It's time for declare your independence with Ernest Hancock believe me when I say we have a
Difficult time ahead of us, but if we are to be prepared for it, we must first shed our fear of it. I
Stand here without fear because I remember
I remember that I am here not because of the path that lies before me, but because of the path that lies behind me
I remember that for 100 years we have fought these machines and
After a century of war, I remember that which matters most
Oh
But we are relatively concerned are we not you know this is it starts to bring up a lot of things
You know, I just contracted for doing emceeing of an event in mid-april on
You know, I mean for lack of a better term the zombie apocalypse
But really it is sir. Thrivell make sure that you and your family are taken care of
Occupied land stuff, you know, this has been and who do we need to talk to just what the real threat really is
What kind of what kind of threat you say we got here? Well, Scott Ritter now Scott Ritter's former marine
I don't know. Can you be a former Marine?
Anyways, you know, he's a marine intelligence officer who served in the former Soviet Union
So he's got that perspective
Implementing arms control agreements and on the staff of General Norman Swarchkoff. Oh, I remember them days back in the first Gulf War
There he played a critical role in the hunt for Iraqi scud missiles and weapons of mass
Bastards. Well, he's right in the middle of all that and what you know, they
What was shared with the American people amped up was the news
What was and was not a real threat now from 91 to 98?
He served as chief inspector for the United Nations in Iraq leading the search for Iraq's
You know prescribed weapons of mass destruction be a fear now in during all of this time
And certainly maybe because of that time all of a sudden
You know, he's like anti-war or at least stupid wars and definitely
Iran warned of us going into Iran and this is bad is bad
Well, we're gonna talk about how bad we are not getting the real pictures. You do any searches
We have a lot of stories. Of course we covering about that war war about that war. That's the category
We started 20 years ago. Which war now the next one. I mean, there's always another one
When is there not been one it's a continuous war? So this is kind of the mindset. We're coming at now
Scott comes on fills in the blanks and what he wants you to know about them
and we get into the subject of this war that war this next one Iran and
I wanted to promote his most recent book here highway
Highway to hell the Armageddon Chronicles damn 15 to 24 Scott. Tell us all about that book before we get started. Would you please?
Well, certainly. It's a book I
Put together based upon
articles that I wrote from
2015 to 2024 warning about
the danger of a nuclear arms race
encouraging people to
Embrace arms control and to defend the processes of arms control after all it was the arms control processes
nuclear disarmament that took us down from
30,000 strategic nuclear warheads in the 1970s to
1550 up until
earlier last month
When the last remaining arms control treaty expired because the United States had no intention of continuing arms control
A world without arms control is a world that's on the verge of nuclear armageddon
We live in a day of nuclear anarchy
Where you know the slightest mistake could lead to
The initiation of a what people might think it'd be a limited nuclear war
I'm here to tell you that every war game that's been played out around the world
That tries to see if a limited nuclear war would stay limited always ends with a general nuclear exchange and the death of all
life on the planet
So highway to hell is was written to try and get the American public to rally behind the new start treaty
It warned what the consequences of failure
Would be and now we have a situation where we didn't rally behind the treaty the treaty is gone
And we're starting to live that failure
Every conflict that takes place today is taking place in the context of nuclear anarchy and here we have a
Conflict between the United States and Israel and Iran
United States and Israel of course possessed nuclear weapons. They've accused Iran of seeking to acquire nuclear weapons and
You know, we may see a situation where if we can't win this war conventionally and we're not
we may use nuclear weapons and
What would happen if Iran decided that it needed to build its own nuclear weapons capability because they haven't been
But if they wanted to go nuclear
Then they start using their nuclear weapons
And as I said, there's no such thing as a limited nuclear war once nuclear weapons start being used
It spins out of control rapidly and globally
You know my I mean just
An opinion, you know, I
Remember the movie swordfish with Hugh Jackman and John Travolta and he goes. Oh hell man
I you know the Soviet Union fell apart. I you know by six nuclear warheads
I get a discount, you know, I mean, you know, it's not like they aren't available
And we got all kinds of spy movies and this and that that you know, you know
They acquired this from there and they got their fuel here and they keep going on
Oh, they got centrifuges and we stuck snacks to destroy their capability of the adi adi adi adi
And I mean when you got North Korea has them China Russia's frantic
is there really such a
Capability of the United States and another Western powers to be able to detect a
Nuclear weapon that we know when someone doesn't have them. I
It seems to me that you're
Sovereign wealth fund of the state sponsored I got a bunch of money
Years go by one, you know, how far off am I?
You can't just go buy a nuclear weapon that they're not on the market never have been on the market
there's people that have scanned people into believing that
Nuclear weapons could be bought especially after the collapse of the Soviet Union
But as somebody who knows the people who were assigned to protect Soviet
Nuclear weapons, they were never on the market. They were always accounted for there's materials
You know what you get into?
you know
peripheral industrial
Areas and you know people selling a little bit of you know fissile material here a little bit of fissile material there
There were efforts to do that. They were all uncovered and all detected and all shut down
If you're gonna have a nuclear weapon, you're gonna have to build it
You have to earn it you have to do it the hard way and that's an eminently detectable event
And so the idea that there's you know covert nuclear programs around the world that we don't know about and people are secretly stashing nuclear opens away
No
You know and the other thing is you know, there's a high degree of confidence in nuclear non-proliferation regimes and the work of inspectors
I'm telling you as somebody who was an inspector
If I'm given the proper mandate and you're trying to hide something
I will find it 100%
Guarantee because I'm better than you. I know what I'm doing. I know how to work the intelligence collection cycle
I know what I'm looking for and you can't hide it
That's how good we are
The idea that people are
Sequoia North Korea has a nuclear weapons program not because they hid it from us because they declared it to us
Because they said we will not tolerate the situation where you continue to fly
Large strike packages right at our border threatening our capital city every year when a joint exercise with South Korea
We're gonna deter you and we're gonna deter you by building nuclear weapons and they did they tested them
But before they tested they withdrew from the nuclear non-proliferation treaty which they were a signatory to North Korea used to allow
Weapons inspectors on their territory to inspect their facilities
But because the United States never was seeking actual nuclear non-proliferation with North Korea
But rather regime change we corrupted that process the same thing we did with Iraq
It's the same thing we did with Iran the problem isn't these nations that
You know have run afoul of us in the in the international atomic energy through nuclear sacred as a promise is United States
We don't adhere to international law
We create treaties not because we want universal adherence to the trees
We create treaties to be constraining under the powers and then we the the hegemon who operates above the law
Seeks to exploit their adherence to the law to achieve their demise. We did that in Iraq. We did that in Libya
We did that we're doing that in Iran. We tried it in North Korea
You know you're when your your book
Target Iran
When was that written?
That book was published. I believe in
2007
Yeah, so this has been a concern of yours for
When ever I mean, you know always been the target
Well, Iran became a target
in
the summer of 2001 when Israel made it a target
Israel manufactured this
This notion that Iran was seeking to acquire nuclear weapons Israel
Was taking a look at a scenario in which if you remember
There was an American general Wesley Clark retired at the time and he talked about how seven nations were going to be taken out in five years
And this was the Israeli master plan
Iran was one of those nations. And so
In the lead up to 9-11 and after 9-11
Israel was making the case that Iran should have regime change
You know foisted upon it and you needed an excuse and so Israel created a
Non-existent Iranian nuclear weapons program sold it to the United States and the United States has been you know
Pursuing this politically ever since but there never has been an Iranian nuclear weapons program and up until recently
There never was going to be
We took the one guy that said
Having a nuclear weapons program was against
Islam Ali Khamenei and we murdered him on the first day of this conflict
So the guy that said there will be no nuclear weapons and everybody understood that there would be no nuclear weapons
We killed him now. He's been replaced by his son
Who's more conservative but we have to hope and pray that his son respects the legacy of his father and will continue the fattwa
Otherwise, you know Iran may withdraw from the nuclear non-proliferation agreements and pursue a nuclear weapons program
You know once again, we are our own worst enemies
North Korea
Should never have had a nuclear weapon because all we needed to do was play by the rules
But we're incapable of playing by the rules the United States can't play by the rules
Okay, let's just talk about that a little bit, you know, you have a
The son
That just has father killed I think the son also had a lot of his family killed
Including his 14 month old daughter, I mean, you know, and we're expecting what from this. I I'm
It's like it's on purpose. You know, there's something else going on and I'm wondering
What it is, you know, is it simple as saying, you know
The Jews did it and if they didn't do it, they're gonna do it
I mean kind of mentality or is there a
new world order kind of
5d chess if we got to get in a position of you know Pax
Mara Israel or whatever the hell if the plan is there's a club. We ain't in it, you know, and I'm wondering what is
The plan I mean they come out with the plan said this is what we wanted to control the planet and get over it
And this how we're gonna do it
But it seems like they didn't anticipate Iran just saying we're not giving up now what bring the boots
We're waiting on you, you know, and for Trump and the administration and whoever
We we get into these wars and we can't get out or don't want to get out and they
Enticed us with Venezuela. See how easy that was all we had to do is go kidnap of you know, whatever
What's going on really I mean to sum it all up for us
There's a lot of details and things I want to get to but I need to have an overall understanding
What the hell were they thinking
Well first of all I
Don't think we can have an honest conversation about what American policy is until we recognize two things
And I hope I'm not insulting too many people in the audience, but
I don't care
We're talking about ignorance and arrogance
The American people collectively are the most ignorant people in the world about the world they live in
Especially given the posture that their their government has taken that that we've assumed in the aftermath of the Second World War a
Global power with global reach and global
Responsibilities, but we don't know anything about the world. We live global entitlement
Well, we we I just want to remind the Americans that
The way the global economy works right now because of the rules-based international order that we set up
We acquire other people's resources at prices that are well below market value
And that's the only reason why we succeed if we ever had to play pay full market value for the things that we
acquire in Africa through child labor and
In elsewhere we go bankrupt
That's just the American reality
But the arrogance to believe that we have a superior economy a superior society because we're superior. No
We've just been robbing the world blind
Because we built the system that enabled this robbery to take place
The World Bank is run by us International Monetary Fund run by us nothing happens in the world or at least nothing used to happen in the
World that wasn't controlled by this world-based international order that we constructed
We were the global hegemon. We had some competition during the Cold War
But the Soviet Union collapsed and we were the sole remaining superpower afterwards
But instead of behaving as a responsible neighbor, we just we behaved as the neighborhood bully and that's what we've been doing ever since
You know, so we're ignorant about the world and then we're arrogant and believing we've convinced ourselves that we are special
I mean, you've heard people say we are the exceptional nation the world can't live without us
You know things of that nature
And we're
Ignorant enough to believe it we look in the mirror and shake our head and said yeah, this is all true
We're the best. We're the brightest. We're the most capable
When in fact, we're not the best we're not the brightest and we're not the most capable
Especially when it comes to interfacing with the rest of the world because we don't understand it
There's an old saying that I've been using my entire adult life
I learned it from somebody far wiser than me that you can't solve a problem unless you first accurately define the problem
If you haven't defined a problem accurately and yet you're moving on to the solution phase
What are you solving not the problem because you've inaccurately defined it?
