‘Trump Needs to APOLOGIZE!’ Will Iran Claim Victory Over America? | Plus Professor Jiang Interview

As the father of four daughters and hearing a missile hit a school, if it's true, everyone should apologize. Like, look, we can figure out who did it later. This is a result of our conflict. Are you confident that you'll be proven right that Iran ultimately will prevail in this war? >> Once the United States sends in ground forces, there's no turning back. It's all in. It'll be another Vietnam. >> We're going to kill all the bad guys and we're going to replace them with the good guys. is it's like a foreign policy, you know, made

up by elementary school students. It's it's embarrassing. >> Is Israel is a more secure place? Is the United States stronger today than 2 weeks ago? Is the world a better place today than two weeks ago? For God's sake, I feel good about where we're going as a nation. We're killing all the right people and we're cutting your Taxes. >> I haven't held the excitement that Senator Graham has. He's he's never met a war that he doesn't love and he just gets giddy excited like a guy who's going to make a bunch of money when we

bomb a bunch of people cuz well that's what he does. President Bush famously landed on the USS Abraham Lincoln to declare mission accomplished in the Iraq war just weeks after the invasion began. As we all now Know that war lasted another eight years. Bush had won a second term and eventually retired by the time the last troops returned to the US. Few believe the mission was ever accomplished and the whole war on terror became a cautionary tale about Middle Eastern quagmires and a cornerstone of the MAGA revulsion to war. Supporters of this war think it's

time to move on from the ghost of Iraq and that it has no lessons for the current conflict. A position Summed up emphatically last night by President Trump. And as we take decisive action to stop the threat posed by the terrorist regime in Iran with Operation Epic Fury. Is that a great name? Well, it's only good if you win. You know, you can only do and we've won. Let me tell you, we've won. You know, you never like to say too early you won. We won. Well, if the war was won in the first Hour,

the substance of the victory is yet to become clear. The IDF says Israel is under Iranian fire as we speak. Cargo ships and oil containers are under attack across the region, sending oil prices into orbit again. The new Ayatollah has doubled down with a message of vengeance in his first public statement, albeit nobody's actually seen him yet. And there are claims he's incapacitated. Amid all of this, the fact is that victory for Iran is quite Simple. If the regime survives with its autonomy, Iran will claim victory. Victory for the United States and Israel is a

lot more complicated. Many roads do seem to lead to a new Iran, which is a lot like the old Iran, but even more aggressive. It could be subdued, possibly for months or even years, but with a greater incentive than ever, to arm itself and attack. That's why people are legitimately worried about a long and deadly conflict. And that's why People, let's turn to Lindsey Graham, who has threatened everywhere from Lebanon to Spain in the last week, are working overtime to sell the benefits of war. >> We're going to blow the hell out of these people.

This regime is in a death row now. It is going to be on its knees. It's going to fall. And when it falls, we're going to have peace like no other time. We're going to have prosperity unlike anyone could ever imagine. Peace. Well, the problem with this kind of gleeful rhetoric about blowing the hell out of these people is that many of these people are innocent civilians. US media is reporting today that US military investigators believe American forces were responsible for the deadly strike on an Iranian primary school that's believed to have killed over 100

children. It looks a lot like a tragic accident on an enormous scale. If President Trump and his administration Want to build public support for this war, they should very quickly face up to it and apologize. and they should very quickly tell Lindsey Graham to respectively keep his mouth shut. Well, to debate this, I'm joined by Robert Neil, the former US Navy Seal, by Gideon Levy, the Israeli author, journalist, and commentator at Herets, Republican Cory Mills, the Florida congressman, and US Army veteran, and Ryan Grim, Breaking Points co-host, and investigative Journalist with the Drop Site News.

Well, welcome to all of you. Uh, Robert O'Neal, welcome back again to Uncensored. A few people have had more experience of combat in the Middle East than you and of course you killed Osama bin Laden. Um so I just want to ask you from a pure military perspective, it seems to me that you know the American military might coupled with the Israeli military might uh has proved pretty overwhelming from a pure military Perspective against Iran's military. but that the way that Iran is conducting its tactical war in terms of going after economic damage uh may

be much more difficult to defeat. Would that be your reading? >> It's going to be difficult to defeat that. Yes. And thanks for having me back, Peters. Yeah, the uh we're going to defeat them militarily, and we've proven that everywhere we go militarily, and that's just what we do. We've got a Very strong group of men and women that can do that. Uh, I, you know, I was there for the invasion 2003. I remember the buildup. I remember I was excited at the time because it's just right after 911 and as a young Navy, young

Navy Seal, especially at Seal Team Six, I want to invade anywhere. U, I I haven't held the excitement that Senator Graham has. He's he's never met a war that he doesn't love and he just gets giddy excited like a guy who's going to make a Bunch of money when we bomb a bunch of people because, well, that's what he does. And they get amped about that. But for me, it's like, yes, we can beat him, but what do we do next? I know Donald Trump doesn't want to go in there and try to do a

regime change, but eventually something has to happen. If boots on the ground means taking inspectors in with guys with guns, so be it. We do have guys at the tier one level with the designation to take out Military sites and inspect them, maybe. But again, like your previous guest was saying, you get boots on the ground, that's what the I hate the word quagmire, but I mean, if it if the shoe fits, right? We don't want to get back in that. The Iranian people, yeah, they wanted us, but so did parts of the Iraqi people.

