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Scott Ritter: “If this goes on, Israel will cease to exist”

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Former UN weapons inspector and US military intelligence officer Scott Ritter joins TMJ News for an interview that exposes the deeper implications of Israel’s recent attack on Iran and the role the U.S. has played behind the scenes. From violations of international law to the growing threat of nuclear war, Ritter offers a hard-hitting assessment of what could be the most dangerous geopolitical crisis in decades. 

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alam alaikum and welcome to another episode on TMJ’s political current podcast today we’re covering the latest

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in the ongoing conflict that has all of us at the edge of our seats and that is what started last week with Israel’s

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surprise attack on Iran obviously we know the latest White House announcement is that President Trump will decide

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within the next two weeks whether the US will get militarily involved on Israel’s side meanwhile European and Iranian

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officials are meeting today in Geneva to discuss potential solutions and obviously there’s a lot to unpack here

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so today I’m joined by Scott Ritter former UN weapons inspector and former US military core intelligence officer

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for a deep dive analysis on these latest developments especially given the highly

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sensitive situation the United States government is currently in

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[Music] thank you again Mr ritter for joining us

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on TMJ News obviously a very very eventful week that we’ve been having so

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much coming out from Israel’s uh attack on Iran which happened almost last week

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under the pretext of Iran’s nuclear program and how it is inching toward

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Iran having nuclear weapons now we’re obviously going to get into that conversation very deeply especially as

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the big kind of question and conversation right now is whether the United States is planning on getting

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involved but before I get into your experience as a weapons inspector and former um member of the US Marine Corps

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as an American who is witnessing all of this unfold um and I would say many Americans probably did not expect to see

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the scenes that are going on in Israel because I think usually the the image that a lot of uh Western I guess

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audiences have is that conflict is mainly limited to certain Middle Eastern countries and maybe not you know Israel

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how does that make you feel as an American and is that something that you expect to see within your lifetime

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i mean as a human being you don’t want to see suffering brought on anybody um

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as an American my uh primary focus is my country um

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and I have no sympathy for Israel and now Israel’s paying the price of its actions and um it’s very difficult for

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me to have too much sympathy for the Israelis at this point in time especially when I take a look at the damage that’s been done to their country

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and I reflect on the damage they have been doing to Gaza which is literally right across the border um and it’s just

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karma when a nation uh behaves in a manner um such as what

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Israel has done uh to the people of Gaza and what they are done to Lebanon what

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they have done to Syria what they are doing or trying to do to Iran so Israeli

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society is complicit in the crimes of its government directly complicit and

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justice is harsh justice is harsh as an American I’m more concerned about the behaviors of of of my government um

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because when we speak of Israel carrying out a surprise attack against Iran it was done with the complicity uh and the

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collusion of the American government we you know President Donald Trump has

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acknowledged that um he knew all about the Israeli plan and it was linked to

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his 60-day warning given to the Iranians on the 61st day as if he’s God on the

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seventh day God you know took arrest um you know on the 61st day you know this

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was unleashed mr president it was unleashed as you told the Iranians you wanted to engage in a negotiation

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exactly sunday is the decisive date the Iranians were preparing for it ali Shamani one of

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the lead Iranian negotiators went on TV two days before his death saying “We’re

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ready to do what it takes to make this go away.” Sign a treaty that says we will never have nuclear

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weapons to agree to limit enrichment to 3.75% what’s needed for the Busher

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reactor to bring excess enrichment capacity under control to allow Americans to participate in IAEA

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inspections in Iran i mean this is exactly the path Iran needed to go on to

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resolve this issue and they were doing it a negotiation was scheduled and Israel said “Yeah we’ll wait till after

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the negotiation to decide.” Iran was lulled into a false sense of you know

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complacency before Israel with the full knowledge and support of the United States you know conducted its Pearl

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Harbor type event this condemns America our leadership has committed uh an act

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of perity that’s a war crime just so people understand you’re not allowed to

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raise the white flag of truce uh approach somebody for a negotiation

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that’s premised on you know a truce existing then pull a pistol out from under your pants and shoot the other

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side in the face that’s perfectly that is a war crime so the we are literally

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today governed by a self-acnowledged war criminal as an American that’s extremely

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disturbing as an American in the United States is a complicit partner to that

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which makes us guilty of the same thing it also bothers me as somebody who used

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to be an intelligence officer somebody who was deeply involved in the Iraq um

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you know concepts and I watched my country fabricate a case for war once

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before um you know but at least back then the CIA played the game

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the CIA put out an estimate and say “Oh yeah Iraq’s got WMD.” It was a lie a manufactured lie they knew it was a lie

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but at least they played the game today we have the director of national intelligence saying “No there’s no

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there’s there’s no nuclear war you know.” And then Trump goes ahead and says “Oh I I don’t care don’t care about

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that.” So my question to Donald Trump is if you’re disregarding the advice of the one person mandated by the Congress of

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the United States she was after all ratified by the United States Senate for this very job for this reason that she

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is the one overseeing the briefing of intelligence to the president um that’s

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sort of like constitutional stuff if you’re not getting your information from the person that Congress says you should

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be getting your information from who are you getting your information from and we know the answer the Israelis so this is

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a case where the Israelis this war criminal entity is providing information to the president to create the

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conditions um where America could possibly intervene militarily this is an absolute lie even the IAEA who was

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complicit in all this who was complicit to pery the IEA report put out by their

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board of directors which said that Iran was in non-compliance has been used by states to create the

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perception of an imminent threat but GCI the director general when put under the light had to say no no there’s no

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evidence of that then why did you say non-compliant and I want to remind everybody that Gross is the man that ran

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to the Zaparisia nuclear power plant in the immediate aftermath of Ukraine attacking it trying to blame it on the

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Russians um and saying this is the greatest threat to humanity and we have

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to dispatch international peacekeepers to Zaparisia to safeguard it and he went to the security council and gave a

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briefing about the dire threat where is Dcei today as Iranian nuclear uh

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facilities are being bombed by Israel which again I just want to point is a violation of international law you are

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not allowed to attack nuclear sites it’s not allowed

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you’re not allowed to attack nuclear sites you’re not allowed to attack journalists which is also something we see them bombing Iranian state TV and

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again like what you’re saying this is all blatant violations of international law both on Israel and the US side and

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yet we see no push back against it we see no you know no sense of um you know

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being held accountable for all of this and that’s really sad because ultimately and this is a conversation I think I want to have with you as well is I think

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it really comes down to Americans and you know the Western world America Israel being used to this idea of

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supremacy and knowing they can get away with all of this knowing that however many times they violate international

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law i mean we saw with Israel and the ICJ and the UN this has been an ongoing kind of story for decades now there’s no

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actual way to hold you know these powers accountable and we’re just seeing all of

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this unfold people are shocked like shock after shock it was first with you know with Gaza and everything we saw

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there and it’s almost like many many people became desensitized to the violence that was unfolding the the war

