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Trump's Iran war widens suddenly: Ukraine hits ship, Houthis target Saudi oil | Janta Ka Reporter
Janta Ka Reporter
Jul 25, 2026

In a dangerous escalation, the Iran conflict has spiralled out of control after a Ukrainian missile strike hit an Iranian vessel in the Caspian Sea. As Tehran vows to avenge the attack, the region faces another flashpoint: the Houthis have fired over a dozen missiles targeting key Saudi oil facilities in retaliation for recent Saudi airstrikes in Yemen. Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump faces mounting domestic pressure to end the military campaign against Iran as the monumental economic and human cost weighs heavily on the American public.

In this episode, Janta Ka Reporter founder and veteran journalist Rifat Jawaid breaks down the day's critical developments with sharp analysis and expert commentary.



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Iran has vowed to punish Ukraine after its commercial vessel was hit by the Ukrainian force. The Ukrainian military's action has caused a dangerous escalation in the region. In another instance of the widening of Iran US war, Yemen's Houthi fighters have targeted Saudi oil facilities with ballistic missiles after the Saudi military bombed Houthi targets in Yemen. Meanwhile, there has been a brief pause by both the US and Iran in their military strikes and retaliatory attacks.

Israeli terrorist Israel cats has confessed to playing a lead role in the ouster of ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan. This will be the broad focus of my video tonight. Also in this video, another Lego style film on the empire of dirt by Gandocraft. So please stay tuned.

Two major developments related to the Iran conflict that have marked a 1 minutedangerous escalation in the region today. First, the Houthis have fired over a dozen ballistic missiles hitting key Saudi oil facilities. Key targets hit by Houthi missiles included Saudi Aramco oil refinery and marine terminal located in Jazan industrial city along the southern Red Sea coast and critical Aramco oil refineries and export infrastructure in the main Red Sea port city of Yamu. Let's not forget that the Houthi's ability to set the Saudi Aramco oil field on fire was what had forced the Islamic kingdom to agree to a ceasefire with the Yemeni fighters in the first place.

This is precisely what the Houthis are now seeking to achieve even this time around. They look determined to cause economic devastation to Saudi Arabia. This would also mean that the Red Sea is effectively out of bounds for international maritime trade. This is what the Houthi's military spokesperson said after hitting the Saudi targets.

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Saudi military is announcing that they targeted military sites. According to the onsouthis however uh they're saying that the uh Saudi Arabia targeted the island of Kamaran and targeted also facilities belonging to telecommunication centers all of which happened in the strategic province of Heda. This is exactly what we we might see with the escalation of military activities against Saudi assets. Whether it's at sea, whether it's at land, whether they are target targeting Saudi Arabia's most precious jewel, the Aramco oil facilities.

The main target here, make no mistake about it, is uh Saudi Arabia's uh uh money maker, the uh oil exporting industry. That's 5 million barrels from Saudi Arabia that's being exported on a daily base. And and this is also according to many officials who who who basically sent the message that they want the war to escalate. They want to target more Sahi at assets.

And it looks like it's not just going to include imposing the blockade. This is going to perhaps lead into a a fullcale war between Saudi Arabia and the Yemeni group just as it happened in 2000 from 2015 to 2022. Um it looks like history is going to repeat itself unless negotiations can deescalate the rising tensions. Iran then faced another escalation from an unexpected quarter when Ukraine of all the countries Ukraine fired a missile to hit an Iranian flagged commercial ship killing at least one sailor.

The Ukrainian missile attack targeted the Iranian ship of the port of Ola, a major Russian maritime hub situated in the Astarakhan region along the delta of Wulgar River where it flows into the northern part of the Caspian Sea. Iran has vowed to teach Ukraine a lesson. How Iran responds to the Ukrainian attack will be interesting. Although experts say that Iran can achieve this in two different ways.

The Islamic Republic can bolster its transfer of key missiles and drones to Russia that can be used by Russia against Ukraine. Iran is already accused of doing that, but chances are Iran would speed up now that Ukraine has decided to hit an Iranian ship. Iran will also most likely inflict economic pain by launching cyber attacks on the Ukrainian financial infrastructure, thereby causing more chaos in the war torn country. Only time will tell what the Iranian response to this extraordinary development would be.

Meanwhile, the deranged occupant of the White House is under pressure, tremendous pressure to end his madness against Iran. Now even American media outlets are embarrassing this Israeli slave on the war crimes committed by him in Iran and see his utter discomfort when faced with such a pointed question. Quick question about Iran. Um you're talking about blowing up civilian power plants and bridges.

Much of the civilized world would consider that a war crime. Do you? Uh I won't respond to that question. Who you with?

The New York Times. I figured so failing New York Times. Even American lawmakers are not prepared to remain silent anymore on Trump's deprivity which has endangered even the lives of American troops. This is Chris Murphy here.

Billions of dollars wasted, 18 Americans dead, thousands of civilians and children in the Middle East killed. Our military stockpiles dangerously depleted. New wars in the region breaking out by the week. the Straight of Hormuz and possibly the Red Sea now closed, controlled by our enemies.

Gas prices skyrocketing, the global economy melting down. This is day 146 of a war that has no achievable objectives and no endgame. A war that has ruined American families as gas prices are back over $4 a gallon. unaffordable for many workingclass Americans.

We have sky-high diesel and fertilizer prices. We've seen record numbers of farms go into bankruptcy. This is a war that has made Iran stronger. A war that has depleted American munitions so dangerously that we are now exposed without the munitions and interceptors necessary if there was an actual threat posed to the United States elsewhere around the world.

Every day as we speak, Iran strikes its neighbors, Israel, Kuwait, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Qatar. Every day Iran strikes US forces and our basing in the region. They have done billions of dollars worth of damage to our forces and to our partners' forces. Our war against Iran has set off other wars.