You're only making the problem worse because you're doing things that aren't resolve the issue and you're creating new issues
That that will further drag you down and that's how the United States operates in the world
We don't know the world we live in we don't understand the world we live in and yet we continue to articulate
The world as being problematic and we are the ones empowered to create the solution
We haven't fixed and often the ones that create the problem, you know
Galeon dialectic thing, you know, they're gonna create this problem. They we define the problem really well
I'm gonna tell you how well we define this problem is so the problem and look at the problem
And therefore there's a problem and then but we got a solution for you and Iran has been a problem
According to I don't see any problem with Iran
I haven't had anybody put in a gun to my head making me pay taxes to them or something. I mean, I so I'm wondering
Where the Iranian prom dire, of course, we we know moves a deck 53
They get rid of democratically elected they put in the shaw the shaw gets tyrannical
You have the cleric comes in they take over in the revolution of whatever the heck but you know
that really doesn't reflect, you know on
Our negative opinion on Iran it's Iran's negative opinion of the US so well, but it actually does because I say this because
You know, I wasn't involved. I was actually a young private in the army at the time
But I have many friends who were on the desert one rescue mission
You know Iran and went over the wall took American hostages held them for
244 days we sent in a rescue team of some of the bravest Americans around
And they ended up in a catastrophe in the desert
leaving eight charred bodies behind
and
We saw the videos of in the imagery of the Iranian clerics coming out and poking these dead bodies with the stick and that
Went the wrong way with a lot of people including myself
You know, we were embarrassed by our failure
And we were humiliated and from that comes anger and we in many ways, you know, blame the Iranians for this
without understanding
Why this these students who were not connected to the Iranian government would go over the embassy wall to begin with
People tend to ignore the fact that these students gathered gathered up burn bags
in the CIA
spaces and in another classified working spaces of
Of papers that have been shredded but back then we didn't use cross-cut shredders
We use single single line cutters one eighth of an inch and the Iranian students
Peaced all these papers together and they published a book and this book is it condemns the United States
It shows our collusion with the Shah to torture
Iranians to oppress the Iranians. There's a reason why the Shah was overthrown
He was a bad guy a very very, you know, and that's my point. It's not like
Iranians were
The Iranian people, you know, even their religion whatever was a threat to me. I
I just want to raise it whenever Israel comes up
Foreign Wars Middle East or whatever doing a show somebody comes on surprise. I raised my hand. I go. I got a question
I got one question
Am I
Allowed not to freaking care. Am I just allowed to not care?
I don't care what they do over there. Don't care
You know, am I allowed to not care? Nope. Nope. You got to care
You got to care because they were poking charred bodies or something, you know
I understand the personal people would have whatever but what if I don't care
Why do I care?
Well, I care when they start, you know closing the straight to horror moves
I get I get that, you know, I care when but that all falls on a lot of on us or Israel or so
There's something else that try to make us care. Why should we care, Scott?
Why do we care what happens in Iran? They don't like Iran, you know come emigrate to the US
Australia go to what I don't care, you know
So why do I have to care about Iran? Well now they're making you care
You know, you have mushroom cloud threat and I tell you I see a mushroom cloud nuclear war comply no more
We've already made that decision. I see one cloud. I don't give a crap why
Government has failed. This government's failed their government's failed trying to get another dime out of me
I'm not playing anymore. You know vote. We're gonna vote for what?
Still voting. So this is this is I need to know from Mr. Scott Ritter
Iran why should America care? Why are we there?
oil a
Lot of oil and a lot of gas and and and then just it's the
The geography where it's located. It's a it's a it's a big country
it had the misfortune of being on the border of Russia and then later the Soviet Union so it became a
central part of the
Cold war
You know barrier of treaties that we created everybody's familiar with NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization
And that created a barrier against Soviet expansion in Europe that extended to Turkey
But then there was something called Sinto the Central Treaty Organization and this included a one-time Iraq
Turkey Afghanistan Pakistan
Central Treaty and then we had Ceto the Southeast Asian Treaty Organization that completed the encirclement through Asia these
These these this this barrier of treaty relationships designed to contain
The the Soviet Union and defeat them in time of war Iran was central to the Central Treaty Organization
And so that's why you were told to care that Iran was the linchpin of
Containment of Soviet power
Soviet aggression in the Middle East and Iran just happened to have a whole bunch of oil that the British really needed
You know to fuel their their their their navy all right at the end of the Second World War
And then you know, that's why we went against most today the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran
We couldn't let him nationalize
Erena you know because God forbid the Iranian people actually benefit from their own natural resources
No, we should allow BP British petroleum to come in and steal these resources
The Iranian people see nothing the British see everything
That's how neocolonial
Relationships work the Iranian people didn't want that so we decided that we would force it on them
So we got rid of most of the day we put in the Shah the Shah was nothing
But an expression of neocolonialism he was 100% beholden to the United States
He kept Iran in the in the central treaty organization for as long as possible
But in the end his corruption and his lack of morals
Brought him down. We were told to care though because now Iran is collapsing. It's not just what Iran
You know did to those charred bodies, but we are losing
I mean there's always an intelligence picture behind the scene and the CIA when we lost Iran
We lost the ability to look across the border in the Kapustin Yar
Where the where the Russians were testing?
nuclear testing missiles or
look into Baikonur or look into
you know the
nuclear test range in
Kazakhstan
We were blinded and we needed to get those eyes back
So we needed to you know get a government that was friendly to us, but now we have the Islamic Republic
That's not friendly to us
And so we were told that they are the enemy
I mean, you know again we create the enemy
Um, and then we're told that they must forever be our enemy
And then the other problem is we we have them shouting death to America
And of course many American politicians take umbrage at this and the many Americans are fearful of this
I have been to Iran. Okay. Why why why is that death to America kill America?
Americans bad American American and the people are like man
I don't think they really care that much, but I mean it's death to America as
Billboards painted on buildings so and they don't have a lot of
Advertisements, I mean you're not getting you know selling gas jeans or whatever, but you do have
Propaganda, and it's always against America. What is it that fuels that?
Well what fuels the Iranian saying is that America supported the shot America helped create the savag the secret police and that America was
Basically an evil presence in the Iranian nation
The CIA documents for 40 50 years. I mean, you know kids that they're you know 30 something years old
And there's just a it's just a slogan. I mean, what's the evidence?
You know, where is it that they're physically I guess we take their money from or sanctioned or blame America?
something we we we we helped Iraq Iraq kill Iranians in an eight-year war death to America
We sanctioned Iran tried to starve them strangle them death to America. We've sought to assassinate their leaders repeatedly death to America
We've denied them the ability to function as a as a member of the international community death to America
I can go on and on and on no, no, no, that's what I needed
You know my thing is is that they have to have a current ongoing
Reason and we keep giving it to them. Why?
Because we
Well first of all if we could solve the problem we would we would attempt to solve the problem. There's a
There's there's no doubt about that. I don't know if
My computer is dead, so I'm using the
Yeah, you're fine my cell phone. Am I am I all lined up because my
All right, so we'll I'll just continue to but you know
The Iranians every reason to be opposed to what we're doing because we are we are literally seeking regime change in Iran
Iran on the other hand, they are looking to protect their interests
You know, we help Saddam Hussein in an eight-year war against Iran to kill over a million people
Again, the American people have no clue what that means to lose that many people and have your cities leveled by missiles and warfare
They have your economy sprinkled by sanctions
You know, and we've never really allowed the Iranians to emerge from that. We've we've vilified them again
I come back to my ignorance
How many people even know what Iran is I mean, I hear people say they're Muslim well the congratulations you win 50 gold stars summer
You're a genius. Um, what kind of Muslim are they?