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that’s ongoing still as Israel by the way is attacking Iran still continuing its genocide in Gaza as well but it’s

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almost as if you know this desensitization now has moved toward Iran as well where it’s like oh of course it’s Israel israel it’s just it

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does that um and and you know as as someone who has seen all of this happen

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with Iraq previously what are your what are your thoughts what are American lawmakers saying about this knowing that

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America again is on the brink of yet another war that looks pretty much just like how they got involved in Iraq

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what’s curious you use the term American lawmakers you know here in the United States if um if I went out tonight to a

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bar and um had a couple drinks and got in my car and was driving home and I

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pulled over by the cops and I blew positive on the on the breathalyzer I’m

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in trouble i’m in legal trouble because the law says I can’t get behind the wheel under the influence of alcohol but

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if I’m the son of the governor and I go to a bar and I have a couple drinks and

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I get pulled over the state police steps in and makes it go away two-tiered system of justice and it infuriates

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Americans infuriates the fact that we we have rich people can hire lawyers who

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can you know bend the system to their benefit but the poor people get caught up in it can’t hire lawyers could

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overwork public defenders have to plead guilty to something they didn’t do and they go to jail a two-tiered system of

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justice we’re familiar with it as Americans and most Americans are just furious about it angered by it but we

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live in a world where there’s a two-tiered system of justice i mean we

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we’re quick to point the finger the accusatory finger at any nation that dares you know do anything that could be

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quantified as a violation of international law a crime against humanity oh man we’re the most moral

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people in the world it’s the rule of law the rule of law but not to us we and our

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allies can do anything we want to do and there’s no accountability whatsoever it

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is a two-tiered system of justice that is despicable and disgusting and should be condemned but we in the United States

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we have no we have no problem with it because we are the equivalent of the

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governor’s son or the governor um as opposed to the average person when we

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speak of the world community Americans are the upper tier we are the top part of the two-tiered system of justice and

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it’s a it’s highly problematic but there’s even something more disturbing

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um cuz justice is supposed to be blind meaning we we balance it out regardless

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right we are a racist nation i mean it’s I hate

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to say it i’ve been to Iran look I’m I’m I’m somebody who had all the prejudices

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in the world of of anybody who never traveled abroad but as soon as you travel abroad you meet people and you

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realize they’re humans i used to be prejudiced against Russians till I went to Russia and lived there and I met them and I’m like they’re just like us

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they’re the same people living their life yeah humans living their lives they speak a different language they have

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different cultures norms but I tell a stupid joke they laugh we see a sad movie we cry we’re we are human beings

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trying to get along in this world together you know then I went to Iran thinking I mean because you know you’re

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told something totally different about Iran iran is full of these Shia theocrats who probably pray down the

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streets beating themselves in the back and u you know death to America and I’m going to get in there it’s going to

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police state and they’re going to round me up and beat me up and oh my god totally the opposite i mean warm people

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educated people cultured people uh who actually show a greater care for the the

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the needs of a human being than we do in America and it’s and and again as an

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American I don’t know if you saw the interview with Ted Cruz and um and Tucker Carlson

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when Ted Cruz says “13 years ago I came to Congress okay so far so good

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solely to defend Israel.” Well no no no no no no no that’s not good you came Congress to represent the American

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people to defend the Constitution to make America great again maybe um and now he’s saying “No it’s all about

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Israel and then it’s biblical in a n in a in a in a nation that’s not supposed to have a state religion.” He’s

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now taking his guidance from and I don’t want to get too much into theology here but I mean if you’re a

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Christian and you’re taking your driving guidance from Genesis not Jesus you got

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a and um and and and and Chris doesn’t even know the theology he’s talking about it’s it’s typical of this genre of

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Christian Zionists that have hijacked this country on behalf of Israel um and

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again I I just want to come full circle israel is a criminal entity governed by war criminals indicted war criminals who

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have carried out multiple crimes against humanity and those who have carried this out deserve the the strongest penalty

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benjamin Netanyahu deserves to be hung by the neck until dead so does Gance so does everybody else who has been doing

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this binge the whole crowd they have committed genocide they have committed perody they have committed a war of

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aggression um and we just go on and on and on and on as an American that

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bothers me especially now when we’re about to go to war on their be you just

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spoke extensively about how you know Americans who haven’t traveled to let’s say Iran or other countries that are

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very frequently demonized by American media and uh leadership have no idea what the people are actually like and I

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guess my my question about that is you know you’ve mentioned all of this but you have also said that you know Iran in

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this situation should align itself with the US you you mentioned change its posture um to avoid pretty much American

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military intervention to me reading that that sounds an awful lot like justifying this whole American supremacy theme i’ve

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been I’ve been I’ve been accused of that but let me let me just make this as clear as possible right i have always

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said I have written books on the subject so it’s not like I’m just new to this game i’ve been writing books on Iran

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since the mid 2000s and the books are heavily critical of Israel and the United States for manufacturing a case

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against Iran about a nuclear weapons program that doesn’t exist in a nuclear weapon that Iran doesn’t want and even

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Barack Obama in coming up with the 2015 JCPO he said one of the things that swayed him was the fatwa issued by Ali

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Kame that said nuclear weapons are incompatible with Islam right okay so

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now as somebody who’s been out there arguing and I got to tell you it’s not

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just about arguing i got beat up like you wouldn’t believe i mean I went in front of the um

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the the American Congress of Jewish Congress or something i mean we’re talking about I

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was down in Florida 10,000 people 10,000 screaming maniacs Zionist to the hilt

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and I stood up there and I said that um I said “Look apparently I love Israel more than you do because I’m trying my

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best to make sure I I I said I fought a war to help prevent Iraqi missiles from landing on Tel Aviv and I’m trying my

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best right now to prevent Iranian missiles from landing on Tel Aviv but in order to do that you can’t continue to

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go down to manufacturing a case for war at some point in time you’re going to have to learn how to live in peace with the Iranians.” Oh slam bam they wanted

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to burn me and all that so I’m not somebody that’s just you know popping up at the last second i said it because

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it’s the truth what I said is if you don’t want to have a nuclear weapon then why do you posture as if you’re going to

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have a nuclear weapon i know why professor Miranda explained it he said “We want to um appear to be a

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threshold state.” I said “Why that’s raving waving the red flag against Israel and America who are looking for

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any excuse to charge any excuse that is true but one thing I would say

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though it’s true it happened it happened it’s not It is true it’s the truth it is

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true and it it’s true that you’re you’re absolutely right in saying that that is the case but another another truth

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alongside this is also that it’s not as though let’s say for example Iran does agree like you said to you know not even

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come off as though they are potentially going to reach that level the reality is

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the next the next kind of excuse is going to be something else it’s going to be their missiles it’s going to be their military today actually we saw CNN’s

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political and global affairs analyst uh Barack Ravid he just said today that there’s been a shift in the Israeli

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government’s war goals in just the past few days so this has just been a week but for some reason the Israeli you know