Israel has invaded Lebanon. In that country, 4,300 people have been killed. 12,000 have been wounded. 2 Two million Lebanese have been dep displaced from their homes.

A new conflict is breaking out between the Houthis in Yemen and Saudi Arabia. The Straight of Hormuz is closed. Iran did not control the strait before the war, but they now effectively control it. The Bob Elmande Strait connecting the Red Sea to global waterways now appears also closed.

And the Houthis, again, another Iranian ally, have started to attack ships there. The US has depleted our munitions and interceptor stores to dangerous levels. Over decades, we carefully, methodically built up a stockpile of long range stealth missiles, mostly in preparation for a possible future 12 minutesconflict with China. You know what percentage of that stockpile has been fired at Iran in 146 days?

Not 10%, not 30%, 50%. We have fired half of our entire stockpile of long range stealth missiles in 4 months. And the situation is even worse for our allies and partners in the region. Reports suggest that the UAE and Kuwait may have burned through 75% of their Patriot missiles just over the last 146 days.

This all sounds like a disaster, correct? Like an unmitigated five alarm disaster. But the administration defends this reality. They simply say that this is the cost of a just war.

Lives lost, regional chaos, high prices, low stock piles, taxpayers footing the bill. It's just all worth it. It's not worth it. Why?

Because Trump has not achieved a single war goal. All of the cost, all of the chaos, all of the death that I just described is going to be for nothing because not a single one of these goals is going to be achieved. Now, I will admit the goals have shifted over time. And so on this chart, I am simplifying the set of goals.

But here's the reality. Yes, this war has taken out the previous leadership, but what has happened is that the old regime has simply been swapped for a new generation and they feel emboldened because they have survived this war. 14 minutesElsewhere, Israeli terrorist has reportedly confessed that his genocidal entity was instrumental in ensuring the ouster of ICC chief prosecutor Kharim Khan. We all knew who was behind this dirty campaign, but the terrorist himself has admitted that now.

One of Khan's lawyers, Tyabali, wrote on Twitter, and I quote, "So this makes a little more sense now, doesn't it? While we were preparing a legal case against the allegations at the ICC, which resulted in the judicial panel finding no misconduct or breach of duty by Mr. Khan Israel had a whole task force dedicated to making sure whatever the evidence was, he would be removed anyway. If the ICC had an ounce of credibility left, they would launch an investigation into this clear indication of political interference and manipulation of due process.

Who did the task force get to? End quote. Look, this 15 minutesis not rocket science if you understand the chronology. The ICC issues arrest warrants against Israeli barbarian Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister Yuav Galant.

The genocidal entity and its stoes in the US cry foul and threaten to dismantle the ICC itself. The rogue regime of Trump then sanctions the ICC judges and Kharim Khan himself. Then you suddenly have allegations of sexual misconduct against Khan. The United Nations judicial process declares Khan not guilty.

But war criminals from the illegal settler colony used their sto in the US to force member states to vote through secret ballot to remove Khan. And you still think this has been a fair process. We're living in a crazy world where depraved and bloodthirsty terrorists are being allowed to destroy the very system that seeks to hold them accountable for their war crimes. I will now leave you with another Lego style video by Gandocraft.

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Iran REPELS US Attack, 43 Warplanes WIPED OUT as Trump BACKS DOWN | KJ Noh
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KJ Noh discusses the restart of all out US war on Iran, what precipitated the over 80 strikes along Iran's coastal cities, and the beginning of Iran's retaliation.



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Welcome back to the show everyone. Danny Hiong here with KJO to break down the latest developments. We begin with Iran where the United States has decided to stop strikes on Iran. Two straight days now of no strikes and we'll get to reasons about that later.

But I wanted to pull up a major list published by Iranian military sources on all of the uh uh military assets hit in just 13 days. And I scroll down to the aircraft losses here. If you count up these from the fighter aircraft to the reconnaissance drones, operational drones, F-15s, PAT7s, it equals a whopping 43 aircraft in 13 days. 6 billion.

This of course is still Iranian sources but it's all we have because the US does not report these things. But what they are reporting KJ is that Trump has sheld plans for a major escalation in the war on Iran. uh stating that both uh uh chief of staff Dan Kaine as well as JD Vance said that the Patriot interceptors have been nearly exhausted and escalation would basically deplete them to nothing. Uh and another report has said that US forces were reportedly allowing missiles to hit uh US bases because they were so concerned the Sententcom was with the Patriot interceptors and the air defenses.

KJ, this is major news. Uh many people have said this is a major taco by Trump. um what have you made of uh what's happened you know in the last and what it says about this war and the geopolitical situation more broadly well I think once again the US is reaching its uh you know capacities the magazine is certainly one of the key issues as we said magazine markets midterms these are all core issues but the larger issue is that the US is not capable of winning this war it is not capable of imposing its will on Iran. It is not capable of uh forcing the uh straight of Hormuz to be open.

So it signals in a very very clear way that the US in a very very concrete sense is is extraordinarily infeebled. And of course we can talk about the depletion of air interceptors. We know from the estimates of Russi, from CESUS and then from the Iranian uh uh reports uh the US is really really depleting its strategic assets. One of the key things I want to highlight is not simply the number of airplanes that have been hit but the number of radars.

So, seven command and control centers, three satellite commu comm communication systems, six patriot air defense radars, three air and maritime surveillance and monitoring radars, eight early warning radar systems, seven air missile defense radars, three EPS radar systems, two EPS117 radars, five longrange radars, two air defense radars, one tactical radar complex. What that means is essentially that Iran is blinding the United States. And as I said, once you know before, you get into a fight uh somebody hits you, you get your retina detached, uh you cannot fight. And I really think that that is making that very very clear for the United States.

