Scott Ritter: Iran HITTING US BASES & ISRAEL LIKE NEVER BEFORE, Trump's Oil War Backfires

0:01 Welcome everyone. Welcome back to the show. It's your host Danny Hiong. I'm joined by former UN Marine Corps officer in uh US Marine Corps intelligence officer and UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter. Thanks so much for joining me again today. >> Thanks for having me. >> Of course. It's always great to be on with you, Scott. Hit the like button, everyone. That helps boost this show in YouTube's algorithm. And we're just going to get started. Scott, uh, so I wanted your assessment of how, uh, this war is going. I know on previous shows you have said that, uh, the, uh, US and Israel will soon become, uh, defenseless, uh, as this war goes on. The New York Times published an article announcing the seventh US death that we

0:46 know of in this war. And I just wanted to pull up a quote here uh that the New York Times wrote uh when they're talking about this. They said, "For the US, the grim toll in the first week of this war signal that Iran was more prepared for war than the Trump administration anticipated." US military officials told the Times. Iran has continued to put up a fight even after Ayatollah Ali Hami, its Supreme Leader, and other top officials were killed by Israeli attacks with intel help from the CIA. Iran has vowed after oil depots got to increase its retaliatory strikes by 100% for missiles, I believe 20% for drones. We're seeing the results of that. I can pull up some images, but really we're seeing Bahrain energy being hit. We're seeing Israel, Tel Aviv taking a a

1:32 pounding over the last two days especially. So, uh maybe you can give your assessment of where this war is at and how you see it going for all sides. Well, let's uh there's a an American military officer named Colonel John Boyd. People might want to look him up. Uh his uh his his thinking, his philosophies have been adopted by the military uh and by civilians alike. Uh he is the man who came up with the concept of getting inside your enemy's decision-making cycle. And uh the uh what what he used to describe is something called the UDA loop. Buddha is an abbreviation for observe, orient, decide, act. These are the four um phases in uh in decision

2:20 making. You observe, you then orient on what it is you're you're focused on. You make a decision about what needs to be do and then you do that decision. And the side that can do this the fastest tends to win. Uh he did it as a fighter pilot, you know. So basically, if two airplanes are coming in, the one initiates, the other one reacts. and he claimed that he could get into a kill position quicker uh because he could cycle information more quickly than his opponent. His goal was to have the other side reacting to you. Um now the United States and Israel carried out a surprise attack against uh against Iran, one that included the murder assassination of Ali Kaman. Um one would think therefore that they've reacted and now the Iranians have to react. But um this wasn't the

3:08 case because we hadn't prepared properly. We had uh you know goals that were linked to um you know things that could never happen. You can't say you're going to have regime change by killing Ali Kane. The reality is by killing Ali Killing murdering Ali K uh you make regime change impossible. Anybody who knew anything about Iran would know that that's the case. If you know about just you know how revered the supreme leader is amongst the faithful and Iran is a nation of faithful and if you knew about the constitution Iran is a constitutional republic. In fact Iran is the most uh effectively functioning democracy in the Middle East. I'll say that again and I'll be more than happy to take anybody on a debate on this at any time. Iran functions more

3:54 effectively as a democracy than any other nation in the Middle East including Israel. Um it's a constitutional republic. It's an Islamic republic. Um but they have mechanisms in place. They have institutions in place that filled the gap created by the death of Ali Ham and um they ensured that the regime continued to function and the murder of Ali Kam you know made sure that the people would rally around the government. Um so right off the bat this was a regime change war. The purpose of the surprise attack was to achieve regime change by facilitating the murder of the man that we all believed death would bring the collapse of Iran. And it turned out to be the opposite. I've said this here and I've said it before. We lost the war with the first missiles fired um into Iran because we don't know

4:41 what we were doing. We initiated something that we that was supposed to achieve a certain result but achieved the exact opposite result. We defeated ourselves from day one. But more importantly, and we admit it now, we didn't anticipate the Iranian response. We thought by killing Ali Kam, Iran would be leadership. It'd be like a ship with no captain at the wheel, the ship just spinning around. Um, that wasn't the case. Iran had a plan and they immediately implemented the plan. And the plan blew our minds because we didn't think they were going to do this. We didn't think we thought maybe they'd strike Israel, maybe they'd strike. They struck everything. They did full broadspectctrum strike. And so we initiated something jked and the Iranians flipped over and we went, "Damn, they're on our six. Now the Iranians are driving this ship because we're playing reaction." The Iranians

5:28 are implementing a plan that they have thought out from the start. They've prepared for it. They have the resources for it. Um and and they're implementing this plan without deviation. The United States, on the other hand, has changed its plan five times in 10 days. Um, and we're going to change it again today because there's a new economic reality coming into play. Um, which we didn't anticipate. We didn't anticipate any of this, >> which is wild to me. But continue. Yeah, >> it's the most poorly planned uh military operation in the history of poorly planned military operations. Meanwhile, the Iranians are executing a plan to perfection. To perfection. All you naysayers out there. I mean, I love the neocon. First of all, I love fat neocons who've never served in the military. They're my favorite people because they just sit there and they talk about things they don't understand and they say you just wait. We're going to get a culmination of forces that are going to

6:14 sequence together and achieve a result that's going to collapse the regime from within. Trump is a genius. He's a 5D chess player and you guys don't understand it. Just because it looks bad right now doesn't mean it's bad. That's fake. We're going to get under there. We're going to undermine. It's going to collapse. We're going to win because we are the lethal fails. Pesh has told us so. Um they're just morons. They don't know anything about war. They don't know anything about geopolitics and perhaps more importantly they don't know anything about Iran. We have people talking about Iran who don't know anything about Iran. We have people talking about war who don't know anything about war. And yet we have a mainstream media that gives echochamber status to these people. They can sit there and talk and talk and talk get social media, you know, broadcast and everything. And the stupid American people, I'm sorry, but you are stupid. every single one of you with the

