Transcript [00:00] So where are we in this whole war [00:02] meaning this war with Iran? Are you know [00:04] are we about to win? Is the regime going [00:07] to fall? Is it not going to fall? We've [00:09] been talking about these questions for [00:11] months and months. And it's easy to lose [00:14] sight of the big picture when we talk [00:16] about the details dayto day and what's [00:18] going on with the street of Hormuz and [00:20] what's going on with the proxies and [00:21] what statements were made by President [00:23] Trump. And I found it very helpful. The [00:26] other day I saw a one of I saw a clip of [00:28] Victor Davis Hansen kind of giving the [00:31] big picture of where we are and it was [00:34] it was very encouraging. I didn't agree [00:36] with everything that he said, but I [00:38] thought it was a very helpful clip in [00:40] terms of reminding us about, you know, [00:42] the historical perspective and where we [00:44] are in this war and giving us uh a [00:47] better sense of how to prepare ourselves [00:49] for the months ahead. So, that's what I [00:50] want to do in this video. I'm going to [00:52] play the clip. It's uh about 7 minutes [00:54] long. I'm going to stop it a number of [00:56] times and inject my own comments and uh [00:59] yeah, there we go. So, let's hit it. [01:01] Let's let's bring up Victor Davis Hansen [01:04] has called this an endless forever war [01:06] and the left says it's a lost war. So, I [01:08] just wanted to define those terms. The [01:12] war was 38 to 39 days. Since then, we [01:16] have the normal tit fortat negotiations [01:18] that we have with the Houthi everybody. [01:20] So, it was not kinetic. 19 people have [01:24] been tragically killed. The war, quote [01:27] unquote, whether it's kinetic or [01:29] negotiations, has been going on for [01:32] roughly 7 months. That is, [01:36] you know, 210 days. [01:40] And in that 210 days, the accident rate [01:44] of the United States averages one [01:46] fatality a day. That's tragic, but it [01:50] happens. So we in that period I have [01:54] >> now there he's just to be clear he's [01:56] talking about the accident rate of the [01:58] US military. [02:00] Uh that's what he's referring to the [02:02] accident rate in the US military one [02:04] fatality per day. [02:05] >> Haven't checked the data but if these [02:08] yearly statistics are correct we lost [02:10] about 210 lives to accidents. We lost [02:14] 19. In other words, the accident rate is [02:19] 11 times higher than the war theater [02:22] death rate. We haven't put one ground [02:25] troop in there other than to save [02:27] somebody. We are not going to do that. [02:29] This is the This isn't Afghanistan, the [02:32] 20-year misadventure. This isn't even [02:34] Iraq. This is not $5 trillion, 7,000 [02:38] dead, 50,000 wounded. [02:41] We they've damaged some bases and we [02:44] have two or 30 hundred people with [02:45] wounds. Most of them have recovered. [02:48] So my point is this in terms of damage [02:52] done versus damage suffered. It's not [02:54] like any war we've seen. We have [02:56] destroyed for the most part the [03:00] nuclear [03:02] industrial [03:03] military complex and its command and [03:06] control of the most powerful [03:09] terrorist military machine in the Middle [03:12] East for the last 50 years. That's what [03:15] he did. And right now, and you can argue [03:18] we should have done it earlier, we have [03:20] the toughest blockade, embargo, [03:24] sanctions, freezing of bank accounts [03:26] we've ever done to anybody. And they [03:30] are absolutely broke. The currency is [03:34] worthless. This is an unsustainable. If [03:37] we just bomb the rail lines and the [03:40] freeways into Russia or China, we could [03:44] starve them. We don't want to do that. [03:46] But they cannot import parts for their [03:48] machinery and they can't export oil for [03:51] cash. That's a fact. [03:54] Okay. Um [03:58] so, [04:00] okay, let's level set here. He started [04:04] off by talking about how on the right [04:06] they're saying, "Oh, this is a forever [04:08] war because it's been going on for a few [04:10] months." And on the left they're saying [04:13] that it's lost. [04:16] Look, this speaks to a uh a weakness [04:21] that we're finding all over the Western [04:24] world, but we find it in America, too. [04:26] Let me show you something. This is a [04:29] news item from late January. This is the [04:32] the date on this is January 27th. So, [04:34] one month almost to the day before the [04:38] United States and Israel started bombing [04:40] in Iran, before the war started. [04:43] And I've cited this poll before. I find [04:46] it so fascinating. [04:48] Exclusive [04:50] poll. Americans