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Trump's Iran attack claims fall apart after sudden denial from Gulf nations | Janta Ka Reporter
Janta Ka Reporter
May 19, 2026

In another major setback for Donald Trump, US media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, report that Gulf nations were entirely unaware of the US president's planned military strikes against Iran. On Monday, Trump claimed he was putting military plans on hold following a direct request from Gulf allies. Meanwhile, the US Central Command chief faced a torrid time in the Senate, struggling to explain the blatant inconsistencies in claims made by the US government and its armed forces. In this episode, Rifat Jawaid examines Iran's secret card in outsmarting the US in the current conflict.



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So, the deranged occupant of the White House wasn't telling us the truth when he claimed to have postponed his planned military strikes against Iran at the request of the Gulf countries. Now, the same Gulf nations have told American media outlets that they had no idea about Trump's planned strikes. And then Trump's military chief for the US Central Command is left tongue tied in the face of a brutal grilling in the Senate. The Zionist mayor of San Diego faces local residents wroth after an
Islamophobic attack on a mosque leaves five dead. This will be the broad focus of my video tonight. Also in this video, makers of the Iranian Lego series pay tribute to the Iranian weightlifter. So, please stay tuned.

Last night, America's immoral and evil president, Donald Trump, stunned all of us by claiming that he had decided to postpone his military strikes against Iran. These strikes, he claimed, were meant to have started this morning. But since three Gulf nations, namely Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, requested him to put his military plans on hold, he had decided to not resume the war against Iran. This is what he had told reporters last night immediately after I uploaded my video.

Getting ready to do a very major attack tomorrow. I put it off for a little while. Hopefully maybe forever, but possibly for a little while because we've had very big discussions with Iran and we'll see what they amount to. I was asked by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, and some others if we could put it off for two or three days, a short period of time, because they think that they are getting very close to making a deal. And if we can do that where there's no nuclear weapon going into the hands of Iran, I think, and if they're satisfied, we will be probably satisfied also.

Today he repeated his warnings for Iran as he spoke to reporters at the site of the construction of the new ballroom in the White House.

You know, we're negotiating with Iran and then you have the Dumocrats. I call them the Dumocrats, putting in a bill that Trump should immediately stop. You know how it is to negotiate with a country where you're treating them badly. They come to the table, they're begging to make a deal because they're begging to make a deal. I hope we don't have to do the war, but we may have to give them another big hit. We may have to give him another big hit. I'm not sure yet. You'll know very soon. But how do you feel when you're negotiating, you're winning every point and they say, "But in Washington, they want to stop you from negotiating. They want to stop you." And it's only political. It's the Dumocrats. They're dumb. It's a new name. It's a very accurate name.

So I'm in the middle of a negotiation. I'm saying you cannot have a nuclear weapon. And it comes over the wire that the Dumocrats want to stop Trump from further negotiations. They want to stop
Trump fromgiving them another slap. They want to have a nuclear weapon to blow up the Middle East, and to blow up frankly the world. It's not going to happen.

JD Vance too told us today that US warships were locked and loaded -- his words, not mine -- to attack Iran if a deal could not be reached.

The president has asked us, has told us, to aggressively negotiate with the Iranians. Why did I go to Islamabad, Pakistan? Why did I spend I think probably on a plane going there, coming back, and then 21 hours on the ground negotiating with the Iranians, is because we wanted to show a sign of good faith. The vice president of the United States is willing to cut a deal so long as the Iranians are willing to meet us again on that core issue of never having a nuclear weapon. We think that we've made a lot of progress. We think the Iranians want to make a deal. The president of the United States has asked us to negotiate in good faith, and that's exactly what we've done. So, we're in a pretty good spot here.

But there's an option B. And the option B is that we could restart the military campaign, to continue to prosecute the case, to continue to try to achieve America's objectives. And we could talk a little bit about what that looks like, but that's not what the president wants. And I don't think it's what the Iranians want either. We have an opportunity here, I think, to reset the relationship that has existed between Iran and the United States for 47 years. That's what the president has asked us to do, and that's what we're going to keep on working at. But it takes two to tango. We are not going to have a deal that allows the Iranians to have a nuclear weapon. So, as the president just told me, we're locked and loaded. We don't want to go down that pathway, but the president is willing and able to go down that pathway if we have to.

But Iran has already made it clear that the Islamic Republic is not going to be intimidated by Trump's fake threats. Iranian President Masoud Pezeskian said this, and I quote,

"Dialogue does not mean surrender. The Islamic Republic of Iran enters into dialogue with dignity, authority, and the preservation of the nation's rights, and under no circumstances will it retreat from the legal rights of the people and the country. We will serve the people with logic and with all our might to the end, and safeguard the interest and honor of Iran.

End quote. And now much to the discomfort and humiliation of Donald Trump, two American newspapers, namely the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, have now reported, quoting the officials from the Gulf nations that Trump himself had quoted, by saying that they had absolutely no knowledge of Trump's planned military strikes against Iran. So if they didn't have any knowledge, where was the question of them asking or requesting Trump to put his military plans on hold?

One of the reasons why Iran is playing hard ball is because it knows it has all the cards.
The blockade of the strait of hormuz is making the US economy bleed. The longer this stalemate continues, the more pain it is going to cause to American households. But as American journalist Rick Sanchez explains, Iran now also has another card, and that is its ability to disrupt internet services in the region by cutting the undersea internet fiber cable.

Look at that map. You see that map? You see those cables? Those are all the different internet cables.
Who knew, right? That run through the straight of Hormuz. They have different
names. They go to different places and some of them have different functions.
But essentially it is in these cables that the world's commerce uh internet
connectivity uh finance systems run and he who controls those cables or worse cuts or
sabotages those cables i.e. Iran cuz at least two of these cables are in their
territorial waters. Those two are called the Gulf and the Falcon cables. Right?
So why am I showing you this map that you're seeing right here? Because it seems with every passing day, Iran
realizes more and more about its own leverage. Controlling the straight of Hormuz is one thing and it doesn't seem like there's anything that the United
States or anybody else can do to take that leverage of controlling the straight of Hormuz away. But little did we know that it also has control with
these cables that you're looking at right there. Because these cables are the financial lifeline to places like
Kuwait and the UAE and Qatar and parts of Saudi Arabia and even India to a
certain degree. So much of the world's connectivity would be affected if Iran
decides that it wants to either cut, sabotage or decide how these u internet connections can or
cannot be used. There was another significant development during Trump's press conference today. After he finished speaking to media
representatives, he revealed that he had arranged breakfast for reporters. And the way the reporters reacted to this
news explains the cowardice of the US media. They couldn't hide their excitement at the prospect of enjoying breakfast in the White House.
Thank you all very much. We have a little breakfast for you.
Yeah. Where is the How do you expect the same journalist to hold this immoral and evil man from the White House and other
rogue members of his administration to account? These reporters bravery is on display only if the Israeli lobby's
interest is at stake. Just see the line of questioning of this Fox News reporter while interviewing Thomas Massie.
Are you anti-Semitic? They're trying to tell you that it's anti-semitic for me to expose the fact that the Republican
Jewish coalition has spent millions of dollars in this race. That a dual citizen, Miriam Adlesen, who even Trump
says is more loyal to Israel than the United States, has spent millions of dollars in this race. Those are mere facts. And it's really
It's a yes or no. Are you anti-semitic or not? Oh, hell no. I'm hell no. Anti-Semitic. But here's the danger that Apac runs.
They've been too cute by a half. They've tried to get Mike Johnson and he's willingly done this. Conflate in resolutions on the House floor that
anti-ionism equals anti-semitism. Or even worse yet, that if you don't support Benjamin Netanyahu's war in Gaza, then you're anti-semitic. That's
absolutely false. And it does Jewish Americans a big disfavor to equate the two. Another example of the so-called
journalism of Fox News was on display after we learned of the horrific Islamophobic attack at a mosque in San
Diego. While the whole world was shocked by the barbaric Islamophobic attack on a mosque in San Diego where at least three
Muslims were murdered by two white teenagers. Fox News was blaming Iran.
Could have a similar situation right here. I'm trying to get some information about it. According to what I see here, it is a Sunni mosque location. Why do I
bring that up? Because Iran is a Shia nation and some of the stuff that we've seen lately relative to Iran, like for
instance, Hezbollah linked attacks that were planned to go off here in America that has a Shia footprint. And if you do
count, I did 15 16 years count terrorism, you think in those terms.
Local residents had far more courage than these sellout media representatives when they decided to give grief to San Diego's Zionist Mayor Todd Gloria.
13 minutesThank you.
direct result of your leadership. Your leadership. Our Muslim brothers and sisters have been talking to you for how long?
You have to listen to them, Todd.
Just like you did the night, golden science propaganda and you'll keep doing it as long as it popping.
Show something worse approval rating than a fascist dictator with in his hand.
Today our city was shaken.
You guys are responsible for all this All you guys are responsible and y'all want to come here and act like you show solidarity. You don't give. You don't care about us.
Show solidarity before it happens. Shame on you.
14 minutesNow you know how many kids could have died. You know how many kids could have died. Shame on you.
Shame on you. Get the you guys It's not okay. It's not okay. It's not
okay. They promote hate, bro. This it's the they put on the media that justifies this This is what Trump and his politics of hate have done to the American society.
These people are downright barbaric and bereft of any morality. Listen to the former Pentagon chief of civilian harm,
West J. Bryant on Sky News calling out the pure savagery of Trump and his equally evil members of the
administration for their crimes against humanity in Minab where 168 little girls were slaughtered in a single American bombing.
As the president, if you're not completely heartbroken uh by this tragedy, if you don't feel compelled to address it as a nation to take
15 minutesaccountability, there's just something simply wrong with your soul. And I'd say right now for America,
there's something truly wrong with America's soul. Uh, you know, it's beyond unacceptable.
No one, I repeat, no one has faced any consequences for this ghastly crime. The
person responsible for this order was Admiral Cooper who heads the US Central Command. He appeared before the Senate
today and boy, his humiliation was simply extraordinary. The way Senator Seth Molton humiliated him over Trump's illegal war against Iran was remarkable.
This is a long video, but you wouldn't regret watching it.
Admiral Cooper, you keep using the term significantly degraded.
Last summer, we were told that Iran's nuclear weapons program was obliterated.
Can you clarify the distinction between obliterated and significantly degraded?
Congressman, again, I I think appropriate uh to talk about anything regarding the Iranian nuclear program.
No, no, I'm not asking you to talk about the Iran nuclear program. I'm asking you to talk about English language. What's the difference between obliterated and significantly degraded?
Are they the same?
Congressman, anything regarding the nuclear program?
I'm not asking you to talk about the nuclear program, Admiral. I'm asking you to answer a question that applies to a lot a lot of things beyond the nuclear program. You've also said that their ballistic missile program was
significantly degraded. What does that mean?
The specific numbers are best uh as you know from your own President Trump's own national security strategy which he signed in December 5
months ago used the exact same phrase significantly degraded. So if this was true back then 5 months ago then why did
we start this war? Was he lying to us then?
Congressman, from a military perspective in regarding Admiral, are you familiar with General Are you familiar with General West Morland?
I'm I'm very familiar, Congressman, he's well known for talking about body counts.
Now, when I think about you in this war, I always think about how you always got up there and would say everything's going according to plan. So, so let me
just ask, Admiral, where was closing the straight in the plan?
I'm happy to discuss the specific operational aspects. Uh, Did you just not anticipate that? Do you not think that Iran could do that?
Or was that part of the plan here?
Congressman, uh, as the as for 250 years, the Navy has kept sea lanes open and free. Under every previous president, the straight of
Hormuz has been open. So why is it closed under your watch, Congressman? I've traveled through the the street of Hormuz probably a hundred times. I'm intimately familiar with it as a combatant commission.
Why is it closed? If you're so familiar with it, did you not anticipate that Iran I answer the question? If I may ask with respect with with kind with all due respect,
my responsibility as a combatant commander is to lay out all the options uh present those to the secretary and the president. They make policy level decisions.
So you present operational the operational aspect.
So admiral, you presented the you presented the reality that Iran might close a straight to the president and the secretary of defense.
Anything that I discuss uh with respect to uh Okay. Well, let's go back to the plan. Where was begging China for help opening the straight part of the plan?
So, from a military perspective, there are multiple reports now public that Iran has already reconstituted many of its bombed out missile sites. Was that part of the plan, too?
Those reports are inaccurate.
Okay. I will actually give you credit for regime change. I know that was part of the plan. You've replaced an 86-year-old in failing health with a
fought while against producing nuclear weapons with a more hardline guy in his 50s who in case he wasn't hardline enough, you killed his immediate family.
Was that part of the plan? Is that the regime change you wanted, Congressman? We were given very specific military objectives to degrade Iran's
power projection capability. That's exactly what we did.
Okay. So in the course of doing that, you also lifted the oil sanctions on Iran, giving them about 14 to$16 billion
dollars. They can buy a lot of ballistic missiles for that. Was that part of the plan? Lifting oil sanctions on them in the course of the conflict.
They kill 14 Americans, we lift oil sanctions on them.
As you know, sir, the US military does not lift sanctions. That's a policy decision.
Okay. I'm just trying to figure out where it was part of the plan.
on March 5th, you know, you talked about how you have you built the most integrated air missile defense or or air defense system in the Middle East and yet well
into the war you had to ask Ukraine for help with defenses against drones?
That's not accurate. Okay. What about oil prices, gas prices? Was oil prices going up 56% part of the plan?
Congressman, as you know, from a military perspective, we don't deal on oil and gas prices. as I defer to the appropriate authorities within the government to Okay. So, so, so since none of that
seems to be part of the plan, what's the plan now? What what's the plan now to actually win this war? Because it feels like we're losing. We don't have a
nuclear deal. We don't have the straight open. The president has called for unconditional surrender. Is that part of the plan,
Congressman? We achieved all our military objectives. We're presently in a ceasefire. Uh we're executing a blockade and we're prepared for a broad range of contingencies.
Well, it doesn't seem to be going well.
And I would like to know how many more Americans we have to ask to die for this mistake. Do you know? I think it's an entirely inappropriate statement from you, sir.
Time to all With all due resp. Thank you.
I will now leave you with this short Lego clip paying tribute to the Iranian weightlifter who broke the world record
by lifting 261 kgs in the Asian weightlifting championship in India. He had later dedicated his victory to the
martyrs of Minab. He had displayed the word martyrs and the number 168 on his
t-shirt to highlight the number of girls murdered by Trump and his Israeli master Benjamin Nathan. The makers of the
Iranian Lego series have now recreated that moment in this 10-second video.
That's it from me. Thank you very much for your support of this platform and our journalism. If you haven't subscribed to my channel, please do so
because that's one of the many ways you can support independent journalism. God bless you all.

