Max Blumenthal: Charlie Kirk BOMBSHELL Revelation | Middle East Faces Total COLLAPSE
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Hi everybody. Today is Wednesday, October 1st, 2025 and our friend Max
Blumenthal joins us. Welcome Max. Good to see you Nemo.
Max, let's start with last time we talked about Charlie Kirk and since then we have a lot of conspiracy theories
theories coming out but the main issue would be the case of Israel that the
letter that Charlie Kirk wrote to Israel two days ago we had an article on New York Post saying that in that letter he
showed he wrote about his deep love for Israel and yesterday
Candace Owen During her podcast, he she challenged TPUSA about
the way that Charlie Kirk really felt about Israel. Here is what she said before going to your com. Thanks.
Turning Point USA executives to issue a very clean statement saying that I am
lying if this is not true. About 48 hours before Charlie Kirk died, Charlie informed people at Turning Point, as
well as Jewish donors and a rabbi, that he had no choice but to abandon the
pro-Israel cause outright. Okay, Charlie was done. He said it explicitly that he
refused to be bullied anymore by the Jewish donors. Did Can you guys answer? Did he express that? Um, did he also
express that he wanted to bring me, Candace Owens, back because he was standing up for himself? And then did he
just 48 hours later conveniently catch a bullet to the throat before our onstage
reunion could happen? It's a yes or a no. Okay, let's stop this ditching.
Let's not the dodging. Let's like explicitly I want to hear from Turning Point USA that I'm lying about that. I
want you to say no. No. Yeah, you get the way that she's But how
do you see the whole situation with Charlie Kirk and Israel? M Max,
I mean it's a it's a bigger discussion about the American public in Israel and
the complete collapse of American support. And so there was this letter
that Netanyahu initially presented when he wanted to claim the legacy of Charlie
Kirk, but he didn't re release the full letter and just said, "Charlie sent me a letter." And it outlines his love for
Israel. And I invited him come to Israel two weeks before his death. Netanyahu
didn't say if Charlie Kirk had agreed to come to Israel. He didn't uh explain
what the contents were. And so Candace Owens has been demanding that he release
the full letter. And I did so as well on the show of Charlie Kirk's friend Matt
Gates, who also is very uncomfortable with the special relationship in which
Israel dominates American affairs in the region and basically bosses around the
president and Congress. This is a former member of Congress. So Netanyahu does soon after that or someone close to
Netanyahu releases this letter. It was obviously an exercise in damage control.
And the letter is a digital reproduction of something. It's undated.
And what it contains is more complex than the way some who have either
deliberately attempted to spin it to make Charlie Kirk seem like this dieh hard died in the will ride or die Israel
supporter. Uh or though like like for example Bill Aman promoted that letter as well as the
New York Post. Bill Aman the billionaire Netanyahu cutout who I exposed for
hosting this secret pro-Israel influencer summit with Charlie Kirk back in August. You know,
so he was determined to show that Charlie Kirk was on board with Israel and so too was the New York Post, which
is a vehicle for Netanyahu's propaganda machine. But if you look at the letter,
the contents are much more complex. I mean, and and and you can see Charlie
Kirk doesn't understand the position he's in as a Israeli subcontractor, and he's asking Netanyahu and Israel to do
the work of Israeli propaganda in the US rather than contract out to all of these
highly influential Gentiles. He doesn't get how it works. The other thing is the letter supposedly was dated in May. And
that's that was it's almost like it felt like light years away from where Charlie
Kirk wound up in August following this very uncomfortable influencer summit where he was screamed at by a Zionist
fanatic who's a UK lawyer named Natasha Heddorf and
basically the the if you look at the timeline and the chronology the letter comes out in May. He also is uh urging
Netanyahu to make his own case for the war on Iran and stating that the American public is against the war and
that he doesn't want to be a lobbyist for a war for another country in that
letter. The war comes in June. Charlie Kirk is in the White House lobbying against the war. That's a fact. I
reported that first and then um JD Vance thei the the vice president of the US
corroborated what I reported as did Tucker Carlson. Then July the student
action summit of TPUSA in Florida where Tucker Carlson lashes out at Bill Aman.