So does everybody. But eventually, regardless of uh your intentions, if you spend time there, you're an occupier. And people, even if They're on their side, the longer you bomb them, the less they're going to like you. And I think I I've I've never been hit with an American bomb, but I think the the most terrifying thing possible is be in a building that's hit. The best thing that could happen is you die right away, but you'll probably just be under there under rubble, burning for a long, long time, suffocating. Maybe horrible stuff. This is not

something to cheer. This is war is the should be the Very end of a political means. Uh I've been to war a lot. I'm not pro-war. I think there should be other ways to do it. I'm watching cautiously and I'm hoping um you know I I don't ever consider myself the smartest man in the room. I hope I'm hoping the smartest man in the room more men and women do show up. I'm willing to listen. I'm willing to learn and what we've done in the past has worked and it hasn't worked. So uh it doesn't

matter why we're here. We Just are. So hopefully levelheads can prevail, right? And Rob, how do you feel given all your experience? How do you feel about some of the more inflammatory rhetoric that we're hearing from people like Pete Hegith in particular, coupled with the way that the official White House social media accounts are pumping out kind of movie style promos about this war? Almost like this is not real. This is like a movie we're watching. I got to Say, as someone who's had a lot of family myself who've gone to combat in war, I

don't like it. It's like it's not how most people talk about it. >> I I I don't like it. War is a lot different than what a lot of the public sees in video games and uh TV shows. You do not respond respond, excuse me. And when bullets fly this way, uh there's a moment of pause because they only need to be right once. And when something blows up, if you die, you're just dead. Um, you I mean you do need propaganda to build up morale, but movie stuff like that, I don't I don't like

it. Um, however, now with Pete Hexath, I was advocating for a mid-grade officer with combat experience to take the Pentagon, and he did. And uh, I'm all in with Pete Hexath. This is what we needed. I like the way he does it. I like the way he works out with the troops and has a morale high. The media doesn't like him. I mean, most of the the the media that Says he's doing a good job generally because, let's be honest, they they don't want him to succeed. I like what he's doing. I don't like a

lot of the rhetoric, but some of it has to happen, some of it doesn't have to happen, but uh you know, you got to stay the course. Mission front front side focus and after you hit them, if possible, get out. >> Okay, let's go to uh Congressman Mills. First of all, I want to talk about this attack on the girls school, which now Looks increasingly likely, according to the New York Times and other reports, that this was an American missile strike that had gone wrong. some suggestion that there was in intelligence from the Israelis which

turned out to be false. It was of course next to uh a revolutionary guard base and used to be part of the base and then was moved and it may be. This was just a horrific accident but it had enormous consequences. Uh would it not be the Right thing, the morally right thing if it was the United States, and they must know by now if it was one of their planes or one of their missiles that if it was the United States, they just hold their hands up and say, "We made a terrible mistake and

we're terribly sorry." >> Well, I think the biggest thing, and thanks for having me on, Pierce, it's great to be on this panel. Rob I've got a tremendous amount of respect for. He's Uh a true decorated hero and I'm grateful to be on this panel. But, you know, I want to say that one of the things you don't do, whether it's in politics or the military, is get out ahead of intel. You know, we want to make sure that we get the actual post blast analysis. We want to look at what the actual trajectory of

whatever that tomahawk or whatever that missile was to ensure that we know what the actual impact radius was, where it actually was Intended to hit, what that target actually was or was not. Um, and then if we do determine that it is something that is uh a US uh uh strike or a US missile or whatever the case may be, then we look at what was the actual cautionary reasons of why it occurred. So uh you know until I get into the actual skiff and get an intel brief on this, you know, I sit on

the armed services committee. I sit on a subcommittee of military personnel on Military readiness and the intelligence special operations. Uh I'm the subcommittee chair of the oversight and intelligence for foreign affairs committee. So until I can actually get in there, I'm not going to get over my skis and start making comments, but I can tell you that if and you know when this is determined, if the United States is is respondable anyway, it'll take its accountability. It'll do its afteraction review. We did this in Iraq. We did this In Afghanistan. And every conflict and uh

as Rob and others will tell you in any operation, no matter how great it is, you always do an AR to determine how we can get better. And in terms of the mission itself, we've we've heard now myriad different uh explanations for what the mission is and what victory looks like. What is your understanding of what victory looks like? Because as I said to Rob, there's no doubt that uh in terms of military Firepower, the United States and Israeli combined firepower is clearly causing enormous damage to Iran's military. But it's also true that the closure

of the straight of Homa is pretty well completely closed. If that goes on for much longer, the uh the enormous damage that is causing to the global economy, coupled with the attacks they've been making on all the neighboring Gulf States, trying to clearly intimidate uh tourists from going there, which is the New business model for many of those states. You know, this could be incredibly damaging uh and makes the word victory look a little bit more complex. >> Well, war is always complex, especially when you talk about geopolitical analytics. I mean, look at the fact

that China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea, this access of evil have been geopolitically lined for a while. Their goal from the very beginning, whether You talk about the belt and road initiative, whether you talk about the funding of Iranian proxy militias, was always to eliminate the US dollar's global currency. Not to mention the fact that China had a lot at stake on this. What they wanted to do with the belt and road initiative is have Russia start the war in Ukraine to expand the Eurasian border, take over Oceanania, take the 15 of 16 rare earth

mineral mines of Africa, which now cuts off the Vorn of Africa, Persian Gulf, Red Sea, Black Sea. This is now an actual isolation move while in the western hemisphere utilizing economic coercion on Panama and Honduras to control tax tariffs and transit to guarantee that while they're buying up our farmlands, while they're buying up men translations, as people in the Navy will tell you, how long can a nuclear submarine stay underwater until it runs out of food? That was the intent from the beginning was always economic Warfare by China. We've been in war with China and

