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Iran and Israel Make Peace? The Funniest Deal in World History! (LEGO Song Rock Story)
Iron Verdict
May 27, 2026 LEGO Satire
SIGN THE FIRE — A LEGO Song Rock Story

Can two old enemies shake hands while the smoke is still rising?
A peace deal hits the table.
The cameras start rolling.
But the room remembers everything.

This cinematic rock story turns a major geopolitical tension into a dramatic LEGO-style music video. The story follows a powerful leader trying to turn a dangerous Iran-Israel conflict into a historic peace moment, while regional players watch, the media spins the headline, and the deal becomes harder than it looks.

With heavy guitars, dark humor, and a bold rock chorus, this video asks one simple question:
Is this a peace deal… or just a headline before the fire gets higher?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mByXslR0KE4



Transcript

[screaming]
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Peace Talks.
[music] With the smoke still rising, drums hit,
guitars wake up, the cameras roll.
[music]
[music]
[music]
Yeah.
[music]
The president walks in [music] with a smile in a pen.
says, "Everybody shake hands. [music] Let the New Deal begin." One side [music] counts missiles.
One side counts graves.
One side wants sanctions [music] gone, one side wants guarantees [singing] made.
The straight is still tense. The money [music] is still locked. The uranium question still ticks like a clock.
[music]
But the man in the red tie points to the stage bringing the neighbors turn the page. Saudi [music] online when Qatar
online to Turkey and Egypt wonder what they're asked to do. Jordan looks [music] sideways. Pakistan says no. And
the cameras keep asking is this how peace will grow?
But you can't [music] paint the walls while the roof is on fire. You can't sell a treaty on a broken wire. You
[music] can't make old enemies smile for the flash. When the whole room smells like smoke and [music] ash, drums rise,
2 minutescrowd claps, guitar, bends high. Sign the fire. Call it peace. [music] Shake the match hand.
Sign [music] the fire. Smile for the choir. Everybody say great deal. [music] While the flames climb higher, sign the fire.
Sign the fire. Peace in [music] a press line.
War in the wire.
The anchor [music] starts spinning in [singing] bright little squares. Historic momentum. New hope in the air.
But down in the desert, the silence [music] is loud. The leader speaks softly. When no microphones crowd, one country says, [music and singing] without Palestine.
Another says not on this timeline.
The eastern power says [music] we won't bow our heads. The western ally says we heard what they said. And
somewhere behind a [music] goldplated door, a map gets unfolded on the floor.
Add one more nation. [music] Add one more line. Make the old accord look brand new and shine. But this is [music]
not business. This is not a suite. You can't compliment it bar and call that retreat. This is blood memory. This is
fear [music] in the ground. This is 40 plus years of no backing down. And [music] the crowd wants answers. The screen wants light. The deal wants
daylight. The generals want night. The public [music] gets slogans. The quiet gets plans. The hidden move waits in invisible [music] hands. Base drops. Stare cracks.
Front man shout. [screaming] Sign the fire. Call [music] it peace. Shake the match hand. Rent the lease.
Sign the fire. Smile for the choir.
Everybody [music] say great deal while the flames climb higher. Sign the fire.
[music]
ign the fire. Peace in a press light. War in the wire.
Slow [music] now. Lights go blue.
There's a paper [singing] on the table. There's a shadow in the room. Nobody [music] says surrender.
They say framework instead. [singing] Nobody says pressure.
They say vision instead. [music] Nobody says this may not land. [music]
They just polish the pen in the leader hand. The old enemy waits. The alley [music] stays cold. The neighbors keep watching what they cannot be sold.
Because peace is not a photo. Peace is not a pose. [music] Peace is not a headline. When every border knows you can dress up the gamble, [music] you can
light up the hall, but the pop twist comes when no one signs it all.
[music]
[music]
Son of fire.
Son of fire. [music] Son of fire.
Sign the fire. [music] Sign the fire. Call it peace.
Shake the match hand. Rent the lease.
Sign the fire. Smile [music] out for the choir. Everybody say a great deal while the flames climb higher. Sign the fire.
Call it calm. Wave the treaty like a lucky charm. Sign the fire. [music] Raise it higher.
Peace on the post. Smoke in the wire. Sign the fire. Sign [music] the fire.
Sign the fire. Sign the fire. Sign the fire. Sign the fire. [music] Fire. Sign the fire. Sign the fire.
Sign the fire. [music] Call it peace.
Sign the fire. Rent the lease. Sign [music] the fire. Smile for the choir.
Everybody sing great deal while the flames climb higher. He wanted a handshake.
[music] The room remembered the war.
[music]
[screaming]
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Peace Talks.
With the smoke still rising, [music] drums hit.
7 minutesGuitars wake up. The cameras roll.
[music]
[music]
[music]
[music]
The president [music] walks in with a smile and a pen.
[music] Says, "Everybody shake hands.
Let the new deal begin." [music] One side counts missiles.
One side [music] counts graves, one side wants sanctions gone, [music] one side wants guarantees [singing] made.
The straight [music] is still tense. The money is still locked. The uranium question still ticks like a clock, but
the man in the red top points to the stage. Bringing the neighbors [music] turn the page. Saudi online, one Qatar
online, two Turkey and Egypt. wonder what they're [music] asked to do. Jordan looks sideways. Pakistan says no. And
the cameras [music] keep asking, "Is this how peace will grow?" But you can't paint the walls while the
roof is on [music] fire. You can't sell a treaty on a broken wire. You can't make old enemy smile for the flash when
the whole room smells like smoking [music] ash. Drums rise, crowd claps,
guitar, [screaming] bends high. Sign [music] the fire. Call it peace. Shake the match hand.
Sign [music] the fire. Smile for the choir. Everybody say great deal. While the flames climb higher, sign the fire.
Sign [music] the fire. Peace in a press line.
War in the wire.

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Trump rejects leaked Iranian claims on draft peace proposal; warns Gulf nations | Janta Ka Reporter
Janta Ka Reporter
May 27, 2026

US President Donald Trump rejected claims made by official Iranian media regarding the easing of restrictions and the unfreezing of assets as part of a peace deal. Trump also issued an ultimatum to Oman for attempting to work with Iran on the future management of the Strait of Hormuz. Journalist Rifat Jawaid breaks down the day's major developments with his sharp commentary.



Transcript

A broadcast by the government-owned Iranian media about the draft proposal of the peace deal currently being discussed forced Donald Trump today to
issue a swift rejection. The deranged occupant of the White House also made some outlandish claims including threatening to bomb Oman.
Trump also said that there may not be a deal if Saudi Arabia and Qatar do not join the Abraham Accords. dreaded
Israeli war criminal or terrorist Benjamin Netanyahu's corruption trials have been postponed once again by the
settler colonies Kangaroo court since he's busy doing far more pressing work i.e committing genocide in Gaza and Lebanon.
The situation in Lebanon continues to worsen as Israeli terrorists expand their occupation. But London Sky News
paints Israeli war crimes as some sort of necessity.
Meanwhile, two Muslim mayors of the Western countries, namely Zoran Mandani and Sadi Khan, find themselves under
spotlight as they celebrate Eid and perform Hajj respectively. This will be the broad focus of my video tonight.
Also in this video, another Lego film from Iran and a heart-wrenching scene from Gaza as they celebrate Eid over
rubble. So, please stay tuned. So, a broadcast by Iran's official IRIB today caused plenty of constonnation in the
power corridors of the US. What happened was that Iran state TV revealed a 14point proposal claiming them to be a
part of the draft peace deal currently being discussed between Iran and the US.
New this hour, U. Iran's state TV is putting out what it claims is a draft of the initial framework with the US. Now,
there are a number of points in here that appear to be very out of step with a lot of the US red lines. So, take this
information with a very large grain of salt. But Iran is claiming that the memorandum of understanding would have the US withdraw forces and lift the
naval blockade in exchange for Iran restoring commercial traffic through the straight of Hormuz within a month with all ship traffic managed by Iran. They
further claim if a deal is reached, it would become binding with a UN security council resolution. Uh we have heard no updates from the US side, but the White
House has repeatedly pushed back on premature reports and inaccurate reports about what these discussions entail. Uh this is new from Iran today, so likely
we'll hear some response from the White House. But today, the president is set to meet with his cabinet to discuss all this after scrapping plans to convene at Camp David due to bad weather. The same
place where he convened his cabinet last year just before bombing Iran's nuclear sites. The stakes are very high. Iran accused the US of a grave violation of
the ceasefire after Sentcom carried out what it described as defensive strikes on missile launch sites and Iranian boats trying to lay mines. Iran vowed to
respond. And all of this was just days after the president announced a deal to end the war was largely negotiated. Iran is demanding apparently $24 billion in
frozen funds to agree to all this, prompting concern from lawmakers about emboldening Iran and also prompting a response from President Trump, who's
pushing back against anyone who doubts his ability to make a good deal. Uh last night, Vice President Vance spoke to NBC about these negotiations in a call. He
described himself as extremely hopeful but said quote I think the more difficult question is whether they agree to the kind of enforcement mechanism the
kind of monitoring mechanism that gives us confidence they won't violate the deal in the future. So the president's cabinet meeting is set for 11:00 a.m.
and we do expect to see the president on camera. According to the Iranian state TV, Iran would also be controlling the
state of Hormuz along with Oman and charge environmental tax instead of toll tax. Sanctions against Iran would be
lifted and the US will unfreeze the Iranian assets worth billions of dollars. As the Iranian claims gained
momentum, even in the US media, Donald Trump was forced to make a statement as he hurdled his minions at the White
House for what he said was a cabinet meeting. This is what he said in response to Iran's claims of lifting sanctions.
Is the US considering easing sanctions on Iran to allow Iran to sell its crew to market?
No, we're not talking about any easing of sanctions or giving money. No sanctions, no money, no nothing. uh we
have control of money that they claim is theirs. We'll keep control of that money and when they behave properly and when
they do what's right, we'll let them have their money. But right now, we're not doing that and it's not one thing is not contingent on the other.
Then on the question of uh Iran and Oman jointly controlling the state of Hormos, the Israeli slave from the White House
threatened to bomb Oman if it didn't behave. His word, not mine.
Interesting reading for people, Mr. President. Iran wants control of the straight overuse. Would you accept a short-term deal that allows Iran and
Oman to control the strait? And would they have to open it immediately, or would you be open to that happening over a period of time?
No. The strait's going to be open to everybody. It's uh And who would control it?
It's international waters. Nobody's going to control it. We're going to watch over it. We'll watch over it, but nobody's going to control it. That's part of the negotiation that we have.
They would like to control it. Nobody's going to control it. It's international waters and Oman will behave just like everybody else. So, we'll have to blow
them up. They understand that. They'll be fine. Clip. The Israeli lab dog also ordered Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar to
embrace Israeli barbarians as their friends. Well, someone should tell him that the UAE has already signed the much
malignant Abraham records and has been working as a proxy monarchy of Zionists.
by Barack Hussein, Obama. What a horrible agreement that was. It was a setback for this country, for the whole world. Uh the Middle East would have
blown itself up. No. And would like to have the countries we were talking about with Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, and the others. We'd like to have them
immediately join the And Steve Wood is working on that with Jared and some others, but we'd like to have them join the Abraham Accords. It'll be historic
if they do it. And we would I think they I think they owe that to us to be honest. I think because that really would be a tremendous sign and I think those countries owe it to us.
Mr. President, Steve, are you going to get them to sign? Uh, we're definitely pushing it, Mr. President.
I'm not sure. I'm not sure we should make the deal if they don't sign. You want to know the truth?
If they don't sign to join the Abraham Accords, I don't know that we, you know, we have countries in there already. uh UAE great great countries bold countries
and it's turned out to be so good so effective and uh so we're you know requesting strongly that they they join
it'll be great it'd be great for Saudi Arabia be great for Qar and Kuwait the whole group so the Iran deal might be contingent on
more countries joining the well I don't want to say that I'm not going to give you you know what's contingent what's not I can say that uh
we can make a good deal right now, but maybe not a great deal. And if it's not a great deal when I'm making it because we can make a great deal with this guy
right here. And uh but it's, you know, it's a lot nastier. Probably wouldn't go as quickly. Wouldn't be talking about as quickly, but it would be foolproof.
Uh but I think we're doing very well, Steve. I think we're doing pretty well in terms of the negotiation, but we'll see. So no lifting of sanctions, no
unfreezing of assets and no Iranian control of the state of Foremost. In other words, we are not going to see a peace deal in the near future between Iran and this evil Israeli lab dog.
Publicly Trump may say anything, but this doesn't truly represent the reality on the ground. Iranian professor
Muhammad Barandi claimed that the US had agreed to make several concessions. This is what he told journalist Sulman Ahmed.
But what we're seeing at the moment are is the United States giving enormous concessions to Iran. Uh the uh the war
in Lebanon and across the region, this genocidal war must end. That is one part of it. Uh the the siege on Iran ports
must end. The United States must release a uh roughly half of the or roughly half
of the assets that it has stolen from Iran.
um the uh the sanctions against the energy industry must end for the next
couple of months. And um on the on the other hand, what does the United States
get? The straight of hormones is uh open. Well, it was open uh before the United States waged this war. The United
States brought about this catastrophic situation for the world.
The Iranians announced that they're not going to uh build a nuclear weapon.
Well, Iran has been saying that for decades. We can will say 10 times if they want, 100 times if they want. That's fine. Big concession.
And um they exactly and Iran has not made any um commitment about its
enriched uranium or about the long-term future of the nuclear program. Those issues will be discussed after 60 days.
If the deal goes well, they will be discussed, but so will Iran sanctions that are imposed on Iran. And those
sanctions, many of them are laws that are that have been passed by the Senate and the House in the United States. So
um those those will be de debated in future. But at least for the time being, what we see is uh Trump giving uh enormous concessions.
Trump today once again attacked Obama for signing a bad deal, his words, not mine, with Iran. But listen to former
Obama adviser Ben Rhodess on how he views the current US president's art of blabbering with routine nonsensical
claims while serious negotiations are underway to strike a peace deal.
I think the bottom line here is that the pre-war objectives the idea that you might bring about a change in the Iranian regime or a collapse of that
regime that you could terminate the nuclear program. You'll recall that the terms under discussion or the proposals from Jared Kushner and Sew Wickoff
before the war involve not just ending the nuclear program, but ending the ballistic missile program or at least constraining it to a certain range, ending support for proxies. The Trump
administration has come to terms or has to come to terms with the fact that they're not going to achieve their objectives and that the only way out of a war that has been calamitous for
everybody involved, especially the Iranian people, but the global economy, the American military, the only way out is is to essentially accept
terms in which, you know, the blockade is lifted on Iranian ports, that uh the straight of form is reopened, that Iran is going to get some revenue from
sanctions relief or tolling that straight. um and that you're going to negotiate a nuclear agreement that bears a lot of resemblance to the one that I
worked on the Obama administration in which Iran continues to have a program, but they accept limitations on enrichment and they ship their stockpile out of the country. Um and I think the
reason that we we're stuck is the sequencing of those events is important for how it appears. You know, does Iran
get revenue up front or later? Are nuclear commitments made up front or are they moved back? And frankly, I think the Iranians feel like they have
leverage. Uh, and so they're more than happy to wait this out. Um, and and Donald Trump just has to decide whether he can accept and spin, frankly, an
outcome that is far from what he promised. The one thing I want to add to this, Christian, and I think you'd understand this, when we were negotiating with the Iranians, um, if we
went out prematurely and talked up the concessions that we were getting, what we would hear from Iranian negotiators is what kind of problems we were
creating for them with the IRGC, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. Now, I think the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps is in control of Iran. And so
every time Trump says something or posts something online that is premature and that suggests an Iranian concession that hasn't been made, my guess is that those
Iranian negotiators in Islamabad get a call from the IRGC saying, "What are you doing?" And then that, you know, unwinds
that progress. And so Trump's incapacity to kind of stay quiet through this diplomacy, I think, is part of the reason that we're not at a deal yet.
Even the makers of the Iranian Lego video series have released another short film highlighting the contradiction in
Trump's public claims versus the ground reality.
Yeah.
Heat.
Iran has included the end of Israeli bombing in Lebanon as part of the peace deal. That's because Israeli terrorists
are currently busy expanding their occupation in this country by forcibly displacing millions of Lebanese population.
This is who these monsters are. They will never be satisfied without murdering innocent people, including women and children. And yet, London Sky
News today almost legitimized Israeli war crimes in Lebanon when its military experts said that the genocide of
Lebanese people was a necessity. Just like the Gaza Holocaust was the need of the hour for the so-called Western experts. As far as Lebanon is concerned,
the Israelis have got to keep pushing north because Hezbollah's use of drones is really bothering them. They find it difficult to concentrate their troops.
It's it's hard for them to conduct operations the way they normally did because Hezbollah has has actually created a bit of a battlefield
revolution, at least in tactical terms, which they've imported from the war in Ukraine via the Iranians and the Russians. And they're finding ways now
making it difficult for the Israelis to operate only in their security zone. So they've got their security zone which runs about 8 to 10 kilometers along the
southern border of Lebanon about 5 milesi into Lebanon. And that security zone isn't enough to push Hezbollah back
and stop Hezbollah um striking them with drones and striking northern Israel with rockets. And so they're pushing further
in. And of course that has the effect of spreading the war in Lebanon, making it more dangerous and making it a bigger obstacle to peace uh in a more general
sense between Iran and the United States. And then the settler colonies kangaroo court today gave reprieve to
bloodthirsty terrorist Netanyahu in corruption cases. A kangaroo court in the illegal settler colony agreed to
cancel a scheduled hearing for war criminal Netanyahu's testimony in his corruption trial. The court's decision
followed a request from the dreaded human devil to cancel Wednesday's hearing, saying he's engaged in security
and diplomatic matters. In other words, matters related to the mass slaughtering of innocent men, women, children, and
babies in Gaza and Lebanon. Now, do you still think there will be peace in the region anytime soon? Doesn't it also
make it clear the 7th of October attacks may have been orchestrated to justify the massacre of innocent Palestinians
and therefore delay the corruption trial indefinitely? Before I end, let's look at two unusual videos being in the
spotlight of the Western propaganda outlets. There are two Muslim mayors of two of the biggest western cities,
namely New York and London. This was after Zuran Mandani's Eid prayers video in an Arsenal jersey and Sadi Khan's
video from Makkah while performing Hajj went viral. Here are both the videos.
Come on my glory.
Assalam alaikum and eabarak to all those in London and around the world celebrating Eid. Hajj at its essence
symbolizes humility, self-improvement and our collective humanity.
Alhamdulillah, I feel truly honored and blessed to have performed Hajj with more than 1.5 million Muslims from across the
globe. Hazmrable to all those performing this lifechanging and fulfilling pilgrimage. May Allah accept it from all of us. From my family to yours.
18 minutesZionist control political class and media in the west hate anyone flaunting their religious faith with conviction
other than the Jews. No wonder Mamani has angered the powerful Israeli stroke Jewish lobby in the US. You really need
to have a lot of confidence to wear your religion on your sleeve in the current political environment. Mandani doesn't appear to be perturbed by the meltdown
in the Zionist world. I will now leave you with this video from Gaza. This broke my heart. I haven't cried so much
in recent times. In this video, a group of Palestinians can be seen gathered to offer their Eid prayers on the rubbles
of their houses that Israeli terrorist bombed in their genocidal campaign in the last two and a half years. The whole
world is guilty of abandoning Palestinians. No effing entity has any right to make these native people of Palestine refugees in their own land.
19 minutesBut that's the effing twisted and corrupt world we live in.
Allahb
Allahb all Allah Allah.
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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DO A BETTER JOB!' Chinese FM Wang Yi Pulls Up UN & Blasts West From US Soil! | Times Now World
Times Now World
May 27, 2026 #wangyi #worldnews #usnews

