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03-23-2026 · 7h 55m
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What's going on, everybody?
I hope everyone's having a fantastic evening, afternoon, no matter where you are in the
world.
I'm a son of a biker in this house and I'm rocking this go with you live from Sonny
Gallivore to Los Angeles folks who are live and alive and I hope all the boys'
girls and enemies are having a fantastic one because it is a beautiful day today.
Today's wonderful day today is Monday, Monday, Monday.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is Monday, March 23rd, 2026.
We're live, we're alive.
And I'm coming to you back from the land of the free,
the home of the brave, the United States of America,
Los Angeles, California.
I'm a son piker coming to you from stolen land,
stolen tongue, the land, live and alive.
Back home, it's good to be back home.
already know and there's gonna be obviously a lot of Kooba updates for all of you and so much more
you've deprived kaya long enough man show her um yeah w we get international trade welcome back yeah
anyway ladies and gentlemen
we're here and uh there is a lot to talk about um personal news wise obviously um
Um, thanks for breaking shit, Libs, sock, med, pal, what, I don't know what that means,
but there's a lot, uh, there's a lot of, uh, things I want to discuss, obviously that was
a short trip.
This was planned or was it cut short?
No, it was planned.
It's going to be a short trip.
Um, and, uh, I think the timing of that was actually pretty crazy considering that
like I'd got back in literally the day before ice was sent to every, uh, international and,
and, uh, local airport, basically, uh, in the United States of America. So like, uh, you know,
there is that element of it as well. But regardless, regardless, that was, yeah, it's pretty crazy. Um,
I'll get into that in a second. You have a lot of Israeli agents on your Twitter. I know,
I know, I know, I dodged many bullets, many, many bullets, but folks were alive. We're alive.
Personal news wise, obviously, like the, the personal news that I'm going to be delivering to
you in between the time period where I press the start, start, and button and press the start,
start, start, and button. So, oh my God, that's what I'm going to do is, is mostly related to
the, the trip. So I'm probably going to start there. And, and the Twitter is broken
because of the trip discourses and saying, yeah, Twitter is always insane. Obviously,
we'll get into all of that. I'll go through like some of the misinformation in general,
because there's a lot of it out there. It's actually unbelievable how bad it is.
How's the jet lag? It's non-existent. Why would there be jet lag? I mean,
it's just like East Coast time. It's not that bad. But,
But yeah, we're gonna be doing some situation monitoring.
Shit, Liv's been going crazy since Thursday.
They're all over my timeline.
I know, I have a tendency, I hate this,
but like I do have a tendency to,
I have a tendency to basically bring out the worst
in people like ultras hate it.
Um, it's, it's a very weird, very strange, like, uh, alters get mad, um, liberals get
mad, uh, right-wingers get mad.
It's like a lightning rod for some of the most, like, deeply unwell people.
It's very, very frustrating.
It's very strange.
But in any case, people don't do anything ever on all sides are mad, yeah, I know.
Back from Havana, going through the insane misinformation from CIA slash Mossad.
Monitoring situation.
Iran ultimatum off ramp, fixes market tensions for now.
Ice agents at airports as travel comes to a halt.
Get in now.
Look, I am.
I'll just start off by I'll just start.
Did you have any ropal via in Havana?
Yeah, I did.
Um.
here, let's blast off real quick. So one of the things that I'm going to say is that one of the things I'll say is this,
before we get into situation monitoring and the like. I think a lot of people just simply don't do things. Right. So when they see
someone doing things it triggers something in their minds where they go well I'm not doing anything
and that makes me feel somewhat like it may be a little immoral that I'm not doing anything
so I have to find a way to disparage people who are trying to do their best right and I think
that's a lot of like the anger and resentment even from like a totally non-ideological standpoint
comes from precisely that because like there are a lot of liberals who who obviously uh want to
fancy themselves want to see themselves as like kindhearted humanitarian people so when they see like
someone actually engaging in that act someone that they don't like um they don't go you know what
I'll hand it to them these guys are doing this thing it's fine I don't really normally like this
person, but it's fine. They go, let me find, let me find a reason as to why this is cynical,
right? This has got to be cynical. I think that's part of it. I think that's part of it.
There's this like insecurity that's triggered in people that make them behave in this like very
strange way. I don't understand it at all. I can't, like I've never been that way at all.
When I see someone who I oppose, when I see someone who's like, maybe not the best person,
do something that like is surprisingly on in line with my worldview, I don't immediately go,
fuck this guy, I'm going to find a way to like disparage it or whatever. I'll,
I'll openly say that I like it, right? Like I'll straight up say like, oh no, this is,
this is a good thing. Or like, I'll even recognize my own personal jealousy when someone gets to do
something that I wanted to do, even if I don't agree with their worldview, even if I think
they're cynical, even if I think they're grifters. Like one of the examples I give you,
one of the examples I give you is like Jackson Hankel, right? Not the biggest fan of him,
but I think it was fucking beast mode that he got to speak in Zana in front of, you
you know, tens of thousands of Yemeni people, right? Like that's objectively a cool thing
that he did, right? Like that's something that I wish I could do. I'm not going to sit
here and be like, fuck him. Like he's do, you know, fuck this guy's cynical. So that
is a strange, fascinating phenomena that I've seen. But it's odd. It's odd. And it's really
funny because like a lot of people that I went on the trip with also, a lot of people
that I went on the trip with also for the first time recognized because they've like
heard me speak about it in the past like you know how my haters are like mentally unwell
but they they straight up are like yeah actually this is like un-fuckin' bearable you know what I
mean this is like genuinely unbearable this is like your your fucking haters are insane at like
trying to disparage every little thing that happens um but in any case
they're mad that you're not corrupted with greed due to wealth like they are which is why
They don't have motivations to go out and participate, but they don't have the wealth
So they don't have the wealth anyway, but my point is look look I I didn't even know what the fuck was going on
It's actually this fascinating
It's actually this fascinating thing where like I don't have access to fucking Twitter all the time when I'm when I'm out there
So I had no idea what this was what what things were looking like in the United States of America
And how the shit was being covered in America until I got internet and I was like oh my god. It's unbelievable. They
People are just straight up lying about like you know people are so angry the Cubans are so angry on the ground the real Cubans hate
These people is like that's not true at all. It's unbelievable
You mean the actual world
Yeah, it was it was mind-boggling I have not ever seen anything like it they'd be like
Protesters are mounting outside of these hotels. They're they're banging on the doors like that's not true
Like literally not true, like not even remotely close to reality. It's so strange. It's such a
It was such a strange phenomena to experience, right? It was such a strange thing experience for like what I
perceived on the ground
What I perceived and what I saw in real life was entirely the opposite of what
people were seeing on their timelines in the United States of America and
elsewhere. Fascinating. You didn't have much internet for the last two days and I couldn't
check the insane narrative spin on this website. What a nightmare. How do people live like this?
They just sit around and justify the US government torment against smaller countries to feel
powerful, the weakest minded insects. And I will go through some of the top line like
insanity. March literally posted this and he was like, you know, the first couple
fucking responses were really positive and then immediately was like a sea of negative
psychopathic takes. You're the common ground, maga liberals and ice real shills in saying quote page.
Yeah. No, it's pretty crazy. Like if you look at the background, if you look at the background of
these people, it's basically every part of the American political spectrum except for like, I guess,
I don't know. It feels like it was just like every part of the American political spectrum
with the exception of like, you know, socialists and, and, and, and communists. Like it's shocking.
And, you know, many normal liberals, I think, are just not tuned into this discourse at all.
Because like normal human beings that you would have a conversation around this sort of thing
with are going to be like, what are you talking about? Like, what do you mean this guy? These
people went. Like, bro, so when, as far as you being analyzed for drinking from an espresso
cup total insanity, a little copacito? Yeah. The guy who made the glasses sure sweet is
literally a Trump fan and liberals ate that up. Yeah, you're kind of becoming a litmus
test now, rightfully you exist. Yeah, I don't think I should be this person, but it's very
strange that that people
it's very strange that that people behave like this it's a very strange
phenomena that I think only it's a part of like the American existence I think
like it's just it's reactionary there's a there's a right-wing attitude around
the world on stuff like this, but like it's definitely... Hold on, I have to... There's
so much going on in the background. I just like... Anyway, did you think and see you as socialist Jesus?
Yeah. I just... I truly believe that people have the capacity. I truly believe that people have
the capacity to see through this. I think like, like people are kindhearted individuals.
It is very funny that like, there is this assessment of like, you know, how much everything I was
wearing. It's like, they don't realize that one, people send me fucking free shit all the time to
people gift me shit all the time as well. Right? Like, not that it even matters. Even if I like
go out and purchase some man, who gives a fuck what I'm wearing. You're an idiot. Like,
what you think you think the price of this button up shirt is the reason why the Cubans
are fucking suffering? Like what argument is this, right? Yeah, he's like, look at this too. I mean,
this is March's, March is incredibly expensive hat, right? I mean, it's like,
this person is memeing, I think, but
I don't think this hat is actually that expensive, but regardless, right?
You're an idiot. We're trying to justify it to them. I'm not, I'm not trying to justify it.
I didn't even bring that stuff up at all
But there is obviously like areas where there is a tremendous amount of misinformation and I you have to clarify it
Right, and it's so crazy
What's the situation with zio-nazi daily when he tried to instagate sorry tweet we'll talk about that as well
My live parents like you from what they read from the New York Times and they're not dialed into this mess one bit
Are you planning on talking to Dan love it's hard about your trip? Yes
I do want to do that
I do want to set up an interview with him or or maybe have a like private conversation with them and then maybe have a public one later
Yeah, like the kneecap concert causing the blackout. I saw this one a lot. Yeah. Yeah, it's it's fucking crazy
It's fucking crazy like one of the things that I found fascinating is this
It ties back into the argument right it ties back into like part of what I want to
explain
part of what I wanted to explain to people is like
like the complex nature, the complex bureaucratic nature of these sanctions that America has
placed upon Cuban society, like Cuban commerce, and how restrictive it is, right?
And it's very interesting that like American restrictions that make it illegal for American
citizens to do normal shit in Cuba, they sound so silly. They sound so insane that you would think
like when you hear it at first, kind of like Israel in that regard where you're like,
that sounds ridiculous. There's no way that that's a real restriction. Shut up.
Right? Like the thing that people were complaining about, like the five-star hotel
shit, right? I found it really strange that they clipped me talking about it, and it's objectively
the truth, right? That is objectively the truth. I just said literally what the American government's
restrictions are, right? And people were just like, sure, buddy, and they ran with it,
because they, it's so odd. It's so fucking odd. It's like, but it's just that like you're never
going to go to Cuba. So for you, it doesn't matter. I, the State Department and the American,
the Treasury Department specifically, makes it illegal for American citizens to stay at
whatever accommodations they want to stay in, with the exception of like four hotels, okay?
They updated the talking point that the hotel you stayed at was on a ban list. Yeah, I know.
Now, a YouTuber used that clip to say you were lying.
But when they looked up the actual law, they said you were telling the truth, but you were
obfuscating some facts law.
No, I wasn't.
What a lot of people, I think, don't understand is that this progressive international code
pink, like this entire flotilla convoy of aid by air and by water, was put together
uh... obviously with uh... with allowances from the cuban government and
also
with allowances from the american government because you can't do a massive
six hundred person
uh... humanitarian aid mission
without
getting the the uh... go ahead from the cuban government and without getting
the go ahead from the american government like i sign i have the
paperwork right here i have the old fact restrictions paperwork that i had
the sign
uh... right
in my hands. Okay. I signed a piece of document. I signed a documentation, a piece of documentation
in order to, as an American citizen, I had to get a travel affidavit, a general specific
licenses travel affidavit, okay? Wait, the U.S. approved that admission? Yeah, of course.
Of course the United States approved that admission. The United States Treasury Department
has to approve anyone that's going to Cuba. A lot of people don't realize this, okay?
Especially if you're doing any sort of aid, any sort of humanitarian aid. There are
levels to the cruelty that America is willing to subject the Cubans to.
But the reality is that the number one telltale sign for international human rights organizations
is the restriction of humanitarian aid.
So the American government, at least for now, has not restricted humanitarian aid.
But humanitarian aid alone is not going to be able to make up for the lack of imports
lack of exports anyway, and we can't fucking send, you know, barrels of oil regardless. So like,
we can't actually address the number one problem that Cubans are facing. But yeah, every single
part of this trip was directly sanctioned by the US Treasury. And a lot of people don't understand
that, right? And except for this guy, who ironically enough, in an effort to shit on me,
accidentally showed the truth. Hey, by the way, Son just broke US law. Oh, and he could
face $250,000 fine and up to 10 years in prison. Once he gets back to the States, Hey, FBI,
get on it. 30,000 likes the US department of state contains a maintains a Cuba prohibited
accommodations list, which bands America traveled from staying at or paying for over
400 government owned hotels, guest houses and resorts.
Now isn't that fucking fascinating tip to tip reaction, brother? I'm lasering you
into the fucking night sky like a shooting star. If you think I'm going to be talking
about the tip-to-tip, uh, you know, here, I'll unban you, I'll give you a week off,
please dude, I mean, Jesus fucking Christ, there's so much shit going on and I have
to literally cover it, uh, and, and, and you're out here, uh, you're out here being like,
have you watched tip-to-tip? Are you fucking delusional? Live on the same planet as us,
please, oh my god.
So, I said, yeah, the US law is fucking stupid, I didn't break it, but this post is the only
one that ironically acknowledges the comical US restrictions on what US citizens are allowed
to do.
In Cuba, the five-star hotel is only one of the few hotels the US government allows
Americans to legally stay in.
And it's crazy because like, what the fuck should the American government regulate
what American citizens want to do in another country?
But that exists.
Okay?
Isn't that fucking nuts?
That's insane.
It's the truth.
And what blows my mind about this, I was first going to suggest you stayed at Casa Particular,
but if you are there with a group, it would only make sense.
Yeah, there's 600 people.
The island is experiencing a total blackout.
It's virtually impossible for 600 people to be coordinated in 600 different houses,
or however many different houses, there's not that many Casa Particulars anyway.
particular is basically like an Airbnb system for regular Cubans to be able to
open up their homes to American cities that are coming in. Some of them are
allowed. It's in the, it's in the list of housing that you can stay at. Okay. And
it's awesome. It's dope. I, if I, you know, when I go back to Cuba, I will
absolutely do that because I'm not, you know, I'm not going to be going with
like a massive humanitarian aid vision. I didn't choose where we're staying,
right but um but if you're there with a whole group it only makes sense the
hotels same place I went through this whole thought process within seconds
it's weird that people wrote articles about it also that hotel wasn't that
fancy I went there yeah it's not a very fancy hotel but it doesn't matter it's
fucking Cuba it's a very poor country it's been kept poor by the United States of
America and what's ironic about this restrictive process is that these are
privately owned hotels so when people are talking about like the
electricity grid and what the hotels are doing they have generators okay
Not only do they have generators, but they're literally taking up some of the fucking necessary resources through private commerce
And it's ironic that that unjust system is precisely what the Americans want to fucking bring about to the fucking island
So the people that are literally criticizing the the claiming that the blockade doesn't exist
Don't know what the restrictions look like number one number two
They're literally fucking complaining that like these hotels are you know, they have their own generators
And they are able to keep the lights on yeah, because they're fucking privately owned that is the fucking problem
That's what America wants
America's literally saying they will only allow oil into the fucking island for companies like that
Okay for private privately owned hotels like that. It's unbelievable. It's unbelievable. That's like what we're trying to fucking address
Yes. Now they're spreading a lie that you guys were literally throwing food and cubans.
Have you seen this? Yes, I saw that too. It's so, so cynical. Beyond the hypocrisy of
Piper's vacation, this just isn't true. As I know from wrestling experience, if you'd
like help book a concert particular next time you visit, you can do so through Airbnb.
Yeah, it's unbelievable, I didn't fucking choose this.
And yet they're literally just leaning into the lack of knowledge overall, okay?
They're leaning into the lack of knowledge that people have, okay?
And in the process, they're basically admitting that I'm right, right?
They're basically admitting that I'm right.
It doesn't matter because it's just like it's just pure anger. Why does crypto trip cost so much outrage? I'm stupid
It's even worse than China. I think it's because it's
partially because of
The fact that like there is a State Department need here because the goal here is obviously to
Bring awareness to the blockade and the American government spends 60 fucking years saying it's not the blockade the blockade doesn't exist
Well, simultaneously enforcing it
to use that weird invisibility of the blockade,
the system of bureaucracy that's implemented
to say it's actually the Cuban government's fault.
It's actually communism's fault.
That's kind of the point.
And I will be addressing this
in the mini doc that we put together.
Austin Ox is working on it right now.
I basically landed in Cuba and spent every moment
that I had.
I didn't participate in a lot of the stuff
that any of the stuff really
that the Progressive International was doing,
Which is why it's also like additionally funny while they're on the one hand,
they're lying about like the events that took place.
On the other hand, they keep saying I was, you know, a principal participant of these
events as a place. I wasn't, I was actually hanging out.
I didn't do anything with progressive international,
even though I love those guys and they did fantastic work out there. Um,
because I, I locked in with belly of the beast,
the independent news outlet in Cuba, uh, one that, uh, I,
I really, really leaned into, I mean,
they're fucking incredible.
They do incredible work.
I shout out the belly of the beast.
I will forever ride for them.
Okay, they give me a little mug too.
But basically, I spent every moment
just conducting interviews, like talking to regular Cubans,
talking to people, talking to people
that are doing incredible work and investigating
like how this complex system of restrictions
has actually harmed Cuban production every step of the way.
That was my goal because I had talked to a lot of people
ahead of time of this trip.
Some people who legitimately said things
like I saw you don't understand,
it's actually the Cuban government is incredibly,
incredibly repressive. They're very bad. They're not responsive to the needs of the people. They're
hoarding antibiotics. Like, I heard so much from people who were otherwise kind people at times,
and they were just deluded. And it made me think there has to be a reason for why people are
saying this stuff. Like, there has to be some truth to this, right? And it wasn't just Cubans
is ever saying it isn't a lot of you know Americans that are even remotely well read on the situation
have read the the State Department talking points for the most part so I I wanted to figure that
out I wanted to investigate that and that's precisely what I did um it's it's decades of
propaganda and it's it's so silly like you can kind of imagine how silly it is especially if
If you go to Cuba, you very quickly understand that like almost everything, almost everything
that you learn about Cuba is just ridiculous.
Either a great exaggeration or just an outright lie.
Hassan, go to Gaza.
Hassan, go to Cuba.
Okay.
Hassan, why did you actually go and show the truth?
You need to be locked up.
Also, here's a list of imperial rules designed to kill these people you're helping.
Yeah, I know.
It's very strange.
They say, I sit around and farm donations at home
when I cover this stuff.
And then when I go there, they say,
how dare you go there?
You're performative.
It kind of feels like they just don't want me to go there
or do anything.
It just kind of feels like they just don't want me to say
or do anything at all, right?
Like it's just, it's more so the fact that I'm doing
something that is very frustrating for them.
So,
In any case, it's just an unbelievable amount of lies that have been told about this trip,
and obviously because everyone that's on this trip are in Cuba and they don't have access
to the internet, they had myself included, had no way of knowing what the fuck people
were saying, and what kind of insane unhinge propaganda was like being slung around.
Is that ADL audio real?
I don't know what the ADL audio is.
Were you able to experience Medea Benjamin?
I was.
Reports that you died in Cuba?
Yeah, I'm dead.
I'm actually, this is prerecorded.
This is prerecorded.
You rubbles and feathers?
I think that's a good thing with all the dusty old bags
got around. Yeah. Um, so anyway, I guess this is like one of the tick talks that was like
in defense of what was going on.
People coming here to Cuba to deliver humanitarian aid are very interesting to me. One of the
headlines of some of the commentary that I've seen is in terms of all of the people
that came here and they stayed at a four star hotel while the rest of Cuba was in
darkness. I want to remind you all that while it's not illegal for American citizens
to come here to Cuba. It is absolutely illegal for us to stay in any of these hotels that you see
on this screenshot. We cannot stay at all of these listed brand hotels. We cannot stay at a
mom and pop hotel. We cannot stay at anywhere that is Cuban owned in Cuba because that was
instated by your United States government. And those who do stay with Cuban families because
the first time I came to Cuba in November, I stayed with a family. They actually have to
to take our passport numbers and register us because of our United States government.
Again, it is not illegal for American citizens to travel to Cuba.
However, just like the sanctions in the blockade, the United States government makes damn sure
that we don't support the Cuban people.
The second thing I saw was, oh, all these influencers spent all of this money when
they just could have given it to the Cuban people.
How do you know that because of the blockade and the sanctions that United States citizens
cannot send money?
Yes, it's crazy. People don't realize, like all of that aid, we had to literally physically
send it there. Okay? Like someone had to physically put that aid in the hands of Cubans. Okay?
That's another crazy part of this where people are like, oh, you don't understand. Like, why
don't they just send it? It's like, you're a fucking idiot. You think we didn't think
about this? Not only was there like a, like a cultural component to this humanitarian
an aid trip, because like there's so much orientalization
that's going on here, like you're treating
the regular Cubans like they're fucking animals.
It's disgusting, like the way you're talking about it,
like you think they don't experience joy.
You think they don't care about art.
You think they don't care about being treated
like fucking human beings.
It's disgusting.
There's so much like speaking over regular Cubans
that are living in Cuba in this conversation
that is mind boggling, it's alarming, it's gross,
And I cannot believe how much both liberals,
both liberals and fucking right-wingers
have engaged in this.
Like it's crazy to me.
One of the aspects of the,
one of the craziest pieces of misinformation
was that NECAP guys like,
sucked up all the energy and killed Cubans in a hospital.
The reason why the Cuban hospital ran out of energy
is not because the fucking electricity grid
is falling apart.
I mean, that's part of it, for sure, of course,
but there's not enough gas on the island
for their generators to work.
That is our fault, America.
We did that, okay?
What do you think is gonna happen
when we have starved this island
of necessary resources by stopping other countries
from being able to freely treat with Cuba?
It's illegal for America to implement this blockade.
It's legal to trade with Cuba.
It's legal to import Cuban goods.