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Donnie Sugar Daddy of Tel Aviv Lego Rap Music Video Iran War Edition from ‪@flowlego‬
Explosive media videos
May 19, 2026 UNITED STATES



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the [music] sugar daddy of Tel Aviv helping
the billionaire robbery. But baby's a bunker [music] [ __ ] and a thief. Packing the money before they leave.
Daddy's a sugar [music] daddy signing every single check while the American citizen is a financial wreck. No, I'm a
stable genius, but the matrix has a glitch. [music] Now you're just a puppet for a basement bunker. [ __ ] your cash machine is broken and the numbers [music] never
lie. The Red Sea is a trap and your free lunch is going to die. The hooty [music] block the water now you're freezing in
the cold. The Zionist circus is a scam that's getting old. Every gallon and five bucks is a certified crime. You're
running [music] out of money and you're running out of time. Johnny's up. Sugar daddy of Tel Avie helping the
billionaire robbery. But [music] baby's a bunker [ __ ] and a thief. Packing the
money before they leave. An effing [music] club member with an orange plastic head printing fake paper money
just to feed the war. Bed 174 billion straight [music] down the toilet drain while the ambulance is stalling in the cold and the rain.
Error 404. [music] America's spine is not found while 13 more soldiers are put in the ground. Transaction [music]
decline your corrupt account. BB's on his knees crying at the total amount. No medicine for children. No [music] diesel
in the tank. Just a brain dead pedal puppet saving Biby's private bank.
Downy's a sugar daddy of Tel A [music] helping the billionaire robbery. But Biby's a bunk, a [ __ ] and a thief.
Packing the money before they leave. The petro dollar [music] is a ghost buried deep in the sand. Pat and Matt are
fighting over [music] a ruined land. The whole shipment's frozen. The economy is sick. The war pimp is desperate. Looking
for [music] a trick. Your membership to the new world order is suspended. Go back to your hole. The clown show is
ended. Please update [music] your brain or you're going straight to jail. The sugar daddy's bankrupt and the empire is
ours, but I'm the [music] main character.
Tommy, not anymore, piggy.
[laughter]
BB, [music] did you cancel the card? Tell me. I had to.
BB, the Big Mac prices went up. It's a total disaster.
You trade my [music] empire for a burger.
Johnny's [music] a sugar daddy of tele helping the billionaire robbery. [music]
Baby's a bunker [ __ ] and the thief packing the money before they leave.
[music]
Honestly, the service was terrible. One star on the app store.
Shut up, Donnie. [music] Just grab the bicycle and pedal.
Hey, baby. Do you have gas for the bicycle?
It's a bicycle, you [screaming] absolute pig.
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Insurrectionists Hit The Jackpot | A Middle East Chill Pill | How The Ballroom Ties Together
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
May 19, 2026

Donald Trump created a government slush fund for payouts to people like convicted January 6 rioters, the president decided not to resume attacking Iran, and construction is underway at the new White House ballroom.



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Welcome, welcome one and all and here out there to the late show. I
am your host Stephen Coar. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm excited too. You can feel the excitement in this room. I'm excited
too. This Listen, this is our last week and I have an exciting announcement. No, this is actually very exciting. We may
be cancelled, but apparently the late showhouse outlived the Constitution of the United States because yesterday, without any
congressional or court approval, completely unilaterally, Donald Trump gave himself a $1.8 billion taxpayerfueled slush fund.
You might remember that in January, President Trump and his two sons, Ud and Cusay, filed
a $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS, alleging that during his first administration, the IRS willfully failed
to safeguard the Trump's tax information from unauthorized disclosure by a former IRS contractor, Charles E. Little John.
Now, I I got to ask, Mr. Little John, did you actually do that? Yeah.
No, no, no, no, no. Ivonne. Ivonne. Not that Little John. What?
I'm I'm talking about the IRS guy, Charles E. Little John. Okay.
Can we please just move on now? Yeah.
Thank you. The judge in the case seemed highly skeptical of this lawsuit. So to get around the court's oversight
yesterday, Trump's lawyers and Trump's DOJ, him on both sides, agreed to drop the case and set up this slush fund. And
who exactly is this fund slushing? Well, one group of lucky slushies could be people prosecuted in connection with the January 6 capital riot.
That means that means people who stormed the capital, rubbed their poop on the walls, assaulted police officers, and
tried to hang Vice President Mike Pence could be getting this cash. But they won't cuz Trump's going to steal it all.
Why is that, my educated guess? Because the funds are going to be managed by a fivep person commission appointed by the attorney general, though Trump would
have the right to remove any member at will. So, I'd like to congratulate the inaugural commission for Donald Trump
slush fund, Marco Rubio, Marco Rubio, Marco Rubio, Marco Rubio, and Marco Rubio.
Now, he's from Venezuela. I think that last guy's from Venezuela. Yeah, that Rubio. Now, you might be saying, "Surely this can't get more corrupt." Shut up.
I'm talking. And it can because most egregiously, the guidelines announced by the acting attorney general stipulate
once the funds are deposited into the designated account, the United States has no liability whatsoever for the protection or safeguarding of those
funds, regardless of bank failure, fraudulent transfers, or any other fraud or misuse of the funds. So, it's just an
all you can fraud buffet. It's an it's an unprecedented level of grift because again funds of this scale typically are
either created by an act of Congress or supervised by a court and this settlement is just some piece of paper they printed out saying that Trump can
do anything he wants with a bunch of your money. Officer officer you can't arrest me for you see I've already laminated my homemade murder license.
This is not just fraud is legal now.
Today, the Justice Department posted an addendum to the original settlement which says that the IRS is forever barred and procluded from pursuing
examinations of Trump related or affiliated individuals and related trusts in businesses. So, he just gave
himself a get out of jail free card and a way better one than Jeffrey Epstein got.
Yeah.
Halfway around the world, somebody owes me money.
Halfway around the world, Trump still got his ding-dong caught in the door hinge of the Middle East.
Negotiations with Iran have totally stalled. So on Sunday, he went online and posted, "For Iran, the clock is
ticking and they better get moving fast or there won't be anything left of them. Time is of the essence." You hear that?
Iran, get Iraq together or next week. I don't know what will happen cuz I will be in a hammock ass deep in a pinina
colada and
and a and a fantasy romance novel about centaurs.
It's called It's called Trampled by Passion.
This time, Trump backed up his tough talk with some powerful AI slop. He posted this image where he's pressing
the big red button that blows up the Earth. There's a whole bunch of stupid stuff in that picture. He appears also to be blowing up his own command
console, which of course would endanger his teeny tiny generals on either side of him. Mr.
President, there's a fire. Quick, everyone into this shoe.
So, Trump is clearly ready to annihilate Iran. And I'm sorry, what is that? Oh,
Trump says he's called off an attack on Iran to give talks more time. I got to say, these threats are getting less and less effective the more he keeps
dragging them out. You want to step outside, bro? Oh, you do? Well, it's kind of chilly out there, so I'm going to grab my jacket from Coch.
Okay, it looks like there's a pretty long line, so it might be a while. And I don't have singles for a tip, so let me just go to the bar. You want something
while I'm in there? I'm buying. You can hang out with my girlfriend till I'm back. Then it is go time, bro time.
I don't understand why you did that, but I accept.
Today, uh, Trump let us know why he's decided to take a M East chill pill.
Other countries have come to me and they've said we were getting ready to do a very major attack tomorrow. I put it off for a little while. Hopefully, maybe
forever, but possibly for a little while.
Fun fact, hopefully maybe forever, but possibly for a little while is also a direct quote from Trump's wedding vows.
That's an oldie but a goodie. Yeah.
Today, amidst the news that he's sucking up billions of tax player dollars like a shopvac, Trump headed out to the pile of
rubble where the East Wing used to be to talk ballroom. I think cuz it was a little loud.
Give that to me.
As his polls get worse and worse, you know, he's just going to keep finding louder and louder places to answer questions. I will now answer your
questions about Iran while I froth this latte. I can't hear you.
I also can't answer cuz I'm making the sound with my own mouth. Don't know how the machine works.
Trump gave us a preview of the state-of-the-art construction job. It's a very complex building. It's all knit together. The roof goes with the ground
floor. The ground floor goes with the roof. The uh roof also goes down into the basement. Oh, really?
That's fascinating. Mr. President, you may not know this, sir, but there's actually a special word for when the roof goes all the way down to the basement.
And that word is walls.
It has walls. You build a building. It has a floor and a roof and in between.
Then he bragged about the classical architecture style.
Take a look at this section. The different facade.
So this is a Greek more or less. It comes out of Greece.
This is the ultimate facade for Greece.
Oh yes. Yes. Greece. I believe Greece is the word. Tell me more. Tell me more.
What is wrong with your brain? Tell me more. Tell me more. Were you on Jeffrey's plane? Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
Uh-huh. We got a great show for you tonight. Steven Spielberg.
Steven Spielberg is here. But when we come back, John Stewart A

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Trump Makes His Most Brazenly Corrupt Move Ever, Blabs About Ballroom & Backs Off Iran Deadline
Jimmy Kimmel Live
May 19, 2026

Trump began his day with a preview of his big, beautiful billion dollar ballroom, it was another awko taco Tuesday in the Middle East as Trump backed off his deadline at the last minute again, a strong majority of Americans are against the war according to every poll, Trump has now made what might be the most brazenly corrupt move ever by a President of the United States, Trump’s former personal attorney and current Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche was grilled today about it by the Senate Appropriations Committee, Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding that was scheduled to be at the White House has had a change of venue, over the first quarter of the year Trump has benefited from thousands of personal stock trades for as much as $750 million, and Elon Musk is attacking Christopher Nolan for his casting of the movie The Odyssey.