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, acting as President of the UN Security Council, issued a sharp rebuke against Western foreign policy from United Nations headquarters in New York, warning that the international order risks reverting to the "law of the jungle" due to unilateral actions and bloc confrontations. Addressing international media, Wang acknowledged that the UN Security Council has been "absent from time to time" during major global conflicts and demanded sweeping structural reforms to end the monopolization of global affairs by a few select powers. Highlighting China's 4-point proposal for Middle East stability and pressing for an increase in the representation of the Global South, Beijing explicitly targeted "unilateral bullying" while laying down strict conditions for the selection of the next UN Secretary-General to challenge Western-led geopolitical frameworks.

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Spin the Peace Wheel Tonight | Deal or Bomb Them? (LEGO Song Rock Story)
Iron Verdict
May 28, 2026

Spin the Peace Wheel Tonight | Deal or Bomb Them?
A peace deal.
A war room.
A spinning wheel.
One question: deal… or disaster?
A cinematic LEGO rock satire about power, media spin, peace talks, and the dark theater behind modern conflict.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ynblt7D0ao



Transcript

[screaming]
Welcome to the war room. [music] Tonight's grand prize,
a peace deal with smoke on it. [music] One hand signs, one hand aims, and the
host says, "Don't worry, folks. It's almost peace.
[music]
[music]
Week 13 in the desert storm. A little trip with a war room floor. The commander stands behind the gold lead
says we're close now. [music] Nearly got it right. Saturday night, the deal looks bright.
5050. [music] Black smoke, white light.
The papers wait. The cameras roll. The crowd wants peace. [music] The drums want more. One hand waves, one hand
hides, one hand points [music] to the eastern side. The ticker screams, the anchors grin. Another round of who will win? He says almost.
Then he says, not so fast. He says [music] great deal only.
And the windows shake like glass.
[music] The room goes quiet, the lights go red. The word is [music] peace, but the sound is dread. Great deal, no deal.
Cue the thunder. Talk all night, then [music] tear it under. Great deal, no deal. Spin the wheel.
Peace on [music] the screen, fire in the field. Say it loud. Say it again. Great deal, no deal.
Cue the thunder.
[music]
Sunday morning. Slow the train. No rush now, says the man in the frame. [music] The final parts will come out soon, but don't sign yet. Let the tension bloom.
[music]
The stage is set like plastic bricks, tiny flags, tiny ships, [music]
tiny towers on a studio floor. Tiny families [music] behind tiny doors. The
western jets cut through the night. The eastern [music] sky turns camera white. The horse leans in the ratings rise.
Truth wears make up under studio lights. They say moving.
They say nothing is done. They say
[music]
peace is coming.
Then the drums become the sun. The screen says calm. The ground says no. The [music] hidden hand runs the show.
Great deal, no deal. Cue the thunder.
Talk all night then tear it under. Great deal, [music] no deal. Spin the wheel. Peace on the screen. Fire in the field.
[music] Say it loud. Say it again. Great deal, no deal. Kill the thunder.
[music]
Kill the thunder. Kill the thunder.
Kill the thunder.
By [music] Tuesday night, the script gets thin. We're not happy. Comes the line again. The eastern side wants one
[music] more chance. The western side does a victory dance. Then comes the phrase [music] with the polish shine.
finish the job if they cross the line.
No one [music] smiles in the silent room. No one jokes when the rockets bloom, [music] but the stage lights
flash. The slogans fly. The deal gets smaller, the stakes get high. One more speech, [music]
one more roar, one more suitcase on the studio floor. The papers shake, the
cables hum, the map turns red under every thumb. The crowd wants answers.
The host wants flame. [music] The truth walks out with a different name.
[music]
Great deal, no deal. Cue the thunder.
Talk all night [music] then tear it under. Great deal, no deal. Spin the wheel. [music] Peace on the screen. Fire
in the field. Say it loud. [music] Say it again. Great deal, no deal.
You
[music]
[music]
[music]
[music]
now the camera's sleep. [music] Now the room is cold. Now the quiet men move the hidden gold. [singing] No [music] big
speech, no marching band, just a marked up map and a shaking hand. This is power with the sound turned down. [music] This
is control in a spotless town. The public hears [music] the cleanest line. The private room keeps changing time.
[music]
They call it pressure. They call it peace. They call it order. When the levers creek and somewhere [music]
far from the glowing set, a mother waits for the next update. No slogan helps [music] and no prize can shine. No stage can cover the human price. Good deal.
Love deal. Good deal. Deal. Good deal.
Deal. Then [singing] thunder. [music] Good deal. Deal. Good deal.
Deal. Good deal. Deal. That's thunder. Good deal.
Good [music] deal. No deal. The host keeps smiling. The fuse keeps glowing. No deal. Great deal. No deal. Spin the wheel.
Peace on the screen. Fire [music] in the field. No deal. Big white lights. War drums under. Great deal. No deal.
What a show. The whole world watches what the [music] quiet rooms know. What did he say?
Great deal. [music] No deal. What did they do? Peace on the screen. Fire in the field. What do we learn?
Great deal. [music] No. Cue the thunder.
[cheering]
Step right up. [screaming] Welcome to the war room. [music]
Tonight's grand prize, a peace deal with smoke on it. [music]
One hand signs, one hand aims, and the host says, "Don't worry, folks. It's almost peace.
[music]
[music]
Week 13. [music and singing] In the desert storm, a little trip with a war room floor. [music] The commander
stands behind the gold lead mic. Says, "We're close now. Nearly got it right." Saturday night, the deal looks bright.
5050 [music] black smoke, white light.
The papers wait, the cameras roll, the crowd wants peace, the [music] drums want more. One hand waves, one hand
hides, one hand points to the eastern [music] side. The ticker screams, the anchors grin. Another round of who will
win? He says, [music] "Almost there." Then he says, "Not so fast." He says, "Great deal only."
Then the windows [music] shake like glass.
The room [music] goes quiet, the lights go red. The word is peace, but the [music] sound is dread. Great deal, no
deal. Cue the thunder. Walk [music] all night, then tear it under. Great deal, no deal. Spin the wheel.
Peace [music] on the screen, fire in the field. Say it loud. Say [music] it again. Great deal, no deal.
Cue the thunder.
Sunday [music] morning, slow the train. No rush now, says the man in the frame. [music] The final parts will come out soon, but
don't sign yet. Let the tension [music] bloom. The stage is set like plastic bricks, tiny flags, tiny ships, tiny
[music] towers on a studio floor, tiny families behind tiny [music] doors. The western jets cut through the night. The eastern [music] sky turns camera white.
The horse leans in the ratings rise.
Truth wears [music] makeup under studio lights. They say tops are moving.
They say nothing is done. They say peace is coming.
Then the drums become the sun. The screen [music] says calm. The ground says no. The hidden hand runs the show.
Great deal, [music] no deal. Cue the thunder. Talk all night then tear it under. Great [music] deal, no deal. Spin
the wheel. Peace on the screen. Fire in the field. Say it loud. [music] Say it again.
Great deal. No deal.
Kill the thunder. [music] Kill the thunder.
Kill the thunder. [music] Kill the thunder.

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Russia Goes After NATO-War Centers in Kiev, Iran Winning Big | Larry C. Johnson
Neutrality Studies
May 28, 2026

Updates on the Ukraine-Proxy War and the Iran War with Larry C. Johnson: Both wars are about to get worse as NATO is trying to expand the fight into Russia. Moscow will now escalate in Kiev to send final message to Collective West. At the same time, the global economic shock from the Iran War will only grow deeper and more intensive with every day.



