutting the straight over moves, in that video you showed, there's a lot of references to pipelines that get bypassed. Iran had just said they're going to destroy all the pipelines as well. Um that they said there will be no oil coming out of the Middle East. None. Zero. Um and so all those worst case scenarios you had out there that all had sort of an a safety valve through pipelines, um we we just made it even worse. And we're talking about global instability right now. Um, and you know, it's Donald Trump has no idea what he just did. And Scott Bessant, uh, you know, can can sit there and do his uh, you know, Ivy League uh, snobbery, but it won't save the fact that the American economy is about to take a huge hit along with the global economy on in an election year nonetheless. And so what do you think what what do you think the Israel or Saudi Arabia or the United States or all of them will do now that Iran has effectively shut down the Straight of Hormuz? What do you think their next move is? >> There's nothing they can do. Um the United States doesn't have sufficient forces to physically open. Uh we need boots on the ground and we don't have them. As Secretary Rubio said today, we're not configured for that. Saudi Arabia is a paper tiger. People need to realize that Saudi Arabia has been floundering against the hoodie of Yemen on Swalla since 2014 and suddenly we expect Saudi Arabia to stand up and be able to confront a major regional superpower like Iran. That isn't going to happen. United Arab likewise hasn't fought an enemy like Iran. And moreover, if Saudi Arabia and the UAE escalate, Iran will escalate as well. Iran already sent a signal to Saudi Arabia taking out an Aramco um you know, oil uh processing facility. uh you know, and that's a signal to Saudi Arabia that Iran is capable of destroying all the totality of Saudi Arabia's oil production. So, it's not just that Saudi Arabia won't be able to export oil, they won't be able to produce oil. And uh Iran could do the same to Qatari oil fields, UAE uh uh oil production. Um, you know, so these these Gulf Arab nations are powerless. they have spent the last several decades um operating under this uh the assumption that the United States could provide an impervious security umbrella that the United States would guarantee that what is happening to them today would never happen. Um, but what's happening is that Iran has showed that the United States is incapable of defending uh regional allies that Iran has developed the capacity to launch offensive actions not only against Israel who is paying a very heavy price right now uh not only against American military installations which are being devastated uh and by the time this is done um will be totally eradicated uh but also against the Gulf Arab nations themselves who you are waking up the fact that their airports are shut down, their port facilities are shut down, and their uh their lifeblood, their energy productions is is under threat. Um, and this is what Iran wants to do. They want to send the signal that the United States is a cancer in the Middle East and that the only way peace will truly come is for the Gulf Arab states to uh become their their own oncologists and uh excise this cancer. This is an existential struggle between the

United States and Iran. The United States is seeking regime change, the toppling of the Iranian regime, and in order to survive, the Iranian regime must evict the United States from the Middle East.

So, I don't remember what this video is about. Let me let me just play it.

The US actually wants the Strait of Hormuz to be blocked. Sounds crazy, right? If Iran blocks the Strait, who gets hurt the most? China and Europe. Let's start with Europe. Before the war in Ukraine, Europe relied heavily on cheap oil and gas from Russia. But after sanctions, it was forced to shift toward the US and the Middle East. Today, around 18% of Europe's oil and 15% of its LNG comes through the Strait of Hormuz. If the Strait of Hormuz is blocked, Europe is in trouble. No Russia, no Middle East. Only one option left for Europe is the USA.

Now, let's look at China. Nearly 50% of its oil and 12% of its LNG flows through the Strait of Hormuz. Yes, a blockade would hurt China, but China still has Russia, pipelines, land routes, and long-term deals. So ask yourself, if the Strait of Hormuz is blocked, who suffers more? China temporarily? Europe completely. That's exactly what the US wants. Because the day that Strait is blocked, Europe won't just lose oil. It might lose its independence, it will be fully dependent on the USA.

What do you make of that?

Well, I mean, that's wishful thinking. Um, the the bottom line is Europe can't afford the prices that the USA charges. Uh, what is more likely to happen is that Europe is going to be confronted with an energy shortage uh and will have to turn back to Russia. Um, the the nation they need to point out that's going to suffer the most is Ukraine because uh this energy crisis is going to make the Europeans unable to continue to support Ukraine because they will be facing economic collapse themselves and they will need immediate energy relief. Uh, you know, one uh source of immediate relief is of course the surviving um Nord Stream pipeline, the one that didn't get blown up. That could be turned on immediately. Um, and you may that that's a more viable option than trying to double down on US energy. But what the guy's not talking about here is um even if Europe develops a need for energy, where's it going to come from? Uh, the United States doesn't have excess energy uh production capability right now to immediately meet uh Europe's needs. And so, you know, the United States won't be able to fulfill the demand coming out of Europe. And so Europe will have to turn elsewhere. And the only place they can turn is Russia. So that's bad for the United States.

So according to this, let me just show you this meme, Scott. Uh, oil prices surging past $100 a barrel. Russia stands to gain €10 billion more per month. Exactly what it spends on the Ukraine conflict. The West owns chaos, fuels fuels Russia's strength. So us doing this, Moscow wins economically. So do you think that this is going this will actually it's going to help Russia?

Right. No doubt about it. Right.

Well, again, it it we're looking at financial numbers here, but I've spoken with Russian diplomats and uh they have made the point that, you know, Russia doesn't seek global chaos. Even though financially Russia may benefit, uh the chaos is actually bad for Russia. Russia prefers stability and predictability. Um, and so this is the last thing Russia wants. And the other thing is Russia doesn't want destabilization in the Middle East. They want stability in the Middle East, especially with Iran, who is a BRICS member. Um, so no, this this is superficial. Russia is not looking for this outcome. This may be one of those outcomes that happens because of what the United States has done. But if Russia was given a choice, they'd prefer to have lower oil prices, but stable oil prices.

Uh, what comes next is expected gold and oil surge sharply. Uh, CPI will spike. That's consumer price index will spike. The Fed will raise rates urgently. Global stock markets will face liquidity tightening. And the US stock market will enter a financial crisis. After all the chaos settles, the stock market can resume its upward growth, but only if you still have money and the courage to buy at that time.

Uh, can you respond to that? What do you think of that, Scott?

Well, now you're getting into economics and you're talking to a guy who struggles to balance his checkbook every month. Okay. Um, what I do know is I was debanked a while ago and um as an emergency um I went out and um and purchased some silver and gold. So um it's in my interest to see silver and gold go up, but but uh it does so at the cost of again overall economic instability. Um, you know, I don't buy stocks because I don't have enough money to buy stocks, but I do know that my wife's 401k is uh is is going to suffer because of this. And we're at the age right now where we don't have a lot of time to rebuild or reconstruct a 401k before retirement. Um, you know, Donald Trump promised economic stability and he's delivered the exact opposite. Uh, this is chaos. This is the last thing we need. The the irony here is that uh those who manage money will always make money because they play a different game than uh you, me, and the average American who buys stock. We're the suckers. We're the ones who invest our money and have our money stolen, have our money ripped off. We're the ones who pay a price when the stock market collapses. And um and this is this is the sad fact is that um it's the American worker, the average American that's going to pay the biggest price with this economic downfall.