It's legal to export Cuban goods.
It's unfucking believable.
It's unbelievable.
NICAP participated in one of the many daily festivals that happened during the day.
Okay?
festival that they participated in had Cuban musicians that were also participating in it.
It was free for all Cubans to attend and it was overwhelmingly Cubans that were there.
It blows my fucking mind that these people can be so cynical and so gross
that they think that like regular everyday Cubans don't want to experience fucking joy.
It blows my mind. You just don't even want to think like you literally can see it. You can see it in real time. You can see
Cubans dancing singing having a good time
And you're like oh, they must be brainwashed someone was claiming that they were being bribed with uh with with treats
Right
I saw your reply to this guy too. Yeah, this is the liberal version of this right
Cuban doctors told me they have to sell a patient's mid-surgery when the generators run
out of gas, but MAGA on here are too busy lying about the people that went out to Cuba with
A to turn everything into a destructive spectacle. Pure MAGA propaganda. You are cattle if you
fall for it. The audacity beyond your laptop, tweeting for a five-star hotel powered by
generators while the local hospital goes dark. You are truly genuinely a psychopath. Wow.
This guy is one of the biggest, most troubled, most schizophrenic, vulgar demons I have ever
encountered in my fucking life and he has the audacity to claim that he is a humanitarian
and a liberal.
Shame on this fucking piece of shit.
Shame on you.
Unfucking believable.
Unfucking believable.
I didn't even fucking, I wasn't even in Cuba when I tweeted this for the record.
But it doesn't matter.
all misinformation.
I couldn't tweet this from Cuba because there was no not only
was there not electricity.
But there was also no internet like there was not enough
internet. The infrastructure is crumbling because of what we
have done.
God, it's fucking nasty. What a nasty piece of shit this guy is. Shame on you. If you have
the capacity to feel shame, that is. You don't. Okay.
Oh, un-fucking-believable, un-fucking-believable. I mean, I dunked on him, too, and he lost
his mind. There was a couple of, like, altars that were also saying some dumb shit, too,
And I had some strong words for them too, but yeah, I just, I cannot believe it.
I cannot believe it.
It's just, it really, it really, I saw the best in humanity with regular, everyday ordinary
Cubans trying to make the best, trying to make the most of their, their horrible circumstances.
Okay. And then I come back and I see people on the sidelines
trying to do their very best to continue justifying the, the, the asphyxiation that we
we have implemented on this island.
The people died because you morons threw a giant party
and sucked up all the electricity.
These are fucking Cubans, man.
These are everyday Cubans having a great time
on a free concert that was thrown together.
And it wasn't just NiKab, it was like, you know,
Cuban artists that were also participating in it.
I say you're a fucking insanely indecent person and you should really think hard about why
you're repeating obvious moronic lies that MAGA is spamming on the timeline vicious scumbag.
I think I cannot believe that the average person is this indecent.
I think this is cynicism born out of just like being on this website.
I genuinely I cannot believe that people could be like this was reading on drop site
that when the power goes out the doctors and pediatric hospitals have to hand pump the
ventilators for babies drops I got this reporting from belly in the belly of the beast. Yes.
Yes. That's precisely the case. I talked to a doctor. I talked to a doctor like I said
in the in the tweet that this fucking dipshit was responding to. I talked to a doctor
that told me that in our interview when the power goes out when the power goes out
When the generators fail and they're mid-surgery, they just basically sew the patient back up and they go, world try again later.
Unfucking believable, dude.
Unfucking believable.
Did you hang at the monocone at night? People are dancing, making music all night long. It's beautiful. Yeah.
I didn't I I went to just a couple different like bars
The first time I went to a bar with the kneecap boys. It was awesome. I had a great time there
We just I was you know, we just dumped a lot of cash to the best of our ability
on on everyday Cubans
but it was
You know, it was it was much better in my opinion to just like go to like regular bars and regular restaurants that were you know operating
In spite of the circumstances because it was
You know there was just like real regular treatments there
It was crazy when you mentioned neuro sim and then you had people argue deep in the comments how it's fake or not a real cure
Or whatever there are a million cures made me so goddamn man
Americans would rather die than admit a foreign enemy has any benefit exactly
Exactly.
Like, they do not want, they do not want to comprehend, like real shit.
They just, if it goes against their priors, if it goes against their priors, they just go, no, that's not real.
I don't believe it. I don't want to believe it. It's unbelievable. It's a lie.
It's crazy. Never seen anything like it. Never seen anything like it. Mark said out of Cuba
now on the way home and finally have access to the internet. I'm having a hard time putting
into words with thoughts I have on my experience. There the past couple of days, the level of
cruelty, the oil blockade, the US imposed on a day to day laws, everyday Cubis cannot
be overstated. Everyday conveniences and essential services that we take for granted
are completely non-existent. Entire systems that were already dilapidated by decades
of sanctions and restrictions from participating globally start to break down exponentially
when you remove fuel from the equation. The innovation required to accomplish the most
basic tasks is astounding. People existing at night in complete darkness in the black
house just trying to best the lead normalize in spite of the lack of power. Yet every Cuban
person I met was extremely kind, patient and welcoming. The resilience of the people
of the island have is extremely admirable and heartbreaking to witness. Cuba is a
beautiful place with amazing people and insane potential. What the US has done
to that island is shameful and nothing short of inhumane. Okay.
It's an experience that I think every American should have.
It will change you, okay?
It will change you.
When Ben Rhodes told me before I went to Cuba that I was going to be very sad, he was somewhat
right.
I landed and I could not believe how beautiful this all of them was.
I could not believe how beautiful the people were.
That was my first reaction.
I was like, wow, I'm not a big nature guy.
This is one of the coolest places I've ever been to in my life.
And then there's an emotional roller coaster.
It turned into deep sadness, you know, you arrive in Havana.
And you start seeing the trash.
It can't be collected because there's not enough oil and gas.
There's not enough oil to to to operate the trash trucks.
Right. And you're like, I fucked up, I fucked up what we've done.
You see the houses that are dilapidated.
people living in them. It looks like, you know, they were bombed out. The outside looks so pretty,
but the paint is chipping. Part of that is obviously the salt water that destroys the paint,
right? It requires a tremendous amount of upkeep, upkeep that this unfortunately poor island does
does not have. You get a little surprised too, the expectation is all the cars are going
to be from the 50s. That's not the case. There's new vehicles in Cuba and there's also still
vehicles driving around. It means very limited. It's very limited in comparison to what the
normal traffic would look like on the island from what I understand from people that
have been there prior. There's a tremendous amount. There's a queue system that the
government has implemented, there is obviously a lot of, not hoarding necessarily, but like
stockpiling of the strategic reserve so they can just like, hopefully continue surviving
to the best of their ability, right? And then, and then after that sadness goes away,
You get angry because you start thinking about why these are the conditions that regular Cubans
are subjected to and you realize like we fucking did this and we're still doing this and so
many fucking Americans are oblivious or the ones who at least know what's going on in Cuba
defend it and and repeat lies, it's unbelievable dude and then you know that anger never really
goes away. Okay, it never really fucking goes away. But you know, I guess that anger transfers
to the way that some deeply disturbed pieces of shit and the way that they operate and
your anger basically turns into not just anger against the American government, but against
the anger that you experience from people who justify this stuff.
Don't talk about their poverty.
It makes Americans think they deserve it.
about how much white people want to access the country they have and how little they
get in spite of how much white people take.
Anyway, so so unbelievably frustrating so
So how do you feel about the concession that Cuba is willing to give back to the famous
of plantation owners and bourgeoisie assets, brother?
This is no longer a time for ideological rigidity.
Not only that, but also the official Cuban government's position, even from the Castro
days onward, was always to offer financial restitution for the assets that were taken.
It's just that America shut off their exports to the United States of America to render
that impossible to do. If you knew about Cuban history, you would recognize that what
Cosio told Ryan Grimm in front of me, ironically enough, I was there. I also interviewed Cosio.
I will be releasing that after we show the mini doc, which will have pieces of all the
different interviews that I conducted, some of the more high-impact moments that explain
Hopefully to people that did not know about like what is the reason for why Cuba is experiencing
the shortages, it will prove to you without a shred of a doubt that this is America's
doing, this is America's design.
It's unbelievable.
It is un-fucking-believable.
you go there and you talk to the people who are directly involved in the distribution of
pharmaceutical products, the people that are responsible for the creation of medicine,
the people that are responsible for the logistics of delivering the medication, until you see
that with your own two eyes, you're like, there's maybe some of this has to be mismanagement
by the government, right?
Like, and then you talk to these people
and you're like, oh my fucking God,
oh my fucking God, it's unbelievable.
Amazing how the media can tell you
all about human rights abuses in Iran,
but when the US is causing people on ventilators
to die in Cuba, there's radio silence,
burning human rights only matter
when we need an excuse to start a war.
Yes, that is precisely the case.
Yeah, the Cuban offer to repay has been on the table for decades.
Cuba made this offer in 64 after the U.S. rejected compensation in the form of interest
paying bonds similar to how Mexico in 30s compensated taking on a property, taken property.
U.S. rejected it assuming quick overthrow of Castro.
Cuba is opening negotiations with a bid that's been on the table for decades.
not new, okay? That's not new at all. It's actually something that the Cuban government doesn't even
need to do, but has openly entertained, okay? Over and over again for fucking decades, unbelievable.
Straight up, decades. It is not dissimilar to what you knew prior to October 7 about
everyday Palestinian existence, if you knew anything at all, versus what you know now,
Okay? Because it's the same forces of Western Empire, Western imperialism that
have created this hermetically sealed information vacuum to make you think, to
make you believe a falsehood. It's that simple. It's just there's no other way
to describe it other than American state-sponsored propaganda and it's
pervasive and I got to see it in real time. You know how sometimes I'll
talk about how misinformation on the internet spreads about things that you
and I experienced together when I'm live streaming.
Oftentimes it's about silly shit like oh Zoram Omdani hates Hasan Piker.
He disinvited him from the event that I attended, you know, right?
Like the event that I was literally at.
And you'll be like, why the fuck do people believe this is so crazy?
Because it leans into like a, like a comfortable narrative, right?
That's obviously unimpactful.
That's not like a significant story, but like this is being mass-produced in a similar way for a much more consequential
version of events.
It's the same with Iran and the sanctions regime against Iran. It's the same with Cuba.
It's unfucking believable.
It's unbelievable
Why don't you and Charlie McBride get along Charlie McBride
Wait is that who I think it is
Who the fuck is Charlie McBride I have no idea who you're talking about um
Um,
Constantly blaming it on the US shifts the problem away from the fact that Cuba has systemic issues with an authoritarian government and their plan economy blame
Needs to go both ways. Yeah, no, you're a fucking delusional moron. If you think that that's the case
Okay, sorry, it's just the truth. There is literally once you see it. It's impossible for you to unsee it. Okay
It's absolutely
Absolutely ridiculous a son hate is beginning to
It's it's apps of fucking and Lutely ridiculous. You are making shit up. Okay?
There is no both sides in this equation, okay 60 years of fucking
Actively trying to undermine dude, you don't know you don't know what you're talking about when you hear when you see
Some of these interviews you will fucking understand exactly what I'm talking about. Okay?
I'll give you a teaser
One example, and there are millions of examples like this, I'll start with one example.
I talked to a surgeon, okay?
He is a highly esteemed facial reconstruction surgeon.
There's a lot of people who need jaw reconstruction because they have lung cancer or throat cancer,
and this surgeon goes in and does this incredibly complex procedure where they rebuild a jaw for the patients.
There are more old-school methods in the reconstruction process and then there are newer methods that are available.
There's a 3D printer. So this guy that I interviewed, okay? I'll tell you his name.
This guy that I interviewed, his name is, hold on, hold on, hold on.
Guillermo Sanchez, okay? Guillermo Sanchez. He's a, he's a, a jaw surgeon.
We took a photo with some of his students and other doctors as well.
You might have seen it.
So the world renowned expert in facial reconstruction surgery.
Okay.
And
I was talking to him about how the stuff works.
He said that obviously they can't purchase any medical equipment that
has 10% or above American components, right? So that right off the jump is crazy because
the way commerce works, the way international trade works, like there's a lot of shit that
has 10% or above American components in it, right? So what these guys have to do is
find alternatives. Oftentimes in Germany or France, right, they make medical equipment.
So he finds a German company that's willing to sell this 3D printer. It's multiple millions
of dollars, right? And they get charitable contributions, charitable donations, they
get the funds together and they buy this thing. And they start using this 3D printer
to do the facial reconstruction surgeries to build these new jaws for these patients in Cuba, right?
Long story short, the machine breaks. Now it's a German machine. Germany is not America. It doesn't
have American components in it. But it's a very complex machine. And in order to fix it,
In order to repair the machine, you need either a German engineer to come to Cuba and fix it personally, or at least like be able to teach a Cuban engineer to be able to fix it.
This is there's proprietary tech in this, obviously. So they're not going to do that. They have to send a German engineer.
So he calls up the German company and he says, Hey, we bought this piece of equipment. Unfortunately, it's broken. We need a technician.
And the German business says, sorry, we can't do it because we're afraid of American punishments.
We cannot send a technician, nor can we send the necessary components to fix this multiple
million dollar piece of equipment.
So now it's just sitting in a fucking room.
Now it's just sitting in a fucking room.
And the impact of that is that either many of the Cuban patients that need this reconstructive
surgery don't get it and they have to go back to like older methods or if there's any
sort of 3D printing that takes place, they have to go to Mexico.
They have to go to their Mexican counterparts and lean into their Mexican counterparts
or their Canadian counterparts in the field of medicine that are willing to take time
out of their day to to recreate these draws so they can send it to Cuba adding an unnecessary
part of the process. Isn't that fucking unbelievable? That's just one story. I'm going to tell you.
I talked to I talked to doctors. I talked to surgeons. I talked to nurses. I talked to
neuroscientists, there is a story like this with every single person. Okay?
Unbelievably cruel, unbelievably cruel, unjustifiable in every way, shape and form.
There's got to be someone we can find on Twitter that can fix it.
You sound like Perenti talking about Cuba.
Well, because Perenti also went to Cuba.
And when you go to Cuba, especially at a time that he went to Cuba, things were different.
But when you go to Cuba and you see how responsive this government is to the needs of its people
and what kind of vision they had and how they implemented said vision in spite of all of
these restrictions, you can never unsee it.
It's just a shocking revelation all of a sudden.
It breaks apart every single thing
that you might have heard from afar
about who is the responsible party.
Will your interview with Jeremy Corbyn be in the dock?
Yes.
We will also release the interviews
individually after as well.
We're just gonna put some hits,
some major hits from the interviews that I conducted.
First, the mini docs can come out,
then my COSIO interview is gonna come out.
It was like an hour and 30 minutes,
almost two hours that I talked to the foreign vice minister.
I brought up a lot of the talking points
and I just like rapid fired them
to get them to address some of these things.
But it's, you know,
Um, you know, we'll, we'll of course react to them as well.
You know, when the ETA for it is, yes, Austin ox is working on it.
Okay.
It's very, very, very, uh, it's, it's like eight hours of footage.
Basically, I spent every waking moment, um, pretty much every waking moment
filming, um, when I wasn't traveling, uh, around, which was very difficult to
do regardless, right?
But yeah. An old tweet to your point. Yeah, this is Arturo Dominguez responding to Camila
Cabello. Want to talk about all the more than 1000 stages over 65 years, the failed invasion
of the island. What about the CI back terrorist attacks? Let's face it, that Cuba has been
able to withstand the worst of the U.S. can throw at it for that long. It's pretty damned
impressive. Pretty sure that's a sign of success, especially if there weren't any sanctions.
And don't talk to me about repression of federal agents or executing people on the streets
for nothing more than being observers. All the people, Marco Rubio's locking people
up for speaking up for Palestine. And when it comes to free speech, let's talk about
how Rubio just sanctioned several content creators and independent journals on the island
for doing nothing more than showing U.S. embassy vehicles cutting in line for fuel
during gas shortages. Y'all's duplicity is astounding.
Yeah, people, people think, like, it's, it's, it's unbelievable.
There's like, like people will be like, oh my God, there's like tremendous repression.
Belly of the Beast is an independent news outlet that operates outside, outside, I mean,
not outside of, sorry, operates inside of Cuba, okay?
They're, they're comprised of like Cuban journalists, international reporters and
the like.
Okay?
Totally independent.
arrested by the government. Okay. And I was talking to them, right? I was talking to one
of the guys, like they got arrested. They were, they, they got, they got grabbed and arrested
in the process. Cause there was like the SOS Cuba protests. They were like the first time
ever on the island. There was like actually a big movement, right? This was like, uh,
you know, COVID, uh, post-2019, a lot of the oil embargo restrictions that actually
started creating like rolling blackouts. The island actually was suffering a lot more
visibly right post 2019 this is a 2021 when the when the SOS Cuba American backed SOS Cuba protests
were happening on the island and they were covering it and the government actually arrested them I was
like so how do you feel about that right like as you you obviously have told me a lot like you
talked about how like moral and how responsive this government is but like your guys got fucking
arrested for covering this he's like brother he's my brother think about your treatment
in the hands of the American government, like the way they brutalize you personally, like you've
been fucking, you know, tear-gassed and stongrenated. Like it's not acceptable, of course, but it's like
the level of repression in comparison to like the everyday attitude of the American government,
the American police, towards freedom of expression is not even comparable, right? So yeah,
Yeah. There is a level of repression internally. Of course, of course, there is there in fucking
there under warlike conditions every day. Yeah, the dude literally said free you. They they're
experiencing war. They're experiencing war. America is not experiencing war and it does
this to its own citizens. Now imagine how how ridiculous how repressive America will
be if they were also experiencing fucking war.
Also, that stuff is utterly irrelevant when we're talking about the sanctions.
It's not relevant at all, right?
Two things would be true at the same time.
Yeah, a lot of Cuba's want to reform it.
The embargo isn't making things better.
anything, the embargo is given to people, given the government more popularity. The government
deserves the popularity. I will fucking stand down that by the way. Yeah. And there are absolutely
here. I'll talk about the other side of this. Okay. I'll talk about the other side of this.
Now that I've talked about the resilience of the island, the things that they've been able
to accomplish, I'll talk about the other side as well. In 2019, while the oil restrictions
were starting, which would then create a system of rolling blackouts and visible poverty for
the first time ever. According to people that have been to Cuba before, according to people
that have been living in Cuba for a long time, things started changing in 2019.
It wasn't anywhere near as bad as it is currently because this is the maximalist
version of the oil blockade. It's a full and total blockade.
At the same time, this is before COVID, the Cuban government actually, for the first time ever,
no longer just had free internet access, unrestricted by the way, unrestricted free internet access in their parks and in certain government buildings and hotels and the like,
but now they created a bandwidth like a system where anyone could access the internet.
And that's where the fucking National Endowment Foundation propaganda Spanish-speaking Twitter accounts started popping up.
Okay? Go in absolutely nutty mode.
And yes, for a lot of young Cubans that saw the abundance in the wealth only 90 miles away,
There are immediate family members that have been able to escape Cuba and find a piece of that American prosperity
That's all they saw they saw American capitalism and they saw the communism on the island as
Being the primary response is bearing the primary responsibility for their everyday struggles
And nowadays there is a decent chunk. I will admit there is a decent chunk of young Cubans that absolutely
in Cuba
That that believe that the government is lying about the blockade. It's it's unbelievable, but it's true
Right there are people who have been deluded into thinking by way of the relatives by way of the American propaganda
That is like all over the internet that think
that
The the the reasons as to why there's rationing taking place because the government's like, you know ridiculous attitude towards
rationing or whatever. It's like their mismanagement. And not because of this
is insane blockade. Okay? I'm glad you're at least acknowledging this finally, Law.
You call it delusion, but at least you're speaking to it. Yeah, I call it, I
call it delusion because it's not true. Okay? I call it delusion because it's
objectively untrue.
That's it. I mean, how can you look at a system where you think America yields prosperity?
I'm American. I live here. I know what it fucking looks like. Okay. I know what it looks like.
And it's not as though this government is even taking the necessary steps to lie to
you. They're straight up saying if Cubans do any sort of migration en masse because
Because of the starvation that we've caused on that island, we will round their boats up
and we will put their asses in Guantanamo Bay.
How can you sit there and assume this administration that has openly said, if Cuba should have
fucking come to the United States of America, we're going to round them up and we're going
of send their asses back to Guantanamo Bay with the military and you're over there going,
oh no, it's truly not this fucking government's blockade. It's actually, you know, it's actually
the mismanagement from the government itself. It's ridiculous. We can't excuse Cuban oppression
of civil rights violation just because the US doesn't do what the fuck I don't understand
is logic. Not an excuse. It's utterly immaterial in the conversation that we're having. And
the only reason why we have that conversation, the only reason why we have that conversation
is to subtly justify or maybe not so subtly justify the actions that the American government
is taking to make it seem as though there is a necessary reason for these sanctions.
I'm not gonna fucking put up with that shit. That's it. That's it.
I've seen the impact. I've stared these people in the fucking eyes. Okay.
I cannot turn around. I cannot fucking turn around and,
and act as though there is a,
there is an alternative reason for why this exists. Okay.
It's the same principle behind, but what about Hamas?
As Israel was carrying out a genocide. Okay.
And the reason why I bring up the government repression that we experience here is because I need you to understand the material conditions are very different in Cuba.
And it's born out of, it's born out of this, this massively consequential sanctions regime that is starving the fucking island and frustrating the people in the government literally has very limited resources to make sure that they continue surviving.
surviving, that they continue fucking feeding the people. They continue actually giving people
the necessary treatment for free, mind you, okay? And then on top of that, people are,
are like running around being like, you know, Donald Trump is awesome. He's gonna fucking save us.
Under brutal, ruthless siege, any government would be infinitely more aggressive, infinitely
more aggressive. It's ridiculous. When we were waging a world war, World War Two, we
rounded up every single Japanese person in California and put them in fucking concentration
camps. Okay.
Your inability to find any fault in the Cuban government waters down your stands. No government
is perfect and especially one that's been suffocated for so long. You're going to acknowledge
that but it without a but it's okay and just because no I don't think you guys
understand I don't think you understand the point I'm making here okay I'm not
here to make you feel good I'm here to just tell you the fucking truth
that's it
That's it.