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goals are changing by the day and he says that over the last 48 to 72 hours a

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new unstated goal has emerged and this is regime change in Iran and so

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obviously I mean we’re going to get into whether you think that’s actually going to happen but my my point here is if it’s not going to be Iran’s nuclear

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program that’s going to be the excuse for Israel it’s going to be their military program and their missile capabilities which are you know you know

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top-notch in the Middle East if it’s not going to be that it’s going to be their their regime and how they don’t agree with the regime so essentially I’m not

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denying that but I just want to make the point the very words I’ve said on this program the very words that I’ve written

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in articles the very words word for word and this is why I said it i’m not out

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here to cause trouble i’m just out here to be factual and what I said is that

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Iran’s 60% enriched uranium the levels they have the amount of bombs that could be produced by that uh will be used as

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an excuse to go to work on June 10th General Carrilla from Central Command

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briefed the United States Congress word for word for what I just said word for

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word i don’t make stuff up i’ve been studying this thing forever and I know

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exactly how the United States government works i know how they think i know how they operate and I knew what was going

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to happen and that’s what I was trying to say don’t do this because if you do

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this regardless of your justification and legality and all if you do this they will attack you because all you did is

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wave the red flag in front of the Israeli bull and the Israeli bull is insane the Israelis have always held off

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on attacking Iran when you couldn’t articulate a cognable case that Iran was

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pursuing a nuclear weapon and the Iranian posture the last time we spoke a

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rational person I consider myself to be a rational person a rational person looking at the totality of the data

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would say Iran is literally a political decision and a couple technical um

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evolutions away from having a nuclear weapon that’s a threshold state they don’t want to be there that’s not where they need to be they have no right no

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business being there if they don’t want a nuclear weapon so Iran needs to back down had Iran not advanced itself to

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that you know we keep saying Israel would have looked for another excuse they’ve been looking for excuses for decades the big excuse to carry out this

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this blow was nuclear weapons now they’ve moved to regime change and I know you want to talk to that and be more than happy to talk about that but

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there regime change is never your going in proposition all right that’s too extreme nobody’s going to buy into that

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um it was nuclear weapons and had Iran not done what it did and becoming a threshold state I don’t think we’d be

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where we’re at today i’m not blaming Iran but they’re not totally

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they can’t walk away from the saying we didn’t do anything that’s like me having to go and I mean you you just mentioned

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Iran you know has has no business being in that position and whatnot and again I I this has always been something very

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difficult for me to grasp and it’s this idea that for example the United States uh the only country that has ever used

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nuclear weapons enjoys this right to justify itself in saying we we have this

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and it’s our main deterrence card or whatnot to a point where you’re now saying the US could possibly use the

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bomb on Iran yet Iran which has always claimed that we have our nuclear energy

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program solely for our national sovereignty and our national benefit that’s a right that every nation has yep

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and so really it’s it’s it’s a question of all right so if if Iran can’t have it why can the United States have it

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especially if they’ve used it they’re the only country that’s ever used it why should Israel have it and and obviously this becomes a question of who has more

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power and who is leading that you know he hijgemony in the world but if the US

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for example were really to shape its foreign policy based on Israeli interest it pretty much has to demand that Iran

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possesses no actual power on its own for example like basically the way the way Iran was under the sha basically where

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pretty much everything in the nation was controlled by external powers we’ve also seen Israeli ambassador to the US he

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said yesterday just yesterday that Israel has to eliminate not just Iran’s ability to make nuclear weapons but also

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its ability to even produce ballistic missiles so again this is something that they’re never going to stop on first

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it’s going to be the weapons then it’s going to be the missiles um then it’s going to be you know just anything that

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would con that would concern Iran having its own power its own national sovereignty next is probably going to be

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like oh Iran shouldn’t be making its own vaccines iran shouldn’t be you know so

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far pretty much and and that’s the question is there’s no actual end to this so how far do you think Yeah

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actually there there there was an end i mean it requires the patience of Job um

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but there there is an end there was a path that Iran was on and it’s one that

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I was encouraging Iran to do i mean I you know who am I to encourage anything but internally I was like this is good

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this what you’re doing is smart what what Iran did and and it shows the maturity of the Iranian government first

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of all um first of all you’re 100% correct as long as the United States is being directed by Israel they were never

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going to get a break from from the United States you know Iran was never going to get a break from the United States but

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again we beat this to deter you can’t just invent a a nuclear weapon out of

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nothing if Iran um it would there would required steps that would have to undertake that would have triggered

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exactly what we’re seeing right now that Iran was never going to be allowed to have a nuclear weapon it’s just a

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fantasy that was just never I know it’s hypocritical i know it’s unjust i know it’s all that i’m just stating the facts

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they were never going to be allowed to have a nuclear weapon um okay now but your thing is then they’re they’re

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cutting this this perpetual trap of you know being oppressed but

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Iran became a BRICS member that was their pet you know Iran just signed a strategic uh framework agreement with

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Russia surprisingly to many people no military component why russia offered it

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by the way Russia was like “We’ll do this we’ll do that.” And Iran’s like “No we got this we’re a proud nation we have

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capabilities we don’t need that.” And look at Iran today they’re doing everything on their own boom but part of

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that strategic framework was economic in nature the the the north south economic

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corridor connecting Russia with Iran through you know the caucuses and

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everything that’s that’s happening or at least it was going to happen the new

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Silk Road from China through Central Asia to Iran that happened they sent a train in iran was positioned itself to

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become sanctions sanctions proof meaning that if it gets integrated into this bricks um you know

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interior lines construction of ura of Eurasia um the United States becomes

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irrelevant if Iran is able to send its oil to China overland and avoid the uh

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the sea lines of communications where the United States can choke it off and intercept their shipping if uh Iran can

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work with R if Russia can bypass the Suez Canal and the and and and and shorten the the trip and save money Iran

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actually becomes the the lynch pin for Rick’s viability the viability of the

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Eurasian Economic Union and all this stuff that was the path and now we’re in

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a situation because the other thing I said is the United States will not be able neither will Israel to take out

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Iran’s nuclear program they won’t be able israel’s already admitted we can’t do it can’t do it no kidding we knew

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that going in now America’s going to come in and Trump thinks he’s going to fly a handful of B2 bombers over Ford

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and drop you know the GBU57 massive ordinance penetrator and solve this problem it won’t and then what’s going

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to happen and I’m telling you right now because I know this to be the case we have a nuclear strike plan against Iran

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and we’re heading on this path now because of our collective impetence when it comes to Iran that we will have no

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choice but to use nuclear weapons to defeat Iran that’s what I wanted to prevent that’s why I brought it up i

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actually thought that we would negotiate in good faith i believe that you know because this man sent Steve Whit off to

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Russia to negotiate that we would negotiate in good faith this is where you can call me out if you want to say

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anything you can say Scott Ritter was naive guilty guilty is charged but you