Russia for 20 plus years. It's just that we kept calling them a great superpower resurgence. When it comes to the designation of this conflict or this hostility, let's go back to the 2011 Obama days where Libya was actually utilizing the Department of Justice's UN regulations to quantify it as being able to go in and do these things if it was in the needs of saving innocent civilians. Well, I can tell you 40,000 Plus innocent Iranians were dying in the streets. There was human rights atrocities like never before. We also had imminent threat with regards to

knowing that the Eshan, the Forom, and the Natan's facilities, they were destroyed. But at what levels do we are we guaranteeing this? We knew they had the Shahed 136s, which are a very effective drone that's being utilized today that we now have our own Lucas system, which is about a $35,000 program For Operation Scorpion Strike. But it was all about eliminating the IRGC's capabilities of imminent strike with the with the ICBMs. And guess what else we found out? We found out they had working hypersonic ballistic missiles. These are ballistic missiles that traveled over 15,000 plus

miles per hour and have the ability to hit mock levels that we can't actually be 100% effective on. So there's a lot of things that came into this. One, it was guaranteeing that Innocent civilians weren't continuing to be killed. two, stopping imminent threat of actual nuclear capabilities because we know that under the JCPOA under resolution 2231 that both Bong Kimmoon and Gutierrez who are the general secretary of the UN said that the U Iran was in direct violation sending mid-range long-range ballistic missiles to the Houthis and others and enriching well past the 70% mark. Now

I want to be clear 70% is over the threshold but to Get from 70 to nuclear grade it's a flip of the switch. That's how easy it actually is. So denigrate the IRGC, eliminate the head of the snake, which is the Ayatollah, which we know there's multiple heads. Rob and I can tell you that you eliminate one terrorist organization. Let's say it's Kazumsmani. You get Ishmael Ghani, you eliminate uh you know, one terrorist Europe, they get another. But my point is is that we are moving in the right direction of Military coordinated strikes, guaranteeing that

imminent threats are gone, guaranteeing that regional securities are provided, then usher in someone like Reslavi who can actually be a transitional governor who doesn't want to stay in power. or he wants to be voted at the ballot box and now we actually have a transitional plan. This is not Iraq. This is not Afghanistan. >> Okay, I want to bring in the other the other panelists. Uh I don't want to cut You off. Uh Congressman, I do want to bring in the other >> very complex. I guess I saw you. >> Sorry. >> I say it's

just very complex, Pierce, to get into a 30 secondond segment. >> No, no. I listen I totally respect that. But we have got obviously got four panelists. I want to bring in uh Ryan Grim because I could see you reacting to some of the things you were hearing there. Um I mean The congressman makes It sound relatively straightforward. The mission is going very well. The uh the stuff that they wanted to achieve is being achieved and it won't be long before Rever Palavi is in the middle of Tehran leading the brave new world. What do

you think of that? >> It's it's just completely absurd. It's it's like a we're going to kill all the bad guys and we're going to replace them with the good guys. It's like a foreign policy, you know, made up by elementary School students when in fact it is a foreign policy student that is targeting and killing elementary school students. That's what it's doing in in the real world in this like fantasy land. You're like, "Oh, get this bad guy. Get this bad guy. Get this bad guy." And oh, Rea Reesa over here who lives in

PTOIC, Maryland. We're going to like ship him over to Iran and he's going to be the new king of Iran. Like, it's it's embarrassing. And what about the mission itself in terms of the changing positions? And I thought, and I'll come to Gideon about this in a moment, but it was very telling to me that it looked like the mask slightly slipped when Marco Rubio uh said, "Well, the the need to attack preemptively from the United States was because they have been told somebody else, clearly Israel, was about to attack Iran and that Iran would

then respond likely against American bases And that because of that, America had to get in first." Uh, and then of course they tried to wind that back. I don't think Marco Rubio misspoke. I just think they didn't appreciate quite how that was going to play out. >> Right. And and because we haven't gotten a a rationale that they have stuck to, initially it was the nuclear program, then it was regime change. We've now been told that neither of those are actually objectives of the war anymore. Dropsite uh put out a poll in into the field

over the last weekend asking the American public why do you think the US went into this war 50% of the country believes now that Donald Trump at least in part went to war against Iran in order to distract from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. So by a 50 to 41 margin that's what the American public believes likely voters. Uh we we also asked about the influence of Israel. uh nearly 50% I think 46% of likely voters said that They believed that Trump was more responsive when it came to the war in Iran to Benjamin Netanyahu than

he was to the American public. The I think 47% said he was more responsive to the American people uh than to Benjamin Netanyahu. So he's as almost 50% of that he ran as America first. Not even 50% of the country believes that he went to war for the United States. We have never had a president in the history of the United States who went to a war of any sort, Let alone a war of this scale and had nearly half the country believing, whether it's true or not, believing that he did it for a different

country. >> Or actually, Gideon Levy, there hasn't been a war that I can remember in modern times where there hasn't been a majority support from the American people once it started. And there isn't for this. Uh it's an unpopular war. The majority of Americans do not want America to be waging this war. They're particularly Concerned because they've already got still got inflation, still got rising costs. They've seen prices at the gas pump now rocketing in the last two weeks. Uh this is the biggest uh turmoil for oil prices in history that has already happened in

the first two weeks and could get a hell of a lot worse. So purely from that perspective, I think Donald Trump politically has taken an enormous gamble here. But in relation to the role of Israel, you know, there is a Theory that Trump has been sort of barreled into doing this by Benjamin Netanyahu sort of wearing them down and saying, "Look, we've got a window. The Ayatollah is with all his top people right now. We can take them all out and it'll be a bit like Venezuela where you take out the head and the rest