Some of the more educated people might say Shia
That's good. Why what's the difference in Shia and Sunni now people start to stumble. They don't know they don't understand and then if I say
What faction of of Shia's um is predominant in Iran?
They don't know if I said 12 or would you know what 12 or means? No, you don't know what 12 or means some people do
But most don't if I asked people, what are the four key things you need to know about 12 or Shia?
Shia faith and they'll say what do you mean? I'll say well who is Ali?
They don't know who's Hassan. They don't know who's Hussein. They don't know. What is the battle of Karbala?
They certainly don't know and if you don't know that then you don't understand their faith
And therefore you don't understand the people their nation and why religion is important to them
If I said villa it if I key would people know what that meant and the answers majority don't it's the rule of the supreme jurist
It's what makes the supreme leader
Functioning in in Iran. Why do they need a supreme leader? It's a we don't know
What we do know is that we are ignorant and when things are put on the table that we don't understand we fear it
Ignorance is the root cause of fear and it's the fear that's being exploited by people who are seeking to you know
empower themselves by
Playing off of the fear we have of Iran. We have nothing to fear from Iran at all. I have been there
I have met with them
I have heard them say death to America and then turn around and greet me with a handshake and a smile
Because they don't want to have death to America. They just want America to leave them the hell alone
You know, that's it. Leave them alone. Why are they capable of leaving them alone?
Why can't we just let them live their lives? Why can't we have to go in? That's the question and the answer is that why can't we Israel?
All right, Israel is the root evil of everything in the Middle East and the world today
Literally and I know people say you're anti-semitic. I just want to remind the audience that says that I meant anti-semitic that
During the Gulf War I put my life on the line and many other Americans did trying to stop scud missiles from being shot into Israel
As a weapons inspector, I was the lead liaison with Israeli intelligence for four straight years
I traveled Israel more than I care to admit
met with them intimately at the highest levels and
Worked with them collaboratively to try and find Iraqi weapons
That phrase that means nothing to me, you know, I I'm not anti-semitic. I'm not even anti-Israel. I am anti
Zionism especially when Zionism has been used to infect a
Significant percentage of the American body
Politics to where Americans seem more concerned about Israel than they do about the United States Ted Cruz
Now is a man who said he joined the Senate to serve Israel
I thought he joined the Senate to serve the the people of Texas. He now is going like it
And now he's come out and said um that you know, and again, I'm not a big, you know, Christian
But you know, you know, you can't say that Christ is king. I know that that I attended church as a kid
I I know that Christ's king is a phrase. It's often used
you can't say today because it's he calls it anti-semitic because
It somehow means the Jews are bad
This is the ridiculousness we are now at war with Iran
Because of Israel we went to war with Iraq because of Israel all the sins
We committed in the Middle East are because of Israel and Israel isn't just a nation Israel is a
theology of hate
It is designed to empower not people who live in Israel
But to empower people who live in the United States who use Israel as a vehicle to achieve political control
Okay, I want to talk about this very point before we get into Iran
It is clear that Israel has a very large
Influence in America and we can go on about how and where and why and I don't care
The point is is that when you do this America first thing or
Define the four words to make America great again, you'll make how you gonna make, you know
What does that mean America America geography America ink America people American culture what the hell you talking about, you know
Great, what is that my missile penis is bigger than your missile penis? I mean, I mean know what that means, you know again
Well, yeah, I yeah, we go way back. He'll you know articles Confederation. I mean, you know, this is so I
All these phrases all these just calling you a name all it's really just a trigger word for canceling
It means oh, they're labeled anti-semitic. So therefore they don't get to go to you know this party or something
Your club, you know, I'm not in it and don't want to be so I'm good, you know, don't worry about it
This March to war after war after war after war regardless of what the justification or reason is
always winds up
Crap tons of money and
Debtedness for the future my children now my grandchildren my grandchildren are starting to get to where they're gonna start having
I have great grandchildren and they're never gonna pay off this debt that all these wars created and whatever real a crap that they're
Doing so I don't I feel less and less
Allegiance to our government because the government does not represent America interest
The heritage of it the promise that they made, you know the Declaration of Independent principles purpose of government defense of individual rights
You don't do that time to alter abolish. It's your right. It's your duty
We have to have foreign enemies all the time
So it's gotten to the point to where with the internet with you being able to come on and express yourself
The writing of books, you know web pages podcasts on
You're starting to see and feel a shift that wasn't there before
Well, it's not big enough. It needs to be bigger. It's got and we're still up against the what it's a hell of a lot bigger
And what it was okay that in opposition to this forever about that war what we're out of the next one, you know, they overlap
So what is your impression of the mood of the American people the Western cultures?
English speaking, you know the planet
About these wars and is America seen as the good guys anymore or the imperialist dogs or whatever
Give me your opinion on general public opinion here and around the world the environment this war is in
First of all, I'll say I do a lot of traveling and I will say that the
The American people whether they deserve it or not
Are still viewed as a people
with
A generally positive frame of mind by people people believe in the promise of America the potential of America
People view Americans maybe with nostalgia
They look at Hollywood films and they look at what they think America should look like etc
So there's a lot of tolerance
Towards American people
The American government is despised globally even the Israelis don't
They they mount they mock us because they they understand a harsh reality
They can buy us in a heartbeat when you have apac bragging about how they're gonna spend a hundred million dollars to buy the u.s. Congress
Um, and they're
And they don't shut it down. They don't call them foreign agents. Um, you know, we're we're fundamentally broken
um
Now we could bully people for a long time and you know one of the things about a bully is you know
There might be a period of time when the bully actually has you know physical
Domines he picks on the weakest person and it makes it look as though he's unbeatable
But generally speaking a bully governs through intimidation
And what happens when people call the bluff?
Uh, usually the bully gets the crappy down from that's the end of the bully
The world right now is starting to call the American bluff
Um, and this iran war is a big deal because we are not winning this war
We are not winning by any stretch of the imagination
We are being humiliated and we will be humiliated
Especially when we run out of ballistic missile defense capabilities
Iran continues to possess ballistic missile attack capabilities. Um, you know
This this war will not end well for the united states or for israel. Um, and that's the end of the bully because now I mean
You know we we pick on north korea
Um, and uh, they they build a nuclear weapon and put it on the missiles
So then we go in and put missile defense systems in south korea and tell them
In south korea is like we really don't want to do this. We don't want to provoke them anymore
I mean there's no you got to have it trust us. We're america. We're very strong
The chinese say we prefer you didn't put these missiles in south korea
We say stick it near your china so the chinese say okay
Well, we're just going to build more missiles and move them towards uh south korea as well
So now south korea is sitting there going wait a minute. I got the north koreans pissed at me
I got the chinese pissed at me, but america says that's okay. You've got our ballistic missile shield
We put five fad systems right there in your soil along with patriots. We're here for you
We're you're oh, wait a minute. What we're where that ran and we just blew through our entire missile stock and
We need them. Oh, yeah, um, and we don't even ask we just took them the south koreans are like
Yeah, they just came in and took them
So now south korea is sitting there holding an empty bag with china still pissed off north korea pissed off and we're gone
We took everything. Um, how do you think are we going to recover from this? The answer is no
We're not in the middle east all of the gulf arab states who spent billions of dollars buying american anti-missile technology
If shot through their their stockpiles and they say we need more missiles and america says sorry
We're going to resupply israel not you there's a meeting right now if gulf arab states and they're starting to recognize
The cancer in the middle east isn't called iran the cancer in the middle east is called america and israel
And there's talk about permanently evicting the united states from the middle east
And this is going to happen because we're losing this war
We will not win this war and when this war ends the people we betrayed will say you have to leave
Um, and so we're going to be kicked out of europe right now is waking up to the fact that america is the problem not russia
Um, and how do we deal? How do you deal with it out of control?
Irresponsible america
You know, we're in we're at the phase of of our existence as a nation
Where we had been called out by the rest of the schoolyard
Who are saying you're a bully?