Uh I think the other thing we want to look at is um the original battle plan against Iran was also the battle plan against China. It was drafted actually in 2009. uh and it was supposed to give the US overmatch and uh strategic it would give them an immediate strategic win uh over Iran most certainly and certainly over uh China and the under secretary of the Navy Robert Woke uh in 2010 explained it. He said the doctrine of war se battle at its core is about winning a guided munitions salvo competition.

What's very clear is that the United States has lost this guided munitions salvo competition. As I said before in Gulf War I in uh 30 years ago the US was doing 3,000 sorties a day. During these last 14 days, it was doing perhaps 100, 150 sorties a day, trying to escalate up to double that. But it shows that the kind of strategic overmatch and this total and complete air dominance that the United States is used to having is now uh history.

It really is not able to enforce its will. Yeah, I found the report so interesting by NBC News that the Pentagon was allowing they say Iran to hit US bases just to preserve these air defenses and without the radars I mean these air defenses become next to useless but nevertheless uh this is being framed as a temporary pause KJ yet according to NBC News these interceptors and everything else that goes with them, including those radars, they take years to replace. So temporary could be a while. How do you see the United States uh uh you know maneuvering here then?

Because it doesn't seem like Israel uh there are prominent people around Trump's administration who say that this war isn't necessarily going to end because of this. But then what? It it seems like a very big quandry uh that you know you do need these things if you're going to fight a war especially a long war which Iran is now calling a war of attrition in its own right and maybe doing that because it sees it has the advantage in a war of attrition. Your thoughts?

Well you know the US has always had three options none of which are good. The first is bombs. This is the bombing war. This is what uh you know Robert Woke called winning a guided munitions salvo competition.

The US seems to have lost that competition. Certainly does not have aird do. It's not able to assert its will uh in in the standoff contestation. It also has the capacity for boots on the ground.

As we've said before, that would be an act of madness. anything that the United States does in terms of boots on the ground. Let's forget the fact that it doesn't even have, you know, the troops or the capacity. But let's imagine that there are boots on the ground.

That would essentially be a killbox. Uh it would be Denben Fu. It would be Kissan. It would be, you know, one of the great strategic obvious visible strategic humiliations in uh war in the history of war.

And we know that Iran is highly, highly prepared for a land invasion. In fact, that's probably what they want because they're meeting the United States on their ground, on their home court, on their territory, and they are furious uh at the amount of, you know, violence uh unjust violence. Uh let's not forget that this is a criminal, illegal war of aggression. uh but certainly you know the mass casualties that have been uh uh levied on their civilian population.

I think that Iran has much much stronger resolve and as I said you know the different asymmetries it has stronger resolve it has faster learning curve it has a cost asymmetry it has a ge geographic advantage it has a strategic advantage it has uh economic industrial advantage etc etc all the advantages are on the side of Iran so the US has the potential of bombs boots on the ground and blockade none of these things are working. And so what is it going to do? Well, you know, there's uh clearly attempts to engage and solicit proxies to wage some of the war while the US recalibrates, regroups, and tries to restock its magazine. That magazine stocking will take a long time.

You know, they make about 50 Patriot interceptors a month. uh possibly eight uh THAAD missile interceptors a month if even that and uh and uh if you look at the actual procurement timelines you know they take between four to five years to actually go into to to delivery and so I think there's certainly huge uh problems with the defense industrial bases uh as as far as sustainment and logistics is concerned The US does not have a lot of options, but it does have the option possibly of engaging further with proxies using proxies. It does have the capacity to go further up the escalation ladder, meaning using tactical nukes and I think there's a large number of uh you know uh ruling class elites who think that that is the solution. Uh and then it also has you know the option of you know drawing out some kind of strange protracted uh war of attrition which it will lose or it could do the logical thing and come to the negotiating table fully implement theou and make good uh its promises and find a modus vendi in which case the straight of hormuz would be opened up.

The Babel Mandab would no longer be at under threat. Uh the Gulf states would no longer be facing existential crisis and uh globally the economy would sigh uh you know would take a a big uh you know sigh of relief. Right now we have to understand is that Iran has a dog shock collar on the straight of Horus. uh it can shock that anytime it wants and the US has no options as far as that is concerned.

Yeah, there are already reports that even with Oman and Iran apparently negotiating for some kind of final settlement on jointly managing the straight of Hormuz on the Omani side, the so-called corridor the United States was pushing ships through. I guess there was one that was attempting to push through probably at US direction and it hit one of Iran's uh naval mines that it had placed there. So uh that is uh you know that is going to continue uh because Iran has said straight of horror moves is never going back. But as you said, KJ, even just for the purposes of the United States actually getting the pause, actually uh uh getting this p it doesn't want to stop war with Iran.

But if it needs to, if the United States Empire needs to uh build up its stockpiles again, and it takes years, well, then you'll need a pause longer than what was it? I mean there have been now two uh since the ceasefire two flareups and uh both of them require the same munitions that were being used in the initial part of the war. A lot less effective a lot fewer but nonetheless the same munitions. So what do you think about this?

I mean the United States would have to take a a long pause then. No if if it's going to um if it's going to replenish if we're just thinking in the eyes of the twisted empire. If it were thinking logically, that's what it would do. It would take a very very long pause and hopefully that pause would run into some real uh you know self-reflection and the empire would you know stop waging uh aggressive war against uh you know countries that it sees fit to bully and uh dominate.

But I don't think that is in the DNA of the ruling Imperial neocon class. I can't see that happening. Although, who knows? I'm not ruling anything yet.