Transcript

Chapter 1: Russia’s New War Phase
Welcome back everybody to Neutrality Studies today again with the one and only Larry Johnson. Larry, hi there. Thank you, Pascal.
Well, thank you. Uh, a lot has been happening over the last week um when it comes to Russia and Iran and both of these things don't seem to be going
well. Um especially the what is what is happening now with with with Russia with Ukraine having basically killed all of
these teenagers in uh uh in Lugansk and the Russians not not taking it anymore
now having issued even a warning to that foreign diplomat in Kiev should evacuate. Uh do you think do you think
the Russian approach to the war is now going to change?
Yes. Yeah. No, I think this is a watershed moment. They haven't uh they've made the decision to change.
They haven't yet fully acted on it. You know, we got the hint that it was moving in this direction about uh three weeks
ago or is it four weeks ago when Ambassador Dmitri Polanski appeared on
Danny Davis's podcast and commented that, you know, basically
Europe targets in Europe were on the table now because of the the drone attacks that were taking place inside Russia.
Um that was followed up two three days later with Sergey Ripkov the deputy foreign minister and I you know I know I know Dmitri I spent some time with him.
He was he was sort of my host when I spoke to the United Nations Security Council. And then uh Sig Rupov, I first
met him back in December of 2023 at a it was a small 12 12 person seminar
um with I was there with Alistister Crook and Pepe Escobar uh and uh and so Sun Ripkov is a very
he's a very serious diplomat and he reiterated the same message that uh Ambassador Polanski had delivered. So
that told me right off the bat because you know Dimmitri is not the kind of guy he's going to go out and just start spouting off. Yeah man, we're going to
go kick some European ass. You know that's not him. Uh what he said was measured but it was direct and it was
clear that he was acting on instructions that had been provided from the foreign ministers. And then finally, we get the the readout from this week's
conversation between Sigate Laval, Foreign Minister, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. It was not what I'd call a happy conversation.
Uh, you know, Lev is very direct and warning uh, you know, the Russian readout contained this. The US readout
didn't say a thing, but it was saying, "Western diplomats, get out of Kev." Um,
Russia does not make idle threats. Um, as Ray McGovern, who spent many, many
3 minutesyears studying and and analyzing the Russians at his job at CIA, he said, "If you wonder what the Russians are going
to do, just listen to what they say because they're not they're not notorious bullshitters. They they're
very can be very direct. It can be diplomatic, but in this case, we have to take him very very seriously what what's
being said. And uh what what they're signaling is they're going to attack uh
intelligence and military targets in Kev that are currently, I think, staffed
with Westerners, US CIA personnel and military personnel, both uh NATO and US.
So, uh, and I I believe this is one, you know, people said, well, why hadn't they attacked this
before? Why now? Well, the the this latest terrorist attack against civilians, and that's what it was.
4 minutesWhatever uses violence and are killing civilians, uh that that's the very definition of terrorism. And it's worth noting that
despite this incredibly massive massive Russian retaliation in Keefe, I I don't
think they killed any civilians. So, you know, they were they were taking care to inflict damage on the military and intelligence infrastructure.
So, the the numbers they published the numbers they published um right after it happened the morning after was four
people. Um that is not confirmed but that is what what was said from the from their side and Kalis actually then on
Twitter said like this is pure terrorism they are intending to kill uh it's a genocide they're intending to kill as many as they can which is I mean it's
another level of stupid but that's what came out of the west.
Yeah. Yeah. Well, all we can say is if that was really Russia's intention, they're really bad at it, you know,
5 minutesespecially using Rashnik right in in densely populated areas and not managing to kill a sing not managing to kill people at least in the two digits. Yeah,
you are really really really really bad at your game. But okay, how do you how do we read that then? That um
because what what I hear from you is that Russia saying take out your diplomats actually is Russia saying take out these
people in in Kief who are who we know are responsible for killing our people and if you don't take them out, we will take them out.
Yeah. Well, just uh tell them to uh particularly the the westerners the get
out of town because Russia is going they are going to hit Kev and keep hitting it in preparation for taking it with a
ground force. Uh I think they are going to capture and control Kev maybe by the end of the summer. Um, you know, one of
the reasons I think that they never in the past carried out this kind of attack was they didn't want to risk, you know,
killing Westerners and then escalating the conflict to, you know, they might say, "Okay, this is an article 5 violation that Russia was simply not
prepared to take that on. Now they're ready. They have I think they made sure they got ample supplies of missiles and
artillery and soldiers. They they boosted their their numbers. So um I I think they're that's why they're now up
in the game because uh and it's not just Dmitri Polanski Sergey Kaganov as well
that made comments about using using nukes against Europe. So the war it's it's entered a whole new phase now. I don't know if they're going to rename
it, but it's it's going beyond special military operation.
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Chapter 2: From Attrition To Escalation
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The link's going to be in the description below. And now back to the video. What caused that? Because in my
reading, the last four years had like these different phases. The first phase was Russia trying to do a surprise, a
bad surprise for Ukraine to force them to come to a neutrality agreement of Ukraine at the negotiating table. They almost had them there. Flew in, blew it
up, said go and fight. The Russians basically had to make do with with with how they could uh a retreat in order to
regroup. And then from there on, ever since 2023, they were basically for 3 years in a war of attrition where they
said, "Sure, okay, you Ukraine and and NATO throw at us what you have. We'll destroy it. We demilitarize you that way and we go slowly and methodologically."
And um from the from the from the Russian side, they wanted to keep up the fiction. It's just a military operation.
And the West the West wanted to keep up the fiction that this is just them helping Ukraine. But the the the implicit agreement was we keep it in
Ukraine, right? whenever there was a danger that it would spill over, they actually both sides dialed it down. And that seems to have been kind of for
different reasons the the approach. But it seems that the Europeans are now salami slicing themselves into trying to
take the the war to Russia proper without the war coming to their territory and Russia is not going to take that. Right. Are you reading it the same way?
Yeah. Yeah. You know, you're exactly right. Um the and and and let's let's compare and contrast
the leadership in Russia with the public opinion and the leadership in the United States with public opinion with respect to war.
Uh Vladimir Putin, you could argue, has always been a little behind public
opinion. In fact, he's not been out trying to rally public opinion to let's step it up. Let's, you know, he's always
been more cautious and as the average Russians have been more willing to to be
more aggressive and it's reflected, you know, in comments by Dmitri Medvidev uh as an example and Sergey Kaganov both
are, you know, both are well respected and are serious uh serious people in Russia. Well, now Putin Putin is
stepping out because this it was clear what Lav Roth said was at the orders of Vladimir Putin. Putin told him, you call
that Marco Rubio character and this is what you tell him. And the same message had been delivered to Riboff and to Dmitri Podansski.
Uh so uh the uh do you do you remember the musician Alice Cooper
uh uh 70s you know 70s 80s in the United States was before your time but he had a
song called No More Mr. Nice Guy and that's that's Putin now. No More No
More Mr. Nice Guy. uh R Russ Russia's turned a corner in this war and uh if you know I expect them to fully execute
this and and make basically make kev unlivable for foreign diplomats and foreign military personnel and former
intelligence officers here the I mean them now saying we're going to dial it up against KF is actually in
in in my reading also a way to tell the Europeans look this is this is this is the last thing we do inside Ukraine, if you don't stop it here, then the next thing is going to be outside of Ukraine.
Um, so plus when it when it comes to this thing like chasing out not only the
diplomats but also the NOS's and the command the foreign command center and so on while basically forcing the Ukrainians to keep government structures
and everything in Kiev is is probably going to create quite a headache. But do you see any chance that that the government itself and the military
structures will will retreat to live off or something like that? Yeah, eventually I think I think that's what will happen.
And you know, you you you astutely noted the critical point instead of, you know,
because when both ambassador Pansky and uh and Sergey Ripkov, Deputy Foreign Minister first spoke about going after
Europe, in my mind, I'm thinking, okay, they're going to start targeting European cities. This is a way where they can hit
European targets in Ukraine, right? is, you know, an intermediate step before going to full escalation.
Again, giving them a chance to back off, get out of the way, save yourselves. Uh, and you know, it it looks like it's had
some effect. U both Starmer and Mcronone have been a little less belligerent of
late. It's, you know, this is this is like the small dog phenomena. If you ever been around, you know, a really big
powerful dog, it usually doesn't need to bark at you. It just intimidates the hell out of you by being there. It's those little yappy dogs that, you know,
could, you know, all they do and they're an annoyance. That's Kayakalis, you know, that's that's a vunder lion or
or as I call her, fond of lying. uh you know they they're making the belligerent threats but they have no no means to carry out or execute on those.
So I mean even if this this um new phase of the war remains inside Ukraine, the uh
it seems to me that the Europeans are dead set on still going ahead with uh with their preparations for a war with Russia. And if we listen to all of the
all of the talks we've had on on these different shows, including on Glen Dies and so on, we see that the Russians now seem to seem to start to agree that
okay, this war will come. So, we're we're going to get ready for it. Are we already inside a self-fulfilling prophecy at this point?
No. Because it's one thing for Europe to talk, it's another thing for it to do.
And that is the saving grace. They're good at talking tough, not real good at action. And when when push comes to
shove, remember Starmer was talking about, or we're going to take intercept all these uh Russian uh ghost ships that
are carrying gas or oil. Well, the Russian shows up with one of its
battleships or destroyers, and it's parked off the coast of the UK, and Starburst says, "Ah, never mind. H we're
not going to do that." And so, um, if it was left just to the leaders, yeah, they they could be a self-fulfilling
prophecy, but they they're not the only ones to get a say in this. And and the the public at large in these various countries are, I think, ultimately going
to restrain their leaders from committing suicide.
Well, I would hope so, but what's the role now of the United States? I mean, it's a really really bizarre moment where the US still pretends to be a
Chapter 3: US Role And Ukraine Air Defense
neutral uh uh mediator while everybody everybody on side agrees that the United States is the kingpin in the
decision-making process in NATO which ultimately I mean trickles all the way down into Kief, right? Yeah.
What's what's the position at the moment of the US uh US uh Ukraine? Are you familiar with the expression the red-headed stepchild?
So, uh, in in sort of US culture, it was, uh, if a family adopted a kid, the
they call him the redheaded stepchild, he wasn't wasn't the favorite, you know, he wasn't part of the inner family. He's always treated as an outsider. That's
what Ukraine is now with respect to the United States, the redheaded stepchild because the favorite son, Israel, they're getting all the love, all the
money, all the weapons. U and Ukraine's getting nothing. And you know what's really um
there there's also a lot of selfdeceit uh between in both the West and in Ukraine. Zalinsky wrote this letter to
Trump complaining about we need more Patriot missiles. We need more air defense.
Um they Ukraine started getting their first batch of Patriot missiles pack 3es
in 2023. And so 2023 2024 into early 2025. They received a grand
total of like 9 950 Pac 3 missiles.
16 minutesNow do the math. So if if you've got an inbound Russian missile, ballistic cruise, or even a garage zone, you're
going to have to fire two of those Pack 3es at that incoming missile. So just ask do a, you know, do a search on one
of the one of the AI engines and ask the question, uh, how many missiles has Russia fired since 2023?
And ballistic crews, I didn't even ask about drones. numbers between 8,000 and 12,000.
So do the math. If you got 950, that means you can shoot at 475
missiles. And if you do that, you've exhausted your supply of pack 3es and they're shooting down 90% of 12,000
8,000 to 12,000 missiles. Please, you know, stop lying.
that they don't the point is uh Ukraine has hardly had any air defense system
now for more than two years. And you know they always put a happy face on it claiming oh yeah we shot down x amount.
They haven't. And the the the sad part of this is they can beg the United States all they want for more Pack 3
missiles. United States produces uh an average of about 60 a month. Okay, which
means they can take out 30 potentially take out 30 missiles. Well, where where's the priority? The priority with
Israel or with Ukraine? Priority is Israel.
Yeah, obviously is obviously Israel. But on the other hand, it seems to me that Ukraine probably independently has
learned a very similar lesson or is taking a similar lesson from something that Iran has been preparing for for a
while. the fact that you cannot avoid being hit but you can maintain the capacity to strike back and they figured
18 minutesout actually you know the whole the whole patriot system and so on I think that's just money laundering mostly uh because right now what hurts Russia is
these cheap drones that the Ukrainians managed to fire or the NATO alliance manages to fire into into Russia and the Russians also are vulnerable to those.
Yeah. So I mean kind of you know we are at the point where both sides and actually also in the Iran war both sides are left with only the option of of
trying to absorb these shocks and it's usually the larger power that is more sensitive to being hit themselves.
No I I I disagree for this reason. One most of the the drones that are fired
into Russia are shot down. Russia still has a they have a very ample and and effective air defense system, right?
A few get through and they and they cause some damage, but damage on what scale? Let's remember in in comp, you
know, size comparison uh and then even a size comparison with Iran. Ukraine is roughly one-third the
size of Iran. Okay, in terms of land mass and when you look at all of the,
you know, 12 thou, let's 8,000 to 12,000 ballistic and cruise missiles over 4 year period, no telling how many thou,
I'd say easily 20 to 30,000 drones. Uh, even with all that firepower spread out
over Ukraine, it still hasn't hollowed out the society. It is reducing it by attrition.
Ukraine for its part doesn't even they don't even come close to that kind of fire. They're their only real firepower
now are uh they they may have some storm shadows. Uh and they've got some drones now. They're getting they're getting a a
fairly significant resupply of drones from the UK.
But then that that makes the UK now a target based upon what uh LV announced
the other day. So it is from the Russian standpoint, you know, they're pursuing a
military plan. It doesn't fit within any of the Western models of how we think we should do warfare. Even though
the West has these plans, but look how poorly they performed over the last 66 years. You know, we don't we don't have
to look at just one case. We got multiple cases. Uh well, let's go to the Korean War. US failed to defeat North
Korea and China in the in the Korean War. Failed to defeat Vietnam. Uh and then all these other scattershot wars.
We quote defeated Saddam Hussein in the first Gulf War. Even though, you know, looking back on it, that was a war that
never should have happened because Saddam was a client of the United States.
Iraq had been uh supported, funded, armed, equipped by the United States during this war with Iran. And then in a
little over like less than a year, year and a half, United States turned with a vengeance on Saddam Hussein.
You got to look back that, you know, that war was so unnecessary. And I I you know, looking back, I don't real I
didn't realize back then what I understand today. what I know today. Um because then I viewed that, you know, I
wasn't I hadn't followed the history of of the Iran Iraq war. I didn't realize the United States had been supplying the
chemical and biological weapons and providing the intelligence that Iraq was using to attack Iran. And I just said,
"Hey, here's this Saddam guy out of the blue attacks Kuwait." I didn't really understand that Saddam had met with the
US ambassador, April Glasby, and said, "Hey, these Kuwaitis are stealing our oil. So, I'm I'm going to go in and stop
it. Do you have a problem with that?" And April said to him, "The US has no position on that." And he said, "Okay."
And remember, this is the guy had been interacting with CIA and US uh Department of Defense assets for almost
10 years. So, you know, he thought, "Hey, I, you know, Americans, I I got a decent relationship with them." Little
did he understand that, uh, the, you know, he was still the redheaded stepchild, favorite son, Israel, was
still at the forefront and was one of the major justifications or at least motivations for the United States to do
that attack in 1990 to drive him out of Kuwait. So this is um you know the
United States militarily has failed and that's where that's the other thing I think the revelation for Russia out of
this whole the you know it's one thing to do an intelligence assessment but then it's another thing to see how it actually plays out on the battlefield.
Um, and you know, Scott Ritter and I had a a brief disagreement in the summer of uh 2022
when they uh they first introduced the the United States first introduced uh
some of its uh 155 millimeter artillery and and one of the earlier uh short-range uh missiles.
And and Scott said at the time he thought that was a game changer. And I said, "No, it's not. This doesn't this doesn't alter the course, but now we're
at a stage of what we're going to see the Russians do will be a gamecher.
It will fundamentally change the nature of the war and it's going to um because you know now Russia realizes
the United States is effectively a paper tiger. It it can it can cause some damage but the United States has been
unable to defeat the Houthis and now it's been unable to defeat uh Iran and all of its so-called vunderan you know
the wonder weapons supplied to Ukraine have failed to put a dent uh in Russia's
military and industrial capability that all of that is true the the thing I
Chapter 4: Russia’s Endgame In Ukraine
worry about is Um, what can be the endgame from the Russian side? Because I
mean, it's the if I was one of these sick neocons somewhere somewhere in in DC, then I and we know they talk about
it like this, right? Uh, uh, Hillary Clinton said like, "Let's make Ukraine the the Afghanistan of of uh of Russia."
At the beginning of the war, she said that literally and like I mean, poor Afghanistan. And I mean invaded by two uh great powers over the course of like
50 40 years. But but anyhow um yeah no poor I mean seriously poor guys.
Um and but you know they would want to make this a quagmire right and a quackmire can be a war that well you can
win and with overwhelming power or you can you can you can be much stronger than the other one but you can't win it because they will then support these
these in insurgents and and and small weapons and keep hurting keep hurting keep hurting. until after years, you
know, it shatters at some point. Um, how would Russia prevent that? Because these drone strikes into Russia are already
designed to do that, right? It's this way of pin pricks that over time stack up.
Well, Russia actually has a successful track record in dealing with insurgencies, westernbacked insurgencies.
You know, the first one was in the aftermath of World War II going into 1949, 1950 and the CIA and MI6 were busy
with banderites putting together Ukrainian units that were to carry out attacks in Russia. Uh it took the Russians then about six years to quell
that. Um then let's jump ahead to the 1990s. You had the first chin war 9293
but then the second one that was begun in earnest in August I think the date was August 9th of 1999
and that went on for about 11 years. It ended in 2010 when Medvidev was
president. Uh so Russia has successfully fought insurgencies, westernbacked
insurgencies and defeated them. And the defeat the the defeat in the second Chuchchin war was hey was it a brutal
war? Oh absolutely. You know the the Russians killed a lot of people but when it was all over they had the loyalty of the Muslim population in Cheshna.
And I can testify to that just based on my conversations with General Opti Aludinov you know he's a hero of the of Russia
and but he's a devout Muslim uh and long and he fought he was involved with those as a young very young man teenager in
that second Chetchin war. So, Russia is they're going to they're continuing this war of attrition, bleeding out Ukraine.