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know what as an American that’s not naivity i didn’t think it was possible i

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didn’t think it was possible that we would do something like this that’s not who we are we are capable of doing

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horrible things we went to war against Iraq in violation but at least we went to war against Iraq in violation of

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international law we went through the motions of pretending that the law mattered we did go to the United Nations

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we did go to Congress um you know and and yes we told lies we fabricated a

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case but we at least pretended that due process mattered here it was pure perity and I didn’t think we were capable of

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doing that and that’s where you can call me out if you want to blame me for anything blame me for that I don’t think

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I don’t think it’s a matter of blame I think really though what you’re saying is sure the US maybe previously

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attempted to be going through the the legal channels and whatnot they’re they’re kind of still trying to do that

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today with you know and the IAEA is is complicit in this as Iran has said because of how they mentioned Iran is

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you know in non-compliance with the NPT and this is something that many are saying was partially the reason why

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Israel got involved saying oh I guess you know they’re now not you know in compliance so the IAEA itself was

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involved in this it seems and now suddenly I just I’ll make the following point I apologize for interrupting you

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but I just want to make this point where it’s not just the IAA’s report the IAEA

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their inspectors have had full access to the totality of Iran’s nuclear program

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the infrastructure the buildings i’ve done these inspections so I know exactly what I’m talking about and I’ve done

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them in the context of what I’m about to say one of the problems with the UN inspections in Iraq is that we were

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thoroughly infiltrated by intelligence operatives from nations openly hostile

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to Iraq the Iraqis brought that up as a as a problem from the very beginning but we said that you don’t get to dictate

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the composition of our teams um it turns out the Iraqis were probably right um

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but but I do know this i know for a fact that the and I feel sort of guilty about

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this i ran a pure inspection meaning that I knew that I was trying to carry out the mandate and the inspectors know

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the briefings I gave and how strict I was i sent a French colonel home french colonel sent on a mission by the French

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general staff i fired him on the spot for sending a report back to France without going through me um I said “I

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understand there’s national reporting but as chief inspector I have to know everything you’re saying and I have to determine what if what you’re doing is

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in you know in conformity with the mandate I’ve been given.” He sent a report home without my permission i

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fired him on the spot caused an international incident but I don’t mess around i sent US inspectors home for the

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same reason uh you know because I maintained purity but there were other inspectors who came in played the game

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then returned home with very specific information about where in a building a specific piece of equipment was etc and

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when the United States then attacked Iraq they use that intelligence to be very specific the IAA inspectors have

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done this the Iranians have the proof that Grosi is in has been meeting with

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the Israelis that the intelligence that gathered by those inspectors has been passed to the Israelis and the Iranians

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know now that the Israelis have incorporated that because it doesn’t take a rocket scientist if you are go through the Natans Hall and you know

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where things are and that’s where the bombs are hitting you mean somebody’s reported that back um this is the end of

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the IAEA as a credible organization but Grossy is a disgrace an absolute

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disgrace and the IEA has disgraced itself um it’s a shame because I I

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worked very closely with the IEA in in Iraq and I know that while some of the people were

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questionable in terms of who you know they’re look they would say “I’m a good American.” I said “Yes you are so am I

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but when you take this job you’ve promised that you’re going to adhere to a Security Council resolution mandate

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voted on by your government so being a good American means that you will do what the American government voted for

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and not allow any uh you know unwritten mandate the IEA has corrupted itself

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this is this is beyond believe i a I just want to throw that in there that this isn’t just a matter of you know uh

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looking bad they are bad they are the problem they provided intelligence that helped Israel carry out this knockout

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blow and they helped set it up through gross working filing this non-compliance

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report iran is in non-compliance of nothing they’ve complied with everything and the the scary part is Trump’s

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rhetoric as we know very unstable we’ve seen it previously as well with just him switching up right now it’s almost as

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though he’s playing a psychological game with everyone not just Iranians but also Americans who do not want their country

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to get involved in another war um so he’s kind of playing this mind game and

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everyone’s kind of on the edge of their seat saying “Oh okay what is Trump really officially going to decide?” Now we see some people saying “Oh the

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president does not want to pursue you know military involvement and kind of wants Iranians to back down.” Some

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people saying “No he actually does want to get involved.” kind of bring the whole you know the the bunker bombs into

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the equation whatnot as someone who has seen this happen previously with Iraq

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and you know obviously your extensive experience with weapons inspecting and all of that do you think that America

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will get militarily involved well in the past what I can say and

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again I’m going to say things I know people are going to say ah he’s just oh you know jingoistic American

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typical chauvinist America whatever in the past we couldn’t be beat so we could afford to go through the motions iraq

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was never going to beat us it wasn’t even going to be close and the proof is in the pudding um so we could afford to

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go through that the difference today is that we can’t beat Iran

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so the Iranians I I can’t remember exactly how many military districts say a dozen or something but they basically

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broke Iran up into little FFTs that in time of war could operate independently

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of Thrron on a plan that’s already been agreed upon um and it didn’t matter if the other FFTM fell this FFTM would

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continue to fight as a as a fortress and they went underground and they brought in missiles they brought in everything

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so it’s not as though Iran has all of their weapons in one place where it can be hit and everything’s gone they have

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dispersed underground throughout all of Iran that the the the the ability to

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defend themselves um and then once they did that they began to improve their

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capabilities i spoke to um uh President Rayi in September of 2023

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um when he was in New York and I asked the question about nuclear weapons and

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deterrence and I said you know you say you don’t want to have a nuclear weapon but unless you have a declaratory policy

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about your ballistic missile use um you don’t have a deterrence people will feel as though they can attack you and stuff

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when he said the ballistic missiles are our national deterrence this was In September 2023 as we saw in 2024

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Operation True Promise and True Promise 2 the the Iranians you know set ballistic missiles as their deter and

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they’re doing it right now people say “Well you know what kind of deterrence did they have Scott the Israelis

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attacked.” Well the key to deterrence is making everybody understand that if you initiate an action you’re going to pay a

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disproportional price i think Israel’s come up to that conclusion already uh I don’t believe Israel would have started

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what they started had they known what was going to happen they believe that they could do decapitation shock and awe

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and Iran would collapse what they’re finding is the Iranians have a plan and it’s a heck of a good plan um

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the Iranians built ballistic missile capabilities

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that are the best in the world what the Iranians are coming in right now you’re seeing a gradual increase in the

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technological sophistication of the uh of the weapons iran hasn’t even gotten to the best stuff yet um

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they have missiles right now that are

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very advanced very accurate very lethal um and this is part of their plan now

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when we speak of deterrence they didn’t deter Israel but you know who they’re deterring right now the

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United States you see you asked me the question about what is Trump thinking

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america doesn’t want to lose a war we’re not stupid um

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maybe we are but on that we’re you know the Pentagon planners

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we when we initiate something it’s not on a hope and a prayer when we initiate a military action

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especially one of of the level of war with a nation we plan on winning so if