7:00 possible exception of a handful of people who are watching your show today. But the rest of them are I look out at my neighborhood. It is just a quiet little sleepy suburban uh you know neighborhood outside of Albany, New York. No one's panicking. They don't understand what's happening. They don't comprehend. You can walk the neighborhood and you see, you know, about 30% I stand with Israel signs dating back of course to the genocide against the people of Palestine. But these are ignorant people, stupid people who just live their lives insulated from the reality of what's happening and they only believe the crap that they're given on TV. Um, and it and it and yet this morning they got a little bit of a wakeup call because it's Monday and I know on Friday the gas was $311 a gallon

7:45 when I filled up my tank and today it's $341 a gallon. It's gone up 30 cents and by the end of the day it's going to go up another nickel and by the end of the week who knows where it's going to be because the price of Brent crude is going through the roof. Uh why we didn't anticipate that either. No matter how much our military told us we will secure the straight or moose. There's no way Iran could shut it down. Iran shut it down. There's not a damn thing we can do about it. Not a damn thing we can do about it. Uh Qatar is no longer producing gas. Kuwait's no longer producing oil. Saudi producing oil because not because they wanted to stop but because Iran made them stop >> because of this because of this. This is Bamco in Bahrain. I mean continue >> and then and and the United Arab Emirates is about to be shut down. Saudi

8:31 Arabia is on the verge of being shut down. Baku is going to stop its ability to be able to produce oil if they play stupid games. Um you know and this is it. And the world's going to have an energy crash. We've been talking about we've been saying it's going to happen you know and there were the the the really the genius Americans out there. That's not going to happen. We're energy sufficient. We're America. We got Texas. They they frack things. They uh break this oil open and they get gas out of there. And and we're energy sufficient. We're not affected. And then we INVADED VENEZUELA. WE GOT ALL THEIR OIL. We're good to go. >> And ask yourselves why you're paying through the nose of the gas pump if we're so damn energy sufficient. Ask yourself where the strategic uh petroleum reserves are. Donald Trump didn't load them up, guys. They're empty. They don't exist. we're screwed.

9:17 Um, but that's okay. I think it's time the American people pay a price. Um, you know, and and we are. But we we've lost this war. This war is lost. Um, we've lost the Iranians were smarter than us about ballistic missile defense. >> Uh, if you don't mind, I'll give you a quick fiveminute lesson on ballistic missile defense for the stupid people that aren't listening because everybody listening here is very smart and very attuned and very but sometimes people will watch the show later on who are stupid. So, this is for their benefit. Um, >> all right. >> If you take missiles defense, understand that every component of the missile defense shield that we've put together over Israel in the Middle East wasn't designed to work with the other. They were designed in a vacuum. Uh, some of them like the Patriot missile date back to the original missile defense

10:03 shield technology, Sentinel Technology of the 1970s. Uh, and when Rathon was asked to build a tactical system for the US Army, rather than doing the right thing, which is to design it from scratch, they took the shortcut. They took 1970s technology and they tried to adapt it and modify it for tactical application and the Patriot system has never worked properly since then. So yes, the Patriot doesn't work. It never has and it never will because we're always playing catch-up. When you have to keep putting in, you know, program updates to fix it, that means you're updating against a threat that already exists. It proves that it's capable of defeating it. By the time you update it, there's a new threat that you can't meet. And we're seeing that play out in the skies over the Middle East. The Patriot system doesn't work. Iron Dome isn't designed for this. David Sling and

10:49 A3 likewise. Uh what you're seeing are systems that are designed to fire fight. They were designed to fight against a specific missile threat. That means a standard ballistic missile on a ballistic missile trajectory flying at certain speeds. Uh the Iranians on the other hand are firing missiles that aren't fine a ballistic missile trajectory. They have the ability to accelerate midcourse. They have be able to maneuver. And so as these systems seek to acquire something, you might notice the missiles launch, there's sort of an S-shaped curve to them. They they do that's them adjusting. The radars are queuing in and they're anticipating a point of intercept. So as the missile travels, the missiles launch and then it makes the adjustment to get to the point of intercept. But the problem is that

11:36 point of intercept once the missile launches changes because the Iranian missile accelerates. So now this missile is trying to play catchup and you'll see that big curve as it's trying to catch up but it can't. And then it maneuvers. Let's say it gets in gets an intercept point. Then it maneuvers and it can't maneuver and it misses every single time because the Iranians have built a system to defeat this. Now, we've overlaid enough architecture though with enough layers that on occasion we successfully intercept an old missile and everybody goes, "Yay! Aren't we the greatest?" Now, what the Iranians have done though is they recognize that this is a bunch of this is like building a car um and getting, you know, we're going to get a Porsche, a BMW, a Chevy, a Nissan, um you know, and we're going to put all these parts together and call it a car.

12:22 And yet it it's not going to work because they're not designed to function with one another. That's what we've built with missile defense. But we have, you know, we fooled ourselves because we have created early detection. The early detection is designed to give us as much advanced notice as possible. So what happens is uh this early detection, let's call it a radar system in I don't know, maybe it cost $1.1 billion. Let's just throw that out there. Um, and so the missile launches, this early detection, picks it up and starts grabbing as much data as possible and then communicating that data from satellite relay stations. You might see those little radar drones out there. Um, and and and it communicates back so that our systems can fine-tune rather than scanning the sky. We enable now systems to focus in on a predicted path of and

13:09 we get depth of data collection that that gives us more time to launch and respond. And so on occasion they actually hit something. Um so what the Iranians have done is they've saturated the skies. They've collected the data points and then they've taken our eyes out. They blow up all of the radars used to collect data early on. Then they blow up all of the communication links. And so now we have a system that can't work because it wasn't designed to work. And the only way we made it work is by putting these eyes out in front of us and communication back. Full spectrum dominance we call it. And the Iranians have blinded us. It made us unable to speak. And so the system has totally broken down. Right now we are looking at complete system dysfunction. The missile

13:56 defense system that we put over Israel doesn't work. It can't work. It won't work because it's all blinded. Ah but enter the Turks. You see the Turks now they have two facilities. They have one in Perinsulik near Diabre. They have another one I think is Kiranjik also near Diaber. The Pinsulick facility is an old cold war era facility used to track satellites. In 1997, we turned it over to the Turks. The Turks may or may not have kept it operational. I don't know. Um, but it is capable of doing detection. Why? How do I know? because in the Gulf War, we the United States used it to detect Iraqi missile launches to provide Israel with the detection of launch, time of flight, and possible impact. Um, and so it was a valuable system. It could use that system still