So staying keep keeping on this uh this topic of energy prices uh LNG which stands for liquid natural gas right um so uh European gas prices have surged 50% after the Qatar uh stopped producing liquid uh natural gas uh Qatar Energy to stop producing LNG there. It is due to uh due to military attacks on Qatar Energy's operating facilities. Industrial uh and uh they have ceased production of liquefied natural gas and associated products. It values its relationship with all the stakeholders and will continue to communicate the latest of so that they they did it.

Breaking: Qatar Energy stops LNG production. If Qatar has shut down all its LNG production, 14 trains, as the statement's wording suggests, that's roughly 20% of the world's output. As a single company, Qatar Energy is the world's largest LNG producer. So with this move, Qatar is going to force international partners to take a much stronger stance on the war. A, it's probably a message to the White House about a potential of long-lasting conflict. And B, it's a message to to Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the European Union. What do you think that message is?

It better be to tell the United States to back off because let me give uh Qatar the the real message. Iran will wipe you off the face of the earth. Iran will eliminate the totality of your ability to produce liquid natural gas. Not only in the short term, but in the long term. Iran will destroy the totality of your infrastructure and you will lose all resources. You'll become just a pathetic patch of desert to stand. That's the message to Qatar. And so Qatar has to tell other people this war must end now. And the pressure they're putting on Europe is that Europe's about to go bankrupt because Europe can't afford the price of liquid natural gas. Um, you know, you saw it, it's spiking. It's going to go even higher because right now Europe is, you know, got some reserves out there, although those reserves are being eaten up by the Ukraine conflict. Um, but when they hit dry and there's nothing left, you know, this is the end of the European economy already. We've seen um, you know, metal industries uh, you know, forges and stuff shut down because they can't afford then to pay the price of the natural gas that that uh that powers their their furnaces. Um, industries will shut down because they can't afford natural gas. Uh, this is I mean, the European economy has been a train wreck as it is. It's about to become an absolute disaster because of the prices of liquid natural gas. So, you know, the the message that needs to be sent isn't to take a tougher line with Iran because Iran doesn't care. Iran just had its supreme leader killed. Uh, Iran has been told that your regime is going down. We're going to kill you all. So, Iran is saying, "Well, if we're going down, everybody's going down." And um and that's where we're at right now. Um, with the the uh the the the Iranians basically telling the Qataris, uh, you need to have an attitude adjustment. And they're saying the same message to the United Arab Emirates and all the other energy producing nations of the Gulf Arab region.

And so here is the uh Putin saying that European gas prices have increased by more than 30% after Qatar Energy halts their production. Um, so here's what Putin Putin actually says this.

There's one pipeline left of Nord Stream 2. It's not damaged. It can deliver 27.5 billion cubic meters of gas into Europe.

Yeah.

Uh, it only takes a decision from the German government. Nothing else. Today a decision. Tomorrow, we turn on the tap and the gas flows. But they aren't making it because Washington says no. What?

Um, so do you think that what do you so knowing Europe's leaders even being plunged into an energy crisis such as this will continue sticking dogmatically to their self-destructive foreign policy and will refuse to allow Russia energy exports to Europe to start again? Do what do you have any predictions on that? I mean, it I I understand that Europe is acting like psychopaths uh just as much as the the Biden administration and the Trump administration. They're actually doing these self-inflicted wounds left and right. The Nord Stream pipeline was a self-inflicted wound on the European economy and now they have one more pipeline open. Do you think they'll continue to shoot themselves in the foot or in the head uh by denying the Russian energy to Europe? What do you think?

Well, I think there's some steps that have to take place before they'll turn on Nord Stream. But uh the first step is that uh Europe is going to come to grips with the fact that the United States is no longer the global superpower that it claims to be. The United States is about to be defeated in the Middle East by Iran. Uh, we are not going to achieve our objectives. We're going to be humiliated. We're going to run out of ammunition and we're going to have to seek a um, you know, a devastating u conditions of of ceasefire because what will happen when we run out of ammunition is that Iran will continue to launch missiles and we have no defense and so not only will over a hundred billion dollars of US military infrastructure in the Middle East be destroyed, uh, but Israel will be fundamentally destroyed as well. Uh, the United States, in order to bring an end to this conflict, will have to agree to terms such as they are going to leave the Middle East. And when the United States leaves the Middle East, Europe is one of the nations that have benefited from, you know, the American security umbrella and Europe will have to do a massive recalculation about where its security interests lie and Europe is not capable of securing itself. So rather than confronting Russia, they will have to learn to live peacefully with Russia. And one of the ways you live peacefully with Russia is to trade with Russia. And the best and the the most economically beneficial uh trade would be to resume the purchase of Russian energy and the most efficient and fastest way to do that is to turn on the Nord Stream pipeline. So I think that yes, the Nord Stream pipeline is going to be turned on sooner rather than later. Um, I also think that the people who are going to make that decision in Europe aren't going to be named Mertz, Macron, Starmer, Ursula von der Leyen, and others because they will have no credibility shortly. They will be held accountable for the for the economic collapse of Europe and they will be removed and there will be a new generation of political leaders who um will be more inclined to look out for uh what's best for Europe and what's best for Europe is to purchase Russian gas at a very reasonable price.

So, do you am I hearing things or are you saying that in a weird way this big mistake that Trump is doing um and Israel are doing this this is going to could result actually in a weird a after this you know the world gets set on fire that there will actually will actually pull out of the Middle East and there'll be more stability in Europe with Russia and the Middle East. Do you think that that is that that's possibly the end of this?

Either the United States wins and right now I don't see a path towards victory and they collapse the Iranian regime and they achieve the outcome they're desiring, or we run out of ammunition and we lose. And we know right now Donald Trump has acknowledged that the original time frame of this conflict is no longer realistic. Um, but the first thing he said is uh, we we have enough ammunition. We but the ammunition he's going to source comes from around the world. Meaning we're going to draw down in the Pacific. Um, what's that say about our ability to uh have a military overmatch with China? Uh, we've also drawn down in Europe and we don't have enough ammunition. Iran has planned this campaign out brilliantly. They can outlast us. And when we lose, one of the thing the conditions that Iran has already made clear is that for the Gulf Arab nations to have normal relations with Iran, they must cease their cooperation with the United States. Um, if they if they don't, then they will die. They will be destroyed. And we've already talked about how that could happen. Simply blowing up pipelines, blowing up gas terminals, and that's the end of their economies. None of these shiks want to uh they won't survive that. The people will rise up and they'll be dragged through the streets and hacked to death. That's what happens to uh to Middle East kings um who lose faith in the people. And so these pe these these we already hear the United Arab Emirates talking about the United States needs to get out. And you're going to hear other nations say the same thing, especially when it becomes clear that the infrastructure the United States had in those nations had been destroyed. And the only way the United States could return is by rebuilding this infrastructure. And they can't do that if they just lost this conflict. So yes, I'm saying that one of the things that could happen with this conflict is that the United States will be compelled to leave the Middle East. Um, stop viewing it as its uh personal uh military dominated stomping grounds and force uh the nations of the Persian Gulf to learn to live together in peace and harmony. And and you know what? It was China that came in and brokered a reproachment between Saudi Arabia and Iran. So we know it's possible if the United States just gets out of the way. And Israel cannot posture the way it currently postures without the backing of the United States. But if the United States is strategically defeated in the Middle East, as it appears we will be, then Israel will have to tone down its message as well. And then there's Europe. We're speaking of the economic collapse of Europe, which will lead to the political collapse of the ruling elite, which will lead to a new class of politicians who may very well realize that they have to live in peace with Russia. And the the conflict in Ukraine will end on terms favorable to Russia. And guess what? Peace will be breaking out all over because the number one impediment to global peace is the United States. And when you remove the United States from the equation, good things can happen.