follows." and that having committed to that and talked about quick regime change, clearly that hasn't happened. In fact, the Ayatollah's own son is reported to Be the new supreme lead, although we haven't seen him. Um, and and coupled with that, there's a sense that Israel has a different objective here, that Israel would be quite happy if this all plunges Iran into total anarchic chaos. um a bit like happened in Syria and that that would suit uh Israel's longerterm uh needs and wants which he kind of just reduces it to uh anarchy whereas that would not

suit the United States. So there could be two different uh sort of Missions here where Israel's quite happy if this just drags on and on and on and is a bit of a disaster. Um but the United States would find that very very difficult to manage. What are your thoughts on that? >> So, first of all, we are witnessing now the backlashes of the 7th of October 23. Ever since then, Israel turned into the notion that everything can be solved and everything is legitimate to be solved by force and by a lot of force, by

Unlimited force. We will change the leadership of the Middle East. First, we tried in Gaza. I must remind you two and a half years no regime change in Gaza even though it was a very clear goal never achieved Hamas's life and kicking and don't compare Gaza to Iran obviously and now we went to this war again as the first option as as as while totally ignoring you know in this discussion Pierce and thank you for having me again in this discussion we hardly spoke about Other prices we Paul spoke about the prices of oil and

the economical price. There are millions of people who were displaced in the last two years by Israel and now by the United States. Most of them have no place to go back. What about them? They are totally not in this in this formula of comparing utility and price. No, they must be remembered. Now coming back to your question Pierce, Israel went to this war without having a very clear endgame. They saw an opportunity. There was a the stars showed that Trump and Netanyahu get along and would agree about such an adventure, such a dangerous adventure,

and they went for it. I don't know who convinced whom. It sounds more logical that Netanyahu convinced the American president even though he's not someone to be so easily convinced. But in any case, look at the outcome. Is the world a better place today than two Weeks ago for God's sake? Is Israel is a more secure place than two weeks ago? Is the United States stronger today than two weeks ago? Those are the questions which are not asked. And I one more word pierce with your permission. We were speaking about the big criticism in American

public opinion about this war. Surprise surprise 94% of the Israeli Jews support this war. Can you believe it? Those are people who pay a price for this war. 94 those North Korean figures. Only North Korea you get on any issue 94% support. Let's think also about this. A state after two and a half terrible war in Gaza wants another war. What does it tell us about the Israeli society? Yeah. And of course, you know, Netanyahu was in deep political peril after October the 7th because people were blaming him for allowing it to happen on his

watch. He was facing a corruption, a criminal trial that's been put on the Back burner. He's seen his personal popularity rising at the same rate that he's been bombing places. And he's probably doing the maths and working out quite cynically because he can be very cynical that the best way for his own political preservation is to carry on doing what he's doing, which is settling all the schools. I mean, he he made it clear that Iran was a 40-year uh project for him, which was finally happening. Uh Robert Neil, I know you've got to leave

Us um imminently. Um, as an American, putting aside your amazing career in the military, but as an American, given the state of the economy, given the real time effect on Americans at the at the pump with food prices, there's still inflation, so they've carried on going up. Given that Donald Trump campaigned so viferously that he wasn't going to take America into any more wars, particularly in the Middle East, and he was going to sort Out the economy and sort out the cost of living, are you comfortable that he's now launched the biggest war in the

Middle East imaginable and it's having such a huge effect on the economy? He says this is all a price worth paying. Do you agree with that? Uh I do in theory agree with it that if it does work out the prices of everything will go down because it will positively affect um oil prices and that that as we know affects everything. Uh I'm not optim I mean I'm yeah I'm optimistic but I don't I don't like seeing this. I don't like going to war. Uh I do I do know President Trump and I know he

loves his legacy and he cares about his family and I think given the intel that I'm not privy to I'm not in the meetings either that he's gotten and where he is. this is the way to go in order to get the stability. Um, you know, the whenever you get preemptive strikes on people, it's it's it's hard To say. I mean, we knew what Hitler was doing in 1938. We didn't do anything. President Buchanan and Pierce had something to do. They didn't they weren't aggressive with the South at the time before they were mighty we

had the Civil War. Million people died. Uh, preemptive strikes though, 2003. I went to Iraq. Turns out it wasn't the way to go. So, I mean, I'm very, very cautious as a father of four daughters and hearing a missile hit a school. If it's True, everyone should apologize. Like, look, we can figure out who did it later. This is a result of our conflict usually because men in political power couldn't agree on something. That's what we should say. And that unfortunately with all the cheering aside and all the cool movies, that's the end result on

the ground. That's the difference between being there and seeing it on TV. So, again, I'm I'm going to watch it. But I want I I would love to see every Family in the world be successful and pay lower gas prices. And I really I really like I said I really do believe do do believe this administration is doing what they think is the right thing for the future not just of the country but of the West. Don't like war, hate cheering for war, but I'm watching and again I'm trying to stay open-minded. I personally will

do everything I can to to help with world peace. I thought I did before and here we are again. >> Yeah. Um Congressman Mills, I mean politically it's a massive stupendous roll of the dice by Donald Trump. The midterm elections are coming in November. Historically, a president in his position would normally probably lose the House. That's expected to happen. But now there's lots of rumblings this may cost in the Senate, which would basically leave him a completely lame duck uh for the last two years of his presidency. Uh and right Now he can keep saying

