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So, it's probably not hasn't been reported, but it's a fact that last night in Qatar and Saudi Arabia, authorities arrested MSAD agents planning on committing bombings in those countries. Now, that's weird.
There's another, actually two other components, two other speed bumps on the way to regional dominance for Israel. And the first is something called the GCC. The GCC is an informal alliance, maybe a little more formal as of today, but uh it's the six Gulf monarchies. It's the energy producing Gulf states. And those would be Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait, UAE, Qatar, and Saudi. And these are some of the biggest, most important energy producers in the world. They're all Sunni Arab states. They are all rich. And all of a sudden, they are all now internationally or some of them are internationally influential because they are the site of global diplomacy. They are filling the void left by Switzerland, which, not to get too boring about it, but basically took sides in the Russia-Ukraine conflict and is therefore kind of not really a place where people can negotiate in good faith. They are in fact controlled uh by the EU and NATO. They would never admit that, the Swiss, but they are. They give up their banking secrecy. They're basically not non-aligned anymore. But some of these Gulf states are as close to non-aligned as you can possibly get. Certainly Qatar is. And all of a sudden, every conflict around the world is being negotiated in Qatar, or most recently in Oman. And so they have a kind of moral authority on the global stage, right? They have very effective diplomacy. People like them. People also go there on vacation. They have the best airlines in the world. They are the obvious regional travel travel hub for the globe. They're literally where East meets West. So if you're flying from New York to Delhi, you're going to stop in Dubai. And they have government subsidized airlines that are absolutely fantastic. So people have a familiarity, a firsthand familiarity with these countries, which were mysteries to most Westerners 25 years ago. When 9/11 happened, which was the first time I went to the Gulf, most Americans had never been there. Unless you were in the oil business or something, you never been there. And you could imagine that it was all belly dancers and camels and slavery, or whatever you thought. But all of a sudden, you know, like every other rich person in America has been to Dubai because they're all traveling somewhere. They're going on safari in Africa. So people, it's been demystified to the West and people like it. These are societies with problems, of course. But they're also orderly and clean and elaborately polite and welcoming to outsiders and rich and kind of a little less gaudy than you would expect. They're actually some of the most functional societies in the world and people like them despite a lot of propaganda. And by the way, despite some complications, there are plenty of things about the Gulf States that Westerners won't like and or some things anyway, and certainly parts of their foreign policy that make you wonder. But these are not North Korea. They're the opposite. These are actually very civilized countries. And they're not all on board with Israel's programs because they've got populations that disagree with how Israel has treated the Palestinians. In the case of Saudi Arabia, they have Mecca and Medina, the two holiest places in Islam. Every Muslim who can is required to go to Saudi Arabia on the Hajj, on to go visit Mecca. So these are countries with inherent power in the Islamic world, growing power globally and resources. And so they can't be ignored. And if they were ever to get together, if these six countries were ever to form, say, like a real military alliance, they would be a massive threat to Israel. So Israel has spent decades fermenting dissent between them, of course. And that's not necessarily just an attack on Israel. I mean, as anyone can tell you who spent time in the Middle East, the Arabs, many great qualities, but love to fight with each other. It's like their favorite hobby more than camel racing. Like they, it's very easy to get Arab nations bickering and fighting and the distrust goes back a long time and it's impenetrable to the outsider. But if you were trying to divide six countries from each other, it's not that hard. And the Israelis have worked really, really hard to do that. But the truth is, if you really want control of the Middle East, you kind of have to degrade, if not destroy the Gulf States. And so the Israelis knew, and the Americans knew as well, maybe not quite, quite as realistic an assessment, but they had some sense. The Israelis definitely knew that if you start lobbing missiles into Iran and if you start killing the leadership of Iran and if you were to say, kill the head of state/religious leader of one branch of Islam, the Ayatollah, if you were to do that, it would provoke a military response that would hurt the Gulf badly and that it would, in some countries like Bahrain, site of the Fifth Fleet, you could potentially stoke like a true revolution because that country is almost, I think, Shiite. So you could cause massive chaos in the Gulf if you were to do this. Now, that wasn't a risk from the Israeli standpoint. That was the point. That was the point. They wanted to diminish the Gulf and in two days they have. And I think anyone who likes decency and order and cleanliness is hoping that the Gulf will recover. The Gulf is not a threat to us. We have military bases in these countries. These are some of our closest allies. All of them are closer allies than Israel by far. They're our friends. Um, but they've been really hurt. And in a place like Dubai, which is basically, it's part of a country. It's an emirate within the United Arab Emirates, but it's also a, it's a luxury brand. Basically, people go to Dubai because it's beautiful and rich and clean and above all because it's safe and orderly. It's got the busiest airport in the world. You start seeing video and Instagram of smoke in the Dubai airport and you're like, "I think I'm going to Cabo this year." Oh, sorry, drug cartels. Whatever. Maybe you go to Sedona this year. It really, really hurts these countries and Israel wanted to hurt these countries. That's the point. Wanted to hurt these countries. Wanted to sow chaos and disorder because they are rivals of Israel.