This is the same process that we have to go through every single time.
Every single time a conversation takes place, what about Iran?
What about the Iranian government, okay?
What about Hamas?
What about what Hamas does to his own people?
If one much more powerful force is literally sieging this island nation with 11 million
people engaging in siege warfare and the government is trying to maintain stability in the process,
of course I'm going to try to get dumbfuck Americans to comprehend what that would
look like if it happened here by pointing to historic examples of what we have done
when we weren't being sieged by a much more powerful force but we were engaging
in a world war where Pearl Harbor happened and we put every single Japanese person in
a concentration camp. What the fuck are you talking about? We engage in the process of
internment during our war, our world war. That's what governments do. They take a heavy-handed
approach when they are constantly waging war. Now imagine what's going on in Cuba
for sixty fucking years
the sanctions are not helpful
they are designed in a way where there is plausible deniability so that people
that experience it
eventually say uh...
the government is just lying about the blockade it can't be the good
like i've this is all i've known all i've known my whole life is just like
fucking unnecessary party this sucks there's wealth right there ninety miles
out the coastline prosperity
the reason why
i'm bringing this part up by the way
is because I need people to understand, like of course,
there are people that live through this process
and develop this opinion just as there were tens
of millions of Americans who looked at the current design
of American society and thought a right-wing fascist monster
was actually going to create a new wave
of American prosperity.
There are people with different mentalities everywhere. No one's fucking monolithic and no one is gonna be on the ball
Just because you live through it doesn't mean you're gonna have ancient wisdom and you're gonna be able to figure out exactly why things are happening
Okay
But I'm sorry, it's just pure victim blaming and I don't want to do that
It's ridiculous
The reason why I criticize the US government when we slip on journalistic freedom and freedom
of speech infringements is because there is no country that has the same power gap between
us and another country that's like enforcing its will upon the American population, okay?
It's not comparable.
There is no country that is the hegemonic superpower.
We are the global imperial hegemon.
So there is no comparison where another country that is enforcing a siege upon the American
population and the American government is trying to hold it together and trying to
fight back against it, and in the process trying to maintain stability and therefore
engaging in repression. The reason why of course I criticize the American
government's form of repression is because America is the hegemonic
superpower. It's not even relevant to the equation that there are naysayers out
there. All of the world's protesters you get together and it doesn't change
America, the American calculation, the American government's calculation one
bit. Okay. And to kill a nation, Michael Prenti addresses this so perfectly. Okay. They also
see our shitty their lives on that money and energy goes to the hotels that aren't allowed
to stay in. I know that's not as relevant now. The biggest issue in the oil embargo
right now, the energy crisis has been building for years. Yes, absolutely. So this is the
other aspect of it. And I personally experienced this like myself. I felt it grows about
the system as well, because we were, I, we would walk around. Okay, people are, you know,
experiencing abject poverty and darkness, complete darkness, but the hotels have generators.
Hotels are privately owned, right? They're privately owned, and they have access to oil.
Right? Because they can purchase it. Because there's a black market for oil. The government
is aware that there's a black market for oil. They have a Q system. You know, people
with like EVs can participate in the Q system. All of this is like literal fucking
on the ground reporting coming to you live from Cuba, okay?
So there's a Q-System.
You buy it for like a dollar a gallon, right?
And then you sell it.
And the price of oil right now is $10 a liter.
We asked every cab driver, okay?
$10 a liter.
And the way it works is people with electric vehicles
also get into the Q-System,
but they don't need the oil, right?
to have EVs. Yeah, it's that fucking expensive. The doctor told
me that the average salary for a doctor in Cuba is around $17 a
month, $17 a month. Okay, but that wasn't the problem. The real
problem was the fact that that makes up that that's around
like 4,000 Cuban pesos, some around that I can't remember
exact numbers, right? The issue is doctors have to go back and forth. Doctors have to
go back and forth. The hospital, right? They don't live at the hospital. They live at home.
It's 500 pesos each way to go to the fucking hospital. If you're making 4,000 pesos a month
and it's 500 every day, it's unbelievable. It's just not, you can't do it. How the
How the fuck are you supposed to make it to the hospital? You can't.
It's insane. It's unsustainable.
This is destroying Iran, not the Iranian government. It's definitely designed to destroy both.
I think liberals need to retire the people versus the alien illegitimate regime framing,
Since those starving and bombing these countries don't make any distinction, weakening state capacity is a feature of their civilian punishment strategy.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
So do you understand?
You understand why I'm talking about it in the way that I am? In Havana today,
I saw an old woman with painful injury bursting into tears of joy when she got a bottle of
Advil. My personal opinion is that everyone who can should go to Cuba and bring the antibiotics
and painkillers to take for granted in the U.S. antibiotics over optics. You genuinely could
script something with worse optics in this Cuba convoy LeMau. Like they literally worked
tirelessly to bludgeon the optics argument and to bastardize what was going on.
And then they turn around and go, but what about the optics?
Bitch, you're the one who fucking lied about it to make the optics look unsound.
And then you fucking turn around and you go, oh, what about the optics?
The optics look terrible.
It's fucking ridiculous.
It's like the people that literally participated in belittling this humanitarian aid mission
to a fucking country that's being starved by ours that want to also bring awareness
to what our country is doing with the hopes that we can maybe make a change
that will no longer ex-ex-ex-fixiate the Cuban population
And motherfuckers go what about the optics and there's still people that go on I like five-star hotels
I like five-star hotels a lot. They're really nice, you know, you know what I mean?
It's fucking insane. I already explained it
It's like it's like a bunch of fucking free 99 drones, I don't think these people I
I don't think these people are all paid for by the State Department. They're just doing the fucking regime propaganda for free. It blows my fucking mind.
It's not bots, guys. There are literally people who have made it their lives mission to defend American imperialism because they think it makes them feel powerful or something.
Obviously, there's like think tank liberals like Jeremiah Johnson, who's a ginormous piece
of shit, right? Cuba's dictatorial regime is far more responsible for the impoverishment
of the Cuban people than America is a lie, an abject lie. Of course, his job is to defend
liberalism when liberalism is falling apart. So of course, he's going to say this lie.
Someone goes, yeah, but man, like the embargoing of the oil and causing power group failure
does seem kind of shitty and cruel. I don't know if it makes the situation better.
this guy is a fucking liberal as well, but even he's like, come on, it's really messed
up. I don't think the US should embargo their oil, but it's ridiculous where tankies like
a son to go sing the praise of a violent, valentine regime and act like they're just
small beans who never hurt nobody. Cuba is poor because you're controlled by murderous
communist thugs. When is the last time Cuba double tapped a school full of children?
Because America did that a few weeks ago, says Will Menaker. It's true. I had some
words for this as well, right? The Epstein pedophile-led administration is double-tapping
schools participating in the genocide in Gaza. And even on the domestic home front, we do
worse shit than the Cuban government does on a daily fucking basis. Two million people
are in prison, incarcerated in the United States of America. 700,000 homeless people
in the United States of America, 700,000.
Unfucking believable 700,000.
On top of all of our violent domestic or violent foreign policy
and it blows my fucking mind, this is the wealthiest nation on earth
And people still go, oh, but these other countries, they're so violent.
We have no leg to stand on, man.
We have no leg to stand on.
If you're defending America, you are not defending Americans, okay?
If you're defending the current American government, if you're defending the current system, you
do not care about your fucking neighbors, okay?
It's that simple.
I said our government is the principal party in Gaza's genocide in Cuba's unjust
blockade.
We just killed 150 schoolgirls in Iran in the wealthiest nation on earth.
We have 700,000 homeless people, 2 million incarcerated,
and you have the gall to say, another one of our perceived
enemies is violent.
And the reason why you say that, the reason why you say that,
the reason why people say that is because they want
to defend American foreign policy.
They want to defend the American sanctions regime.
They want to say, no, it's actually
happening because, you know, it's happening because the government is scary. It's communist,
murderous, bloodthirsty. Another response I gave to liberal Jeremiah Johnson, whose
operation, by the way, has said nothing about the humanitarian aid or the necessity for
for humanitarian aid or the conditions for everyday Cubans beyond demanding that the
Trump administration bomb some of these fucking flotilla ships, by the way.
That's the only output from this administration, this CN liberalism operation, new liberals.
That's the only thing they've said about Cuba, audacity to fucking come out and say
the thing that defines us on CodePig and most of the DSA extended universe convoy
members is not complicated.
It's America bad.
Look, sometimes America's bad.
That's quite literally the only lens they're capable of seeing the world through.
It's why the DSA cozyed up the Maduras, why Hassan thinks the Houthi terrorists are so
cool and said America deserve 9-11.
It's something, it's against America, it's good, end of story, they don't have an ideology
beyond that.
I said America can be good.
Americans are good.
You aren't one of them.
You want to defend America's sense.
This is bloodlust.
We are death dealers around the world and even Americans are waking up to the reality
that our wars cause pain abroad and offer no benefit to ordinary Americans here.
Parasite.
Unfucking believable.
Yeah, and he's also obviously a genocide defender anyway. He's a genocide denier.
There are a lot of good things I can say here. I can say that a lot of this is factually wrong. Joe Biden does not have dementia.
Palestinians are being killed, but it's not a genocide. Biden's administration is very much trying to reign in Israel, etc.
Jeremiah is also a coward who now realizes that this was not a smart thing to put in writing,
but rather than admit to being a ghoul, he has tried to quietly edit his blog, thanks
to the Wayback Machine.
Yeah.
Here is the other center for liberalism person that this Jeremiah guy.
I've heard a lot of bad stuff about you, but really been enjoying the streams.
Listen, thank you for actually, uh, you know having the charitable and open-mindedness to actually listen to what I have to say
Rather than unconditionally believe all the fucking lies that people tell that's the goal here because if you if you spend
You know more than five to ten minutes in this fucking broadcast
You're very quickly going to realize that a decent amount of people
Spend a decent amount of time just actively shitting on everything
saying and doing and bastardizing it to the best of their fucking ability because no one wants to
address the issues. Okay, that's it. Yeah, here's his friend, the vice chair of CN Liberals, arguing
for a trail of tears two point of the best thing that we could do for indigenous people would be
the end all tribal land designations encouraged them to relocate and integrate the modern society
funded by the government. The two tears was miserable for native people, those in the
poverty and subjugation. She also literally demanded that the Trump administration murder
the humanitarian aid flotilla. Like the Trump administration go and blow up the boats that
were going to Cuba. That's how fucking psychotic these people are. That's how bloodthirsty these
people are, okay?
Yeah, sorry, but he has a point. I bet you tanks don't even know that Cuba is a prison
camp full of prisoners of war that are kidnapped and torched for years without charges. Look
at Guantanamo Bay. What you, yeah, but what you will learn will shock you. Oh shoot. Read
a little further on the Wikipedia article. Turns out my government is a totalitarian
regime keeping POWs in camp in Cuba and open and the Cuban government has repeatedly
told them to stop. Yeah. Thanks for your continued coverage on Cuba. Latinos grow up watching Telemundo
in Univision and are taught that the common Cubans are evil. It's sick what we're doing
to our brothers and sisters on the island. Thank you for your support. Hopefully one
day we can see their great potential. I don't think everyone is like this though because
Is there so much solidarity amongst Latin American countries, both for Cuba?
It's actually unbearable that the American government, led by Marco Rubio, has actively
sought to eradicate the medical missions that Cuba engages in, in Caribbean countries
and Latin American countries.
It's un-fucking-believable that they've done this.
I also got to see my friend for the record, okay?
I got to see my friend that I had interviewed, if you guys recall, a long time ago, who had
actually done these medical missions, okay?
Let me see if I can pull it.
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
Yeah, Dr. Jose Armando Arronte, he is in the Cuban Health Ministry.
He works in the Cuban Health Ministry.
If you remember, we had a conversation online when Marco Rubio first wanted to stop these
medical missions from happening. And he was so sad. I mean, he was so excited to see me
in Cuba because he had invited me to Cuba if you remember. And he was so happy to see
that I was finally visiting Cuba. But he was so sad that these medical missions were
being stopped by Marco Rubio. And he wasn't sad because, oh, now, you know, Cuban doctors
can't go and like, you know, work these medical missions and generate income for
the country in some ways, right? Because it's like, that's the argument against it. But he was sad that in places like Jamaica, where these medical missions operate, the population don't have access to any other kind of health care. It's the Cuban medical missions that offer these people
is underserved communities, the only version of health care that they ever see, and Marco Rubio has ripped that system apart.
Unbelievable. Another way that our violent desires, our violent design harms others.
And not only does it harm others, it harms us as well.
I talked to, as I said before, I talked to Dr. Mitchell Valdez-Sosa, okay?
Dr. Mitchell Valdez-Sosa is one of the top neuroscientists, not only in Cuba, but around the world.
Him and his twin brother are both neuroscientists, 75 years old, incredible man.
He explained to me how Fidel Castro was able to greatly increase the literacy rate piece by piece,
first up until the sixth grade, then up until college.
He's a massively accomplished scientist, okay?
a tremendous guy and has stories for days. I could have talked to him for hours. Okay.
And I mean, you can look at his work here as well on Google Scholar. He is an incredibly
accomplished scholar, an academic and a scientist researcher. Now, Dr. Michelle Valdez Sosa,
has been able to do the unthinkable. Cuba has been able to create the only functioning Alzheimer's
and dementia treatment on the planet. The only functioning Alzheimer's and dementia treatment
every other Alzheimer's and dementia treatment that has been put together so
far has led to nothing. There was a very famous case in America that
that the Alzheimer's dementia treatment that they thought they had actually
achieved was a dud, right? It was a dud. Yes, I interviewed him. And they have it.
They have it. Medical trials took place in Cuba. And now there's additional medical
trials taking place in Canada. But just like the lung cancer vaccine that Cuba was able to create,
In the 90s, mind you. Okay. Yeah, neural sim is the one we're talking about.
And I cannot believe that they put the context note on this look. NeuroEPO claims to rely on a
single trial from here without independent replication. The researchers themselves acknowledge
that larger trials are needed. The phase two trial in Canada is ongoing and wider adoption
to wait phase three confirmation, they're literally like the propaganda machine goes
the entire time. It's unbelievable. Cuba had a lung cancer vaccine in the fucking 90s. How many
people have died of lung cancer in the process.
How is this attitude anything but better dead than red?
It's through the communist system that they were able to put the interests of the people
over the interests of profit and you can't have that because innovation must only come
from capitalism, okay? Innovation must only come from capitalism. If it comes from a communist
country that undermines the argument, that undermines the argument in spectacular fashion,
doesn't it? The very fact that they are able to accomplish these incredibly impressive
leaps in the field of medicine to save people's lives, no matter where they come
from your grandparents, people like myself as well. All of my grandparents died from Alzheimer's.
I'm going to get Alzheimer's. Okay. My father has a diabetic ulcer on his foot.
Dr. Mitchell told me they have a cure for diabetic ulcer in Cuba.
The fact that America stops pharmaceutical companies from actually mass distributing this stuff, even for fucking profit, is insane.
It's completely insane. It's unacceptable.
Now, think about how they've been able to do all of this while they are shackled every
step of the fucking way, while they're shackled every step of the way by these ridiculous sanctions.
Think about the unlimited potential that could exist if we did not try to disrupt their
academic process in their research every step of the way and then even stop them from mass distributing these fucking
vaccines these treatments
America engaged in vaccine hesitancy
Around the Cuban vaccine that what they were you know forced to implement basically
Cuba made its own COVID vaccine for those of you who don't know and the reason for why they had to make their own
COVID vaccine is because
Ali Baba founder
Ma Jack Ma
tried to send Cinevacs to the island during COVID.
America intercepted that.
They stopped that from happening.
America also simultaneously created vaccine hesitancy,
the Rasiap campaign in the Philippines
because they thought China was doing soft power initiatives
in the Philippines.
They're sending Cinevacs there.
And now the Filipino population has a tremendous setback
and a lot of Filipinos have vaccine hesitancy.
We know this because the American government
openly revealed it, by the way.
They spent millions of dollars creating misinformation and PSIOP campaigns in the Philippines because
they wanted people not to take the Chinese vaccine.
It worked.
America did this in Latin America as well.
Yeah, Cuba, US embargo blocks coronavirus, aid shipment from Asia.
So the Cubans said, fuck it, we'll make our own.
And they did.
And then they started distributing it to all of the other Latin American countries
that the United States was, you know, refusing to send this vaccine to, right?
And it's unfuckin' believable, but they did the same
misinformation campaign in Latin America as well. Don't take the Cuban vaccine.
The communist vaccine, it's nothing. It's not real. It doesn't work.
It's unfuckin' believable.
It's unbelievable dude. Just to
mindedly correct a bit of what you're saying. There are now in Buffalo, New
York and at Roswell trials going on with as long as vaccine from Cuba but
obviously still not widely accepted because of Cuba stigma and sanctions.
Med student and epidemiologist, thank you for informing. I didn't know that I
I thought it was only in Canada where they are doing test trials right now.
It is fucking crazy though.
Don't you think that there's like literally,
literally some of this stuff has to be in secrecy because if there's like,
you know, uh,
if this comes with the forefront of the conversation,
all of a sudden it makes people reconsider this, uh, uh,
the way that the system works. And then they go, Oh, well,
hold on, we got to put a fucking stop to it.
I
Anyway
It's just, I can go on for fucking days, by the way, I can go on for, for hours upon hours.
There's a lot of medical researchers in my community as well.
There's a lot of researchers in general.
And I know many of you hear this stuff and you see this stuff and you think, this is
fucking ridiculous, like your allegiance to the academics in Cuba matters, okay?
That's another thing that I found out, talking to the doctors, talking to the professionals,
talking to the academics in Cuba, where like, they rely on the kindness of strangers that
live in America and elsewhere all around the world in order to keep things going,
right?
The first ever computer, again, that Dr. Mitchell told me, the first ever computer that Cuba
ever received was from an American doctor in New York.
So people need to be brave is what I mean.
need to be fucking brave and not have to worry about, not have to worry about like American
setbacks.
We have to be an unshakable undeniable force or good.
Yeah, I mean, this was funny.
the song's a $690 button down shirt alone.
Give you the family of four and Cuba for about a year.
Damn, he should go to Cuba and give them money.
Yeah.
It's so strange.
It's strange that, I mean, it makes sense
that this propaganda works on the fucking hogs too.
Like I get it when people are like,
but what about the optics?
It's like, the fuck do you mean?
Like, what are you talking about?
Like I'm literally in Cuba, you know?
I'm in Cuba.
It's unbelievable.
You should have went shortlist. True.
True.
Anyway.
Why do you give these hogs the time of day? Because this kind of propaganda unfortunately
has the capacity to muddy the waters, okay? When the goal here is to obviously talk about
the plight of everyday Cubans and talk about the impact of the blockade, the people that
want to change the conversation, the people that want to change the conversation back
to like the government will then disparage and belittle everyone that's like going
out there to do whatever the fuck they can to help. It's a lesson that they want to teach
everyone. If you do this, we will humiliate you, okay? And some people actually, some
people actually do get worried, right? They don't want to get yelled at or whatever, right?
for one reason or another. It's ridiculous. But yeah. Yeah, there's a lot of I love Cuba
butt going on right now. It's good. That means they're losing it. That means they're losing
the argument, okay? When they have to back away from this, when they have to concede
on the grounds that, when they have to concede on the grounds that they are like, that the
blockade is having a tremendous impact. That means that the conversation is shifting because
a lot of you are probably unfamiliar with this process, but for many, many years,
the invisibility of the blockade and the sanctions regime unironically made it much
easier for these people to say, there's no blockade. People can do trade with Cuba.
there's American goods on Cuban shelves. How could you say there's a blockade? There's American hotels.
So like that was the whole point, right? That was the entire point. But now it's undeniable
because Donald Trump is so vulgar and so open about his cruelty. So now these guys can't say
that there's no blockade. So they have to say instead, well, there's a blockade, but there's
a blockade, but it's the government still, okay? It's the government. It's pure moral bankruptcy.
But yeah, it also drowns out this. You at least have video showing the aid you all gave
away, right? What crazy people are saying seems like they're just plastered. Yes. It also has the,
it also completely dominates the fucking conversation. I mean, here, this is another example, right?
Cubans are regular people. Cubans are regular ass people. They enjoy music. They want to
fucking go to a concert. They want to live their lives in spite of the fucking ridiculous
blockade, right? In spite of the crippling blockade. This is the kneecap boys participating
in a public free concert that was put together for Cuban artists, okay?
And they were like, oh, we're here. Let's do it. We'll also participate in this concert.
So they also gave a free performance for every Cuban that was in attendance, okay?
And these people, and this concert is just mostly Cubans, right? Like it's just,
There's a lot of people who are like, oh, they do the concert for just like the wealthy fucking tourists or whatever. No, it's just mostly Cubans. You fucking idiot.
it.
Even this guy Diego de la Vega, team AOC comms alumni, did you guys think a concert
admitted blackout was good optics for this little trip?
The concert was a part of a free public spring festival that was already planned.
tons of Cuban families there, and it was cut short because of the blackout. Any more questions
is Aida Chavez who was there.
The other aspect of the tourism industry that a lot of people don't understand,
the other aspect of the tourism industry is that like, they'll be like, wow, look at like the
only fucking the all the powers being routed to the to the tourism sector and it's like brother
American blockades have made it impossible to engage in any sort of real exports from the island
and it is made it so that tourism is the only way that foreign dollars can come into the
fucking island itself okay it's ridiculous it is fucking ridiculous it is literally the only
way that the island can survive is the only way that they can get any money from the outside.
They can't engage in banking because in the international financial system here,
I'll give you another example because I have examples for days of million of these examples
that I said. Yonis Varifakis talks about this, calls it techno feudalism, PayPal and Venmo,
are American payment processors. And because of the American government sanctions on Cuba,
if you are a Greek citizen, okay, talking to an Italian citizen,
and you go out to dinner, you order Cuba Libre's, okay,
and you pay for it on PayPal, and you write Cuba Libre on the PayPal,
or on the Venmo transaction, both of your accounts will get banned.
Both of your accounts will get banned.
How is that normal?