this is all over, we've won, and so on. But the reality on the ground which we can all see with our own eyes is very different. Are you worried politically about this if it carries on much longer? >> Well, let me just go ahead and touch on something and Rob had talked about it and it's been severed like many times about oil and economics. What we have to understand is this. Just like I talked about with that geopolitical alignment That was after the dollar is a global currency. It's not about the dollar, the bot, the

yen, the ruble, the the dinar. It's always been about energy. Energy is a global currency and what we knew is is that you have the ability here to not only eliminate an evil regime and stop nuclear capabilities that could actually threaten the west as well as for our allies and ourselves but also to help start getting a a stability solution against all these Shia backed militias Who are being funded by this type of illicit trade of oil to China. Now why does this always look as an individual thing? It's not. If you look at the

geopolitical ramifications of the elimination of Maduro, that was 70% of the oil that went to China. Iran is another 20% that goes to China. That now potentially stops the unification of Taiwan or the threats across the Taiwanese straight even though they are building up the coastal defense Conscripts etc. But the same thing for Russia. Russia's biggest supplier that they had actual defense goods to was actually Iran. So now you've actually got an economic loss there as well. So this is doing a lot of things for the region. Not just eliminating this regime, but it will

actually bounce back oil prices because we've always had issues with Iran in the street of Hamus. We've always had issues with the threats of trying to go after things like with The Houthies on Saudi Araco that had an impact on the actual oil production. So this is a momentary diversion as Secretary of Energy Wright had said that allows us to not only try and help to free innocent civilians who are dying but not get boots on the ground. This is not Iraq and Afghanistan. We are not nation building. We are not looking to try and

put in an implementation of democrats. We're not trying to do an article 76 of the '05 constitution to Set forth sectarian democracy which hasn't existed in pre-apartid South Africa or Northern Ireland. This is about literally just trying to go good versus evil, eliminate an evil threat, guarantee stability in the region, stop instant lives from being lost, stoping nuclear power from coming into there, and then also look at the economic properties that will benefit the US as well as for the globe. >> Ryan Grim, your response to that? Well, I mean, one of the economic companies

that would benefit is the congressman's. Congressman, you correct me if I'm wrong. You you you're an arms trafficker. No, >> no, I'm not actually. I don't actually own a company and I actually have divested on blind trust. I'm also the only member of Congress who actually donates 100% of my salary to >> divested into a blind trust. That's those are those are contradictory terms. D if you divested, you don't own it anymore. >> Ready to go in. >> Do you own the do you own an arms trafficking company? Look, I don't actually. That's the funniest

part. We actually train our law enforcement and military and our police on how to do less lethals and how to help with federal bureau of prisons, how to help with our law enforcement departments and riot control in Minneapolis, New York, The blue cities around the state. So, you know, it's very interesting that's the approach you take whenever I actually have lost tremendous amounts of money since I've been in Congress. And guess what? That's okay. When I went into the military, I had nothing as well. And I'm just proud to be able to go ahead and

serve the American people. And you can keep trying to play your foreign policy economic elementary 101, but the reality is is that I you can't Dispute a single thing that I said about the economics of oil trade. You can't dispute a single things about what was actually benefiting China. You can't do anything about the belt and road initiative expansion that I talked about. So let's talk on the facts as opposed to ad homonym attacks or some type of a slanderous point. >> Did your did your company sell weapons to Ukraine while you were on the

uh foreign relations committee? >> No, it didn't actually. It didn't. There's a lawsuit that claims that it did. That this is this is not true. You would have to talk to the CEO because I can tell you that when I was there, the only thing that we did was we worked the US government to help to defeat ISIS who was in Fallujah and Mosul who had held that for three plus years raping and imprisoning young women, subjugating women and that I'm very proud of as well as for we supplied And even at donations to all

the different law enforcement departments across New York, across Seattle, across Minneapolis, across New York City, across Baltimore to stop from the riots that was going on which everyone in the Democrat party called the summer of love. So do you want to talk to your politics and know about what's actually happening or go ad hominemum attacks? >> I just wanted people to understand with the >> I also go and buy and sell trade stocks. By the way, I don't own a single stock just to so you know unlike many of the others who actually benefit from

Northrop Breman from GED and from others. Go look at quantitative analysis and see how many stocks I've traded since I've been in office. Go look at how much I own since I've been in office and before. I don't own a single penny of stock. War doesn't benefit me. I actually prefer not to have war. But the Benefits of actually making sure that we understand how this looks at it economically and from a stability and safety and security perspective. I am for especially as a member of the foreign affairs, especially as a proud US Army combat

veteran. >> Okay, let let me ask Ryan just just quickly how do you think this war now plays out from where we are now? >> I mean, how who knows? Uh I think that the I think the president is desperate To find a way to >> end the war. Uh no, you don't need to be an expert to see that this is a catastrophe for the United States. Uh and it's a catastrophe for the people in in Thran who are seeing, you know, this this indiscriminate bombing. There was just a residential building. People are chanting

people asking for the sha to come back. You're telling me millions of people are wrong. >> People in Lebanon, uh Israel, Israel Issued a an evacuation order to 700,000 people, some of whom, you know, went to the beach. They then bombed them on the beach. This is it's the entire situation is horrifying. When he's talking about, you know, geopolitics, China is sitting back watching the way that the United States military, its navy and its air force, you know, engage with a with a conventional military. They're taking notes as as we exhaust ourselves. Uh I don't