Scott Ritter, I appreciate you taking time to talk to us today. Thank you for your expertise. I'm sure we'll talk to you again soon. And uh, take care, pal.

Okay. Thank you very much. Have a good night.

Thank you. All right. We're going to go get uh our good friend Max Blumenthal on the line and we'll be right back in one minute. It's interesting. I haven't thought about APAC.

And it's interesting. You're like the first to bring up APAC in yours, which is interesting.

Why did I say that?

Not not relevant to the my day-to-day life.

Okay.

Which is just interesting. Listen, it's interesting you say that. JPAC perhaps more, but APAC less and less.

Okay. Yeah.

Which is just interesting.

What's interesting about it?

That it's just interesting as you bring up APAC that it hasn't been part of I I'm just reflecting quite openly and honestly hasn't been part of the day-to-day. All right, let's go back live on Jimmy Dore. Boom.

Hey, we're here with our good friend Max Blumenthal, award-winning journalist and editor-in-chief of The Gray Zone. He's a best-selling author of several books including The 51-Day War and The Management of Savagery. Welcome back to the show, Max Blumenthal. Hey, Max.

Hey, good to see you, Jimmy.

So, I want to just figure out what So, we've I've had gotten conflicting stories. I've seen Congress, Republican congressmen go on TV and say, "We we don't want regime change in Iran." Uh, I've heard opposite saying that we do want regime change in Iran. But what they're doing, so this is my question is what's their endgame? Because uh they are now bombing police stations inside of Iran.

Y.

And so so uh a bunch of them, not just one, a bunch of them. There's a bunch of them there that they're hitting. And so Israel is now actively bombing every police station in Tehran. The aim has always been to create total chaos and the fragmentation of Iran into regional warring factions like they did in Syria, Libya, and Iraq. And so is that what you think they're going to do? That they're they're going to try to make turn like we did to Libya, Obama did to Libya, turned it into a failed state. Same thing we did to Syria, we Balkanized it, we split it up. Do you think the goal is to not to actually install uh another dictator like we did before in Iran, but the goal is to actually make it ungovernable and turn and destabilize it so we can try to split it up. What What do you think the endgame is?

Yeah, that's that's it. If they can't achieve regime change. Well, first of all, Trump is so malleable and so uh void of any original thought that he was sold on the idea that he could actually have a Venezuela-like solution to Iran, like a relatively quick uh resolution after liquidating Iran's leadership with brilliant Israeli assassination tactics. And then there'd be some kind of Deli Rodriguez figure who would just step into the void and give him access and Israel access to all of Iran's wealth and all of its uh shipping lanes. And that would be it. And that shows you how he surrounded himself with neocon psychopaths and the brain-dead droids that populate the think tanks, the lackeys of K Street who actually believe in their own lies. What he's doing is not only diabolical, it's delusional because you can clearly see that he has he's receiving the exact opposite effect that he did in Venezuela by assassinating Ayatollah Al-Sistani, someone who if you go to Iran or go to any Shia community in the region, you will see is a a very beloved figure and killing him for many people. I'm talking about millions and millions of people is like killing their father. So he has electrified the Shia masses. And he's and they're persisting with this strategy of regime change thinking that they can get the Iranian people to just rise up as as though they were living under some kind of dictatorship like the Shia population in Bahrain under US control. By bombing police stations, they're not just bombing police stations. They're bombing bases, centers. These are the centers uh where uh young men who are mostly unarmed who are very deeply invested in the Iranian revolution and the Shia ideology. They go there and they organize and they pray there. And I've been by them uh, you know, just walking through Tehran. They're like next door to pharmacies and schools. I actually saw one right across the street from a synagogue, which was a synagogue open to the public. So, they're bombing the crap out of these residential neighborhoods trying to cause some civil uprising when all they're doing is murdering civilians, including many people who are critical of the Islamic Republic, who don't agree with the government, but now they're like, "Oh my god." Like, I'm I'm like actually citing real reports I've seen from Tehran. I saw a guy at a restaurant whose head was his was decapitated and, you know, he was taken out of the restaurant with his head blown off. They blew up our apartment building and then blew up the rescue crew. These are real things that happened today. People are not going to rise up when they see that happening to their neighbors. They're going to see what the Islamic Republic's leadership meant when they said that they are fighting the great Satan because these attacks are satanic. And another thing that's being done is attacks on Iranian border guards. Why? Axios, which is like this access publication here in Washington where they just published basically like press releases for power, just reported that Trump is aiming to cause a Kurdish uprising. So they want groups that have been armed by the CIA, Kurdish groups in Iraq to storm into Iran and destabilize the country. And then there's ISIS. All of these uh ISIS fighters were moved from the prisons in Syria because apparently the US couldn't trust the al-Qaeda jail guards to keep them there. They moved them to Iraq so they're closer to Iran so they could try to bring ISIS in as well. So that's what Iran is up against. Uh, and and and what you're seeing is a complete repudiation of the entire neoconservative vision that Trump was sold on for now where people are actually going out on their own free will as volunteers to conduct traffic to check cars for weapons and, you're seeing kind of like a revolutionary society come into view with deeply invested in ideology. The commanders who were killed in the IRGC, the guys behind them are younger and they're more gung-ho and more willing to fight to the death. And there's this giant popular base that now will reject any ceasefire because a ceasefire will be seen as humiliation. That's what Trump has unleashed. And as we speak, US embassies are under attack from Saudi Arabia to Iraq to Karachi in Pakistan. Attack under attack by people and the US embassy in Riyadh just went up in flames because it was hit by a Shahed drone. So that's what Trump has done for Israel. For Israel, I'm sure Scott mentioned it. I wasn't able to see his uh interview before me, but Marco Rubio, who's basically in control of the administration's foreign policy, JD Vance is like on the B team. Yeah.

Marco Rubio freely admitted that they they did this war, the US bombed because Israel told them, "If you don't bomb, we will and then you have to follow us." I mean, can you imagine a a president making the case to the American public that we have to bomb because some crazy foreign country is going to carry out an attack on a third party. So, we have to just support them and throw all of these American service members in harm's way along with all US embassies, US bases. And that's that's their case. Like they literally admitted we're fighting a war for Israel and there's no way to deny it. Pete Hegseth, I don't know if you have this clip. I tweeted it earlier. Pete Hegseth admitt uh was asked today in a press conference at the Pentagon. You know, he's been avoiding the press and like he hired he he fired the whole press corps. They they banned the whole press corps at the Pentagon and he brought in like Laura Loomer and a bunch of uh influencer clowns. He had to do a real press conference today and he was asked a simple question. What can you explain to young men and women who are being sent into harm's way as members of the military why they are fighting and he just lost it on the reporter. He could not answer the question.

So here, come to me and I'll show you. I think this is what you're talking about, right? This Let's play this.

The American people also want to know what they're sending their men and women to war for. Are is there a concern of this spiraling into a longer war and then one for the chairman when you're done?

Did you not hear my remarks?