14:41 could be used today to track the Iranian missile launches. Then there's the one in Kirinik. This is a big Xband radar affiliated with a THAD system. Um, it's linked supposedly to feed data to Mark 41 Aegis ashore uh missile defense systems in Poland and Romania. But now it's been repurposed and because they have no more target acquisition because the Iranians have taken out all the radars in the Middle East, uh, the Turkish radars are now collecting the data and feeding them into the system. So you may ask yourself, why would Iran attack Turkey? Because Turkeykey's providing targeting data to the ballistic missile defense shield. And so Iran wants to basically make a note. Turkey is not an innocent part partner party in this conflict. Turkey is an active participant in this

15:27 conflict. Um and they're repurposing purposing um NATO um facilities for America's use. This is not a NATO war. NATO is not participating in this war. Uh any nations that participate do so on an individual basis. So Turkey can't say this is a NATO function. Therefore, we're just fulfilling our NATO obligations. Turkey has become an active participant in this conflict. But the bottom line is our missiles defense system doesn't work. Moreover, if it ever did work, that's when we had pack three uh missiles, the more advanced version of the uh Patriot interceptors. We don't have anymore. They're all gone. We're firing PAC twos. Pack twos don't work. Never did. Never will. But that's all we have left. So now the way we make

16:13 up for the um the lack of pack 3es is we do more salvo firing of PAC twos. You might have seen that recently where there's a lot of missiles going up um no longer contained. We are just blowing out PAC twos because we're trying to intercept things that they can't. The Iranian missiles are too fast, too maneuverable, and they'll never be intercepted by a pack two. So we're burning through the PAC twos. And when we run out of PAC twos, we ain't got nothing left. There is literally nothing left. The fad missiles that we have are very expensive. We've probably blown blown through about 80 90% of our inventory and what we have left won't work because all the radars are destroyed. You know, they're linked to that Xband radar. There about five of them. Five have been killed. There's none left except the one in Turkey. Um which the Iranians will probably end up destroying. The Israelis are out of am

16:59 ammunition. Um they don't have anything. What we gave they fired. They you know Israel doesn't have its own. Just so you guys know, they don't produce the missiles. We do. Um when when when when Iron Dome ran out of interceptor missiles during their their fight with Hezbollah and all that, it was American military aircraft flying in uh from Europe. They were bringing stockpiles of interceptor missiles that we had stockpiled here because we make them. Israel doesn't make anything. We make them and we don't make enough and there's none left and it's game set match. Guess who's not running out of missiles? Iran. Iran has sufficient missiles to last about six months of sustained activity, maybe even longer. They have enough drones to last for about a year and a half of sustained launch capability. Iran has planned for

17:46 this war for 20 years. Iran is operating on a game plan. Iran is inside our decision-making cycle. Iran is executing the udaloop more effectively, more efficiently than the United States and Israel. Iran will win this war. >> Yeah. So, those are all uh really important points, Scott, and I'll just pull up some images of what you're talking about. Here's one of those TAD radars uh that was destroyed uh in Jordan. There satellite imagery of that, but also the situation in Israel. How how much, Scott, will the situation in Israel influence the uh uh the trajectory of this war? Because we're having people in Israel, this is someone who lives there talking about being in darkness. The electricity is out. They're getting hit non uh stop by uh

18:31 Iranian missiles and drones. The 12-day war ended with Israel coming to the United States saying this has to stop. What makes this different? I I mean, we're seeing the images of Tel Aviv. Uh they're trying hard to censor it, but the last two nights in particular have been particularly difficult for uh Israel. How much will this affect things uh in the coming days? >> Excuse me, Danny. I just got to wipe my eyes. I was crying for Israel. I mean, when she sent that to them. >> Oh, I should I should pull up the comments because it's actually really Your sentiment is uh very much shared by a lot of people as you can see. Your poor thing. Oh, let's play on the smallest violin. I mean, we can go on and on.

19:17 >> No, no one cares. No one literally cares. Um, the Israelis mocked the Palestinians, mocked the suffering, mocked the genocide, denied the genocide, denied the suffering. Uh, and frankly speaking, what Iran is doing to Israel right now doesn't even come close to what is what Israel did to the people of Gaza. Um, you know, the worst is yet to come. So, if we're gonna, you know, do you want us to cry because uh Iran took out a power facility after you bombed oil facilities outside of Tyrron, causing acid rain and oil rain to rain down, causing the sewers to explode in fire, causing rivers of fire to break through the Iranian cities, causing literally hell to break out in the streets of Thrron, a capital city of one of the major powers in the region. You want us to cry because you lost electricity? No. And um you I don't know

20:04 if you saw but Benjamin Netanyahu's residence was hit last night and Ben Gavir's residence was hit last night. Benjamin Netanyahu's brother is reportedly dead. Um and Ben Gavir is reportedly severely injured and may not survive. Again, let me just pause because I'm I'm overcome by emotion uh when genocidal maniacs have the tables turned against them. I will never shed a tear for anybody in Israel today. If you're in Israel today, you've made a conscious decision to remain in Israel as it's basically violated the law, committed genocide. It means that you are an active participant in an overall policy of greater Israel, which means you want to steal the land from sovereign nations that surround you. And to steal the land, you must depopulate the land. That means that you are going to carry out an Israeli version of plan

20:50 ost the plan east the Nazi plan to depopulate bilerus and uh in in in western Russia to eliminate millions of Slavs to make layman's round living room for the greater German people. Israel is the modern manifestation of Nazi Germany. They are Nazis. This is not an exaggeration ladies and gentlemen. We're talking about literally the worst people on the planet. Literally the worst people on the planet reside in this artificial entity called Israel that no longer has a right to exist. Whatever the world thought about when they created Israel in 1948, that no longer exists because that Israel has become an illegal parasitic attachment to humanity and the fact that Iran is in the process of erasing Israel

21:35 from the map of the earth. I'm not going to shed any tears. If you live in Israel, leave Israel. leave. And when you leave, don't bring your sick ideology with you. Go and join other nations and hopefully integrate into them and live peacefully and harmonious a long and fruitful life. But the idea of greater Israel driving a nation like the United States, nations in Europe to commit uh acts of racist genocide because this is what it is. This is literally about the white man's burden. This is white versus brown straight up. And if you're an Arab and you don't know that, if you live in the Gulf Coast nations and you don't understand that you're just an inferior human being in the eyes of the Israelis, I mean, I as an American, a white American know that I'm a And they told me straight to my face. You're you're subhuman.