So, it's probably not hasn't been reported, but it's a fact that last night in Qatar and Saudi Arabia, authorities arrested MSAD agents planning on committing bombings in those countries. Now, that's weird. That doesn't make any sense. Why would the Israelis be committing bombings in two Gulf countries which are also being attacked by Iran? Aren't they on the same side? No. No. Israel wants to hurt Iran and Qatar and UAE and Saudi and Bahrain and Oman and Kuwait. And they've succeeded.
And the third thing you would have to do if you wanted true control over the region, which, as we've established, Israel wants and shouldn't be attacked for wanting. It's a natural thing to want. But the final thing you'd have to do is get the US out of the Middle East. Since 1948, the United States, from Harry Truman until present, US presidents, and as noted with diminishing success, but have tried to constrain or shape Israel's policies, its foreign policy. And we have a right to do that because we're the most powerful country in the world and have been since 1945. And also because we, we pay for it. You know, Israel couldn't exist without us right now. And we give them the defense umbrella. We defend them in their wars. And so why would you want the United States out? Well, because the United States, while not doing a very good job of constraining Israel, has been issuing requests in any case to Israel for a long time. And that's very annoying. Imagine if we were getting the same kind of communiques from, I don't know, Ottawa, and they were like, "You can't do this, you can't do that." We'd say, "Buzz off at a certain point. Back off, Canada. We're doing what we want. We're a great power." So you have to get the United States out. And this war is designed to do it because the Israelis, who are very well aware of domestic American politics, know that there is no appetite whatsoever for casualties among the American public. That this war did not have anything approaching majority support. In fact, it had small minority support, and that's shrunk even in 36 hours. And that this would cause a political crisis in the United States and that it would, most critically, convince our Arab allies in the region, meaning really the Gulf States and Jordan. Poor Jordan, wonderful country. It would convince them that the United States is a bad ally. Why? Because the second you hit Iran, and the Persians are not stupid at all, you know that they're going to hit American bases in those countries, which they have, except Oman, but in the other six, they have. And you know, those countries are not going to be defended by the United States, and they haven't been very well. Some of these countries are on fire right now and they feel completely vulnerable and they are low, are not letting loose with any operational secret that you can't find on the internet. They're running low on missile defense. And so a country like Saudi or UAE or Qatar, Bahrain or Kuwait, I mean, they're all right on the Gulf directly across from Iran. They live on their energy production, and that's being damaged and no one's protecting them. A Saudi Aramco facility went up last night. Saudi Aramco being the, you know, longtime joint US-Saudi energy production company, biggest oil company in the world, and part of it's on fire today. The Iranians said they didn't do it. Why would they say they didn't do it? But possible Israel did it. Why wouldn't they? Because if you think about it, scaring our other allies in the region, letting them know that they can get attacked and the US will not defend you. You put up with all this crap for decades because you got American troops on your soil and your population doesn't like it. But you do it anyway because you've been told if there was ever a problem, the US will come rescue you. Well, guess what? We just learned the US is not coming to rescue you. There are hundreds of thousands of Americans, civilians, caught in the Middle East tonight. They can't get out. And the governments of those countries are panicked and they're enraged. And the message to them is the US is not a reliable partner. What's the point of this partnership? What's the point of allowing you to have an air base in my country if when missiles come raining down or drones attack our airport, our international airport? You're not going to do anything about it. That's how they feel. And you can understand why they do. So what's his message to them? There's no upside in dealing with the United States. There's no upside in foreign investment in the United States. You go to any of these countries, you go to the airport, go to a restaurant. Who do you run to? American businessmen. And some of them have good ideas. Some of them have ideas that are so stupid that they couldn't sell them in Silicon Valley. They couldn't go to VCs in the United States and raise the money. So they go to the Gulf. And it's not that the Gulf Arabs are dumb. In some sense, they're doing this because they see the United States as their only real ally. And so they're investing in American business ventures a lot. Hundreds of billions of dollars. And part of that is economic calculation. They think these companies are going to grow and they're going to make money. Part of it is friendship. You're our ally and have been all these years since the British left. What do they think now? Well, they don't feel that way quite as much because for them this is very serious. I mean, these countries don't grow their own food. So, if you close the airport and the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea are closed, in effect, where do you get your food? That's a real issue. These are countries that are supplied by, in some cases, desalination plants pulling seawater through a membrane and then piping it to the urban centers. What happens if those pipes get blown up? You have no water. There's millions and millions of people. You can see without getting too into it, just how vulnerable these countries, our strongest allies in the region now feel and how their calculation about the United States in the region has changed dramatically. The British lost their influence in the Middle East in 1956 and what is known as the Suez Crisis. It was a crisis that was so complex it's hard even to understand it now 70 years later. But the net effect was the UK was not able to restore order in the region. They had less power than people thought they did. And that was it. That was the true end of Britain's empire. It was certainly the end of its control over the Middle East. That's what this is. And it's on purpose. They did this. The Israelis want us out. And they did this on purpose.
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