want to topple Iranian [04:53] regime [04:55] but unwilling to risk even single [04:59] American life to do so. [05:03] This is a Breitbart poll. Overall, the [05:06] new poll obtained by Breitbart News [05:07] exclusively shows more Americans support [05:11] U the US toppling the regime in Iran [05:13] than oppose doing so with 36% supporting [05:17] such action, 18% strongly supporting it, [05:19] 18% somewhat supporting it compared to [05:22] just 20 21% opposing, 11% strongly [05:25] opposed, 10% somewhat opposed. That's [05:27] the 21 with 24% of Americans [05:30] indifferent, offering neither support or [05:32] opposition. So we can assume if you [05:34] split the difference that a majority of [05:35] Americans support bringing down the [05:37] Iranian regime. Great. Among Republicans [05:40] specifically support for the for the US [05:42] toppling the Iranian regime goes up even [05:44] higher with 60% [05:46] supporting the move. [05:50] When asked how many American fatalities [05:51] are an acceptable number to stomach for [05:54] the US to topple the regime in Thran, a [05:57] majority of all Americans and [06:00] specifically Republicans, those same [06:03] Republicans who 60% support toppling the [06:05] regime said zero [06:12] zero [06:18] zero. [06:20] Okay. And this is in both all Americans [06:23] and Republicans. Majority say that they [06:26] would tolerate they they want to bring [06:28] down the Iranian regime, but they would [06:31] tolerate zero casualties to do so. Now, [06:34] why do I find this so fascinating? Think [06:36] about what this means. [06:39] If you believe that the Iranian regime [06:41] is a threat, what is it a threat to? [06:44] It's a threat to it's it's killing [06:46] people. people are, you know, it's it's [06:48] a it's a threat to global security. If [06:50] you acknowledge all of those things, [06:52] that's why you want to bring the topple [06:53] the regime. I mean, if you ask these [06:54] Americans who support toppling the [06:56] regime, why do you think it's a good [06:57] thing to topple the regime? They [06:58] wouldn't just be like, well, I don't [07:00] like those guys. [07:02] They obviously agree that there's [07:04] threats. Otherwise, why would you just [07:07] why would you agree that the US should [07:09] topple the regime? [07:12] But to say that I want this action to be [07:14] taken, I want this to happen. this is a [07:16] dangerous country. This is a bad [07:17] country. They're oppressing their [07:18] people. They're a global threat. Global [07:19] terrorism, narcotics, whatever your [07:21] reasons are. [07:24] If you follow that up by saying, "But [07:26] I'm not willing to give even one life to [07:28] do so." What does that say about your [07:29] conviction? What does it say about the [07:31] human condition [07:34] in in in America? [07:38] in the west according to this poll. [07:40] We'll say the West because I'm sure in [07:41] Europe if you asked about toppling the [07:42] regime, the numbers would be even worse. [07:45] There they wouldn't even want to topple [07:46] it. But that's not even what I'm [07:47] concerned with. People don't want to [07:48] topple the regime. That's a separate [07:50] story here. To me, what interests me is [07:52] the delta, the gap between the pe this [07:56] massive number of Americans who want to [07:58] topple the regime and the tolerance for [08:01] casualties being zero. not willing to [08:04] give your life for any for even not even [08:07] willing to give one American life. Think [08:10] about what wars are. The concept of [08:12] going to war and why you do it and why [08:15] it's worth and and why it is worth why [08:20] human beings are considered noble [08:23] to lay down their lives to rid the world [08:26] of evil. [08:30] Think about World War II. Think about [08:32] what Israel is doing against his [08:33] enemies. The whole concept from time in [08:36] memorial that you have to be willing to [08:38] fight. [08:40] Saying that you want this to happen, but [08:42] you're not willing to give up a single [08:43] human life, a single American life. [08:47] So, what does that say about your [08:48] conviction about how serious the threat [08:50] is or how or or I mean, what does it [08:53] say? [08:58] And I think that's where you get these [09:00] numbers from. That that's where you get [09:02] this this freakout session. Oh, it's a [09:04] forever war. Oh, you know, 19 Americans [09:06] have died. [09:08] 19 Americans. [09:10] And this is what what what when Victor [09:12] Davis Hansen says there that the if you [09:14] think about what was accomplished [09:17] was accomplished in this war so far. [09:19] Even if we stop now, one of the most [09:22] formidable military