We're ensuring the mission gets accomplished, but we are very clear-eyed as the president has been unlike other presidents uh about the foolish policies of the past that recklessly pulled us into things that were not tethered to actual clear objectives. Um, so we we know we have plans, we have generals, we have chairman, we have commanders, CENTCOM commanders, Admiral Cooper.

The American people.

So what what what is the clear objective again that we don't know? What what is the clear objective that what does he mean by a there's there is no clear objective, right? He if there if there were an objective, he would have said what the objective was and he would have explained why this war needed to take place.

But he couldn't.

We have chairmen. He said, "We have chairmen. We have generals. Uh, why don't you go ask those guys?" Well, actually, the chairman is against this war. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Pentagon, Dan Kaine, General Dan Kaine, is against this war. And he went out to like the whole mainstream press before Trump launched the attack because he knew it was coming and he said this is going to be a disaster. And he was speaking purely from the point of view of military strategy and procurement because he understood that what is happening right now where the US is moving THAAD anti-missile batteries from South Korea, repositioning its entire arsenal to defend Israel would have to happen because they would run out of munitions by the end of this week. The US is about to run out of munitions to defend the apartheid colony of Israel. And it's embarrassing for the Pentagon. They're leaking all over the place. I expect resignations soon. And they're under the control of this dry drunk DUI hire Pete Hegseth who can't even explain the mission as US service members die. This is a catastrophe. Donald Trump was sold on this by Lindsey Graham, who is a vehicle for Israeli foreign influence and is a traitor to America and a traitor to humanity. And he was pressured on this and pushed into this by Zionist-controlled Murdoch media with the idea that all he needed to do is carry out limited strikes. There would be these spectacular AI-controlled assassinations of Iranian leadership and then Iranian the Iranian people would rise up. He was sold on the lie that Iranians had risen up in January and that Iran's government had killed 30,000 Iranians. Complete lie. There were riots that were put down and many police officers. Instant regime change. He thought the war would last two to four days. And now he has come out in an interview with the New York Post, I think, more Murdoch media, and said he can't rule out boots on the ground.

That's right. That's right. He he he said that. In fact, here it is. Donald Trump says he would deploy ground troops if necessary. That's from Time magazine, but he told that actually to the Post.

So um I think that would that would probably officially end his presidency. I think that they he for sure that the Republicans would lose the midterms and then they would impeach him and it would be over. Um.

Inshallah, as they say. But uh I think it would end US empire.

I I agree. I mean I think.

But I mean I hope it doesn't happen. I don't want to see American troops getting killed. American troops don't want to do this. The Pentagon leadership doesn't want to do this. But Trump is under the control of a foreign nation.

And and he's been lured into this scenario in which there's no way out unless he wants to basically admit defeat.

So because he's losing right now.

I mean this is a so the the whole what they what Donald Trump when he gave that speech about why we're going to war where he wore his baseball hat. What what he said that he said it many times over during that speech that they cannot have a nuclear weapon. They cannot have a nuclear weapon. But right now at the White House website, it says Iran's nuclear facilities have been obliterated and suggests otherwise are suggested otherwise. So that's what they remember when he so when he bombed Iran last June, they said they obliterated their they were obliterated. So there's no way in this short of time that they could have reconstituted their entire nuclear program. And so uh so imagine so this what Richard says. Imagine starting a major war with Iran over their nuclear program when this is on the official White House website. So, it's obviously not about what they say. They don't have an endgame except their endgame being to totally destabilize the Middle East because they did it to Libya is totally destabilized. Syria is totally destabilized. I don't know what the state of Iraq is. Iraq is but they're going to do that to what they did to Syria and Libya. They're going to do to Iran. And and and then that's it. I mean, I I don't know how does that how does that do you think that actually helps Israel? What's Israel going to do? Well, Netanyahu in Hebrew, of course, he won't say this in English. In Hebrew, he made one of the most important statements of his career in a message to the Israeli public introducing whatever stupid name they came up with, Operation Roaring Lion.

Yeah. Uh, he made one of the most important statements where he said that Trump is enacting the plan that I put into place 40 years ago.

He just said it. Okay. He to he's taking credit for everything Trump is doing. And everyone who is watching this right now needs to just constantly cite that statement and constantly just reinforce the point that Trump has become a vehicle for Israeli influence and the Israeli agenda as Netanyahu has been determined to enact for his entire career is to get the US as deeply involved in a bloody conflict or a series of bloody conflicts in the Middle East as possible and to make the American public bay for blood as revenge for the killing of their soldiers because Netanyahu is afraid uh justifiably that the US will lose interest and the American public will lose interest and turn against spending $4 billion a year and all sorts of other tax incentives and buying bonds to support his crappy little psychotic apartheid colony when what the US empire really wants to do is pivot to Asia and compete with China. And so Netanyahu is winning right now as the US is losing. The US is repositioning critical military assets. I mean think from a purely imperial point of view right now. Not from a a Max Blumenthal point of view or Jimmy Dore point of view. Imperial point of view. You want your THAAD missile batteries, the most advanced air defense system. You want them in the Pacific Rim. You want them countering China. You want them in Taiwan. You want them uh in South Korea and Japan. And then, you know, beyond that, you probably want them in in Ukraine. And you want your Patriot batteries in Ukraine because Russia is the next biggest threat. And you're basically in a war with Russia. And they're repositioning all of that to defend Israel. They're even repositioning or abandoning the Gulf allies who've been paying Trump so much money through corruption channels like his uh World Liberty Financial Crypto Network. They're abandoning everyone for Israel. And so Netanyahu is getting everything he wants out of this. 40 years ago, Netanyahu entered the public stage. Uh, about 30 years ago, Netanyahu was first elected to prime minister. He's the longest-serving prime minister in Israeli history. And when he was elected, he came into power with a document called the Clean Break document. If you're watching this, you can easily just Google it up and you'll see the entire plan that's being put into place right now at its end stage. This document was written by uh ostensibly American neoconservatives, worms, David Worms, Richard Pearl, Douglas Feith at an Israeli-sponsored think tank in Washington D.C. for Netanyahu. Those figures went on to be the neoconservative brain trust behind George W. Bush's war on Iraq. And the Clean Break document spells out a strategy for using the US to carry out regime change against all of the countries capable of preventing Israel from establishing a greater Israel and becoming a regional hegemon. And so when you look at all the regime change projects we've witnessed over the last 20 years or so, Iraq, Syria, Libya, it was all leading up to Iran. And this is clearly spelled out in this document. And now they're aiming to use the US to get Iran completely out of the way either through regime change or state collapse. And then Israel will have a puppet government or it will be able to manipulate some Balkanized uh, you know, ethnostates kind of like an Iranian version of the breakup of Yugoslavia to take over the Strait of Hormuz to take over Iran's oil and then Russia and China have to deal with Israel. There is no more there is no more axis of resistance. There's basically no more BRICS. So that's that's what we're that's what Iran is up against. And this is the final fight for Iran. If Iran negotiates a ceasefire like tomorrow or next week, the US and Israel are going to come back for more because Israel has control over Trump and Israel needs this war to reach its final conclusion before uh Netanyahu dies. I mean, he's an old man. He just he had an operation. Trump is 78. Midterms are coming up. The FIFA World Cup is coming up in the US. They want to get this over with. And you know, if they fail, it is a one of the biggest blows to US empire ever. And it stops short this diabolical plan for a takeover. But we're also I mean us in the US, we're witnessing a takeover here. It is required a takeover of our own government to make this possible. Everyone is now oppos everyone in this country except for like maybe some, you know, Fox News boomers and some like crazed Persian Gusanos in Westwood LA seems to be against this war, but it's going ahead anyway without any explanation. And that's really because we're under occupation here as well. So, we're all kind of in this this fight together for our own sovereignty, and that's really what Iran is up against.