I don't understand who benefits From this beyond Israel who who wants as Gideon has said you know to see countries around it reduced in power and engaged in kind of sectarian civil war and collapse. >> Well let me let me ask Gideon the same the same question. Gideon what what do you what do you think is going to happen here? First of all, it's very hard to foresee because finally it depends mainly on Donald Trump. I still think that if he Wishes to put an end to it, he still can. Even though I agree to

the other speakers who said that we have reaching very fast and a point of no return, but he could have stopped it by now and then Israel had to stop. Even though by the time we are talking the Israeli troops are on the way to Lebanon starting another war which might last much much much much longer but Israel does not benefit out of it. You mentioned all those who loses Israel never benefit for Any of its wars. If you go backwards ever since 1948 no war brought any good things to Israel. They always brought either

immediate losses or losses for the long run like this fatal 1967 war which stuck us with this horrible damped occupation until this very moment. Wars don't serve interest for the long run and this war will not serve Israel. Maybe we can all now sell more weapons. No doubt that Israel will sell now much more weapons. We can be very proud on all kind of James Bond operations, assassinations. That's a new hobby of Israel, assassinating half of the leadership of the Middle East in Hollywood systems. Really fascinating. But by the end of the day, after this

all glory will go away. We'll ask ourself, what did we achieved? What did we achieve in two and a half years in Gaza with 70,000 people killed and 1,000 babies killed? What did Israel achieve? Is it today more secure? Is Gaza more stable place? Is the danger of Gaza smaller or bigger for the long run? Same will be here. And I'm very sorry to say it because they always say that I always spoil all those parties. No, it's not a party. It is a war which gets more and more complicated and complicates itself with endless

consequences. By the way, Israel is going also to pay enormous price in the United States. The Americans will never forget Israel who They believe pushed the United States to this unnecessary war and by the end of the day will say, "Oh, this was a mistake." But the next war then will make it because we have to solve it once and for all. And the only once and for all for Israel is the continuence of the occupation. >> Good Levy and my panel. Thank you all very much. I appreciate it. >> Thank you. >> Well, I'm

joined now by Bethl Talibani. He's the president of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. Mr. Talibani, thank you very much indeed for joining me on Uncensored. Uh, I know you spoke to President Trump a few days ago. What is your overview about where we are with this war right now? >> Um, first of all, my pleasure to be here. Um, overview of where we are in the war so far is you could argue that many of the US military objectives have been achieved. Um, severely depleted Ability to strike. um government to an extent weakened and also

I believe there's no real capability of any kind of nuclear um weapon creation. Having said that um there's still a lot of bombing. Um the people of Kurdistan are certainly terrified. Iraq is under a lot of pressure. You see what's happening in the Emirates and the Arabic countries and the Iranian regime doesn't really show any signs of cracking. M >> and also there >> there's been no real sorry there's been no real um uprising or demonstration or even hint thereof until now. >> Yeah. I mean that's the thing that I've been looking for which is

you know where is the rising up of the people. Uh you know there was a belief that maybe the Kurds were going to lead the the rebellion and so on. But of course, I'd imagine that many people, not just the Kurs, but everyone in the civilian population has memories of what happened in January when many thousands of protesters were killed. Uh, but secondly, there are bombs raining down all over the country, and that makes even venturing onto the street an extremely dangerous, potentially life-threatening thing to be doing. Never mind what the revolutionary guard or the

other militia may do if they find you there. So it seems to me the Doublepronged threat to to people if they do take to the streets is very pronounced right now and the and the danger is very real. >> I would agree with that. But I would add another prong. I think there's three prongs of concern. Um one of them is the zip code that um the post code sorry that the um Iran is in. Um just look at the recent years. Iran is in the post code of Afghanistan, Armenia, Syria, Turkmanistan and Iraq. Um

the Persians Are a very well educated, beautiful people. Um his very old and ancient people and it's difficult for them to see them going through what these countries around them have gone through. And this is also a real major concern. In fact, last time a lot of the middle class and a lot of the professional class didn't get involved in any of the demonstrations regardless of their political view because of this fear. This fear has not been alleviated at all And it exists in Iran. >> If uh as at the moment seems more likely than

not the regime remains in place, you know, Donald Trump did talk very early on that he wanted regime change, but he he made it clear he wanted the people to lead that. If that doesn't happen, can the United States legitimately claim victory? >> Um, judging by some of the statements that were made, the initial objectives militarily, I think some of them have Been achieved. Um, victory for Mr. Trump, I think you could argue it either way. My personal opinion is really the sooner the better. Um don't underestimate the shock and the damage the uh assassination

of the supreme leader has had on the psyche of the country as a whole. Um I think that shouldn't be underestimated. We're in danger of this becoming like a wound from Excalibur. Um a wound that never heals and I think that should be taken Into account. There have been reports that Kurdish armed groups, who of course have fought the Iranian regime for a very long time, um, operating from bases along the Iraqi border, that the reports that the CIA has been backing some of these groups to launch ground incursions inside Iran. Can you say anything

about that? >> I can. Um, this is categorically not the case, at least in this side of Iraqi Kurdistan. Um, also please remember the Kurds make up less than 10% of the Iranian population of 92 million. Of that 10% of Kurds, more than 60% of them are actually Shiite. A lot of them are in the administrations, they are in the government, etc., etc. Of that remaining percentage, how many of them are with these groups? And what would a Kurdish attack on Iran do? For example, Turkey has made it very clear to us that this is

completely unacceptable and they have their own legitimate concerns. Then you Have the fear of a backlash uh from the Iranians themselves who are a proud people and would fear separatism or a splitting of the country. That's why I firmly believe Kurds being tip of the spear is an absolute disaster. And in my communications with the different Kurdish groups, I think a lot of them understand this. And have you made that clear to President Trump directly when he spoke to him? >> No. The phone call with Mr. Trump didn't really go there. Um, funny enough, when