But on top of it, I I think you know what we're going to see is they will take Russia will take Kev or Kiev, you
know, however we want to pronounce it, and they will take Odessa and probably Transnistri before this is all over. They will they will militarily
defeat uh Ukrainian forces. And if any NATO forces try to go in and defend in Nordessa, they'll be wiped out
and it's going to be Russia. It'll be, you know, brutal. But that's where I see what Russia's prepare prepared to do.
So at the moment, we are still, I mean, we're again at the point where probably the Russians still at this moment want
to keep the war inside Ukraine, right?
28 minutesThe Ukrainians still want to Europeanize this. The Europeans would also like to Europeanize it. So it will probably boil
down to the decision of Washington which way it will go.
Chapter 5: Trump, Ukraine And Iran
Yeah, I Trump will Trump will not get further in involved with Ukraine. I I'm pretty confident of that. He's he's too
caught in Iran. Uh you know, the United States is we've already got very limited military operations there and uh he has
he has he's suffering a political beating right now. His popularity it's it's at the same level as Richard Nixon
in his second term. And remember Nixon in his second term was in the midst of Watergate. Uh his po he was 63% of
Americans opposed him and that's where Trump is right now. 63 He's only got 37% saying they support Trump.
Yeah. And the the Iran war really really damaged his entire MAGA base and and he's not getting out of it apparently.
What did you make out of and let's now switch to Iran. What did you make out of this comment two days ago when he said that he talked to all of these leaders
Chapter 6: Abraham Accords And Gulf Talks
in West Asia including Turkey and they all they must join the peace agreement which is basically also signing the Abraham
Accords and recognizing Israel including Pakistan and others. Like if I wanted to make sure that there will be no
agreement, that's exactly how I would do it. And we have no we have no president in history where neutral states,
uninvolved neutrals were forced to were became party of the peace agreement. I mean, yeah. What is that idea?
Yeah. Well, uh, apparent the reports are that when he brought that up, they had all these people on like a conference
call and when he brought that up, there was dead silence. Nobody spoke up and said, "Yeah, Mr. President, that's a great idea." Yeah, well, let's do that.
Um, is uh or is something like the Abraham Accords possible? Yes, I think under one scenario.
That scenario would be Israel must grant statehood to the Palestinians. They must
be secure. Israel has withdrawn its military forces back to the appropriate boundaries. And then and only then would
these other nations be willing to enter entertain recognizing um Israel's as as a sovereign state. As
long as they continue to fight the wars and attack Lebanon and attack the Palestinians, there will be no Abraham
agreement. And the Saudis made that very clear the next day. They they released a statement saying, "No, not going to happen until the rights of the
Palestinian people are addressed." Same thing out of Qatar and same thing out of Iran. So, you know, you're right. It
looks as if Trump's maybe trying to deliberately sabotage uh his own peace effort, but uh the uh it that's not going anywhere.
Or is he is he is he fighting an internal an internal fight with all of the neocons, the Lindsey Grahams and so on and Pompeo? I mean, they all came out
last week when uh Trump announced the deal was near and they they all came out and said like, "No, no, no, no, no, no
deal. I mean, this is horrible." Um because our ally Israel and now he just flout pouts out this idea in order to throw them a bone.
Is it something like that?
Yeah. Well, as you correctly note, uh the the social media accounts with the Zionist crowd went wild.
Oh, yeah.
And that may have and again today we saw Trump said things that someone who is in
touch with White House sources uh wrote and said look Trump has once again pulled the plug on a peace agreement by
his you know statements that uh you know that Iran's not going to remain in control of the state of harloo uh and
that uh just just re and insisting that the Abraham Accord must be upheld. Um so
the I know the Pakistanis they've got the lead role in this negotiations trying to pe you know patch together an
agreement. They've got the full backing of China and China and Russia are uh
both involved diplomatic pressure on the Gulf Arabs. Yeah, just before coming on air, I got a report from somebody who is
involved with the negotiations uh from the Chinese side. Uh and they they they
report that Qatar has now informed the United States basically you got 6 to9 months get get the hell out of Qatar
which means closing Alouded Air Force Base which is the largest it is the brain center for all US military
operations in West Asia. Uh I'm actually surprised Iran didn't inflict more damage on it during the first five weeks
Chapter 7: US Bases And New Gulf Security
of the war and and that may have been because you remember it's a complicated relationship between Iran and Qatar
there a few years back Qatar was isolated it was facing attack from Saudi
Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and they were actually prohibiting you know preventing you know the arrival of even humanitarian supplies.
Well, who supplied Qatar during that time? Iran.
So, the Qataris are not a bunch of ingrates. They they remember that. And so, this is why uh you know, in fact,
Galibbah, the speaker of the parliament was in Qatar. And I I don't know who he specifically met with, but I'm sure it
was with the with the leaders. So, Iran is this whole new security architecture.
It is being they're trying to they're working to put that together. And what that means is the exclusion of the United States from West Asia.
Yep. And they're probably going to get there because also Saudi Arabia now already blocked the United States twice.
Uh Qatar as well. And I I think we I I recently actually understood, you know, we had this discussion earlier and we're
looking at Oman. Oman has no significant bases or anything but still got attacked. And by now we know because
Arachi said uh that these these attacks were not intentional but because they have this mosaic defense where 31 uh
independent military governorates basically take decisions that some of them you know struck places that maybe
the highest leadership wouldn't have want to see. But it seems that by now um the message actually to the Gulf States is is getting through, right? You need
to kick out the the Americans. So the negotiations are probably just as hard with the with the Gulf States as it is with thei the United States in order to create new facts on the ground.
Correct.
Yeah. that that you know this it's not an overnight process and they're still uh the Pakistanis
working at the sort of the direction of the Chinese want to ensure that they that they get
this new security architecture in place that basically it will be the Gulf states and Iran guaranteeing their own security as a group.
Yeah. And and so um the one you know the one problem child in this whole whole
lashup is United Arab Emirates and even within the Emiratis it's not all of the
Amirs it's basically the guy MBZ who I believe is in um um um what is the other
it's not Dubai the other main city in Abu Dhabi UA
that that's his main, you know, where he hangs his hat. So, um
this is this is a work in progress. Uh um and but as we came on air, I see that
there were new clashes tonight over Bonder Abas. So, this may still get back
into a heated exchange. Uh it looks like foreign minister Arachi went to travel to Moscow yesterday.
Kremlin hasn't highlighted I'm I'm assuming it's Arachi. It may have been the Minister of Defense. Uh the the Russians so far haven't issued any readout on on that kind of meeting.
o and I'm sure it's the negotiations and talks about um what you know what could Iran be suggesting? Iran said,
"Okay, look, uh, we'll give up the arched uranium provided the U, Russia store it." Uh, there was also talk that
Pakistan would store it. Uh, and then Trump is saying, "No, that that couldn't happen." But, you know, for Iran, it's a
red line. You're, the United States is not going to tell Iran what it can do with its uh, enriched uranium. Iran will make that decision.
Chapter 8: Sanctions And Diplomacy With Iran
Yeah. On the other hand, the Iran wants things that only the United States can give. Um I mean the military is one
thing. Iran can maybe chase them away uh from the Gulf. Yes. But the other thing is of course sanctions relief and the end of this blockade and that is
something that's actually in the hands of of the US. So there is an interest in like coming to some form of understanding that then would produce results. Right.
But the but the well let me just add you you can make the case that who's who's hurting most
from the blockade Iran or the Gulf Arabs? I would argue it's the Gulf Arabs. Yeah.
Why? Because while the there are some limitations or attempts to limit what Iran can ship out via the ports and and
and the Persian Gulf, um they've still got open trade routes to the north over the Caspian Sea with Russia. U as well as Aubaijan.
They've got uh land routes through Tashkant including the railroad connecting them to China as well as
China's ability to fly cargo ships in uh with goods as well as seven land routes from Pakistan with Pakistan's full cooperation.
So uh Iran is actually they're they're actually in pretty good shape economically. This these dire
39 minutespredictions that oh we do the blockade it's going to choke their economy.
they're going to collapse. Didn't happen.
So, you know, all these predictions from these western pundits turned out to be false.
Yeah. But it if possible, it would of course be better for the Iranian economy as well to have this thing lifted and the sanctions lifted and to actually,
you know, you could do much more. So, this would be a good thing. Uh on the other hand, um the the negotia
is in my view ruining like a lot of this diplomatic process because whatever Donald Trump throws out then uh becomes
becomes a huge thing and he the on the other hand though what what is your what is your gut feeling? I mean is there
actual diplomacy going on with you know behind all of this of of Iranian diplomats and US diplomats saying like
don't pay attention to it. the actual thing between us happens here at at this table in Pakistan. Um, is are they also
like always afraid of looking at what Donald Trump tweeted out yesterday?
Yeah. No, the Iranians I think have gotten they don't pay any attention to what Donald Trump tweets, you know. Um,
but they're they're not willing to make an agreement based solely on a promise that says, "Oh, yeah, we cross our heart
and hope to die. Well, well, if you do these things, we'll lift those sanctions. And Iran's just simply going to say, "Wait a second. We've we've been
there. We've been down this road with JCPOA. You you made commitments and you didn't fulfill those commitments. So, we got to have something ironclad, something very concrete.
Um, can can Trump lift the sanctions or is it actually Congress? If it has to go to Congress, it will all be sunk down, right? So, well, it it depends.
uh sanctions that were imposed via executive order, Trump can lift whether
it was George W. Bush or Barack Obama or Joe Biden that wrote that imposed those sanctions. If it was done via executive
order, Trump can lift them. If it was done via congressional an act of Congress, then you're correct. Congress
has to meet and approve the lifting. So that that that again could be a negotiating point where uh Iran might
say okay you you President Trump lift all the sanctions that you can lift uh and then we'll be willing to go forward
and talk but you know there are Iran's not going to surrender it sovereignty
that that's the key lesson I think no but the thing is what can Iran I mean um having any form of agreement and the
the other side the the other side needs to live up to it. Right. So, right. What do you think about the the UN sanctions? Would it be on the part
that they forced Trump to order his uh his ambassador in the security council to actually, you know, propose a
42 minutesresolution that would lift the sanctions, the UN sanctions on Iran.
That would be a big Well, yeah, the US could play a decisive role in that, but you still have France
and England or the United Kingdom. So, they could still veto it. And so, this is uh and in fact, we saw them basically they did so last uh September.
So, the the the blowback sanctions or the Yeah. the snapback.
um that you know the the UK and France were key ones and said no, we're going to keep those in place. So um u what's
interesting though is both France and the United Kingdom now they're an anacronism with respect to the UN.
Yeah, you could you could make the case at the end of World War II they could still be sort of considered a global power. They
are no longer. They're the they're they're they're weak regional powers at best. Yet they're still, you know, they live they're living out their own
fantasy life that that they're still important, that they're still relevant, and they aren't.
Chapter 9: Lebanon, Oil And Wider War Risks
Yeah. Yeah. But um once a treaty gives you something, then uh the these states tend to keep it until the very until the
very end. Um, anything else in your view that's currently happening about around Iran that is that is very important to properly assess the situation?
Well, the the other is what happens in Lebanon.
Um, Israel has renewed its offensive in southern Lebanon, right?
And they're bombing and Israel at the same time, they're they're suffering significant losses. Ezah with its, you
know, access to these drones, um, is, you know, it's been, it's been a bit of a game changer for them. You know, in
the past, they had to, uh, hide an ambush to attack Israeli forces as they
advanced and much more likelihood of casualties with that. Now, they're they're hitting them. They're causing
more casualties into to Israel using the drones than they ever did in the 2006 war with you know up close and personal
you know fighting close quarters. So that you know that is another factor that's going to play in. And so if so
far we're told that Trump warned BB not to bomb Beirut and to stop, you know, so he can bomb around the yellow line in
the south, but uh do not go north of the Latani River. So apparently Israel has been following that so far. But if if
they expand the war, that will be from the standpoint of Iran breaking the ceasefire and then Israel will become another target for Iran.
Right. Right. Overall, the the the situation doesn't look very conducive
45 minutestoward this being toned down anytime soon, which also means that the entire economic problem around the straight of
horm will also remain in place, which means that we should all get ready for even higher pump prices at the pump.
Yeah, that this is the global effect of this economically is only starting to be
felt, but uh the you know the price or price of oil and and gasoline for
example and diesel fuel is is soaring around the world. So it's not just an isolated area. uh China is, you know,
despite US hopes that uh the blockade would somehow pressure China, it's turned out that's not the case at all.
It's just the opposite. China has built in some insurance policies for itself and it's it's largely immune to these the blockade and these sanctions.
Yeah. And what it also will lead to is of course uh Iran and China trying to figure out alternative routes and you know every every shock also then
incentivizes the others to to improve resilience. So um do we last question do we have any indications that that these
Chapter 10: China, Commodities And Market Collapse
neocon uh uh uh crazies are planning something to expand this this war to China? I mean at the moment it seems qu
it seems quiet here in the Pacific. Uh but do you see anything on your end?
No. Uh they might want to but the US doesn't have the means to do so. They've already depleted largely depleted much
of uh what would they would have to use in an offensive against Chinese forces and and the Chinese are far far more
capable than Iran with hypersonic missiles, anti-ship missiles, submarines. Um, so yeah, there's no way
for the United States really to inflict any kind of uh damage short of using nuclear weapons. And you know, if they
47 minutesdo that, then you know, end of the world's upon us because Russia and China would strike back at the United States if the US decided to do that. So I don't
see that happening. But let let me ask you a question as a historian.
Have we ever had a period in the last 300 years where five critical
commodities for world industrial output have been cut off? So you've had 20% of
the world's oil is cut off. 10% of the world's liquid natural gas is cut off.
Uh 35% of the world's ura essential for fertilizer production among other things
cut off. 44% of the helium that is used in u you know medical imaging as well as
building computer chips that's gone and then sulfur which has you know you
essential to create sulfuric acid which is again a very important commodity
within uh industrial activity. I I I don't recall I don't think we've ever had a period like that. uh and the
implications for global economic recession at a minimum depression very
uh very likely we we I don't think we had it on a on a on a global scale the way we have it
today but unfortunately usually this is one of the goals or the the implications of large-scale warfare I mean this was
Napoleon's Napoleon's idea of how to deal with the Brits and the British idea how to deal with Napoleon is like you cut each other off from your trading
partners and you start threatening uh third parties, neutrals uh to stop uh to stop trading with the enemy, right? And
that's so it's it's it's a natural thing to happen in this kind of of war confilration, but I don't think we had
it on that scale on a planetary level yet.
Yeah. So that that's why I said we're we're living through something that has no precedent in history and it's not like you know if you have a historical
event that you can go back and say okay this is what happened previously what are the different variables we're looking at we're looking at something
entirely new and and that's why uh I I think the vast majority of the people uh
even even academics and pundits and experts in other areas I don't think to
fully grasp how ser serious this is and how disruptive it's going to be because
that and that economic disruption I think will end up playing a very as as time goes on that will become the more
important factor leading for incentives to actually bringing into this war and to get the
negotiated settlement that will convince Iran okay uh you win you know we're going to stop this.
Yeah. If if and looking at the development of what the central banks are doing at the moment, it and and how
the bond market is developing, it looks possible. If another 2008 hits that
would change the entire equation um and one more one more shock, one more economic shock that related but also
significantly different from what's going on. So, we'll see about that, I guess. Well, there's a there's a derivatives trader lives in China, uh,
Canadian named Alex White. Uh, he he's, uh, he has a channel on YouTube called Reportify, Reporter Media.
And he says the derivatives market right now is between 700 trillion dollars and
one quadrillion dollars. numbers that we have, you know, can't get your mind
around it. And he he thinks a collapse in that market is very very likely,
which would make it 2008 appear to be a picnic compared to the kind of economic
chaos that would sweep the world. So that's I mean if we get into that stage uh we're again we're going to be in
something very that will be profoundly uh shattering to global political order.
Derivatives are such a stupid idea especially the the split up ones. I mean it's that's what that's what screwed 2008. That's what they
Well, it's just it's just you take a couple of debt obligations, you slice them up, you put them into a new package, you sell that, and then
nobody knows what you actually own, and you call that a a a foolproof asset and collateralized uh uh risk.
My god, is that a dumb thing to do? Yeah. And you think we learned? Nope.
Flat learning curve here, man. So th this is uh you know that that's another thing that's on the horizon that that I
don't think a lot of uh policy analysts are taking into account.
Yeah. All right. Now that we're that we're thoroughly back into doom and gloom, I would like to thank you, Larry, for for a very good analysis, an
important one. Um people want to follow you, they should go to your homepage, sonar21.com.
Um anywhere else where they should find you? Yeah, that that's the I do a I have a a weekly uh broadcast on
countercurrens. Uh in fact, I just interviewed Alex White today. It'll be out probably on Friday. Uh I did Katherine a Austin Fitz last week.
Again, she had some very interesting economic analysis. She was she was a trader on Wall Street. Um and very, you
know, very experienced. Um, and she's got, you know, I I think I think the whole economic side, economics can be
boring, but that that's where I think the real panic will come from once because the markets right now, the
markets are not acting normally. uh you know the we we saw prices of oil during
COVID surge to $150 a barrel and that was on the futures market but there was no there wasn't a cut off of 20 20% of
the supply. The supply basically remained intact.
Now we got a 20% of the supply gone and they're saying oh yeah the the price of oil is falling because we think a peace agreement is near.
Uh, I don't think the peace agreement is near despite all the, you know, press coverage and positive comments.
No, but that's the funny thing about the market. They don't need something real.
They need something to believe in, right? They they it just shows that it's a casino. It's a huge casino. Yes.
Uh, but but some people uh some people really play it and one of the main players is the president of the United
tates. But now, who knows how to how to create belief. Anyhow, um Larry Johnson, we will have you back uh pretty
soon. Everybody go to Zoner 21. Um support Larry. Um please also keep in mind YouTube banned Larry. He he's not allowed to have his own channel anymore,
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Richard Wolff & Michael Hudson: Iran Won. The Empire Lost. Forever.
By Nima Alkhorshid
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Streamed live 7 hours ago