And we're not taking anymore. We're going to stand up in the bully
We get in a fight with somebody and he beats us up their ratings are beating us up
They're not destroying our troops yet if we try to invade on the ground
They will um, but you know, we're not blowing things up that we claim to be pete hexeth is a liar
Straight up liar. We're blowing up empty buildings. We're killing a bunch of people
But we aren't having any impact those missiles keep flying. We don't know how to make them stop
We can't open the straighter whore moose. It's shut down because the iranians have planned this operation better than we have
The global economy is out of kilter
Iran is actually in the catbird seat here because they have the ability
To you know, get the world on their side. India has an energy crisis
Well, the indians call the iranians and they negotiate a deal where iran allows indian ships to go through the straighter whore moose
Russia and china good guys their ships to get to go the straighter whore moose america
You're bad. We blow it up europe. You're bad. We blow it up and so, you know, it's iran that's calling the shots
People need to understand it. When you see pete hexeth up there spewing his hatefield nonsense as he did this morning
He's not in charge. He wants you to believe he's in charge
Iran is in charge. They're the ones dictating outcomes right now
And there are also the ones that are dictating the outcome to this war
Trump right now is desperate to find an off ramp. He has been making phone call after phone call after phone call
to get somebody to help him get out of this mess
and
You know the iranians have made it clear to everybody that this war doesn't end until all of their objectives have been achieved
They didn't start their objective, but what they say
Kick america out of the middle east to make sure this war doesn't ever happen again
To get israel to be properly sized meaning that
You know this concept of an israeli superpower regional superpowers absurd to terminate the abram's accords
which was an american plan to
You know shoehorn israel is the dominant economic power in the region controlling all the gulf arab states
They're going to end the abram's accords america
Be evicted israel is going to be downsized
There should be a palestinian state and iran will continue to exist with an as a nation that has
a conventional military deterrence
ballistic missiles
But they want sanctions lifted they want to be normal
All iran asks is that they allowed to be normal in the world
Just like everybody else to sell their resources at fair market value and to bring the money that's
Accrued through the sale of these resources back to the iranian people so that you can live
You know a a a a nice healthy life with a good standard of living
Yeah, let me make an observation and i want to get your professional opinion of you know, what's going on over time as a
talk show host and you know a
Web news portal and you know covering, you know
balled in politics and general public opinion and so on
I remember that uh iran started their own oil borse, which is you know like a
Exchange, you know a commodity exchange or something in in iran
And they started
You don't have to use the petrodollar here, you know
Well, of course that gets you invaded, you know, they don't like that
It seems like that is one of the key things if you're taking anything other than us dollars for oil
Boom, you move to the top of the list kadhafi saddam, you know, whoever. I mean you're going to get there
Then we plan on india, you know being with the west and kind of well, they go screw you
They gave 200 million dollars in gold
For oil in iran years ago. I remember this
And I go oh, let's get you know now the
Countries around the world are starting and even the central banks here are stocking up on gold man
They see it coming somebody gave them a memo early over here. We go
So
You can't isolate them that then you got crypto. Well, then they got it, you know, we can't have crypto unless it's uh
Trump crypto, you know, if it's trump crypto, then it's okay and back by treasury bonds
They're just shoehorning crypto into the legacy banking system thinking that the bricks and a gold back unit or one or
Whatever they create their own payment system and swift in the west and suck it you guys are done. We don't care
that
The only way to stop that
Is to physically stop it to to put it's it's like trump is working for israel and the banks and
Oftentimes you might find out they're the same thing. I mean, you know, so I'm just I
Can't we just leave people low obviously not, you know, this government
How does our government fair, you know, we got what choices between, you know
Super surveillance and digital currency of you can and you can't and you have to and you're not allowed or
The other option, which is the same thing. It's just a you know
Rd after it. So I'm looking at
We find more in common with who we say our enemies a lot of times
We just want to be left alone
Then we do with our own government. This is what is coming. I can see it. It's obvious to me
I was a young 28 year old late
80s
You know starting to get active and doing and finding out that the government what they say it is
And now we have the internet and people are communicating directly with each other
You get the first three minutes or you got to wait three weeks for the truth
If you got the guy with the iphone and took a picture of the suicide bombing did kind of whatever, you know
Maybe that's not a bunch of bs or ai
But you know 30 seconds after that and it's all crap until three weeks later when they don't care
And you have actual people on the ground that tell you what really happened
Well, we're always getting what really happened
after we're engaged so
With that comment, I want to know
the fact that we are
surplus production of oil in this country
We start to have technologies that i'm in arizona. So solar kicks ass here. I'm i'm fine
But around the world and certainly the country we have these small reactors that are being done
Heck are going to be sending them to the moon and we got you know the
Solution to energy is like the movie with keno reeves and morgan freeman chain reaction
Well, we we got the power
But you're not allowed to do that because we got energy companies that need to be making some money and donate to the whatever
So i'm
The solutions and abundance for the future humanity is right there
It's right there
And there's somebody something in the way and it's going to be outed. It's going to be ignored. It's going to be
repudiated
Or there's going to be a mushroom cloud freaking war
In my opinion these really are our options
What do you think?
Well, what I would say is this on on the energy front
You know
We in the united states built a global economy
Where the petro dollar was the
Currency of reserve the reserve currency so much energy is traded around the world every day
um, if you had exchange rates if I if you had to you know buy in in in in
dutch marks and then
Deal with an intermediary translation of dutch marks to
Yuan and then to rupees
The exchange rate alone at this volume is just going to bleed off unbelievable amounts of of of capital. So
When you have the the petro dollar, it's uh, it's the same currency
It creates far more efficiency in the uh
When when you're dealing with the global
You know sale and movement of uh, of of energy on the scoping scale that you see with oil and gas
um
And so the petro dollar is a is a convenience. Um, but it's also a mechanism controlled by the united states. First of all
um
Because we never have to deal with exchange rates. Uh our economy benefits tremendously
I mean if we if we lost the petro dollar and we had to go into
You know exchanging or you know getting on the market the money market, uh, we you know
Tens of billions hundreds of billions of dollars a year would be lost in in efficiencies. Um
You know in and we become the indispensable currency because the entire world needs
The dollar to buy energy. That's why when you have people say we're going to set up
An alternative to the dollar it's deemed to be such a great threat
Um an existential threat if we lose the petro dollar
uh, we're in for
Total economic collapse here at home because everything we do is linked to that petro dollar
Um, we're not going to go back to a gold standard or anything of that nature. We're we're linked to energy and now
Um, we can't have a situation where we have a world
gravitate away from the mechanisms of um, of of energy provision that empower us
um, you know, we fear alternative energies because
alternative energies
Can be done locally using local currency. You don't need the petro dollar
And so what we then do is we we
Uh use the dollar as leverage. We begin to
Sanction people we deny you access to the swift banking system
We shut you down so that you can't have any fish in the economy. We sanction you
Until you comply with our dollar-based rules and regulations or create competition
Well, we can do that too, you know, it was there and marco rubio when he was a senator said one of the most amazingly honest things
I've ever heard from a senator
About brazil because brazil when they were joining bricks was talking about breaking free of the dollar and you know
doing international trade with a uh
You know with the with the chinese yuan or or you know finding some way you can have a currency basket
The dollar was involved and he said if they do this
Then we lose all of our ability to influence their
Their their their their policies because the way we influence is through sanctions
So we can only sanction if they're using the dollar if they become creative the dollar
We can't control them anymore and there's the secret ladies and gentlemen. It's about control
And this is absolutely show this real quick
India drops the dollar and pays for iranian oil in gold. This was february 12th. I remembered when this happened
So don't think it can't happen. It'll happen and then they're going to do what to india
You're gonna say well, we don't like you no more. They have screw you. We need oil
So this is you know, we are playing a game that we cannot win in my opinion
And I got to wonder what they
Convince us get back to you know the the current engagement now. We haven't even talked about ukraine. You know, I mean it's all same crap, but
What did they do to convince
Trump that we needed to go all in whip-ass
Angels from god the air force to bomb the crap out of iran and whatever and you know
I thought it was like a
Uh
Big faux pod you don't go after heads of state. So you have somebody to surrender or something
I mean he just went right after that right that sounds like an israel thing
So i'm just wondering what did they show what alien
You know from alphas and whatever left area 51 went through the boring tunnel warp speed
Train to washington to pop up and tell trump you better or something. I have nothing was surprised me anymore
What did they do to convince trump to do this?
Well, let's let's
I'm first of all
I don't know
So it's speculation and I think I need to make that point. Um, you know, because I wasn't sitting in the meetings
But I would say that um, you know, the the whole thing about iran's nuclear program was this subterfuse. That's fake. That's uh, that's an excuse
It's a manufactured crisis
This is more about
um
The united states is in a transitional period. Um, we are no longer the
You know soul remaining superpower. We're no longer the unmatched global power
There is competition out there
And so the united states needs to find a way to manage this competition. We don't compete fairly
I hope people understand that we don't play by the rules. We make the rules
We hold everybody else accountable to the rules and then we do whatever the heck we want to our convenience
But those days are over. The world is just simply not going to
Play the america is great game anymore. Um
And so now we have to
do something globally that
uh
Disrupts this transition to a multi lateral multipolar world
Because a truly multilateral multipolar world will
Um find an alternative to the dollar
You you mentioned gold, but um, you know, there's only there's a finite amount of gold
Um, you know, and if you start raising the price of energy, uh high
There ain't enough gold in the world. Um, and so I think that's sort of what we're looking at here
There is a lot about this war that doesn't make any sense. Um, we know that the national, uh
Director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard published, uh before the war
a
national intelligence assessment about
Uh potential conflict with Iran and that assessment which is the consensus assessment of the u.s. Intelligence community
Said there is no you will not achieve regime change. This won't happen
And the iranians will retain the ability to launch missiles for a very long time
And the straitworn moves will be shut down and we can't reopen it
So we knew all this and yet we went in and did this
And so you have to ask yourself. Why would you do this just because israel has so much control and power and influence on us?