militaries in the [09:25] world [09:28] military indust industries. [09:32] The Iran Iran is not a small nation. [09:34] This isn't Syria. This isn't Libya. Look [09:37] at a map. Look at the size of the [09:39] population, the size of the economy, [09:42] the global threat that they represented. [09:46] And to take that from where it was to [09:49] where it is [09:52] while losing only 19 American lives, not [09:55] putting a single boot on the ground. [09:57] This is the most remarkable. And as he [09:59] said it, we it's like nothing we've ever [10:01] seen. Let me say it another way. If you [10:03] go back to before this war, before Trump [10:05] does anything, and you say to yourself, [10:09] how costly would it be [10:12] to decimate the Iranian military and [10:17] bring the regime to to the point of [10:19] collapse? [10:22] How costly was it to do that to other [10:25] evil regimes in the past? [10:28] This is this is this war is like the [10:31] biggest bargain ever. We'll get into [10:33] that more a little bit later, but I I I [10:35] think there's in the in the opposition [10:38] both on the right and on the left, the [10:40] opposition on the left is a different [10:41] animal and it has to do with the fact [10:43] that they don't even think Iran is evil. [10:44] That's is there's other issues there. [10:47] It's the opposition on the right that I [10:49] find so so disturbing. [10:52] It speaks to to a larger issue on the [10:54] right [10:56] and I know these people very well and [10:59] that is that a lot of the things that [11:00] they say that they have convictions [11:02] about in action they don't actually have [11:04] convictions about them. Take for example [11:07] marriage and family formation. They talk [11:09] about family values, family values, [11:11] family values, which is great, [11:14] but you don't see young conservative [11:16] Americans in large numbers getting [11:20] married young and building families with [11:22] lots of kids like what you see, for [11:24] example, in Israel. [11:27] They they say it, but they're not doing [11:30] it. [11:33] and being willing to lay down your life [11:36] for a higher purpose, for the [11:37] destruction of evil, [11:40] for your country, [11:43] for a greater cause, is a measure of [11:48] belief in your own society. It's a [11:50] measure of selflessness rather than [11:53] selfishness, which is really the, [11:56] you know, the the underlying axiom of [11:59] life in the west. [12:01] And that's where I think conservatives [12:04] haven't fully, you know, they they think [12:06] that they're going back to traditional [12:08] values. Well, one of the traditional [12:09] values is a willingness for [12:10] self-sacrifice. [12:14] And getting married young and having [12:15] children young is also self-sacrifice. [12:17] You're giving up all the fun times, [12:19] right? It's difficult. [12:22] You're not so financially stable yet. [12:24] That's true. [12:26] The payoff is huge. but being willing to [12:29] sacrifice, believing in your future. [12:31] These are things that that play out in [12:33] the way people live out their lives. And [12:36] this this sentiment that this is a [12:39] forever war or that it's a disaster [12:43] is the extension [12:46] of that poll, that Breitbart poll. [12:51] Anyway, let's go further with this. [12:55] Oh, at some point [12:58] in the next few weeks, this regime is [13:01] going to do one of two things. It's [13:04] going to see the writing on the wall, [13:06] and it's going to contact to the extent [13:08] that it even communicate all of their [13:12] subordinate commanders that have drones, [13:15] missiles, rockets [13:18] under autonomous conditions, hidden, [13:20] probably underground. And they're going [13:22] to say, "Launch them." and hit the Gulf. [13:25] And that will maybe shock Trump into [13:28] negotiating. Or they're going to say, "I [13:32] kind of give up. Kind of give up. You [13:35] can kind of have the straits open. Let's [13:37] go back to the Obama deal. Let's go back [13:40] to where we were with Biden." [13:43] It's going to be one of the two, but [13:44] it's not going to be the status quo. [13:46] This is unsustainable for them. [13:49] >> Okay. [13:50] Um I don't fully agree with his [13:54] assessment of the possibilities of [13:56] what's going to happen. Uh so look, so I [14:00] mean on one point I agree with him that [14:03] their options are basically escalation [14:07] and something that looks like surrender, [14:10] capitulation, [14:12] you know, let's try to go back to the [14:14] Obama deal, something along those lines. [14:16] I think it might play out something like [14:17] this headline [14:19] um which we just saw. This is from [14:23] from well from today or last night. [14:27] Iraqi offers inspectors access to [14:29] nuclear facilities in exchange for [14:31] sanctions relief, right? Which is kind [14:33] of what which is kind of what Victor [14:36] Davis Hansen was saying. We we heard the [14:37] same thing from Iranian President Mazud [14:39] Pesian on CBS last week said that Iran [14:42] would be willing to allow inspectors in, [14:45] right? And and here we have this report [14:47] that that Aragchi, the Iranian foreign [14:50] minister said it in negotiations. In [14:52] other words, looking like they're [14:53] capitulating, looking like they're [14:56] they're surrendering of some sort. [14:57] Victor David Sansa might be implying [14:59] that they actually will be surrendering, [15:01] but his other option is that they're [15:02] going to is that they're going to just [15:03] launch attacks against the Gulf. I think [15:05] there's another possibility though. Um [15:08] before we get to that, let me just [15:09] remind you about our our tour March 7th [15:12] through 14th. You don't want to miss [15:13] this if you can make it happen. Uh this [15:16] is a uh a very special tour led by [15:19] myself and Dr. David Worms. We're going [15:21] to be Dr. Worms is one of the leading [15:23] experts in the world in the Middle East [15:24] and he's going to be joining us for the [15:26] full eight days. We'll have briefings [15:28] from senior members of the Israeli [15:30] government and military establishment, [15:32] security establishment. We will be [15:34] meeting with community leaders. We're [15:36] going to be having briefings on location [15:39] at key strategic spots. Uh meeting with [15:42] leading journalists, a trip like no [15:44] other. A luxury five-star [15:45] accommodations. Uh limited uh limited uh [15:50] number of participants. It's going to be [15:51] under 20 people and spots are already [15:53] being snatched up. So if you're [15:55] interested in this and uh you think it [15:57] might be for you, check out the link in [15:58] the description of the video. Anyway, [16:00] but I I think this is another [16:01] possibility. There was an interview that [16:03] was posted last month [16:06] um on memory me the Middle East media [16:08] research institute. They post clips from [16:11] Arabic language or other language uh [16:13] pers this case it's Persian language [16:15] media and it was an interview with [16:18] General Muhammad Resad Nakadi a top [16:21] advisor to the IRGC commanderin-chief. [16:25] And what he listen to some of the stuff [16:27] he says in this interview first he talks [16:30] about how we still have lots of [16:31] missiles. Great. And then he says, "So [16:33] far we have only engaged in traditional [16:35] war. We launch drones and missiles and [16:38] they are and they la and they launch [16:39] drones and missiles as well. We have not [16:41] yet entered the stage of asymmetric [16:43] warfare. Asymmetric warfare means that [16:45] we carry out actions and the enemy does [16:47] not know where, when, or with what [16:49] means. Even if they realize what is [16:51] happening, they do not have the means to [16:53] deal with it. Asymmetric warfare means [16:55] in Wall Street and Manhattan. In other [16:57] words, anywhere and at any time. [17:00] introducing capabilities that have not [17:01] yet been employed. So far, the need has [17:03] not arisen, and we have managed to run [17:05] the war and defend ourselves with drones [17:08] and missiles. Now, obviously, there's a [17:11] c there's a a fair amount of bravado in [17:15] the in the statements that he's making, [17:17] you know, that we haven't had to do [17:19] this, but there could be in addition to [17:23] what Victor Davis Hansen is talking [17:25] about uh hitting the Gulf [17:28] or or andor it could be simultaneous [17:31] saying, "Oh, yeah, we're willing to go [17:34] back to the terms of the Obama deal." [17:36] There could be another option which is [17:37] sleeper cells and which is other types [17:40] of nefarious activity that uh that the [17:43] Iranians still have up their sleeve. It [17:45] could be bravado. It could be they don't [17:47] really have these capabilities the way [17:48] they claim they do. But that's something [17:50] that we should keep in mind. Okay, let's [17:53] move on. Let's uh go to the next segment [17:55] here. [17:56] We have to be patient and the fact that [17:59] he chose to do it before the midterms [18:01] tells you that it was a political risk [18:04] as well as a military and I think it's [18:06] going to pay off in this sense. If this [18:09] government falls or if it is so neutered [18:12] to be inert, that's the greatest [18:15] development abroad since the fall of