22:22 Okay, I get it. Um, that's why I hate you and I will fight you because nobody wants to be called subhuman. But, you know, imagine, you know, being an Arab, knowing that your government has bent the knee to Israel, knowing that they've agreed to the Abrams Accord, which perpetually subordinates uh the the Gulf Arab states to greater Israel. Uh knowing that they have allowed Israel to call the shots, knowing that Israel has drawn them into a war that's now going to destroy their economies. Um I wouldn't be very happy. Uh there's reports of the people in the streets of Bahrain seeking to overthrow the king. Please do. Um, the model you should use is the model that was used against the Hashemites in Iraq. Um, yeah, I'm sorry that meant the family was taken out, butchered, and dragged through the streets, but basically that's what should happen to illegitimate royal families that have ruled only because

23:08 they are the byproduct of, you know, British colonialism in the in the region. They have no legitimacy to rule. They're not anointed by God. They weren't selected by the people. They were picked by the British and the British continue to manipulate them. And now the United States has taken over. Now Israel has taken over. So basically the Arab people of the Middle East are governed by people who have allowed themselves to be subordinated to you know neoc colonial uh actors uh whether it's the British, Americans or the Israelis. That's the truth. The only nation that doesn't do that is Iran. And that's why we're attacking Iran because Iran doesn't play the game. Iran is a sovereign state. Iran does what the Iranian people want them to do. And they have a government that is supported by the Iranian people which is why we will never overthrow it. Yeah. Yeah. Great point, Scott. And you

23:54 know, uh, what's so intra, well, I mean, I I say interesting, but actually it's really it's it's shocking in the stupidity of it because you have, of course, we know what the US and Israel's goals are. It's regime change, and you outline really well why that hasn't worked and Iran's retaliatory response. If we get to this point of the oil question, the economic question, it gets even more stupid because even as the straight of Hormuz is effectively closed, uh the US not in Israel not only targeted Tan's oil or or Iran's I think in southern tan its oil depots, but it's still hitting tankers. It just hit an oil tanker as of the last 24 hours. And as this was happening, Scott, uh you saw

24:41 the reports. I know you did. You mentioned it earlier. Uh, oil has shot way up. $100 a barrel. 90 plus% raise since December. Oh, sorry about that. Um, 90 plus% raise since December in the cost of oil per barrel. And uh, uh, even Scott keep up with it, man. The graph can't keep up with it. It's going through the roof. >> It's ridiculous. And even after Europe, I believe in the last 12 hours, has eased uh some of their reserves and it dropped. Wall Street Journal said, "No, it's still going to go up to $200 a barrel if the situation persists." And Iran, their spokesperson for the RGC said, "Are you ready for that?" Because they are obviously prepared to uh uh

25:27 ensure that this happens. So uh and I just want to put up Donald Trump's response to this uh because this is now being paraded by the Western mainstream media. short-term oil prices which will drop rapidly when the destruction of Iran nuclear threat is over is a very small price to pay for USA and world safety and peace only fools would think differently and now uh he has indeed uh fooled many at least in the mainstream media into just paring I'm just going to play this segment for you Scott and then you can react because it's absolutely uh this is the kind of conditioning that the wararm mongers are trying to pedal to all of us even as we are witnessing all over what the Iran's retaliation and of course the US war that started it is

26:14 doing >> this is a short-term disruption for the long-term gain >> short-term pain for the long-term gain short-term pain be for long-term gain >> we're going to have some short-term pain uh with long-term gain >> short-term pay for a long-term gain >> some short-term pain yes but we've got some long-term gain short-term spike for a long-term gain >> some short-term pain for American American consumers, we may have to deal with that in the short term. Short. >> So, uh, Scott, I that video goes, that's only half of it. So, this is what the environment politically is like in the United States as everything you said, everything you have outlined about Iran's retaliation, about the how the USIsraeli war of aggression is going uh, and all of the effects that have transpired around the oil market. That's

26:59 that's the response right now. >> You know, it's funny. Um, I just went to a movie uh this weekend. Uh, I can't remember. It's is Don't don't don't die. I can't remember what the first two things are, but um, you know, it's a it's it's a great movie about, you know, AI and people addicted and and watching cell phones and the world coming to an end and everything. Um, but, you know, you you you'd think that what we just saw was actually part of a very bad Hollywood movie script. I mean, you know, because we're supposed to be Americans. I mean, we got freedom of speech, baby. Our brains work supposedly. Um, and and and we're supposed to be above this. This is the kind of crap we're not supposed to fall through. Those other people around the world fall for this. You know, the Nazis fell for that propaganda, but we can't because we're Americans, and Americans

27:45 are smart. We're educated. And, uh, you know, we we believe in freedom. Freedom would never allow ourselves to become, you know, compliant little, you know, slaves to uh, you know, a a unified propaganda statement published by a mainstream media controlled by the government. The government can't control because we're Americans. We're better than that. Oh, good God. We're the worst people in the world for it. I mean, if you're an American and you're watching TV and you see uh, somebody go, you know, short-term short-term pain for long-term gain, first of all, it's a little too cute, too, a little too clip. It happened once. I tell you, you got to work on that one, guys. It's a that's bad bad bad writing. But then they repeat it and they repeat it and they repeat it and you suddenly realize that we are literally we don't have a free press. Wake up

28:31 America. We don't have a free press. That's why you need to hit the like button for Danny Hiong. Really seriously because you know Danny Hyong and Garland Nixon and Judge Npalitano and other people they they provide alternatives to what you just saw. short per short-term pain for long-term gain. I mean, we are a dysfunctional country and we can't work because the American sheep um can't be awoken because they're being lulled into a false sense of complacency by a mainstream media that's been hijacked by a singularity controlling this. And that singularity is working on a pro-Israeli agenda. So, all you make America great again people out there, you do understand that we are literally make Israel great again. that America doesn't function into this at all. Um,