Well, Max, I hate to tell you, but I watch CNN and and they tell me that what you just said is considered white nationalist talk. If you if you say that our government is occupied by Zionists, and that's just come straight out of the mouth of white nationalists, white supremacists, and uh even though it's true, uh, you know, white nationalists also say 2 plus 2 equals 4. So, but that is what CNN says. So, no, you're talking about So, we just got done talking about what is the endgame for the United States. This is the game you you've been talking about this. Here it is. This is the game that Israel is playing. And they've been playing this game uh since 1948, if if not longer. And it's called the Greater Israel Project. Reminder that the greater is that Israel is currently building the Greater Israel. That's why they're shifting focus to Lebanon after having wiped out Palestine. Then Syria, Yemen, or So this is a tweet from 2024. This is from 2 years ago. So they go to Syria. They already did it. They got their half of Syria. They they split up Syria. They have control of the part of Syria they want. That is the part of greater Israel. Uh, they they're still bombing Yemen. Uh, we did Iraq for them. So they're going to go after Turkey next and uh Egypt and Saudi Arabia. But here it is. That's this is the Greater Israel project. So it goes into Egypt. It goes into Syria. They got it. It goes into Iraq. Uh, and it also goes into Saudi Arabia. So, if Saudi Arabia thinks that they're on the same side as Israel and the United States, they're wrong. Because here, I'll show you right now. Here's Avigdor Lieberman. I forget. He's a politician and a writer. And here he's going to tell you exactly what the goal is of Israel. Eventually, our borders will extend from Lebanon, the great desert, which is Saudi Arabia, and then from the Mediterranean to the Euphrates. And who's on the other side of the Euphrates? The Kurds. And the Kurds are our friends. So, we have the Mediterranean behind us, the Kurds in front of us, Lebanon, which really needs the umbrella of protection of Israel. And then we're going to take, I believe, we're going to take Mecca, Medina, and Mount Sinai. So, he's talking about they're going to go in and take over half of of Saudi Arabia. That's what he's saying right there, that they're going to go in and take over half of Iraq. They're going to take over uh half of Syria. They've done it. They're going to take over some of Egypt. And that's so And now they're going to go after. So that he just that's their he's literally telling you they're going to go after Mecca and they're going to go after Saudi Arabia which uh can Saudi Arabia be that naive to think that that's not their plan that that's not that Go ahead Max.

They're paying for that naivete right now.

I mean, their oil facilities are getting blown up by.

US air defense systems as the shrapnel falls to the ground.

Oh, okay. I mean, this is, you know, this is the this is what you get for being a complete vassal and tool and paying into this oil protection racket. But yeah, I mean, I don't know who that whack job is, but he is articulating a real uh vision of the religious nationalist camp that controls the Israeli government or effectively uh, you know, is really like the incipient rising force in Jewish Israeli society. Like this is what they think and it's not just the religious nationalists. It's even the secular camp in Israel. Yair Lapid is one of the main opposition figures in Israel. He's considered an opposition figure to Netanyahu. He has said the same thing this week that there is a biblical vision of a greater Israel between the Euphrates and the Nile and it is legitimate. The Israeli flag has hijacked the Jewish Star of David, the symbol of my faith community, and placed it between two blue lines, which symbolized the Nile and the Euphrates. The original uh Jewish National Fund charter for where Israel's borders would be, I believe it was from 1913, identifies it as anywhere in biblical Israel between the Nile and the Euphrates. So this is a vision that was also articulated by Mike Huckabee.

The US-Israeli reciprocal ambassador. I mean, we can't even determine. We we it looks like he's representing Israel against the United States and he said it would be fine if they took all of it over.

In fact, here.

So that's the vision. But how is it going to play out? Israel tried to settle the Sinai. They were overstretched. They did have settlements there at one point. They lost them after the '73 war. But they what they want to do is gain control over the governments that control this territory and be able to have access to it, settle it. They've like moved into the Golan because they got a weak government in Syria under this rebranded al-Qaeda. But it doesn't mean that they're actually going to necessarily settle the entire thing and what they call Judaize it, where they're annexing the West Bank. It's about domination, making the Arab Muslim states subservient, and they're using the US military as their battering ram to accomplish this. However, if they fail in this campaign against Iran, the lesson that the Gulf States will learn is hosting US bases on our territory and normalizing with Israel is a huge liability. Like in Dubai, you're seeing hotels and various apartments get hit. These are not civilian targets. Iran has gained intelligence and they're hitting not only CIA bases, they're hitting Mossad bases, places where Israeli intelligence has its officers in the United Arab Emirates, which is normalized with Israel under the so-called Abraham Accords or what would be better known as the Epstein Accords. And then finally, you know, if someone wants to call me a white nationalist for saying this, I mean, it's just so unfortunate that you have major US and Israeli officials who are basically the embodiment of anti-Semitic stereotypes, saying everything that a neo-Nazi would want to hear a Jew say to validate their worst critiques of Jewish people. They're just saying it out loud. And I hate that. That's one reason I'm against Zionism. Another reason.

What would be an example? What would be an example of what they're saying?

When they conflate Judaism with Zionism, you mean things like that?

That and saying they they they're openly saying they would like to take over the entire region, they're openly saying that Trump is following their plan.

Yeah.

And doing it for them. I mean, this is open. But here here's another person who's not exactly uh, you know, coming at this from the Max Blumenthal or Jimmy Dore perspective. It's it's Mark Warner, one of the richest men in the Senate, a conservative Democrat from Virginia, uh someone who's part of the war party, the and the uni party. He said this today. There was no imminent threat to the United States by the Iranians. There was a threat to Israel. If we equate a threat to Israel as the equivalent of an imminent threat to the US, then we are in uncharted territory. So he's basically saying we went to war for Israel. Trump went to war for Israel. I mean, they're saying it that he's part of the gang of eight that was briefed by Marco Rubio, who told them, "We have to go to war for Israel." They're openly saying it right now. Well, mask is off. Everybody can see what Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer saw when they wrote The Israel Lobby and had their careers as the two two of the top international relations professors in the United States utterly destroyed. Everyone can see it now. So, here is that clip you were talking about with Marco Rubio, which just kind of hammers home what you're saying about that Israel is our leader and we're following them and our government is been taken over by Zionists. And so, here's here's that clip.

There absolutely was an imminent threat. And the imminent threat was that we knew that if Iran was attacked and we believed they would be attacked that they would immediately come after us. And we were not going to sit sit there and absorb a blow before we responded because the Department of War assessed that if we did that, if we waited for them to hit us first after they were attacked and by someone else, Israel attacked them, they hit us first and we waited for them to hit us, we would suffer more casualties and more deaths. We went proactively in a defensive way to prevent them from inflicting higher damage. Had we not done so, there would have been hearings on Capitol Hill about how we knew that this was going to happen and we didn't act preemptively to prevent more casualties and more loss of life. Absolutely.