Transcript

Hi everybody. Today's Thursday, May 28, 2026 and our dear friends Richard Wolf and Michael Hodson are here with us.
Welcome back. Good to be here.
And let's start with before coming to this live, we were talking about what's going on in the
Middle East. Michael, you've raised a very important point about the trade of Hormuz and we know that Iran is
is using its power on the straight of for controlling the trade of formos.
Basically, they're not imposing tolls or something like that. It seems that they're calling it administrative or
environmental fee. It's some sort of fee which is accepted by international law. But you mentioned something beyond that.
And before coming to this live, we've learned from Barack Ravid who's the reporter of Axio. He said that the deal
between Iran and the United States is imminent. But you have something else in your mind about that. What is your
understanding of the situation in the Middle East? basically when it comes to the international law and the trade of for and the second the deal between Iran
and the United States there's no deal that's imminent at all and there cannot be because none of the
proposed peace plans that are announced by Trump can be realized in practice uh
already uh Iran has said rightly so that for starters it needs a release of the funds that the United States has grabbed
And that should include the grabbing of the stable coin that Iran sought to be
paid in. The US can't possibly agree to any such payment because the Congress uh
says that uh it it has congressional approval and that no funds can be released without congressional approval.
So, this seems unlikely given uh South Carolina's Lindsey Graham firm opposition, saying that under no terms
will we give Iran the uh money that it can terrorize uh Israel and terrorize
America by fighting back against the bombing. uh and and that any retaliation
against American terrorism or Israel Israeli terrorism is uh accu is uh
accused as being Iranian terrorism just like when Russia responds to Ukrainian
uh attacks on similar schools with boys and girls in it. That's considered
terrorism for fighting back. Uh and the Congress said this is our right. this is what we're going to do. And quite apart
from the fact that Congress will not approve anything that Trump has talked about, neither will Israel. Israel says
we're going to we're not binding to this. We're going to continue to attack and even if we sign an agreement, we're going to ignore agreement because there
is no rule of law anymore. It this is totally the law of the jungle uh that that's occurring now. And I think you
have to realize that that the the whole thought that there can be an agreement uh ignores the fact that the uh the
Iranian conflict like that of Russia can only be settled on the battlefield.
That's how it's going to be probably after this Sunday or Monday when uh the two or three week war begins.
Trump. You could look at Trump's demand.
His demand that Iran turn over its its uranium as if it wants to atom bomb
Israel is a red herring. This is bizarre. Uh as we've discussed before,
4 minutesuh the US intelligence agencies agree Iran has made no effect, no attempt to
uh create an atom bomb. Israel has 200 atom bombs. So I would be surprised that
uh uh if I were Iran, I would say, well, you know, we have a red line, too.
Israel must join the uh group of nations acknowledging for atomic bombs. And yes, of course, we're willing to give up our
um uh our uh any enriched uranium we have on the condition that Israel gives
up its 200 atom bombs that it has. uh we uh we want parity, we want symmetry.
That's the basis of any agreement. And without a symmetry with uh is Israel having 200 bombs and we having none,
this is bizarre. Well, uh, Trump has turned to, uh, Hegsth, uh, at the meeting in, uh, Washington yesterday,
and Hegsth says, "Well, uh, it's true that Iran doesn't have an atom bomb, but it may someday have an
ambition for an atom bomb, and we have to assume that Iran is going to fulfill this ambition to try to get it because
uh, that's what we would do if we were uh, Iran." Uh the fact is that we plan to attack Iran and of course Iran is
going to want a counterattack and the way to a counterattack is an atom bomb.
So because we are going to step up the war and start uh Trump's threatened war with Iran next week that uh that means
that of course Iran is going to treat us like the great Satan and want to do that. This is all a red herring. when
you start a con a discussion saying this isn't about America's desire to control oil in the Middle East uh this we want
peace peace means we want American Israel to take over the near east to control its uh oil export so that we can
uh do exactly what Trump announced to do in the first two weeks of his administration with his national
security oil policy saying America's foreign policy is based on the control of oil and the ability to cut off all
other countries from access to oil unless they agree to the US conditions of uh avoiding sanctions on their oil
trade by sanctioning Russia, China uh and Iran and any other party designated by the United States. So the United
States is taking such a hardline position based on a fantasy, an enabling
fantasy that there is no way that any possible agreement uh can be done. The
US and Israel are projecting their own fears on Iran based on uh the fact that
uh this is their policy. They think Iran is just as uh vicious and racist and uh
violent uh and terrorist as the United States and Israel are. But u Iran just
like uh Russia have been very carefully avoiding attacks on civilians such as that. So uh the question is that uh I
think if Iran is to give up any prospects for developing an an atom bomb
well then uh it's uh it's a fantasy uh where would where would Israel put its
uh 200 atom bombs and its enriched uranium and what country could be trusted if it put it in Mexico which is
probably neutral. the United States could uh mount troops in Mexico and simply grab it and return it uh to
Israel. So it's not possible in principle to have any of the uh
agreements enforced in any meaningful way. And obviously Iran knows that just
as almost everybody except the stock market, the bond market [clears throat] and the US and uh Europe that continues
to think well everything's marginal, everything's going to be uh all right. I want to say something about the US uh
what you just mentioned the tolls that uh Iran says of course we're going to create tolls uh on uh the straight of
Hermuz. Not only did that used to be part of Iran, but collecting these tolls is the only way to get reparations for
the attacks that America, Israel, and the Emirates and other Arab countries
have caused by letting uh American aircraft uh and and bombers take use
their air bases. Uh just yesterday, Iran retaliated against uh uh Kuwait that where apparently American bombers took
off to uh uh try to send missiles to Iran, which I gather that Iran was able to uh to uh reject. Well, the United
States says u uh basically on the one hand Iran that's against international
law to impose tolls in international waters. Well, the inter international
law of the sea is dead. Uh the United States, as uh Richard and I have discussed before, have been bombing
fishermen off the coast of Venezuela and Colombia, saying, "Well, these fishermen could be drug dealers." That's against
the law of the sea. You have to board them and see if there's any drug.
You have to give them warning. Same thing uh in uh the state of Hermoose.
The United States has been bombing fishermen in the state of Hermoose, saying, "Well, maybe these fishermen aren't fishermen. Maybe perhaps they're
laying mines." That's exactly what Donald Trump accused them of doing.
There's no indication that they're uh laying mines and they're apparently they had fish on the boats. But the United
States is just sort of showing power by saying we have total control of the sea. There is no international law for us.
Well, then how can the United States make the pretense that there's an international law that Iran can't uh use
what uh it certainly has the right to do and control the street of Hermuz and the shipping through it and to impose fees
on it because that is a situation that the United States has created. The United States has weaponized the state
of Hermuz by weaponizing its proxy states uh such as the Emirates that have pledged uh religious war against Iran uh
and other uh uh Arab Arab countries. Of course, Iran needs to protect itself
from the fact that American military bases are throughout these countries and Iran has every right to given uh
America's breaking of the laws of war, the laws of sea, international law of national sovereignty. Uh Iran is
probably the only country in the world right now that is uh trying to live according to international law in an
otherwise lawless uh international environment. I'd better uh stop uh elaborating this so that Richard can
have a a chance to talk. Yeah, Richard, let me just read you what the US Treasury
Secretary Scott Bassen just moments ago tweeted. He says that Oman should know
that the US Treasury will aggressively target any actor any actors involved
directly or indirectly in facilitating tolls for the straight of Hormuz. And here is what Donald Trump said considering Oman yesterday.
Iran wants control of the straight over Moose. Would you accept a short-term deal that allows Iran and Oman to control the strait? And would they have
to open it immediately or would you be open to that happening over a period of time?
No. The strait's going to be open to everybody. It's uh And who would control it?
It's international waters. Nobody's going to control it. We're going to watch over it. We'll watch over it, but nobody's going to control it. That's part of the negotiation that we have.
They would like to control it. Nobody's going to control it. It's international waters and Oman will behave just like everybody else. So we'll have to blow
them up. They Yeah, he wants to blow them up because of their part. Your your take on this trade of formos.
Well, I I I don't understand how anyone can take this seriously anymore. It's crystal clear what's going on. Michael
makes it clear again. We've tried to do that on this program repeatedly. Mr.
Trump has threatened to obliterate to uh back to the stone age. Come on. This is
who we have here. Absolutely. There is no more law of the sea. One of the reasons we've talked about the the the
summary execution of men in boats around Venezuela and Latin America for six
months now. I believe it's over 200 people killed. uh no trial, no jury, no
boarding, nothing. What used to be the practice of the Navy because that was
international law has now been completely ignored. No one can make a case that
Venezuela threatened the United States or that those fishing boats thousand
miles away were a danger to the United States. None of them had ever come here and done any damage ever. So, it's a
joke. It's not serious. It's like the president sitting there and saying, "No one's going to control it. We'll be
watching over it." As if the world doesn't understand that when America watches over it, that's what the control
is. Who who could be so stupid at this point not to see the man is telling us
cuz he's crude and doesn't know how to cover it over in clever Ivy League language.
He's crude which is useful because then you got it. There it is. You let us o
overlook it or we'll blow you up. Okay, got it. The interesting question is
whether the world is now ready ready to say no to say to the United States
it's over. Your empire is not there anymore. It's not that you can shift
from using a rulesbased international order to cover over your empire. That's
gone. It's gone because you decided, you, the Americans, to do by brute force what you couldn't
do the way you did it in the second half of the 20th century, mostly peacefully,
by threatening, by sanctioning, by manipulation. You can't. You have to come and hit people over the head and
blow them up. All right? Then the question is, and and look, I think everybody watching this program knows
what I'm about to say because it's the real question we all have, isn't it? Are Russia and China and
Iran and others opposed to all of this ready, willing, and able to stop it?
That's what's being tested now. Nothing else.
nothing else. All of these negotiations, it's very nice. They may work. You may
get a deal, but it'll be as deeply rooted as the deal that ended the attack by Israel and the United States on Iran
one year ago. Here we are again. And we will be here a year from now again. No
matter what happens, if they agree to something, they don't agree. Who are we? Who are we fooling? Look at Mr.
Hex. We have to be blessed. Here again is another one of these knives that's far from the sharpest one in the drawer.
And so so he explains how the very possibility that they may be interested in atomic
weapons. Uh okay, but that applies to everybody. The leaders of Malaysia or
Nigeria or Panama could be imagining at some point to get nuclear weap. Are we going to go there too?
And the answer is of course we are.
That's what we do. That's what we've been doing a long time.
So the question is what? What's shaping this? And so let me offer an answer to my question.
believe we are watching the final gasps of life of colonialism.
Yes, we live in an era of anticolonialism.
For the last century, [snorts] the old empires of Britain and France
and Germany and Holland and Japan and Spain and Portugal have all at varying rates and in varying ways been undone.
They're over.
All right. We are witnessing the three efforts to somehow do it again. And here they are.
Israel is trying to settler colonize the areas around it.
Straight out 17th century colonialism, but it's [snorts] several centuries too
late when a world is organized against it. And that's why it is so [snorts] brutal.
Number two, Europe, who is fading out of its five
centuries in the sun and becoming the the afterthought.
Once you have America, once you have China, oh yeah, there's Europe, but Europe is out of it. In the realm of
modern high-tech, irrelevant in the realm of modern high finance, virtually so.
What is Europe doing in its decline? A desperate act of colonial expansion.
Where? Eastern Europe. That's why they had to move NATO from where it was and
take all of those countries that used to be the Warsaw Pact, having basically promised not to do that. But they did
it. And now their dream is Ukraine. And the Russians are saying, "No, we're
not." The Russians are stopping the colonialism of Western Europe the way
Hezbollah is stopping the colonialism of Israel or for that matter the Galla
the Palestinians in Gaza. Lord knows how they survived there. And now the last
one, the last one, the last one is the United States.
That's what all this Iran war, snatching Mr. Maduro from Venezuela, killing the the fisherman in the boats.
What's going on here?
We have a president who gets up and says, "I'm going to take Greenland, Panama. Canada's going to become a 51st state and bombing Nigerian Christians.
What?
This is another crazy effort to solve the problems of this culture and this
economy by returning three centuries to colonial. We're snatching other parts of the world.
You notice it? Three efforts at colonialism.
three push backs and Iran's is in the news right now
because their ability to push back has become the focal point in the way that
Russia in Ukraine and I'm not justifying invading other countries but I do take seriously
that what Russia did has an explanation other than some fantasy of projecting
onto Russia an expansion it does not want and it does not need. I want to
remind people in case it's an issue, Russia is the largest country on this
planet by geography. They have every resource imaginable and once they can
really do a proper study, which they haven't done, they will define all the rest of them. If it's under the surface
of this planet, it's under Russia in all likelihood. By the way, they have enormous
reserves of oil and gas, as everybody who pays attention knows, and they will have rare earths and all the rest of it.
They don't they have an exploitable hinterland. They haven't begun to do all
that can be done there. They don't need a war. They don't need a population that will be pushing against them night and day.
Look at the problem they have in Ukraine. You think they want to multiply that in other parts of the world? This is silly.
But it is a necessary fable. [snorts] And we are dealing now with people that are out of control in fable creation.
And nor is that a psychological issue merely.
They are caught. And this is the wisdom of m of Michael's choice of words. It's a dead end. It's an impossibility.
They there is nothing here. What's to negotiate? Give us our money. Give us our our straight of her moose. Give us
our peace, our freedom, our ability to function.
None of which the United States is willing to do. You have to live with the uncertainty. We and the Israelis may come next week, next month. What?
But that's the reality that there is nothing to negotiate.
When you're finished with your negotiations, if you do, and you all sign them, if you do, you will then go home.
And what in fact will you have? And the answer is nothing. You have not. You
don't know what will happen next week, next month. If the political winds change in the United States,
then the government will decide to bomb in Iran. Not because of Iran, not
because of the nuclear work that they do or the tolls. Those are not the issues.
They the the government here can't survive if it loses the wararm mongers among the Republicans. End of conversation.
That's that's what makes this happen. The big issues they have to deal with.
The economies that are driven to do what Israel, United States, and and NATO are
25 minutesdoing are economies that are in deep trouble. Look at them. Their growth
rates are going nowhere. Their position in the world shrinking by the day.
There's a feminist, if I have her right, with a name Canes, which of course if you're an economist, you know the name
Canes. uh and she writes for the Financial Times and she has an editorial
saying to the Europeans, I believe yesterday or today, look, we're all making fun of Mr. Trump and we don't like him.
But Europe's only salvation is to do the same thing with tariffs and with trade wars.
She's the author, by the way, of a book called How to Win a Trade War. That's what's left.
That's what's left.
Imperial expansion into Eastern Europe, try to create a colonial place where you can rip those local
people off for a few decades. You can't do it anymore the way you once did in Africa, in Asia, Latin America. that
that door is closing. Open an East European one and otherwise hold back
because and she's by the way honest about it because China is finishing us off. That's not a quote
but in effect what she says. So Europe has to follow Donald Trump. You know
that's what they're doing anyway. As he kicks them so they become more followers.
You know in psychology you recognize that for severe mental illness usually brought on by trauma. We have a trauma.
It's the end of the American Empire, which is a traumatic experience
for the people living through it who try desperately to deny it. And the denial,
as all psychologists will tell you, denying your trauma only makes it worse.
Well, the question is, where do we go from here? H how does the world uh say no? That's how Richard began uh his
whole uh discussion. Uh how is the whole epoch of western colonialism to be
ended? Uh well, what Richard calls the uh European neoc colonial expansion uh
is actually they're trying to refight World War II, but this time on the side of Germany and Japan against Russia and
28 minutesChina. uh they it's a [laughter] a refight of World War II and just like uh Russia was the main
uh fighter and sacrificer and ultimate winner uh destroying the German army. Uh
it looks like it's in the same relative power over uh Western Europe that it has today. uh and this time uh China is no
longer as weak as it was uh in the 1920s and 30s when Japan began its whole uh military buildup and the rape of Nang
King and all of that. So uh the West's fight to refight World War II is is the
last gasp of what indeed is uh the attempt of Western colonialism is going
to fail. But again the question is how what how is the world going to organize
to replace financial and trade as well as military colonialism. There's
a a breakdown of law uh basically as a result of the US attempt to uh try to
maintain its control. What what kind of law can be
enforced again? uh not well the law is sufficient. It's all uh the principles
of the United Nations charter but how can you create an a new United Nations that has the power of enforcement and
that is immune from the US and European control veto power over the super uh the
security council. How can you uh enforce the uh isolation of countries that
violate international law? The United States and Western Europe, Germany, uh
Britain uh and France and their uh fighting uh in against Russia in
Ukraine. There's there has to be a discussion of how to create such an
organization since the United Nations is a feast to function and the there's a paralysis and I think the problem is and
I I know Richard will agree with me on this countries are no longer following their economic interests. That's what
we've been discussing on this show for the last year. Their governments have been hijacked. captured by advocates of the law of the jungle, the law of force.
And uh Trump, as I've said, accuses Iran as being a terrorist when it's the American uh and its allies uh that are
the terrorists. Uh uh same thing about Ukraine accusing Russia of being terrorists. The we're in a terrorist
31 minutessituation already. This is the kind of uh prelude to the World War III which is actually the refight of World War II.
The way it's working out geopolitically.
Well, uh I the first issue of this that we've been focusing on now for three
months is US foreign policy for a century is aimed at controlling the world's oil supply along with British
and Dutch support so as to uh force countries to uh follow US policies
or being cut off from oil. Well, the result of the American attack on Iran
and re Iran's response uh to the attack is indeed going to cut all of these countries off from oil without their uh
having the option of saying we surrender. We're going to follow uh the the uh US sanctions. They're cut off
anyway because the US uh is uh following the uh national security strategy saying
without oil we cannot control the world without controlling the monopoly in information technology and the internet
and uh computer technology and uh computer chips. We cannot control the world. How will the world resist being
controlled? the only way it can do is to become self-sufficient on its own by uh
isolating itself from the United States in Western Europe. Uh the
you recently had I think in the last few days Iceland has seen Trump's attack uh
statement again that he wants to take control of Greenland. Iceland has uh talked about, well, maybe we should
33 minutescease to be an independent country and join the European Union to prevent uh
America from taking us over in order to control the excess by sea to the Arctic
Ocean to trade for Russian oil and Russian gas. Well, I'm not sure that joining the EU is going to be any uh
more of a salvation than uh go going it alone because the EU is leadership is
been so hijacked. So basically, if the United States uh I think if the United
States continues to isolate Iran's economy, then Iran can simply say uh we're not going to go down alone. uh
we're going to uh bring about the exact fate that all of you feared that there won't be OPEC oil that there is going to
be a world depression. It is going to be worse than the depression of the 1930s because you can't get out of it simply
by cancelling the debts. You simply can't get out of it by creating money.
You can't get out of it by investing in your own economy because there's a a shortage of oil and high oil prices that
make your industries uncompetitive with countries uh that have an oil. And the way that other countries are going to
get oil obviously is from the country that has it, Russia and Iran and Iran's
uh uh agreement of peace with the other Arab OPEC countries so that the oil and
the gas and the fertilizer and the sulfur can all be restored to uh to a
new uh takeoff sometime in the next decade after enormous destruction takes
place and the world is sitting by as if in cognitive dissonance that this
could actually happen. I think that other countries, their leaders and their voters and certainly the investors on
their stock exchanges, Asian stock exchanges as much as Europe and Europe and uh American stock
exchanges can't believe that countries are not going to act in their own self-interest to prevent this. But
that's not what happen is happening. So the whole idea of how do we project the future as if countries will act in their
self-interest is almost as fanciful now is saying how do we project the future as if countries will all obey
international law according to the principles of the law of the sea, the law of war, the law of national
sovereignty that are embodied in the United Nations uh charter. The United Nations Charter after World War II uh it
was very specific saying that uh the in case there was a replay
a re resurgence of Nazism other countries had the right to uh prevent it
and to act by their own uh on their own uh to prevent it. All of that was already spilled out in 1945 and it's all
been uh erased and it cannot be created just by saying well let's ask the United
Nations to solve it. There has to be a new institutional structure and it has to be on the part of the global
majority. Uh, I think the future is what we should begin talking about and how it
can possibly take place and what needs to be the legal, military and financial foundations of this.
37 minutesRichard, before going to your comment, here is what Lindsey Graham suggested to Donald Trump. Here is what he said.
off. If he can get Saudi Arabia, the center of Islam, for the entire world, to recognize the Jewish state, Israel,
he will have ended the Arab-Israeli conflict that's been going on for thousands of years. They should change the Nobel Prize to the Trump Prize. If
he can do that, and I think he can, it's the biggest change in the history in the modern history and in the ancient
history of the Middle East, where the Arabs and the Jews live together, where it becomes a a a center of power
economically, not a powder keg. And once you put Iran in a box, and he's going to do that, we're going to have peace between Saudi Arabia and Israel. Nobody
thought that was possible. I believe it's possible. And there's one guy can do it. Donald Trump.
Richard, am I missing something? He's talking about Jews, Muslim, Christians living together. They have been living
together for such a long time in that region without having and he's talking about the problem between Arabs and Israelis. It goes back thousands of
years. I don't know what he's making, but he's calling Nobel Peace Prize as Donald Trump prize. Something like that.
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Well, what do you make of these people who are who are the head of decision makers in the United States, by the way?
Well, it it's a measure it and I mean this in all seriousness, it's a measure
of the end of an empire. One of the signs of the end of an empire is leaders
chosen as a kind of way of not facing your problems. That their job and look
at Mr. Trump. I'm going to make America great again. What is he talking about?
He's correct. He's talking to the nerve that recognizes in the United States that we're not great anymore. We're not.
They kind of get it. Americans aren't stupid. They get it. They read the paper. They they they get it, but they
don't want to see it in the historic meaning that it had. That's that's
terrifying because what that means is that their very good past is behind them and what's coming is a deteriorate.
This has to be negated. If you pay attention, each president who's elected
here gives a speech usually the day that he's elected about how he's the
president who's going to show the American people that our best days are ahead of us.
That has to be said because they aren't. And that the people know they aren't.
But what they want is what we call cheerleaders. people who jump up and down and say what you wish were the
reality. You're voting for somebody who talks like that.
You know why? Because at church on Sunday, the nice minister says, "Wouldn't it be nice if there were peace
in the world rather than war?" And everybody goes, "Yes, it would be." Then they go back to their regular lives
where they are doing everything that makes for war. But on Sunday morning they want to hear and they really want
to hear it and they really want peace somewhere but they have no idea how to
do it. So yes, Mr. Lindsey Graham can say Mr. Trump who he's always begging up to because he needs him politically. Mr.
Trump can do this wonderful thing. Every president
has been able in this country to make good deals with the Israelis and with
the Apac uh lobby here in the United States. And you know, Professor Mshiner
and Walton, the expert work they've done on explaining what that's about. They have tried to make some arrangement to
give Israel a bit more security which is all it's been about. That's popular. It
can be dressed up as peace which it never was but it can be dressed up. It
can be punctuated by wars in which it is explained to us that the Arabs started the bad war. The Israelis wanted peace.
It's a joke. There's been no peace. It's never stopped. The warfare there is forever.
And no one wants to understand if it lasts this long, if it keeps on going, it has to have some very profound roots.
For example, and I don't mean to beat this issue, but given what the Israelis did to the
Palestinians in Gaza, the only real question,
where does the strength of those Palestinians come from
that they would hold on to their land under the level of catastrophy?
Israel unloaded on them.
And you know, no one has answered that question because it's too dangerous.
And you know, the same question now applies, not as harshly, I understand, but it applies as well in Iran. The
mistake in the United States was not learning that if the Palestinians can stay in Gaza despite what the
Israelis have done, then of course the Iranians are going to stay with their position
after only a few weeks of what you have done in Gaza.
And it might in fact bring them together as it did.
Americans don't know. But there are dis disagreements among the Palestinians, important ones, longstanding ones. Those
are active in Gaza too. But they came together. Hamas remains because of that.
Esbah and the new Houthis also.
These are fundamental issue. Either you deal with them or you don't. The United States has not because it has had the
view that an outpost of Western colonialism in that part of the world is useful.
And the Jews who go there to work on that, they're useful, too.
That's it. And as long as they're useful, you support them.
And so we have the the absurd spectacle in which the United States funds Israel
which uses a part of the funds to buy the political support in America to continue the flow of the funds.
Anyone who pays attention knows this is a game to hold on. And that's the the reason I bring it up. That's
what's over. That that project is in a dying phase.
45 minutesIsraelis made the decision to hitch their future to the United States. Well,
at the time they did it, it had a certain logic.
Now they are stuck with a declining empire and they are desperately trying
to keep that empire going because they depend on it.
When Tucker Carlson tells the American people who listen to him that this war is directed by Mr. Netanyahu,
which I don't believe it is, but he does. What he's grasping at in his American way is something to say other
than that empire is declining cuz he can't bring himself to it either.
And I don't think you're going to deal you need to answer Michael's question.
46 minutesYou would need an American government led by a political party
whose leadership was able to say we are not going to be watching the
straight of her moose. It's not what we do.
We are not going to preside over a declining empire by doing
everything we can to defeat anybody who threatens us.
We are instead going to sit down above all with the Chinese but with others
to work out how there can be a gradual humane
civilized decline of the American situation and a lifting up of everybody else because that's what the world wants.
47 minutesAnd if the United States were an ally in working that out rather than an obstacle,
ever more violent, ever more murderous, ever more disregarding
laws and and openly speaking of the jungle.
Well, I think we would have a basis for something to be neg Let's negotiate that. Let's give the American people who
want it a gradual worked out decline.
Otherwise, what what we are working our way towards is a cataclysmic decline, a caden, a collapse.
I don't think the solution can come from anything that the US or Europe uh can do or even be a part of. Uh again what I
just mentioned the UN charter said that if Nazism were to reemerge or if Japan or Germany were to resume militarization
which is what they're now doing then the victors of World War II are authorized to take all the necessary steps to stop
it. Well, I think that uh any treaty uh signed by Iran is going to have to
specify the consequences of Israel or the United States attacking one of its
neighbors or Iran again. It has to stop ethnic and racist genocide. Uh just as
Russia has to stop Ukrainian and U and German and uh English uh racist
genocide. uh in Ukraine against the Slavi the Slavs, calling them cockroaches, the same terminology that
Israel uses for the Palestinians. The the idea that people not of your ethnicity uh or nationality are not
human beings exempts you from all international law and all the civilized behavior that's been developed as
international law for the last uh five centuries. That's what Nazism was and
it's what it still is today uh in uh Germany, France, Britain, Israel and uh
Japan, countries that are all following uh the this uh this position. So Iran
and Russia and Japan will need their own artic equivalent of NATO's article 5 to
protect other countries from uh you mean Iran. You mean Iran, Russia and China. You mentioned Japan instead of China.
Well uh no Japan is in to protect people from Japan. It's rearming. It wants American uh atomic missiles. Uh I can
50 minutesunderstand China saying the mi the minute Japan gets an atomic missile in a US base or Japanese bank there will be
no more Tokyo there will be no more Osaka we are solving the Japanese problem forever and uh that I think that we're
in given the uh spread of atomic war the United States says that all every country in the world needs its own atom
bomb to protect itself uh from us uh unless you can prevent us from using our
atom bombs. That's really what it's come down to and that's what nobody's willing to acknowledge in the the recent
breakdown of the agreement. So, uh that that's the standoff. Uh but I I think
that the the US itself is going to almost self-terminate its attacks now because unlike the Minsk
agreements that were made when the Europe and uh the United States wanted to take the time to rearm
uh Ukraine, the the US troops, the US is already as rearmed as
it's going to be. It already has its navy there. It already has its air bases there. But uh it
they can't be used without being defeated militarily by Iran that is now protected by China and and Russia.
That's the standoff. Uh Trump and uh Israel believes uh if if that's a standoff, then just let's in let's uh do
it right now because it's going to be even worse next year. So that's what makes the uh war and the disaster
that'll come to it uh inevitable in the next few weeks.
Well, my my my own judgment is and I admit there's hope here because
you know for all the psychological reasons it might be sitting in my mind there's hope here that there will be
people who can see clearly eventually that this is the end of the colonial
project. We are at the end of a century of anticolonialism.
It's come down now to the last of the big ones, the American Empire. It it was
understood, you know, the United States is 4 and a half% of the world's population.
You cannot have an enduring arrangement and it's amazing that we've had it for a
century anyway in which 4 and a half% of the people sit and how did Mr. Trump put
it will be watching the other 95%. This is a joke and now the joke is no longer
funny because the Chinese and the Russians and the Indians and the Brazilians
No, no, no. And you're not going to prevail. The United States is not going to be able to prevail. That is a wild
fantasy. And it's been indulged because of the peculiarity of the destruction out of World War II.
But that period is now very much behind us. And there there can be a leadership
emerging here who says honestly to the people what Michael said but changed in this way.
If we don't find a way to coexist then we are going to be in a terrible
place in the months and the years and the decades ahead. You don't want to leave that to your children, do you?
And you can do something now, but you will never do it with people like Trump
and Heg and Lindsey Graham because these
are crude cheerleaders who think that America is this superpower which simply
needs to throw off its shackles to bring everybody into line. These are children
brought up by a terrible moment in our history into a position of leadership
from which they have to be removed because they can't. It's too late for them just as it's too late for the project they're trying to keep alive.
I want to say one sentence on the problem of ending colonialism. The major supporters of colonialism are the
colonies themselves. Their client oligarchies want to maintain colonialism because colonialism has ruled through
their client oligarchies. That's many of the BRICS countries. This is what is stopping the former colonies from
fighting back. They're US and Europeanbacked client oligarchy. So they're this is not only an international war, it's a class war as well.
Yep. Yeah, very well said that. Thank you. Thank you so much, Richard and Michael for wrapping up beautifully this podcast and see you soon.
Take care. Take care. Bye-bye.
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Putin Takes Control, Announces New World Order As US 'Loses' Iran War, Xi Scares Trump Over Taiwan?
Hindustan Times
May 28, 2026 #Putin #Russia #WorldOrder