29:19 which is why we need Danny Hyarn to come out and, you know, provide alternative perspectives. Um, but it's embarrassing. I mean, it's funny. We laugh about it, Danny, but this is actually the equivalent of being a doctor and throwing up a chest X-ray and going, "Holy you got stage four lung cancer that has spread to your brain, your pancreas, and your bones, and u you're dead. America, you just saw the image. That's us. That's a reflection on our society. We're dead. We are infected by a cancer. And how do you purge that out? How do you how do you do that? It's so deeply ingrained into everything we do. Every mainstream institution has been infected by this. And that means again, it's not just the media. It's the

30:05 things that feed the media. Do you understand that there are universities out there to train journalists whose sole function is to graduate from journalism school and then seamlessly uh fold into this system? So the journalism schools have to condition these people to think this is okay. So what we call journalists aren't they're just actors in the game that's being played to manipulate data. Uh there's a guy I did an interview if you guys want to see it. It's on my Russia House podcast free of charge. You can go get it. Um Andre Elnitzki, former lieutenant general, senior adviser to uh uh Shuyu when Shuyu was the defense minister of Russia. Um he has published papers and come up with this idea called mental war. And he talks about mental war. Basically mental war is what is done by outsiders to

30:51 cause a society to collapse from within by taking over the mechanisms of communication. things that you know movies when you go to the movies the movies the cinema is designed to condition you to achieve a certain outcome uh because the movies are controlled by mainstream studios that don't allow outliers to be to get out there. You can great make a great movie but if they decide well we ain't putting that out there in theaters then nobody sees it and you have zero impact. The movies they put out in theaters are designed to manipulate your minds. Straight up said it. Uh anything you see on TV is designed to manipulate your minds. what you listen to on the radio designed to manipulate your minds. And they're all controlled by the same people. And so they're out there conditioning you to accept as normal things that otherwise sane people would

31:37 say that's insane. Mental warfare, the destruction of America from within. By whom? By the pro-Israeli Zionistic cabal. We have to start calling it for what it is. I mean, it's not anti-Semitic, ladies and gentlemen. It's not anti-semitic. It's just the god-awful truth that the pro-Israeli crowd is anti-American and is seeking the destruction of America. They're willing to use America as a tool to achieve their broader objectives. Um, and we're just sitting here doing nothing. I you'd think there'd be people in the streets, but they don't. They just they ignore it. They they are compliant sheep. They've wrapped themselves in the cocoon of comfort. They become prisoners to this to technology. um and and they have this cocoon of comfort and so long as you

32:23 don't rock it, make everybody happy, they just let it happen. They don't want to disturb it. And that's where we are as a society. And this war is a manifestation of that. This war should be opposed by everybody. Um if you got a second, can I talk about the murder of 170 school children >> because most Americans, I mean, listen to Donald Trump. Iran did it. Iran did it. letting the piece head. Well, we're investigating it, but don't worry about it. We're the most lethal military in the world. My god, I can bench press 315 pounds and we are killers. That's what we do. We kill. We kill. We kill. And forget rules. Forget those woke rules that constrained our ability to inject lethality into the problem. You see the

33:09 mindset? And Americans went, "Oh, okay." I mean, I don't know how many people went, "That's what I voted for. That's that's what I voted for. You see that over and over on social media. That's what I voted for. No, this is why I have to say when people say that, you know, the way our country was created, um, we we knew about you. So, you're you're part of what's called a faction. Federalist paper number 10, James Madison warned us about the dangers of factions. And factions are controlled by a functioning republic, a constitutional republic that has checks and balances in place. But these checks and balances have to work or else the executive which has been imbued with a great deal of authority becomes a tyrant. That's federalist 51. Again, James Madison, smart man. He warned us about the dangers of a tyrant in the

33:56 need for checks and balances. So today when we have the Congress of the United States basically saying this isn't a war, it's a defensive operation and Congress doesn't need to be involved. That's the speaker of the house saying that. That means Congress has taken itself off the map. The Supreme Court has, you know, challenged the president on terrorists, but the president says I don't care. I'm going to do whatever I want. So, Supreme Judiciary is off the map. We're left with a pirate, the executive. And now the executive isn't governed by the people who, you know, believe in the necessity of checks and balances, but by factions. I voted for this. I voted for tyranny. I voted for a cult of personality. I voted for a man who says that I am beholden to no laws. I only believe my own sense of personal morality which is problematic given the Epstein

34:42 files but being that as it may um this is a man who says he governs as a dictator. So there we are and what are the consequences? The Geneva Conventions 1949 um were passed because of the excesses uh that were under war even by the victors. There was a recognition that even the victors went too far, that we have to protect civilian populations. It's essential that there has to be laws governing war. And these were updated in 1977. Um the the the additional protocol to the Geneva Convention. And now there people out there rolling around, oh come on, skies international law. Ah yes, but see it was adapted and adopted by the United States Department of Defense through the law warfare manual. So it's

35:29 ours now. we own it. One of the interesting things in there is they talk about targeting. They say you have to be very careful when you start targeting places uh to ensure that you aren't hitting civilian targets that you've done your due diligence. And there's this thing called distinction that you must make a distinction between military targets and civilian targets which requires an additional level of analysis in in work. This is the law. It's the law. And so we did, I can tell you as somebody who has done this in war, um there's a lot of effort goes into ensuring that the targets we hit are have a military value, uh that they aren't civilian in nature, and that we look at the consequences of striking this target. Will there be collateral damage to civilians? And then you get into proportionality. Um is the value

36:15 you get from militarily from striking this target uh proportional to the damage you're doing to civilians? And if the answer is no, we're killing far too many civilians, then you don't bomb the target. The answer is if we don't know, we can't distinguish that this is military, you don't bomb the target. Now, we had screwed up a lot during the global war on terrorism. So, in 2023, the Department of Defense issued a new proclamation, a new directive called the uh civilian harm and mitigation response uh thing. And what this did is create um a new layer of oversight for targeting and for u you know planning wars. And this team's job was to go through each target and ensure that we aren't making a mistake here that this isn't a