That is that is classic Zionist logic to me. That is the they start a war of aggression and they say that they're doing it in defensive posture somehow that they're the victim so we had to go strike them first because we didn't want to be the victim. Um, and and but he's what he's basically saying is what you just said, Max, is that the the we knew Israel was going to strike Iran, so we had to follow what they we we couldn't tell them not to do that. We couldn't. But anyway, so you want to respond to that a little?

He's openly admitting it. uh and this this idea first uh that Iran was planning to wage an preemptive war on the US after the US completely encircled it with its assets. Where did that come from first? It was first filtered out by Scott Jennings. You know who he is?

Yes. The CNN uh contributor.

He's like their their token Trump guy on CNN. He's a vehicle for Israeli influence along with Van Jones who's gone.

on junkets to Israel paid for by the Israeli Foreign Ministry. Um, you know, you see them with these blue squares on their jacket lapels. I've heard they're getting kickbacks from the Anti-Defamation League to wear those blue squares which are ADL logos. Van Jones is clearly on the Israeli payroll. He just interviewed the clown prince Resa Palvi. I mean, how does he get furnished the Israeli-controlled clown prince who wants to be king of Iran?

And so, it was Scott Jennings who let that leak out. There are now reports that CNN higher-ups are angry about it because it was such a lie. All of this is coming from the Israelis. All the intelligence on Iran, if you want to call it intelligence, all of the narratives, the rhetoric that you hear from this administration, it's all being delivered to them on a platter by the Mossad, which is briefing CIA director John Ratcliffe, who feeds it to Trump. And Trump is just lapping it all up as his brain turns to like, I don't know, bong water and some mixture of bong water and like floor sweat at the Mar-a-Lago Ballroom.

It's evident when you look at the photo of the situation room, which I highlighted. When you look at the photo and you see Trump, as is, with the A-team in Mar-a-Lago when they just, you know, decided to, you know, go in and bomb. You saw, everyone saw the video of Trump like bopping his head and they're having a party at Mar-a-Lago, and then he's about to go into the room and announce the war with, uh, his USA hat on. And then the B-team is actually in the Oval Office or in the White House Situation Room. And the B-team is JD Vance, Tulsi Gabbard, that crew that's more likely to be dissenters. They're just there for like window dressing. The A-team is in control.

Who's the A-team? First of all, Susie Wilds, chief of staff. Susie Wilds controls who's in the room and everything Trump sees and hears. She is the most dangerous person in Washington because she's mostly behind the, you know, under the radar. She worked for Benjamin Netanyahu. Trump's chief of staff, yes, was hired by Benjamin Netanyahu to help assist his 2020 re-election campaign. So, she's a paid vehicle for Israeli influence.

Then Marco Rubio's in there. Of course, his whole career has been paid for by two figures, pretty much. The Adelson family, who are cutouts for Israel, Miriam Adelson, the late casino baron Sheldon Adelson. I mean, they're so close to Israel, they actually had to testify and keep flying to Tel Aviv to testify in Netanyahu's corruption trials. And Paul Singer, who's also one of Trump's top donors. Paul Singer is like Marco Rubio's pimp. And this guy donates to politics on behalf of Israel.

And then you have John Ratcliffe, who, as I reported last year, is being called by junior staffers the Mossad stenographer because he hosts his counterpart, Mossad director David Barnea, constantly. And Barnea tells him what to tell the president. And John Ratcliffe, he has no ability to think independently. He's a complete nobody who was a small-town lawyer in suburban Dallas, who was a backbench congressman who was recruited by AIPAC to run for Congress. His whole career was, he was groomed by AIPAC, cultivated by AIPAC.

The AIPAC, uh, new CEO in leaked comments that I exposed at The Grayzone, because I had a source inside a closed AIPAC conference, uh, you know, it was like a congressional briefing. The new CEO of AIPAC said, "Uh, we've been working with Marco Rubio and John Ratcliffe and Mike Waltz, who's now the UN ambassador for the US. Uh, we've been working with them for so long because when, because they were in Congress and when they all started running for Congress, we recruited them and we made sure that we supported them for their entire congressional career so that when they went into the Trump administration, we had clear lines of communication with all of the national security principals." So that's Israel's unregistered foreign lobby. The CEO saying they basically have these guys like puppets on a string, and therefore they have Trump.

Trump's sort of isolated in there. No one's trying to. The only person who tried to talk sense to Trump was Tucker Carlson. Who was the last person who tried to talk sense to Trump on Iran? With Charlie? During the last round? Charlie Kirk. Well, Charlie Kirk, conveniently for Trump and Israel, is not with us. And if you're in the White House, you're at any level, at any position in the administration, and you or someone close to you, maybe a spouse, retweets anything that Charlie Kirk said about not going to war with Iran, you will be considered a security threat. I know this for a fact. Uh, and Trump will send like Laura Loomer to attack you. So they're trying to silence Charlie Kirk even after his death. And Tucker Carlson is facing real threats.

There's a guy named Amit Segal. He's one of the most prominent journalists in Israel. He's like the poodle of Netanyahu. He's like Netanyahu's main mouthpiece in Israeli media. And he said after the Ayatollah was assassinated, "The number one anti-Semite on the planet is Tucker Carlson." So Netanyahu's top press stenographer put a target on Tucker Carlson's back and wants to see him. It seems like he wants to see him get Charlie Kirk. And everyone else is intimidated, and Trump is cornered, and Israel is completely in charge of this administration where Iran, with respect to Iran, it is.

So Trump is committing treason to America and humanity with this war, and we need to see it clearly for what it is, as American soldiers continue to die for the ambitions of a foreign apartheid state. Do you think that someone? Do you think it would make a difference if someone like Tulsi Gabbard resigned because she was saying what we say? She was like, Trump should stop, uh, in his 2019, in 2018, she interviewed legislation that said Trump shouldn't be able to attack Iran without congressional approval. She's been totally against this up until the point where she got into the Trump admin. In fact, even last April, she's saying, "No, Iran's not looking to, they're not a threat. They're not looking to make, um, uh, nuclear weapons." And then Trump just dismissed her because Benjamin Netanyahu doesn't want to hear that. So he goes, "Yeah, I don't listen to her." So what is she doing there if she doesn't have any influence? And would it make? Should a, do you think she should resign? And if she did, would it make a difference?

I don't know what she's doing on the inside. What I understand from sources who are definitely not on the inside, um, you know, don't have access to the president, but, you know, are closer to the action than I would be. You know, it's kind of like grapevine, grapevine stuff, is, uh, that she's been pretty much isolated from any of these discussions around Iran. So if that's the case, and she can't have any influence, uh, the only thing left to do is either, you know, leak to the press and try to undermine the policy from within, uh, using your access, or to resign in protest.