everyone uh from him to Megan Kelly to um Rob Schneider, the comedian, calls
Jeffrey Epstein a Mossad agent and says the po the president needs to, you know, tell the public the truth, which made
Trump very uncomfortable as well as Israel. And they have this debate about the Gaza genocide with comic Dave Smith,
an anti-ionist Jew on stage. You're not supposed to debate this. So Charlie Kirk just he's not doing what his donors
want. His donors want total loyalty to Israel and they want the influential Gentiles to make the case for the
self-proclaimed Jewish state in the US. He's not doing it anymore. Then the influencer summit in August. A day after
that summit, he goes on former Fox News host show Megan, the show of former Fox News host Megan Kelly and complains
about stakeholders and funders who are bossing him around and complains, "I have less ability to criticize Israel
than Israelis do." So, it's very clear there's a difference in what happened between August and May with Charlie
Kirk. And then, as I reported, he lost his one of his biggest, if not his
absolute biggest donor a month later, right before his death, Robert Schillman, who is not just an
anti-Palestinian ludnik billionaire moneyman in the United
States. He's an anti-Islam activist. He funds Tommy Robinson to wage a race war
in the UK. He's funding Laura Loomer. He has funded Laura Loomer. He funded Geilders, the politician in the
Netherlands who wants to ban the Quran. This is like an extreme figure and he
actually according to my sources and haven't heard anything from Robert
Schilman demanded that a plaque that was going to be erected inside TPUSA
headquarters in Phoenix not go up in his name. took the money away. I mean, we're
talking about over $6 million here that he has allegedly contributed.
So, by and by the end, as I also revealed, there were these 10 Zoom calls
that Charlie Kirk had to call into constantly where he would meet with a consortium of
10 or so Netanyahu cutouts in the US. One of them was Shawn Maguire from
Sequoia Capital who I think helped coordinate Elon's visit to Israel.
Uh fanatical Zionist said Zoron Mandani comes from a culture of deception. Uh
Joshua Hammer from Newsweek, he's an editor who called for on October 8th, 2023 called for Gaza to be raised to the
ground and turned into a football stadium. and Bill Aman. Then there was
this rabbi in an American rabbi who now lives in an Israeli settlement, Pesiki,
who was basically Charlie Kirk's personal Israeli handler, and said that he was
speaking to him on an almost daily basis. Charlie Kirk was pushing back and
uh that they were trying to establish a WhatsApp group so they could basically instead of speaking to him daily speak to him minute after minute about what to
say on his upcoming tour. And they were really worried about his upcoming tour because these Netanyahu cutouts believed
that Charlie Kirk would be besieged by students, conservative students, asking him uncomfortable questions about the
US-Israeli relationship and they wanted him to defend Israel and they didn't think he was going to do it. So
Netanyahu could not credibly claim Charlie Kirk's legacy as he was shifting.
And my understanding based on what Candace publicly said is that she was having conversations with Charlie Kirk
towards the end about his transformation. And I'm hoping that she will come out with more. But this letter
was an obvious exercise in damage control. on anyone who's, you know, on the,
you know, anti-ionist side who believes that that letter shows that Charlie Kirk
is was just this pro-Israel fanatic and doesn't understand the real role he was
playing and what it says about the larger role of political operatives who
are basically relying on this Zionist billionaire donor class in the US is
playing Netanyahu's game, advancing game. And now, I mean, we're how many
weeks out from this assassination? We've learned so much. There's still so many questions about the assassination
itself, but we've learned so much more about how Netanyahu is operating. When I
say Netanyahu, it's because there he represents the dominant political mafia
in Israel, which has entrenched itself particularly within the Republican party through money from the adds, the Marcus
family, various other sort of Zionist mafias in the US. And they're they're
almost in they're totally focused on the Republican party and the conservative grassroots, which is why I say Netanyahu
cutouts. And why? Because there's no point in
dealing with the Democratic Party grassroots, which is sort of like progressives, progressive youth. Um,
they're done. The the the there in every poll, it shows singledigit support for
Israel among that demographic. But for conservatives, older Republicans over 40
still support Israel in whopping numbers. But if you go down to the under
35 constituency, it gets lower and lower and opposition
to US aid to Israel completely collapses. And what you actually have seen on the tour that Charlie Kirk was
supposed to carry out where he's had these various um sort of guest figures
filling his chair like Megan Kelly herself is they are being besieged with
questions about Israel, very sophisticated questions asking about Zionist billionaires like Robert
Schillman and Bill Aman like they're calling them out by name and asking do you think we have an inappropriate
relationship with Israel? And Megan Kelly cannot answer the questions. She's deflecting and she herself is under
attack from Israel because she's uh you know kind of a a threat to their
narrative. So what is Netanyahu doing? He's got is
his government just hired Trump's former campaign manager. His name is Brad Pascal
to the tune of $1.5 million a month for the next four months to recruit Gen Z
influencers. All of them are going to be like conservative oriented anti-woke
race baiters and to game the algorithm of chat GPT to
work on mechanisms for making sure that chat GPT does not deliver answers that
interfere with Israel's narrative. And on those influencers, there's a company that's been set up by Israel in Germany.