Vladimir Putin has declared that the struggle for a new world order is already underway as Russia pushes to expand its global influence amid mounting U.S. pressure in Iran and rising tensions around Taiwan. Speaking at a major security forum, the Kremlin promoted a multipolar system built around new Eurasian partnerships while signaling that the era of uncontested American dominance is fading. Moscow is also strengthening ties across Central Asia as geopolitical divisions deepen within NATO and the broader Western alliance.



Transcript

We believe that joint work in such strategically important areas is particularly relevant now amid the formation of a multipolar world order. I
am confident that the ideas and proposals put forward at the forum will contribute to the development of partnership between our countries in the field of security, help achieve a stable
balance of power in the world, and of course strengthen friendship and trust between our peoples. As the US struggles
in Iran and tensions rise over Taiwan, Vladimir Putin moves to expand Moscow's global influence, Putin declares that
the battle for a new world order is no longer approaching, but has already begun. The Kremlin signals that the era of uncontested American global dominance
is steadily coming to an end. Putin promotes a new geopolitical power axis during a major international security forum attended by regional allies.
Moscow pushes for a global balance of power as divisions and strategic fractures widen across NATO.
I welcome you to the opening of the first international security forum. I know that the program for your meeting is extremely extensive and substantive
over the course of several days. 25 thematic sessions, conferences, roundts, briefings and presentations will take place during which you will
comprehensively discuss the key issues of regional and global security. Today as the world faces serious challenges,
such representative meetings at the global level and direct professional dialogue are especially important. As before international terrorism, the risk
to the uncontrolled proliferation of nuclear weapons, extremism, drug trafficking, and cyber crime pose a serious threat to all states without
exception. The modern world is interdependent and interconnected.
Therefore, any escalation of tensions in individual regions has an adverse impact on the entire international community. I
would stress that we advocate the closest possible cooperation in ensuring both regional and global stability as well as adherence to the principle of
equal and indivisible security. We believe that joint work in such strategically important areas is particularly relevant now amid the formation of a multipolar world order.
Russia is actively participating in this process including within integration associations that operate on the basis of equality and respect for state
sovereignty and which are built with due regard for the national interests and historical cultural and civilizational identity of different countries and
peoples. Your forum is intended to seek solutions to security challenges and to promote the expansion of pragmatic cooperation between countries in order
to protect against internal and external threats. I am confident that the ideas and proposals put forward at the forum will contribute to the development of
partnership between our countries in the field of security help achieve a stable balance of power in the world and of course strengthen friendship and trust
between our peoples. I wish you every success in your work and all the very best. The Kremlin accelerates efforts to
build a Eurasian power block while Americanled alliances face mounting strain. Putin declares the Russia Kazakhstan partnership central to the
foundation of an emerging multipolar world order. Moscow deepens its grip over Central Asia as Putin advances a broader global power realignment strategy.
Russian Kazak relations are on the up and are developing dynamically on the principles of equality and mutual respect. During your state visit to
Moscow last year, we noted in our joint statement that bilateral relations had reached a level of a comprehensive strategic partnership and alliance. That
is indeed the case. We are working together across all areas. We were very pleased to see you in Moscow during the
ceremonial event on May 9th marking the 81st anniversary of the great victory.
We honor the military feat of frontline soldiers and the selfless dedication of those who worked on the home front who made a decisive contribution to saving
the world from Nazism. The program for the current visit is extensive and substantial. I am confident that we already began this work yesterday
evening and now in this restricted format meeting we are to adopt an important joint statement. You mentioned
it yourself. The seven principles of friendship and good neighbor relations between the peoples of Russia and Kazakhstan. A substantial package of
intergovernmental, interdep departmental and commercial agreements has also been prepared covering all areas of cooperation from economy and energy to
cultural and humanitarian projects. As I have just said, I am certain that all of this will not only be adopted but will
also form the basis for strengthening the foundations of our cooperation.
Russia remains among Kazakhstan's leading trading partners and in 2025 we are confident that trade turnover will
continue to grow. We also discuss this during our restricted format talks seven joint investment projects are currently being implemented and this is only the
beginning because we discussed this in detail and our teams worked effectively in preparing today's meeting. Promising new areas of cooperation are emerging
and they will undoubtedly produce very positive results. You have already mentioned regional cooperation. I would like to confirm this. Inter regional
cooperation forums are held annually last November. Such a meeting took place in Kazakhstan. It was the 21st event of
this kind. We have no doubt that the next forum which as you said will take place in arms on August 20th will also
produce significant results. I have made a note of that myself. I am certain it will be highly beneficial. We have also
already discussed cultural and humanitarian cooperation and projects in this sphere. In November 2025, the days
of Kazak culture were successfully held in Moscow. You have just mentioned the days of Russian culture. This is extremely important for our cooperation
6 minutesalong such a vital track for us as humanitarian relations and direct contact between citizens. All of this strengthens our partnership. Around
60,000 citizens of Kazakhstan are currently studying at Russian universities. Branches of eight leading Russian higher education institutions
are operating in the republic. I would particularly like to note the establishment on your initiative.
Casmjovich of the international organization for the Russian language which has already begun its core activities. I would also
like to note that yesterday during our private informal conversation, you mentioned this as well and made several specific observations on how this work
could be organized further. I heard a number of very useful initiatives from your side and I would like to thank you for them. In international affairs, our
joint work within the Eurasian Economic Community, the Collective Security Treaty Organization, the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Shanghai
Cooperation Organization bricks, the United Nations, the Caspen 5, and the Russia Central Asia format serves as an
example constructive cooperation. This year is marked by our country simultaneously chairing key organizations within the CIS area,
Russia and collective security treaty organization whose summit is due to take place in Moscow in November this year and Kazakhstan and the Eurasian Economic
Union at the conclusion of the state visit program together with the leaders of the other Eurasian member states. We will also take part in the summit events
under your chairmanship. We highly value the work carried out by our Kazak partners in preparing the upcoming meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic
Council at which important decisions will be taken regarding the further deepening of integration processes. In short, we are working very actively and
across all areas. I would also like to thank you for the invitation. I have no doubt that our joint work will be highly
productive and beneficial for both sides. Thank you very much.
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Trump HUMILIATED After 35 JUDGES Call “FRAUD ON THE COURT”
Katie Phang
May 28, 2026

A group of 35 former federal judges, appointed by both Democratic and Republican presidents, has now filed a motion in Convicted Felon Donald Trump’s IRS lawsuit, urging the judge to reopen the case to conduct an inquiry into whether fraud was perpetrated on the court when that “settlement” was agreed to between the parties. Katie Phang walks us through the details of the motion, the applicable law, and why she believes the presiding judge is going to reopen the case.