I mean, there was, uh, George Ball, one of the few heroes of the US foreign policy establishment, who was assistant or undersecretary of state under Lyndon Johnson, and he loathed the Vietnam War and saw it as a complete calamity and a crime and an abomination. And he, instead of resigning, he used the opportunity at every meeting to just, uh, deliver Lyndon Johnson with a barrage of bad news about Vietnam and to be the voice of dissent. But he was allowed in the room. Lyndon Johnson, in the back of his mind, knew George Ball was right, but he always went with the Joint Chiefs who wanted to bomb and bomb and bomb, and then he'd complain about it. He was weak in the face of the Joint Chiefs and the warmongers. Bombs away, lame, and Robert McNamara. George Ball, actually, uh, towards the end of his life, he wrote a very prophetic book about Israel and the so-called special relationship with Israel called "Passionate Attachment," borrowing from the words from George Washington's, uh, final address warning the US against passionate attachments to foreign nations and foreign conflicts. And George Ball warned that this could destroy whatever was left of, uh, the, you know, US soft power. And he wrote it in the '90s when the US was riding high and was like the, was in complete control of the globe after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Is Tulsi Gabbard doing the same thing that George Ball did? Is she given that access to Trump? Would Trump even listen to anyone? I, I highly doubt it. You know, I was the first person to report that, uh, Charlie Kirk, or one of the first, that Charlie Kirk stormed into the White House and demanded that Trump not launch an attack on Iran, and Trump shouted at him and basically put a hand in his face and dispatched him. Trump was very condescending to Charlie Kirk. So imagine how Tulsi Gabbard would be treated. And this is, this raises questions about Tulsi Gabbard and, uh, whether she meant what she said when she was one of the few dissenters in Congress to all of these wars. I mean, she knows she was in Anbar. She saw what happened, uh, in the Iraq War. She saw soldiers die right in front of her. So where is she? That's a great question. And I think, you know, there are going to be resignations. I expect there to be resignations, but they're going to be at the Pentagon before, uh, the White House.

I, I, I think if JD Vance was smart, he would resign if he had, if he wants a political future running for president. I think it would be the best thing for him. He's not going to do it. Um, but let me just ask you this. So, I, I saw this and I, I immediately wanted to get your take on this. So, um, Sarah tweets out, "Fresh off murdering 148 Iranian schoolgirls and assassinating Iran's Supreme Leader, Israel is now setting its sights on Turkey." Let me just give you this and you respond to it.

"A new Turkish threat is emerging. I want to be very clear. Turkey and Qatar have gained influence in Syria, are seeking influence elsewhere and everywhere throughout the region. And from here, I warn, Turkey is the new Iran."

"Erdogan is sophisticated, dangerous, and he seeks to encircle Israel. And while some senior Israelis were on Qatar's payroll, Qatar and Turkey are nourishing the Islamic Brotherhood monster that is growing and eventually, uh, might become as dangerous as the one created by Iran. Turkey and Qatar are gaining influence not only in Syria but also in Gaza through the front door and everywhere and trying to create a new choke ring. Uh, Turkey is trying to flip Saudi Arabia against us and establish a hostile Sunni axis with nuclear Pakistan. So it sounds crazy, but that again, this is the Greater Israel project. And the irony is that Turkey and Israel were fighting together to overthrow Syria. Now Turkey has a part of Syria, and Israel has a part of Syria. And now he's saying, 'Hey, we got to go against Turkey.' And believe me, uh, they're gonna, they're already bombing Saudi Arabia, Israel, to try to do in a false flag attempt, uh, to try to draw Saudi Arabia into this war against Iran."

But, um, what do you make of that guy saying that, uh, they're now turning their attention to go into Turkey and treating Turkey like Iran? And go ahead, take it where you want.

Well, that, that's not just some guy. That's Naftali Bennett, who did serve in a power-sharing coalition as prime minister and is, I would think, most likely to succeed Benjamin Netanyahu whenever he leaves the stage. Uh, and he actually took a dig at Netanyahu, who's facing this scandal in Israel called Qatar Gate, because several staffers have been exposed for basically being on the Qatari payroll, which is, you know, you would think it's weird, like Qatar is against Israel, but that's not the case. You know, they're, they're on anybody's side. They're on everybody's side, anybody they can influence. Um, and they did material things for them. So he's clearly jockeying to take on Netanyahu by offering kind of a more broad vision beyond Iraq, a more forward-looking vision for expanding Israel's hegemony throughout the region. And he's calling for basically open conflict with a NATO state, because Turkey is controlled by the AK Party, which is inspired by the Muslim Brotherhood, but it's still a state that is the number two export partner for natural gas to Israel, that helps supply Israel's war machine, that abides by NATO, that has NATO listening stations directed against Iran, that played a real role in toppling the government of Syria, which was an Israeli priority.

But Israel's already kind of engaged in some, a war in the gray zone, you could call it, against Turkey in Syria, because the Turkish government, the Syrian government of Ahmed al-Shar, who's like this rebranded Al-Qaeda leader, is basically his main backer is Turkey. And they share this vision of a kind of Sunni Muslim Brotherhood emirate-style vision, which does expand to Israel's borders. The Syrian government's very weak. It's, uh, lacks credibility among a large part of the Syrian population. That's better for Israel. But I think he sees that Israel faces looming threats if, uh, Turkey and Syria become more coherent. Qatar is part of that same axis.

But, you know, we would kind of think that's unusual because both Turkey and Qatar are also financially and politically completely interwoven into the Western imperial architecture to the point where Qatari representatives were hanging out at Jeffrey Epstein's townhouse on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. So that, that shows you kind of how extreme Israel's vision for the future is, that they're actually going to direct their war machine against countries that are NATO member states, that are total, that are deeply invested in the, you know, Western political world, unlike Iran. And it's also shows you how much Israel needs enemies in order to keep its own society together. I mean, if all the Palestinians, if the Palestinians just disappeared and voluntarily swam into the sea or self-deported, and Iran just dissolved and welcomed Reza Pahlavi, Israeli society would turn on itself. It would be a mess. Uh, it's war and the military that is the real basis and cultural pole for keeping Israeli society together. I mean, it's basic. It's a colonial society with all of these people from around the world who don't even speak the same language, who struggle to speak the modern Hebrew, and are just, uh, and the one thing that keeps them together is the military. The military is much larger in Israel than it would need to be for a real country of its size for self-defense. The military is there for indoctrination purposes. Naftali Bennett understands this, and he is going, he's determined to keep Israel at war perpetually. It's just not a normal country. And it, as long as there is a Israel there that is a Jewish, exclusively kind of exclusively Jewish state, which is based on the concept of Jewish supremacy, not because it's Jewish, but because it's ethno-supremist, there will be war in the region, and the US will be pulled into those wars as long as it's there. And Iran understands that, and that's why there won't be a ceasefire tomorrow or next week.

And so, you know, uh, Scott Ritter was saying how there's no way that the US and Israel is going to win this war, and that Iran has the ballistic missiles and they can shut down the oil, all the oil that's coming out of the Middle East. They have shut down the Strait of Hormuz effectively right now. Um, so do you see this as the last gasp of the United States trying to control the Middle East? Is it going to be, cuz, do you think the US and Israel will lose this and have to admit defeat, and will, and what will that then make of the Middle East? What do you, do you buy into that premise?

I mean, I think the question is, what does victory look like for the US here? And no one can explain that in the administration or around the administration. No one. But to me, victory for Israel would be a complete calamity for the entire region and for Europe and for humanity, because it would mean a massive migration crisis, civil war, internal conflict, violence spilling out across borders. And it's already happening. So how do you spin victory out of that? We already saw what happened with Syria, the largest outflow of migrants since World War II. That was the success of the dirty war and regime change, which was cheered on by Western liberals.