It's sort of like a third party to channel money into these influencers in
the US. And according to the contract, if you break down the math, some
influencers are getting paid $7,000 per post per post, which means they could be
getting like $100,000 a month. I mean, I don't know how much getting for dialogue works, but it's like uh very tempting if
you have no soul to just sell out. Um, I mean, one figure who's probably getting
millions of dollars, they're recruiting cultural figures. Aelia Banks, this this uh washed up rapper who's sort of a
loudmouth on Twitter X, is going to perform in Israel on October 7th. They just straight up bought her. Um, you
know, they noticed that she was like trashing Palestinians, so they just bought her. I mean, I I bet I guarantee
you she's gotten millions of dollars. So this is this is not these are not the actions of a country that is confident
about its narrative and that thinks that it's winning the PR battle. It's these
are the death pangs. It's sort of the death rattle of a multi-billion dollar
hosah complex. And you know in Washington DC where I am, the city is
now filled with these billboard trucks showing images of pe frightened people
on October 7th and atrocities on October 7th. Many of them actually committed by the Israeli military against their own
citizens. They're just everywhere in DC. I mean there are like dozens of these trucks. Who's paying for it? So they're
losing. And Charlie Kirk was really one of the most clear
symbols of Israel's propaganda defeat, which is why they're spinning it and doing so much damage control.
Max, what's going on? I think what you've mentioned is is so much important
for Israel, the public opinion. When you look at the support, the support that goes to Israel from Europeans and from
the United States, you see the public opinion in Europe totally is, you know,
against what Israel is doing in Gaza. But in the United States, it seems to me that they had some sort of hope with
TPUSA that they can change the mood because we had an article on New York
Times and seven out of 10 Americans, young under 30, they're against economic
and military aid to Israel in the United States. This is where
concerns the most the government in Israel and Net administration and
they're trying to do everything. That's why I think the new guy who's somehow
replacing Charlie Kirk is totally pro- Israel. Do you think they do do they really believe that they can change the
public reshape the public opinion among the young people in the United States?
They they don't have any other choice. There is no Charlie Kirk replacement by the way. There was this guy Brian
Hollyan Hollyan who just got uh who who positioned
himself as the next Charlie Kirk and TPUSA has just disowned him. Someone was paying for him to go to campuses in a
private jet as Charlie Kirk did by the way. Um not exactly the best steward of
donor money. But there's no replacement for Charlie Kirk. There never will be.
and he was sort of straddling the divide between the donor class that was paying for his McMansion in Scottsdale,
Arizona, and McMansions for all of his buddies who were getting in on the TPUSA grift where none of the money really
went to like actual political campaigns. It was just routed to different contractors and cronies. It was sort of
like a televangelist operation and then they would put on these Super Bowl style
hoopla fililled events with pyro technics that uh were flashy but I'm not
sure uh what what effect they had other than sort of u setting a narrative and
the narrative that they were setting was shifting because of the conservative grassroots not because of Charlie Kirk's
direction and the conservative grassroots increasingly was rejecting what they would consider to be con or
conservative incorporated. This astrourfed Republican party
driven brand of conservatism that was I said astroturfed paid for often by
Israel first billionaires but branded as America first and they were rejecting
it. So where does it go now? Um, TPUSA
is having a major another one of these Super Bowl bonan style bonanzas called
America Fest in December. And the keynote speaker is going to be Tucker Carlson.
They haven't replaced him. And Marjgerie Taylor Green, the leading Israel critic in Congress today, more outspoken than
AOC and all most of the squad. I mean, you don't even hear from them, the sort of progressive left members of the
Democratic party. You barely hear from them on this issue partly because Trump is president. So the friction is between
Marjgerie Taylor Green and Trump who helped create her. And so the friction will be present on stage at TPUSA.
What what did Tucker Carlson say at Charlie Kirk's memorial? He said uh you
know he likened him to Jesus Christ which was a little extreme.
and then said that people who are sitting around eating hummus didn't like what Jesus was saying so they decided to
kill him. I mean, who's sitting around eating hummus today?
Uh, who would have killed Charlie Kirk? I mean, was it just like I don't know,
Tyler Robinson? Was he eating hummus like Sabra Hummus in his
uh apartment with his furry roommate? Is that what Tucker Carlson was implying? I don't think so. So Tucker is really
crossing some red lines for the Zionist movement. They hate him. They really
want to to silence Tucker Carlson and they can't do it. So this this sort of
train is still moving ahead and there's it's a ghost train. TPUSA is just like
this ghost train that has tons of money because of the the figure and image of Charlie Kirk and everyone's fighting to
try to claim his legacy. But ultimately, it's conservative youth under 35 who are
going to determine where things go because TPUSA can't credibly continue to
raise money uh without filling the chairs. and at the same time they can't raise money
without appeasing these Israel first billionaires. So how will they square that contradiction? It's not clear to me
that they can. So I've been predicting that the clash that we saw at the Democratic convention in 2024 where the
Democrats actually had to shut down a potential speech by a Palestinian speaker and shut down resolutions
against the Gaza genocide. Kla Harris issued some pathetic rhetoric
about the suffering of Palestinian civilians and then said, "But Hamas raped everybody on October 7th." You
know, further alienating the progressive grassroots. That's going to play out at the Republican convention increasingly
in 2028 and beyond. And there are other
issues beyond Gaza or Israel. For them, it's the wars. Conservative youth,
like progressive youth, are not on board with a war on Iran, nor are they supportive of the war that Trump
promised to end in Ukraine. It's all going to play out in an in a way we
haven't seen before. And we're going to see these parties like the bipartisan duopoly exposed as an undemocratic
hologram that only represents the donor class.