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I am the host of the show. Thanks for coming. Thank you for watching at home.
We are broadcasting from our studio in Los Angeles, California.
In Hollywood, you know, here in Hollywood, we made some bad and expensive sequels in Hollywood, but nothing we have ever made is as bad or
expensive as the sequel they are producing in Washington right now. There is there's just so much lying and stealing and grifting and cheating in
the news today. I don't even know where to begin. So, we might as well start with the most important issue we face as
Americans, and that is the fact that we don't have a ballroom at the White House.
everything that's going on with the war, the cost of living, the election rigging, the constant money
grab. Our president began the day with a preview of his big, beautiful billiondoll ballroom. You can see the uh
very large uh piping and the other things that it's a very complex building. It's all knit together. The roof goes with the ground floor. The
ground floor goes with the roof. The uh roof also goes down into the basement.
Let me think about that for a second.
How does a roof go down into the basement?
I'm starting to get the idea. Blob the builder doesn't know much about construction either.
Normally when you build a ballroom, you build it flat. You just build a ballroom. It would have been built. The complexity of this and again it's all
knit. It's all knit together between the drone proofing, the uh missile proofing we have uh and the drone capacity
upstairs. We can have all sorts of military up whether I I hate to use the word snipers, but we have great sniper
capacity. It's built for our snipers, not the enemy snipers. Our snipers. Okay. All right. Well, that's good.
That's As long as there are snipers and not the enemy snipers. The enemy snipers have to find their own spot. Okay. We're
not building them a spot. And then uh his poster board started flying everywhere. The wind kicked up and the president dementia settled in.
It's like an exercise game. It's so beautiful. See, I look so thin.
They'll say, "Oh, it's gotten so thin cuz I'm holding this." You don't have to look at my waist. You can look at this.
Smart, smart. Instead of horizontally, he built the columns vertically. It's more slimming that way. Everybody knows that. Can you imagine the Iranians
watching that this morning minutes before his deadline to bomb them? He's showing off plans for the new dance floor where he's going to chaa YMCA. I
mean, if he wasn't so dumb, it might be diabolical, but it isn't. He's dumb. It was another
AO Taco Tuesday in the Middle East today. Trump backed off his deadline at the last minute. Again, he wrote, "I've
been asked by the Amir of Qatar, Tamim B Hamald Alani, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Muhammad bin Salman al-Soud, and
the president of the United Arab Emirates, Muhammad bin Zed al-Nion, to hold off on our planned military attack of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which
was scheduled for tomorrow." Somebody had to have typed that out for him, right?
I could barely say there's no chance he knows how to spell common bin Hammad.
And have you noticed he always seems to back down on Tuesday? Every Tuesday it's like a new episode of NCIS. You can he
pulls out. I think it's because he has more free time on the weekends to make threats and then Monday comes he's like, "H, I don't want to deal. Just cancel
until next week." This war feels like a series of millennial business meetings.
Hey, Qatar's on the phone. They're wondering if we could push the attack on Wednesday. They want to do a quick collab and circle back on this one. But make no mistake, if the Iranians don't
give up their nuclear ambitions, we will definitely possibly maybe hit them soon or at another time entirely.
How close were you to striking?
Uh I was I was I was an hour away. I had made the decision. So they called up.
They had heard I made the decision. They said, "Sir, could you give us a couple of more days because we think they're being reasonable."
How long does that take for Iran to come?
Well, I I mean, I'm saying two or three days. Maybe Friday, Saturday, Sunday, something. Maybe early next week, maybe Tuesday.
This is This is how I This is how I threaten my children. I tell my kids, "No iPad for a week." And
then later, I'm like, "All right, you going to play Roblox for an hour? According to every poll done by everyone, a strong majority of Americans
are against this war he concocted, which is a fact that Trump both acknowledges and rejects. Look, everyone tells me
it's unpopular, but I think it's very popular. Okay, that right there, that 5-second moment is all you need to know
about this man. Everyone tells me it's unpopular, but I think it's popular.
It's about as stupid a sentence as I have ever heard in my life. It's people.
Everyone loves the HANA virus. If they didn't, why would they get it?
Trump has no exit strategy for Iran. He only has one idea for getting out of a war. And sadly, his podiatrist is dead.
And then we have what may well be the most brazenly corrupt move by any president ever. Back in January, Trump
became the first sitting US president to sue his own government. He sued all of us because somebody at the IRS leaked the tax returns he'd been promising to
show us for the past 11 years. For that, he demanded $10 billion. And guess who gets to decide whether we pay that or
not? Him. Through his justice department. This is the legal equivalent of sitting on your hand until it goes to sleep. So it feels like a stranger is touching you when you masturbate.
You've done that, right?
No, I don't think so. No, I don't think so. Give it a try. I don't think so.
Just sit on your hands for a little while. All right. All right. One or two.
So, the judge raised doubts about whether this lawsuit was even legal. But fortunately for us, both sides, which
were the same side, came to a settlement. The president graciously agreed to drop the lawsuit against himself in exchange for an apology and a
fund worth 1.776 billion that he can use to pay anyone for anything at all, including the loons who stormed the capital on January 6th.
Another part of the settlement says the IRS is forever barred and precluded from investigating claims against Trump or
members of his family for past unpaid taxes and possibly even future ones, too. And that folks is what they call
the art of the deal. The Justice Department has this new fund that was announced today, $1.7 billion.
Why should taxpayers pay for the January?
Well, it's been very wellreceived. I have to tell you, I know very little about it. I wasn't involved in in the whole creation of it and uh and the
negotiation, but this is uh reimbursing people that were horribly treated.
Horribly treated. It's anti-weaponization. They've been weaponized. They've been in some cases imprisoned wrongly. They paid legal fees
that they didn't have. They've gone bankrupt. Their lives have been destroyed. And they turn out to be right.
Yes. Yes. The great patriots who urinated and smeared feces all over the walls of the capital building were right. They were horribly treated. Let's
cut them a check. Let's give them our money. What do you say, you guys?
Trump's I had a feeling you'd be against that.
So Todd Blanch, who was Trump's personal lawyer, he's current acting attorney general now, got grilled on this today by the Senate Appropriations Committee.
Has it ever happened that a sitting president sued his own government for $10 billion and then directed the
settlement of the case and the establishment of a payout fund?
Not that I'm aware, but there's a lot of things that President Trump's the first of. No president had been indicted 1 2 3 4 5 6 seven eight times either.
Correct. No president's been indicted.
And will you commit that none of this money will go to President Trump's campaign donors? I I am not committing to anything beyond the settlement agreement itself.
That's right. We stole that money fair and square. Don't tell us how to spend it, buddy. The way they're going to determine who gets the money is with a
fivep person commission. And guess who gets to pick who will be on that commission? That's right. Trump's own little multi poo. Todd Blanch.
General, come on. So let me let me So you're not going to you're not going to submit this proposal to any federal judge or independent?
There is no judge.
Any independent authority that an indep What does that mean? An independent authority.
It means not somebody who's getting to pick five of the members who was the president's former personal attorney.
That would be somebody who would be independent. I'm the acting attorney general. Okay.
The fact that I used to be President Trump's lawyer is just a fact. But I'm the acting attorney general. So don't say the president's former personal lawyer will do something. the acting
attorney general will do. So, Mr. Attorney General, you are acting today like the president's personal attorney. And that's the whole problem.
That That was amazing.
That That was like one of those those fake conversations you have with yourself in the shower where you you have a perfect comeback except it happened on TV. Good going, Senator Chris Van Golland.
Now, I don't know what specifically prompted this decision, but the White House wedding that was supposed to happen uh between Donald Trump Jr. and
his bride this weekend has had a change of venue. DJTJ and his new fiance Betina were planning to tie the knot at dad's
house, but they reportedly decided against getting married at the White House over fears about the optics, which um I don't know, somebody marrying
Donald Trump Jr. is worried about the optics.
The wedding has been moved to a small private island in the Caribbean. You know, I think his, as I recall, his dad
used to have a buddy who owned a a little island in the Caribbean. Right now, I don't know if that's available, but that might be a nice spot.
Speaking of optics, according to a recent disclosure from the uh US Office of Government Ethics, which apparently we still have, over the first quarter of
this year, Donald Trump has benefited from thousands of personal stock trades for as much as $750 million involving
several companies that directly profited from decisions he made as president after he bought the stock. For example,
Trump bought between $2 and $7 million in Nvidia stock, then gave Nvidia the green light to sell their AI chips to
China, which made it go up. He bought stock in a number of companies who have deals with the government. It's like a smash and grab. You just can't keep
track of what they're taking. There is so much garbage being thrown in our faces. And the trolls now have had to come up with random stuff to complain
about to distract us. Elon Musk is now attacking uh Christopher Nolan, the film director, for the way he cast the movie
The Odyssey. He's upset because Christopher Nolan hired Lupita Niongo to play a character he believes should be played by a white woman. Must posted
Chris Nolan desecrated the Odyssey so that he would be eligible for an Academy Award, followed by who specifically is
the ad who added DEI lies to Academy Awards eligibility instead of it just being about making the best movie.
That's a good question. While we're at it, who specifically is the who thought this was a cool design for a truck?
I mean, stay in your lane.
And Elon isn't alone in this. This is a thing now. Rob Finery from Newsmax. This guy's a beauty. He was so upset he
devoted a whole segment to it. Playing Helen of Troy, the woman who started the Trojan War. The likeness on the right, probably not great. She was beautiful.
The woman whose face launched a thousand ships, whose beauty was unparalleled. A woman who was definitely white is going to be played by Lepita Nuango.
You might be looking at this photograph saying, "I think Lepita Nuango is black." And you're correct. We haven't adjusted anything. And I've got nothing
against Lepita, but I do have a problem with the complete rewriting of history.
Helen of Troy was not black. That's not me being mean. That's me telling the truth. Well, here's something that might surprise you, Rob. Helen of Troy was also not real.
The Odyssey is a mythical poem. There was no Helen of Troy.
She was mythical like Santa Claus or election fraud. Perhaps that's it. Doesn't matter what color of myth is.
And if you really want to get into it, Helen of Troy was half bird. Helen was the daughter of Zeus. And these rob are
not photographs. These are drawings who disguised himself as a swan so he could mate with a human woman who then laid an
egg and outh hatched Helen of Troy who again was not a real person. This is not history. This is made up. She was
pretend. So it makes no difference to anyone but crazy angry people what color she was. Next week we'll do the tooth
fairy. And by the way, if you're going to be angry about the casting of the Odyssey, be mad at the loser they cast
the play Odysius because that's something you should all be upset about.
And I'll tell you one other thing. If you didn't like Lupita Niongo, you're really not going to like who they got to play Adysius's sidekick.
Tell me what you remember.
a wife, a son.
This kid is coming back. No, he's not.
Holy, he's the cheapo. I think it's asleep.
In Mexico, we call it Siesta. Congratul Congratulations.
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Scott Ritter: Iran RESPONDS to Imminent US-Israeli Strike, GAME OVER for Trump
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Former UN weapons inspector and US Marine Corps Intelligence Officer Scott Ritter joins the show to discuss the rapid descent toward escalation by Trump & Israel, and how Iran has decisively responded amid massive geopolitical shockwaves.