I have stories of people having Swiss fucking bank accounts, like Switzerland is supposed
to be the most neutral country on the planet.
bank accounts get shut down because they are, you know, trying to deliver aid or payments
to Cubans.
Yeah.
If you put Cuba on a wire transaction, they close your whole account at Chase, used to
deal with all the times of translator over the phone.
Yeah.
How fucking insane!
You've never heard of this before.
You never knew about this.
One must ask the question, why you've never heard about this.
How unbelievable.
My read on why some critics are mocking people like you right now is because A, they're attempting
to discourage acts of kindness and resistance and B, some people have given into hopelessness
and reactionary suicide at one point or another and project their ineffectiveness as a sense
of fertility onto those that try to do anything.
Yeah.
The Cuban government cannot open up bank accounts.
They cannot get loans to start businesses.
They cannot export their products.
How can anyone live in this process?
It's an island nation.
and virtually impossible for them to be self-sustaining in general.
I got banned on Venmo about a decade ago,
paying someone back after getting Cuban food together.
And I put balling out in Cuban, in Cuba food as the memo law. Yeah.
I honestly think that just dislike anything you do. I mean,
there's a piece of that too.
I work in fintech and anytime there's Cuba in a transfer purpose,
It's immediately flagged and stopped for sanctions. Yeah.
Yeah.
Unfucking believable.
There are some ways to deliver aid to Cuba.
But you the most effective way to do it is by literally going
delivering it personally and when you do that people fucking yell at you and try to bully you and try to ridicule you
This is the problem
Anyway, the last part of the story that I wanted to get to was Nas daily this guy
Nusair Yassin, okay? He is an Israeli agent, a propagandist, and he was there
while we were there. Separately, of course. He did not come on the fucking flotilla.
You guys are so stupid. Some people were like, oh, did they do no vetting?
Did they allow Nasdaily to come on the flotilla? You're fucking idiot. Now, the
real question to ask here is, is why an agent of Israel is so invested in
in the aid mission to Cuba.
Why is an agent of Israel doing this at all?
Is it perhaps because they love the thought
of starving children and they're an equal opportunity
child starver?
And that's why they were like, what a wonderful moment.
I'm gonna justify the starvation of children
and the death of children here as well.
You know, I love blockades. I love participating in them.
Right?
It's my favorite fucking thing.
Or maybe it's because the American government has basically outsourced their propaganda to the Israeli spy agencies.
Perhaps that's one of the reasons.
And I think that is one of the reasons, because a lot, a lot of Hasbro accounts stopped talking about Israel this past weekend and went on maximum overdrive talking about Cuba and how the Cuban government deserves worse.
Isn't that strange?
Isn't that weird?
Don't you find that odd at all?
Does that not make you a little bit curious as to what's going on?
I found it to be rather strange that they took the time out of their busy schedules to
defend Israel, to then turn around and talk about, to then turn around and literally
spend money and resources to fly to fucking Cuba directly to counter signal against the
work that this humanitarian aid mission was doing. Very strange. Very odd. Right?
I said this about the only place the Cuba were currently as electricity is five
star hotel where a son, Piker and co picker staying there.
This is not true, but it doesn't matter. Uh,
I said every single Zionist propaganda is that laser focused their sites with
lies on an aid mission to Cuba as it withstands an American blockade.
Does the entity not derive enough satisfaction from killing Palestinian
children that they now want to offer help in starving Cuban kids.
Nasdaily was one of these people. He's an agent of Israel.
I think we all know this, right? He's a genocide denier.
He says he's Palestinian. He's not actually Palestinian or at least the Palestinians don't
Consider him to be Palestinian. He is straight up an agent of the Israeli state the Zionist entity. He's a Zionist himself
He approached me
Are we still under bad empanada blockade I saw I made a video interviewing humans
Are you fucking on crack cocaine, dude as I'm withstanding a barrage of propaganda
You want me to go and like watch the fucking dude who was memeing about
Assassinating me on Cuba soil get the fuck out of here dude seriously
Jesus fucking Christ if there's anyone that's like deeply fucking unserious
It's a guy who literally turns around obviously he wasn't even in fucking Cuba mind you
But it's crazy that like he is so
unbelievably disingenuous and so
unbelievably mentally ill that he was like the first out of all the wave of fucking harassment on this fucking trip
It came from our left flank
God damn it like
Talk about is someone so mentally unwell so deeply disturbed that like he goes all these fucking people
people. These fucking people are going for propaganda in a selfie trip. Me on the other
hand I'm going for propaganda in a selfie trip but good. You know? He's just a fucking
mentally ill ultra. That's it. If he wasn't so mentally ill he'd be fine. Whatever.
I'm trying to be fucking sincere here. I'm trying to do, you know, decent work.
Nazdeli has built his career whitewashing Israel's genocide of Palestinians and also by
John's ethnic cleansing of Armenians. Now he's agitating on behalf of America to violently
destroy Cuba, right? Um, yeah, where is it? So he came up to me at the Havana airport
while I was flying to, uh, Mexico and then flying to Los Angeles to enter the country
through Los Angeles yesterday. I was shocked. I didn't fully know who he was when he approached
me yelling with a phone camera in tow with his girlfriend. Right? He was like, Oh, do
you know me? I'm not as daily. Do you know me? I'm not as daily. I'm like, what the
fuck? I turn around this fucking guy. He's like, do you know me? I'm not as daily.
I have a massive YouTube channel, I have a massive YouTube channel.
And when he realized I had no fucking idea who he was,
he started immediately yelling about Hamas.
We're in fucking Havana, Cuba.
Okay.
We're at the Havana Airport.
And he just starts screaming about Hamas in Israel.
He's like, I'm Palestinian and what you're doing is hurting the Palestinians.
And I was like, the fuck are you talking about?
Right.
And then this was when you were leaving or arriving.
No, this is when I was leaving.
This is when I was leaving.
Okay.
I found it very strange that an agent of Israel was also in Cuba.
Right.
And there were these wonderful older people that were also sitting at this cafe in the
airport next to us, and they were so grossed out by this fucking freak that one of the
ladies was like, hey, can I ask you, like, what do you do that, like, this person is
yelling at you?
What's going on?
like, yeah, I'm, you know, I'm a pro-Palestinian political comment,
commentator. And he just like was screaming. He just got like
more and more agitated. Right? More and more agitated because I
wasn't giving him the attention that he desperately wanted. So I
turned around. I turned around. And I said, Do you feel like
this is making you look good? Do you feel like you're
getting a good clip out of this. You're freaking out all of these people around us.
And I think that was a moment of self reflection for him because he kind of
stopped and his girlfriend was like embarrassed, right? His girlfriend was a
little bit embarrassed.
So he stopped. He stopped filming. We didn't film it. Marsh was next to me.
We didn't give a fuck enough to film it.
right? So he went away and I thought that was the end of that equation.
But we were leaving the cafe to go to our gate. But it turns out it didn't end there. He wanted
more. He wanted a better clip because he couldn't get it, right? So he was filming from afar
and yelling still. You're gonna stop doing Hamas propaganda. You're gonna stop doing Hamas
propaganda. You need to stop being a supporter of Hamas. You're hurting the Palestinian cause.
You're hurting the Palestinian cause. That's what I experienced. Maybe a blip of the court
is all spike. So I turned around and said, what are you gonna fucking do about it?
I didn't even drop my bag.
I just said, what are you going to do about it?
Are you going to stop me?
And he walked up to me, still filming.
I said, what are you going to do?
Go ahead.
Go ahead.
Stop me.
When his girlfriend realized that the situation was escalating,
she tried to pull him off.
He was like, come on, let's stop, whatever, okay?
So we did.
He started backing away, and I said, yeah, that's what I thought.
We proceeded to go towards the gate.
He came back again to yell from afar.
He came back again to yell from afar to say, oh, yeah, keep running away.
So I turned around and said, suck my dick.
And that's it.
that story. Okay? But of course, because he couldn't get any of the clips he wanted out
of it. He had the fucking cope. But when I saw him make an argument about some people
see this and think central planning is a good idea. As he talked about, you know, the,
the lack of trash collection, born out of the oil blockade, right? I said, I can confirm
this Israeli agent was on the ground. He came up to me at the Havana Airport to
scream and weird everyone out. People around were worried about his mental
health. Looking forward to how he tries to chop up the video, wondering what his
purpose was. He kept saying, don't you know me. I'm Nazdeli. I have a massive
profile. His girlfriend also felt weirded out by his behavior. I hope he
gets well soon. Okay.
To which apparently he responded with, as a Palestinian origin Muslim for hundreds
of years. I wanted to make it clear. By the way, everyone in his replies are like, you're
not a Palestinian. Shut the fuck up. You're an agent of Israel. As a Palestinian or Asian
Muslim for a hundred, for hundreds of years, I wanted to make it clear to you that you're
bad for the Palestinian cause and your activism is hurting innocent and empowering terrorists.
Palestinians want moderate leaders to lead them to peace and coexistence. They don't
want you to lead them to another fight while you stay in five-star hotels, live
streaming, wearing Gucci PS, you're only strong online. Okay. That's what I said.
Is that why you backed away after people were reared up
by your anti-social behavior,
only to try and muster up the courage later
to try a second attempt at a video shouting at me from afar?
Well, you put how you stood down when I asked
what you'd do about it to stop me in the video.
So I denied him the clip.
And all he had in the end was this,
don't worry, you're not worth making a video about.
You can rest easy that that beautiful video
I took won't be online.
So why'd you take it?
Maximum Coke.
His girlfriend lying about the interaction
because they don't plan to post the video.
Law, what are you talking about?
I was there. There was no screaming.
No one was even paying attention.
She walked up to you and said,
as a Palestinian, you're hurting Palestinians. You hurled vulgarities and ran away. Yeah,
it's funny because not a single, not a single person that was involved has denied the interaction
except for the girlfriend.
Who just released the entire clip then?
Post a whole interaction.
Do it!
We didn't film it.
He did.
You should have recorded it.
Brother, how am I supposed to know?
How am I supposed to know that an Israeli Mossad agent followed my ass to Havana fucking Cuba and intercepted me at my point of travel and started yelling from afar with his phone camera out?
How the fuck does anybody prepare for that kind of psychopathic experience?
I will however say it made me maybe a little bit worried
that Israel I think has that level of involvement
in the affairs of any sort of anti-American
imperialist endeavor that they would literally send
their agents out.
They would literally send their agents out
to places like Havana, Cuba.
Okay.
B-bash, bash, bash.
No shit they would. I mean, I didn't think that they would be disinvolved.
I thought they'd be, uh, they have a whole, you know, genocide to defend.
I know why they are actually mad. I was wondering what the excuses are they're using to be mad.
I said it's because I went. These people have no vision or goals out of politics. They're
purely reactionary. Their positive revolves around opposing me. It sounds fucking insane.
But that's a big reason I wish them well. But yeah, Hassan Pajka faces backlash from
Cuban protest trip. Like I wasn't there. These people are just adding my name on
the members of Pablo Iglesias and the Sampagos VIP flotilla throw food at Cuban
children. Insane. This is an insane clip.
Anyway, I said this is the other thing. This is like clearly one of those
was CIA accounts that I was talking about, right? Mayra, Dominguez, all these numbers
and whatever, and they're bought it into fucking oblivion. This is a gigantic mockery
of the entire Cuban people. They left, they left this Cuba as if it was a party at a zoo
and they go to admire misery from a luxury hotel. So outrageous. They're all hypocrites
who live their lives sorted out and pretend to tell the Cuban Cubans that the genocidal
regime is good.
Now what's really interesting was really interesting about this very clearly bought
account, the CIA account is like, why do these people come to Cuba with aid? They should have
just stayed at home that's, and, you know, they should just stayed in the countries that starve Cuba
instead and keep demanding more of that pain from afar. Like that's the argument here, right?
That's the argument. The argument is like, no, no, no. It's really fucked up. It's really
fucked up that you're, you're over there. You're documenting the, the stuff, the Cubans
that you're encountering are not actually fucking mad at all. They're happy that you're there
because you're like, you know, giving dollars to the people that you encounter. It's one
of the only fucking, one of the only ways that you can get any foreign currency whatsoever.
Okay. And like the expectation is not like, oh, the Cuba should be grateful or whatever.
Right. Like that's not even what I'm saying. Also, no, Colin is here. The expectation
is not that like that's not the argument at all it's fucking disgusting no one is making
that argument but the point is like like none of this is bad right none of the things that
are happening that they are presenting is like a really fucked up way in a really fucked
away are actually bad things at all they're they're only able to frame this is a bad thing
because regular Cuban citizens don't have a fucking voice in the matter right I know
how I, I know what I experienced. I know what I experienced. Did he run into you at the
airport or retract? Isn't he one, uh, wanted to send a clip? I don't know. But like all
of these arguments basically revolve around, uh, uh, saying like, fuck you for giving
people aid and offering awareness to their plight. Like that's all this is. You
You should have just stuck around in your home and, and, uh, justified the, the star
vasio, the Cuban population instead. Anyway, uh, also Ethan Klein apparently has now posted
800 plus Instagram stories about me since the beginning of 2026. The two have not
spoken to each other in nearly a year. Every single, apparently every single clip
that he posted yesterday alone, was about Cuba. And it was literally justifying the
blockade and belittling the entire process. These are all from this-
These are just a fraction of the clips
friends, Ian and Anissa, me watching the girl with a microphone closing in on 10k subs, Taylor
Lawrence again. Does anyone actually miss you? Sorry, the most privileged never babies.
This is unimaginably what's good. What's good, King? This is unimaginably concerning.
This is the cause for concern. It's alarming. This is deep-seated mental illness
another another cuba
That's good. That's good. That's good. All right, perfect
I already broke something. Yeah, this guy comes into my house and fucking breaks it dude
Hold on that's not better
There it is. This is the guest cam. Hold on. Why isn't this fucking working though?
Boom
No, I'll call one in the building ladies and gentlemen. Oh, you're looking at uh
My favorite. Yeah. I mean this is I've this has been a very Cuba uh heavy
Two hours of this broadcast is like why did did you go there or something?
Good one. Well, one of us did. I'm sorry. Two of us did. Yeah.
At different times. I'm just saying. Oh, you're just saying. You were missed. You were missed.
Well, thank you. Thank you. You were missed. Um, but, uh, yeah. Yeah. It's geography textbook
that people are rubbing their hands together. Oh, wow. Did you see this? This is, uh,
this is just a compilation of some of his, uh, insanity. But yeah, ladies and gentlemen,
no call with the building here hold on let me do the fucking there it is oh
there it is the shot but like I feel like it's not good enough it's not good
it's not like framed right you know what I mean I mean we're kind of in the
middle yeah I want to make sure that it's like perfect we're testing out
some things. You were out here, you were experiencing it from afar. Did you think that there would
be this level of propaganda and math disinformation from the humanitarian aid mission?
I mean, when I fucking first got access to the event, I couldn't believe, I was like,
this is the most insane thing I've ever experienced in my life.
I will say there are like two things. One is to your specific question of,
Did I expect like this particular level of response? Like no, it is a little nuts.
On the other hand, I'm not surprised. I'm not surprised. I think that there is a very vocal
contingent of people who know like half of a thing, half of like one fact or something,
and are just like primed to respond in a certain kind of way to the stuff they see,
involving people on the internet whom they recognize or not. I don't know.
Do you find it strange how much Israel is also like Israeli agents of Hasbra are also participating in?
I'm sorry, are you telling me, are you asking me about whether I thought it was fucking weird that Naz daily?
Was stalking me in fucking Cuba?
Yeah, no, I think it's like listen, we are going to send the one of...
The greatest, one of the greatest!
We are going to send one of Israel's greatest lolcows.
We are going to be sending.
No, that's what the fuck I was I was like what the fuck is that guy doing there?
And then like it was really funny because I only saw a couple of his posts after he'd arrived or whatever
And so it's like did he go there just to like no, I think I know you and now he's like what is what is he even doing?
He couldn't even like he I guess he couldn't find me at all when you when I was there because I was too busy fucking doing shit, right?
and
Cuz I I spent like basically I have like eight plus hours of recording
nonstop of just like interviews I interviewed Colcio for like two hours is crazy
Interviewed doctors and belly of the beast by the way. What a fucking great. What people what a gem of an operation
Fuck me with like with like read is such a stud. I mean, oh reads the man
He's the man man
And I know it's just wonderful.
Those are people who do incredible things
with such few resources.
Yeah, it's astonishing.
Yeah, they're brilliant.
They're fantastic anyway.
But what I was saying is so they set up a lot of their,
the people that they had actually put in their documentaries
because like this is all about sharing
and trying to get the fucking word out basically, right?
And I cannot recommend Belly of the Beast enough.
They have such incredible high fidelity, high def,
impactful, high impact docu-series out there.
They're phenomenal.
But in any case, also obviously blowback pot as well.
Season two on Cuba is-
In our new season about Angola,
which is a central story of it
is about the Cuban intervention.
about how the Cubans have occupied other countries.
Oh yeah, no, the Cubans invaded Angola at the,
well, this is the thing.
It's actually a world historic first.
It is the first time that one country invaded
another country at the invitation of that country.
Because if you recall, how could you forget famously
when America invaded the UK during World War II?
This was a massively controversial invasion.
It's actually really true.
The first part of Band of Brothers is about that, is actually about the American invasion
of the UK, which then, by the way, I'm a bit of a history nerd, so you guys should know
this.
In the 1960s, there was a British invasion, and that was when the Beatles and all them
came over.
And that was the other way around.
Yeah, it's just like there's always invasions happening, and you need to stay woke.
You need to stay woke to know these kinds of different invasions.
but i have to be real quick but i just wanted to hear you can you can go off
on your uh...
opinions about the mess this info campaign issue while i go do that real
quick
i'll be back in a second
as a going chat
cuban embassy of the cuban proposal and i was on is already said about it
although it's worth saying that you know cuba has made offers to compensate
expropriated owners since like the sixties
Uh, yeah.
Hi, dad.
How does he look at this shit all day?
It's fucking nuts.
Um, yeah, I hope you guys, uh, you know, we're patient for him coming back.
Cause I know the stuff that he's been working on is really exciting and
I'm excited to see, to learn more about, uh, the footage he shot.
It was very, very sad that I couldn't go.
But I also did get to go earlier this year with Brendan and like a couple weeks after the Maduro kidnapping.
Our second to last day there was the day that they announced the oil blockade.
So I got to see some firsthand of what I'm sure has gotten a lot worse in terms of the situation on the ground.
And now I'm I'm just acclimating to this West Coast weather
Let's just die or eyes
Just do like a vlog talk about my day
All right, what babysitting's over he's back
Did you talk yet about the drop site report I say you pulled that up yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, um, yeah, I brought it up a moment.
I'm a brought it up briefly in the beginning.
No, a big fan of your work in the book of Genesis.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's, can you please tell us how to get off Twitter?
Are you a Cuba trip made at the Sky News, Australia?
Wait, is it a lefty's losing it moment lefty's losing it?
In this like convoy to Cuba is a very high profile streamer.
has said oh it's a trash hammer yeah this lady fucking hates me and this guy
she always has this guy on to talk shit it's so funny they have like the same
their eyebrows are the exact same shape and they both look like they're unhappy
with the son piker yeah it's it's awesome the song piker is one of the
most scummy villainous individuals in all years media lefty's lazing it that's
That's the that's the name of the the bro. She has a segment called lefty's loosing it where she talks about that
Um, and we move a little bit to the right. Yeah
No, no, not all the way
I'm gonna matter of inches. All right, that's it. It's important. I want to make sure that this is like
I'm sorry multi-million-dollar property. He's got a massive following very wealthy and yet he advocates for
Marxist ideology
Make it make sense to me John make it make sense
I can't make it make sense. What's a piker is one of the most scummy villains individuals in all of American media
And that's exactly the same.
That was awesome.
Sorry.
Scummy and villainous individuals in all of American New York.
I have this profound effect.
I don't know what it is, but like people who are, you know, like,
Cosbra operatives, when they fucking, the mere mention of my name causes them to, like,
cause them to get aneurysms.
It's awesome.
The stuff this guy says is just frankly heinous.
He frankly frankly sounds like like a Nazi sometimes speaking about Israel's Jews. That's really not his adoration
I mean he speaks good lowly Lee of what Hamas did October 7th there
He's he's outright praising and much like Zoram and Donnie's wife there
He is a self-emotional. He's Zoram and Donnie's wife there
Out there as it gets and the the worst part Rita is that he is welcome the deed
He is fated. He is lauded by many Democrat officials
That's the worst part, the worst part isn't that, that betrays the severity of the statement.
If I'm like a Nazi, right, and I'm mass producing Nazi propaganda, why would it be the worst
part that the Democrats welcome me?
That wouldn't be the worst part, the worst part would be the Nazi propaganda that I'm
mass disseminating with or without the Democrats aiding me, right?
I don't know, it's actually, this reminds me of,
this is how like, right wingers in the Cold War
used to talk about libs, where it was like,
like how he's talking about referring
to democratic politicians here.
Like William F. Buckley, but you see the thing is
that the liberals are worse than the communists
because they're dupes, they don't know
that they're being used like this.
And that's like, clearly what the idea is here,
is that you have, you're duping.
You are duping, you're doing taquia,
you are doing tricks, shenanigans.
just like my, my, my Shia goes Zoran, Zahra, I'm going to see him this, uh,
this weekend. So I, I got to, I got to cool it on this, this Zahra on talk.
Oh man.
Panna the EBSU files obsessed congressman out of California there.
He was saying that Hassan Piker is great. I stand with Hassan Piker there.
It's just, it's just disgusting stuff, but I will say I've actually been to
Cuba. It's pretty rare for Americans to go. I've actually been to Cuba.
I've seen it for myself. You cannot possibly see Cuba, Rita, which along with North Korea is by one of
the last examples of true legitimate communism remaining on planet Earth, this utterly failed
terrific murderous. The Sampak and other Americans subversive to bringing the law by
staying in prohibited hotels on the current trip. It's not, by the way, to rescue Cuba's
failing capture regime, prosecute his miscreants. Maybe learn the law first. Yeah, buddy. So
It's so funny that they're on the internet.
Yeah, actually, no.