You talked with the president of Iran when he came to New York and what was
his position? What did he say about the conflict? Because as we know that the
aerial tankers the United States moved them to Europe 3
days ago and right now they arrived to Alodide air base in Qatar and they're
trying to do something the same sort of movement that we've seen during the first conflict between direct war
between Iran and Israel. It seems that they're preparing to do something. And what was the mood on the part of
Iranians? Well, just a quick point on that. Uh
Netanyahu threatened Iraq in his speech at the UN General Assembly. Many might
have missed that. He was threatening the popular mobilization forces.
And so any mobilization by the US in the region to support an Israeli strike
could go beyond Iran. At this point, Netanyahu, I think he held up the
plaque, his his graphic on the blessing and the curse, and the curse extends deep into Iraq. And this is a problem
for the United States because the popular mobilization forces have at least temporarily
momentarily helped stabilize Iraq uh by integrating with the Iraqi military.
These aren't just these aren't militias. and that has prevented operations on US
bases that are right there. So, Israel is threatening the stability that has at
least momentarily benefited the United States.
Iranian President Massud Pzeskian came to New York with a pretty clear
agenda which was to carry out a lastditch attempt to prevent
snapback sanctions which of course failed. It was a done deal. The hypocritical E3 of the Europeans was
determined to impose this no matter what. They cannot allow the economic and
hybrid war on Iran to end or to extend as the Russians and the Russian and
Chinese delegation sought to just extend the JCPOA for six more months. They couldn't let that happen. The Europeans
went along completely with the unprovoked Israeli assault on Iran back
in June. But Iran and this government in particular want to use every ounce of
negotiating leverage that they have and send a signal back to the parts of the
Iranian public which are um I guess less
politically uh inclined to to support the Islamic
Republic that they've tried everything and that there's nothing they can do and that they've essentially been betrayed
by their negotiating partners before the next round of war. So I was invited with
a group of journalists and think tank analysts and peace activists to a on
thereord meeting outside the UN with Peshkan. And his message was pretty
simple. War for sure they will attack Iran again. Those were his words. And he
even forecasted the scenario of his own assassination or an attempt on his life.
And it was reported that Pizkan escaped narrowly from an Israeli assassination attempt in the last round. And he wanted
to send the message that Iran is prepared for all contingencies including his own assassination. They have
prepared five to six steps ahead. Uh, I listened with
um some uh trepidation and I guess horror to
your interview with my friend Muhammad Morandi where he said pretty much the
same thing that Iran is prepared to replace him as well. This is someone
who's not even in the government, who is just a private commentator, but he plays such a prominent role um with his
command of the facts and the English language in international media that he
had to consider that Israel would target him as well. Israel's just this gigantic assassination machine that has been
slaughtering any journalist in the Gaza Strip. So now even private commentators in Iran have to consider that they could
be a target on their back. This is what Iran is mobilizing for. And Peskan was
also speaking to us because we have a direct channel to the American
public. There were figures from the American Conservative magazine there and figures from the left. Uh
so he was basically speaking to the part of the public, the American public that's anti-war.
And one of his principal complaints was the concept of terrorism especially
after Israel's attack on Qatar where it attempted to wipe out the entire Hamas
negotiating team in order to eliminate just end negotiations altogether but
that it attacked inside a US ally. Um the attack struck a building that was in
a densely populated neighborhood in Doha. It was school was getting out at that time and he said how come why are
we called the terrorists when Israel is waging not just a sevenfront war and
slaughtering children in Gaza but attacking inside a US ally in a densely populated civilian neighborhood carrying
out assassinations around the world. It was something that he spent a lot of time and breath on complaining about was
the western understanding of terrorism. And
finally, um, Peshkan
sort of solicited views on how relations could be improved between the US and
Iran because he has sim seemingly given up on any ability to move the American
president and his administration. And he said that Steve Witco, the Middle East envoy, would come to Doha for these
meetings, negotiations, and he said someone should have recorded this because he would tell us something very
positive about all the progress we were making moving back to a new deal. And then he would go back to Washington and
issue Bellose demands of us that sounded like Israel had told him what to say.