I certainly hope that the US uh deescalates and negotiates a meaningful diplomatic solution. uh but uh I I think the the the the core thing to understand is that you know if you give the analogy of a chess game you know uh in in chess generally you want to control the center once you control the center you occupy the center you threaten the center then you essentially the game is a foregone conclusion it's very very hard to uh undermine that uh unless you have some extraordinary gambit which is highly unlikely. Uh Iran controls the center. It controls the strait of Hormuz.

Uh and there has been this tit fortat exchange which is you're essentially just losing pieces. And at a certain point you lose so many pieces you you can't continue. You have to resign. And I think the US should resign.

It is at that point where it really does need to just simply back off, go back and um make good and seek a modus vendi. Remember, Iran has not pulled out uh all the stops yet. There is still a lot more that it can do. There have been attacks on Amazon uh data centers.

I think there's been one attack uh on uh energy and desalination plants. But Iran could actually wipe the slate clean. they could wipe out the entire uh you know infrastructure of all the Gulf states in which case those states US vassels US power projection platforms would be no longer viable as countries and along with that also what would be destroyed is the US strategy uh for its you know uh uh AI development because what has been happening is there have been $2 trillion dollar worth of pledges to the Gulf States or from the Gulf States to develop AI data centers in uh UAE and etc. e AI data centers because they have abundant energy and you know vast amounts of space etc.

that entire model is completely uh gone. Uh and uh you know AI data centers require water uh electricity and also humans to service them. If that can't be done then the seven major corporations that are involved in AI that are propping up and that are responsible for almost all of US economic uh development. uh will be wiped out.

And so all of this is to say that Iran has not even begun to start fighting. It has been pulling its punches and it has many many steps up the escalation ladder. Each one of which will be uh extraordinarily uh damaging not just to the United States but to all the global capitalist uh states. And so hopefully the US is thinking about this.

It understands that Iran has a dog shock collar on the global economy, on the US economy, on the future of the US as a viable economic state. Hopefully, it realizes that, but that remains to be seen. Yeah. Well, uh that that is 100% true.

Rationality isn't the forte of the wararmongers. Now uh KJ I think a big also a big problem with a pause uh taking any kind of pause this must be a a kind of competing pressure the pressure to reserve uh military stockpiles air defenses etc the pressure on the economy that builds as you were 17 minutesjust describing if this escalates but then the counter pressure to that the on the opposite end is the fact that Iran gets more and more effective as time goes on with uh its ability to strike back. So you have now this is a Washington Post excerpt uh taken by RT where it's been admitted that they've calculated Sentcom has that it takes only about now for a US strike to be responded to immediately with missile and drone attacks on bases. So that's it's a very short turnaround time and that could very well get shorter if first of all Iran is now battleh hardened and second of all they say all the time that they are perfecting and investing a lot of time energy and resources into improving their own stock piles.

So again, yeah, there this is a major contradiction that the US empire is in and the Trump administration dove right into it. Uh dove right into it and uh now it appears 18 minutesit's not able to get out or or at least uh that's what history has shown us thus far. Yeah, I I certainly think the US is in a quagmire. you know, it has, you know, hugged the, you know, the tar baby, uh, and it it really doesn't know what to do.

It's it's a zuk zang. But, you know, once again, as you point out, notice the rapidity of response that counter battery strikes. Notice the way in which Iran is able to blind and hit US strategic assets. And the US doesn't seem to be able to do that.

Because if it had been doing that, it would mention that. Notice that when Iran talks about its strikes, it gives you very, very clear specifics. As I said, you know, 37 radars, you know, six fighter jets, 12 fuel storage tanks, uh, MQ9 drone hangers, command centers, four high Mars missile launch platforms. Very, very specific about what it's hitting.

Uh and when the US says it has hit things, it just kind of says generic things. In other words, we don't know what it's hitting or if it's hitting anything. But certainly the sorty rate, the lack of specificity, the diminished sorty rate, the lack of specificity and uh Iran's, you know, clear and uh focused uh responses show that uh really the United States is losing this in a very very big way. Um, you know, once again, going back to battle doctrine, um, the United States has had a long history of gaining immediate air dominance and then pummeling countries, uh, into submission uh, and then sending in the military for cleanup.

Now, this works when you're working with countries that are very, very poor that do not actually have real militaries. And we saw this for example with Afghanistan. We saw this with Iraq in you know the first and second Gulf wars etc. But Iran is a completely different animal and they've preparing for three decades for this fight.

Uh and they've shown that their strategies uh and their you know the symmetries are literally unbeatable. you know, as far as I can see, I I cannot see a winning strategy for the United States. And so, the US is in a very very difficult position. Uh, it also, you know, doesn't have uh, you know, the usual uh, capacities that it has.

It has gotten fat and flabby and useless because for two decades it focused on Cohen or counterinsurgency which essentially means that you're bombing uh you know goat herders from the air uh and then and then giving them you know little you know soacia packets and soccer balls uh you know in you know to to counteret that they were doing what they referred to as armed social work uh And that doesn't work anymore. That Cohen paradigm doesn't work anymore. Uh they don't really understand the nature of joint arms maneuver against a peier and they never uh you know saw Iran as a peer. They considered it a non-pierer adversary.

But as I said once again, you know, air sea battle, this is the doctrine of war that they uh planned uh for Iran also what they have planned for China has been shown to be completely ineffective and actually 180 degrees and the inverse in the sense that it is Iran that has blinded them that is Iran that has decapitated decapitated most of their forward assets and that it's Iran which has shown clearly not only uh missile dominance but really you know that they have won uh uh you know the guided munition salvo competition as they call it. And uh to add on to maybe the pain KJ as uh we move into uh the broader situation. But um before that just you mentioned proxies earlier. Iran has this has been the most under reportported part of this war I believe is throughout the conflict through since February 28th but especially since theou period Iran has been preemptively striking uh these so-called Kurdish forces in on the Iraqi border uh in places like where uh the United States has been training forces to act as a 23 minutesproxy even Donald Trump says periodically that we have other people who will do this.