Oh, we forgot us on movie before we sent you to QM.
There's all these, like, you know,
all this planning, all these reasons.
We forgot.
Oh my God, we made the really obvious fuck up,
which is why you're now sitting in Los Angeles
and we're gonna be here back safely.
Yeah, no, literally.
Oh, because you, oh my God.
It's fucking hilarious.
Bro, these people are not serious.
This one was awesome because, like,
they unironically reveal how stupid
this restriction actually is.
Yes.
Because they had that,
because they got really excited to try to get me prosecuted by the federal government.
By the way, it's 100% U.S. law.
Oh, and it can face $250,000 fine up to 10 years of prison once it gets back to the states.
Do you think that that's a fucking valid thing?
Like even if I were to violate this O-fact restriction?
Sorry, I, you know what?
Something tells me that High King Fianor Alpha Chad of Middle Earth, I, I, I listen
man.
I, you know, I'm pretty good at sensing the veracity of sources here, but something
tells me that guy may not have been playing with a full deck.
Yeah, but it's just like fucking nuts that like most other people are too busy doing like the big speed and five-star hotels on their own
volition and then
First they were like all these people are hotels like oh they're fucking their assholes all this shit and now
now
There's there's other people being like actually they didn't do that because like openly admitting that there is this like
Ridiculous American restriction on where you can stay if you fucking go to Cuba
So, you know, I prefer, I mean, there's also like, there's so much, like, if you're going,
you know, like, I mean, it's also like, look, like the rule, the truth is also like, a lot
of these rules were loosened under Obama.
And so there is like a certain, there is like a greater degree of freedom and how Americans
can visit Cuba and where they can stay and so on.
That said, even when I went, there are a bunch of rules that you do abide by
in terms of like not partaking in like you know tourism activities and things
like that that aren't part of like an itinerary you know an approved itinerary
or whatever and there are like there are there is like a kind of like there are
actual rules and guidelines that people fall and if any of these people wanted
to pick up the phone and call I don't know like one of the zillion travel
agents in the US that does organize these kinds of trips and has some
passing familiarity with it I think that they you know they would they
would soon learn that the $250,000 fine and in that that perspective
prison time for you isn't really on the table yeah um but you wrote on air
condition buses yeah it's just like like uh don't stay in the comedies and
hotel that's illegal bro you don't want to know what would happen it's really
bad I swear to god bro yeah um it's it's you know what everyday Cubans are
really pissed about getting right now foreign currency yeah everyone yeah you
You went to, you, you were, we were walking around, we were walking around town and all
Havana and every, every Cuban that we encountered were like, oh, why are you here?
I hate that.
I, I, I, I hate that you're here.
It's the worst thing.
That's what they were saying.
If you look at the internet, that's literally, dude, it was unbelievable.
I saw all of these accounts after the fact, from like a day prior, because like the Twitter
algorithm is totally busted and it shows you like, who's from a day prior.
And it was like, these guys, like the coupons are rising up and they're surrounding the
hotel right now and there's armed guards defending the Americans in the hotels.
The cashier regime is like, you know, turning on their own people and it's like, bro,
I'm literally, I was in the hotel.
like, it's not a thing that happened.
Like you just made it up and it's like super viral.
But this is where it gets to the level of like,
some of it is that there's not like an immediate count
because there's like an information gap.
Yeah, because it's Cuba, because it's not like
as connected and plugged into what's going on
and there aren't also like a bunch of eyes on the street
there that can immediately rebut it.
You can spin a narrative very quickly here
at any set of points.
Yeah, because the people that are there also
don't have access to the internet either.
So they can't just like see the shit that's going around and like counter it in real time. It's it's fucking insane
It's a totally insane
Anyway, let's finish this and then I'm gonna move on the situation monitoring where you know, we got to talk about the
spectacular success of operation epic fortnight
Operation Epstein's fury whatever you want to fucking call it massive massive success. I've just been going with epic fail
Yeah epic fail
Actually see cute, but when you see this beautiful water Havana could be them. Okay, whatever actually don't fuck this
I'm done with this shit
This person was also going through the the
Comprehensive all the fucking science is the last video. I'm gonna watch and then what is this?
Wearing a $5,000 fit
But this is like
To tell poor people capitalism is bad as wild dude. Why are they doing D pop?
Do they now understand when you're fucking rich and famous people literally send you shit?
Like do you not get that I mean, maybe you don't and some some I
Purchase on my own of course, but like what is this like what?
What what is this fucking D pop shit like oh get this fit?
They got the wrong watch missed by $30. Yeah, it's actually the luxury model. Yeah, it's
more expensive than that. Yeah, breaking news, dude. I'm rich. Yeah, motherfucker. Piker broadcasting
service, baby, sponsor. I mean, I will say, look, the people for you, the people, motherfucker.
That's how it is voluntary subscriptions. When Bren and I went, we did out of respect
for the Cuban people. We took off our shoes and walked around and with our feet and
clean boxes. I'm glad I didn't want, I didn't, I didn't want the people of Cuba
have to see my new balances. Yeah, they would have been very offended. They would have been
very offensive. Would it not be more performing to go out and buy some fucking Walmart does
this place? Yes, exactly. That is correct. That is the exact right attitude is that the
actual like insulting thing. Also, if you did like if you do is have drip. Yes, they
do have drip. I mean, and also like there's like, I think something that has like been
kind of interesting is also as I'm sure you saw is that like there is in Cuba like it's not it's
not like a like huge but part of what the Obama thought like produced was something of like a
private sector and also the increase in remittances from abroad and the amount of money that comes
in from abroad that does allow certain people like certain classes within Cuba to have access
to these goods so it's like there is like it's not like like people there haven't fucking seen
a Cartier like glass like I haven't seen nice glasses before yeah there's a kind of I mean it's it's like
it I'm not surprised but it is a little bit like it's clear that there's like an enormous amount
of ignorance about the most basic facts there yeah it's just it all of it literally reduces to
if you are in any way if you are in any way shaver form uh like better off in the embrace so dirty
And that's so fucking funny. Sorry. That's really you know, it's like oh wow look at this rich fucking
You know look at this asshole this guy's piece of shit and then look at the guy next to him who doesn't matter
He's actually that shirt. He's wearing is for pores the jeans to that little hat
It's crazy all the criticism about you having money and using an all-stem for communities of other wealthy people who don't do nearly as much
Activism as you FD signifier himself said that none of us are ever gonna know about 99% of the Institute putting your money where your mouth is
nor should we yeah you will never know well hopefully you will never know okay
let's let's be real anyway um rich and wannabe rich guys see you as a class
reader i know but like you know what it reminds me of low-key it reminds me
of like white supremacist guys that will be like you're a race trader it
almost feels that way where you're like what are you doing this you should not
be advocating for the poor usually sitting around and being like i'm rich
it's fucking awesome maybe one day you'll get there and like a lot of the
people this has always been like this is like um like whether you're talking about
like Gore-Vidal or Oscar Wilde like like there has always been a tradition yeah
of like when somebody who comes from the upper classes and espouses left-wing
politics that are outside the like you know established norms of acceptable
mainstream discourse within their country like this is this is a natural
byproduct of it now you know when you look at like well traditionally out of
what classes do radical politics bring in terms of the idea level.
If not like, you know, like as the class with like the, you know,
the people that have agency over society or whatever,
it is a class of like educated people with me. Like it's not,
it's, this is like a thing that happens over and over and over again.
And for as long as there are socialists in a capitalist society who espouse
such attitudes, there will be this like very aggravating and
alternative. Was the alternative for me to just like sit around and be like,
Vow of poverty. I mean that's what they want. They want every social...
No, but then it's larping.
I agree. No, I agree. That's what they think though. They believe that the lurp is the real.
No, but it also is the exact same thing where it's like, oh, you sit around at home and you chirp.
You don't do anything, right? You sit around and you don't do anything. It's all bullshit. You're fake.
I do actually take my ass out and go do things.
Then they go, oh, you're performative.
You're performative, okay?
It's a double bind.
There is no, there is no world
where they will give you props,
which this is not about that anyway.
It doesn't fucking matter.
Who gives a shit what these goddamn monsters say?
They're fucking evil.
Patience about people coming here to Cuba
to deliver humanitarian aid are very interesting to me.
One of the headlines of some of the commentary
I've seen is in terms of all of the people that came here. They stayed at a four-star hotel
while the rest of Cuba was in darkness. I want to remind you all that while it's not illegal for
American citizens to come here to Cuba, it is absolutely illegal for us to stay in any of
these hotels that you see on this screenshot. We cannot stay at all of these listed brand
hotels. We cannot stay at a mom and pop hotel. We cannot stay at anywhere that is Cuban-owned
in Cuba because that was instated by your United States government. And those who do
stay with Cuban families because the first time I came to Cuba in November, I stayed with a family.
They actually have to take our passport numbers and register us because of our United States government.
Again, it is not illegal for American citizens to travel to Cuba. However, just like the
sanctions in the blockade, the United States government makes damn sure that we don't
support the Cuban people. The second thing I saw was, oh, all of these influencers spent
all of this money when they just could have given it to the Cuban people. How do you know
that because of the blockade and the sanction that United States citizens literally can't
because you can't crazy love that. It makes me feel insane. Why don't we start to go
fund me for Cuba? Yeah, bro. It unironically reminds me of like, like being like just
having the knowledge of what Israel has done for 80 years, like right up, uh, you
know, 75 years like right after October 7 and just like trying to explain to
people that would just look at you like you're the biggest monstrous piece of shit of all time
where you're like I know the truth and I hope one day you will too and lucky lucky for us I guess
people do now recognize it at least they're scratching the surface of it but it's like
it's the same principle here like this machine this bureaucratic sanctions regime is designed in
this insidious way for it to be fucking invisible so when you actually describe it to people they
look at you and they're like, that's not true. So they don't believe you.
Well, and also, like, they don't fucking believe you. You can't spend money.
It's not just about Cuba. It's also like, I think one of the things that people in general
predict, sanctions and, and, and like economic policy and the use as an economic weapon.
Um, I think that it's one of those things that Americans, typically in people on the
internet, like, love to, you know, like, they're very blasé about it. They're
extraordinarily blasé about it, not recognizing that, you know, in the case of Cuba,
For example, Helms Burton means, you know, it puts incredible restrictions on foreign
companies that do business in Cuba.
You know, like, it's like, what's that mean where it's like, I consent, I consent, somebody
you forgot to ask.
And that's like everything Cuba does except the person you forgot to ask is the United
States.
It's like, I think that there is in, in, in, you know, it's not just Cuba.
I mean, Venezuela, it has been the case.
And by the way, with these other countries, you know, like Venezuela, for example,
Iran, or in the case of Syria, where we're pursuing this, you know, rapprochement,
like you know a changeover like the sanctions were kept in place even after Assad had fallen at first because there is and remains this effort to you
You know, it's a position of basic strategy
It's in the toolkit that every president every White House every administration uses that that kind of coercion is acceptable
Even though, you know, I think if we look around the world
We would find that the extent and violence of that coercion and the effect that it has in populations
There's nobody that's doing anything like it that comes even close
to the scale which the United States operates to the number of countries in which we do it in
different places around the world. And the latest study showed that it was the death toll
of America's sanctions regime, which is complemented to Jeff Stein's piece on Washington Post
before he left, was 38 million total. 38 million deaths born out of America's
ridiculous sanctions were re sanctioned. I believe what 69% of all low-income countries
around the fucking planet forced them to basically create a secondary marketplace in and of itself.
It's unfucking believable how cruel it is and it's designed in this invisible manner.
And not only is it designed in this invisible manner, but it's also, it makes you go crazy
when you find out about it, when you realize what's going on and you try to explain
it to people and people go, nah, that's not real.
the Merchant were talking about Langston's report that since the early 70s US sanctions
caused millions of death and led to ruin equivalent to the worst war. I suppose I could just Google
this, but was the Cuba model for this new regime of economic terrorism reaching for the nearest
LLM tells me that Japan and World War II in the China and North Korea preceded Cuba.
But still it seems that the kind of sanctions placed on Cuba in the early 60s did serve
as a model for their fuller routine deployment starting in the 70s.
The way I would periodize it, I mean like Greg Grated is literally one of the
great historians working today so like permit me like a slight reply to him
here but the way I would put it is that it's funny that he's using he's relying
on a lot I mean but it's because you can't Google shit anymore and that's the
exact kind of thing I would Google but now if you Google it it's just like
here's what Gemini eyes says and then here's like 20 results of crap yeah anyway
the like I think that the the thing that Cuba distinguished like the
context in which Cuba was placed under embargo so Eisenhower it's an it's
January 1960, 61, Eisenhower is leaving office. And in the period leading up to Eisenhower
leaving office, the US purchase, the US agreement to purchase Cuban sugar is avoided. They implement
all sorts of measures to punish the Castro government. And then in April of 19-
They openly stated in the CIA, no, this came after, the CIA documents that were declassified
years later that said that the primary purpose of the sanctions were for it to be invisible,
but to create great...
It's been made explicit, and we know that the point of the sanctions is not to produce
any intermediate effect, or it wasn't about what the rhetoric is, which is about punishing
the rulers of the country, or whomever.
It is about squeezing the country to create pressure from below on the people up top.
It's not the other way around.
And so at the time that these very punitive measures were introduced, well that's the beginning
of 61 right before JFK takes office, and then he keeps it.
And then in April 61 is the Bay of Pigs.
And ever since that period, and then I would sort of, of course, the following year with
the missile crisis, we can kind of see, I guess, the beginnings of a Cold War era
policy of sanctions regimes as this kind of deadly weapon.
And I would argue to respond to Graydon that like, yeah, the Cuba model was that it was
a model and you can point to Korea, you can point to North Korea after the Korean War,
you can look at all of these other examples that come a bit earlier.
But in terms of, I mean, it's hard to describe just like in the 1960s, what was the biggest
CIA field office in the entire world outside of Washington?
It was Miami.
Cuba was the biggest desk of all of the CIA's task forces going on, perhaps
outside of Vietnam. It was the largest. It was where there was an enormous amount of
investment of financial resources on the part of the CIA and so on. But it was also a place
of clearly experimentation. It was a place where they sought to develop new ways. And
you know, I mean, there's been like 500 some odd, I think 537 attempts, recorded attempts
on Castro's life. Yeah, 600 plus. I mean, it's, it's, you know, it's one of those
numbers that no matter what the number you're given is, it's too low. Probably. Because I'm
including all of the times that the CIA gave like $500 to a guy in a shoebox and then he just like,
he went and bought a sound system and, you know, didn't do anything. Yeah. But yeah, here's the
State Department memorandum, the decline and fall of Castro secret memorandum that was declassified,
but it's from April 6, 1960. Sailing considerations and respecting the life of the
of the present government in Cuba are the majority of Cuba's support cash or the lowest
estimate I've seen is 50%. There's no effective political opposition.
You know, Castro and other members of the Cuban government espouse or condone communist
influence, communist influences, pervading the government and the body politic at an
amazingly fast rate.
The only foreseeable means of alienating an internal support is through disenchantment
disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship.
By the way, this is like exactly a year before the Bay of Pigs takes place.
And so, which means by the way that as this happens, so in 1960, like as the presidential
campaign is happening, they are putting together the plans and organizing what will be the Bay
of Pigs.
Quite famously, Alan Dulles briefed both Nixon, well, Nixon was involved in it, but he briefed
JFK as well.
And then at a debate, JFK, knowing that Nixon couldn't talk about what was going
on, like slammed Nixon for being soft on Cuba.
which is a pretty clever move.
But, I mean, the whole,
like this was part of like a whole escalatory program
against Cuba that like began in 1960
and really has not stopped after 65 years.
Unfuckin' believable shit.
Have sanctions ever worked anywhere?
Well, what's worked?
Like Vincent Bevin's, the journalist,
has made a really compelling,
He made a really compelling argument in his sub-stack that I would highly recommend people
to look up.
If you Google the phrase, regime collapse, it'll come up.
But he makes this argument that a lot of what these policies are designed to do and
their effect is not about implementing a regime change.
They're not about really anything other than trying to introduce as much pain as possible
to eliminate the conditions of governance, period.
And you could say that by themselves, have they ever worked?
I couldn't come up with an answer off the dome,
but I do think that when you look at sanctions applied
in concert with kinetic military action,
as well as other kinds of diplomatic pressure, isolation,
it's incredibly effective.
They're very effective.
And I think it's really like the,
are you the question of like, do they work or not?
Is like, well, they inflict the pain,
they inflict the damage.
So by that measure, they work.
It's like, does the car get you from point A to point B?
Yes.
it's like it puts the countries in an impossible bind because like when you're under siege like conditions and
And there is like internal instability that will come about as a direct consequence of like economic instability
Then the government's like okay. Well people are fucking chirping. What do we do?
We have to like arrest some people, you know, and then it's like that repression
Snowballs into more and more discontent
Until like it happened in Iran where America and Israel decide to just like drop the ball
and realize that they can't really implement popular mobilization on the ground so they just decide to
Directly start bombing the fucking country, but of course in the case of Iran, which we are going to move into now
You know if that country has hands all of a sudden they're like whoa
It's not it's we were allowed to put military bases in every country that borders you but you're not allowed to hit them
Yeah, I that was I was so funny. It's such a funny way to fucking approach
I was basically openly revealed that to like they have literally openly revealed like it's illegal to strike back
Hmm
Economically literate and principled neoliberals from Milton Friedman and Hillary Clinton they've always argued against sanctions precisely on the grounds
But they make impossible to credibly attribute Cuba's failure to socialism
It's the hacks who like this who won't admit it. You're my Johnson that guy on Twitter. He's not he's you
for those watching. He's a billionaire flesh puppet. You can just ignore it.
It is interesting that aside from the Israeli agents, like the Hossbra merchants on the
Outrage Factory, it is actually third way and the neoliberal think tanks that are my
biggest off. Because they have, I think that's because
centrist, like self-avowed centrist politics, not like people who self-identify as moderates
and are trying to find middle paths, but like people who legitimately believe in a kind of
like political fusionism where it's like we support gay marriage and we also support like
you never having health care in your life, whatever. Like you know those kinds of people
the thing that they can actually most saliently define their you know like their identity right
now, the thing that helps them do that the most is to do an opposition politics organized
against, again, like on, you know, in the Cold War era, this would have been against communism.
But now it's against, you know, people who have these kinds of, you know, sympathetic
left-wing politics and foreign policy or whatever.
Because they can't say, oh, well, I support, like, you know, like all the, like the AI
companies, for example.
Like these, like, vastly insanely unpopular avatars for, like, everything wrong with
American capitalism right now, et cetera, et cetera.
And like, you can't talk about that because that's actually really unpopular.
So you have to go to the issues and where people don't know a whole lot and where your
opponents, where your ops are currently engaged.
So they're meeting you where you are.
But it's funny because like the issues that I advance that I want to, uh, to, you know,
bring awareness to, unfortunately for them are also deeply popular in the base.
So then they find themselves in opposition to like a free Palestine movement.
And that, I think further isolates them from average people.
But I guess that's not really the point, but the point is to just like, you know, create
some fuss and try to present me as like a toxic individual.
Because they're not waging on the level of like trying to reach people.
This is about like a kind of raising the issue of my toxicity to politicians.
Elite level discourse where it's like so guide third way and his junior staffer who probably wrote the piece
Can co-write something for the Wall Street Journal op-ed page, you know
Nobody's gonna give a shit about that. Nope. No general person
The point of that is that it influences like elite opinion perhaps and it'll create a stink that said the fact that it ran in
The Wall Street Journal opinion section, which is like truly the intellectual level of a fucking town hall calm comment section
And you know, it's, to me, at the very fucking least, it's like, it just shows that they don't
have the emotion.
They have no sauce.
They have no juice.
Nobody cares what any of these people think about this.
Yeah.
All right.
Let's get the situation monitoring, which, you know, I've done very little of for
the past couple of days, because I've been in Cuba, but the war efforts going
really well.
I don't know if you're aware of this, but it's a victory's coming any day now any day now one of my favorite
I've actually been really you know
I've been really excited to do my part because I live in Manhattan
And I don't have a car, but I really am excited to be here in Los Angeles where I have a rental car
Yeah, I could do my part to support the war effort by paying for $7 a gallon war bonds war bonds
It's our version of war bonds. Oh wait Jerry Baker. Sorry. He's not just the Wall Street Journal editor at large
He's the former editor of the entire paper. Yeah
Um, he's like, not like, uh,
Iranian media says there was no direct or indirect contact with Trump.
It claims he was threatening to attack West Asia energy facilities.
The unsettling reality is that with this president, Americans in wartime
are in unprecedented position of having to suspect that the enemy's version
of events is more likely to be true than our own.
We have become Baghdad, Bob.
She has to say that because we were always Baghdad, Bob.
I'm, I'm sorry.
We've lived, there's never been a moment where we're not back at
You're telling me that the ex-underer of the paper who moderated presidential debates in 2016 for Fox business news
Might not might be might not be letting on all that he knows about the failures of media
Is the only difference is Trump is so vulgar and so incompetent that there is no liberal patina that even
The the previous formation
Was able to slap on right?
It's it's it's totally fucking ridiculous is totally oh this is what I wanted
this is all I love this is the best I read this a laugh to myself sequence of
events Friday's press gaggle barely exaggerated at 12 o'clock 3 p.m.
President Trump told reporters he wanted to ceasefire with Iran at 12 0 5 he
declared victory at 12 0 7 he announced he was sending Marines at 12 0 8
He said, no boots on the ground.
How did he do that in 66?
At 12, at 1211, he said he did not want a ceasefire.
At 1216, he declared victory again.
At 1217, he asked for a ceasefire.
At 1223, he told NATO they were cowards.
At 1229, he said Iran was begging for a ceasefire.
At 1231, he said everything was perfect.
At 1236, he said $500 oil was a good thing.
At 1237, he demanded Iran open the Hormuz.
At 1239, he said Hormuz was never closed.
At 1241, he said the US was not at war with Iran.
At 1242, he declared victory in Iran.
There's no, what are we doing?
There's no way.
No, we're, did you hear the next thing though?
There's actually we've had we've had some development since this we're now it appears that we may jointly operate
Worms. Yes. Yeah. Do you see the Dylan side?