The hypocrisy was so out astounding they don't believe they can work with the
Americans again. My question to Peskian was to simply quote from a speech
delivered by Iran's leader Ayatollah Ali Hame on September 23rd where he said
that negotiating with the Americans at this point after what had just happened would be a declaration of national
surrender. And I asked Pzeskian if that was reflective of his view. Partly
because of the format of the meeting because uh there would be two rounds of questioning and then Peskan would
respond kind of in a generalized form
summing up all of the questions. I only got a generalized answer from him that
was not a yes or no, which was unfortunate. and uh Abasar Ragchi, the
foreign minister was seated beside him and interjected at one point during the
meeting that in 2018, Israel struck the Natan's facility with
an explosive device. Uh they destroyed something like 4,000 centrifuges
and the point of the Israeli attack was to sabotage negotiations with the
Americans. But it the Iranian negotiating team continued negotiating
while increasing enrichment to somewhere near 60%. That was their response and he
was suggesting this will be our response going forward and that they are flexible
about enrichment levels but only if they receive sanctions relief. That was the
message from Aragchi. Max, when it comes to Iran and the war
with Iran, do you see that the main objective of the United States and Israel are the same or they're somehow
different in the way that they see the conflict, the war with Iran?
How can we even define an American objective in Iran at this point independent of Israel? The American
objective has been outlined by Israel and shaped by Israel over the course of
several decades. So there is no the distinct American objective. The
American objective should be to negotiate with Iran for mutually
beneficial win-win uh trade deals and import export deals
so the US can have cheaper gas. I mean that's what the US objective should be.
But I Iran supports resistance in the region to the Gaza genocide.
A genocide I consider to be continuous over decades. That's the main the only
reason this is happening. Uh there's there's there's no need to to to pillillage Iran to get favorable deals
on oil. and ultimately following the Israeli objective into the next round
could lead to the closure of the straight of Hormuz which would devastate the global economy and even and worsen
the condition of the American consumer who's already s beginning to suffer the
effect of Trump's maximalist erratic tariffs.
So the the the Israeli objective is Netanyahu's objective which is regime change and that becomes the American
objective and the pretext is 60% enriched uranium stockpiles exist
somewhere in Iran. So we have to summon all of these US aircraft and send more and more of our dwindling THAAD missile
stock to defend Israel as it prepares for another attack. It's like the
pretext on Venezuela. the um Department of Justice and CIA created a fake cartel, declared that
Nicholas Maduro is the head of this cartel and that the US must attack inside Venezuela to eliminate cartels to
save the lives of Americans who are being poisoned. And anyone who's stupid enough to believe that will actually
support the real objective of Marco Rubio and the Gusano industrial complex
in South Miami in South Florida, which is regime change. They just the war on
drugs, the war on terror, these are just phony pretexts for US intervention. And
there and in in both cases, the United States is following the agenda of a malign fifth column that seeks to
exploit US military and economic power to carry out its narrow sectarian
agenda. With respect to Iran, Israel has lost the element of surprise that it
exploited in using the negotiations to attack Iran. I guess it was on uh
June 10th or no, so June 13th when it
was it killed numerous offduty IRGC commanders and nuclear scientists.
They've lost that at this point and there's no negotiation to lull Iran into a false sense of security. They've also
lost uh much of their capacity. I would it would seem that they've lost much of
their capacity to attack from within through Mossad's cells, especially with these sort of hidden drone bases inside
Iran, which did do a lot of damage. There were a lot of deportations of
Afghan migrants who are said to be sort of a a base for Assad recruitment inside Iran. They've lost that. But the most
important thing they've lost and Peskian spoke to this is the threat of regime
change from within from the Iranian people. Um I think one I mean it was the killing
of civilians and the like car bombings in in Taj in North Thran where you have
like a whole part of the population that opposes the Islamic Republic. the sort of middle and upper class starts to come
under attack and they begin to rally around the flag and support the military. Um, but there was one event
during the last 12-day conflict that I think really encapsulates the Israeli failure and it
was the attack on Evan prison, which is the prison that's said to hold political prisoners and dissident. And the
Israelis in this delusional neoconservative feverbrain state thought
that they if they attack with a missile strike the gate of Evan prison, it would
send a signal to all of the Iranians who hate the Islamic Republic to come out in the streets and that Israel will
liberate them. What they wound up doing was they killed a number of prisoners. They killed social workers and they
killed family members who were visiting the prisoners. And the Iranian republic, the Iranian public reacted with complete
disgust, including uh exiled dissidents who are backed by the West
like Nargas Muhammad condemned this. Uh what's that lady? The lady with the hair
condemned it. Whose whose name I I forget right now who's just like a basically a a CIA asset.