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we’re going to start it we have an idea how we’re going to finish it there’s a reason why we started forming up

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military government units in 1942 in anticipation of the fall of Germany in

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1945 because we knew we were going to win this war it was never in doubt we knew what we wanted needed to have

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happen we knew what we were going to do we had a plan uh doesn’t mean the war isn’t hell you fight battles you lose

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battles you lose people um but you know but we knew we were

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going to win i I I can tell you that in um was it 2020 that uh the Global Hawk or 2019 the

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Global Hawk was shot down by uh by Iran over the Straight of Hormuz um and

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Donald Trump was desperate to go in and bomb Iranian air defense sites and he

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ordered the strike package it was ready but at the last minute it got cancelled why because the Pentagon briefed him and

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said “If you do this then the Iranians will retaliate it’ll begin a tit fortat

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thing that’ll eventually result in the straight of horror moves being closed saudi oil fields ablaze oil prices out

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of control and we don’t have the military capacity in the region to win this thing they will hit us with their

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missiles we’re going to lose the bases lose men lose aircraft and now we’re in for the need to mobilize America that

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means we’re going to have to get like 700 to 900,000 troops mobilized bring them over under hostile conditions uh we

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may not win this war so let’s not bomb that site and so they pulled back so do

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you think now that I think we’re in the exact same situation today the only

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difference is back then we didn’t have a viable nuclear war plan for Iran

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um but because of that weakness there the president ordered a new nuclear

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posture review which led to a new um nuclear employment guidance and a new nuclear employment plan that has an

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annex for Iran that speaks of what we need to do with nuclear weapons to win the war cuz no military person wants to

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be able to go to the president say we don’t have a plan to win now we do we have a plan to win and Trump approved it

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that’s why I keep telling people be very careful because this is a madman literal madman and he ordered a plan in his

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first term that still exists today and that’s a plan to have a war-winning strategy against Iran using nuclear

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weapons we can’t beat Iran conventionally this this B2 fantasy about going over and dropping it’s not

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going to do it and the Pentagon saying “If you engage in this Mr president you’re not going to achieve what you

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want to achieve the Iranians are therefore going to hit all of our military bases worse though we’ve withdrawn our military assets for

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instance from Alad Air Base in GD i think those planes are in Saudi Arabia right i thought Saudi Arabia wasn’t

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involved in all this but apparently our planes are all Saudi Arabia which means Saudi Arabia is going to get flattened

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um Kuwait’s going to get flattened the United Arab Emirates is going to get flattened um and now you know prices go

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through the roof and what do we have we don’t have the time we can’t wait 9 months to build up 700,000 troops that

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we don’t have so we nuke them that’s the problem in the past

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Iranian deterrence the threat of this massive disruption was sufficient to hold the hand of the madman but now the

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madman is looking at options are saying we can win this what the Pentagon you

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actually think that you know nuclear the dropping a nuclear bomb on Iran could be

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an actual possibility here we’re over 50% on that possibility it’s a probability now this is the most again

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do you want to know why I took the aggressive stance I did because I knew that I was going to get a lot of people angry when I said that because I know

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the outcome this is why I told the Iranian I mean the thing is we know for example the United States obviously the

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only nation that has ever actually used its nuclear weapons So that’s definitely a fact um so I guess you could say

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because of that history knowing that they have done it they could do it very well again but they also know how

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devastating it is we we h devastates we don’t care we have a doctrine

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we moved away from deterrenceonly nuclear strategy to preemptive use of

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nuclear weapons in a non-uclear that’s our official policy it’s been put on paper approved by Congress and it is

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automatic i just again just so your audience understands how serious this is last year the Biden

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administration was prepared in September to sign off on uh allowing long range

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missiles American attacks missiles to be used by Ukraine against Russian targets

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and the British had come in with a similar approval package to let the storm shadow be used against strategic

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targets in Russia uh and this there was a meeting I think it was going to be on September 13th um where Biden and the

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White House Starmer came over he was going to sign off on the documents long story short is the Russians let it be

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known through a variety of means including the ambassador of Russia United States Anatoli Antonov making a phone call that if they did this Russia

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would retaliate and Washington DC would be one of the targets

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that’s like end of the world kind of stuff so Biden backed down but later on in November they made that authorization

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november December there was a briefing given by the director of plans for strategic command um a Navy admiral um

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in Washington DC where he said “We are ready to have a nuclear exchange with

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Russia we’re ready and we believe we’ll win.” Okay and this isn’t just rhetoric

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because then I went and met with members of Congress and I met with a very senior Democrat who um said he received the

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briefing from the C because I said “Do you think the Russians are bluffing does the CIA believe the Russians are bluffing and he said “No I was in that

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briefing.” He said “The CIA doesn’t believe the Russians are bluffing actually they believe the Russians are very serious about using nuclear weapons

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if this happens we’ve crossed all their their red lines.” He said “The problem is

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the Biden White House was ready to go to nuclear war.” The Biden White House said “Okay let’s do

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this.” We were ready to go to nuclear war in December very dangerous situation

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that’s how unstable America is when it comes to nuclear weapons and our nuclear doctrine that’s why Tulsi Gabbard did

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what she did you know she just went there and visited she came out and she made a public statement trump is so mad

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at her right now because what she’s saying is morally we can’t consider she she’s a brilliant person by the way and

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a very moral person and she’s come I know people dis disagree with her because of her Israeli stance and all

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that i’m just telling you what she did was an act of great courage because she knows the debates that’s taking place

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inside about using nuclear weapons etc and she came out and she made it a moral argument a moral argument and you know

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now she’s injected that in there and maybe people will

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maybe people will be able to pressure this mad man but without that kind of action we nuke Iran in a in a moment in

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a moment i mean that’s the that’s the problem right and I guess the the issue here as

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well is going into nuclear warfare would end up being devastating not just

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obviously you know for the country that gets bombed but also for the initiator and I really think given everything

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that’s happened the US probably will not want all the heat from taking such a

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move because it’s it’s the absolute worst so I guess you’re thinking you’re

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thinking like a rational person who’s the president of the United States i mean no and would you apply the term

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rational to Donald Trump and look at the people he surrounded the reason I say that too is we have seen though that

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Trump has shown a certain because a lot of people would have said if he was you know if he had completely lost his mind

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he would be like “All right let’s let’s attack Iran.” Now what’s happening though and it’s maybe because of the people around him or you know what the

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intel he’s receiving the advice he’s getting he has calmed down a bit and he’s taking a little bit more of a

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calculated stance perhaps what he’s doing now is trying to kind of play that psychological war of you know playing it

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and seeing what reactions were are coming out from Iran and and elsewhere but he he could be even more you know

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irrational if he wanted to but it seems to me that he is kind of holding back because he does know the consequences of

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what this could really mean for for America and for Americans the problem right now isn’t one of what’s good for

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America or good for America he doesn’t care what he cares about is his legacy