Well, I'm sorry you're wrong Pentagon ways development
It's like if you if you were so close if you blink if you blink
You will literally see a role reversal and my favorite thing because as you might know
You know dirty commie and all I have this this principled stance that money is more fake
This is the fakest money has ever been. Okay, there's no
World where the stock market is is associated with any fucking fundamentals whatsoever
We have never had money be so fake in our entire lives because
While this guy is
Contradicting himself sometimes in the same minutes sometimes in the same sentence
The stock market is leaning into whatever they want to hear and they're going oh, no
It's it's great. Actually now all of a sudden the markets are stabilizing
Well, I do think it was really funny though that the market like went back to taking a bit of a shit and oil went back to increasing
As soon as Iran said hold up. Yeah, hold a minute
We're not talking like I
Yeah, look at this look at this look at this look at this look at this
It's so good and 704 a.m. Eastern today president Trump's at the u.s. And Iran have had a productive discussion to end the Iran war
Okay, boom at 7 10 a.m.
S&P surge 240 points adding two trillion to the market cap
27 minutes later Iran completely denied all the president Trump's claims and said there has been no conflict with the u.s.
At 8 a.m. Eastern the S&P 500 have fallen 120 points erasing 1 trillion in market cap
There's a three trillion swing market cap of 56 minutes just in the SMP 500. Yeah, I love that the SMP 500 famous for its
volatility. Yeah, that's like I
It's hard to convey just how
You know, you know what you never see you don't hear anybody say anymore. What nothing ever happens. Yeah
I think I think we gotta be this year. We are in
Something we're not out of it, and it's not in the
When Francis Fukuyama is running around being like countries need to develop nuclear
sovereignty prompting, it's fucking over, baby.
I do think that there is like, this goes to something you were getting at though about
like why it's like this third way people, like nobody listened, like you got the fucking
Jerry Baker at the Wall Street Journal saying like we can't trust our president or whatever.
Like it's just hard to convey how strange and surreal it is to have something this
Yes, this is what I was talking about which by the way look up the somebody find the Iranian
Embassy, and I think South Africa they copied the tweet. Oh, really?
Trump tells reporters of the Shredda Hormuz maybe control by me and the Ayatollah
That's brilliant that's fucking brilliant dude. Oh my lord. That's so good
Energy industry insider in Iran tells me the following and it's stunning. So it's for the Parsi
Before the war, Iran produced just shy of 1.1 million barrels of oil per day and sold it
at $65 per barrel minus $18 discount, i.e. $47. Today, it produces 1.5 million barrels
per day and sells it at $110 with only $2 to $4 a discount.
This does not include petrochemical sales that not only have increased, but are now
being sold as a larger set of customers compared to before the war.
Moreover, Iran is receiving payments through new mechanisms that bypass the UAE, which were set up after the June War in essence.
And this is really important to understand.
Trump and Israel's war has ended up delivering Iran de facto sanctions relief.
And on top of that, they're now paying.
They're making them pay tolls if they want to pass the fucking Strait of Hormuz.
And they're the way that they're making those tolls work.
So like in the 1970s, one of the ways that America dealt
with the oil shock in 73, 74, and then in 79,
but especially in the earlier phase,
was that America, we left the gold standard earlier
in the decade, but the biggest, like one of the biggest,
most unheralded parts of that was that we did,
we recycled petro dollars by selling all of these
governments crazy huge weapons.
So that was part of how we fix all this, you know, we, we, we use that geopolitical tumult
and that circumstance now to reweight the dollar and re, you know, and, and, and, and
help, you know, restore a stronger dollar by having, you know, these Arab governments
spend and Iran at that time, spend crazy amounts of money with us on our, on, you
know, on F six, on fighter jets and whatever, um, you know, now like Iran arguably is,
you know, trying to force a similar kind of thing because not only have they, you
Like are you know clearly they're in the money is treat a party tells it in some respect
But now they're also saying no no the only way the oil goes if you pay us and you want
Meaning that they are trying to destroy the petrodollar system exactly
We're trying to the petrodollar system is like it's a bit of an antiquated way of looking at it. Just like it doesn't
It's also it's also one that like I feel like they just kind of threw that out there for China
It's about how it looks yeah, China doesn't even fucking want it like I don't think China is ready
for being like the the domineering hegemon. They don't want it. They want to do nothing
and win and they will. But like it's. This is the unironic do nothing win moment though.
Because like China is always doing things, right? I don't I don't agree with the do nothing
win principle when it comes to China. But this is absolutely a moment where they did
nothing. They literally objectively did nothing. And they will probably be part
of the diplomatic resolution. Yeah, well, they have to be. Yeah, right now. I mean, the crazy
thing is that supposedly the talks that they're claiming have been happening are in Pakistan.
Yeah, which is also like, I mean, but it's like, okay, so that's just a rehash of the Oman thing.
We were going to like a third party. I personally take offense to as a Turk because
We are normally the table. The fact that they're going to Islamabad instead of Turkey is is unbelievable
We are the table. We are at the table is really fucked up. You're under the table right now. Yeah, we're under the table currently
I mean, yeah, literally the
Iranians uh, lasered one of
Yeah, it's one of our helicopters
Which is like there's there's two major
military presence
In in cutter and it's it's america obviously the biggest one st. Com and then turkey
And I don't know what the fuck they were doing flying around
their troops and I believe a sense on
Engineers in a helicopter. I don't know what the fuck was going on there. But yeah, they they shot down a Turkish helicopter
We're no longer at the table it frustrates me
Islam a good bro Islam a bad is Islam a phobic
Yeah, Turkey's into intermediate. Okay, never mind. We're still at the table. Never mind.
Confirm. Turkish source tells Alamon or the U.S. is asking for a car. This is awesome.
Because now all the leaks are just, hey, look at all of our ideas for talks. We love talking.
We love talking. Yeah, what up? We love talking. We love talking. Do not mind all
these troops that we're massing. Yeah, do not mind that we've killed literally every
person that we've talked to. Yeah. Don't mind it.
Iran don't fuck with Fidon. Yeah, I mean no shit did I love the dog. Yeah
This is sorry, but Turkey is literally a
Principal second largest standing army in NATO. Come on. Yeah, and also literally has his own sovereign needs obviously has his own regional goals
Of course in America sometimes lets them accomplish it which regional goals basically just like killing Kurds. That's like
for the most part, that's what the regional goals are but like
But outside of that, there is like tensions boiling between Turkey and Israel, but it doesn't
change the dynamic that like Turkey does actually play a major role in making sure that the
Israeli energy grid stays stable.
I mean, the pipelines from Azerbaijan go through Turkey, and the Turkish ports are how they
deliver the oil and gas to Israel.
like 45% of Israel's entire energy grid. And there's never been a moment where Turkey has
said, yeah, we're going to fucking shut this down. Okay.
Turks used to deny this, by the way. Ironically enough, now they say, oh, what can we do?
We're, you know, we don't have any power, but they used to literally deny it.
Well, and like, it's like, I mean, there's like, you know, obviously so much more about
this than me, but to me, it has always struck me that like, like Turkey's policy
is just a triangulation game, like it's, you know, like, they know where their people
are at on this issue. They know what the demands are of like their current set of geopolitical
alliances and strategy. And then there's also like, you know, whatever set of policies
are good to preserve like the level of accumulation for the people that run the show. And so
it's like, always finding like what is like, you know, like the, like the, the, the
like five inch by six inch hole in which you can fit something that like meets all
those needs.
But I think the real like the real test of like whether this is you know
unsinkable aircraft carrier or Zog theory will be if if Israel gets to wage war
against Turkey and then like undermines the entire NATO allegiance altogether
because like at that point it's like undeniable right like it's just it's
fucking ridiculous that America will be like yeah you know what we're gonna this
This NATO stuff is too big.
I mean, NATO is...
I mean, look, one of the...
Okay, I'll throw this out there, so that I can...
Because this is actually like...
What I'm about to say is like real live stream fail material,
which is just that I do think that it's...
Like, NATO is coming under an enormous amount of pressure
and simply because the fight is now happening in Iran,
I think people have kind of lost sight of a bit
about some of what makes NATO feel very fragile at this moment.
like the geopolitical origin of NATO, right?
Like the basis of it was an alliance
to combat the Soviet Union
and to prevent the spread of communism there.
And it came together in the years after World War II
at the beginning of the Cold War
and we were almost a century on.
And does the strategic rationale
that was the basis for the origin of NATO still hold?
And the question, I'm posing a question
that was very heavily theorized
and discussed in the 1990s in particular.
George Kennan had some interesting stuff to say
about it as somebody who was a, you know, one of the ideological inspirations for NATO
in a Cold War ideologue who then by the nineties is like, you know, this, this thing may have
run its course.
You that's a thing breaking on a Dula agency says on the law, John says, Oh, this is
awesome.
Sorry.
Allegation coming to Pakistan in a day or two for possible talks, but Iran's still
not ready due to mistrust.
Pakistani Foreign Ministry.
Oh my God.
I wanted to look, uh, dude, imagine the pump fake.
They go and they're not there.
I mean, the US is doing that.
happening? This is humiliating. Everyone come to Washington. We need a real government. We
need a real government. We can't have these losers who show up to diplomacy meetings without
knowing if the other people are even going just because they know how fucked they are.
I think they should mug Wiccough and just be like, yeah, yeah, we're coming and then
just not show up. Because what are they going to do? They're like talking about
Blowing up the energy grid in Iran. Okay, Iran has said that there were that all right
We'll do it back. They fucking they keep King Von posting on a daily fucking basis
They literally posted every single energy infrastructure that they will destroy in the entire fucking region and obviously a lot of people think oh
Well, this will collapse the GCC
And it will it will have it will have global impacts
That are are insanely damaging, but maybe you'd like the entire world will
come together and like oppose Iran. But the reality of the matter is because of the
way in which global capitalism works, it creates a massive security flaw. It's a
fragile ecosystem when you have a country that's willing to fucking not just
like take the war back to the principal defenders but directly to the
fucking centers of profit, directly to the centers of capital. Those are
American banks, right? Those are American refineries at the end of the day. Like, yeah, it's Saudi
or Ramco, but like, who fucking put those, who put those things together? Who still benefits from it?
These are still going to be American. These are still going to be American capital owners that
are not benefiting from investments getting blown up. And even if we don't directly own this
stuff anymore, or even if we're not directly part of it, like, I don't know who pays for
Saudi Arabia's, but you know, who supplies them with their military technology, who supplies
all these people, you know, like essentially the rudiments of state making, let's call it,
like all of the things that you need to do to be able to administer power, administer government
in the 21st century, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, none of those countries could do any of it,
were it not for the largesse of the United States, you know, you know, like coming,
you know, on the other side of the table, like it's, that is what the U.S. brings to the
bargain. Yeah, also, massive explosion heard in Tehran along with air defenses, like they're
still being fucking bomb. Oh yeah, great. Um, but I do love I do love personally that that Donald
Trump went from all we're gonna blow everything up to this war. Not war. Not war. Just peace.
Just peace. Just peace. No, forever, forever. Peace forever. No crazy war. No crazy.
No crazy war, no war!
He's literally, he went in a matter of like, you know, two to three weeks, he went from
yes war to no war, no crazy war, just peace, peace forever!
They should immediately release Maduro by the way, which is really fucked up.
But, that's the-
Free, free, free my man's.
Yeah, free my man's school high school walk out free Madura walk out 3 p.m.
Netanyahu just spoke to Trump all wonderful
Wonderful, I just spoke to President Trump
Here read it read it read it. I spoke earlier today with President Trump
He believes there is a chance to leverage the military achievements of the war
To get all of the objectives of the war through an agreement
Such an agreement will safeguard our interests
I I think these guys don't I think he's first they're all trying to find a way out
We're now getting it
Saying that like the massage done. There's gonna be an uprising like oh, no, this is cooked. They're done
They're trying to find the door. They are so fucked and the reality is
Iran oh my god because they killed all the fucking restraint guys
They killed all the restraint guys so the rest are like no we have the fucking
posts, the more hardliner guy from their government who's still both alive and on Twitter, who
has been doing some pretty good posts today that I haven't seen.
No, they've been doing like, they've been doing like cringe posts thing. The IRGC guy
was like, Donald Trump, you are fired. It's, yeah, Robert Paype is cursed to see his
work vindicated over and over again.
All right.
He wasn't the first guy to point out that air power never wins to be clear.
But no, no, but it's that and also the escalation ladder.
He loves, he loves the, like he only posts the same thing, copy and paste every day.
He's like, well, this is the escalation trap, please read my book.
My book.
No, I also look as somebody who has to hawk something, I'm never going to knock
somebody for that.
Yeah.
I think that this is part of what's so goofy though now where it's like what we're now witnessing like what we are seeing right now
Like set Lebanon to the side for a moment what we're seeing in Iran is like this
Insane bizarre scram. It's like it's like the Israel in the US are like, you know, the
This is for your audience probably too old, but one of the best like jackass
Like Jack Jack as sketches is medicine ball dodgeball and it's like fucking US and Israel are trying to find the door in
in like you know a dark room where people are throwing medicine balls like dodge balls it's absurd
the irgc clip oh yeah this was the clip this was the clip oh you are fired you are familiar with
this sentence thank you for your attention to this matter the central headquarter of khatam olambia
You are fired Donald Trump you are fired you are familiar with this sentence I
fucking that's hilarious we need to put he's we're gonna bury him under the
jail we're gonna bury him under the reactor I just wanted to be one of the
88 clerics why can't I have a say I've studied the Quran I know the
literature I know it I'm Shia in my heart and soul. I do think that there is also like
like the it's it's it's so difficult because we're now like a solid decade into you know like like
Trump life and there have been so many cycles of discourses about his health his state of mind
yeah um how aware is he of what's going on and I really do feel not because I've seen like clips
of Trump where he looks out of it or out of sorts. But just like, I don't think we've,
have we ever seen like a policy? And this is like for Trump, I'm talking about.
For Donald Trump, have we ever seen something this crazy, this, you know,
discombobulated, this contradictory? It's funny because like it's not even entirely
his own fault. I mean, obviously it mostly is his fault because he still very much has
the capacity to make that phone call to be like, we're done. We're done here, right?
it's over. And I don't know how much of the leverage they have. I'm certain that like reading
the tea leaves here and looking at the Iranian response, if they were to like cut Israel out
of the equation and were to like withdraw, which America simply doesn't do with the exception of
like with the Ansar al-Law movement and stuff. But if they were to do that, if they were
to give Iran assurances, like I'm certain that Iran would eventually say, all right, fine,
you know pay us reparations or you know by by unfreezing some of the assets that you have frozen for years and years it would be a
massive blow to American confidence and stuff, but like it would
in my opinion it would probably salvage like the the
remains of like the
American Empire at least for like another decade or two had big honey
But if they if they go in gung-ho like if they continue to escalate and and think that they do boost on the ground military warfare
with a country that has designed its entire defense around this exact scenario with a topography that looks the way it does, like a fucking fortress on three sides with mountains, they're fucked.
But it's over, that's why they're quietly conceding, well not quietly, loudly conceding.
I mean, I do think that some of what's going on though, is that like, and this is one of those things where it's like the Trump sloppiness and the incompetence really can't be dismissed or underplayed
because I do think that this is what we're like like everything you said like
the like ordinarily if you were to get into a situation like this you know as a
as a military leader as a president whatever you have an idea of what your
off ramps are you have an idea of if X doesn't work out then we will do why or
we will find a way to you know like Israel is very good at that by the
way because Israel choose as chosen like you know very aggressive very shocking
but fundamentally limited objectives as you know and that it seeks to
accomplished it, you know, as part of its whole strategic vision. But like, they
find ways out when things start to not, you know, when the people start coming
home in body bags, which is one of the, which is really the only like, you know,
metabolic thing that keeps Israel from getting deeper involved. But like, it's,
to me, this is where it's like, yeah, this is evidence of Trump had no plan to
get out. And because there's no plan, he's in this like really, it's a
political trap. It's entirely a political trap. Because as you say,
there's no reason he can't just, you know, make the call and say we're
done, it's that he has to come up with a basis for political legitimacy to do that, and he's
done so many different things, plus not having had the forethought, he doesn't have any way
of accomplishing that. There is no political victory, even partial, that he can claim at this
moment that we can yet see. And we're now entering week three, or whatever the fuck,
of him trying to find simply that. I thought it was goofy.
Can Iran give Trump a world peace award to end the war?
I actually think that that kind of logic is where we are headed because we are not going
to see actual things on the ground or a major treaty.
I know that we are in week four.
I think that they had a week where they thought they could really win this thing
and we've been three weeks of-
Of like, oh fuck.
Of like-
Where'd I go?
This is a theory that is like maybe a little, you know, lib brained of me, but like I truly think Donald Trump
Doesn't believe in the competence of his own intelligence community and his own like generals and
time and time again. He's like
Listen to Vladimir Putin or even Benjamin in y'all in this instance like he will just be like his own generals will come up
To him and be like dude. We're gonna run out of fucking batteries
We're going to run out of defense systems like we don't have the procurement strategy to
you know to
Develop in a in a rush
Just in time manufacturing system that we have like developing a rush like all the fucking missiles that are necessary for
keeping up this defense and
And if you do this, it's gonna be devastating. Dan came literally came out and
Leaked into the press ahead of time like this would be one of the biggest blows of the confidence of the American military is when you're
top-general literally is like this fucking idiot's not listening to me I have to go and tell every outlet
I possibly came that this is gonna be a spectacular failure with a host that there will be some pressure
There is like one stratum of this or like one like area of this that we haven't brought up
Which is like part of how this thing works and it gets sustained and that's like I would say it's a combination of like the Israel lobby and
And their fellow travelers, so I'm thinking of like fdb and I'm thinking of a pack and I'm thinking of all these other
organizations. They talked about their objectives. It's literally copy-paste from the FDD. FDD is a
cut out for the Israeli government by the way. For those of you who don't know, Foundation for
Defense of Democracy, what's the Hebrew name of it initially? I think it's like... I mean, I know,
they had to change the name because originally it was a Hebrew word, but they like... I think
it was a Hebrew word for truth. Emmett? Yes, it was Emmett. So FDD in 2001, when his first
launch was called Emmett, okay? The Hebrew word for truth. And they had to like restructure
it and make it more American because it was like two Israeli coded, but it's never actually
changed its design. Its purpose is literally to serve as Benjamin Netanyahu's own personal
think tank in America. And yeah, it's unbelievable that the American government's official communique
Shows a direct copy case from that was really like the the Israeli fucking mouthpiece in Washington, DC
Like I would also add this level of infiltration is insane
I mean and you know it's like infiltration is to me an accurate description from even if this was like some 24-year-old
He's working for the Trump administration was told like oh
We need to have this page up and running like go get the fact sheet out
And this is their choice was to just copy and paste this that tells you something
I think the other thing somebody else has been sharing this yeah about how Trump big believes
Israeli intelligence like one of the not so open or one of the not so you know like tight
secrets of American foreign policy is that Israeli intelligence is garbage Larry Lawrence
Lawrence Wilkerson the the ex-powel advisor yes is like a very like he's spoken very
explicitly about this.
It didn't used to be it didn't used to be well it's because it became particularly
since the Netanyahu era, like what it is, it's intelligence at its worst for political purposes,
meaning that it's intelligence that is made to support specific political objectives of
the government.
It's not like unvarnished political reporting, it's not sourcing, it's Iraq-worsed up all
over again.
Because the goal is not like in their minds like survival in the same way that like
the American defense industry no longer operates for a specific military purpose or a specific
military objective, there's so much defense bloat because it's a capitalist invention,
so they don't give a fuck about making the cheapest and the most resilient pieces of
military equipment.
The sophistication of it and the cost of it is no longer a consideration at all because
it's just an unlimited slush fund for all of the fucking shareholders that constantly
drop further and further profits.
And that's why you see the F-35, which was supposed to be this beacon of American
military superiority, get fucking taken out by a K-truck with a fucking built air
defense system on top of it in the mountains of Iran and it's a massive blow to American
air superiority.
And by the way, we can see it.
We're taking L's that we don't even know about yet.
Like the, the fucking, like there's that ship that got hit that they're saying there was
like a fire, a laundry fire, I think, the Gerald Ford.
And then, you know, we've had, there's never been, all of a sudden, I don't know
if you guys have known about this, but there's a lot of, the F-15, which has had
one of the most immaculate combat records in like 40, 50 fucking years of service. And then
all of a sudden we've been losing F-15s. Oh yeah. And then there was that F-35 that went
down, a plane that by the way is going to cost billions to replace.
Two trillion dollars in R&D that is supposed to be the peak of American ingenuity, right?
now being combat tested in real time and in a record pace has lost his air superiority
against the fences and people are coping so fucking hard that they're like, oh, this doesn't
actually put a real dent in like a message by what Maz is saying is pointing out right
now by the way here is really important because there was this piece there was one opinion
column in Al Jazeera a few days ago last week that was just getting passed around
over and over like Ben Smith from SEMA for a lot of people with frankly, like a lot more
sympathy than they should have for the Gulf countries or Gulf governments.
We're sharing exactly, but they're like, oh, this is really interesting.
I went to the pearl of the Gulf.
I went to the pearl of the Gulf, okay?
I feel bad for cutter.
Maybe Iran should stop.
That's what I think.
It's right.
Yeah.
That easy.
Yeah.
It's that easy for me.
There was this article in Al Jazeera and it was all about how like it was the bear case for Iran essentially
It was saying that like look Iran is actually in a weak position all of these launchers have been destroyed
How do we know they're destroyed because they're not launching missiles?
And that was like the most salient factual claim in that piece and it was like a very like now
We're seeing no Iran's capacity hasn't been diminished at all. Yeah. Yeah, it's like this is the thing
I mean not at all, but you know, this is the thing that I want
Yeah, it's not been intruded in the way that it's presented exactly
That's the thing that I want to ask people that like are constantly like
Reading the recycled cope machine from
People who are like American military superiority is awesome. We're fucking our dicks are so hard like like how do you cope with that?
reality that like a fucking 34 year old dickhead that has no like insider information has been
Openly fucking saying that this is a spectacular boondoggle from day one
I have literally been able to pinpoint and call out alongside many people in the in the ocean side of things that aren't
So so hurrah about American military superiority
How do you how do you make sense of that reality where people from the outside can have more sober assessment about America's?