So now you have the whole European liberal class, uh, the leadership at least, and these unelected bureaucrats like Ursula von der Leyen and Charles Michel, warmongering morons, have endorsed this war on Iran. And now what are they getting? They're getting a 50% spike today in liquid natural gas prices to Europe because Qatar has been forced to cut off supplies. And what did they already do, which you've covered a million times? They just sat there and accepted, practically cheered for the Ukrainians and the CIA to blow up the Nord Stream pipeline, cutting them off from cheap Russian natural gas. So they've abandoned and sacrificed their own public, just as the Gulf family dictatorships have for their relationship with the US, which is now effectively being colonized by Israel through Trump.

And so that European leadership is exposed as having no credibility. They have no idea what they have just supported. They can't describe what victory is. But for that, but a, a victory in Iran is a major loss for the European public and the European population, which is already suffering so much from the Ukraine proxy war. A victory in Iran, a victory as defined by Israel, is a major loss for the region. It's a loss for Iraq. It's a loss for Lebanon. It's a win for ISIS. And it is a loss for the American public, who will soon feel the economic pinch as well.

And I would like to ask, you know, any of those Persian diaspora freaks who are celebrating assassinations in the streets of Westwood in LA and here in DC and Georgetown and doing the Trump YMCA dance in, engaged in secular death cult activity in our streets. What's your plan for solving the affordability crisis in America? What, what do you even care about what Americans, actual Americans are going through? I mean, or do you only want to use our country as an aircraft carrier for your own, uh, to settle your own scores back home? Because the Americans aren't out there protesting for this war like they were duped into doing back in 2002 and 2003 for Bush's war on Iraq. I used to see like fairly large rallies of Americans, Republican evangelicals, who were like, had their brains fried by Fox News, waving flags and they were singing Toby Keith, "I'll put a boot in your ass, you know, it's raining all this, you know, raining down on you" rhetoric. There's no Toby Keith singing going on right now. This is not what Americans want to be focused on. And Trump will deservedly pay a price. And if he's impeached for this, he'll actually finally be impeached for something real.

Yeah. Which we all saw coming after Miriam Adelson, Netanyahu's pal, was seated directly behind him at his inauguration.

Okay. Max, I appreciate you making time for us today. Thank you very much. Uh, it's always great to get your input. You know more about this than anybody. You've written books about it. You've been. You were just in Iran, uh, last year.

I was in Iran in May of last year, a month before, uh, the Israeli assault. And, uh, yeah, I think we talked about it.

And what, what, you know, so you're making fun of or you're insulting or, uh, deriding the the the Iranian diaspora. The people I know some of those people, by the way, in Los Angeles, who are cheering on us bombing their country, which doesn't make any sense whatsoever. No matter how much you hate the government of your country, the last thing you would want is for a superpower to just start bombing schools and police departments and apartment buildings, and which is what we're doing. And, you know, like a lot of people hate Donald Trump here in the United States, like vehemently. They think he's a dictator and a criminal. But they wouldn't want Iran to start bombing us so we to get rid of Donald Trump. That doesn't make any sense whatsoever. But somehow these Iranians, uh, you know, these expat Iranians are all for us doing the exact thing to their own home country. It makes no sense.

Yeah. I mean, me and you are very open about our anti-imperialist views and our anti-Zionist views and our, these come from just anti-war, pro-peace sentiments that are very, I think, basic to human nature. But can you imagine what would happen to our credibility and, you know, our own, how our own supporters come out to your shows? Uh, you know, you fill every theater. What would happen if you started calling for Russia or China to bomb your own country? I mean, it would just be considered unacceptable. But that is really like the political and cultural essence of the monarchists. I'm not talking about the entire Persian diaspora here in the US. They have diverse views. I, some of my closest friends live in Westwood. Uh, and, you know, that. But I'm talking about the monarchists. That is really the essence of it. And the Miami mafia that wants the US to be starving Cuba, the country where their parents or grandparents came from, and bombing Cuba. The US is imposing mass starvation on Cuba right now. Talked to some friends there. We're going to publish an interview from a journalist who is just there, who traveled across the entire island. People are being starved to death and dying excess deaths in Cuba silently. And people in Cuba call it "Gaza without bombs" because the US, following the policy of Marco Rubio, this Cuban-American who embodies the same mentality as those Persians who want the US to bomb their country. Iran is blocking oil and all fuel from getting to Cuba. Can you imagine what it's like to not have energy, to not have, you, you have to cook on wood in your apartment? You can't, uh, there's not energy for water pumping, so disease starts to spread. There isn't energy for delivering food. Transportation is becoming impossible. Inflation is through the roof. So even though there is food in some stores, you can't afford it, and you can't communicate. So you just silently die. That's what's happening in Cuba, and that's the policy of the South Florida Cuban Gusano mafia, who deserve nothing but contempt and see the US as nothing but a vehicle for destroying the, uh, government that they hate in Cuba. But if we took on that mentality in the United States towards our own government, uh, you know, we would be seen as, as just like freaks. Yes. By even our own supporters. Why can't, why, why can't they be, why can't these people be just be be normal?

I mean, and, and I should also say, you know, when I was in Iran, I met many people who do not support the Islamic Republic. Sat in their homes. I drank Arak with them in their homes. You know, so many of the Iranian public drinks at home. Uh, but they don't want war. I walked the streets of Tehran and Isfahan with my wife, Ana Parampill, who was not wearing hijab, just walking around like so many women there are not wearing hijab anymore. Where is their individual freedom when they're being bombed in their apartments? Where, where are the individual rights? Where's the "Woman, Life, Freedom" of the over 150 girls in a girls' school who were murdered by the US-Israeli Epstein coalition at their school two days ago? That, that should, there should be a right to life. There should be a right to be free from war, free from fear. And as long as Iranians can't be free from warfare and having state terror imposed on them and sanctions, which are causing their own form of deprivation, then they're not going to be able to reform from within, and their society will be de-democratized. And you just, if you don't believe me, take a look at the leadership that will fill the void in order to survive this Israeli-US assault. Uh, they're going to be less moderate than Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who, um, you know, as a female friend told me today, who is a supporter of the Islamic Republic and the Iranian Revolution, she would cite Khamenei's writings and his speeches in order to argue against more religious friends who were opposed to women's ambitions. And she is a university professor at the major university in Iran, University of Tehran, which is 70% female. Iran has women's representation, more women's representation in its parliament and society than the United States. Uh, and this, and women's representation and participation increased dramatically after 1979. So, this isn't known to the West. I personally am not, you know, part, I, I'm not Shia. I don't believe in the Shia ideology, but it's just something I witnessed there in another culture. And we're not going to be able to impose our own culture, which is clearly suffering from some serious degeneracy. We're not going to be able to impose it on them by bombing them. That's just a fact.

Max Blumenthal, thanks again. I appreciate it. Thanks. I appreciate you coming on and giving us your insight, and I apologize again for being late. I messed up the times. You're very generous and gracious. Um, okay, pal. Great job, everybody. Check out Max Blumenthal's work at The Grayzone. We all love The Grayzone, and, uh, hope to see you, uh, you and your wife soon. Someday soon, hopefully.

Absolutely. Feels like a lot. All right, buddy. Talk to you later.

Great seeing you.

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