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We got some breaking news here. A 24page motion has now been filed in the Southern District of Florida in Trump's
IRS lawsuit. Now, you may think, "But Katie, I thought that case was closed." And and technically, you'd be right. I
have the order closing the case that was signed by Judge Kathleen Williams back on May 18th, 2026. Now, recall though, this order closing the case was only
entered by Judge Williams after a notice of voluntary dismissal with prejudice was filed by Trump, his two fail sons,
and the Trump Organization LLC. But we all know that Judge Williams from the jump of this case suspected collusion on
the part of Trump and the IRS and the Department of Treasury. In other words, Trump was controlling both sides of the litigation. And that's the reason why
Judge Williams, as we have covered extensively here at Katy News, ordered all the parties on the different
sides of the V, as we call it, plaintiff versus defendant. Judge Williams ordered them to have to not only file legal
memoranda supporting their contention that there really was an actual controversy between the sides, but to also have them appear in court to make
oral arguments. in other words under oath have to make representations to the court about the existence of this
controversy. She had she also because she knew there was collusion going on.
She also ordered the appointment of three Amichi friends of the court that filed a detailed legal memoranda
themselves basically telling the court your suspicions are wellfounded. you should make further inquiry as to what the hell is going on here because we
also suspect that Donald Trump is controlling the lawyers that are representing the Department of Treasury and the IRS. And lo and behold,
miraculously, this quote settlement agreement is entered that was never shown to the court, never ratified and approved by
the court. And that quote settlement agreement, which we all know is resulted in the $ 1.776
billion dollar quote anti-weaponization fund, which is really just a slush fund of theft from American taxpayers. Now,
where are we now? Well, acting attorney general Todd Blanch, who's also personal counsel for Donald Trump, has been doing the rounds, not only on media, but
attempting to be able to assuage concerns in Congress about the existence of the slush fund. And even though he's been doing a dance on it, we all know
that insurrectionists, yes, people who have attacked law enforcement and destroyed and defaced our United States capital on January 6, 2021, are eligible
to be able to apply for reparations from us as American taxpayers.
We've all, including myself, been losing our mind over this because it's It is theft of American taxpayer dollars. But I am here to give
you some good news. this motion that has been filed, this breaking news, 35
former federal judges in a bipartisan move, meaning they have been appointed by not only Democratic presidents but Republican presidents have now find this motion for relief from judgment.
pursuant to rule 60 of the federal rules of civil procedure or in the alternative a motion for leave to appear as a mechi friends of the court. I'm going to
underscore 35 former federal judges have now come to judge Williams to say you know that order you entered you can
actually get rid of it because there's a rule of civil procedure that allows you to make further inquiry as to what in
the actual hell is going on with this purported settlement agreement. So, let's get into the details because they're good. Let's start with the
actual rule of civil procedure. All righty. Rule 60, relief from a judgment
or order. Now, on motion and just terms, the court may relieve a party or its
legal representative from a final judgment, order, or proceeding for the following reasons. And it lists it all out, right? That's grounds for relief
from a final judgment. Now, it sounds like gosh, a party, as in one of the people that's involved in the litigation
has to be the person or the persons that move. But no, this motion says this.
In fact, we can come to you. We're nonparties, but we can come to you under rule 60 and ask you to set aside this
order, closing case, and allow the court, Judge Williams, to be able to make further inquiry into what happened
here. Let's start with the first page of the motion. Movements are 35 former federal judges.
Movements are filing this motion because they have dedicated their professional lives to the administration of justice.
The purported quote settlement that the parties never placed before this court raises profound questions about the party's cander toward the court and manipulation of the judicial system
which threatens to undermine confidence in the administration of justice. As former judges, movements have an interest in bringing to the court's
attention these concerns and the availability of relief under rule 60 of the federal rules of civil procedure which allows the court to set aside the
judgment and reopen the case. The 11th Circuit, which is the appellet court above Judge Williams, has allowed that
in extraordinary circumstances, and that's in quotes, a nonparty, which would be these judges, may raise a
challenge of fraud on the court through rule 60, even when the nonparty's interests are not directly affected by
the judgment. Alternatively, the movements seek leave to file as amichi, as friends of the court. The court
indisputably has the authority under rule 60 to reopen a proceeding suisponte meaning on its own. So this is really an important point I want to pause on.
These 35 former bipartisan federal judges are telling a colleague on the bench, Judge Kathleen Williams in the
Southern District of Florida, you actually sue Esponte, meaning on your own, you don't need a motion in front of you. you actually have the ability to be able to reopen this case.
Should the court take that route, movement movements seek permission to file this brief as amichi in the
reopened matter. In either case, movements asked this court to exercise its authority under rule 60 to set aside
the judgment in this lawsuit, allowing the court to resume its inquiry into whether there is an actual underlying
case or controversy or whether to the contrary this case that the parties
purport to have settled is itself a fraud on this court. Moving on to the next page. The court was deceived.
Despite plaintiffs not having mentioned any settlement in their notice, meaning their notice of voluntary dismissal with prejudice, the Department of Justice
7 minutespublicly announced a quote settlement of this action shortly after plaintiffs filed their dismissal. That quote settlement commandeers the contrived sum
of 1.776 billion from the United States Treasury to be handed out to recipients chosen by a commission effectively
controlled by the president. The DOJ is calling this the anti-weaponization fund. The parties to this case are using
this lawsuit as the legal justification for these actions. This is not speculation. The parties themselves have proclaimed it repeatedly. And the motion
goes on to site all the times it's been referred to as a quote settlement or settlement agreement. Yet none of the parties filed any of these documents
with the court. These 35 former federal judges say we submit that this quote
settlement is a product of collusion and is itself a fraud on the court. But the court need not decide that ultimate issue now at this juncture.
movements request only that the court exercise its powers under rule 60 to set aside its order ending the case based upon plaintiff's voluntary dismissal
that will then allow the court to commence an inquiry into whether the court was deceived including with respect to the existence if at all of an
underlying case or controversy and any purported armslength negotiations undertaken to resolve it. This court has
the power under rule 60 to determine whether there has been a corruption of the judicial process itself and may set aside a judgment and reopen
a case under rule 60 subsection D3 as well as other subsections of rule 60 whether by way of this motion or sue
esponte again meaning the court on its own has the ability to set aside the judgment and reopen the case. Now,
here's the thing. It goes on to make the legal arguments as to why Rule 60 allows Judge Williams to be able to do this.
And it repeatedly says that these are extraordinary facts and circumstances.
And I would tend to agree. Would you not? I mean, since when in the history of our country has a president sued his
own IRS and Department of Treasury and then and then entered into a bogus settlement what is tanamount to
theft of American taxpayer money and then have you forgotten there was that addendum to the settlement agreement
that then basically waves the United States government's ability to audit the president his family and his business
entities to maybe seek out and determine if there was any type of fraud, evasion or crimes that were committed by them.
It is truly unprecedented and that is why it truly reaches the level of quote extraordinary circumstances. And that is
kind of the phrase that is peppered throughout this motion because it does allow the court to make further inquiry because under these extraordinary
circumstances, I think the court should determine whether collusion is a foot as Judge Williams has suspected from the jump.
These judges, they're not sparing the rod here. They say the parties have effectuated a fraud upon the court.
These judges are telling their colleague, Judge Williams, you've been the victim of a fraud, a fraud that has
been perpetrated on your court, and you have the inherent authority as the judge to root out this fraud and investigate
it and to also do something about it. I mean it is a big difference to have a whole bunch of federal prosecutors,
former federal prosecutors, maybe even lawyers, right, to come forward to the court and say, "Hey, as Emichi, as friend of the court, we want to let you
know that you can do certain things." And and let me footnote this because this is important, but we do know Judge
Williams has actually heeded the advice of lawyers. We saw this incredible filing that came, an amicus brief that
came to basically tell the judge that she could appoint lawyers to be able to file their independent memorandum about whether
this is a collusive lawsuit. And she did that. She appointed three kick-ass lawyers who did their own legal memoranda in advance of the deadline to
let the court know that whatever you're going to get from these people in this lawsuit, let me tell you what's really going on. So, Judge Williams has the
humility, which is spectacular, as a federal judge, to say, "I'm going to listen not only to lawyers, but I'm also
going to listen to other judges." And that is what's going to happen here. I I bet bottom dollar Judge Williams in this case says, "You know what? I am going to
set aside the judgment. I am going to reopen this because her order closing the case made sure that she noted here on the
second page of her order because the notice doesn't reference any settlement or include a stipulation of settlement there is no settlement of record.
Additionally, the defendants, federal agencies represented by the Department of Justice, which has an independent obligation to uphold the public's strong
interest in knowing about the conduct of its government and expenditure of its resources and the fair administration of justice. Neither submitted any
settlement documents nor filed any documents ensuring that settlement was appropriate where there was an outstanding question as to whether an
actual case or controversy existed. That was not not an accident that Judge
Williams included that in her order. I am telling you, Judge Williams from the
very second this case has been in front of her has sniffed out and rooted out
the collusion here. And she has set them up, as in Blanch and Trump and all these idiots. She has set them up to fail.
And now with this motion, now with this motion, Judge Williams has all these former federal judges saying, "Yeah,
we know what you want to do and you can do what you want to do." The sequence of events that led to the
plaintiff's voluntary dismissal with prejudice makes the collusion strategy self-evident. And we've talked
about this here a lot, right? I'm actually very proud. I want to pat myself on the shoulder for a hot second here. I talked from the very beginning when the settlement agreement thing came
out. You may recall I said, "But where's the consideration?" Remember we talked about settlement agreements and how they're contracts, right? They're
binding contracts. One side of the settlement agreement has to do X, Y, and Z. The other side of the settlement agreement has to do A, B, and C, and
those are the terms. And if you don't do those terms, you breach. So, it's a contract. It's a settlement, right? It's an agreement. And I said, "But what's
the consideration?" In order to enter into an agreement, in order to enter into a contract, you got to have consideration. I mean, you have to give up something to get something in this
14 minutesinstance. What is it? And and and this motion notes very clearly that there's an absence of consideration.
the plain language of this extremely broad provision that is the one that
deals with the inability of the IRS to do any audits etc.
The plain language of this extremely broad provision sweeps in Internal Revenue Service audits of plaintiffs tax returns and all other claims the United
States might have against plaintiffs extraordinary benefits for which no consideration was provided to the government.
I mean, I have been doing this for almost three decades. But my point is this.
It is so on its face wrong. The settlement agreement, quote unquote, it's so on its face just bald theft that
that's the reason why we are all hot under the collar about it. at least those of us that believe in the rule of law and understand when thievery is a foot.
Accordingly, because the party's collusive activity perpetrated a fraud on the judicial machinery itself by fostering an appearance that the
litigation involved adverse parties when in fact it did not, the court should void its prior dismissal and reopen the case to assess in due course whether a
fraud occurred. And then it goes on to explain how the court has the ability under this rule of civil procedure to be
able to do so. And again that the court on its own could do it even if these former federal judges in their motion is not granted.
It also, this motion makes a run at the fact that this settlement is actually
not even eligible to be able to take the funds out of that judgment fund to create that anti-weaponization, you know, um,
uh, fund itself because you actually have to have active or imminent litigation to which the DOJ is authorized to access the judgment fund.
And if you have a feigned like a fake or collusive lawsuit, then that's not really active or imminent litigation. So taking that money out of the judgment
fund to be able to put it into the coffers of this anti-weaponization fund also doesn't work. So these judges also get it. They know what's going on here.
For the foregoing reasons, the court should set aside the notice and order of dismissal and reopen the case for further proceedings. I'm very proud to
say that Democracy Defenders, for which I am a senior adviser, my dear friend,
former ambassador Norm Eisen, filed this motion. And former attorney general of New Jersey, Matt Plin,
brilliant, great fighter for the rule of law and democracy, he filed it. and my other good friend Justin Nelson at Susprey. If that name sounds familiar,
they are the lawyers that represented Dominion Voting in that blockbuster, insane historic settlement with Fox News. Susman Goffrey also being targeted
by the Trump administration. They are one of four law firms that did not capitulate and bend the knee and pay out money and do all sorts of crazy
with the administration like those other big law law firms did.
A round of applause for these fine lawyers and a larger, louder round of applause for these 35 former federal
judges that have filed this bipartisan motion in front of Judge Williams here in the Southern District of Florida in Trump's IRS lawsuit. We will
watch this carefully. I suspect we will get a ruling from Judge Williams really damn soon. Watch the space. We will
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West Using ISIS Against Iran After Russia? Putin Spy Chief's Revelation Months After 'Jailbreak'…
Hindustan Times
May 28, 2026

Putin’s spy chief has now publicly claimed to expose a covert Western plot to use ISIS against Iran, suggesting that Washington is ready to lean on extremist proxies as the conventional war stalls. With the U.S. Army struggling to meet its objectives on the battlefield, is Donald Trump desperate enough to turn to so‑called “ISIS terrorists” as a shadow force to keep his Iran war going? This is a big revelation coming months after Tehran had already accused ISIS of having a hidden hand in the violent protests that rocked Iranian cities during the height of the conflict. Amid Iran’s allegation about ISIS involvement in fueling unrest, Syria was rocked by a mass jailbreak from a prison holding ISIS terrorists, heightening fears that hundreds of extremists were suddenly back on the loose and ready to regroup. Fears of a new ISIS threat inside Iran are now growing, especially after Russian investigators said they had found a “foreign hand” behind the deadly Crocus City Hall attack, hinting at a wider covert game. Watch the full video for more.



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Putin spy chief has now publicly claimed to expose a covert western plot to use ISIS against Iran, suggesting that Washington is ready to lean on extremist proxies as the conventional war stalls.
With the US Army struggling to meet its objectives on the battlefield, is Donald Trump desperate enough to turn to so-called ISIS terrorists as a shadow
force to keep his Iran war going? This is a big revelation coming months after Thran had already accused ISIS of having a hidden hand in the violent protests
that rocked Iranian cities during the height of the conflict. Amid Iran's allegation about ISIS involvement in fueling unrest, Syria was rocked by a
mass jailbreak from a prison holding ISIS terrorists, heightening fears that hundreds of extremists were suddenly back on the loose and ready to regroup.
Fears of a new ISIS threat inside Iran are now growing, especially after Russian investigators said they had found a foreign hand behind the deadly
Kroker City Hall attack, hinting at a wider covert game. A senior Russian official on May 27th accused Western intelligence agencies of using former
ISIS terrorists as proxy forces, alleging that these groups are being steered to serve Western geopolitical objectives in the region. The chief of
Russia's Federal Security Service or FSB went further and claimed that the West is actively trying to deploy ISIS militants specifically against Iran,
opening a new and dangerous front in the confrontation. Moscow's allegation comes months after Iran itself had alleged that ISIS-like elements played a role in
stoking violence during nationwide protests, suggesting a pattern of extremist exploitation. Coinciding with Iran's earlier claim was a mass
jailbreak from a Syrian prison that was holding ISIS members, an incident that raised immediate questions about who might benefit from their sudden return to the battlefield. Interestingly,
Russia had also alleged a foreign hand behind the ISIS terror attack in Moscow's Kroker City Hall in March, implying that outside powers may have helped facilitate or direct the assault.
As per Iran's IRNA news agency, FSB director Alexander Bortnikov said, quote, Western intelligence agencies,
according to available information, are continuing their efforts to use terrorists in Syria as proxy forces in the war against Iran. These individuals
include citizens of CIS countries who have fought for ISIS and other terrorist groups and were later sent to Syrian prisons. NATO continues a long-term
program to create targeted biological weapons in the Asia-Pacific region, Africa, and Latin America. Biolabs also
operate in CIS countries. Notably, field trials and incidents involving pathogen leaks from these institutions are claimed to have natural causes."
unquote. Earlier, Thran said that much of the violence seen during protests in December 2025 and January 2026 was
carried out by ISIS-like elements, which it accused of infiltrating demonstrations to push them into chaos.
Officials told RT and other outlets that these terrorists used violent methods reminiscent of ISIS atrocities, including shootings and extreme
brutality. An Iranian official alleged that these cells have been instructed from abroad to open fire on both protesters and police [music] in order
to inflame unrest and delegitimize the state. The same official claimed that members of these terrorist cells beheaded law enforcement officers and
carried out gruesome killings during the chaos. They burnt people alive and finished off the wounded, the official said, likening the alleged acts directly
to the worst ISIS atrocities. Iran's foreign minister has also written to the UN secretary general accusing foreign powers of enabling ISIS-like acts of
terror inside Iran under the cover of protests. It is worth recalling that ISIS also carried out the mass shooting at Crocus City Hall near Moscow in March
2024. One of Russia's deadliest terror attacks in decades. For gunmen killed 149 people and wounded 609 others in
that attack while causing an estimated $76.4 million worth of damage to the concert complex. Russia's investigative
committee identified 19 perpetrators, accompllices, and armed suppliers as members of ISIS K, the group's regional affiliate in Central and South Asia.
Investigators went further, concluding that the Crocus attack was planned and committed in the interests of Ukraine's leadership, a claim Kiev has strongly denied.
Syria has reported a new mass escape from its Alhold detention camp which holds families linked to ISIS fighters, CNN said, citing Syrian government and
Western officials. The escape took place after Kurdishled forces abruptly withdrew from the camp, leaving it more vulnerable and allowing large numbers of
detainees to slip away. This comes only weeks after around 1,500 ISIS members broke out of a separate prison in Syria
in January 2026. underscoring how fragile ISIS detention infrastructure has become. A Syrian government spokesperson said the Syrian Democratic
Forces had pulled out of Alhole without any coordination with Damascus or its security services. The SDF rejected the interior ministry's claims as
misleading, accusing the government of using the issue to evade its own responsibility for camp security.
Instead, Kurdish commanders accused Damascus affiliated factions of entering the camp and physically removing families of ISIS members, further
muddying who helped him escape. The Kurdish SDF, which opposes Syria's current rulers, was once Washington's main local ally in the war against ISIS
in Syria, carrying much of the ground fighting. More recently, however, the US has been accused of abandoning the SDF and edging closer to Syria's new ruler,
Al-Sharah, recalibrating its alliances in the country.
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Iran says it downed US aircraft; American military alleges ceasefire violation | Janta Ka Reporter
Janta Ka Reporter
May 28, 2026

In a dramatic development, Iran has claimed to have brought down an American aircraft in the southern city of Bushehr. The US military has not commented on the development yet. Earlier, the IRGC had retaliated against the ceasefire violation by the US military as it fired missiles targeting the US airbase in Kuwait. Rifat Jawaid presents the day's rapidly changing developments with his sharp commentary.