Capabilities and more importantly its limitations then these people that are on the inside that have been basically fucking telling themselves
And anyone who will listen lies over and over and over again
Again, there have been people, there were people,
initially they would come into my chat and be like,
you're just coping, you're just fucking sad
that your best friend, the Ayatollah got fucking merked
and you can't get that sweet IRGC money any longer.
And I was like, dude, I'm just telling you
what's gonna happen tomorrow.
And when it happens tomorrow,
you're gonna come up with a fucking new cope.
And they've been doing that now for fucking 23 days.
When will it end?
That's really good, DUI hires.
yet do you why i heard that
but the fucking days man it's crazy at some point you gotta wake up to the
reality that like the iranian missile barrages are not stopping
and unironically the israeli defenses are actually diminished
in the process
and and they can't fucking defend the the the country anymore okay this is
this is to me like what this really reminds me of is the like
what's happening now
Reminds me of like what a lot of people when Reagan got elected what they thought he was gonna get into and then they were kind of pleasantly surprised
That he just decided to do proxy wars
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maintain my editorial independence. Alright, sorry, go ahead. Yeah, like they
wanted Reagan to be the one who would like, you know, they didn't want it. They
thought Reagan would be the one to do all this or whatever. And it ended up
being like a 40 year head start, but the 40 year, you know, like lag, I guess.
But to me, the thing that like is a part of what jumps out is that like all
All of this reminds me of, like, it's the same language, the same rhetoric, the same patterns
of thought as all the people who after America got washed in Vietnam were like, let's fucking
get out there, let's do it again.
You know, let's saddle the fuck back up, because I just don't know how you look at
something like this and be like, you know what, we'll fix this if we just throw a
bunch of ground troops into the equation.
Yeah.
US Navy nuclear aircraft carrier, USS Gerald Ford might be out for out of action for 14 months.
Bro, Jason Tatum wasn't even out that long.
It's fucked up.
Jason Tatum, like, you see NBA players, like, every night, like, lose, like, tendons, and
they're back on the fucking court, quick and long.
Well, this $13 billion piece of expensive machinery is constantly in a, I don't know
know what it is. I don't know. Like there's two work in theories here, right? Obviously,
one is that Iran was like peppering it somehow. And then the other one is like mutiny. I think
he could be mutiny. So mutiny is in her blowback season five. Yeah, five. Yeah, the one about
Cambodia in Vietnam. I have a good interview with people who are part of like a essentially
like a race riot on a ship, the Kitty Hawk. And that was one of a number of
incidents. And we mentioned this briefly in that season. But like one of the
reasons why, there's a really great book by the author David Courtwright that
also talks about this. Like essentially in 1972, during the period of time when
Nixon finally is like really forced to like end the war, essentially. Part of
what's going on is all of these mutinies and riots on Navy ships, on
aircraft carriers, the USS Constellation, the Kitty Hawk, and they're, you know, these
were very scandalous big events at the time that have been kind of, you know, memory-hold
a bit.
But part of what was so astonishing was that like, troop readiness and morale was a huge,
was one of the biggest reasons why the, you know, military ended up, or the U.S.
was forced to exit the Vietnam War.
So the idea that like-
Yeah, buddy fucking was like a commonplace practice in the front.
You would read stories about troops who were in Cambodia
who would frag their officers who were sending them
to do pointless or stupid missions
that they didn't agree with.
I mean, granted, there was a draft
and they're a draft existing.
Like, that's why we had an anti-war method.
We had an anti-war method to get a draft.
Like, that's the funniest thing when people are like,
well, we should prove back the draft.
I'm gonna say, why aren't people doing anti-war politics
that are good when we give Vietnam?
The people that are in defense of this administration's actions, claiming that we should do a draft
are the funniest people to me because you don't understand what you are fucking suggesting.
The only way that the American war machine continues is when it constantly feeds self-selecting
individuals who are volunteering, not knowing what they're gonna get into in real, if
we're being honest, they just don't fully comprehend.
They just think like, oh, I'll just be on a shift for a little bit and then I'll
get a comms degree and and hopefully I can get a fucking job and and have my
college paid for but like that is the system that has forced Americans or
caused Americans to decouple entirely from foreign policy if there was a draft
initiated tomorrow all of a sudden it would become a very different reality
every single 18 to 25 year old would be losing their fucking minds you would
see a real counterpoint, mild counterpoint. Gen Z, student gen alpha, you know, like generations
of people whom we think of as like indoor kids, they're on the computer a lot. I think a lot
of them want to see the world, and we know that they're not going to be able to get good
jobs that would allow them to travel. So I actually think, you know, kind of almost
like dialectically, they are the generation that if there is going to be a generation
drafted to fight some psycho war it would be like the the iPad I think it's
gonna be very hard to sell them on the idea they don't have to be sold they
don't have to consent but like I'm saying that they're they're not gonna
they're not gonna fucking go and die for Israel I don't think but no I think
that they're gonna know obviously I think what's end up gonna have what's
good what if there will never be a draft it's not a viable option it's
political suicide in this country but like the idea of committing ground troops
in this moment, I think would have a very comparable effect. I think that if they were
actually sending and preparing for like a meaningful ground presence of American troops
that is, you know, beyond being stationed at any of our bases or patrolling the seas
or whatever in this moment, then like, you would quickly start to cease in 1970 style
shit even though we don't have a draft because that's how unpopular this bullshit is.
Yeah. I think, I don't know if they would frag their officers, but I think you'll
see you know minor sabotage in the way that you're seeing currently like all of a sudden
the toilets don't flush and then they find out that there's like just t-shirts being
dumped in the bathrooms who the fuck puts a t-shirt in the toilet I mean I know some
of these guys are fucking stupid but that made me think like this gotta be deliberate
well there's now I mean I think one of the things that we're starting to see because
there really are not many press institutions that have like ties with like the military
meaning that like there aren't a ton of reporters who write for huge general audiences and who
are also like, you know, really plugged into what the most, you know, creative minds and
free thinking individuals, let's say, with those people in either the officer corps
or among the general infantry. And that's not because like reporters today like love
war that much more. It's just because of like the military has gotten that much better
at keeping its personnel away from the press, and the press has been conditioned to not actually
ask these kinds of questions. So I think that the extent to which we are seeing
this sort of dissension among the troops, it's just not communicated publicly,
and they can hide a lot of it. They're hiding a lot of it really successfully, I have to imagine.
Yeah. If you buy what Sencom is selling, it was the most accident prone to US military's
has been in its entire history. The F-15 Ender service six years ago and has never been down
during a war. Now five of them have been down by malfunction and friendly fire in two weeks.
On March 50, IDF claimed to have destroyed 300 Iranian missile launchers. So over the
next two plus weeks of fighting, they only destroyed or disabled 30 launchers. None of
it makes sense, especially because they were leaning too hard into either plugging
some holes, which they probably successfully did, right? Like the entry points into
where these tunnel systems are, and that caused a momentary pause in the volleys that were
being launched, or Iran was actually moving in a different direction and trying to make
sure that this was a war of attrition and they could continue doing this for as long
as possible.
And that's why they were taking potshots with the cluster munitions that they keep
opening up on top of the Israeli airspace, because you only, as I kept repeatedly explaining,
you only do that when your goal is to just like frustrate Israeli society.
You're not doing that for any sort of like specific military purpose beyond, you know,
pissing off Israeli society, crippling the Israeli economy, forcing them into, forcing
them into the bombshells is because those are not interceptable or interseptible missiles.
This goes to an argument also that Dylan Saba has put forward.
He wrote for Jewish Currents in 2023 that I think is still one of the most powerful
interventions I've ever read in anything related to these issues, which is about how
iron dome is an offensive weapon.
And the idea is that Israel's defensive capabilities have been so aggressively beefed
up so as to inoculate Israelis from what in any other context would be viewed as like the
reasonable costs incurred for fighting a regional war.
Yeah, absolutely.
And there is now, and I think in this situation, Iran has finally figured out that like we
have taken, I mean, the leaders have arrived at the decision, forced really, that like
there's no more respecting that.
You have to flood the zone and test the limits of this system.
And they've tested it.
And they found that actually, Israeli leaders are now
having to prepare their, I mean, a family of mine
has heard this as well.
Israeli leaders are trying to prime the population
for the idea that they may not have to.
Because all of the Israelis running to the shelter
and stuff before, like when Hezbollah would send a rocket,
or when Islamic Jihad or Hamas would send a rocket
from Gaza, and it would land in a field in Beersheva.
I mean, you were talking about like almost what was for Israeli leaders as they saw it,
like the perfect level of suffering that they could experience because it reminded the population
of the danger, but it was not enough to actually like destroy and disrupt their quality of
life over the course of, you know, you know, like year or two years, whatever, and having
lived in Bershaw, you know, having lived in the south, in the Israeli south myself
and at a time when that was the case, like it was very obvious that that was the
function.
That's why when you interview regular folks ordinary Israeli society, they just have like a totally
Totally insane attitude about waging war with Iran because from their perspective, there's no there's no cost
They're like there's some causes minor nuisances
And I I suspect that that might change eventually
But I don't know because like part of part of me also thinks that like just as we saw without october 7
And they're fucking insane.
They're insane, but they have like, you know, there's a limit, not a limit to how crazy they
are, but like insanity can be checked by reality and certain, you know, like how crazy, how crazy
are you willing to be when your bank account is zero, or when it goes to zero and you
can't feed yourself.
Like there's a certain kind of degree to, there's a certain element of this to me
where like part of what we still have not seen yet is the real stress test applied
not just to, like, you know, oh, Israelis, you know, like, like, like, every day Israelis
and their everyday happiness and their joy, you know, with bombs and missiles falling
on them. It's instead about the question of, like, can the Israeli society, can the Israeli
polity survive intact in any recognizable form? Were this war to continue and their
economy were to become devastated? Because Israel is not Iran. Israel is a tiny country.
it has a lot of tiny country, tiny country and size of New Jersey, meaning though what
happens with a lot of those people who have dual citizenship in other countries and have
been for the past number of years, even before October, this is a story I've told many times,
a very, very influential and well known Israeli journalist reached out to me, this is well
before October 7th, because I had said, you know, on Twitter I said something like
I had informally heard that there were many people who had been, you know, were
leaving Israel because prior to October 7th, the radical government was making a bunch
of Israeli Libs start to feel, you know, nervous and sketchy.
And so if you had a German passport, an American passport,
people were starting to move assets.
And I'd said, I threw some cold water on that.
I was like, I haven't seen the numbers.
I haven't seen the statistics.
And then this guy, I don't know where somebody
who I don't have a connection to saw my comment.
It was just like, I just want to let you know.
I think you're wrong.
And that was prior to October 7th.
I would be fascinated if, you know,
I would be so curious how,
if the conditions in israel were actually made that much more damaging if
they were if they were that much were destructive to the average israeli life
what again you know what might happen
uh... for all of the people who are in israel who don't necessarily want to
stay there
uh... and i think that that's where again like we've we've really not seen
and and what i'm describing the situation that just like
is not really plausible because israel would move so aggressively
prevent any circumstance like that from happening
uh... in real time
But I think that like what I'm really trying to point out is that we've not even seen Israel get tested to that point.
And what Iran has been doing in terms of how it is stretching the limits of Israeli defenses
is suggesting that well maybe we are going to see if that can happen.
Maybe we're going to see if that possibility can be breached.
Yeah.
Now let's look at another exit ramp for the world's
the least loyal man who has always thrown everybody else under the bus.
Perhaps this could be a first inclination of who might be in the crosshairs.
Let's take a look.
Truly, I called Pete, I called General Cain, I called a lot of our great people.
We have great people, and I said, let's talk.
We got a problem in the Middle East.
We have a country known as Iran, and for 47 years it's been just a purveyor of
terror, and they're very close to having a nuclear weapon.
We can keep going and get that 50,000 up to 55 and 60 is no end.
Or we can take a stop and make a little journey into the Middle East and eliminate a big problem.
And Pete, I think you were the first one to speak up, and you said, let's do it because
you can't let them have a nuclear weapon.
So we are now having really good discussions. They started last, I don't know if they'll throw
Pete under the bus here. It doesn't seem like it. Yeah, that no, that sounds like he's giving
Pete a pat on the head. I'll be honest. Cause it's like, and, and I'm sure, you know, like
Pete has got a, you know, a nice hard on going, having gotten that pat on the head.
Yeah. Iran's main demand is communicated to the mediators. If Trump fires, Hexit,
All bets are off.
Moin Rabani is joking there.
Breaking the speaker of Iran's parliament, who some claim has been negotiated with the
US, says no negotiations have taken place and the President Trump is claiming otherwise
to manipulate the markets.
It is crazy that like, because it's no longer a non-state actor in the same way that like,
like we very quickly did away with the Iraqi government, right?
in the, you know, immediate invasion. And we were fighting against like a, a, not like
a fully fleshed out state in the Taliban in al Qaeda in Afghanistan, but Iran is a state
act was a sovereign state. So you can't, especially with like social media, you can't
really undermine their position as much as you could like dominate the airwaves.
you're when you're, you know talking about Israel versus Hamas, talking about Israel versus
Hezbollah. Like you have dudes with like eight PhDs on fucking, you know, the interpretation
of Quran from a Western capitalist framework, who are just coming out and posting on social
media and also doing interviews in English with American news outlets. All of a sudden
I think that plays a major role in, it delivers a major blow to whatever the American
goals of propaganda are right is then major media will cover there's another thing though
which is that it's not just about that Iran's a state and that you know Hamas is like a like
a like a political organization with like limited autonomy you know whatever it's that Iran also
has like the world economy by the nuts like that they can do things that force people to take
them seriously. And it's just literally not been until this wave of this conflict that all of a
sudden the West realized it. Because Iran had chosen not to use these, not to go this far.
They made the Iranian government, for whatever reason, much to the criticism of people and
much to the criticism of Western leftist, for example, they chose not to take it to this level
Until you know, this was undeniable that it was you know until them but Trump said we're coming to kill all of you
Like I think I think this was Yahya Sinwar's calculation. It's just that both Hassan Nasrallah and
And Hemen a were were
Far more restrained than he thought they would be
That's what I think
Meaning like in the prior conflicts meeting that he thought it would come to this earlier
I think that the purpose of the al-Aqsa flood was to trigger an Iranian retaliation of this sort.
I think it's plausible. I think one of the things though is that like it's you know it's
there's always this kind of and this is like also what Israel's deal was is that they're always
like testing the limits of what they think they can get away with because I also think in
in some sense, what you're describing is that, like,
you know, like, like, yes, they wanted to provoke
some kind of response, but now we're in a dog
getting the car situation.
And like, I think that they actually knew all along
that they didn't want that smoke.
What they wanted is what they said that they wanted,
which is that they wanted the Iranian people to rise.
Like, I also do believe that on some level,
like, these guys have been believing their own bullshit
about the closeness of, you know, put it this way,
you were just in Cuba.
You saw what life was like in Cuba.
For 60 years, every American president saved for Obama
has been told by their advisors, we're this close.
You're going to be the president who's
going to get to see Castro, the Castro regime fall.
It's the same thing with Iran.
And I think that they ultimately
believe their bullshit too much, even
if they weren't believing it coming out
of the Pallavi's mouth.
They believed it on this deeper level
because they literally hadn't been presented
with a counter fact at any point.
And then from now, yeah, I mean, Trump, I think other presidents have not saying much,
but even including Biden, like I have at least like demonstrated some level of restraint because
I believe that Israel behind closed doors is always telling the same fucking lie. But
at least they were like competent enough to listen to their generals and their analysts
and their own intelligence assessment to be like, no, that's not, we're not fucking
doing that. You're out of your goddamn mind. It's too much of a risk, right? Until
Trump. I think Trump demonstrated in Trump one and also in Trump two as we're seeing now
that he was the guy who was gonna be like, yeah, no, you guys, your intelligence is great.
I love what you did with the beepers, that type of shit. Running off of the highs that
he got from the Venezuela operation, which was remarkably competent in comparison to what
we're seeing in Iran right now, right?
He thought this would be swift.
I think he believed it.
The majority of the thing really got to his head.
Yeah, no, I think he genuinely thought,
oh, the capitation, boom, boom, boom,
because I know he does not want to put boots on the ground.
No, well.
He might inevitably lean in that direction
because he's not going to back away, right?
OK, this one I don't know about,
because I also don't think that like you weak
that you're considering troops
or you don't allow it to get out
that you're considering ground troops
because it's in this current moment,
the Iranians will read that as a sign of weakness
because they're like bring that on.
If that's the level you're going to bring it on
and politically, domestically, it's insanely unpopular.
So if it doesn't present to Iran or the world
as a show of strength
and it drives the American public crazy,
then why are you doing it?
And that's where I think that, like I do hold some measure of judgment on whether or not
Trump is actually like opposed to ground troops.
We know that he said, he said at different points, like, Iraq, it was a mistake, you know,
I'm never gonna know new wars, but like, no, but like the master liar.
Yeah, but, but think about it like, he didn't do that in Venezuela.
He amassed a big enough force to potentially draw Venezuela or go into a much larger
conflict in Venezuela. You don't amass that level of nasal forces if your goal is not to
eventually take it. I mean, if you're not willing to present that as a threat while simultaneously,
he has always done crazy shit, but he has also backed away at times.
I don't disagree, but Venezuela worked also though because you saw the Wall Street
journal article about the CIA guy? Oh yeah, the one who worked for Chevron. Like Venezuela
is different from every other country that we've talked to because American corporation
multinationals have had a major like presence in Venezuela for, you know, like within the
last 20 years. I mean, there are people who are, you know, CIA affiliated who worked
with Chavez to get oil out of Venezuela into the world market. You know, it's not
Like, meaning that there were connections,
there were, you know, they had,
I think they had a more realistic portrait
of what the situation was in Venezuela
and how they could exploit it.
I just, it doesn't seem, you know,
it's, to me it just seems like
they had the one radical plan
that actually had a chance of working
because of, you know, the way they did it out
and the legwork they did.
And Trump's lesson from that was,
oh, I could just do whatever I want.
Because we did whatever I wanted here,
even though that wasn't what they did.
They did a pretty specific thing with some limits and that's not this.
Yeah.
All right.
Let's see what scale's new reporting looks like.
Senior Iran officials drop site news Jeremy scale and more to say there aren't any negotiations
to take place.
The Iranian side has simply communicated its conditions to the U.S. and and even
that has been done indirectly adding that the U.S. message has also only been passed
through intermediary countries debated how to even deal with this and they they
They literally ghosted Steve Wittkopf.
They did not respond to him.
When we reported that last week, the White House went nuts.
They denounced Dropsite News accusing us of engaging.
Yeah, they said, they said Dropsite News is a terrorist outlet.
In America last behavior said we were abhorrent.
And then they went and they spun a story to Axios saying
that it was actually the Iranians that had been begging
President Trump to speak.
And so this kind of played out over the past few days.
And what Iranian sources were telling me, Daniel, is that through a series of intermediary
countries, including Turkey, Pakistan, Egypt, and also some Gulf countries, there have been
a series of messages passed on to the Iranians by the United States, where, according to
Iranian officials, these third-party intermediaries have said that the U.S. wants to wrap up
this war.
And that happens while publicly Trump is saying, we're going to bomb Iran's electrical
and power infrastructure, which, by the way,
would be a war crime if they did that in a sweeping manner.
Iran then said, hey, let us tell you what we can do.
We can hit not only in Israel, but we
can hit in all throughout the Gulf.
And this would cause just like catastrophic shock
to the global economy, which we can talk about later.
But the most breaking stuff I have for you
is that Trump today posts on TruthSocial
that there's been this breakthrough,
that he's pausing his threat to bomb the Iranian electrical grid
and other energy infrastructure, because there
have been these talks going on between the United States
and Iran.
And Trump implies that he has some secret squirrel
that he's talking to in Iran, and he
doesn't want to name who it is, because he doesn't want
that person to be killed.
It's unclear, does he mean by Israel or by the Iranians.
But what I'm told is that there have been no negotiations,
direct negotiations with the United States,
and that what the Iranian officials are telling me
is that every time a third country comes to Iran
and they say, the United States wants to talk,
Iran says, let us explain to you our conditions.
And in short, what the Iranians are saying
is that they will not agree to the kind of ceasefire
that took place last June after the so-called 12-day war
because the Iranians view that as having been a gimmick
to buy the United States in Israel time,
to rearm, to reposition,
and then come back in with this full blown war
that they launched on February 28th.
So they're saying they won't go for just a ceasefire
that doesn't have conditions attached to it.
They also want any cessation of the war
not only to apply to Iran,
but to apply to two other fronts of battle
as the Iranians see it, Iraq, as well as Lebanon,
where the Israelis are increasingly engaged
in ground operations.
Iraq has also been a spectacular failure
that's like not getting a lot of attention
in this media cycle
because there's so much devastation taking place everywhere.
But they had to literally do a tactical retreat,
a ceasefire with the Iraqi ground forces,
the Shia forces in Iraq,
to literally withdraw their troops.
Do you see that part?
And well, then it's I mean part of what's been trying to democratically force the American troops believe for years now and it's and Iraq is like been this, you know
It's like for the essentially since the end of the Iraq war because Iraq is this kind of like desiccated country
It's been a place where a lot of different militia groups and a lot of other like non-state political and military forces
You know drive events on the ground
And, you know, the U.S. viewed it as essentially like, like it went from being its own place
and its own war to then becoming like a kind of like soft battle proxy battleground against
Iran.
And now, I mean, you know, we'll see.
I haven't read anything in depth about like the total, you know, how the, how Washington
takes the total situation.
U.S. forces are now limited to the Kurdistan region, according to the Iraqi resistance,
they moved many of their troops into Jordan, I think.
So, it's, this is devastating for, again,
American military superiority, American might,
American force projection capabilities.
Like, it's unbelievable.
Things are stable now that the Americans left.
We only have like three hours per day.