Transcript

Okay, we are live. Welcome everyone.
Welcome back to the show. It's your host Danny Hiong. As you can see, I am joined by former UN weapons inspector, US Marine Corps intelligence officer,
current geopolitical analyst, independent journalist, uh, and friend of the show, Scott Ritter. Scott, good to see you again. Good to see you. How you doing?
Okay. Okay. It's hot out here where we reside, but um, it's also very hot in the geopolitical sphere. So everybody
hit the like button so more people can hear what we are about to dive into. Uh
Scott, let's uh get going with uh the uh news that you know Donald Trump said he
is postponing an attack because the Gulf countries Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE told him to do so and that negotiations are
going splendidly. Abasarachi had this to say. He he fired back uh at this uh simply citing the recent congressional
report. I'm not sure sure if you have seen it on the acknowledged losses of dozens of aircraft worth billions
including Iran being confirmed as Arachi says here the first to strike down an F-35. Uh he said with lessons learned
and knowledge we gained return to war will bring many surprises. And so here is that congressional report. Uh there are reports of about 42 aircraft lost.
24 of those were MQ9 Reaper drones. And then here's the uh larger list here which is four what was it? 37 days of
active hostilities about uh it's it's sizable uh for uh especially in recent history for the United States. Scott, uh
talk about your reaction to to where things are. Uh Donald Trump says negotiations are are going much better
now uh that the Gulf countries have essentially I guess informed him so but uh uh what's going on for Donald Trump
and the US administration when it comes to Iran and and the larger geopolitical picture and and foreign policy picture uh as we head into the long summer.
The long summer it's the opposite of Game of Thrones. Winter is coming. No, summer is here. um a long hot summer.
First of all, again, I I just have to start off by saying that trying to do geopolitical analysis when it comes to the Trump administration is a mission
impossible. Uh using standard an analytical techniques because normally what you do is you take, you know,
pieces of fact-based information and you lay them out. It's like putting together a jigsaw puzzle, you know, where it's a thousand piece puzzle, but they hand you
35 pieces and they say, "Tell us what it says." Um, you know, and it's sort of an art form. You've got to evaluate the pieces, where they came from, try to
figure out where they belong on the board, then step back and try and imagine a a bigger picture. Um, sometimes it's called connecting the dots, you know, trying to put the dots
up, connect them to see what you get. Um I actually you know developed a reputation as a professional intelligence analyst of being one of the
better people uh in the business at connecting the dots and um had pretty solid track record. But you know there's
also a time when I had actually had access to you know real world intelligence and a real time basis. Now you're you know you're you're hampered
by a couple things. One long distance sniping is what I call it. basically um I'm sitting on my butt at a desk um
reading information that other people collect. Um I don't know the accuracy of their sources. I don't know upfront what their bias is and all this, you know. So
you you've got to, you know, treat the information you have a little bit circumspect. Um and then the other thing is um you know, even if I sort through
that and I start throwing the the dots on the on the map and start trying to connect them, what's the analytical framework? I mean, because I'm trying to
assess Donald Trump. Um, Donald Trump doesn't exist in my world. Donald Trump exists in an alternative reality where
fact-based data isn't necessarily what's running through his head. What's running through his head is the world of Donald
Trump. And Donald Trump is a malignant narcissist who suffers from narcissistic personality disorder. Now, this is at the point in the conversation where a
lot of people go, "Con, Scott, you're not a psychiatrist or psychologist. you know, we we we were following you up until you said that you've sort of overstepped the boundaries. Um, I'm
going to push back a little bit. In uh 2019, uh Scott Ritter, who is not a psychiatrist or psychologist, I don't play one on TV and I didn't stay in a
Motel 6, so I can't claim any uh indirect expertise, but what I can say is that I was invited to sit on a panel
that you guys find it, Google it, uh 2019. Um it was a C-SPAN broadcasted and
and on that panel were board certified psychiatrist and psychologists and uh basically what they were doing is
diagnosing the mental illness of narcissistic personality disorder of a most malignant nature on Donald Trump.
Um I pushed back at the time not because I was a scientist but I said you know basically there it's a common uh
practice that u they call the Goldwater rule. Barry Goldwater, a presidential candidate 1964, was diagnosed as being insane uh by
people. Um and the in in the American body politic, it has been understood that uh unless somebody is actually sat
down in front of a psychiatrist or psychologist, you can't make long-distance diagnosis. Except when you read the DSM, which is the manual that's
used to classify mental illness, narcissistic personality disorder can be diagnosed long distance. There's five things can be done. The reason why I
bring this up is I don't throw this term around loosely. For anybody who's sitting there going, I you lost pound sand, get the hell out. I don't care.
But I'm telling you is that when you say that Donald Trump is a nar suffers from narcissistic personality disorder, there's no ifands or buts. He does um
long range diagnosis. Bandy Lee was a uh board certified psychologist uh I think with Yale University um led the study.
She's been maligned by people because of the Goldwater rule and others. Uh the vindication of bad Lee is real.
Everything she said is right. Donald Trump is a mentally ill man, a very sick man. Um and and you see the disease manifest itself. Look at the golden idol
that he built to himself in Mara Largo having religious figures come down and praise him to God. He hasn't read the Bible apparently because that's sort of
what got the the Hebrews in trouble was building golden idols and you know worshiping false gods. This guy wants his face on Mount Rushmore. How do I
begin to assess a man like this? What parameters do I use? You got to get into the mind of this sick man. And
therefore, you have to assess what does he want more than anything else. He wants Donald Trump to succeed. He wants the legacy of
Trump to be solid. He wants to promote Donald Trump.
And so that's what you have to see. What is he doing and how does it promote Donald Trump? Not what is he doing? How does it promote the national security of the United States or the interests of
the American people? He doesn't care. He only cares about Donald Trump. Um, and so he lives in an artificial reality
that can be deconstructed almost immediately. For instance, I stopped it one hour before the bombs are supposed to fall. It's a straight up lie. Modern warfare doesn't allow that to happen.
Um, just the complexity of modern war.
Having planned uh and helped implement a strategic air campaign against Iraq back in 1990 1991, I have a an idea on how
these things work and the complexity of putting together a strike package, what has to be done from an intelligence standpoint, from an operational standpoint, from a planning standpoint, how to bring all those pieces together.
It's extraordinarily complex and you don't stop it with a phone call one hour before. So Donald Trump is straight up lying, too. He says that the reason why
he made this very difficult choice is because he received phone calls from the king of or from Saudi Arabia. We're
assuming MBS himself from Qatar. We're assuming the emir that um you know has been playing from the United Arab
Emirates um that they're saying that if you attack Iran the blowback will be severe that we will suffer permanent damage to our energy producing and we don't want that.
Okay. But the problem is you think they made the phone call an hour before or two hours before the president chewed on it. These are known statements of fact.
Uh the these parties have never supported this uh the resumption of this conflict because they understand full
well what the ramifications are going to be. Donald Trump never intended to attack Iran. Well, I'll just make that statement one more time. Donald Trump
never intended to attack Iran because we can't attack Iran because we lack the capacity to attack Iran. Can it sustain a meaningful air campaign? And if we did
so, we'd only get ourselves in a position worse than where we are today.
Um, Donald Trump's tried to dig himself out of a hole, a hole of his own creation. But he has to do so with political spin. It's about creating
perceptions because perceptions create their own realities and he lives in an artificial reality. So he needs to create the perception that he is in
charge that he is the decision maker that the world gravitates around Donald Trump. He is the center of gravity of
the entire world and that his decisions resonate out and because of him peace will break out because he made choices.
He made decisions. Every decision was made by somebody else. All Donald Trump did is go with the flow because he has no choice. He cannot resume this war
against Iran. Because the consequences of doing so will dig the hole even deeper. He won't get out of it. He can say things like he did today in a press
conference. I'm not worried about the midterms. He is worried sick about the midterms. Why? Again, the world of Donald Trump. He's going to be
impeached. The Democrats are going to win the House. It is a 100% certainty that if the Democrats win the House, Donald Trump will be impeached.
Now, the danger is if he attacks Iran again, the global economy collapses and brings the American economy down. And Donald Trump needs to read history.
Maybe somebody will whisper in his ear, "It's the economy, stupid." Of course, words put by James Carville on a yellow sticker on the war room of Bill
Clinton's campaign in 1992 telling Bill Clinton to stop talking about foreign policy, things the American people don't care about. They only care about one thing, and that's the economy. How much
money is in their wallet, how much money is in their bank account, and how they're going to be able to pay for Christmas in the coming Christmas season. That's it. If you focus on that,
you'll do well. And Donald Trump is forgetting that rule. I mean, he said straight up, I don't care about affordability issues. Well, you know who
does care about affordab? 99.99% of America. People like me who live paycheck to paycheck hoping that they're
able to pay the mortgage next month. Yet wondering how we're going to pay anything when the cost of living through gas prices alone has gone up to more
than $450,500 a month per person. And yet there we are. So Donald Trump right now lives in an artificial reality where
he's trying to spin disaster. He's going to have to make a bad deal. uh a deal that contradicts everything he says he
stands for and he's going to have to spin it. He's going to have to become the ultimate snake oil salesman. How do you say uh no nuclear at all? You have
to give it to me and then turn around and cut a deal, which he's going to cut, by the way, where Iran gets to keep enrichment. They might have a 10-year
moratorum on it and the 60% goes to Russia, not the United States. How does he spend that? How does he spin the fact
that Iran will continue to control the straight war moves in perpetuity that there's nothing we can do to alter that?
He can't change that. He's going to have to say, "Oh, I'm the one that made it happen. I'm the one that allowed the oil to flow. I'm the one that did this and the other thing." But in order to do that, he has to operate from a position
of perceived strength. And that's what he's doing right now, threatening to attack and then pulling back. Not because he's weak, not because he can't do it, but because he made the
conscientious decision that America's not going to attack. I listen to my allies. See, he's casting the blame on his allies already. I listen to my
allies. That's what's going on. That's my assessment of it. It's a very difficult assessment to make. As I said, in order to do this, you have to get in the mind of a malignant sociopath, a man
who has a mental illness, narcissistic personality disorder. There's no debating this. That's what exists.
Everybody knows this. It's just that the mouth breathing MAGA idiots continue to pretend that he's playing 5D chess when he's really just drooling into a cup.
Yeah. I mean it look I think you're exactly right in terms of this uh kind of baiting switching threatening pulling
back. Uh uh it's obviously that it's obvious that he and his administration and and and the US uh I guess in Israeli
interests that are uh pushing war are in trouble. But um in terms of the the narcissism piece, it's like it it also
is true that he's just not very good at this as a as a as a a political figure because I don't know if you see comments
like this uh uh Scott. Uh this is what he said about those uh American troops
uh US forces that lost their lives in this war that is extremely unpopular in the United States. He lost hundreds of
thousands of soldiers in these various wars. In two wars, Venezuela where we lost nobody. And here we lost 13 people.
Now, 13 people is 13 too much. But we lost 13 people. In other wars, you lost hundreds of thousands of people. So,
uh, people don't like it when you say, "Oh, do you know you've lost 13?" We lost in two major wars. We took over
Venezuela. We essentially took over Iran. And we've lost so far 13 people.
Some other some else would have lost a 100,000 people. Okay. But I get a
So he's so good, Scott, that he only lost 13 and anyone else would have lost a lot more. And then this is what he had
to say about the um uh uh the number the the comments he's made about the economy which are even worse in many respects.
Numbers are you can imagine Democrats and political pundits uh jumped all over this statement that you made the other
day. You were asked on the when you were leaving what extent are American financial situations motivating you to make a deal?
Not even a little bit. The only thing that matters when I'm talking about Iran, they can't have a nuclear weapon.
I don't think about American financial situation. I don't think about anybody.
I think about one thing. You cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. That's all. That's right. That's a perfect sentence. I make it again.
You can imagine how many people stop the sound bite at I don't think about America situation.
So, what's your response to that framework?
It's very simple. When people hear me say it, everybody agrees. Short-term pain. It's going to be short-term pain,
but the pain is much less than people thought.
So, uh, a bit of tonedeafness here. So, what's your reaction to all of this? I mean, it's it seems like, uh, there's
this, uh, inability for the Trump administration to stop what it's doing.
And you and you're right, he's they're trying to dig themselves out of a hole, but uh seems like Trump is really keen on digging it deeper. Uh especially in this regard.
You know, when I was uh in the Marines, I I got involved in a situation where um I took certain actions that I thought