Yes, and no, there's a bigger picture here. This is about the globe. This is about
You know the established political and economic elites losing their relevance as this world transitions away from them
I think and again, this is where it's probably best to get
Uh an economist who is very well versed on
the role that energy plays and um
In the global economy and uh in the flow of capital and things of that nature and sustainment of the petro dollar
I think keeping the petro dollar is absolutely essential for the security of the united states
Keeping dollar dominance in the world today. So you have to make the dollar relevant. Um,
You know when when will is that 68 bucks a barrel? However, you know, sometimes goes down to 40. Um
You you can talk about other currencies filling the gap
Uh, but remember if you're going to be a global reserve currency
You need to have a lot of global reserve currency. So what is your currency pegged to? Um,
You know because right now the united states just print money
But we can print money. It can be absorbed by the world because of energy and energy costs
And now what we're looking at is a situation where we may be
Headed towards permanent 100 plus dollar a barrel oil
Uh because things are happening in the energy security market that are not going
We're not going to be able to reset to back to where we were before this war started
There are things taking place. Uh transitions in market share. Um, you know, European desperation Asian desperation
Um that that are going to
Create a transition in the overall energy security
Market globally that may keep the price of oil
High in the higher the price of oil
The more need for a currency that can meet that demand and there's only one currency that can do that
And that's the petrol dollar. So part of me is starting to believe that we started this war
Um to create a new
global reality
That that will empower the petrol dollar to remain
The the world's currency of choice
Going forward if you take a look at, uh, Russia right now, um,
You know Russia of course was was a leader in bricks and russia talked about the potential a new currency
But russia's whole philosophy and what they've said to trump is we didn't dump the dollar you
Stole the dollar from us you closed the dollar market to us
So we had no choice but to find an alternative and i think donald trump recognizes the failure of that policy direction
Which is why we're getting russian energy back into the market
But when russia goes and sells its oil
To india, uh, they're gonna get paid in dollars
Um, that's just the reality of it and therefore russia will have to
You know go back and start doing global business with the dollar, which means russia's going to have to stay married to
a global uh currency reserve system based upon the dollar, um
And i think this is part of the objective here. There's uh, there's a bigger economic game at play here than most people see
Yes
To whose benefit
I i i'm wondering you know, this is it it's not to mine
You know, we go to a gold back currency
We go to some commodity or a basket of of silver
Coin the what whatever, you know gold backs
Have a free market and currency get rid of the federal reserve, you know, it's called, you know, um bitcoin not bombs
I remember that was a big thing early on not that i'm a big fan of bitcoin getting shoehorned in the legacy banking system
But you know, the whole concept was is that if you had
Money
That couldn't be inflated. You wouldn't have these wars
You know, they just you know in deading great-grandchild great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandchildren
And we're going to fund another war. So lock-eating bowing can make a bunch. I just I I have no love
for this system
And the more you know the more you understand it the more you see the ramifications of support and
war for these systems
To keep surveilling and ruin us. I'm like
What the hell so when you say make america great again?
What america are they talking about? It's not americans, you know that that definitely is not on the list
What is you know when they say I remember the beginning of uh iron man, you know
Well, he's defending america and her interest
I keep hearing that all the time america and her interest well her interest was my freedom
What what other interest is there? What are they talking about scott?
Well, it's not america's interest. It's the interest of the empowered political and economic elite that um that are
You know occupying the upper uh floors of the pyramid of power. Um
These are the people that benefit from these policies
And everything that's being done is to
Create opportunities for them to generate more wealth
Again, I'm not an economist and I I I I sometimes get uncomfortable
Delving into this because I don't have the found day for instance if we're talking about weapons of mass destruction
I'll go all day because I know I'm right
Um, but when I get into the economy, I mean, I you know, I'm familiar with I took you know
college level, you know macro microeconomics kinsian theory and things like that but
What what I view what's happening right now
is that
There is a
It's like a Ponzi scheme that's being run against the uh against the world right, you know the stock market
When you know, it's funny because you know when you when you start digging into the stock market, you know
I didn't invest in it, but remember the whole
Was it amc and gamestop?
um
When when the people decided that they were gonna uh, they were gonna stick it to the hedge funds that they weren't
Going to let this fall so they invested and you know and and and did a reversal on the stock
Well, then what we saw is that the system said you can't do that
You're not allowed to make money. You're the suckers
Yeah, you're the guys that that that that invest your money and lose your money while we the elites we make money because we cheat
We get into high speed uh trading um so that you know, we're doing you know, we make our money on volume
And so we're doing high speed trades where we get the benefit of stock prices being where there are
But we can we can make sure that you never get the benefit that whenever you sell
You're gonna sell at a loss because we'll manipulate the market. You know how that never makes the money
It manifests itself and people buying and holding precious metals. That's how it manifests itself. Never freaking mind
We're over here. We're buying land
We're building getting solar panels growing our own food educating our own kids
Will withdrawing from this bs system just like other countries are
bricks
Is happening right here and whatever name you want to give it just say it
No, i'm i'm i'm not i'm not debating. I think that's a good thing, but
um
The rest of america uh sent their kids to college and their kids went into debt uh hundreds of thousands of dollars
Now they're out trying to get a job. Um they the the job that they get will guarantee they'll never pay off that college debt
So they'll always be in debt. They're borrowing more trying to chase the american dream and uh learn to code and then ai took that away
Yeah, and then they you know, so what is their solution? You know, well
Investing you into 401k plan invest in it. Well, the 401k plan is just taking your money
Consolidating it and letting the the the market, you know consume it and you'll you're gonna lose everything
Is everybody always lose everything so get out of pay it's a Ponzi scheme our
Our market our market is a Ponzi scheme designed to suck resources from the bulk of the people
To the profit of the few and so what I what I what I see happening right now
Is a reset because you can only take a Ponzi scheme so far
You know eventually all Ponzi schemes collapse because that's not real and what I see right now is the the
You know the the same bankers that gave us uh derivatives that led to the collapse of 2008
I saw the movie the big short so i'm smart
I actually read the book too
And I did a little bit of research into it, but the point is that was a scam
That wasn't sound economics. That was pure straight up
Scam they're doing it again and they're doing it again
And what we're seeing is the continual resetting of the scam because you've got to reset it set the conditions now
And I think what's happening now
Trying to preserve the
The petrol dollar this war and I ran this is a reset
This is an effort to reset the system so that the same bankers who have been screwing us for centuries
Can continue to screw us for the next century until there's a need for another reset
That's what I think now
You know if I want to take the entire summer off and tune out of everything and just dig in and research
I think I could probably produce an interesting book that made this very point
But this is very superficial analysis, but I think I'm accurate. I think I'm on to something
Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Okay
Now we need to get into you know
I'm glad we got this background this understanding
Formatting of this because we need to get into you know, the actual
Will there be boots on the ground or the military actions that's going in Ukraine
And that evolves into Iran now that we have an understanding of the motivations of what the hell something is
You know what's going on, but I'm going to make you a super duper
Professional economist. Yeah, right now here. You ready? This is how it goes
Freedom's the answer. What's the freaking question? That's it
You know, it's the free to compete the free to use, you know, alternative currencies alternative vendors
It's none your damn business. I don't need to report, you know to well
It's kind of your money
You just can't have it now unless you tell you tell us what you're going to do with that $5,000
I mean freedom is the answer
Leave me alone
You go you're you're after someone else's
You know, they're pursued a happiness. Well, then you got issues but other than that
I don't freaking care
Leave it alone
That's it. You want to be a professional economist?
Leave me alone is that's it. What are you an anarchist? What are you a temp for? What are you?
I'm gonna leave me alone us man. I don't know what the hell you guys talking about
So boom you're a professional economist. The next thing is, you know, there's um,
You know, the idea that you can mold the economy. Well freedom does that, you know
I mean, it's just you you're accountable for your mistakes. You don't get subsidized for being stupid
You know on and on and on so it doesn't need a mechanic. It's organic
You you have freedom. It takes care of itself. You don't like it. Don't buy it
Go somewhere else use something else. You don't trade something else. So it's freedom solves these problems
Freedom freedom freedom freedom freedom freedom freedom freedom. Are we getting that hell no and now the next monetary system they want to do
We're gonna track you and we're gonna tell you what you have to get can't get and delay to get to get
So i'm just so freedom freedom freedom freedom
Then we had the the impact of um, you know a bunch of the young with the romp all evolution
That started in 07 08 and then we got to go again
And 12 and that was something they didn't see coming, you know, we were in the middle of that
In fact, i'm the one that created the romp all evolution logo
But what happened was you have all of these young people that got educated
They understand the reasons behind this and they're starting to live their life
Understanding that they got to be outside of this kind of control mechanism for them to flourish for themselves and their family
How do they do that? Well, they're working on it. It's a technology thing
It's a you know obfuscation. It's you don't see what i'm doing. You can't say oh the hell we don't we got
We in your smartphone all the time
I mean, you so there's this battle that's been going on since freaking there were kings and serfs
I mean, it's all about, you know, I own you you're mine. You're my subject
No, we're not. Yeah, you are. No, you're not. Yeah, we are so you know
It's just back and forth
And that is the real battle
So now I want to get to where how this is manifested
The same crap the same read the same were in charge the same corruption the same same same
Garbage, you know what's going on in europe and ukraine
We take, you know, a whole bunch of munitions and go into ukraine and do an outskirt and then
ew
Now i ran
I don't think israel give a crap about ukraine. Hey, you're doing all this ukraine stuff
You know, what about a little something for the whole team over here? You know, we need to get aran we need to burton
so
from your
professional
soldier
Been you know, iraq gone through all and actually looking for and then
Pontificate and write books on
Is there going to be boots on the ground in aran and if that starts
What's going to happen? I don't see
How aran loses
Losing means they have to give up and i'll see i'm given up
How close is america to using?