That that was the Israelis. So the Israelis completely failed to create chaos in the streets and this so this
round I think this next coming round will look much different and the idea of
regime change is off the table. It's going to be a much more violent
round of conflict and I think the Israeli objective here going back to the
beginning of my comments on this question is to drag the US in even more
deeply. um possibly get the US to deploy more of
its naval assets to get the US in a much more close quarters combat with Iran and
ultimately boots on the ground. Every American death against Iran will be a
death of American soldiers for Israel. That's the fact
that Donald Trump is talking about his peace deal for the situation in Gaza.
And what's so amazing that they don't mention the right of Palestinians gazins
to decide about their future. What do they want to be? What is the future in
their mind? And what is when you look at the these 20
21 point that he's mentioning in this which is in your opinion what points are
most most important the most important points in the peace deal and is that
going to be possible with what's going on in Gaza because Netno came out and said he doesn't care about but he's not
going to withdraw from Gaza so what's the point after with this peace plan in
your opinion? It's all been cooked up by the Israelis. This 21point peace plan
it and it's a ruse to paint Hamas as rejectionists after they have accepted
virtually every proposal. Uh which then you know they then they get rugged by
the US which says oh we had a proposal and then they go back and say well Hamas actually rejected it because Netanyahu
changes the proposal. than the US accepts Netanyahu's changes. So this was a more sophisticated propaganda ruse to
present a detailed coherent package. It took them a long time to get it together. They needed to demolish much
of Gaza to create the sense that there was a day after that was coming and imminent and they needed to get Tony
Blair on board as the sort of L. Paul Bremer referring to the head of the
coalition provisional authority that was a complete
absolute disaster for the Iraqi people during the US occupation of Iraq. uh
repackaged for Gaza with various uh tech solutions that will benefit Tony Blair
and his Tony Blair Institute, which has received something like $300 million from Larry Ellison, the ultra Zionist
billionaire who runs Oracle, the CIA and Israeli data contractor.
These are all like, you know, incentives or Tony Blair is just basically seeing
green here. So, you have Tony Blair as the head of the Gaza International Transitional Authority. I just looked
over their institutional structure documents, and it's laughable. Uh, there's a section on property rights for
people in Gaza who are acknowledged in the documents as being encouraged to
voluntarily migrate, but it says there there there will be a board to make sure that their property rights are
respected. Yeah. Right. Then in the 21point plan, there's this whole I mean
the emphasis is on Hamas being dradicalized. No one's going to be dradicalized when
you've destroyed their homes, ruined their lives, and continue killing their
family members. But it's dradicalization under occupation. This has always been a fantasy. It's like when Hillary Clinton
would talk about getting the hate out of Palestinian Authority school books, but without ending the occupation.
Hamas leaders will supposedly be given and members will be given safe passage if they put down their arms and then
utopia will ensue. It's an absolute joke. This is a pacification
plan to continue the genocide with the support of at least figures who are
known in the international community. and it will not end the violence against
Gaza because as we've seen in Syria when Syria agreed to be pacified under the uh
imposed leadership of former al-Qaeda leader Ahmed al- Sharah, Israel has continued to attack day after day, week
after week, destroying the remnants of the Syrian Arab army, destroying potential bases that Turkey was setting
up to train the new Syrian army. The attacks continue. I believe yesterday in
Ketra, the Israeli army actually displayed Israeli flags in the occupied Golan. And this was all while Ahmed
al-Shar was returning from New York where he met with one of Netanyahu's top
billionaire cutouts, Ronald Lauder, who has donated millions and millions of dollars not just to the Israel lobby,
but also to support Israeli settlement activity. uh no matter what he does, Syria
continues to be occupied, continues to be attacked. So if Gaza, if the resistance in Gaza gives up, they will
get the same treatment. Look at what's happening in southern Lebanon. There is a ceasefire between Hezbollah and
Israel. And what is Israel doing? It's fighting. It's waging its strategy of war between wars or mowing the lawn
where it continues to kill members of Hezbollah, continues to attack the homes
of the population in southern Lebanon and push create pressure on the puppet
government of Noah Salam to disarm Hezbollah along along with the US. So
this is this this plan is not a peace plan. It is a pacification plan a and it
will lead to further extermination of large numbers of the population in Gaza
which is why Hamas has reasserted its red line that it will not give up its
arms just as Hezbollah has reasserted that red line and I think you know after
the anniversary of the murder of Hassan Nasra it's
increasingly clear what role Hzbollah has played which is to keep Israeli
troops and Israeli occupiers out of Lebanon and protect the Lebanese people
from them. And if they do disarm, you will see Israel move in up to the up to
the Latani River and begin to take an increasingly aggressive role in on
Lebanese territory. Mark my words, Max, there is some sort of difference
between the United States and Israel when it comes to Syria. Al Shar was
talking with General Petraeus. He said that your success is our success.