And he's most likely referring when it other people that will do a ground invasion, he's most likely referring to the so-called Kurdish forces which have in the past actually rejected uh going in to Iran and and and wreaking havoc. But that was the plan. But Iran has been striking the US infrastructure, the assets, and the for literal forces there uh every almost every single day since theou uh was depleted. And now they're declaring that it's essentially nearly all gone, if not all gone.

So that's a big hit and that will also take time to rebuild because you know that we know they're going to try. I mean they have a big foot. The US has a big political foothold there. What's your thoughts on this?

Yeah, I agree. First um I think it's very very foolish to try to use uh proxies especially the extremist proxies that the US seems to be cultivating. I have good Iranian uh friends, comrades who actually despise the current regime uh the current government. Uh but they said if the US uses proxies, I will I will go to Iran and I will pick up arms to defend uh Iran.

And so I think you know I think they really really misunderstand uh you know the nature of the resolve of the Iranian people to preserve their dignity uh and their sovereignty. Uh I also think that um as you point out you know US assets are severely depleted. Can the US wage once again Cohen uh this kind of long protracted small dirty wars? They can try.

I mean this has been their modus operandi after it lost the Korean war. The US waged for another two decades dirty war from Myanmar using the stragglers and the remnants of the KMT 25 minutesuh and also inside China itself you know using Tibetans and uh you know other you know um uh uh groups. So the US has a long history of doing that. Uh will it be successful?

I don't think so. I think it will be less and less successful because as the US loses power in general uh even the proxies will understand that it is really not in their interest uh you know to get involved uh in a in a losing proposition. You know once again you know the US the US is used to having dominance and easy dominance. You know, it's like the US has golf courses on all on about half of its military ma major military bases, about 230 plus golf courses.

And you go out to the golfing green and you you know just you you just, you know, take your uh uh putter or your fiveiron or whatever that is and you just kind of slam and you hit out onto this clear uh green uh and and then you feel good about yourself. That's the way the US has gotten accustomed to waging war. It doesn't realize that it can't do that anymore. It's deep in the thicket.

Uh and it's a completely different day. They're not in Kansas anymore. No, definitely not. Yeah.

And now for some of the broader implications, KJ, of uh what's happened. So, of course, we know Yemen got into the war when Saudi Arabia struck it and at this very sensitive time when the US and Iran were engaged in uh war. Uh but two days have passed since uh Ansarala hit Aramco. It hit oil refineries in the Jazan area in Saudi Arabia.

It's still burning. So this had major this caused major damage that's still being uh borne out now. And then we have let's say the wars intersecting to use the the popular liberal phrases. Now you have in the Caspian Sea Ukraine having attacked an Iranian vessel and killing a sailor.

um uh saying that Iran has now notified Russia in the EU about this in the possibility of striking back. And this is this is this is actually quite remarkable. Uh Iran is saying Israel was the one who provoked this saying that you know Israel wants to continue the war so why not try to bring Iran into the Ukraine situation. It's it's very strange.

I wonder what your reactions are to this. You know all these wars are connected KJ and now they're literally bleeding into each other. Well, it's as Curt Campbell said, he says it's one unified field. Uh, and he said that what he would do is he would unleash uh a symphony uh, you know, uh, a symphony of death.

Well, it's it's happening, but it's happening the other way round. You know, once again, you know, US casualties are increasing. Uh, we know that, you know, the casualties are most likely underounted. Just recently, you know, the three uh most recent casualties or actually four most recent recent casualties were removed from the role because they said it quote unquote happened under peace time, which is just, you know, the worst kind of insult.

So, uh we know the casualty counts are increasing. We know that that was the case right from the get-go when when the war started uh in late February. uh Dover Air Force Base uh was recruiting for personal effects specialists. That is to say people whose job is to clean, photograph and mail uh the personal effects of dead soldiers.

You know, they were urgently recruiting for new personnel for this. So we know that there is significant uh casualties. Uh and also you know the Ramstein air base uh you know changed its entire uh you know service uh it cut out its you know it shut down its maternity ward because it anticipated massive casualties that it had to deal with. So all of these things sk uh signal that you know casualty rates are much much higher than are actually uh signaled and it also signals you know it's just once again it's it's more indication uh that the US is in this losing battle.

It's losing on all fronts. uh if Yemen can strike Saudi Arabia's Aramco uh that must put uh you know shock and awe uh into uh the US uh strategic command. Certainly it does that for you know the Saudi and all the Gulf states apparently and this remains to be confirmed is that um Ansarah hit the storage tanks but it has not yet hit the uh processing infrastructure. We'll see if that holds but it shows that first the capacity to hit and also the tremendous control and precision that they have which I think is actually even more frightening.

So once again in terms of you know the the second front and the second choke point Babel Mandeb uh and then uh Iran's capacity to uh raise the costs not simply economically but in terms of actual human casualty costs uh and then also this connection with Israel where the US and Ukraine and uh Israel see this as a single front. Well, I mean it is it shows that it is a single front. It shows the uh Israeli connection as this, you know, kind of uh clearing house for global imperialism and global fascism and global uh atrocities. It shows that how Israel is facilitating all of that.