Nuclear weapons. I need to know what you predict
The timeline is that we're on a trajectory now with aran
I think you can take it necessary
Well, I think actually there's a there's the makings of a grand bargain taking place right now between the united states russia and china
um
You know as we speak
curio dimitriov who is the
former goldman sacks banker
Um, who then is now rushing the running the russian sovereign wealth fund
Appointed by vladimir putin not as a member of government but to be a special envoy to interface with steve whitcoff
Man who has no diplomatic skills not
Not a government employee, but a special envoy appointed by donald trump to resolve
Several issues to include the ukraine conflict and iran
These two guys are meeting in florida
Um, well, this is like comparing it's art of the deal versus the art of war
I mean, are they even the same thing?
Well, there's there's you know, that's semantics, but there's a deal being cut right now
Um, I don't believe there's going to be boots on the ground because that's suicidal
If we do do boots on the ground, it'll be a demonstration only just to save face for donald trump
No, we landed we landed marines on this island. We planted the american flag
We smoked some cigarettes. We ate some uh, you know ham slices and then we uh, then we left
But we're not going to we we can't we literally lack the resources to get involved in this and the lead time
To get significant troops positioned in the region. We're talking months. If not more than a year
Okay, before you get into that I want to dwell on what you just said
Can there be a token, you know
Counting coup nananan a poo poo. I put a flag on the beach of you know, and had a ham sandwich
I mean they even even do that
How will that go over?
Well, I don't think they're going to do that because the risk is too uh, is is too much I I uh
I in in in 1990 I was uh, pulled out of the amphibious warfare school
Which was the captain's level course because I used to be in the rapid deployment force and was the uh,
I ran Iraq war intelligence officer and uh, now that we're getting ready to go to war with Iraq in 1990
The common on the marine floor
Was looking for amphibious warfare options
He created this ad hoc cell under the war fighting center commanded by general matt caulfield
And they brought in a bunch of colonels and lieutenant colonels none of whom were iraq experts
Uh, and they were looking for an iraq expert
And uh, my name came up and so they pulled me out of school, which is unprecedented
And they put me on this on this
This planning cell as a captain
But I was the subject matter expert and so I got to do a lot more as a captain than I would have it
If I'd been a colonel, uh, but I came up with a couple options one of which was a marine raid
Using light armored vehicles. We were going to conduct a raid a classic marine operation against the
azubair
Logistics base to go in and create havoc blow up supplies tear up their logistics and get out
And I thought it was the greatest plan since slice bread. I mean this was going to be beautiful
Um, and it's a marine mission. It's what we what we claim. We're ready to do
Uh, but when we took it up and uh, and we got it, you know getting sanity check, um
There was a colonel colonel ciphered. He was a uh one of the pilots on desert one
He's one of the guys that flew the helicopters into desert one and you know, we couldn't get the six we needed
Well, we got five. We had to abort the mission and and all that
But this is a man who understands what it's like to be sitting in the middle of a country when a plan goes to hell
Um, and he sat there and he listened to it and he gave me great credit. He says this is a really good plan
Uh, you thought it out, but he said there's just too many things that can go wrong here
Um, you know the the risk isn't worth the gain. Um, you know, we we can't be putting
You know 500 marines lives at risk
To achieve a propaganda exercise the we're not going to get war-winning results out of this
This is a feel-good operation and therefore I have to say no to it and
He actually won the day. I mean because he was right
I believe that in the military today, we have sufficient people like him
Who will listen to whatever crazy plans that pete hag says and the region came
Idiots come up with and say no, we're not doing that
Um, we're not putting our marines lives at risk here
There's got to be a real war-winning reason to do this, but we're not going to play a propaganda exercise
I'm not going to be right. We saw that happen with the
Navy escorting thing. I remember there were some admirals going yeah, we're looking at we're probably not gonna you know
They didn't do it
The navy can't do it. They you'll get you'll get a ship sunk
Um, and the navy's not in the business of getting their ships sunk
Um, and there's no reason to do it. I mean the the the bottom line is again
I said the earlier the iran the iranians are in the driver's seat here
Um, the iranians are allowing sufficient safety valve meaning the the leakage of of energy out of the
Persian Gulf through the straight or moose to avoid a global collapse
I don't think the american audience understands just how responsible the iranians have been here
Let me make this point awfully clear
If they were in the business of killing americans
We would have suffered so many more casualties than we've suffered right now
These people have precision weapons that are extremely lethal. They're not in the business of killing americans
They're in the business of destroying critical american infrastructure that weakens us
But they're not in the business of killing americans
So this death to america thing forget about it if they were in the business of killing jews killing israelis
There'd be more than 20 dead. There'd be thousands dead because that's the easiest most vulnerable target in the world right now
Especially with no missile defense, but they're not in the business of taking israeli life
They're in the business of destroying israeli infrastructure to make israel uninhabitable so that the people who they're not killing
Wake up one morning and say we don't want to live here anymore and they go back home to europe and
Wherever they came from and that's how you defeat israel is to depopulate israel not by killing them
But getting them to leave voluntarily
And there's not that many anyway. There's like, you know the
Population of phoenix, you know, I mean this is not like i'm you know saving an entire
You know big giant chunk of the planet's population
The other thing, you know, not that that matters, but I just in perspective
We're not talking about a lot of people here
So this is one thing that what you just talked about they're not in the business of killing americans
If they really would that well this applies to the russia, you know, this ukrainian
They've been doing in russia every which way they can trying to provoke putin into
Justifying nato full-on of whatever they them those won't leave us alone
Want a war and if it goes mushroom cloud all the better. So i'm just
this provoking of russia is now
Seems like they're trying to do the same thing with the rand and the rand is not playing the way they want
So russia is not playing the way they want. Um, you know, I mean if you're kirstarmer the british prime minister
Uh, you're you're already politically dead
I mean you're a useless human being a failure of a politician
You have the lowest population rate a popularity rate and you're going to lose you're going to get routed in the next election
So now you're the russians and you have kirstarmer
Seeking relevance by you know, the british building the flamingo cruise missile for the iranians who've been fired against the vodkin's machine building plant
The best ballistic missile uh plant in all of russia, uh, you have the british providing advanced storm shadow
Air-delivered cruise missiles that strike an electronics facility in bryansk and it's humiliating for russia
The whole purpose is for russia to react or overreact
Um, so now you're valiant reputant
And you're saying okay, uh
Are we still making missiles? Yes, so that didn't interrupt our strategic capacity. No, sir
Are we still getting sufficient electronics output? Yes, that didn't interrupt our strategic capacity. No
Is kirstarmer in the in freefall political freefall? Yes
If we responded by striking a british factory, what would happen to kirstarmer?
The population would rally around him. He'd become the new winston churchill
Do we want a new winston churchill? No, so let's not attack england. We're winning
He's losing the same thing with europe and everything else. The russians aren't taking the bait
They are winning across the board and the patience of putin by not getting involved in these kind of existential struggles with europe and nato
Is by being patient you leave windows of opportunity open
In the united states took advantage of one of those open windows of opportunity
Because they desperately needed to get russian oil on the market
And so now the united states has agreed that russia can sell oil
And and russia's like thank you very much. You just solved our financial problems. We really appreciate it
But that happened because russia kept doors open
They didn't slam any doors shut and this is what the iranians are doing too. The iranians are not slamming any doors shut
They're keeping doors open
so that
Again, you're donald trump
um
You've started this war and uh, you've got your cheerleaders out there convincing american public that we're just doing gang gang busters
We're blowing everything up. Everything's wonderful. Uh, but now you realize that you're gonna lose this war if this continues
You need an off ramp
Uh, is it in the iranians business to ensure that there is no off ramp?
So that now you have to be increasingly desperate and do even more damage to iran or
That there will be an off ramp that can that that trump can take iran's job
Is to make sure that trump eventually gets on an off ramp
And that this war comes to an end on conditions that are favorable to iran and that's what they're doing if they killed 500 americans
You and i would be having a different conversation
Because america would be rallying around this president because americans don't like their boys being killed
Okay now that brings up, you know false flag options and other kinds of crap
This is one thing that it seems like they found the predictability of dealing with trump is
Playing to his vanity or humiliating him or or besting him or he he can't claim a win
And then he says he wins everything no matter what happens. It's the best thing that ever happened
I went but
For them to go they want to continue this if they want to amp it up if israel
Want to thermo nuclear whatever?