I spoke to Mr. Trump, I thought of you because you often mention the other side of him that people don't see. And I really did pick up on that. I picked up on a genuine caring. I think genuinely Mr. Trump isn't in favor of war. um he indicated that he was forced into this decision and I think that um this is true and he genuinely seemed to have caring for Iraq and and for the Kurdish People and was obviously grateful to us for the years that we've cooperated militarily etc etc and the fight against ISIS

and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein etc. Well, it's interesting you mentioned Saddam Hussein because he watched from his prison cell as your father Jalah Talibani became the first elected president of Iraq following the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. What a remarkable moment in history that was. You know, I was editor of the Daily Mirror newspaper in the UK which took a very strong position against that war and for a very long time I felt thoroughly vindicated. Somebody did say something interesting this week about Iraq now. That if you look at Iraq now, um it is in

a much better place now than it has been for a very long time. And you could argue that even though it's been a very tumultuous journey to get to where it is, that it's been worth the The pain. Uh what would you say to that? >> I would agree with that actually. Uh Pers, I think that that's an an accurate description. When um Saddam Hussein forgave everybody in Iraq at one point except my father. And then when it came to sign his execution, my father wouldn't sign it. He said, "There's been enough blood spilled, but

it's taken us 20 years of pitiles combat to get to today." And it's been a long time. The Middle East has suffered a lot. >> Yeah, it has. And it's it's actually very sad to see uh it all flaring up in the way that it is now. And I hope common sense does prevail. Uh Mr. Talibani, thank you very much indeed for joining me. I appreciate it. >> Thank you very much. Thank you. >> Professor Jang is a game theorist best known for his popular predictive history YouTube channel where he applies his systems of analysis

to the past in order to predict the future. Back in 2024, he Predicted that Trump would win the presidency, that Trump would go to war with Iran, and that the US would lose that war. which has sparked a flurry of interest in both his work and his rather colorful adjacent opinions. Professor Jang joins me now. Professor Jang, thank you very much indeed for joining me on Uncensored. >> Hi, Paris. >> Let me start with these three big predictions because you've been proven Uh obviously completely right about two of them and the third one is now

unfurling before our eyes. Are you confident that you'll be proven right with the third prediction that Iran uh ultimately will prevail in this war? >> Right. So, right now the United States and Iran are fighting a war of attrition. Um the United States is trying to to degrade Iran's military capacity. Um and Iran is trying to um strangle the world economy. And it turns Out that um Iran is putting on a lot of pressure on the GCC. And I think at the end of the day um the United States will be compelled to send ground

forces. Once the United States sends in ground forces, there's no turning back. It's all in. Um the sun cost fallacy uh kicks in. It'll be another Vietnam for the United States because Iran is a mountain fortress and uh the United States right now doesn't have the manpower, the manu manufacturer capacity and the political Will to fight a long war of attrition on the ground in Iran. >> Right. So I think because of what you said at the end there, it's highly unlikely that Trump would commit ground forces because he's always pledged not to and I

think he would see the inherent danger of that. So, if he doesn't commit ground forces, how do you see this war playing out? >> Well, right now, um, if Trump doesn't commit ground troops, he does have Variety of options. Um, the first option is just to simply declare a victory and call it a day. Uh, unfortunately, the problem with that is that US bases are still exposed. The GC economies are still under pressure. the shumus is still closed and there are no signs that Iran is interested in peace negotiations. Um Iran feels as though it

has the upper hand because it has the political will um and the resources to draw this war out. Now let's assume that Trump does withdraw from uh the Middle East. Then what happens is that the GCC uh nations of Saudi Arabia, Ban, uh Qatar, uh Kuwait, uh UAE now are forced to pay a ransom to um Iran because uh they they supply the world with their oil for the hummus. 20% of the world's oil flows for the hummus. But in return, they get food. Um so the GCC nations import anywhere from 80 80 to 90%

of their food from overseas and so basically the center of gravity uh Shifts from the petro dollar to whatever financial system that Iran wants to wants to focus on and it could be breaks uh it could be gold it could be anything but remember the problem with that is that the US economy is a Ponzi scheme that's dependent on the GCC investing in AI in tech stocks um in uh in startups like Yuber in order to finance the uh US economy. If this financing stopped then the um uh uh US economy could face Collapse and

this means that these young men would could not afford their only fans anymore and this could lead to a revolution in the streets. So the the consequences for America would be dire if um America were to retreat from the Middle East. I mean it seems that the the key part of all this sort of economic strangulation if you like by Iran is the straight of Hormuz. We've already seen uh in the last few hours today that the uh the Successor to Ayatollah Khmeni his son um has come out and apparently we haven't seen him or

heard from him directly but there's a statement in which he talks about keeping the straight of moose closed indefinitely. If that was to happen, what would be the consequences for the global economy and how soon would we see those consequences? Well, I mean, the consequences would be dire because cheap energy, cheap petroleum products are the very basis of The global modern economy. So, it just wouldn't be jet fuel that be affected. would also be food because remember food um um is produced by fertilizer which comes from the uh GCC as well as sulfuric acid which

which is which helps the uh process of semiconductor production. So artificial intelligence uh food production uh global travel are all dependent on products from the GCC. Um it's only been two weeks that uh the the has been closed for almost two weeks Now and already we're seeing um high oil prices um surpassing $100 a barrel. Iran says that they want to move it to $200 a barrel which signals that they want the shoo closed for uh months. Now remember even if Iran were to open up the ship of humus it would take weeks before oil