were right. Um, and I ended up in front of a general who was asking me questions and I was uh, explaining my actions and
um, I guess I just wasn't getting the message because I kept trying to explain to the general why I was right. And finally he stopped me and he said,
"Lieutenant, I was a lieutenant." He said, "Let me paint the situation here.
You're standing in front of a general explaining you lost." Because when you're
explaining, son, you're losing. All right, that was the lesson. You don't want to be explaining. If you've done
something and you have to be explaining about it, you lost. Especially in the political world, your action should be
so focused, so tuned, so correct that you don't have to explain anything that everybody understands implicitly what
you're saying, what you're trying to accomplish. That's the world of politics. When you're explaining, you're losing. What's Donald Trump doing right
now? He's explaining. Now, he doesn't have a good story. He's spinning. Uh he's spinning. He's trying to, you know, you know, to to correct a huge mistake.
But when you're explaining, you're losing. Donald Trump is losing. Like, he's lost the American people. I come
back to just the basic fundamental thing with Donald Trump needs to have tattooed on his forehead or actually tattooed on other people's foreheads so he can see it. Uh because you know wait he probably
looks in a mirror a lot so tattoo so he could read it. Um it's the economy stupid in the moment you downplay the
economic because you got to understand this you know he may be right even though he's wrong because he doesn't know anything about Iran's nuclear program. But you know he says Iran can't
have a nuclear bomb. Well Donnie they don't have a nuclear bomb. They don't want a nuclear bomb. They're not developing a nuclear bomb. You've made up the ultimate you know paper straw
man. it it doesn't exist and it's not going to exist. To say you don't want it to exist means nothing. It's a
meaningless statement. No, but that's the problem. The average American can't pick up on that. But the average American also doesn't understand anything about nuclear weapons, how
they're built, all that. They hear the president say that. Now, normally if the president said Iran can't have a nuclear bomb, most Americans would go, I agree with that. They're not going to sit there and go, "Well, Skyraider says they
don't have one." They're No, they're not going to get into that kind of depth.
They're just say, "We agree with that." But when you say, "I don't care about the consequences for you or the
financial consequences." You know, the problem is when the TV gets turned off, their brain erases the nuclear bomb in
in Iran because that doesn't factor into their life on a daily basis. What does factor in is that they're going to go out, the mailman's there, I just did it.
And you open up the mailbox and there's a stack of bills. They're going to bring those bills in and those bills are due.
You got to pay them. and you get your paycheck and you start writing checks or you do it electronically, however you pay your bills. You pay your bills and you watch the money from your paycheck,
that hardearned money from a paycheck where you have slaved away at a job, maybe two jobs, and you watch that money
go d. And at some point, you want that thing to stop. So you can sit there and go, okay, with what's left, I can do X, Y, and Z. But instead, nowadays, it's
going d even more. And it's getting close to that to that zero line where you suddenly get into where you have more bills and you have money to pay the bills and your entire reality is going.
You think they give a fine you know what about Iran and nuclear weapons at that point in time. And the answer is hell no. They don't care. All they're knowing
is that their bank account is zero, bills are due, and their life is about to come to a roaring end. And the president says he doesn't care.
That's why Donald Trump has a political problem because he is totally out of touch with reality right now. He lives in a artificial world of his own making
and you know the the the American public it's the economy stupid and come November if he hasn't turned things
around he's going to get swamped. You you watch game I keep using Game of Thrones because I like Game of Thrones but you remember that scene where they've they've looted uh the the the
the Tyrells and they they're coming back and here comes Danny on her dragon. But before Danny comes, you got the Dothraki and the cavalry running down and uh the
the the one guy turns to Jane Lannister and says, "We're about to get swamped." Yeah, you are. Because you don't have enough infantry and they're going to swamp you. Donald Trump's about to get
politically swamped. The Dothraki are roaring down on him. A dragon's coming behind and he's got a thin line of Lannister infantrymen that aren't going
to hold. That's Donald Trump's political reality right now.
game this out a bit about what exactly is the hesitancy about restarting this war with Iran because we know the
Israelis uh have been the principal uh they've been clamoring for this the the principal cheerleaders for this uh every
single day since the ceasefire the media in Israel has been consistently pushing and pushing and pushing and talking
about how escalation they even said yesterday that escalation preparations are all ready to go and uh they're going to it could be any moment. It's just if
it's it's when, not if. Um but the narrative gets really really strange. I don't know if you saw this uh uh uh
piece, Scott, but you know, now you have uh US officials, these of course always anonymous US officials planting a story
about how the early USIsraeli goal in the war when the strikes were initiated on February 28th, was to install Mahmud
Ahmedinad, who I know you remember, Scott. um a very strange choice nonetheless if his political history uh
was anything to factor in, but they're saying he was going to be the Deli Rodriguez of Iran, that he had changed
and he was working with the Israelis and uh the United States and that the strike that Israel fired at his complex where
he lives was meant to rescue him from IRGC uh and uh instead hurt him almost some
say almost killed but hurt him and he hasn't been heard from ever since.
Scott, what do you make of this and maybe you could help game through the reality of why there is so much uh hesitancy since the beginning of the
ceasefire? Seems like there are major forces thirsty, especially on the Israeli side for the re restart of all of this
with that first then we'll get to the interesting story of my um the Israelis
have been pushing for a major confrontation with Iran for some time now. Um, and they have been trying to
get the United States to participate because the Israelis recognize that they cannot engage Iran militarily by themselves and prevail. They must have
the United States on board. Uh, on February 11th of this of this year, um,
Donald Trump met with Benjamin Netanyahu and the head of the MSAD and, uh, they sold him a bill of goods. They sold him on um not only the threat of Iran which
you know Donald Trump has bought into hookline and sinker go back to um the spring of 2018 when Netanyahu came and
old Donald Trump on um you know the concept of a MSAD raid on Tyrron that gained access to a nuclear archive and
then he showed him a bunch of documents to prove the Iranians were lying about the JCPOA and they were pursuing a
secret nuclear weapons program and Donald Trump is so stupid and he's surrounded by so many sickopants that they didn't do the obvious things such
as, "Hey, at least three of these documents that you're presenting us as new in this archive are the same documents that you tried to sell the
IAEA back in 2004 and 2009, uh, which were proven to be forgeries, forged by Israeli intelligence to try to do the
same thing, create the perception of Iranian nuclear intent that doesn't exist. But nobody had the courage to tell Donald Trump that or he was just
too stupid to understand that. And Daniel got away with it. There is no Iranian nuclear weapons program. Never has been and isn't going to be one. No
matter how much people in your audience and elsewhere say they need to have a weapon. Well, they don't want one. So their need isn't manifested by your
desire. They don't want one and they're not going to build one. Uh but you know, Trump made his decision. Now he was sold on that. But more importantly, he was
sold on regime change that you know the Iranian regime is about to collapse. The inherent weakness of villaki, the
supreme, the rule of the supreme juristprudent that having the supreme leader um the Islamic Republic uh he was being sold on the fact that the Iranians
are increasingly secular that this notion of Shia faith doesn't dig deep.
Uh the 12 vers Shiism is a fanatic religion uh that that exists on the periphery of Iran. it's not part of the fundamental essence of the modern
Iranian state. And that if we simply just come in, kill the supreme leader, suppress certain military leadership, we can bring about regime change. And then
when regime change happens, um we will be able to shut down ballistic missiles, shut down nuclear. In the meantime, we
25 minuteshave enough military force to prevent the Iranians from effectively launching missiles we can suppress until we can get a new regime to eliminate. Um the straight of horses isn't a problem.
They'll shut it down. We'll reopen it again. We'll reopen it. The primary tactic is regime change. Remove the regime. The regime will open up straight or moves. Everything be good. Everything
hinged on regime change. The Israelis sold the president on this bill of goods. And the president now recognizes that regime change failed. And um that
they didn't accomplish this, that uh the regime is actually stronger today than ever before. And therefore all of the other objectives are are unattainable.
Um you know, this is this is the reality. The Israelis sold this to the president. Uh, and the president now realizes the Israelis sold him a bill of
goods. So, where is Israel today? Well, Israel still needs the United States to to be involved. Israel is operating
under the assumption that it will be able to initiate an action and through Iranian response, the United States will
be dragged back in. That's one of the the goals and objectives of this. The problem is the Israelis can't initiate an action without the Americans being
complicit in this because Israel cannot carry out an air campaign against Iran of any significance without close continuous coordination with US Central
Command. And right now uh Central Command is shutting that down because we don't want a war with Iran. So where are
the Israelis now? Um well first of all understand that uh they're getting their asses handed to
them in Lebanon. I mean, this is about as embarrassing, humiliating as it get.
The Hezbollah is supposed to be defeated, can't continue and sustain the fight, is literally stomping the death out of the IDF. Um, they're beating him
on the frontline contact, but now through the, uh, introduction of FPV drones, um, first-person view drones, many of them having fiber optic cable.
They're bringing death and destruction, uh, 20 to 30 kilometers into the Israeli depth. The Israelis weren't prepared for this. Hint hint, America, this is your
future if you want to go to war against Russia because you'll not get anywhere.
The drones dominate the skies. Israel can't move without dying. Um, and so they're losing Lebanon before the
Israelis were saying there could be no, you know, we we're going to finish Lebanon. No matter what you want to do with Iran, America, we're finishing Lebanon. It's over. And we played the
game. We brought in Barack who sat down and negotiated with the, you know, it was supposed to be a Israeli Lebanon negotiation, but Hezbollah wasn't part
of it. Hezbollah is the only voice that counts in Lebanon today when it comes to Israel because they're winning. They defeat Israel. And so you have Hezbollah winning, which is supposed to happen.
Then Israel has no chance of defeating them. We're at the point right now where Israel has to very declare defeat. They
can't win. They can't prevail. They're getting beat by Hezbollah right now. So that's a big reality. Um two, the United
States isn't going to play this game anymore. 60% of Americans don't support Israel. And that number is going to get higher and higher and higher. Israel know. So what did Benjamin Netanyahu do?
Benjamin Netanyahu said uh in 10 years we have to cut off our financial ties to the United States. That means the whole enterprise the whole Thomas Massie we
will outspend you and buy American democracy enterprise is going away because Israel recognizes that while you may be able to vote out Thomas Massie in
the long term the enterprise is going to collapse. Uh so they need an additional source of funding. Where are they going to get their money? Well, it's not going to come from the inherent economic
strength of Israel, which was supposed to happen with the Abrams Accord combined with the India Middle East European economic corridor. That's not going to happen. None of that's going to
happen. So, how how where does Israel get its replacement for American Large?
Yes. The answer is the United Arab Emirates. Netanyahu has admitted he traveled to the UA during the war.
Israel has sent troops to the UAE to protect them with air defense. And the UA has pulled out of OPEC plus and has gone it on its own to sell maximum
amounts of energy on the market to do what? To underwrite the Israeli security architecture that will replace the failed American architecture over the
United Arab Emirates. And this vehicle, Israel UAE, will be used to sustain the conflict against Iran. That's their theory. That's their bet. The problem is
are the Iranians who have just basically come out and said we will terminate the UAE's existence as a viable modern
nation state on day one if the conflict begins. It's very easy to do. You shut down energy production very vulnerable to that. You shut down desalinization
plant. No water. Right now it's 50 54 degrees in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. You don't have drinking water you die. And
uh and you shut down power generation which means no air conditioning. So basically the UAE which has sold itself as one of the most technologically uh
society modern societies in the uh in the region will die. Um the Iranians said we'll bring you back to the age of the camel which is true. If you take out
water you take out energy they got nothing. And this will happen instantaneously.
Iranians have said that once this starts, they will begin wave after wave every hour firing non-stop missiles and drones against the entire spectrum of
targets inclusive of energy targets and desolization plants in the UAE. It'll go for hour after hour, day after day, week after week, and Iran has the forces to
sustain this. America at best can continue a conflict on the scope and scale of the 37-day war for a week. Then we run out of everything. We run out of
long-range standoff strike weapons. We run out of air defense. And the Iranians will not run out of it. This is the reality. This is why the United States
can't attack Iran because to do so we take not it's not just a temporary reduction of uh energy production
capacity going to market. It's the permanent elimination of significant quantities of energy going market and there's nothing to replace it in the
global energy. So you will get a collapse of the global economy. And we're talking about when you cut off this much oil, refineries stop working.