Happen and all they got to do is you know, I don't know have
Some
Leader in iran
Say how small his penis is or something. I mean, I it's just amazing how he is so susceptible
To attacks on his ego
And it seems like
Yeah, well, it seems like everybody knows it the intelligence community the parties, you know, lindsey graham
I mean, you know all these guys they're playing him and he's so just a big bass fiddle and
Stroke it man, you know and made me feel good or you diss me
I'm gonna have to nuke you and I'm like
Wow
This is a kind of you know representation we want
You know, I mean we need somebody to go in and whip ass and
Take out the deep state, but then he installs them anyway. So I just I
I'm I was never a fan of delegating authority to anybody rule me out care, you know next president good bad
It's not my thing
But to have this
You mean I'd rather him be stupid
I'd rather it be biting everybody know how stupid I don't want somebody blustering confidence with his finger on the button
All you got to do is piss him off personally and say he's got small hands or something
You know or bad hair and all of a sudden he wants to bomb you
So how likely is it or how susceptible are we to
Escalation just by
Any interested party creating a false flag doing what you're saying. It's the marine barracks
They take out one of the aircraft carriers. Hell, they take out one of the PT boats
I mean if they do what is it that they would I hate even saying it
Because they go
Yeah, that Scott Ritter said yeah if we got 500, you know Marines and then we get to have us a ground war and I'm going
Don't say that
So what do you think their thinking is required for us to get behind this because I'm already against the next war
Whatever, I don't give a shit, you know do whatever just bring them home
Get out of here. Let the Middle East have them up. I don't care
Don't care. We'll go to the world soccer tournament in Bahrain and you know, or saudi arabia
You know beach skin diving whatever and other than that. I don't care. Don't care. Don't care
False flags. What do you think?
I mean first of all, we know that false false flags are real
So we can't sit there and dismiss it as a conspiracy theory
Um, we know that the joint chiefs of staff. We're looking at a false flag to get us involved in Cuba
Uh, remember the main if you want to go back
That was a false flag
You know and and so, you know, I you can't answer it by saying, ah, false flags conspiracy theory
Don't worry about that. Uh, no, you you do need to be worried about false flags
But I think you hit the nail on the head. We have this, uh, narcissistic egomaniac
Who no longer governs as president but as a cult of personality
And if you you've got to stroke the personality, um, that's how you get by in washington dc
Uh, the good news is that the iranians the russians and the chinese know this and understand this
Uh, vladimir putin is a master of trump stroking and I don't mean that in the way some people might take it. Um, but
He he you know when when trump, uh, you know, when butler pennsylvania took place
Putin called him up and said what a brave man you are the courage you took you're a warrior all the things trump wanted to hear
Um, not because putin believes it, but he knows, you know, he's been told
This is what you say to win trump over every time they have a meeting putin is very powerful
Uh, in terms of his praise of donald trump and his leadership and his vision and his this and that and it keeps trump in the game
Um
Is he he does the same thing
Bang things strokes him around keeps him in the game
And the reason why you want him in the game is so that they're not susceptible to the false flags
The false flags are designed to create divisions. Uh, and so what the russians the chinese and the iranians are seeking to do
is um
Is minimize the divisions that could be created by something like this
And for iran they need to understand the longer this war goes on the greater the possibility of a false flag
Being done to keep america in this war. Um, they got him on some script somewhere right now. I guarantee it
I i i'm not debating that i i agree, but the iranians need to make sure he's on their script
Uh, and they're doing it. I mean every i mean again
This is a sad thing to say is an american because I'd like to believe our leadership would be better than this
But we are being played like a fine tooth
Fine finely tuned fiddle. Um, the iranians are playing us. They're playing the energy market. They're controlling outcomes
There's there was a air force colonel
John boyd. He uh, he talked about getting inside the decision-making cycle of your enemy
He came up with uh an acronym the udaloop the observed orient decide act if you could execute those for
phases quicker, um
You would always win a dogfight or win a battle because you're inside the enemy's decision-making cycle
They're reacting to you. You're not reacting to them right now
The united states is in 100 reactive mode to iran iran is calling every single shot
Um, we aren't making iran respond to anything we're doing iran is making us respond to everything
And this is uh, this is why I believe actually we'll get out of this war
Without you know triggering a nuclear
Holocaust because it's iran that's calling the shots. It's iran that has gotten into this president's brain
um, and you know, they
They're in control and and now russia who is you know
the
We can't use the word ally because there's no formal alliance
But they are you know the colleagues of uh of iran in this fight russia's now engaged and ibea russia has been read into the iranian plan
They agree on the outcomes and russia's in the business of stroking trump next month
uh zhijing ping won the business of stroking trump and i think that there's going to be a grand bargain um,
Which might be humiliating for us, but if it avoids a nuclear war i'm in favor
We go back to what we said at the beginning
We live in an age of nuclear anarchy right now. This is an extraordinarily dangerous situation
Where one mistake one miscalculation one misjudgment could lead to actions that ultimately manifest themselves in the global exchange of strategic nuclear weapons
And we all die
So the sooner we can get this iran war over
Um the better because then we reduce the possibility of a false flag continuing dragging us in
Divert in our resources and eventually may be using a nuclear weapon
Iran
Is represented by what these people making these decisions and observations and negotiations
Who are we really talking to is it you know the clerics the supreme we know better
you know, uh
bearded people
Is it uh economist entrepreneurs? I mean, what are we really dealing with in iran?
What's the most influential component you think?
Well, the interesting thing is that iran is a better functioning constitutional democracy than the united states
Um, maybe i just irritated everybody, but we have ceased functioning as a constitution. I hear that a lot. Why is that said?
Because they have a constitution and they adhere to their constitution
Iran is the greatest functioning democracy in the middle east today
And people will say wait a minute. What do you mean? I find yeah, they have elections
Well, aren't the elections just dictated outcomes? Absolutely not
You know in america we take we oftentimes joke about how we we get jerked around from republican to democrat to republican to democrat
You know because you know the way the
computers work
Um in iran
They get jerked around between conservative moderate conservative moderate because
The the people
Vote and they vote in the people that they want. Um, the president is democratically elected
Um, the president has gone from being a conservative like, uh, ahma dinezade
To being katame to you know and on and on and on
The parliament is democratically elected and the parliament and the presidency are imbued with specific
powers of legislation and lawmaking from the constitution
They run the government. They run the nation. Um, there are local elections mayors and local
You know city councils democracy in action
Um, and then we say well, what about the supreme leader? How can that be democratic? Well
The supreme leader is appointed by a body known as the assembly of experts
This is a body of 88 of the wisest religious minds are supposed to be the wisest religious minds in iran
Who are elected by the people of iran?
You know, so it's not that the church is you know, nobody elected the conclave in the catholic church
That's just a bunch of uh appointed people coming together to keep the system running
The iranian people elected the assembly of experts and the assembly of experts job is not only to
Find a supreme leader but to hold him accountable for what he does in accordance to the constitution
There are constitutional limits to what the supreme leader can do the constitution matters
The guardian council is a constitutionally mandated body that works out constitutional differences between the secular parliament and the um
The the the religious or theocratic um elements of the iranian government
Their job is to find constitutional balance. You also have the expediency council that does the same thing
democratically elected bodies, but the biggest test comes when a democracy is challenged when they go through
Uh, a crisis of existential proportions. For instance, if the supreme leader is assassinated
Did iran fall apart many people thought that they would because they may have operated on the mistake
An assumption that iran is governed by this one man the supreme leader who's a dictator
Well, that's not the case. He's not iran is not governed by one man the supreme leader iran is governed by
um a president parliament
um
And the islamic aspects of iran are monitored by the supreme leader to make sure that the president the parliament as they pass laws and
Work on the secular governance of iran don't deviate from um islam
That's the purpose of the supreme leader to keep iran, uh, you know
Coherent from a uh theocratic standpoint. Um, but now we kill this guy
And how did iran respond? Did they fall apart? We thought they would
No, iran turned to their constitution
The constitution says that when the supreme leader is removed from power or dies or whatever that
There will be a three person committee emergency committee created
Consisting of the president of the head of the judiciary and a senior
Cleric appointed by the guardian council and this three person committee will rule instead of a supreme leader
Until which time the assembly of experts elects a supreme leader. This is exactly what happened
The constitution worked exactly the way it's supposed to
Um, and it always has an iran
They've always had their constitution
Went out in the end because they care about their constitution their constitution is what defines them as an islamic republic
Unlike the united states where our constitution is supposed to define us as a constitutional republic
But we are governed by a cult of personality a man who declares himself to be a dictator who says he's not beholden
To the constitution or any law just his personal moral beliefs a man
Who is told the supreme court to pound sand and a man who operates free of checks and balances from the united states congress
Because congress is sold out we have a dictatorship today
Our constitution is dysfunctional or non-functional
iran has
a functioning constitution
And i come back that they are the greatest constitutional democracy in the middle east today
Well, they demonstrated a continuation of the um
The one thing that i i want the audience to
Be aware of and to understand
is
How close we are to this spending out of control
Is that your opinion? I mean are we on the edge of their
Adults in the room would keep this from happening or there aren't any i mean, you know
What do you what do you think how close on the edge are we we need to
Start building bunkers. I mean, where are we at?
I mean, this is serious ladies and gentlemen. Um, we're playing with global energy security
Um, this war has the potential of destroying the global economy and making it um, you know
So it cannot recover
The lifestyle that you are enjoying today is in danger of being terminated
Permanently and i'm not talking about nuclear war. I'm just talking about
Uh, you know what energy will do to prices and what energy will do to everything. Um
And and when you have that kind of global crisis, then you're going to get dislocation of populations populations moving
Because people are going to be starving to death dying of thirst. Um, you're going to have global war global famine
creeps around
and because we live in a
In a in a world that's no longer governed by a framework of um of treaties
Seeking to control the nuclear genie
We live in an age of nuclear anarchy
So you combine nuclear anarchy with a world that's in free fall economic and social free fall
You have great potential for nuclear weapons being used. Um
And again, you define nuclear anarchy at the beginning of the show
Sum that up in a sentence for us. Would you please you know nuclear anarchy is what?