37:01 civilian target, that this is a military target. Um it's what we're supposed to do under the law of war, but we've gotten a little sloppy with it during the global war on terrorism. So we put in new regulations to say this is what we need to do if we're going to fight a war to be compliant with our own laws and the laws of international conflict. Um Pete Haget did away with that directive, canceled it in his effort for lethality. So there is no civilian harm and mitigation response capability in America anymore. Instead, what there is is a literal free-for-all. We can do anything we want. Now you all have heard the term double tap. Double tap is a term that's been used a lot derisively against regimes. We've accused the Syrian government of double tapping of people, you know, dropping their barrel bombs. We've accused the Iranians of

37:47 double tapping. We've accused every Russia of double tapping. We accused everybody of double tap. On the first day of the of this conflict, um we had picked out several targets to strike. Um we claimed we were striking targets related to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Command. Um, one of these was the Manab Naval Base where the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Command had warehouses and a medical facility, etc. Um, and we struck it with five cruise missiles. Um, now normally you'd say, okay, but you know, you'd have confidence that the US military did the right thing. You know, certainly we looked to distinguish the targets to make sure that there were no uh crossover targets, nothing that could have been a protected target. Um but

38:34 that unit doesn't exist anymore. Instead, what we have is we have artificial intelligence assisted targeting uh a program called CLAD put together by Palunteer um helped create these targets that just out of the blue. Basically, they scan databases. They're given certain parameters. Find me uh facilities assiliated the revolutionary guard command who have buildings of the following dimensions. And then they turn those buildings into targets and then the targets are assigned weaponry etc. So the men naval facility um was assigned four impact points. Two impact points were warehouses of a certain dimension. One impact point was a building uh that turned out to be a medical facility. But we didn't do the distinction. you guys. So, even though everybody knew it was a medical facility,

39:20 AI didn't and we didn't double check it because we don't have the civilian harm mitigation response capability anymore. So, we just said put a cruise and then another one was up there in the in in the upper right corner and um there was a large facility there and we decided we're going to bomb that one too. So, we sent five cruise miss why five? I thought it was just four. Ah, now we get to the beauty of the Tomahawk Block 4. The Tomach Block 4 system um has the capability to have a number of targets programmed into it and it can change its targets on the way because it's communicating. But a really cool part of it is that it can loiter over a facility collecting imagery that's sent back to be evaluated and it does the immediate battle damage assessment. Back in the Gulf War when I was doing it, we bombed a target, we got the satellite data and then I looked at it and said, you know, did we achieve the result? And if not, I

40:07 said reattack and I sent it back and it got fed back into the queue. It was bombed a day later. Took a little bit of while. Now we have immediate reattack capability with the block four. So the fifth cruise missile's job is to loiter over. So now the first four cruise missiles come in and they hit the two warehouse facilities. There's nothing in there. No secondary explosion, nothing. They're empty. Um they hit the medical facility. We got smoke coming out. Um so it wasn't empty, but it's smoking that we criteria achieved. It hit another building, collapsed it. Um, there's smoke coming out, but more importantly, there's people moving around. Lots of people moving around. And that imagery is being sent back to the ship and the operators on the ship are looking at going, "We got a lot of people moving around that target. A lot of people moving around that target. We hit

40:52 something of importance. Reattack." And they hold that cruise missile to go up to altitude and fly down. Now, the amazing thing again, the Block 4 is a cool weapon because it's got this warhead on it that's designed to be a bunker buster. So, it can blow through with the initial warhead, then come in and boom, blow up what's inside. Very lethal. Pete Hexath loves it. I'm sure he masturbates to this weapon every freaking night. That's who he is. But now there's an additional thing that they put in there. This is the beauty of the Block 4. You see, the cruise missile has a lot of fuel in it. And that unexpended fuel was just being wasted. So the block four can take that fuel, compress it and turn it into a fuel air explosive. Gives you a thermmoaric um you know weapons capabilility. So

41:39 basically you penetrate and then you burn everything inside with this giant thermmoaric explosion. It's beautiful. I mean Pete Hexath might masturbate twice because of that. So now we get to the reality of what happened. It was a school. The first cruise missile hit it uh burst through classrooms etc. The the teachers and the majority of the students who survived some students were casualties in the first strike but the majority of them were ushered into the prayer hall of this facility. A facility a prayer hall that met the dimensions of the criteria set by artificial intelligence. Meanwhile, the school's calling up parents and saying, "Come and get your kids. There's been a bad day here." So, parents in the neighborhoods nearby come rushing to the facility. operators look at teachers ushering children into the uh prayer hall,

42:26 parents rushing in, and at the moment where everybody's come together, we double tapped it. >> We sent the cruise missile down, it burst through the prayer hall, exploded, and then the thermobaric warhead blew up, burning everybody inside. Read the stories of the parents about how they found their children. There was nothing left of my child. She had been burned to death. I only could identify her because of the remnants of the backpack. >> Yeah, >> that's what we did. We double tabbed them. Pure 100% murder because Pete Hegat decided that we needed to be more lethal. So, he got away with the regulations that required the United States military to comply with, you know, the law of war, our own law of war manual. He he got rid of it. And any

43:14 American who sits there and says, "This is okay. I voted for this. Die. Go away. Disappear. You're You're the reason why this country no longer stands for anything. You're the reason why this country is hated and reviled. Because you have no soul. This country exists only because of the Constitution. This country exists only because we pretend to adhere to the rule of law. And as long as we are trying to adhere to the rule of law, there is potential in this country worth defending. We have been imperfect, and I'll be the first one to acknowledge that. But the United States has the potential of being a great nation if we only did what we're supposed to do. But we don't do it because we get lazy. We don't do it because of stupidity, because of ignorance, because of racism, because of hatred, whatever you want to say. We don't do it because of the control of a

43:59 Zionistic Cabal. But if you're sitting here right now justifying this double tap against 170 Iranian children, then problem, you're not the solution. And I hope that you are erased from this world because you don't belong here. You are evil. And I say that to everybody who says this is what I voted for. If you're an American, you can't vote for this. It's the most unamerican thing that's out there. And I apologize for my bad language. This is we are the worst people in the world right now. We the people of the United States of America are the number one threat to international peace and security in the world. And it's only going to get worse because our president is going to start to panic when the price of oil goes up and Israel's already panicking because they the Iranians have won this war. So what

44:46 happens? We may use nuclear weapons. But here's the fun part, Danny. Because the Iranians just replaced the one man who said no to nuclear weapons. Ali Kame. He was it. He was the guy that said no. the system, the conservatives, his son, they're like, "We need nuclear weapons." And he said, "No, and we killed him." And now they've replaced with the son who is surrounded by people saying, "We need nuclear weapons." The Iranians warned Steve Whitoff and Jared Kushner, but they were too stupid to understand what they were being told. The Iranians said, "You do know that we have 450 kg of 60% enriched uranium. You do know we have that, right? And you do know that you can't order us to get rid of it. It's our inalienable right to have this.