So, it is not a surprise. But what is surprising is that they're boasting about it and they seem to have no uh issue with you know uh stitching these uh uh you know different fronts together. That will be to the great detriment of Ukraine, Europe and the United States as well as Israel. And um you know on this theme of uh these wars kind of bleeding into each other, there have been many reports and I think when it comes to the United States, the United States is really really really dependent upon military force.

that really needs to exert military force to ensure that a country like Iran and if we talk all the way up to China uh that the United States is able to uh topple them. That's ultimately the goal here. Now, there's all kinds of interesting reports about China in particular right now that they're building full-size models of warships and aircraft to hone their missiles and and there's some satellite imagery of that. They built an array of replica ships, aircraft, and bases in its desert expanse to focus on uh targeting and other kinds of uh data collection.

Uh very impressive feats. And then when it comes to Iran, I just want to highlight this theme of uh like even just innovation, military innovation. The Wall Street Journal's reported that one of Iran's cheapest missiles, the the the Kyber Shakan has been uh adapted and altered so that it can evade uh air defenses uh different flight path speeds and drones uh uh you know attached to uh their launches which have made it very difficult to to intercept even these cheaper models which we don't have the exact cost but Wall Street Journal says uh a fraction of the cost of these millions you know, three4 million uh defense uh systems that the United States has been wasting away on. So, uh K maybe you can talk about this because oftent times we talk about China, we talk about economic might.

When we talk about Iran, yeah, we are talking about the military might, but we also we don't often talk about the the adaptation, the ability to maneuver, the ability to change when conditions change. Uh that's something I think we are seeing demonstrated over and over again is that the these countries are making necessary changes to uh prepare or literally in the case of Iran fight the war that's in front of them. Yeah, I think you're absolutely right, Danny. On this show, we actually have spoken about, you know, learning curves and we've said that, you know, the side that adapts faster, the side that learns faster wins.

Uh war is essentially a contest of learning curves. The US learning curve is essentially flat. As I've said, it's uh air air sea battle from a land battle. They're simply rehashing what they tried to do in 1991 and having less success.

At the same time, both Iran and China and other global south countries are adapting rapidly and transforming. And so the US, you know, have basically cannot deal with the fundamental cost asymmetry. Saudi Arabia, the US vassels, they all rely on these extraordinarily expensive boutique weapons. Um, you know, when I think I think of like Jay Leno's garage, you know, Jay Leno has all these very very expensive uh, you know, foreign cars, but uh, he has all these cars and they're very expensive and they're very impressive.

But Jay Leno is not going to win uh you know a driving contest anytime soon despite you know his expensive uh you know u pan expensive array of cars and Saudi Arabia is the same thing. It has one of the largest military budgets but clearly it cannot win even with uh you know advanced weaponry even with mercenaries. cannot defeat uh one of the poorest uh militaries in the world and Allah once again it shows the failure of air sea battle uh and uh the same thing is that they adapting and learning quickly China is adapting learning quickly as I said the doctrine of air sea battle this war that is being fought against Iran was actually a rehearsal for war against China it is the same war doctrine that the US was going to apply to China. That is to say, essentially blinding uh taking out all of its uh reconnaissance capacities, decapitating its leadership and then uh putting on uh a long and punitive blockade.

All of that has shown to fail on every dimension. uh and Iran has the upper hand and China uh if it comes to you know if it comes to war which the US does seem to be preparing continually preparing against China uh it will be of a magnitude more responsive magnitude more uh powerful than what uh Iran has responded with. And so I think you know once again one would wish one would hope that the ruling elite understand the facts on the ground but it doesn't seem to be the case. They seem to be uh you know above all they seem to be not only fighting uh reality uh but you know fighting you know just uh just basic reason uh and rationality.

Now KJ, when you said the US appears to be preparing for war with China, I I mean that's quite literally over this entire period, including uh this Iran war period. It's not it's just not getting attention. And I want to pull up one example of this that you can comment on. Uh let me get this ad out of the way.

According to CNN, and these have been reports over the past several uh no, over the past week, starting July 21st, there have been numerous instances of the Philippines taking their naval ships uh into uh uh disputed areas of the South China Sea, the Rene Jao, and uh the area surrounding the Thomas Schaw in this instance where there's been confrontations. China, this is they shot a water can. I guess CNN was on board of this whatever that's supposed to uh signify and how significant that is. But in another case, uh a US naval ship rammed into the Chinese Coast Guard and they then of course attacked back.

But it was it was very gentle sticks and and various things like that. It wasn't uh while it didn't flare up into a major shooting war between the two KJ. Uh these provocations according to China are traced easily back to the United States uh and Japan too. KJ talk about this.

This is happening uh these provocations the US making comments about it too uh showing that they have they're giving full diplomatic support and political support to the Philippines. What's going on here? And why? How is it that during the war against Iran, Quagmire 2, and Ukraine, the United States is investing resources, time and uh uh and military resources into another proxy war?

It seems like this time the Philippines, a very interesting choice, too. Your thoughts on this? Yeah, not just in the Philippines, but also on the Korean Peninsula. Right now there's RIMAC going on in the Pacific but there are also constant war games uh on the Korean peninsula including the rehearsal of you know massive logistical lift.

I mean this is very specific and concrete preparation for war. These are not abstract war games that are you know done on computer. This is like the actual dress rehearsal, the tech rehearsal before you roll out the actual uh performance. So there's some very very real and concrete stuff that is going on.

And it's astonishing because even as the US is fighting essentially, you know, full boore or close to full boore war against Iran, it is actually depleting and deploying uh vast amounts of airlift and material and troops and live ammunition uh in for example on the Korean peninsula. So all of this uh signals that US has still not given up on war against China. In fact, very recently, uh, one of the king neocons, um, Eli Ratner, uh, he, you know, spoke about a two-f frontont war, you know, against Russia and, uh, China. And of course, he doesn't even consider Iran to be worth uh, considered as a war.