the [18:17] Berlin Wall. It means the entire Gulf [18:20] Coast, the six Gulf nations are free of [18:24] an existential threat for the first time [18:26] in 50 years. It means that is Israel is [18:28] too. It means that they will be close. [18:30] It means that moderate regimes do not [18:33] have to worry whether they're Jordan or [18:35] Kuwait or Saudi Arabia or Egypt. They [18:38] don't have to worry about their Sunni [18:40] minorities being stirred up. It uh he [18:43] meant Shiite minorities. Those are Sunni [18:45] majority countries. He meant their [18:47] Shiite minorities being stirred up. I'll [18:49] get to I'll have more to say on that in [18:51] a minute. It [18:51] >> means that terrorists that nobody wants [18:54] nobody wants Hezbollah in Lebanon. [18:56] Nobody wants Hamas in Jordan. Nobody [18:59] wants Hamas in [19:02] Egypt. None of the Gulf states want [19:05] except gutter the Houthis. They're going [19:07] to be completely inert. They're going to [19:08] have no money. They have no They don't [19:11] produce anything. They have no oil. They [19:14] have no income. They have no industry. [19:15] They're parasitical on Iran. And then [19:18] the big beneficiary, you're going to see [19:20] the emergency emergence of a [19:23] the Iranian people that we knew existed [19:26] before 1979. [19:28] And they're very capable, very bright [19:30] people. And they're going to create a [19:32] very stable society. So that the [19:34] straight of Ormuz will have on one side [19:37] a pro-western stable government, on the [19:40] other side the shikdoms that are now [19:42] staunchly pro-western and China and [19:45] Russia will be the geostrategic losers. [19:48] And that's going to happen in months if [19:50] we stay the course. And [19:53] >> okay. Um, here I for the most part agree [19:57] with what he said. Meaning people and [20:00] and this is really why I wanted to make [20:02] this video when I said at the beginning [20:03] that we need to have the bigger picture. [20:05] Uh, [20:07] the fall of the Iranian regime is not [20:10] going to be like the fall of like the [20:13] like Saddam Hussein or Gaddafi or Assad. [20:17] It's to this is a orders of magnitude [20:19] different. It is a complete change of [20:22] the landscape of the Middle East. He's [20:24] absolutely right and it does remove a [20:26] major existential threat to everyone [20:28] else in the region. However, and here's [20:30] where I think he has a bit of a blind [20:31] spot, it's not like suddenly all of [20:36] these problems go away. [20:39] The Jordanian people, for example, when [20:42] when he said no one wants kamas, it's [20:45] true at the governmental level. The [20:46] Saudi royal family doesn't want kamas. [20:48] King Abdullah in Jordan doesn't want [20:50] kamas. [20:52] But the Qataris fund kamas. [20:56] Uh Erdogan in Turkey funds and shelters [20:59] kamas. The Jordanian people. [21:03] I just mentioned the Jordanian people [21:06] are very radicalized. They love kamas. [21:09] They hate the fact that their country [21:11] cooperates with Israel. [21:14] There are still massive swaths of the [21:17] Muslim world even in these countries [21:19] that have moderate quote unquote [21:20] moderate or more peaceful or more benign [21:24] leaders who are radicalized and are pro- [21:27] kamas or Muslim Brotherhood [21:31] indoctrinated. [21:33] There will still be terrorism in the [21:36] Middle East. Absolutely. Let's not be [21:39] polyianish about that. At the same time, [21:42] if the Iranian regime falls and the [21:44] Iranian people take over and it becomes [21:46] a pro-western nation, the landscape of [21:49] the Middle East is completely different. [21:51] The whole power structure is different. [21:53] Will we still be dealing with with [21:54] terrorism? Of course, but there will not [21:57] be any more state actors [22:01] who are openly pushing terrorism. The [22:04] Qataris still probably will try to fund [22:06] it, but maybe they'll get more isolated [22:09] over it. The Turks, we have to keep an [22:12] eye on them. They might still try to be [22:13] funding it and supporting it. We don't [22:15] know which way Syria is going to go. [22:17] This doesn't change the fact that Iraq [22:20] is a Shiite majority nation that is [22:23] mostly a population that is most is [22:25] pro-Iran. [22:27] So, it's not as simple as he says here, [22:29] but at the same time, yes, it will [22:31] fundamentally change the Middle East. [22:34] I don't really care what Robert Kagan [22:36] says the war is lost or all the [22:38] Democratic demagogues. That is the fact. [22:41] And a lot of people are rooting against [22:45] that fact because they're wedded through [22:47] thousands of [22:49] verbose speeches and rhetoric and [22:53] blunder that this is lost. It was [22:55] horrible. Uh we can't do anything. It's [22:58] a forever war. We've lo suffered [23:00] enormous loss. It's cost $40 billion. [23:02] Right now, we're looking in California [23:05] at about a h 100red billion minimum for [23:08] welfare fraud, for hospices, co money, [23:13] homeless, you name it. And so, it's a [23:17] lot of money, but compared to what we [23:19] have wasted, it's nothing. And I don't [23:22] think anybody's getting that message [23:24] across. So, we get all this conspiracy [23:26] theories that fill the vacuum. Victor. [23:29] >> Okay. Um, a couple comments here. First [23:32] of all, I think there's another simple [23:34] factor here as to why people are all, [23:36] you know, getting this wrong and and and [23:38] freaking out. And that is that they just [23:41] cannot handle the possibility that [23:43] Donald Trump is right and that he came [23:46] up with a brilliant approach that is way [23:49] cheaper and more effective than what was [23:51] done in Iraq and Afghanistan, etc. Um I [23:54] think there's another factor at play [23:57] which is the Berlin wall which you [24:00] mentioned earlier fell [24:03] believe it or not at this point [24:06] 37 years ago. 37 years ago. [24:11] Which means that you have people [24:14] now who are [24:17] 40 years old, [24:20] not young people. [24:22] and everyone younger than them who don't [24:25] even remember a problem of this [24:28] magnitude being solved. A change of this [24:30] magnitude being solved. [24:33] A change of this magnitude happening. [24:34] I'm sorry. [24:36] And I think that that something's [24:38] happened to the human psychology [24:43] that [24:46] I don't think people actually believe [24:49] that a change of this magnitude can [24:51] happen. Even though we're seeing it play [24:53] out and we know that it's the regime is [24:55] on the verge of collapse, but I don't [24:57] think people really believe it can [24:58] happen. And and I say this just because [25:01] of my own experience. I remember the [25:02] Berlin Wall falling very well. I'm sure [25:04] a lot of you do too as well, [25:06] the Soviet Union collapsing. And just [25:08] think about that. Get back into where [25:09] your head was then. If you remember it, [25:12] even in the days and months leading up [25:15] to it, you didn't say to yourself, it [25:18] was still it was still very difficult to [25:21] wrap your head around a post Soviet [25:23] Union world. [25:25] The idea that the Soviet Union would [25:26] collapse. We knew that that was an [25:27] objective. Reagan had set it out, [25:29] whatever. But the idea that it would [25:30] actually happen was still hard to wrap [25:32] our heads around [25:34] and we lived through it and then it [25:36] happened. And even though we saw a [25:38] change like that, I think there's so [25:41] many people in the world today who just [25:43] have a hard time even though we say it [25:46] we want the regime to fall, they don't [25:47] really believe that it's possible. [25:51] And therefore, it's easy for them to be [25:54] naysayers about what we're witnessing. [25:56] And finally, the point about the $40 [25:58] billion, this war, if that number is [26:00] correct, that what Trump has done so far [26:02] costs $40 billion. Just to put in [26:04] perspective what a bargain that is, he [26:06] he put it into perspective comparing it [26:07] to other wastes of money. I'd rather do [26:09] something else. The price tag on the [26:11] Iraq war, there's various estimates for [26:15] the war itself, 2 to three trillion, and [26:18] then all the secondary costs that have [26:22] resulted from it. People put the number [26:23] up around five or 8 trillion. Let's go [26:26] with the lowest possible end of the [26:27] estimate. Let's say it's 2 trillion. [26:29] That would still make this war so far 2% [26:35] of the cost of the war in Iraq. 2%. [26:39] And think of what has been accomplished [26:40] already by what we've done in Iran for [26:42] 2% of the cost of what was done in Iraq. [26:46] The magnitude of the problem, how much [26:47] how much how much work has been done. [26:50] Anyway, [26:52] so just to put that in perspective, [26:53] >> if you or I were to die from some [26:56] nefarious foreign um a bad man, the odds [27:01] are that it would more so be from an [27:04] Iranian cause than it would be from [27:07] China. Well, although we a lot of people [27:09] died from Corona virus, I may may have [27:11] to retract that. Or uh from Russia. I [27:14] mean, Iran really is the uh the [27:19] matter to to people, right? I mean, you [27:22] think? [27:22] >> Well, if you count up the marine [27:24] barracks