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When they stop working, they go away.
Pipelines cease to function. They go away. the entire infrastructure that the globe needs to survive starts to crash
because we can't keep the energy in that the world needs and you start having these deficits, economies collapse and it's a spinning spiraling effect and we
come back then to the United States and the American consumer. It's the economy stupid and the president better understand that and I think he does.
This is why he's not going to attack Iran because to attack Iran is the financial collapse of the region, the world, and the United States. And it's
the end of him politically. That's all he cares about. This is a narcissist. He needs when he finishes his presidency to be able to say, "I was the greatest
president that ever walked the face of the earth." And he needs to surround himself with people who will repeat that to him. And he will build monuments to himself and all that. But his president
is going to end differently. He's going to be impeached and he's going to be convicted and he's going to be put on
trial. Uh he'll be he'll be thrown out of the White House in disgrace. And when that happens, the Democrats will go in for the kill. They will dismantle
Trump's industry. They'll find out about all the crimes that are being committed right now. Every crime being committed.
Jared Kushner is going to jail. His daughter is going to jail. Steve Witco's going to jail. Everybody who has profited from this corrupt enterprise
called um you know the Trump administration will go to jail. The people who are betting shorting the energy market going long on the energy
marketing it to the social media accounts of Donald Trump they will go to jail. It will be a total cleansing of the house and that's it for the Trump
legacy. you know, he was upset with New York when after he got elected president. All you remember driving into Manhattan, you come down there, come
down to, you know, the Hudson, Henry Hudson, and then it turns into river and you look to your left and they had a whole host of buildings. They all said Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump. And after he
got elected, they all took it down because Trump didn't own a single one of those buildings. He just branded them.
He said, "Put the Trump name up there and people will come." But the problem is he got elected and everybody went, "We hate you, Donald Trump." And so they took it down because it was a bad brand.
The Trump brand is going to be over, finished, destroyed. He will go to jail.
His family will go to jail. And he sees this. This is the writing on the wall.
33 minutesIt's inevitable unless he could get a miracle. And the miracle begins with not bombing Iran, not digging the hole deeper.
Yeah. Yeah, I guess so much for all those uh those short that he said short-term pain, but a lot of these LG companies are looking at uh short-term
uh maximization of profits and uh the scenario you just laid out that uh that is going to that's just going to lay on
so many consequences that uh it'll be interesting to see whether that those short-term profits are going to be worth all of the long-term pain uh that's to
come if it continues like this. But Scott, yeah, your comment on the I'm a Dinitch story now.
Yeah. No, no, it's totally fine. I mean, just leaking that out there, it doesn't I guess it it doesn't really reflect uh
an image of strength. Maybe the New York Times and the US official, so-called US officials wanted to do this to weaken Trump's image even further and the US
administration's image even further around the Iran war on Iran. But I'm curious on your thoughts about it because it's a it's a very strange if
it's all made up. It's a very strange story. If there's any truth to it, it's also a strange story. So your thoughts?
No. Um first of all, um Mahmood Ahmedad was the president of uh Iran. He was
very hardline president. under his presidency, Iran's um Iran forcefully confronted
the policies of the United States and uh in Europe regarding Iran's nuclear program. Um he's the one who basically
said, "We're not we're not playing by your rules anymore. We're going to um do what we want to do," which had nothing to do with acquiring a nuclear weapon.
everything to do with expanding Iran's ability to enrich uranium to master the uranium fuel cycle for
nuclear fuel for peaceful purposes. Um and you know he he um he caused a lot of
angst in uh the United States and in Israel. Um, uh, Israel interpreted what he was doing as seeking to existentially
threaten the existential survival of Israel by possessing, if not a nuclear weapon, the ability to produce a nuclear weapon by mastering enrichment, which
means that you've you've solved the fundamental underlying technical problem of enrichment. Um, you know, he um he
was a very he was a very hardliner though, and I forget who replaced him. Um, was um Kame, not Kame.
Yeah. How many? I don't know. I drawing a blank here. But um in the election,
you know, Ahmed Denjad um you know, articulated against this guy who was looking for more moderate policies and
um and it got to the point where the Supreme Leader um Ali Kame um sort of treated Ahmedad with root. There's a
whole ceremony that goes into transferring power and the former president plays a role in the current president and Akmad
was seeking to assert himself and he was minimized. Um and many people saw it as a deliberate snub by the supreme leader
on the former leader. Um Akmad though turned out to be a man who um you know he's not corrupt. Uh he doesn't have
secret money. He he retired to a um a very marginal life. Um it was a former
president and of course people pay attention to him but he stayed out of pol he tried to reinsert himself in the election got told he can't. Um and he
just be again living a very simple life of a as a gardener and all that. Um no political ambition. But here's here's
why we come up on this. The regime change failed. The efforts of regime change failed. the story that Yeah.
Roani was a placement. Yeah. Former negotiator. You're right. Thank you for the note. Sometimes reading the chat pays off. Um the the the let's give you
an example of how how the media today works. The Financial Times English paper
published a story that said that Xi Jinping told Donald Trump that uh the Chinese felt that Putin was losing the
war and that Putin knew he was going to lose the war and Putin was this and Putin was that and Jing he shouldn't have done this, he shouldn't have done that. And the idea was of course to
create a political problem on the eve of Vladimir Putin's arrival in China. Now the Chinese came out and said that's horse hockey and of course it was. But
the point is the Financial Times and and I know this to give you an example going back to my time as a weapons inspector.
Um I worked with MI6 um on what called a information operation and um the the
goal was we took intelligence that we couldn't act on because it was crap. uh we had it in our files and they said give us the stuff that's in your file that isn't actionable meaning you can't
do an inspection and we'll feed it to our sources in the media and they'll publish it as if it's real to create the impression in the global community that
Iran or Iraq is developing and pursuing weapons of mass destruction um operator was called mass appeal Google it guys
it's real it's real because I was there but the point is that's what MI6 does and as a result I found out that MI6
owns editors and writers at major newspapers in Great Britain. Any newspapers want to sue me for that?
Please do. I love the discovery process because I can name you. We know who you are. And we now know that the guy who published it and the people who
published this story are part of that process. This was an act of desperation designed to undermine, you know, Vladimir Putin's role because that's
Britain's goal right now. The entire MI6 London station exists to do one thing and that's to undermine Vladimir Putin.
and they're the ones who generated this crap story, plant it in British media, and they ran with it. So now we come to the New York Times. The New York Times
39 minuteshas now exposed itself that they are an active front of the CIA. Now, we always knew that um and it became manifest, you remember last December, uh at the moment
when the CIA was working on a drone program to assassinate Vladimir Putin.
Um remember the big launch? Um same time they did the launch, there was a story that was published where the CIA said, "We're the ones doing this. We're the ones giving them the intelligence.
We're the ones who now it was supposed to be done either after Putin was dead or Putin was weak. It was a CIA power play. But the point is the New York
Times was actively working with the CIA to create this perception.
The CIA owns the New York Times. When I was a weapons inspector, again, the CIA worked with CNN to do the same thing, to make a major documentary about the the
work of the inspectors using intelligence information that the CIA provided. That's what they do. It's an information operation. So this Akmad
story is the cheapest kind of information operation there is. They've gone back. These are people with superficial knowledge of Iran and they've gone back and they said, "Oh, he
got snubbed that, you know, they go to he got snubbed by the supreme leader." Um, and he was embarrassed and humiliated. He tried to reinsert himself
into politics and they said no. So we can create the image of a frustrated man, a man who has an axe to grind, um a
man who you know want can can be bought out. And so they've invented this whole story. It's just a total 100% BS story.
And the purpose of the story is of course to create controversy inside Iran to start getting we've done this before.
or the CIA back in the 1980s um got one of one of the Palestinian liberation groups in Beirut to start killing each other because they planted a story that
they that that they had a source that this guy ratted out this guy this guy rat and they started they turned on each other and they killed each other. So it can work. You can mental warfare cause
people to clash from within. This is an act of mental warfare. It's designed to inject a premise into a into Iran society to create a br a lot of people
41 minutescontinue to support Ahmed Denjad. So if the government regime was to arrest him, you create a division. Now they're not going to arrest him because the Iranians
know with 100% certainty. This is literally BS. They're just like, do you think the Chinese lost any sleep, open
up the Financial Times going or the Russians? You think Vladimir Putin went, "Wait a minute. What? What? Trump said this to and she didn't call.
I'm not going there. Oh, We're g Ukraine. We're going against China.
We're going to split up. give the CIA everything they want. He went, "No, because they know the truth. The Iranians know the truth. Everybody, this
is just the cheapest kind of information warfare. It's it what it is. It's an act of absolute desperation. Just like planting the story in the Financial
Times because again, think of yourself as a Financial Times. You were literally just exposed as an intelligence front.
You're no longer a journalistic out uh out, you know, outlet. Uh and and people should seriously cease and desist all
42 minutessubscriptions to the Financial Times. It should ruin them. Except, you know, it it won't, but it should because they are no longer function as journalists. They
are intelligence operatives. The New York Times has now been exposed as a paper that has gone away from journalism. We knew that a long time ago, but it's not just that they're bad
journalists. They're intelligence operatives. They're working on behalf of the CIA to carry out regime change
plans. Um, and so there that's what this is. It's total crap. 100% crap.
And the desperation is incredibly uh I think uh highlighted here when uh one thinks that part of the assessment,
if we can call it an intelligence assessment, is that uh the war that the US and Israel have uh ignited against
Iran that has killed for example hundreds of over a hundred children in one strike. uh the very first day of it
to insinuate that Amadinad betrayed the entire country with that kind of damage. Just that one single
example. But you know, how about all the rest of it? How about the thousands of people who died before uh the strikes came who were killed and then of course
all the infrastructure of people that have been killed by the actual strikes.
Uh that must have been something they factored in like hey uh this will make people very angry if we say he's a you
know he's basically our but they're they're they're insinuating themselves which is what I think is so interesting.
They're saying okay they're basically saying the US and Israel uh you know have this ace in a hole which then
underscores the actual reason why all of the consequences that have been born from this war uh have occurred. And it's
not a great story to begin with, but any any final comments on this before we move on to the Putin Ca meeting which um uh you mentioned.
No, I think you pretty much wrapped it up. It's the cheapest kind of uh of propaganda.
44 minutesIt underscores two things. The absolute people need to understand that the CIA has no insight into Iran. None
whatsoever. Um, in the 1980s, the CIA still had networks that dated back to the time of the Sha when the CIA was
very active in Iran, had recruited just about everybody there was to recruit and they had some u some some resources
still in play. Um, and then a guy named Steve Richter, uh, who is the head of Near East operations, um, my nemesis
when I was doing Iraq, um, he basically was told we have to start focusing on Iran. And so there was a way they
communicated. These guys use old school communications. They would send letters uh with secret writing to a postbox in Munich where the CIA is a big station
and then they you know that's how they would communicate. But the see that works if u if one or two letters are snuck in every week uh part of an
overall flow of mail that nothing stands out. But then RTOR said we got to double the reporting triple the reporting set the word out. We need more reports. But
he didn't change the method of communication. And so suddenly out of nowhere all these agents are starting to send secret writing in post to Munich
and the Iranians are going, "Huh?" And counter intelligence guys went, "Well, we we're on to something here." Floated back and they terminated the
entire network. All gone. Vast majority went up hung by the neck because it betrayed their country. They're dead. The CIA attempted to reconstitute that.
And uh once again they had a system in place and the CIA had a um method of communication that involved Gmail. I
won't get into the specifics but the bottom line is they you use a Gmail address and all this kind of stuff. And again the Iranians were able to break
that and reverse engineer and they rolled up that network all gone finished dead. They shared it with the Russians and the Chinese. the Chinese were able
to go in and clean up all the CIA's networks in China. And the Russians, I think, um, the CIA was able to dismantle what they did and the Russians didn't
quite get get as far along as they wanted to. But, uh, the point is we have no human resources inside
Iran. So, what happened at this time, it's a high-profile target. Um, give you an example. We we we the NSA built
something called Stucknex, which is a virus that was supposed to go in and infect the Iranian nuclear enrichment program. They're centrifuges. Um, and it
did it going through controllers, Seammens controllers, etc. Um, the Israelis cooperate. Now, to get it into Iran though, we don't have any
human intelligence. We don't have any ability. So, we had to turn to the Israelis. The Israelis have a whole bunch of human intelligence inside uh Iran because the Israelis are patient.
They're long-term. they don't do stupid things like make them double up their reporting using secret writing on postal or use a Gmail account that doesn't
work. Um, and so we basically transferred the human intelligence aspect to Israel. We would provide
operational oversight. We would provide conceptual work, but the Israelis would execute assassinations. We played a heavy role in that, but the Israelis
executed. Stuck next, it was the Israelis that broke through the air gap to get the virus into the system. Um,
and so we became hostage to Israeli control of the human intelligence uh, aspects of Iran. So what I'm bringing it
up is that we don't have any special insight in Iran. Everything comes from um, Israel and uh, Israel has lost it.
They burned through a whole bunch of resources this past December and January. They they they burned through those resources. Um, a little premature action exposed the Iranian shutdown.
Very effective. Um so there there is very little human intelligence operations coming out of Iran. The other
problem is human intelligence. Okay, let's say you have a good operator but has to come back to an analytical framework. In order to have a sound analytical framework, you need to have