But all of them see war with China as the main dish. It is the ultimate goal. Uh, everything else is really peripheral. it starter, appetizer or dessert.

And in some sense they're you know they're telling themselves you know like we want to knock out all these rogue states but their center of gravity the the country that is giving them support economic support and uh political support and is functioning really as a center of gravity that allows them to attain escape velocity against the uh you know predations of you know the global uh capitalist Imperial Imperium, the global capitalist plantation. This is China. So they see that they have to quote unquote go and attack the head of the snake. So all of this uh is uh currently ongoing.

It's as I said, it's not to be redundant, but it's absolute madness because if they can't win uh FC battle against Ansar Allah or against uh Iran, there's no way they can be successful against China. But that doesn't deter them. This is the grizzly bear fallacy. The 6% of the US population that believes that they can fight a grizzly bear with their bare hands and defeat it.

Let's just go a little bit into the history and the geopolitics of the South China Sea. The South China Sea is bordered by China including Taiwan province as well as Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia, Brunet and Indonesia. It's one of the core geostrategic thorough affairs and it's sometimes compared to the Persian Gulf. About $5 trillion worth of goods flow through the South China Sea annually.

Uh and about 10 million barrels of oil daily. Most of it is destined for China. And so and it's also very resource- richch area etc. And it's also contested.

you know there are multiple islands that are contested by uh the different countries or parties uh their claims bisect tric quadric etc. uh all of the countries have built militarized installations on islands in the South China Sea but only China gets criticized for it. Now the key issue is who owns these islands, reefs, shors etc. And the Chinese claim the islands back to the Han dynasty and they can show continuous historical usage, fishing, habitation, travel, mapping and voluminous documentation.

Uh and they're also independent uh western documents that validate this. For example, from the 1870s until about the 1970s, there about uh you know, there, you know, there's a vast amount of official uh British and French cabinet documents and uh juristpredential rulings etc that corroborate Chinese sovereignty etc. But the Philippines now claim that you know that region is theirs. Uh they claimed that it was Terranlius and that you know they bought it for a dollar from a adventurer who sold it to them.

Uh and the US has been using the Philippines uh and especially their disputed claims over the South China Sea as a way to go provoke uh and instigate conflict against the Chinese. Um this has to do with you know the pivot to Asia. They understand that if they can close off the South China Sea and and choke it off as air sea battle uh you know describes then China can be destroyed. Uh and so uh one of the things that they did was they you know did lawfare and they you know claimed that China was uh making claims to the South China Sea uh you know without justification.

That is a complete PR hoax. That tribunal had no authority to proceed, let alone render a judgment on the sovereignty of the South China Sea. But essentially what has happened is that the US is using the Philippines as the proxy in the South China Sea just as it's using Japan and Korea in the you know in the East Sea. And so US has nine bases.

It has one of the largest naval bases, forward operating bases. That's Subi Bay. It's the world's largest weapons manufacturing logistics hub for US military force. And it is constantly driving into the paint against China and seeing if they can draw a foul upon which they will use that as a quasa spell and escalate even further.

So, China has been very very uh circumspect. Uh it has never used uh military force. At best, you know, it will fire, you know, water against the Filipinos. More recently, apparently, they hit uh some Filipinos with an ore.

And so, they're really trying to keep, you know, things from escalating even further. But the US most certainly wants some kind of kinetic conflict. If there is a kinetic conflict that involves the Philippines, then the US will claim quote unquote that they are mutual defense allies and that will be the justification for escalating to kinetic war. and they've planned it all out in intimate and intricate and incredibly rehearsed detail on the Korean Peninsula in the East Sea near Japan and then along the Taiwan uh uh province and the entire first island chain and then all the way going into the South China Sea and this is you know the first island chain and the scoot and shoot strategy that they have and the dispersion all of this is intimately and explicitly built out and rehearsed.

Uh and they're seeing if they can provoke something. Why are they doing this? Because they're desperate. They know that if China continues to grow and the US does not take China down uh then US hijgemony is uh you know is 47 minuteshistory and they do not want to give up their hijgemony.

They would rather end the planet uh than end their uh than give up their hijgemony. And so that's the really really dangerous uh situation that we're facing right now. Yeah, KJ. And and I think one thing that people don't generally understand when they look at that map that I pulled up of the South China Sea is that essentially if the United States gets its way and if the United States pushes for the claims to uh China's claims to be fully rejected and the claims so-called of these other countries which aren't which aren't all black and white.

They're not all well Malaysia claims this over this island versus China. That's not all black and white. There is a lot of gray. Um but nonetheless, if it's pushed in that direction, what it amounts to is an effective blockade of China.

3 US billion dollars in the first half of 2026 over the course of the war in large part because China is building this kind of green silk road uh with uh partner countries in the Belton Initiative. But it's a it's a huge emphasis for China because it recognizes that uh a part of trying to get these countries uh that have so-called disputes in the South China Sea onto the US's side is to choke off China from one of the key uh points of maritime traffic that in the world but especially for China. But your thoughts on this? Yeah.

You're absolutely correct, Danny. I mean, the South China Sea, in particular, Straight of Mala, which is one of the entry points into the South China Sea, is probably the most important choke point uh in the world. It's even more important than uh the Babel Mandeb and the Straight of Hormone simply because of the volume of traffic that's involved. So as I said the US plan of war is called air sea battle involves decapitation deep into the Chinese uh you know uh inland as well as blockade what they call distant blockade which refers to choking out China at the South China Sea.