Where is that position come from? You look at Israel is not that much
comfortable with the situation in Syria and the role of Turkey and you see the United States somehow trying to calm the
situation, bring them together. After all, what who's alsh to General
Petraeus that he sees that his success is General Petraeus success?
It raises a lot of questions about who al-Sharah aka Muhammad Jalan Jolani was
when he came out of camp Buah and it sends a
insulting message to the families of American veterans who were told that
they were fighting terrorism in during the surge in Iraq that General
Petraeus oversaw as the head of Sentcom when he was hailed as this master of
counterinsurgency. Well, he was fighting this insurgent group
in which uh Muhammad Golani was a rising member al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia. The next thing you know, he's on stage with the
leader with with a AQIM figure who later became the founder of Jabet al-Nusra,
al-Qaeda in Syria. If I if I, you know, were the mother of a veteran who died in Iraq, I'd be
pretty disgusted and angry with Petraeus and I would see this all as just, you know, that I'd realize the I would come
to uh have to reckon with the reality that
my son had just been a pawn in this great geopolitical conquest for the
Middle East, the great game. And that's the role that Shara plays to Petraeus.
Petraeus has been very close to the various players in US intelligence
who are managing the Syria dirty war. I would see him like go into meetings. I I
I once saw went to a meeting of the White Helmets, the Syrian White Helmets, which were a major sort of soft power
card for the US and Turkey and Qatar in the Syrian dirty war. And they came to
Washington at the Atlantic Council, which is the unofficial think tank of NATO. And Petraeus was sitting right there in the front row. And then he went
into a meeting with Riyad Salah, the sort of ostensible head of the White Helmets to a private meeting as they
wanted to manage uh the dirty war in which, you know, subsequent to that
meeting, the White Helmets made several false claims about chemical attacks which triggered Western intervention. So
Petraeus continues to wants to continue to be a player in Syria. And
uh when he says, you know, what was the quote? Our your your victory is our victory.
Your success is our success. Your success our success. When Petraeus says our success, that includes the
Israelis. I mean, it's all about guaranteeing Israel, Israel's
strategic depth in Syria, which essentially means giving up the Golan.
And my understanding of al-Sharah, talking to Syrians who've been to Syria since he took over, who've known um his
thinking and my own understanding of his thinking is he's willing to trade off um various
parts of Syria u maybe not the Latakia coast
in exchange. I mean, he's willing to basically lay down before Israel, but
his real objective is to transform the areas that he controls, the four main
population centers, into a kind of kandahar and import this kind of takiri
Islam into Syria, which a large percentage of the Syrian population rejects.
That's his vision. That's what he truly believes in. and he is a shrewd player who is making all the right moves in
order to do that. Um, and it starts with selling out to
the Israelis. And by the way, and Israel doesn't care if, you know, Aleppo turns into Kandahar. And if any if anything,
they prefer that. Remember what Moshe Yaon, the former Israeli defense minister said during the Syrian dirty
war? He said, "I prefer ISIS in the Golan Heights on the Syrian side
than I prefer the Syrian Arab Army and IRGC because they're actually a
competent fighting force that is uh committed to Palestine. ISIS, what are
they? They're a joke. Matt, looking at the Trump
administration, Donald Trump came was elected arguing that he is a negotiator.
He wants to negotiate with Iran, with Russia. What's happening to dollar is because of
these continuous endless wars with Iran, Russia, with the region. But you look at
the way that they're talking today. They're talking about Tomahawk missiles going to Ukraine. They're talking about
a new war with Iran. Who's deciding in this administration?
Who's the main the mastermind of the administration? Is there anybody there
to be called mastermind or it's a huge you know some sort of
division within the administration? Two forces, three forces, factions are fighting each other within the
administration. Yeah, I would say there are various factions, but the factions that are
winning represent the neoconservative faction that started this conquest, post
911 conquest under George W. Bush. So,
I keep saying that the Trump's second term feels like the third coming of
George W. Bush's first term. Lindsey Graham is the big winner on
Ukraine after Alaska. Trump has completely turned around and agreed to
new weapons deals, freezing negotiations and uh so is General Keith Kellogg.
Donald Trump on the Western Hemisphere has seated his agenda to Marco Rubio who
has quietly become the most important or influential figure within the national
security bureaucracy along with Steven Miller, the sort of
nivist fanatic who plays who is um backing up Rubio's plan to start to wage
a war inside Venezuela. Rubio controls actually more cabinet
level national security positions than anyone in the United States since Henry
Kissinger, but he's certainly not as savvy an operator as Henry Kissinger, but he's getting his way. And so these
three or four factions all have different agendas. The one faction that I think is losing out right now is the
faction of Elbridge Colby who is in Trump's kitchen cabinet of
national security adviserss who is an anti-China fanatic who sees the
uh ultimate objective of US empire to be neutralizing or weakening the Chinese
threat as China supersedes the US as a global economic power using not military
force but trade and infrastructure and
the belt and road initiative and the expansion of bricks. So Elbridge KBY
would be terrified by the prospect of another conflict over Iran because it
would further deplete US THAAD missile stocks which he would like and I would
think JD Vance who's a figure from the KBY faction
you could call it the Vance faction would like to give those THAAD missiles to Taiwan or to
uh Japan and the Philippines which have just signed a defense pact an anti-China defense pact.