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and his standing with his base the MAGA movement will turn on him like it’s

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never turned on anything because he promised peace he promised that he would

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peace be the peace president that he would avoid this very thing and now when

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you have your own director it’ be one thing if Tulsi Gabbard saying Iran has a nuclear weapon then he has political

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cover i believe Tulsi Gabbard that’s what George W bush said well I believe the intelligence I was given you knew it

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was a lie cuz told him the lie but at least the Americans are going it ain’t the president’s fault he was fed bad

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intelligence well Tulsi Gabbard saying they don’t got a nuclear weapon so the

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only intelligence he can fall back upon is Israel and I don’t care how loyal you are to this president when you’re told

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we went to war because of Israeli intelligence when our intelligence officer said no that’s it for you

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politically it’s over so that’s what’s holding this president back is the political calculation of the price he’ll

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pay with his base if he were to go to war do you think then and this is the regime change uh kind of conversation

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obviously the regime change thing with Iran has been there literally since the inception of the Islamic Republic they

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were ready to have it go right when it came and we’ve seen it you know repeatedly with you know different waves of just not just protests in Iran but

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also you know attempts of you know the West and you know the US Israel to infiltrate and we saw how you know

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extensive Mossad’s influence within Iran itself is especially this time around do

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you think that regime change this time is a possibility especially because we

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saw you know the I mentioned the CNN um analyst who was mentioning that now

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Israel their their actual goal now seeing what’s happening is to instill

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regime change in Iran do you think that’s possible or is it just one of those other cries like last time where

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it’s like we’re going to try for regime change and everything just kind of you know doesn’t happen

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no it’s real um I’ll give you again a little story from history during the um

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desert storm Iraq hit Israel 49 times with Scud missiles i mean in retrospect that’s

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just like a pin prick to what’s going on but psychologically that was devastating for

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Israel devastating and when the war ended of course we started the United

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Nations weapons inspections were supposed to come in and get rid of the ballistic missiles and the weapons of mass destruction

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israel didn’t support this the decision made at the end of the Gulf War was that

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Saddam Hussein is the problem and so Israel began a plan to assassinate Saddam Hussein that plan had reached

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fruition in um or maturity by November of October November of 1993

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um in fact I I think it was in uh early November that the Israelis did a um a

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final dress rehearsal for this assassination plan before they dispatched the forces to Iraq in a week

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and that that rehearsal went bad live missiles fired five Israeli soldiers were killed and the plan went away but

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even after that Israel was saying the only solution was regime change when a

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nation humiliates Israel um the Israeli go-to solution is regime

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change so now we come to Iran iran has humiliated humiliated Israel i mean this

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Israel’s never been humiliated like this before the Israelis will kill Alam

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that’s a 100% guarantee they will kill this man he knows it too he said so he

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says “I’m” He said well I think he said something that both my wife and I smiled at he said uh in my my body may be what

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do you say 80 years old or or whatever but in my heart I’m 20 i mean who amongst us as we approach that you know

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it’s like wait a minute inside I feel like I’m 20 years old but the body is saying I’m older but he he has embraced

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his mortality and he has told them he’s told the Iranian people they you know they will kill me and I’m ready for it

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but we must live on our cause must live on it’s more than me it’s about religion

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it’s about This is what the Israelis don’t get iran is a nation that dates back thousands of years

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it doesn’t matter you know whether it’s the Sha or a or a theocrat in charge it’s the Iranian people the Iranian

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you’re not breaking this thing up and they are rallying around the leadership now like they’ve never rallied before

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because of these attacks this is where the Israelis are mistaken because regime change isn’t going to be what they think

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it’s going to be they’re trying to kill a man but they can’t kill a cause they can’t kill a belie they can’t kill a

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religion and and right when to add to what you’re saying I think one thing that Israel is really as well pushing

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for they think is going to work out the way it has previously is trying to divide Iranians but the reality that

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we’re seeing coming out of Iran especially since the enemy right now is an external threat that’s threatening

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the very lives of the people is it’s actually unifying them so whereas previously you had a lot of people who

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and they still have many issues with their government they still continue to say you know our government is not

49:43

performing as we want but you’re seeing those same people say hey we have issues with our government but we’re not going

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to allow anyone to come you know exploit us we’re not going to let anyone come

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you know get rid of our our lives to kill us to violate our sovereignty and

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our ability to live in our country without the threat of Israeli you know

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strikes so essentially what it’s doing is is is unifying people and I’m not sure Israel understands that what it has

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done is actually bring people together i don’t think the West has Do you remember

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again the summer of 2023 um there was the tragedy of the uh Iranian Kurdish girl who’s I apologize

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for not remembering her name yeah yeah uh she you know they had the

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hijab incident and she went to a Iranian p uh police station she died under

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circumstances that you know the Iranians claimed that they they weren’t to blame

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but she was made the cause and people rallied to that cause um but then that

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was exploited because now you have the monarchists the Muji Alulk the Kurdish

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separatists the Avaz separatists the Baluch they all rose up at the same time

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it was a coordinated effort run by the British the Dutch the British uh the Americans and the Israelis with a little

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bit of Pakistani help by the way um all that come in and the idea was to stress out the regime and collapse it and again

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this is one of the conversations that um that Raisi had in September he said this

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it was amazing to hear him say this because it was unprompted it wasn’t this wasn’t a question this was unprompted by

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him he said “We have just gone through the most difficult time in our history since the revolution since the war with

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Iraq.” He said “The Western powers have conspired collectively to try and bring

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us down.” And he said they came close they he said it was it was the hardest

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struggle we’ve ever had but he said we have rallied the Iranian people have rallied uh around the regime and we have

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won and this has made us stronger what the West thinks they saw was that

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they could rise people up what they didn’t realize is the result was the Iranians are even stronger coming out of

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that and today they’re having the strong nation now that was already able to repel that is

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even stronger um this is the stupidity of the west to believe that they can come in and they can do you know what is

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going to happen though there will be regime change in Israel so you think this time around

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Oh okay in Israel okay in Israel no Netanyahu is finished he’s politically

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finished he can’t but here’s the other thing too i and you know now we

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you know I don’t I don’t speak to things unless I actually spend a lot of time thinking about things and I try to run

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things through logically and I’m trying to figure out how Israel survives this

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if Iran stays the course already Israel has suffered half a trillion dollars of

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infrastructure damage a half a trillion dollars and we are one week into the

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conflict if this thing lasts another 3 weeks we’re talking about the physical

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destruction of Israel as a viable nation state israel will also had the the

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Washington Post article right that said Israel can only really continue for another 10 to 12 days without obviously

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resupplies from the United States or just US involvement so it does seem but even already getting but even with the

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missile defense they have they’re not stuck so what what what the Washington Post is saying is that in a number of

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days Israel will have no more missiles it doesn’t matter the Iranian missiles

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are designed to defeat this system israel can have all the interceptor missiles they want they’re not going to