It's the literally the carroted artery and the windpipe of China. Now in order to bypass that China and remember air battle was drafted in 2009 2010 the pivot to Asia which is the declaration of war against China was declared in 2011. uh and then around about that time China began to initiate the belt and road initiative and a very important part of the belt and road it's not simply a kind of vascularization of Asia so that all the countries uh on the Asian continent can trade easily with each other as part of a renewed silken road uh a renewed silk road but it was uh a strong component was also geostrategic That is to say, it was a way of bypassing the South China Sea uh and the Malaa Straits. And so the first leg and one of the most important legs of the belt and road that was initially constructed was Cpek, China Pakistan Economic Corridor and China Myanmar Economic Corridor.

So the these uh are both ways of bypassing the South China Sea and coming out into the Indian Ocean. Notice what happened to these uh uh legs of the barrier. uh essentially they were all attacked by US uh funded uh NOS's or even worse by US allied terrorist groups in particular for example you know the Balo liberation front which was uh not only attacking and blowing up uh parts of the China Pakistan economic corps or the CPAC uh but it was also beheading uh you know people and they were killing off Chinese school teachers and you know just sheer terror that they were trying to uh uh trying to spread in order to choke off and prevent this alternate vascularization uh that China was trying to build out in order to avoid confrontation and war in the South China Sea. So from this you can see how deep and determined uh US plans to choke out China are not simply uh over the sea but uh over land as well.

uh and of course you know China's response to that is to see what it can do to build out energy sovereignty because uh energy flows are a key part of the BarRi and the South China Sea. And so one of its ways of building out energy sovereignty is to encourage and develop and offer to the global south as a global good uh sustainable energy. And so you see the massive exportation of solar panels and hydro power and wind power. These things make countries less dependent on oil traveling through these different choke points and arteries which the US has very very definite definitive plans to choke off and control just as it has very very definitive plans to choke off and control as it sees fit the global financial arteries uh moving through New York and through Swift etc.

And so China is helping the global south recover and reclaim some measure of sovereignty uh by allowing them energy sovereignty and financial sovereignty through alternate you know settle settlement and clearing house mechanisms. But all of that is a long and slow process. And in the meantime, you can see that the US is continually escalating to war, continually waging both hot war and small wars, dirty wars uh against any alternative uh plan for development. Any attempt to escape the capitalist plantation is currently as we speak uh being sabotaged and attacked by proxies, by quizzlings, by uh dictators, you know, running dirty wars uh and by quizlings who have cast their lot in with the failing empire.

Yeah. In the last two minutes here that uh we have with you KJ, I just want to show the graphs. uh the BR deals that are surging in terms of total billions of dollars. This is as of June uh then July here's this the following month.

Uh look at how it correlates with the demand for green energy which uh shocker here we have June uh and really all the months uh after the Iran war uh increasing that demand dramatically given what has happened to the oil markets. So that's a big deal, KJ. I think China is always the one that can step in. Uh the United States seems to fight more so by trying to take away, by trying to choke off, by trying to sanction and destroy.

And it's China that seems to be stepping in uh and providing uh you know providing the alternative even on this uh energy front. Uh well, your final thoughts, KJ, as we wrap up the last two minutes here. Yeah, I think you're absolutely right, Danny. I mean to give it a you know simple you know slogan uh the US bombs in China builds and what it is building is it's building an anti-hgemonic system an anti-hgemonic coalition it's building out the possibilities for the global south to escape western colonial capitalist uh subjugation and that is very very definitely tied to the building out of green energy which uh interestingly enough.

Donald Trump is probably more responsible for promoting than any other leader in history. The Biden administration was doubling down on hydrocarbons and they were dead set against collaborating with China on uh moving and developing sustainable energy. But Donald Trump who actually be believes that glo despite their knowing that global warming, global catastrophe, climate catastrophe is a real issue. But Donald Trump who believes uh I believe firmly in his heart that global uh warming, global climate catastrophe is a Chinese hoax uh to undermine US you know prochemical uh uh industries.

uh has done actually more to promote uh green sustainable energies than any president in US history including Jimmy Carter and his you know uh cardigans and solar panels because by choking off the strait of Homus he has made very very clear that nobody can rely on hydrocarbons as uh a form of energy anymore. Right? As I said, you know, the the shock collar is on uh it cannot be taken off. Uh and because of that, they have to diversify into other sustainable forms of energy.

So once again, you know, this is Hegel's cunning of reason. you know, Donald Trump uh essentially uh you know, doing God's work decarbonizing the planet because he thinks that he's going to destroy uh US allies by uh you know, choking them out uh in a place that they cannot be uh that they themselves cannot control. Very well said everybody. Quickly uh I just want to thank uh the singular super chat here, Farzan and Deem.

Thank you so much. Uh quickly just a couple announcements before we head out of here. Uh two shows coming up. So I actually have a membersonly stream uh coming up that will uh if you become a member of this show.

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It'll be completely private. So I'm going to uh send out an announcement for members to join that. m. Eastern time today.

tomorrow, uh, Patrick Henning, 1 PM Eastern time, July 27th. And those are the announcements. Everyone, hit the like button, uh, so more people hear what KJ has to say on all of these developments. We're going to keep tracking them.

KJ, any final words for the audience before I hit the endstream button? Oh, I'm going to sound like a broken record, but you know, we all have to do our part uh to resist the empire and its final and lethal thrashings. That means not being suckered in, not being um you know uh taken in by all the lies that we are being fed. Uh and also uh doing your best uh working with other organizations.

That means hitting the streets, hitting the phones, writing, hitting your keyboard, whatever that means. Making some effort uh to prevent this uh murderous murderous uh escalation uh to war. It's it will get worse before it gets better. But in the meantime, we have to be prepared, galvanized, and put uh our everything into it into resisting this escalation.

Yeah, well said. I think that's a great place to end. Everybody, hit the like button. Thank you so much for joining.

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