45:32 And Woodco and Kushner, I guess, took it the wrong way. Got insulted by that. But what they didn't realize is the Iranians then worked with us to get rid of all of it. They said, "We're willing to get rid of everything, to have inspectors come in and verify, US inspectors, unprecedented the history of IEA inspections inside Iran, American inspectors. Iran has never allowed that. and they were going to allow that so that the disposition of the 450 kgs could be confirmed and they were bending over backwards to give Donald Trump the great deal he always said he wanted. He always condemned the JCPOA Barack Obama's bad deal. I could do a better deal. Well, the Iranians gave him a better deal, but this was never about the nuclear program. This was always about regime change. And so we attacked

46:18 Iran. Surprise attack, perity, double tap against children, all the good stuff that we do. Now the Iranians have a new supreme leader and now they're faced with the very conditions in which the conservatives tried to to convince Ali Kam to reverse his fatwa prohibiting nuclear weapons. The conditions where nuclear armed states are threatening the existential survival of the Islamic um the Islamic Republic. Um even then Kame said no but they did pass an edict that said fatwas are reversible and and Kame agreed that they are reversible but he's not going to reverse it. Well now that they have agreement that they are reversible and Ali Kame is dead. Um, we may very well see the Iranians decide the nuclear weapons are exactly what

47:04 they need. And they have the ability to produce around 10 15 to 20 kiloton warheads of a uranium gun design. Very crude weapon, but very effective. Doesn't need to be tested. For all you people out there that think they have to test it, we didn't test the gun design. The the test we did at Alagora was the plutonium implosion weapon. the gun design doesn't need to be tested because it will work 100% of the time. Um, and that's the direction the Iranians will probably go. They said in the fall of 2024 um, and in the spring of 2025 that they had solved all of the issues pertaining to the delivery of a nuclear weapon, that they had a warhead design. They had it built. It was ready. All they needed was a fizzile material. They have missiles that are designed to carry this

47:50 warhead. Um so all the Iranians have to do is build it construct enriched uranium. They have the 450 kilograms of uh 60% uranium hexafflloride. Uh they have 164 >> Scott if you can hear me. I think we lost you for a second. Um >> okay we're back. Um >> yeah we're back. they they have the ability to enrich the the uranium hex fluoride, convert it into uranium metal, and form that metal into a into shapes that are conducive to a gun design. Um, and I'm would not be surprised if Iran um at some point in time as this war progresses and people threaten them with nuclear weapons if the Iranians come out

48:37 and say you don't want to do that because we'll we'll kill Israel, Saudi Arabia, we'll kill the United Dubai will be a smoking hole. The whole region will be a smoke. You drop one nuclear weapon on us and everybody dies. It's a reverse Samson option. Um, and I think that's the direction the Iranians should go. I don't want them to. I still believe, I don't know why, because it's been my life and I'm still naive, but I I still believe in nuclear non-prololiferation. I believe in the legitimacy of the non-proliferation treaty. I believe in art disarmament, arms control, all these things that have proven just to be a joke in the eyes of the United States. Um, they disgraced my entire my entire life has been spent pursuing arms control and this government has just made it a joke. a literal joke, a tragic

49:23 joke. And so, who am I to tell the Iranians you can't have nuclear weapons? Who am I to say you can't do this? Um, and we'll see. I mean, one the one thing that mitigates against it is that the Iranians continue to speak about operating um honoring the um legacy of Ali Kam. Um, and his legacy was that nuclear weapons were forbidden under Islam. We'll see how long that lasts. But it's hard to sit there and make that argument. You can make that in a in a in a vacuum. But when your nation's being subjected to the death and destruction that's being laid down, wanton murder by the um uh United States and Israel, the Israelis blew up. I mean, people, you

50:08 have to understand the scope and scale of the crime that Israel committed here. Blew up the oil storage facilities outside of Tyrron in a deliberate fashion. Again, I'm a targeter. I did this for a living. I know the decisions that go in. There are ways to blow things up to make things not happen and there's ways to blow things up to make things happen. The targeting done here was done deliberately to achieve the outcome which is to basically coat Thrron with toxic oil rain and to create the conditions where you have fire breaking out in the sewage systems, streets on fire, a city on fire. This is the capital city of Iran. the capital city of Iran is being wiped off the face of the earth by Israel. Um, you know, so why why not get a nuclear weapon if

50:53 you're Iran? Why not? I mean, this is the stage we're in. This is this is where we're at today. And we can only blame one person, Donald Trump. Donald Trump had the ability to tell Benjamin Netany, "Sit down. Shut up. Get out of my face. I'll cut off all aid. Um, there will be no defense. We'll turn off switch on missile defense shield. we can do anything we want. You're a pathetic. You're a loser. I mean, he's a dictator. So, if Congress screams, arrest them. Determine that Israel is a foreign a hostile foreign nation. Any anybody who's taken more than $3 from Israel is now an enemy of the United States and didn't arrest all of Congress. Why not? You're a dictator. Congress doesn't matter. I mean, I would support this if it purged purged Israel. I wouldn't support it because it's unconstitutional. But my point is the president had a lot of latitude, but he is sold out. He took Miriam Adlesen's