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stop this and this is the thing if this goes on for another month Israel ceases

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to exist we already see right now the Israelis had to close the borders

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israel’s on the cuffs now Israel’s economy is gone gone finished it’s gutted they hit the stock market you

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know they’re it’s gone there’s not the port of Hifa is in ruins and this is one

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week into it how many Israelis thought one week into delivering a knockout blow against those evil theocrats in Iran

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that Israel would be a nation destroyed they closed the borders because what will happen when they open the borders

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is you’re going to see mass migration israel is a small state and when you

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lose 30% of your population which I believe will be the number eventually reach the people who say we can’t live

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here anymore demographically Israel becomes unsustainable as a Jewish homeland and then you’re talking about

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the just the reality of that’s the ultimate Iranian victory if

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they can ride this thing through and that’s why we’re in a very dangerous time because we have an entire country

54:48

of Americans full of Ted Cruises you know Christian Zionists who believe in Israel above all else we have Cash

54:54

Patel the director of the FBI who came in the first thing he question was asked “What’s your number one priority as the

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FBI director to make Israel safe?” What what our entire system has revolved

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around the security of Israel has already embarked on a highway to hell it

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has condemned itself if this war continues uh Israel will cease to exist as a functioning viable state in less

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than a month and then it’s over because if Israel goes away

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Apac goes away i believe that my country is fully capable of doing great things and good things we’re not perfect we

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know that but we are infected by this disease of Zionism this disease of Israel that influences everything we do

55:38

everything we do and it’ll be amazing if we could purge ourselves of that and

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rededicate ourselves to more humanistic imagine if we didn’t have the prejudices

55:49

that are attached by being an ally of Israel so that we justify genocide imagine if we could actually condemn

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genocide and want to do something to prevent genocide and take action when genocide is happening imagine when

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America actually becomes a nation that adheres to the principles and values we claim to have but we no longer can

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embark on because of Zionism because of Israel because of the Israeli control because Israel is a criminal entity a

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criminal entity so in order to support Israel we have to align ourselves with criminality

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and right I’m I’m I I don’t want to get too far ahead of myself because there’s so much that can

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go wrong here but I am so when I look at what’s happening Israel that’s why people say you know what do you think

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i’m rejoicing i want Israel broken crushed i want it turned into dust i

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don’t want the people dead i’m not wishing harm and look at the Iranian targeting as much damage as they’ve done

56:44

the number of Israelis who have actually died every death is tragic is very small compared I think 24 right now maybe more

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after today who knows you know Israel has killed hundreds hundreds of Iranians

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nobody’s talking and those are children they’re hitting buildings where children are dying um absolutely but nobody’s

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saying a thing that But I want Israel broken destroyed not because I hate Israel i do because I love America and I

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hate what Israel’s doing to America i hate what America’s become because of the Israeli influence the fact that we tolerate a Ted Cruz who has now openly

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admitted that he came to Congress solely to advance the interest of Israel over the American people that says all you

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need to know about the state of affairs in America today i mean and the sentiments that you’re saying are shared by I would say a majority of Americans

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it’s something that Americans do not want just I think it was on Wednesday um there was a protest in front of the

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White House a protest for you know no war on Iran so many Americans who actually came there and they’re saying

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you know we don’t want this we don’t want it in Ukraine we don’t want it in Iran we don’t want it anywhere you know our taxpayer dollars are funding all of

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this and you know the saddest part as well is you know taxpayer money that’s going to Israel’s defense and Israel’s

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defense that’s clearly you know failing so you know Americans are sitting on this side of the world watching their

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money pretty much turned to ashes as their you know country and their government is continuing all of this so

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really what you’re saying I think is a sentiment and you know an opinion that is echoed by a majority of Americans

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living here despite the fact that their government you know and the influence of Apac and you know all the Ted Cruzes

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that live here and are influencing directly American foreign policy i think what you’re saying is overwhelmingly

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shared by a majority of Americans now the question is and this is what I want to end on you’ve mentioned that you know

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you’re hopeful that this is going to be the end do you how likely do you think it really is knowing how how much

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America has put into Israel and how existential you know this point in time is for Israel do you think that it’s

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going to get to that point

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if this was truly a national security issue for the United States

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then we would go to war for Israel um with all that entails to include the

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possibility or probability of using nuclear weapons if this was truly a national security problem for the United

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States this is a political problem for Donald Trump and there in lies our salvation um

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Donald Trump is not your traditional politician who was groomed and controlled by Israel from the start he

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was always this maverick to come to get elected this time around he sold his

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soul to Miriam Eden $100 million uh bribe um and it got him um you know got

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Israel the most pro-Zionist cabinet imaginable um but Trump isn’t that

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person and remember Trump isn’t running for reelection this is it this term is

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it so his legacy will be defined by this term and because so many Americans are coming

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up and saying we I mean again as I said earlier MAGA will turn on him and drop

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him his legacy will be he’ll finish his presidency a coward into a corner in the Oval Office totally isolated and

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ineffective um so he has to weigh that and you know

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keep that in mind right now he thought see he he thought that Israel was going to hit hit the home run deliver the

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knockout blow that the regime was going to collapse and he is such a simplistic person that he somehow thinks that B2

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bombers dropping GBU57s on Ferdo is going to end this war people like Tulsi Gabbard people like

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people in the chair in the joint chief not the chairman because he handpicked a a Trump sickant to be the chairman but

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there’s people below that people in the defense intelligence even people in the CIA are saying

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not only is the justification for a war with Iran

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non-existent we’re not going to win this war and you’ll be the president that loses war and the only way out of not

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losing this war is to use nuclear weapon weapons because once America says we’re going to use tactical nukes that sends a

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signal that okay we now can use it against Russia or we can use it you know that we’re not afraid of using this so

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the Russians will immediately incorporate preemptive use of tactical nuclear weapons to counter any American

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threat and I’ve talked to a Russian recently who said “Yeah if you use nukes trust me we’ll be hitting Europe like

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you won’t believe because we’re not going to let Europe posture to destroy us and not pay a price but they’re not

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going to use nuclear weapons now because there’s the taboo if we attack Iran with

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nuclear weapons that taboo is gone and what are you willing to do about it are you willing to respond knowing that the

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Russians will now take out American cities is this really the direction you want to go or do we want to keep app on

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the use of nuclear weapons and not let that genie out of the bottle ever again because we have capped it we have been

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successful globally preventing nuclear weapons because there’s a a general taboo it’s considered evil it’s

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considered wrong it’s the bad thing to do but if the United States breaks that taboo Pakistan will use it against the

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Indians the Indians will use against Pakistan china will use against it’s China will use against Taiwan um so

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can’t control it after that it’s totally uncontrolled so I’m hopeful that

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the political aspect of this will prevail so that the president says no I have to maintain my legacy but my

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concern is that Israel is such a has such an hold on America that when we’re

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confronted with the reality of the physical destruction of Israel

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we may take extreme measures to save Israel that’s my concern i don’t know if

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America’s capable of letting Iran win this war because right now Iran is on a path of victory in this war they will

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they will defeat Israel israel’s already been defeated i don’t think Israel comes out of this um the question is do you

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have a rapid evacuation of population or population evacuating over a sustained

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period of time but you allow this war to go on with this level of physical destruction and when the travel

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constraints are lifted one-third of the Israeli population is gone instantly

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absolutely well thank you so much Mr ritter for joining us again on TMJ News and thank you for sharing your analysis

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U.S. is ALREADY AT WAR with Iran –Scott Ritter

(https://rachelblevins.substack.com/p/us-war-iran-scott-ritter?r=1vhv3f)

President Trump is demanding Iran’s “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER” in his latest rant on social media, one day after he posted that “Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!” (a city of around 10 million people)

This, as the Pentagon expands the U.S. Military presence in the Middle East, sending more war planes and an aircraft carrier to the region, amid reports that Trump is considering joining Israel in direct strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.