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Iran has retaliated against the American violation of the ceasefire, forcing the US military to play the victim card. And
Iran has also claimed to destroy an American aircraft in the southern city of Busher. The deranged occupant of the
White House, meanwhile, has deployed his minions to hide his capitulations to Iran during the peace negotiations. Even
Americans are now calling out the surrender of the Trump administration to the Iranians. Elsewhere, the barbaric
and murderous Israelis today vaporized more children in Gaza, while others from the same human devil race tortured Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
This despite the UN today adding the rogue settler colony of Israel to the list of sexual predators.
In Australia, a Zionist senator lands for during a Senate hearing over the fact that the Australians gave
zero points to the Israeli terrorist in this year's Euro Vision competition.
This will be the broad focus of my video tonight. Also in this video, British doctor Nick Manard humanizes the
Palestinians living in Gaza during an interview with Tucker Carlson. So, please stay tuned. Iran state TV had
just reported that a US aircraft was destroyed in Iran's jam governorate in Busher citing its governor Masoud Tangistani.
The US military has not commented on this development. This was after Iran targeted the US military base in Kuwait
by firing missiles and drones in response to the American violation of the ceasefire. But see the criminal double standard of the US military.
First, watch how Trump's favorite TV channel, Fox News, reported the US violation of the ceasefire.
Fox News alert. We just carried out a new wave of strikes in Iran. The Pentagon confirming to Fox that US forces struck four Iranian drones,
2 minutesposing a threat to the Strait. Sentcom also bombing an Iranian military site that was seconds away from launching a fifth drone. We're told these strikes
were purely defensive. So the US violation of the ceasefire was a defensive act but not the Iranian
retaliation. The Iranian action was termed egregious violation of the ceasefire by the rogue American military.
Perhaps complicating matters. This morning the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says it targeted a US air base in what Sentcom calls an egregious
ceasefire violation. Ceasefire uh violation. And uh Sentcom says Iran launched a ballistic missile toward Kuwait that was successfully intercepted by Kuwaiti forces.
The IRGC2 released a video of its missile attack on the US military targets.
This came hours after Donald Trump threatened to bomb Oman for its decision to join hands with Iran in managing the
state of Hormos in the future. Another pathetic creature from the rogue regime of Trump today turned up at the White
House press briefings. He is Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Earlier, he had tweeted to threaten to impose financial
sanctions on Oman if he didn't pay attention to his criminal boss. Watch this clip capturing his encounter with
reporters. The Trump regime has clearly messed up.
Is there an agreement with Iran on the table?
Uh the the teams have been going back and forth and President Trump has made it very clear. He talked about it at the
cabinet meeting that he he has several red lines and Iran has to turn over
their highly enriched uranium. They cannot pursue a nuclear weapon and the straight of Hermouth back to your question on energy has to free transit
navigation of the seas has to be free and open as it was before. So he's not going to take a bad deal. He's going to make a great deal for the American people.
So Peter, President Trump said Oman will behave just like everybody else for we will have to blow them up.
Are you guys back there in the West Wing making plans for a new war with Oman?
Uh again, I think the president wanted to punctuate freedom of navigation in the straight. I had a call with the
Omani ambassador this morning and he assured me that there were no plans for tolling the straight. as he said, "Our
countries have had 200 years of good relations. He wants to have another 200 more." And I told him that this was a
non-starter and he did not want to risk either the Omani individuals or Omani financial institutions the getting sanctioned.
Thank you, Mr. Secretary. Is it in the US interest to wave some sanctions on Iran or to unfreeze some of their assets
before Iran has made concrete um promises about getting rid of their nuclear program?
Again, I I'm not going to preview the deal, but I I would think that the things would go very slowly the in terms of that. So, you know, we we'll see.
Just to follow up on that because it's our understanding that the US has committed to discussing the matter of sanctions relief during this negotiation period. So just to be clear, is sanctions relief for Iran on the table?
Uh again, it it is a multiaceted agreement and um nothing is going to be
on the table until we see the straight overs open and the Iranians agree that
they they have to turn over the the highly enriched uranium and that they can't have a nuclear program.
I I just want to follow up. You said that the teams have been going back and forth, but can you confirm whether or not a tentative agreement has been reached in these negotiations with Iran?
Again, everything depends on what the president wants to do. And President Trump is not going to make a bad deal for the American people.
Not just Oman. The illegal settler colony of Israel has now set its sight on Turkey for its next military
adventurism. and Trump would have no choice but to bomb another NATO ally of the US. This is a convicted Israeli spy
who sold sensitive US military information and should have languished in jail for life but was transported to
Israel safely by Trump. This Jewish criminal's name is Jonathan Polard.
We don't think geostrategically.
Forget about Golani. Forget about Donald Trump. I am principally worried first of all for the welfare of our Drews
brothers across the border, but secondarily if Golani and his Islamists actually
occupy that area that they will we will have the Turks. We will have the Turks right on our border. We'll eventually will.
We eventually will. And I'm not so sure that um we will have as easy a time with
the Turks as we've had with the um Iranians. I I've been following Turkish
um military doctrine and the strongest army in the Middle East. The storm is coming. Yes, of course.
I'm I and they're member of NATO and even worse, they're a member of NATO. So I look at Iran as a problem. We
absolutely have to finish and I'll explain what I mean by that. Gaza, same
thing. And the uh why why am I fixated on this now? Because we have to be
prepared for the next war which will be probably against Turkey and Egypt. So let's hope not
with I hope not also. But we you know hope you remember it was the last demon out of Pandora's box and there's a
reason for that. But before Trump listens to his terrorist Israeli masters to attack Turkey, he should pay
attention to what Robert Kagan from the Atlantic magazine has to say. Kagan has no doubt that the US has lost to Iran.
Well, I mean, all of this is uh an effort to distract from the fact that we've already basically lost this war.
And I don't I don't know what these strikes are about obviously, but the previous set of strikes, which the Pentagon described as entirely
self-defense, were clearly a response to an Iranian provocation, and this may well be too. But it's important to understand what what even this means.
Because if the Iranians are emboldened to take actions, which the United States feels the need to respond to in this way, in a purely self-defense way, as
they say, uh you know, who's afraid of not having a deal? who's afraid of the war starting up again? Clearly, the Iranians are not because they don't
believe that whatever uh collection of strikes, limited strikes uh the administration may take uh in this situation, it's not going to change
anything on the ground and it's not going to uh force Iran uh to give up what they what they are demanding right now in terms of terms of a settlement
right on on the nuclear issue and now the strait which the straight of course had never been on the table until the war itself. So the issue with Oman,
okay, the president today threatening to blow up Oman, key US ally as we laid out, right? Blow him up. Did that sudden threat out of nowhere surprise you at all?
Yeah, it's shocking. I mean, I suppose we are not shocked by anything Donald Trump says these days, but this one is pretty shocking. A, as you've pointed
out, Oman is a longtime ally of the United States. I think we have a friendship agreement with Aman going back to 1833 if I'm correct. Um, and
what signal does this send to the other Gulf states that are that regard themselves or have regarded themselves as US allies? So if you if you step out
of line with the United States and the United States threatens to blow you up.
I think this is all part of of what we're seeing right now, which is the Gulf States, which were reliant on the United States have now decided the
United States is not trustworthy. And what they're going to start doing is what Iman is doing is cut a deal with Iran. They're all going to cut deals with Iran.
Josh Rean from uh the Washington Post further exposed Trump's cowardice on CNN here. You wouldn't want to miss this clip.
Joining the panel, Josh Rogan, lead global security analyst at Washington Post Intelligence. Let me go right to you. I mean, is Iran going to retaliate
here? Is a deal jeopardized now? I don't think the hit fortat strikes will jeopardize the ongoing negotiations, but
I do think that the president has exactly two choices. He can pay Iran to open the straight or he can suffer the
indignity of continuing this quagmire longer and longer. And because I listen to the Scott Jennings radio show religiously, I know that the White House
has no intention of paying them to open up the street. a senior administration officials told Scott Jennings exclusively, you should check it out, that they're only going to pay them at
the end of the process, not at the beginning of the process. The Iranians, by the way, are not going to go for that. That means this deal that they've been bragging about, which usually they
brag about right before the markets open. It's usually right before the markets open that there's a lot of good news and then somehow the markets go up and then over the course of a couple
days we find out that it was all BS. It turns out that that's all BS because what's going to happen is that they're not going to want to strike this horrible deal. according to Scott
Jennings top level sources and that means that the deal is not going to be struck and the war's going to go on quite sadly actually.
Is your I can't your question is shade or strategic. Let me ask you Scott tell me tell me do you agree with this assessment obviously.
Yeah he he's faithfully reproducing the briefing that I got from a senior administration official. There had been some reporting or some conjecture that
there was going to be payments made on the front end. And what I was told is the only way Iran will ever see any sanctions relief or any financial gain
of any of this is after they fulfill their commitments in a deal principally turn over the nuclear material. That was made abundantly clear. It was made over and over over again in the conversation.
Also in the conversation uh I was told that the deal was you know a framework was 95% complete. Although it was
admitted to it could all fall apart. It could all fall apart and it also takes forever. Even on minor back and forth with the Iran, it takes forever to get
them to get back to you about even simple word changes. So, it could take a long time. So, there was optimism, but there was an admission. Meanwhile,
Israeli monsters have continued to murder more Palestinian children and babies in Gaza. Today, these murderous
and barbaric thugs dropped American bombs to vaporize more Palestinian children. The videos of this carnage are
so graphic that I can't even share them here. You can watch it on our Telegram channel. Details on your screen and also
in the description of this video. At least the UN has now added this aparthide settler colony to the list of
countries that use sexual assaults as a means of war. The Israelis have also continued to expand their occupation in
Lebanon once again in violation of the ceasefire. And Iran thinks the Americans and Israelis would honor the ceasefire.
But compromised lawmakers in Australia have continued to work diligently to serve the interest of
their new Israeli masters. Senator Sarah Henderson this week grilled the representatives from the Australian
media outlet the SBS because the Australian voters had given zero points to Israeli contestant in this year's
Euro Vision. How dare they? This clip may look like a spoof video to you, but this actually happened in the Australian
Parliament. Here's a long video even though her actual rant lasted 10
minutes. Look, I also want to ask about Euro Vision and in particular
Australia's seven person jury which is selected by SBS.
Now I'd just like I'd just be keen to understand how this works but as it looks on its face
zero votes were provided to Israel and Australia's public vote also awarded
zero votes to Israel in and so Australia ranked Israel 25th
out of 25 countries in the final. And just for context, Israel in fact came
second in the competition. So h can you just explain how that happened, Miss Poffman?
When you Senator, I actually don't have that in front of me, but I'm really happy to come back to you on, you know, the judging process. Absolutely.
So how's the panel selected? And again, as you've mentioned, we select the panel. Again, I can come back to you on the sort of criteria and how we go
about making those decisions. Is there someone else here who could address questions on how the the panel works and because this is all the voting is all run by SPS.
The well the the panel is run by SPS and so the panel's voting obviously Australia votes through the same
mechanism as other countries you know the online voting and the phone numbers. Is that coordinated through SPS though? No that's coordinated through the EBU.
Yeah.
Okay. So the SPS doesn't have anything to do with the public vote? No Senator, but the jury vote which is run by
SPS and SPS selects the seven person jury.
Uh so as it's as we've seen uh Israel received zero votes.
Did did are you aware of this?
Uh this disgraceful sellout Zionist didn't stop here. She then tried to bully ABC managing director Hugh Marx for not
following the IH's definition of anti-semitism which criminalizes the criticism of the rogue settler colony.
But good on Marx for standing up to this vile Israeli stoogge currently working as an Australian senator.
Mr. Colin Robenstein, the Australian Israel and Jewish Affairs Council executive director who said that both
the ABC and SPS in not adopting the IRA definition are pouring more fuel on the
anti-semitic fire and he said that this is the most regrettable decision at a time of unprecedented surge in anti-semitism.
Can I ask you to respond to those criticisms? Oh, I mean um people have the right to have their own views about that. I disagree that this is leading
that our decision around keeping an independent framework around anti-semitism and the definition is leading to more anti-semitism.
18 minutesWell, if the ABC is not prepared to recognize anti-semitism in all of its forms as encompassed by the IRA definition.
No, I don't agree with that, Senator. I I don't think that that the definition and our approach to
anti-semitism and to journalism that uh accepts uh that it should not be uh
racist or doing harm uh does not already encapsulate what's necessary to be able to report on issues of anti-semitism.
So what part of the definition do you disagree with?
Well, Senator, I just I just said what the issue here is that we uh have obligations for independence.
So, what part of that definition do you disagree with?
Senator, you keep asking me if I disagree with it. I'm saying to you that the reason that we have our own um that we have our own definition is because
we're an independent media organization that has stat statutory obligations around that and that we come out with our own frameworks about these matters.
Okay. So what? Just tell me what's wrong, what's offensive, or what's not appropriate for you to accept.
But I but I'm not suggesting But I'm not suggesting that's offensive or wrong.
I'm saying that the reason that we have our own frameworks is because of our independence.
Well, I mean, that's just like arguing that, you know, black is black as white. I
mean, if if you you need to explain and I'm asking you to explain
why or what part of that definition is not acceptable to the ABC.
I'm sorry, Senator. I think we're having kind of two sideline conversations.
I will now leave you with this video from Tucker Carlson's interview with British Dr. Nick Manard, who served in
Gaza during the genocide. Seldom do you see a prominent western name humanize Palestinians and the fact that this happened on Takazan show means a lot.
Um how did you decide to speak about what you saw in Gaza? In fact, how did you wind up seeing going to Gaza in the first place?
So it was real pure serendipity that I ended up going to Gaza in many ways. I was invited more than 20 years ago,
maybe in 2006, to go to the West Bank to teach medical students at Alkutz University in Jerusalem, in Ramla, in
Hebrron, and did that on a very ad hoc basis for a few years. And then I was asked to do the same in Gaza. Um, and I
leapt at the opportunity because I'd already sort of fallen in love with the Palestinian people. I'd loved visiting the West Bank. So, I went to Gaza for the first.
What did you like? It's it's weird maybe for Americans to hear that because the Palestinians have been so thoroughly maligned by our media for so long that
people think of them as violent and primitive. What did you like about the Palestinians? Oh, they're the kindest people I've met.
They're they're profoundly resilient, particularly in Gaza, but they're generous. They're kind. Um very
welcoming. I've always been treated wonderfully by them. And when you go to Gaza, I mean, you see that even on a to
a different level yet again, they are incredibly resilient, incredibly resourceful, but they are the kindest,
most generoushearted, most beautiful people I've ever met in the world. Really?
Absolutely correct. I I can't overstate the degree to which Americans have been told for decades that the people in Gaza are barely human.
And that was not When did you first go?
I went to Gaza for the first time in 2010 and and I it was just an initial sort of trip to teach and then I've ever
since then I've been taking a team of doctors from Oxford to teach medical students there.
What was Gaza like? Can you describe it in 2010?
Yeah, it was it was it it was under occupation. So it was a it's been variously described as a large prison or concentration camp. And you know people
might take issue with that terminology but what lies behind that is the fact that the 99% plus of the population have
never ever been able to leave their country. So they are in prison there. So we went in through the most remarkable security from Israel. We went through the arrows crossing in in northern Gaza.
Um that first trip took us most of the day to get through the security and we had 10 days I think in Gaza. Wait, as a
western physician, it took you most of the day to get from Israel into Gaza because the Israeli security.
Because the Israeli security, it it took hours getting through the the most remarkably intense security. Um being
grilled repeatedly about why we were going there, um what we were doing, why we were going there, why didn't we go to
Africa instead, why we were going to Gaza if we wanted to help people. Why didn't we go to African countries?
Literally those are the questions we're being asked.
Is this the same border that Hamas came over on October 7th?
No. So Arez is crossing is the very top of Gaza, the northern border with Israel. Hamas came out through the
through southern near the bottom of Gaza. Era's crossing has been was destroyed very early on in this
conflict. So it's it's not being used at all. Certainly certainly none of the humanitarian teams that have gone in have gone in through that at all. It's
it's it's a sort of no pass area, but you get into GS and I remember vividly my first visit there in 2010 meeting these people who were just so welcoming.
They were so delighted that we'd gone to visit them and the hospitality was just remarkable.
And that's been the way ever since. And indeed, every year I've been going there, I've been taking new people most times. Um, and everyone falls in love
with the Palestinian people. they they and they all want to go back. So in those early years, I was just teaching every year and I've been doing that
until until 2022. In fact, we had a teaching trip pan planned for November 23 and that was clearly cancelled. But
I've also been involved separate to that in carrying out and teaching cancer surgery. That's what I do in Oxford. So helping them develop their cancer
services and teaching my specialty of cancer as well.
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