51:39 blood money. uh he is a prisoner of the Zionist cabali, surrounded himself with Zionists from the vice president on down and there's no push back against anything Israel does. Um maybe the American people will wake up. Maybe now um we can find a way to unite people to understand that Israel is calling the shots. That this is no longer about America first. This is America last, Israel first. It's not make America great again. It's make Israel great again. It's make America last. Um are we going to wake up collectively and understand this? Are we going to do the right thing at the polls um in November? Because we can cleanse this. We can cleanse this. And I know people are going to say, "Whoa, we're going to vote for somebody." There's nothing worse than a dictator. There's nothing worse than a cult of personality. There's nothing worse than a person that openly says, "I will not comply with the

52:25 Constitution of the United States." There is nothing worse than that. You can take a Democrat who as long as they say, "I will comply with the Constitution. I will obey that oath." And they respect the checks and balances. That's imperfect. I don't agree that I I I agree that the Democrats govern horribly. I agree that they make bad policy. I agree with all that. But, you know, we can fix that constitutionally if we the people wake up. But right now, we have transferred power to a functional dictator, a cult of personality. And we have one chance to fix it. That's this November. Maybe the disastrous war will wake the American people up. The only way it can because we're all trapped in that cocoon of comfort. But when suddenly we have to go out there and pay eight bucks a gallon for gas. When we go to Walmart and we see the shelves are empty because uh truckers can't afford the diesel to ship things

53:11 around. We see the price of food go through the roof. When we realize our paycheck doesn't cut it anymore. Um maybe we'll wake up, do the right thing. I don't know. >> Yeah. Well, uh let's continue to do our part. Scott, we just one more segment I wanted to get, uh through with you that's very related to this and then there's one audience question. Uh but first, you know, uh in in line with this uh very obvious, I guess we call influence uh over the United States by Israel, there's been many reports uh and and what strikes me so much, Scott, is the hubris of all of this. So, the Times of Israel, Trump gave an interview with them, and he said straight up that it'll be a mutual decision with Netanyahu when

53:56 the war ends. And uh it's even more the hubris even gets worse where he says Iran was going to destroy Israel and everything else around it. We worked together. We destroyed the country that wants to wanted to destroy Israel. So past tense destroyed the country that wanted to destroy Israel. Now uh Scott the new Ayatollah the son of Ali Mojave I believe I'm butchering his name. Um not only is >> Don't worry you're in good company. >> Not only Yeah. Exact. Yeah. But and not only is he as as you have uh pointed out more uh uh militant in his position on nuclear weapons and and be in in you know defending the country by any means but also people are very not first of

54:42 all Ayatoll Ali's entire family include including his son's family wiped out and you also have >> month old granddaughter. Yeah, exactly. And you have this these are the scenes in Iran as he was named the next Ayatollah. So, uh, Scott, Israel in and Trump are saying that they are going to decide when this war ends. It seems like the Iranian people have very different a very different viewpoints. How does this factor into the entire situation? I mean, I can pull up the military side of this, what it looks like on the ground for Israel, but also I know you often say that war is an extension of politics by other means. So, uh, how about, uh,

55:27 your comments on all of this? >> Well, damn you, Danny. You stole my Claus reference. I mean, but you're right. War is an extension of politics by other means. Um, look, I said this early on that this is a regime change conflict and um, it's existential in nature. um and that the probable regime change will take place here in the United States as Donald Trump loses in November will be impeached and hopefully convicted um by the U Congress of the United States. Uh empowered by an American people who voted in people who believe in the Constitution over factionalism. Um Benjamin Netanyahu has been a prime minister that's been hanging on by the skin of his teeth ever since October 7th. You know, he was, you know, delinquent in his duties then, but he kept expanding the war. He called himself the security prime minister. they kept expanding the war and every

56:13 time he ran into a problem domestically expanded the conflict um and now he's gone to the ultimate level of expansion and he is you know counted his chickens before they hatched he's on TV declaring victory uh that he's you know that this is all because of him and yet the Israelis woke up this morning with no power in Tel Aviv and they will continue to have no power and if they continue they will have no water and if they continue they will have no infrastructure and um and Tel Aviv will become a city that's uninhabitable and people start to flee Israel Um and then the rest of Hifa will become an uninhabitable city. Uh Israel will become an unlivable nation and that will be the death of Israel and that'll be the death of Benjamin Netanyahu. This is something that Hamas and Hezbollah and um and were on the verge of accomplishing if you remember right

56:58 before Hassan Nalla was assassinated how bad how dire the situation was in Israel. remember to the emptying of northern Israel, people fleeing because of uh Hezbollah's rockets and uh the bankruptcy of that was taking place economically for Israel. Um but now we have the ultimate war uh a war of existential proportions and um Iran has a plan. Israel doesn't Israel doesn't have a plan of survival. Israel believed the nonsense that they could resume Mus's regime. You hear the president just talking in in stupidity. Um I mean who writes his script? I mean, I remember the movie True Lies, you know, who write this Um, who writes what Trump says? Because it's a stupidity. Stupidity personified in a man, a stupid man. Um, but Netanyahu is no smarter.

57:44 He's, I mean, he's a smart man, politically astute, but he's boxed himself into a corner. U, you know, he basically took all his remaining savings while he's in Vegas. He's already gambled away everything. He takes everything left and puts it on one number and rolls the dice. Um it ain't going to come up what you want, Benny. It's over. And so he will be removed. Um he is not survivable. Um you already see, you know, his uh ideological base under attack. Smot's son is wounded, maybe dead in Hezb at the hands of Hezblah. Bing Gabir is uh injured, maybe dead. Netanyahu's family is under attack. His brother is dead. Na is dead dead man walking. Even if he survives this, uh he will not survive. um you know he he needs to hope that he you know passes through natural causes

58:32 because he's he's been marked for death. You don't get to assassinate the supreme leader and walk away. And I would say the same thing about Donald Trump. He needs to be careful. Um we he's crossed a red line. I mean the American people have to understand that we don't have a right just because we have the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Um, we don't have the right to go around and murder people, murder leaders, murder religious leaders, and then pretend that there are no consequences. We are a hunted people. We are a hated people. Um, and our actions will haunt us and hunt us for a long time going forward. >> Yeah. Yeah. Uh, they will. And and there's no amount, Scott, of uh justifications and and I know that I know we've talked about Oxio stories in

59:18 the past too, there's always an attempt to muddle the the narrative too about why all of this is going on, why this

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