A world where there are no rules regulations or limitations about the acquisition of nuclear weapons
Well, once they detonate a
cloud
Then it kind of that
Is no longer verboten or something once that starts once that you know that seals broken
Um
How likely is to have a second a third and a 15th one?
Well, they've never
done a war game
Um, where you were able to contain a nuclear conflict
Um, once one is used
Um, it's going to trigger a second one being used in the third one
And then it's going to rapidly spin out of control. Uh, if you remember that old, um,
Uh, Matthew Broderick movie, uh war game. I think it was yeah, and they had the you know
It was back before we had really good CGI, but um, you know, you had the pong version of uh, of the of the of war
But basically every time a nuclear war started it always ended with a general
nuclear exchange and the computer realized that the problem was humans because humans will well
Every war game that's been run by the pentagon
About limited nuclear war
It always ends in a global, uh exchange
Um, a world ending event it cannot be contained
And so that's what the importance of arms control is it's important that we keep the genie in the bottle right now
The bottle is out there being kicked around the cork is off
And the genie's down there waking up
And I want to get your comment on this you've described a something that I think is needs to be addressed
To keep the cork in the bottle
You keep mentioning leadership government structures
Geographic America Inc. I mean, you know whatever doing this stuff
And then it only takes, you know, one of them to break the seal and here we go that genie's out
but um
It just seems to me that
These positions of control and power it's always about control. You got, you know, palantir knows everything about everything and we control but the um
Is it those
positions
That are the target of infiltration
Is it where you look for the bad guys the sociopaths the psychopaths the
Lack empathy love compassion. They're in it for themselves
They don't give a crap how many starving dying
You know babies there are with the get whatever it is that they want
So where do they go to control they populate positions of government to the point that they got their finger on the button
So i'm
I I see the more and more we embrace
Somebody we're going to delegate our personal authority to somebody to
Not push the button
That very creation
Seems to be the threat. I don't feel threatened by ukraine. I don't feel threatened by iran
I don't feel threatened by russia or china. I don't I feel more threatened from my own government
and it's not
You know like I
With computer election fraud whatever that's what started me down my activist road is that I can see that
It wasn't really the will of the people that created this. I don't believe that I believe humans are
In on the whole much better
than what we get
But we created a system that these bad guys are attracted to
That sociopaths want the brass ring. They want the button. They want the control
They want to maintain enhance and expand their control
They need more control and they'll spend us into oblivion
You know to to get it maintain it do it and enrich themselves and we suck
So I don't see this correcting itself until
We as human beings understand we need to retain our authority when you talk about iran being a
Better functioning democracy
There might be something to look at to see why
Gaddafi, you know
Decentralized down to the little village and they built, you know a lot of infrastructure for the i'm a river to my people from the oil
You know revenue that goes we have and we bomb that you know, so I I'm
I need your opinion
On who populates these positions of control and power that influence a trump to go start a war with iran
There's a philosophy. There's a an evil. There's a an intent of something that is not
Human or not for the benefits of humans, you know for being pro living pro life
Pro production pro the future has so much potential for abundance with the technology that we have and it's not
Why who and what philosophy is doing it scott?
Philosophy of power and control that's always existed and we can go back to the founding of this nation
We will look at the founding fathers a lot of what the constitution was supposed to achieve
Was to consolidate power in the hands of a few
That's what a constitutional republic does
They were supposed to be checks and balances put in place, but you know, alexander hamilton wasn't talking about
you know his uh
you know the power federal control the
of
Of the economy because he believed in the benevolent treatment of the american people
He believed in the enrichment of the elites and we've always had that
case, but we we we balanced that with the
What I hoped wasn't the fiction of individual civil liberties that this was a nation
Um, you know founded on life liberty to pursue the happiness and as you said to leave me alone ism
I mean I should be allowed to live my life as long as i'm not
You know interfering with your ability to live your life. We should live our lives together
Um, but and that you're a professional economist already
And and that worked when we had a safety valve meaning that you know, we had manifest destiny and you know
I'm sorry about the american Indians and I truly am. I just did a trip
In january where I drove from california
to to new york and uh
traveling the american
southwest is uh
You just go through one
Um place of betrayal to the next to the next to the next. I mean
What we did to the navajo what we did to the comanche what we did to the cherokee, uh, you know, so
You know, but manifest destiny was a safety valve because uh, it allowed for growth
The ponzi scheme, you know could uh could could could could grow and and and survive a little bit longer
But eventually we reached the limits of uh of growth and then we have to um
You know, we have to start changing the game change how we control. We now need absolute control freedom becomes
Uh an inconvenience. Um
And and and that's where we are today. I mean we freedom is an absolute inconvenience to the people who are uh
Who are in power? This is why you see what you see. I again i'm not an expert in this, um
But I you know my wife and I
You know, we have these iPhones and they're just convenient as hell and they and all this but um
You know, I have neuropathy and um, it sometimes it gets pretty painful. So I'll be in the car
Uh with my phone and talking to my wife talking to my wife not googling anything nothing just talking to my wife
I she'll say, how are you doing? I said, man? It's a bad day. Neuropathy. I use that magic word neuropathy
Later on when I open up my email
My email will be full of
Communications from people wanting to help me with my neuropathy
I haven't communicated to anybody, but apparently I've communicated to everybody. Uh, it's a control mechanism
It's how they're going to shape everything. So, you know, that's where we are. Who's who's doing this the the elites, um,
You know at there was a time though when
You know when we still had
The potential of growth at the end of the second world war we went into a growth mode
Where, you know, we now we're going from being an isolationist nation to a nation with global reach and so
You know, the the elites encouraged
positive interaction
With the world academia. Let's just take russia. We trained actual russian experts people who learned about russian
the culture language history traditions etc
So we could
Yeah, you interface with them
Realistically, we had people like paul neti who was there at Hiroshima, you know right afterwards
He's the one who you know helped craft the containment strategy led to the cold war. He was a cold warrior
But at the end he was the guy that said we need to get rid of intermediate nuclear
Weapons because they're inherently destabilizing. He's one of the, you know founders of the modern arms control. We trained entire
Generations of people over the course of decades to try and limit the the expansion of nuclear weapons and to reduce them
And that was all premised though on this this containing factor called the soviet union
We were in a you know a cold war, but when the soviet union collapsed
The the the intellectual foundation of arms control was no longer there
We no longer had to be responsible about nuclear weapons because we no longer had a soviet style threat when george
w. Bush
Withdrew from the anti ballistic missile treaty in 2002
This is a foundational treaty that set the stage forearms controlled by acknowledging that nuclear wars cannot be won
Therefore should never be fought. Therefore. There's no reason to create a missile defense system
Because all that it does is encourage the development of offensive weapons to defeat it
We need to bring it into this cycle of
You know escalation
So we had that treaty we withdrew from it because we suddenly wanted to have ballistic missile defenses and
The russian said hey, if you do this, we're gonna have to make some adjustments
We're gonna have to put more warheads on our missiles, etc
The response from the united states is the response from the united states says do whatever you want
We don't care. We no longer worry about you. You're you're you just go play your your game
And when you know the industrial complex needs to make some money
We need a program
We need to well what happens is people like me becoming convenient
um
The the true arms control specialists the people that knew arms control
We're suddenly unemployed
And arms control like anything any part of diplomacy is you know intellectual muscle memory
If you stop using a muscle you atrophy
And our arms control muscles atrophied and we replace them with people who no longer believed in arms control
Viewed arms control as an impediment and inconvenience
People like christopher ford is the man. I was there at the birth of the intermediate nuclear forces treaty
I was the guy that made it work
He's the guy that killed it and that's the kind of people we have running arms control today people who don't believe
In furthering arms control, but in dismantling arms control and killing arms control
And that's where we're at today and we no longer have people who are intellectually
Capable and philosophically capable of resurrecting arms control. We're in a very very dangerous situation
Okay, let's let's bring it up
Because we mentioned it and I do want you to you know give some details on
A ran and how this yeah, I unfortunately I got I got to go in about two minutes
Okay in your last two minutes, you know
Mentioned cuba is that just going to happen?
We're going to you know go stupid on that and then a ran is just we have no idea what's going to happen
We got wait for negotiations, but uh, give me a cuba comment
A cuba, you know, we've been trying to solve the cuba problem for decades
And we haven't been to the pharma resilient than uh, then we think um
You know we're we have marco rubio who's a big anti cuba guy position himself to be
Somebody of relevance and that we think we have a plan
Normally, I would say it's 100 certain that we won't solve the cuban problem
But then I took a look at venezuela and how the cia was was able to go in there and exploit social differences and buy people off
um
I still believe the cuba is uh is resilient and that we can't go in there and buy them off
What we could have we would have bought them off a long time ago. Um
I see cuba
Being a continued political problem for the united states so long as we believe that we have a right to replace their leadership
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scott thanks for spending the extra time with me
We learned a lot today and I really really appreciate it. Thanks a lot. Thanks. Thanks for having me