that they blew up, if you count [27:26] up the embassies in Africa, which they [27:28] blew up, if you count the embassy in [27:32] Beirut, which they blew up, if you count [27:36] uh the shape charges they sent in secret [27:40] to terrorists during the Iraq war and to [27:42] a lesser extent, the Afghanistan war [27:44] that killed, we know they killed 500. I [27:46] think Jack Keane and others felt they've [27:48] killed over a thousand Americans. [27:51] And what have they done worldwide? They [27:53] blew up a synagogue in Argentina. They [27:57] have blown up and killed hundreds of [27:59] people in Europe. So yeah, absolutely. [28:03] They tried to kill the Saudi ambassador [28:05] right in Washington DC till it was [28:08] broken up. And a lot of these terrorist [28:10] organizations which we call militants [28:12] have Iranian bank backing. So the world [28:16] will be very different without them. [28:19] Okay. Um, let me just sum this up. [28:25] The point he's making, if you think, [28:28] let's think about Israel, [28:31] is Iran. [28:34] You have kamas, you have the Houthis, [28:35] funded by Iran. Palestinian Islamic [28:37] Jihad funded by Iran. [28:39] If you take if you take that country [28:41] Iran and you make it into a pro-western [28:44] nation, [28:48] what that does in terms of the in terms [28:51] of China's power, in terms of Russia's [28:52] power, that they rely heavily on Iran. [28:54] They don't rely heavily on them, but [28:56] they're part of that axis with Iran. [28:57] They lose a major peace and that piece [28:59] shifts over to the American orbit. [29:02] The Saudis are not are not great people. [29:05] Um, there's a lot of, you know, the [29:08] Qataris are are not great people. The [29:11] Egyptians are not great people, but [29:12] they're not posing a threat to the [29:14] world. They're not actively involved in [29:16] trying to kill people and fund terrorism [29:18] and and and and push all sorts of [29:19] instability. They want to make a lot of [29:21] money. They they certainly persecute [29:24] Christians, and that's an issue that [29:25] needs to be dealt with, but they don't [29:28] pose an existential threat security-wise [29:31] to the world. There are certainly [29:33] terrorists and I said even with the [29:35] Iranian regime gone, we're still going [29:36] to be dealing with terrorism, [29:39] but there's but this is where the fall [29:41] of the Iranian regime is could be such a [29:43] gamecher and it's really within reach [29:45] right now for for pennies on the dollar [29:49] compared to how other problems have been [29:51] solved. But I think we need to get [29:52] deeper into the human psychology and [29:54] understand that many young people today, [29:58] not just young people, I'm talking about [29:59] people under the age of 40, [30:02] may not actually believe or be able to [30:06] picture a world where the Iranian regime [30:09] is gone because they because they've [30:11] they certainly don't remember a world [30:13] before the Iranian regime. [30:16] I don't really I was nine years old when [30:18] the Iranian regime came to power. So I [30:20] don't in a political sense it's before I [30:22] don't remember a world without it [30:25] and I'm 56. [30:27] Um and but they certainly don't remember [30:31] the fall of the Berlin Wall. The idea [30:33] that things can change in a big way [30:36] might simply be beyond the understanding [30:40] the consciousness of a lot of people [30:45] which brings us back to the Breitbart [30:46] poll. [30:48] There's there's a lack of conviction [30:51] about the need to eradicate evil and to [30:54] remove it from the world. That lack of [30:55] conviction might also come from a [30:57] deep-seated [30:58] uh skepticism that it can that things [31:00] can actually change. This is just my my [31:02] take my my attempt to interpret all of [31:04] this. I hope you found this interesting. [31:06] Anyway, bottom line is we don't know [31:09] when it's going to happen, but we but [31:11] things are actually going way better [31:13] than we think. There are these political [31:14] issues, there's the midterm elections, [31:15] and there's the tactical issues along [31:17] with that. But those are all tactical [31:19] problems along the way uh within a [31:22] campaign that has been wildly successful [31:25] and is still headed in the right [31:26] direction with all of the with all of [31:28] the flaws. So, there you go. I hope you [31:31] found this uh helpful, interesting [31:33] analysis. Please like, subscribe, share, [31:35] please comment. Let me know what you [31:36] thought of this video. I read as many of [31:39] the comments as I can. Always happy to [31:40] hear from everyone. God bless.