They want to militarize the Pacific Rim and contain China. And they're not able
to do it because Israel, we keep wasting or we the United States keeps wasting
bad missiles on this crazy little apartheid colony that can't stop attacking Iran. And at the same time,
Ukraine has had to redeploy Patriot batteries even to defend Israel.
The faction that wants to take on China ultimately would want a deal in Ukraine
and has pushed for a deal in Ukraine that freezes lines around and Zaparosia.
And the lines are not frozen anymore. Russia continues to advance. Ukraine does not have manpower. no matter how
much technical wherewithal they have to wage these um sophisticated
drone attacks or to use uh more advanced US weapons including tomahawks to attack
inside uh Russian frontier regions. They just don't have the manpower which means
as long as those lines are not frozen the US will keep pouring more and more weapons in as Russia advances towards
Odessa. So, the real imperialist, the real long-term imperialist planners
inside the Trump administration are losing long-term as the Trump administration positions itself for
conflicts that appease the factions that have a much more myopic vision. And I
mean, it's three visions, as I said before. one Rubio catering to the Gusano
industrial complex in South Florida which is a major key for Trump's electoral strategy is to always win
Florida but also I mean Rubio has this ideological fervor that they share to
destroy Venezuela and then they think once Venezuela is destroyed they will be able to topple the government in Cuba
which depends on Venezuelan exports and help and then Nicaragua will be next and
then the region will be completely free for the US to exploit.
And then you have the the Zionist neocon faction, Lindsey Graham, is sort of
fronting for them. They want to destroy Iran for ideological reasons.
And then you have this third faction which is focused on the they're sort of like the traditional military
leadership. They're focused on the revolving door. They're making loads of money through the trillion dollar
defense budget, which is mostly going to contractors. Only like 6% actually goes
to maintaining US troops in the field. And they're just focused on profits and
continuous war. And when they leave the Trump administration, they're going to rake in those profits. And then I I
should say there's a sort of a fourth factor. I don't know if it's a faction, but a fourth factor. If you paid
attention to Donald Trump's speech at Quantico, which is being minimized even by the
people who hate Donald Trump the most in Washington, the liberals and so on, they're like, "Oh, he mocked."
Basically, for those who don't know, Pete Hegsth,
who is one of the least qualified defense secretaries just because of his
rank and lack of experience and is there basically because he's an effective communicator who is a former Fox News
host. He convened 200 US generals and high-ranking officers at Quantico. Many
of them had to come across, some of them had to come across 10 time zones. And then he delivered this speech
lacerating them for being fat and gay. I mean, that's basically what he said.
He's like, "We're not going to have any more dudes in skirts and too many of you are too fat and that's not who we are."
And that was sort of treated as a joke by the media and even by liberals. But it's it's actually setting the stage for
a politicized purge of the military in which Trump loyalists will be elevated
to new positions. and those who are perceived as Democrats will be ousted. Then Donald Trump comes on stage and he
tries to get the military audience to laugh at his jokes. I thought some of
some of them are like classic Trump humor like comedy like he's opening up at a New Jersey nightclub or something.
He's he's he's making he's talking about how Obama bops down the stairs on Air Force One. And he thought that if
there's laughter, it will show some kind of uh support for himself from the
generals, like an organic support, but nobody laughed. So, he sort of failed there. But if you parseed what Trump was
saying, um, including his support and endorsement for Rubio's agenda against
Venezuela, he called for using US cities as training grounds for the US military
to essentially wage war on and pacify parts of the American public that he
described as animals, essentially urban minorities and the poor. They're sending
troops to Memphis uh this coming week and there is plan there are plans to
deploy in Chicago as well. But he talks about American cities as training grounds for foreign conflicts. We
haven't heard this kind of language before. And as Trump does that, this is
something Steven Miller, his top adviser, wants and a large part of his base wants.
it def it it it diffuses the drive to actually send US troops
into a conflict theater in the Pacific Rim or in Iran. So, you have all of
these competing agendas and factions, and the faction that will lose here are
the long-term, I think ultimately more dangerous Imperial planners, and they're
losing to the ideologues and the avaricious grifters in the military.
Yeah. Thank you so much, Matt, for being with us today. Great pleasure to have you on
and hope to see you again soon. Thanks so much, Nemo. Always good talking to you.
Great pleasure, Max.