people who are up to speed on the reality of Iran. Generally speaking, that means you travel to Iran, you know the Iranians who work in Iran, you have this insight. CIA doesn't do any of
48 minutesthat. Um instead, the CIA recruits in their analytical same way they do with Russia. people who go to college and
universities and they get a degree in Iran hatred. It's like if you how do you want to work for the CIA? Let me give
you an go to a bigname university with a Russian studies program and write a thesis on Vladimir Putin being the worst man in the world and you'll be hired by the CIA because you're thinking right.
You're aligned right. But you don't know any because you've never been to Russia.
You may not even speak Russian. But you're going to be hired because you hate Vladimir Putin. Therefore, you're in. If you go to an academic institute and you say I hate the uh the regime,
the theocracy is bad, is evil, etc., you will be hired by the CIA to run analysis, but your analysis is already openly biased. And the problem is you
have politicians who are putting down policy options based upon that bias and you're reinforcing that bias. And that's where the CIA today, they don't have Iranian experts. They don't have any insight into what's going on in Iran.
They don't interpret what's going on.
And that's why they've gotten everything wrong about Iran. everything wrong.
They've got nothing right about it. This is another reason why the Akmad thing is stupid because if you're at least going to come up with it, you've gota
you got to be a little bit smarter than that and they're not. And the last thing, too, is um let's just say this is right. You know what the New York Times
just did? Let's just say that everything is true. They just outed a major Israeli human intelligence
operation, right? Uh, and if it was real, then scores of intelligence assets are going
to be caught and executed. Now, fortunately, it's not real and all that, but if it was real, understand what the New York Times just did. They outed an
intelligence network that would result in dead people.
Yeah. Uh Scott, uh maybe in the last uh portion of time here we could talk about
the uh Putin visit to China to meet with Xiinping. Um and it comes of course uh
not a week after just days after Donald Trump left uh came and left Beijing
himself. Uh one of the key striking parts about this is rather than the theatrics, it's more of the concrete
character of what actually happened at this meeting. Uh 40 documents were signed and they were shown here uh you
know um by China and and those uh organizing the summit. Uh so huge and
then of course there were lots of interesting uh goodwill gestures like this uh 26 years ago uh when the treaty
of good neighborliness was signed between China and Russia uh Putin met this family uh and uh he eventually
became an engineer. He studied in Russia and Putin met him again on this anniversary of that treaty. So uh good
neighbor you know uh uh goodwill gestures less theater but uh very concrete uh uh documents signed across all sectors of trade and cooperation.
Talk about what the significance is and then maybe if you wanted to do some uh comparing and contrasting of of the two visits uh your thoughts on this.
Well, first of all, let's set the trip up by looking at the Trump trip um which accomplished nothing. You talk about 40 agreements. Um
Trump talked about 200 Boeing aircraft uh contract that doesn't exist. Boeing's still waiting for the Chinese to call and they're not going to call. Um you
know, so nothing happened here. This was, you know, Donald Trump thought he was going to come in and and and and try to strongarm China into uh doing things,
accepting things. It didn't work that way. The Chinese were very polite. But um nothing nothing happened here except the outright humiliation of the
president. Not because of anything China did but because of what the president did himself. I mean uh Sergey Lavro has
said that United States is uh agreement incapable. Uh well president proved that by when JJ Ping left and left his folder there the president reached over open up
leaf through it. Now people can laugh that off. Don't. That was hugely insulting. Hugely insulting. It shows that pres American president has no integrity whatsoever. It's not his job
to spy. He's the president of the United States. you know, he should already know what's in that binder if the CIA was doing its job. If the CIA isn't doing
its job, so therefore, that's another exposure of the failure of American intelligence. The president feels a need to find out what Jin Ping's thinking
because he wasn't properly briefed. But he wasn't properly briefed, not only because the intelligence community doesn't know, but because he doesn't want anybody telling him Donald Trump
has to be the man that knows more than anybody else in the world about everything. So therefore, he knows nothing. Um, it was a total failure this
trip. Um he was told by um Xihinping something very important about Taiwan and this is
why it's relates to Russia. Basically he was told that Taiwan is of existential importance to China. China will not
tolerate any aspect of any policy that seeks to create a divide between Taiwan and China and that anybody who seeks to
do so um there will be conflict war. So, China put the United States on notice that if they continue to pursue the
policies they're pursuing, there will be a war between China and the United States because Taiwan is of existential importance. Now, why is this important?
This was done very publicly by Jinping.
Um, Vladimir Putin is getting ready to visit. You want the best indirect communication possible.
Define a scenario that says Taiwan is of existential importance, that China is willing to go to war to defend that.
You have Putin coming in getting ready to expand a conflict dramatically against Ukraine and Europe. Um, and I believe we're going to be seeing a major
military strike against at least Latafia and maybe Germany and other countries. That's just the way it's going to be.
But Putin doesn't have to come in and ask permission or say this. Xiinping just told him,
"We believe that Ukraine is to you what Taiwan is to us, and we're willing to go to war to defend our interest in Taiwan,
and therefore we will accept whatever you have to do to defend your interests in Ukraine up to an including conflict
with Europe. Um, you know, that's the signal. Then they back it up by sitting down and not distancing themselves or going to patient you know this by
signing meaningful agreements strategic energy agreements. I mean how does the United States have any leverage? What the leverage Trump wanted was to say I
control Venezuelan oil. I control Iranian oil. Therefore I control 23% of your energy market. And if you don't do what I want to do, I'll strangle you to
death. That's why JJ Ping looked at Steven Miller. You know the long handshake and the stern look basically saying we're on to you. How's it how's
it feel to be you right now? Not very good, does it? Because everything you thought you were going to get, you didn't get. Marco Rubio was there, you know, he had sanctions placed on him.
But um my understanding is that the uh the the Chinese let him in not by lifting sanctions, but just by renaming him. And we weren't smart enough to pick
up on the the significance because the name basically meant you're a loser.
That's what literally they stopped calling him Rubio. I think Lubio and it means when you break it down, you're a man who's an absolute loser. You're
you're disgusting. You're no good. And Rubio never even picked up on that. He just did what he, you know, went there and was humiliated because all the policies been promagating have turned out to be empty, shallow, ineffective.
The same thing with Scott Bess, his goal to bring Iran to its or China through its knees by denying it energy, undone.
And one of the ways it was undone, not just by Iran's continued survival, but the energy agreement with Russia. Now Russia, you know, the uh Trans Siberian 2 pipeline is alive and well and living.
We're looking at, you know, agreements of unprecedented labor, unprecedented scope and scale. Uh Russia and China are not just neighbors.
They're good neighbors with strategic interests that are mutually beneficial and in direct opposition to the strategic goals objectives of the United
States under Donald Trump. That's the significance of this meeting. Uh there are people in the United States who apparently have read Henry Kissinger's
works and believe that they can replicate his effort to divide China from Russia, from the Soviet Union. That isn't going to work. The United States
isolated itself by not having any policies, having nothing to contribute and showing that they are agreement incapable and showing the inherent
dishonesty and lack of integrity of the president of the United States. And they replaced it with a man who gets along with Xiah Ping famously. I mean, you
remember the the scene where Trump is in the uh in the garden, he turns to Xin Ping, he goes, "You never brought anybody here before." I mean, it's like
a lover turning, you know, you didn't bring your wife here, but you brought me. Well, it turns out he brought a lot of people there, including Putin. But,
um, it doesn't matter. Um, you know, that's that's Trump's insecurity. Now, imagine how he felt now when Jin Ping brings Putin down, brings up and there's
a giant portrait of the two of them together, smiling friends. You know, there was no Donald Trump portrait, you know. So, Donald Trump knows that he's the outcast.
He he runs around pretending he has a special relationship with Xia Ping. He doesn't. He doesn't. Vladimir Putin does. And that's the that's the big takeaway.
Yeah. Yeah. I mean the proof is in the the pudding. I mean uh Xinping and Putin are signing agreements. They signed
literal documents that uh are binding and that will strengthen the relationship. Uh Donald Trump went in
and didn't get a damn document. There was no document signed. Um we would have known about that. uh and uh and and as
exactly as you said, whatever has been verbally agreed upon is all contingent upon the the relationship between the US
and China, which we know is uh uh uh on rocky uh ground in large part because of
a decade or so of US policy that's gotten only more aggressive, which Trump played a big role in. So, uh, unless we think the Chinese are stupid and China
is stupid, uh, this was all all, uh, uh, you know, professionally and intentionally done and went the way it
was supposed to go. Um, Scott, any final comments, uh, before we head out of here? Anything that we didn't hit on?
Uh, what uh, please uh, you take it away.
Well, I mean, I'm always hesitant to do predictive analysis in this day and age, especially when it deals with uh any policies that the United States is
involved in, but um I would say that I think we're we're going to see um the Ukraine issue come to a head
dramatically very soon. I think uh you know Vladimir Putin just signed off on what he called long range sanction plan
for June and he said that basically that uh Ukraine is going to double down on stupid and expand the uh the drone
campaign against Russia. Um the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum begins on June 3rd. Um
I'm going to be there. Um I I'm appearing in a panel on June 4th talking about the future of diplomacy and international relations. Uh
I think my report card will be bleak but um the the the point is um this is one of the if it's the largest forum of its
kind. It swamps Davos in terms of size, scope, scale. A Davos gets hyped up in the western media by a bunch of speeches. But this one is where actual
contracts are signed, business is done, tens of thousands of people show up. Um it's the most influential form of this kind. It's just a shame that the United
States locks itself out because of Russophobic policies. But if you think for a second that this flagship of Russian economic development is going to
be threatened by Ukrainian drones, think again. On victory day, May 9th, Russia made it clear that if Ukraine attacked Moscow during the parade, that Kiev,
downtown Kiev, Bankova, the administrative sector would disappear.
1 hourUm, I believe that that's still on board and if Ukraine expands these these attacks, Kiev will disappear. But it now
is apparent that um the Baltic states in addition to providing a corridor through which Ukrainian drones can be launched against St. Petersburg and the invers
there uh Latvia is providing actual bases so that the drones can be launched closer. Um and the the the the reaction
time is greater. You know this is a direct threat. Um look at the map understand that Vladimir Putin normally comes to St. Petersburg International
Forum speaks on the last day, holds a very famous um you know open mic thing where he takes questions on a panel. You
think the the the Russian president's going to go there and uh and say please attack me, please kill me, please try and do what you want to do. Um so I
think that Latafia will literally be struck very hard. Uh it's a question about whether or not the um the
extension goes into Germany. There's every reason to believe if certain kind of drones are used, FP5 Flamingos for instance, that the German production
facilities might be hit as well. But the Russians are done playing games. Um, this war is going to come to a dramatic conclusion sooner rather than later
because now instead of dealing with the war of attrition at the grassroots level, which Russia is winning, by the way, dramatically, um, don't believe me,
just look at the special inspector general report issued on Operation Atlantic Resolve, I think they call it.
Um, and you'll see that Russia's dominating the entire war for the first time. The truth is being told. All those other uh pro- Ukrainian uh social media sites out there saying the opposite.
They're just throwing crap at you. The facts don't back up anything they say.
Uh but Russia normally when they talk about attrition warfare, they they don't attach a calendar date to it. They just say that we're going to go as long as it
needs to go to get the objectives. But now because of the long range sanctions that Ukraine is doing, these drone attacks, this is an existential problem for Russia that has to be resolved
sooner rather than later. And I believe that the decision already been made to to do this. I think Latafia will be taken off the map. I think Kev will be
taken off the map. And um I think Russia will basically say if anybody else wants to step up and play, we can up the game to them as well.
Yeah, we didn't get to talk uh deeply about Ukraine this time around, but uh the actions continue to push uh Russia
in this direction. So, uh Scott, thank you so much for the analysis. Uh we're going to head out together. I want to make sure everyone knows that your website is in the video description
below. So, that's where people can support you and all of your work. Uh so, go there after the show, hit the like button as you do that. That helps keep
boosting the show. Um and uh all the places to support this program too are in the video description. I'm on with Army Nwani tomorrow 12:00 noon Eastern
time. So do come through for another program. Um until next time. Scott, any last words?
No, I just again I appreciate all the support. Like I said, I'm going to Russia end of this month and um I have an extensive program uh involved. I was
just invited to go to Ufa, which is the capital of Bashkir, the Bashkir Republic. Uh people might not know but my background is a Russian area studies
kind of person. I've specialized in uh certain aspects of bashir history.
Zechan is a guy I follow. So this is a thrilling thing. But the point is to go to Russia. I gain access to Russian
information, the reality of Russia, bring it back and try to create antidotes to the disease of Russophobia so that we can deal with Russia more responsibly. That only happens uh with
your support. So, anybody who wants to support this trip and other trips, uh, kindly go to, um, you know, scottra.com to my Telegram page, go to the site says
donate and, uh, you know, whatever you donate, it all adds up. Um, but I'm a totally 100% self-funded independent journalist. Uh, I'm not Putin's puppet.
I'm not on the Russian payroll and, uh, won't be. Uh, this is why you can, you know, I may make mistakes, but any mistakes that are made are mine, not
because somebody tried to influence me or do anything like that. And uh you know I I I strive to be as mistake free as possible when I go to Russia and
report on these issues. So u I appreciate the support that people have provided and any support that anybody wants to provide going forward will be greatly appreciated.
All right everybody, you heard him. Uh we are heading out of here. Thanks to everyone who gave a super chat. I just put you all up. Uh all the moderators and of course everyone who viewed. Hit
the like button before you go. Uh check out Scott's work and I'll see you tomorrow 12 noon. Take care everyone. Bye-bye.