Scott Ritter, a former UN Weapons Inspector and U.S. Marine Corps Intelligence Officer, noted that the U.S. is already at war with Iran, and Trump has said as much, as he brags about the support the U.S. is giving Israel.

Trump’s response when asked about the testimony from his Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was, “I don’t care what she said” – raising questions about who he is taking advice from, as he goes directly against his campaign promise of “no new wars.”

Follow Scott Ritter on X, and check out his page on Substack

SOURCE LINKS:

• 17 June 2025 – Trump on Truth Social: “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!”
• 16 June 2025 – Trump on Truth Social: “Iran should have signed the ‘deal’ I told them to sign. What a shame, and waste of human life. Simply stated, IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON. I said it over and over again! Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!”
• 17 June 2025 – Trump: ‘I don’t care’ that Tulsi Gabbard said Iran wasn’t close to having nuclear weapon
• 3 Aug. 2024 – WikiLeaks on X: “Former General of the US Army Wesley Clark on the military strategy after 9/11 attacks: ‘We are going to take out 7 countries in 5 years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and finishing it off with Iran’ [2007]”
• 16 June 2024 – Pentagon expands Middle East response as Israel, Iran trade strikes
• 17 June 2024 – US Intelligence: Iran Was Not Pursuing Nuclear Bomb Before Israel’s Attack

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Ritter’s Rant Ep. 9: Where’s the Beef?

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6-2xHhjrdM)

Trump bombed three empty sites in Iran. Why?

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welcome to this edition of Ritter’s Rant

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um you know back in the 1980s there was

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a commercial for Wendy’s the um fast

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food chain uh it was mocking the

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tendency of McDonald’s and Burger King

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uh to have these big sandwiches but uh

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there was just a lot of bun and a lot of

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lettuce and a lot of onions but not too

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much burger and there was this little

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old lady who uh would come up and look

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at her sandwich and say “Where’s the

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beef?” And that’s sort of my uh my take

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when I reflect on this um bombing u

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attack by the United States ordered by

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President Trump uh just a few hours ago

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against Iran i mean according to the

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president this was the biggest grandest

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thing that’s ever happened in the world

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it’s a magnificent victory for the

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United States and has totally

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obliterated uh the Iranian nuclear

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program and has demonstrated the massive

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power of the of the American air force

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some but then I take a look at the

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reality of it that he bombed three sites

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two of which is vahan and natans had

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been previously bombed by Israel

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destroyed and the material already

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evacuated and the third site feed though

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which people had been anticipating to be

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struck for some time now and there’s

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nothing in it it’s empty and I have to

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ask myself where’s the beef what what

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what was done here this wasn’t a serious

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military attack i have planned serious

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military attacks we bomb targets that

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have legitimate purpose uh and we want

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to put munitions on the target in a way

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that achieve a discernable outcome that

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furthers the military objectives of

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whatever campaign we’re operating in

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support of there’s no way anybody can

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tell me that sending a B2 bomber the

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most advanced weapon system in the

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United States arsenal packing two uh you

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know GBU57

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um uh massive ordinance penetrators uh

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to bomb empty facilities

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furthers the national security interest

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of the United States there was nothing

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in Natans there was nothing in Isvahan

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and yet we put American lives at risk

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and we

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you know put at risk Iranian lives on

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the ground to do this grand act of

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theater so Donald Trump could have his

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TV moment with JD Vance and Heg Seth uh

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you know behind him staring resolutely

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into the camera as if they have

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accomplished something the equivalent of

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winning World War II where’s the beef

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nothing fair though according to the

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Iranians despite the fact that we

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dropped six count them six massive

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ordinance penetrators on these on this

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facility the main facility is intact and

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only an exit and a an entrance uh have

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been damaged there’s five ues

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to the earth so it’s not as though they

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sealed it off where’s the beef what was

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accomplished here why did the president

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do this according to news reports the

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United States signaled to the Iranians

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that this was it it was a limited strike

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there was be no further action tonight

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now the president’s rhetoric in his

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statement to the address suggested that

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if Iran didn’t surrender and seek peace

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that there be additional action but for

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the moment this American attack against

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Iran seems designed to limit Iranian

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retaliatory

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um possibilities first of all it appears

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that no regional military assets were

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used in this strike this appears to be

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not something planned by sent central

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command scentcom but rather strategic

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command perhaps facilitated or assisted

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by Pacific Command that means that

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American military assets outside of the

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theater were used therefore none of the

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assets currently in within striking a

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range of Iranian missiles are implicated

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this could inhibit or uh at least put

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the brakes on any Iranian retaliation

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which would be good news because if the

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Iranians don’t retaliate uh in a manner

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that threatens American life then maybe

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we don’t see this escalation taking

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place but you have to ask yourself why

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did the president do this and the answer

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is not to further national security

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interest but to save face this is about

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Donald Trump trying to preserve the

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legacy of Donald Trump he had gotten

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himself into hot water by aligning

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himself with an Israeli surprise attack

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against Iran which went badly the

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Iranians have retaliated and they’re

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doing significant harm against Israel

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and nobody’s been able to do anything to

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eliminate the Iranian nuclear program

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which the president said has to be

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eliminated iran didn’t yield to the

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threats put by the president or the

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demands of unconditional surrender so

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Trump was left in a situation where he

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looked like a fool and the only way out

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was to do the most foolish thing

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imaginable launching a bombing attack

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against Iran

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but then he did something even more

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foolish he bombed empty targets which

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appears to be the most

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sage and wise decision of all because

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now he has created at least the

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potential of a window of opportunity to

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disengage from the disaster he had

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created i don’t know what the future’s

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going to be i don’t know how this is

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going to play out but I do know that

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when we take a look at this greatest

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military victory of all military

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victories that Donald Trump is

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trumpeting there ain’t no beef there

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where’s the beef and that’s a question

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everybody needs to be asking themselves

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thanks for listening this rant and I’ll

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uh see you the next time

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