production continues. So um I think we've for the global economy I think we've reached the point of no return and and in the future global economies have to commit to a bit of De-industrialization and even mercantalism in order to survive future shocks. So if you go to Southeast Asia Vietnam and Thailand have already ordered the government workers to work from home in order to save fuel. you've pointed out that the Gulf Corporation Council uh monarchies, the GCC, as you've alluded to several times here, are structurally unusual states because they're propped up by oil desalination. They

don't have their own Water supply naturally and American protection. Uh you say correctly they were built in open desert with no food security as you said 80% imported no water security the desalination dependency no geographic defenses they're flat exposed terrain no demographic cohesion in places like Dubai for example 90% of the population are expats and no independent security architecture reliant on the US who have bases obviously in many of the states There if you put all this together is what's happening now in terms of the tactics that Iran are deploying uh including the threat to

desalination um but also targeting obviously it's targeted hotels and uh and airports and so on going to the heart of what the states there would like to see as the future of their economy which is tourism, sport, entertainment clearly designed to to scare people away from that. Is this now representing an Existential threat do you think to the business model of the uh GCC uh states going forward? >> Right. So the most vulnerable city and and often the most glamorous city in the GCC is Dubai. And um for many years Dubai has been very successful

in cultivating an image as the new city of London as a new Hong Kong of the Middle East and thousands of these millionaires flock to Dubai for the glamorous lifestyle as well as the tax-free aspect Of the city. But the reality is that um this was all premised on global peace on pax american Americana uh on the capacity of America to project power all around the world and provide security guarantees uh to uh the GCC. Now this aura of inability and invisibility of American empire has been shattered and once an illusion is shattered there's actually

no coming back from this and that's what people don't really appreciate about this war. This war is Not directed not just directed at Israel. This war is not directed just at the GCC and the illusion of of American empire. This war is directed at American empire itself. And what people don't appreciate is the esque esquetological aspects of this war in that Iran sees um it sees a moral duty a moral imperative from God to destroy the great Satan which is the American empire and the base of the American empire of course is the global economy.

>> Right. Um at the at the heart and the head of the American economy is the president of the United States. You've argued that Trump is not the most powerful person in America. Uh and you've inferred that actually the real power base is Israel. Explain that. >> Right. So I actually don't say the real power base is um Israel. What I say is that the real power base are a collection of secret societies that have an esquetological view of this war. And These secret societies include um the Freemasons which are now called the Rosacruians and

the Knights Templars. Uh they include um Jewish organizations called the Sapatine Frankis uh who are embedded in uh religious movements called uh Shabet Lupovich. Um and then you have the Jesuits. you have a collection of six societies and um they believe that a war in the Middle East would start a process that would culminate in the end times and the Return of Jesus, the arrival of the Jewish Messiah, um the building of a one world government. Um they have different esquetologies, but um a lot of the of their time frames do align. Um so uh

where they converge is that there has to be a war in the Middle East to kick things off. This war in the Middle East will lead to the defeat of the American Empire and this will lead to the culmination of the greater Israel project where Israel is able to control The Middle East from the Nile to the to the Euphrates. Um once the greater Israel project is in place, it will transform into into the Pax Judea which is an AI surveillance state. Um this will eventually lead to the war of Gog and Magog, the destruction

of the Actric mosque and the building of the third temple. uh the return of the Jewish diaspora to Jerusalem um and the arrival of the Jewish Messiah or the Antichrist. So they have the Script scripted out and unfortunately a lot of world events are conforming to this script, >> right? I mean a lot of people say a lot of what you've just said is a load of fantastical baloney and driven by uh anti-semitic tropes. What do you say to that? Look, I completely sympathize with this um argument. Five years ago, I would have said the

same thing about the about um about this sort of argument and Thinking. So, what I do is predict predictive modeling. Okay? Meaning that um I'm going to throw some theories out there and then based on these theories, I'm going to extrapolate into the future and see what the predictions are. If these predictions are correct, then um my theories ought to have some legitimacy. Now when when I teach I don't engage in historical analysis. I engage in um speculative uh analysis. And so in 2024 two years ago I did say That this war in Iran would

happen. And I provided a lot of my analysis. And a part of my analysis that's very important is the esqueological analysis meaning that Christian Zionists control the United States. There's there's about um there's there's a preacher called John Hegy who uh runs an organization called Christians United for Israel which which has about 7 million members. Um Christian Zionists are heavily embedded in the uh national security Apparatus and and in the Pentagon uh there's reporting that uh US commanders have told their troops that this is a war to bring back Jesus um and to be not

afraid. So that's my argument like I don't I don't want to believe this but because this war in Iran is happening I'm forced to conclude that some of my uh speculative analysis uh has validity. Um otherwise it's >> well I think I think to be honest yeah I think the word speculation uh doesn't Quite do it justice. I mean, look, there's no doubt your predictions so far have been proven to be uncannily accurate in relation to Trump winning and then going to war with Iran. But I think the idea that uh this is all part

of a plot to bring back Jesus Christ. Look, there might be some people out there that carry such a phrase. I think it's highly unlikely, unless any evidence emerges to the contrary, that they are current commanders in the United States military. Uh but Professor Jang, you have a big following. Lots of people are interested in your predictive analysis and it's good to have you on our censored. Thank you very much. >> Thanks be uncensored is proudly independent. The only boss around here is me. If you enjoy our show, we ask for only one simple thing.

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