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Iran's DEVASTATING War Bombshell Shocks Trump, Netanyahu HUMILIATED | Sharmine Narwani
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Editor of the Cradle Sharmine Narwani joins the show to discuss the major reversal under way in the US-Israeli war on Iran and the bombshell dropped on Trump that is precipitating a massive geopolitical shift in the region and beyond.

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Revealed: An Anti-left Influence Operation in France Leads to Tel Aviv. A smear campaign distributed phony AI-generated nudes of a left-wing French candidate. A Haaretz-Libération investigation has uncovered systems for building an army of avatars – developed in Israel
By Omer Benjakob
May 18, 2026
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/sec ... aecb1b0000

A foreign influence operation aimed at France's hard-left party is being investigated by the country's security services, which seek to thwart a scheme run by a network of avatars and bogus websites.

The operation was designed to smear two candidates for mayor, of Marseille and Toulouse in the south, depicting them as pro-Palestinian and pro-Muslim – and as rapists. The French authorities suspect that the entity behind the operation is a previously unknown firm called BlackCore.

BlackCore's website, now offline, described the company as a cyber outfit with 15 years of experience, specializing in influence operations and information warfare for government and political clients. It boasted a "100 percent" success rate, but no real entity seems to stand behind that name.

A joint investigation by the French daily Libération and Haaretz, which analyzed BlackCore's digital footprint, uncovered a toolkit of influence-operation systems routed through servers in Britain, Germany, Finland and Lithuania. BlackCore's systems appear to have shared web infrastructure with websites that housed the internal systems of two Israeli companies – Galacticos and SNI.

Galacticos developed a technology for producing and managing avatars – digital personas deployed on social media as if they were real people – that, among other uses, can make it possible to run influence operations. However, no direct connection was found between Galacticos and the operation being investigated by the French.

Galacticos and SNI are owned by Guy Geyor – a tech entrepreneur and former contestant on the Israeli versions of "Survivor" and "The Bachelor" – and by the commercial lawyer Doron Afik. Both told Haaretz they never heard of BlackCore and had no political activity in France. Less than two hours after they were asked for comment, the remaining digital infrastructure of both BlackCore and Galacticos was pulled offline.

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François Piquemal, left, and Sébastien Delogu, France Unbowed politicians who were targeted by the operation. Credit: Sarah Meyssonnier/Reuters

The French operation was first exposed by Le Monde on March 9, a week before the country's local elections. The target was France Unbowed, the party of left-wing presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon. The first to be hit was Sébastien Delogu, the party's mayoral candidate in Marseille; "Sophie," a woman calling herself a blogger, accused him of rape and violence.

A separate site published phony AI-generated photos that purported to be nude pictures of Delogu, presented as part of an alleged Gaza fundraising campaign. A third site went after the party's mayoral candidate in Toulouse, François Piquemal. Another claimed to "help Muslim voters choose well" and steered them toward Mélenchon's hard-left slate. The whole package was amplified by a small army of fake accounts on social media.

After Le Monde's report, the operators behind the campaign tried to scrub their tracks, deleting avatars and websites, but digital traces remained online. A special investigative team from France's General Secretariat for Defense and National Security, the Interior Ministry, the election commission and Viginum, the agency tasked with detecting foreign manipulation and disinformation on social media, picked up the trail and identified BlackCore as the main suspect. BlackCore's name was first reported this weekend by Reuters.

Haaretz and Libération conducted an extensive analysis of BlackCore's online digital footprint, including its website and other sites that seem to be part of the wider effort. For example, there is the company's marketing website – a mini-site in Hebrew and English showcasing BlackCore's alleged flagship product, "political campaign management." It is built around the deployment of 1,600 avatars and fake social media accounts for the purposes of "infiltrating Facebook groups, manipulating trends, and skewing polls on TikTok and Instagram."

The investigation also turned up a "training program" for the Angolan government. It, too, detailed what seemed like an influence effort and was designed as a training program to teach content creation and the management of paid social media campaigns.

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BlackCore's presentation of what it called a training program for the Angolan government, designed to teach content creation and the management of paid social media campaigns.

On a dedicated BlackCore subdomain (angola-plan.blackcore.online), its operators hosted a Portuguese-language page titled "Campanha do Governo de Angola – Programa de Formação – Fevereiro 2026" ("Government of Angola Campaign – Training Program – February 2026"). In a sleek website probably designed using AI, a four-week course was outlined – it listed features including an active Meta Ads campaign, an active TikTok campaign and a three-month editorial calendar.

The investigation could find no legal entity called BlackCore registered in any country. Its website contained no identifying details about owners or executives, or a physical address. The domain blackcore.online was registered in an Icelandic registrar that allows owners to remain anonymous. The address was purchased only last August – by a company that presents itself as long-established.

Libération and Haaretz identified eight subdomains tied to BlackCore. One was active on a London-based server run by a Finnish cloud provider that hosted only a small handful of other websites that all had shared characteristics.

Analysis of the London server's activity shows that, since August 2025, it has hosted only four main websites, so-called network domains that hosted an array of subpages. Two of the main websites contained BlackCore's activity, a third was named Omri Systems and a fourth was called Electric Marinade.

Cybersecurity and disinformation researchers who reviewed the sites and web data connecting them found many technical indicators linking Omri Systems and Electric Marinade domains and subdomains, including those hosted on other servers. The names of internal systems found on the London server provide some insight into what they do: "avatar-generator," "agent-maker" and "fb-search," for example, with "fb" meaning Facebook.

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Avatar creation systems and other offerings offered on the Omri Systems and Electric Marinade domains.

The London server's domains, active until a few weeks ago, hosted a collection of different systems that required a username and password to log in to, tools through which an influence campaign could be conducted. For example, one login page was called "Galacticos AI Avatar Generator Login Page."

A source familiar with Galacticos told Haaretz that the company had developed a product that generates avatars that can be deployed both for influence operations and the monitoring of social media – as both require active accounts.

Galacticos AI, the investigation found, is the brand name of Galacticos Ltd., which according to Israel's companies registry was incorporated in Tel Aviv in April 2022 under the name Pagecorn Ltd. A year later it changed its name to Mycelium Intelligence Networks, and then to Galacticos in 2024.

Afik, the commercial lawyer, holds 51 percent of the company's shares, and Geyor 28 percent. Geyor is also the person who registered the galacticos.ai domain, where he listed the site as belonging to SNI.

SNI – Strategic Network Intelligence Ltd. – is registered at the same Tel Aviv address as Galacticos; its main shareholders are Afik and Geyor. One of the locked systems uncovered on the London server bore the SNI name.

Afik and Geyor have been joined by people with a background in intelligence or experience in technology, who together hold less than a 10 percent stake in the two companies. Nir Benita, according to his LinkedIn profile, served in the famed Unit 8200, and Daniel David Levy, Galacticos' chief technology officer, is listed as the contact person on the company's domain registration. Neither responded to questions from Haaretz and Libération.

Geyor has not previously been linked to business involving anything related to avatars or campaigns. He is best known as a reality show contestant and as the founder of the wedding-payments startup Easy2Give, also known as Going Dutch, a digital gifting service. In April, Easy2Give announced a merger with the shell company Axillion. The legal work on the merger was done by his partner Afik's firm.

One additional name has surfaced around Galacticos: Yigal Unna, the former head of Israel's National Cyber Directorate. Unna told Haaretz and Libération that he never played any role at the company, which he was told was in the business of social media monitoring.

According to Unna, Afik approached him two years ago about an "OSINT [open-source intelligence] and social network startup focused on protecting commercial brands" and used him to help find clients. "I didn't see any real company. There's no CEO and no full-time VP of marketing. I never met any employees – it was a kind of improvisation," Unna said, adding that he received no payment and had no contact with the firm this year.

Geyor told Haaretz: "I and the company don't know who BlackCore is, and we never had any connection with them. We have no activity in France – certainly no political activity." He confirmed that the company is linked to Omri Systems but said that this network domain is an internal system, unusable, still in development, and has never been sold or operated.

Galacticos "has no affiliation, partnership or prior knowledge regarding BlackCore, and no connection to the party France Unbowed," Afik said, adding that his company has never worked with any French entity. He confirmed that his firm "has a product in development," but said it never owned, operated or used a domain called Electric Marinade.

BlackCore, meanwhile, continues an infamous lineage of Israeli influence-for-hire firms. In 2023 a Haaretz-TheMarker investigation, together with the Forbidden Stories consortium, exposed Team Jorge, which operates out of Modi'in halfway between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Meta has exposed a long list of such firms in recent years, including one that a Haaretz investigation revealed also ran campaigns for Israel.

More recently, working with local reporters, Haaretz revealed that Slovenia's intelligence service is investigating an operation by Black Cube, whose people visited Ljubljana, Slovenia, this year – an incident that drew angry responses including from France, which has positioned itself at the forefront of the fight against foregn influence.

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Israeli soldiers say looting, destruction ‘primary mission’ in southern Lebanon
21 May 2026 6:08 PM [ Last Update: Thursday, 21 May 2026 6:08 PM
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/05/2 ... rn-Lebanon

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According to the soldiers’ accounts, the war on Lebanon has acquired a hidden objective of collecting spoils and exacting revenge on Lebanese civilians.

Israeli soldiers occupying southern Lebanon have engaged in widespread looting of civilian homes and businesses alongside the systematic destruction of villages, with commanding officers turning a blind eye to the practice, according to testimonies published by Haaretz.

Five soldiers from different units described a battlefield culture resembling that of a “Viking army,” where discipline has given way to moral disintegration and a lawless environment prevails, the newspaper reported.

“For most of the senior commanders, it did not matter. Soldiers looted even when the brigade commander came to visit, and he turned a blind eye,” one soldier testified.

According to the soldiers’ accounts, the war on Lebanon has acquired a hidden objective beyond confronting Hezbollah: the collection of spoils and exacting revenge on Lebanese civilians.

One reservist described an “unofficial mission” as “taking out all the loot” – unloading stolen goods at outposts so they would be waiting for soldiers when they returned home.

The testimonies portray a systematic practice in which soldiers, after clearing homes of any possible resistance presence, would begin “locating valuable items.”

Shops were described as particularly lucrative targets, with soldiers emptying stores of food, cigarettes, cleaning supplies, stationery, and other goods for personal use.

Even everyday supplies consumed at military outposts were sourced from Lebanon, soldiers said.

“At any given moment, you could see soldiers walking around the village carrying with them civilians’ belongings,” one soldier told the newspaper. “It felt like the primary mission.”

One soldier described his battalion commander as “the most extreme,” noting that he “refused to go home, the smile never left his face. He was in a state of exaltation, like a die-hard fan whose team wins a championship after 20 years.”

“I felt that beyond the border, it is okay to be crazy,” the soldier added.

Another reservist told Haaretz that the military’s main mission in southern Lebanon was the destruction of homes.

He described a commander’s pre-invasion speech as “a pagan ritual” and noted that when his unit entered one village, “there were no militants. The houses were empty. There was no fighting there at all – only operations to flatten homes.”

“There was no reason other than revenge,” the reservist said, adding that homes, schools, and clinics were destroyed without stated military justification.

Much of the demolition work was carried out by private contractors, including “extreme settlers” as well as Bedouin and Druze workers.

According to Haaretz, the military believes the reported cases represent only “the tip of the iceberg,” given footage circulating on social media showing soldiers vandalizing and looting property.

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Hezbollah fighters vow no rest until Israeli occupiers are expelled from Lebanon.
Hezbollah fighters have pledged that they will neither rest nor settle until every Israeli occupier is driven from the Lebanese soil.

Israeli historian Adam Raz, who has written about the looting of Palestinian property during the 1948 Nakba, said last month that while “looting was part of every Israeli war,” what is new is “the total indifference.”

“The senior command turns a blind eye, the criminality continues, and the crime achieves its goals,” he said.

The phenomenon extends beyond Lebanon. Human rights monitors have documented similar practices in Gaza and the West Bank, describing a “clear pattern of theft during Israeli military operations” that has become “an effective policy of the state and the army.”

Legal experts note that such behavior constitutes a violation of Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which absolutely prohibits looting in armed conflicts.

The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court classifies looting as a war crime, particularly when it acquires systematic or widespread characteristics.

The testimonies emerged as Israeli atrocities continue in Lebanon despite a US-announced ceasefire last month.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported that approximately 100,000 Lebanese have fled their homes in recent days, with at least 3,020 people killed and more than 9,200 injured since the escalation began on March 2.