American and NATO forces asked the Iraqi government
for a temporary 24-hour ceasefire
factions to facilitate their withdrawal from victory base in Baghdad according to spokesperson for Saraya Avliya
Aldam Abu Mahdi al-Jafari
Al-Jafari said that most resistance factions that received the Iraqi government's request agreed to the troops on the condition of popular
Mobilization sites from the holy city of Samara the Karbala would not be targeted
But if you return to sin, we will return to punishment
Beast mode that is pretty hard beast mode
By the way, this has reverberations across the entire world.
The reason why, I say this is because the American military presence as a force projection
capability is everywhere, all at once, right?
All of a sudden this changes the calculation in the Philippines, for example.
changes the calculation of like how well America could safeguard the bulwark against communism
in South Korea, right? This changes the domestic considerations in South Korea for the South
Korean government. All of a sudden they're more willing to bargain as equal partners with the DPRK
if the Filipino government is also smart enough to recognize their reality. They have a very
different opinion about, uh, getting into a bilateral security, uh, commitment with China
in the South China Sea. They're the only country that's, uh, there's a holdout in the Asian
cooperative structure that has refused to, to leftist Coppola Mount. Oh my God. American
troops are shitting in their fucking diapers. NATO also evacuated. Wait, what leftist Coppola
them out. It's weird that you're, I can't tell if you're like making a joke or if you're
being serious. But like, as I was saying, the Philippines are the only country in the
Aegean system that has not engaged with China. Okay? They're the only country in
that system that is a holdout, right? What do they do? What do they do they
continue? Do they have a real belief that America will defend them? If it's no longer
Iran, but now we're talking about China, it's just not going to work.
Very heavy bombing. Hezbollah, which Israel had said was wiped out, has been launching
dozens upon dozens of rockets every single day into Israel. So they want those two
countries also to be party to this ceasefire deal. They're also saying that they want
reparations paid by the United States, and they want Israel to pay, but they don't want
Israel to pay directly.
They want that to happen through the United States because they don't want to take anything
directly from Israel.
But the other thing, and this is, you know, I think very relevant, it's, and many people,
I know you've made this point before, and I've heard other smart analysts make it,
that because of the way the United States and Israel have lied about the negotiations,
used it as a veneer or a cover to then wage these wars, the Iranian position has hardened.
And what Iran is saying now is that there will be no discussion on its ballistic missile
program, that if there is a ceasefire, Iran is going to move rapidly to continue its
ballistic missile program, recognizing that it's only deterrent against the United States
and against Israel.
They're also saying, and they wouldn't go into more detail on this, that they're
going to, that they're in the process of developing a new doctrine on the nuclear question. They
didn't say, oh, we're going to go and we want to enrich uranium to make nuclear weapons.
But what they're saying to me is that because of the U.S. and Israel targeting their nuclear
infrastructure, because they blew up the negotiations where the Iranians had put terms
on the table that went beyond the Obama era deal, they're saying now that they're
having discussions about developing a new nuclear doctrine potentially in partnership
with Russia and China.
More concrete decolonization accomplished by Iran and its allies in three weeks than
most post-colonial studies academics have managed in four decades.
I'm sorry that UC Santa Cruz professors don't carry guns, but that's a ridiculous comparison.
But it is fair to say that Iran is doing something like that.
not just there is Sudan as well. Like the disruption of the United Arab Emirates has
delivered a devastating blow to the rapid support forces in their activities in Sudan, where
the Sudanese population have been able to successfully rise up and actually push out the RSF from
all of these towns that they fucking genocide it and took over. It's crazy because now
Now you have the UAE is way too focused on, on, you know, defending the United Arab Emirates,
obviously.
It's crazy.
I mean, it is like one of the things I don't know how it will result because right before
all this happened, the UAE and Saudi were like, like, like experiencing quite a rift,
like a split over what was going on in Yemen and over the fact that Saudi wasn't
so pleased with what the Emirates have been cooking up in Africa.
I mean, it's, I, I wonder what'll happen if the, if like, if the assuming that the Gulf
kingdoms don't all fall into sand in the next few years, I am curious to see if those like
sort of deeper tensions, uh, among, you know, between them resume anti-imperialist theocracy
certainly surprised.
No, no, it's, it's not even remotely a surprise.
You want to know why it's not even remotely a surprise because those are the only
forces that have successfully maintained sovereignty at this point because America, when it was
fighting the Cold War, very successfully destroyed all of the, you know, atheist, socialist Soviet
adjacent countries. They did it. Iran was able to hold out because, as I've explained over and over
again, in the Iranian Revolution, basically after decades of Western intervention, the
forces that were the most Islamist were seen as the most anti-Western forces.
They garnered tremendous legitimacy and were able to lean into their popular base, which
they do have objectively, okay, by presenting themselves as the uncorruptible Islamist forces
that were not corruptible by Western intervention, Western interference.
Also, like anti-imperialism as like a practice, like the people in Iran could like, like their
theology could revolve around like worshiping like the Simpsons season three. And it would
have no relationship to whether or not like their actions are imperialist or anti-imperialist
or not, it's about the position that Iran, as a country, occupies in the world system,
the position that it occupies relative to the United States, and how it acts corresponding
to resist that, how it acts to change that position is what will determine the valence
of anti-imperialists or not, which is a useful thing to keep in mind when considering
like why it is that so many people who are on the right side of issues these days do not
necessarily resemble or come from the explicit political tradition that you yourself might.
I just don't understand how these two dynamics are going to play out. Like how, how do they
think this is sustainable? I know that there's a lot of wish casting in the stock market
where they're like, oh, he said the right words. Now we're stable again, right? Like
The market moves in that way where it's almost like it's an unspoken secret that as long
as they get anything out of Trump that sounds remotely positive, they'll lean into that heavily
because you have to constantly have a bull market.
But it's totally fake.
At some point, the bubble's gonna burst.
I mean, I think some of it is that like the Financial Times had a passage that everybody
he was passing around recently that was teasing out what the chain of effects could be.
So it could be that if there's something that jeopardizes the amount of capital that can
be pushed into AI investment, then all of a sudden those companies that are all investing
in AI are going to be in a race to be the survivor and one of the few companies that
can take it.
And so we'll see that bubble deflate some.
And if that bubbled deflate some and the values of those companies go down, then people, you
know, the thought is that there's a bunch of correlated investments and assets have.
I mean, the price of Bitcoin has more or less correlated with the price of Nvidia stock,
I think.
So the idea is that like, if the, if the AI crash happens, that'll end up taking
crypto down with it.
And if crypto, you know, it's, and then, and then, and then, and then you can
imagine like how it all plays out in that way.
It's just not like I, I'm with you, man.
And I have no idea how you do a war like this and then keep all of that going.
It is the segment, the FD now reporting that even without the energy shocks, there's a
pretty good chance that the closure of hormones will pop the add bubble that will lead to
a stock market crash.
The longer the sugar hormones remain closed, the deeper the fall will be, one fifth of
the world's oil and energy ship through the waterway of the conflict lingers,
trip prices will steep and as manufacturers ration and compete for tighter supplies,
eventually production could seize up.
the US elevated energy costs would make president future data centers less viable.
One thing that is clear to me from looking at the events, there is always a chain reaction
and that's because we have, through American military dominance, through American imperialism,
designed a global system that is actually infinitely more fragile than we thought it
was.
When you, like you don't have to do a 9-11 or strike directly at the heart of empire
to be able to make the empire suffer
because the empire is everywhere
and when the empire is everywhere when capitalism is everywhere
you can actually strike the profit centers that are you know closest to you
in your immediate vicinity and when that happens
all of a sudden everybody's screaming the markets are screaming
it this to me is that the greatest indication that like
uh... did the previous way of waging war is is is totally gone the the one
thing i will say
is that in this chain, this looks like a very neat,
linear chain of events, right?
But there's a reason that they have to qualify
with stuff like could.
And that's not just because, obviously,
they're responsible journalists.
They're not making predictions that you can't.
They're not writing checks.
They can't cash.
But I do think that, for example,
with the question of elevated energy costs,
when that passage is getting passed around,
I saw some people note that there's not necessarily
a way to, we don't know what energy costs are
necessarily going to do in the US because also the US paradoxically as a specific country is partly one of the beneficiaries of this war
Not only that, because we are a fossil fuel exporter and people need fossil fuels and on top of that
On top of that and I brought this up in the beginning. I'm not the biggest like
I'm not gonna sit here and act like I'm the biggest
Understander of how like heavy crude versus, you know, that sweet light shale works, right?
Obviously, that's what we have through fracking, but we now sit on top of the world's largest
heavy crude supply.
And the thing is, even if we were to build the refineries up to become like almost one
of the largest exporters around the planet of oil in general, I think that that is
like a part of that calculation, because previously, as long as the Gulf States were intact, it
would disrupt the profitability of the American exporters if we just started refining heavy
crude from Venezuela.
The price of the barrel will go down too much, and then the smaller oil businesses
in Texas in places like that would actually collapse.
Correct.
However, with the price going up, there's a massive need for it.
Now, do we actually reroute all of the infrastructure to come to the United States of America and
we become the sole exporter to China and all the Asian markets?
Because we have LNG, we now have massive amounts of supply that we can, what do you
call it?
massive amounts of supply that would create stability
that would create stability in the in the energy markets
as long as they're rerouted from the united states of america
this creates a tremendous upper hand
uh... the united states of america against china
this creates leverage because i can no longer if the gulf blows up
if they escalate so much the iran just as bucket
they blow up the entire gulf okay
it's no longer workable for like the next decade. Okay. All of a sudden China has to rely on oil
from Russia, more and more, and also the United States of America. Correct. And then you now can
go toe to toe with the Chinese export controls. If China ever returns back, it says we're no longer
giving you any rare earth minerals. Then America can say we are no longer allowing you to get
oil from us? I think one one other thing that like is a part of this is that there is like a
there's been a lot of people I know who've wondered if like that was perhaps the point that if like
the actual goal of all of this conflict was to essentially re like re assert the US monopoly
on the distribution of oil which arguably was like one of the great strategic advantages that
that it possessed for its share of the globe
during the global Cold War.
I don't know, this is where we're in the territory
of like, this is just pure speculation.
I do wanna respond to the clarifies thing I said
because I was seeing a bunch of this in chat.
When I was talking about the crypto stuff correlated
with AI, my point was not that like AI is dependent
on crypto or draws a bunch of revenue from it.
It was about the correlation of investment
that lots and lots of people who have built wealth
in the last few years from investments in crypto
made money from playing in the stock market as well. And so part of what I was just trying
to illustrate is not that I think that that stuff is like, oh, it's the most vital piece
of the economy ever, but it's just to illustrate how far reaching this stuff can be and how
exactly economic calamity could pick up steam pretty quickly. That was all.
You know, that's not correct. Bricks means trying to get oil and gas from around.
I don't know. Where's Iran? Where's Iran?
I just said, I just said if the Gulf implodes, it's in the Gulf, right? Yeah, exactly.
Okay. When it when there is no longer any fucking oil refiners in the Gulf, we're
We're talking about like the nuclear option for global energy, but there is no, there
is obviously no like clear cut, manufacturing process where like the, the refinement processes
like built up to speed to, to now be, to now pick up like the, the need, the additional
demand that's out there with no supply.
i don't know if america can rebuild its uh... it's uh... refinery prices on on
oil
fast enough
and and i don't even know what the logistics will look like i don't know
if this is like
feasible i'm just saying this is the only like materialist interpretation i can
make
uh... uh... make sense of uh... in these uh... otherwise senseless events
uh... this complete not by the way it requires you believe that there's a
huge amount of unsold iranian oil hundred forty million barrels according to
investment just sitting in tankers and see waiting for buyers almost by definition with
the oils in a tanker.
It's because there already has a buyer oil in a tanker in the shipping part of the process
to be absurd to ship something without a buyer.
All the more given how expensive a tanker voyages these days.
Also the very notion that around be selling oil when it couldn't access the money defies
logic.
Why on earth would they do that?
They've been selling almost exclusively to China precisely because China is one
of the very few countries both willing and able to pay them despite the US
banking sanctions.
And there and also lies, Besson's key contradiction, it makes zero sense to lift sanctions on Iranian
oil and at the same time have banking sanctions remain in place.
It means that you can freely buy the oil but not pay for it, so it's still an impossible
transaction.
This by the way was confirmed by Iran's oil ministry who said the Besson statements
on the subject were a psychological game by the U.S. Treasury Department aimed at
solely at ingrained hope into buyers and controlling market psychology when the reality
is that Iran currently has virtually no oil and tankers at sea and no surplus
supply the international markets. This is after Scott Besant said that he's jujutsu-ing
the Iranians the decision to lift the sanctions is actually good.
Scott should go back to decorating homes of this husband.
Multiple countries are now actively working to mediate a deal between the U.S. and Iran
as impacts of the war reverberate across the world five sources told us.
Oh my God, that's sorry. This is now we're getting into the territory of just like
It's just about like part of what annoys me at least with this like framing
I'm sure that these reporters are doing there and they're doing their job, but it's just like is it like that countries are trying to do this
Is it that countries like being in the press as being associated with moves toward diplomacy or is it as Jeremy?
Scaho put it in a way that I think is way more convincing
The US is using every country in the fucking roll the decks that they can think of to try and communicate messages to Iran
And they're doing that by the way if you saw what that other report but they're showing up to Pakistan
to talk, to do diplomacy without even knowing whether the Iranians are gonna be there.
Yeah, no, no, it also goes along with like last week's reporting on Marco Rubio's ambition
to try to get like, to try to muster diplomatic pressure against Iran, knowing full well that
like Iran does want to have continued conversations with countries in Europe, right? And they
They think that if France and Germany and the UK are a part of the coalition forces, all
of a sudden there's like much more international pressure against Iran, and they think they
can cause them to bend to their will.
Ironically enough, Europe, in spite of their vassalized attitude, has demonstrated some
restraint in abiding by American principles.
And even if they were to lean into pressure against Iran, it doesn't really amount to much
as long as Iran continues to control the Strait of Hormuz.
To go, he has now decided to quote, postpone any at all military strikes on Iranian power
plants.
I mean, this is a massive withdrawal, I think.
This of course comes after the president had even told him that he's demanding the
Even the admission is this openly demonstrating
that they recognize that things are going really, really bad.
Straight from the sky tonight.
Or he warned that they would be risking strikes
on their power plants.
CNN's Kevin Liptak is at the White House this morning.
So the president's message this morning
is the window is now a little bit wider
in terms of that deadline.
What else in terms of these talks, Kevin?
Yeah, and that I think is what
is most extraordinary about this post
that we've gotten from the president.
Until now, we did not understand that the US and Iran
were speaking at all over the course of this now
three-week long conflict.
Now the president says that these conversations are underway.
And so you can start to see and start
to envision how potentially there is a diplomatic route
to de-escalation that we did not know of until 10 minutes
ago before the president was posting this.
And I'll read you a little bit of what he said.
He said he's pleased to report that the United States,
the country of Iran have had over the last two days
very good and productive conversations
regarding a complete and total resolution
of our hostilities in the Middle East,
the president goes on to say.
You know what I think?
I think Trump is just like trying to delay the market pain
to the best of his ability until he just goes
and commits the troops.
On the one hand, I think in his sober moments
he realizes that the situation is looking bad. So he's trying to like feed as much positive
information that the markets want to hear. On the other hand, he keeps amounting more
and more troops. He keeps like sending more marine expeditionary units and shit like that.
Just wait until Friday. No, there's a couple more weeks. No, no, no. I'm saying like,
He might strike Iran, he probably will strike Iran again on Friday after market close, right?
He is so clearly operating.
He is the most like markets focused president of all time.
He's very clearly operating with that in mind.
But what I'm saying is overall in the negotiations process, especially because Iran is not
even remotely interested in coming to table with a cessation of hostilities when they hold
all the cards is going to keep, is going to keep punishing America and saying we're not
interested in the, we're not interested in deal making at this point.
And I think eventually Trump is just like trying to create a military presence, enough
military presence that they can just like do boosts on the ground, maybe a limited
operation.
It's gonna be cargo. I don't I don't think they've been signaling cargo. Yeah
Well, and like Trump is apparently part of why they talk about it is because Trump has had some decades long fixation on it
But I think that the I think that the ground troops stuff is like that's like brave
That's that's where a new new territory thing like even if it's a limited contingent
Just the psychological effect of that the way that the American media is gonna have to digest that the social media tenor
I mean, what do you think Nick Fuentes is gonna say, you know, yeah
He'll have to like he'll have to like probably like light himself on fire on stream
You know, you know, God willing but like I think that there's
there's no
To me, there's just not like
like
There's not really another option aside from Trump trying to just hit them again
And you know on the weekend or maybe even during the week or whatever and just to see what he can shake loose
before they come to some kind of deal in which he's not gonna, I just don't know how he can
save face at this point. That's what, that's where I'm getting tripped up.
Yeah, I, the two competing interests here like Trump's unlimited narcissism and his reluctance
to do an about face or to de-escalate, but then also the very obvious impact that this
is having on, on the markets, which he cares about quite a bit, like he's getting boss
calls.
Oh, this is, this is really fun.
Man, I feel bad for the Iranians who trust the US not to fuck this up spectacularly.
It was pretty common to run into ice for opinion a few weeks ago that this would
turn out well, unless that was all a Psyop.
Yeah.
No.
Unless that was all a Psyop.
It's crazy.
That's crazy.
It couldn't be.
Yeah.
No, no, no, no, no, no, this time it was different.
This time it was so different.
Like it just, it would have, it was so different this time.
Every other time we're really like, also, you know, who
You have the necessary reasons for American military intervention and then we go, oopsie,
turns out it was actually an incredibly bloody affair and they had no interest in like liberating
the people.
You know who I have always trusted when it comes to knowing what's going on inside of
Iran?
The Iranian diaspora.
Yeah.
It's just, it's, you know, my first thought, always.
The same thing with the Cubans, too.
It's just like, like contra points has just become Hillary Clinton points.
Like, that's it.
It's just Clinton points.
I know it's Hosbara points we've said, but like, all, all, all of our tanks are just
like, well, the Democrats would have done this better, right?
It's fucking ridiculous.
Endless smoke from David.
The content I feel for the exiles of Trump and Benjamin and you have to carry out
their liberation wars and measurable Iranians will suffer horribly and so will the whole
world was a literal idiot could have predicted. Oh my god. Oh my god. My queen. My queen.
Yeah, sorry. I forgot. I've been calling her Ms. Frizzle, but I'm like, where did she come
from? She's just an Iranian exile who lives in New York. She's an Iranian journalist who was a big
dissident. And I guess she did like competent reporting at the time. But then when she moved
to America and started getting like hundreds of thousands of dollars from the CIA. She became
this most the most unhinged person that you've ever I know. I know nothing about her background.
All I've done is I've seen her on like CNN or whatever. And she's and I've seen her astute
engaging and informed commentary about your about yourself. But I like I've no she's I
And I didn't understand why she was on the TV. It was my main question. Um, what do you mean?
Anyone that will say, uh, president, a Trump and a Benjamin Netanyahu, you are the greatest.
When you, when you say that, did Jake Tapper will be like, please come on the broadcast and
yell at the mayor of New York. You know, Tapper is so he's salivating, uh, at the
the prospect of a Ellison takeover. He is just like,
you wouldn't even say Jake Vapper. Yeah, he's fapping. He's fapping so hard to that.
Yeah, I know, I know, I know. Mehdi Hassan and Tita Parsi, who have never lived in Iran,
who have no family there, who have never faced imprisonment and assassination plots
by the regime, now obsessively targeting and bullying me using their platforms to spread
misinformation.
Sorry, I love that for security and safety reasons.
I can't substantiate my claims.
Yeah, but one day I will reveal in how full the misinformation they keep repeating has
been used these days by the Islamic Resolute today.
No, it was this morning.
What the fuck?
This is yeah, this is this one word. It's mullah. Mehdi Mehdi Hassan
You have always behaved like an intolerant mullah. That's so funny to say about Mehdi Hassan
I had it is for you. He's so fucking
Funny guy to say that I mean, I love them. I love them
I think Zateo is a wonderful outlet
But like like he is the biggest live of all time like he is I I think he literally is the last true
defender of liberalism. He's the only guy on the planet that even he's actually changed
his tune a little bit as of late, but he was quite literally the last guy, the last soldier,
the last samurai of liberalism.
Okay? I just, it's...
I mean, I guess if you're welcoming the bombs getting dropped on your country, then
the last person, like the only person left you have to criticize is Mediason.
You know what I mean? Like it's the fuck else are you going to do?
You've already thrown in your lot with the people who are like, you know,
like turning your country into Swiss cheese. Fuck them.
Anyway, Matthew is a liberal. I mean, yeah, I mean, he's anti-Zionist, of
course, but yeah, have you ever listened to him talk to like, like,
I looked at the transcript of his interview with the foreign vice minister of Cuba, which
I also, because I was, you know, about the interview as well, and like half the conversation
is literally like, how dare you say that like the countries like protests are being propped
up by the CIA. Like, how could you say that? Like, it's all like, you know, there's a little
bit of a, there's a little bit of a victim blaming. And he is an incredible debate lord
and I really respect his, I really respect how he debates. But the reality is he does
do a, you know, he does do a reliable job of like undermining victims of American empire
sometimes. He has changed a little bit though, I will say. He has changed a little bit as
of late. Have you debated him? I mean, we've had, um, yeah, in the same with China as well,
but like we've had, uh, uh, uh, what do you call it? We've had, we've had conversations.
I'm not going to elaborate, but like we've had conversations where we find ourselves in
agreement more often than disagreeing.
After Sam Cedar, he has the only watchable jubilee thing, I think.
Trump's truth.
What is this?
Reza wrote the same statement, and then Yashar...
Politico quotes two Trump admissions officials on background who say that Reza Pahlavi
is not considered a viable officer as a leader in Iran.
There is one thing about Trump that is consistent. He can't stand losers
Not he does not even give any breathing room to that shit where he's like nope not gonna happen
You're a fucking loser loser much. I don't
Bye-bye. Yeah. No, he's I think he also though understands that like
Part of the way that you have to resolve these things because this is like remember how in Cuba they figured out
Oh wait fuck there's nobody we can turn to yeah, so we're just gonna have to no matter what happens
We are going to have to use some of the same people
Yeah, so I think they've learned they've learned a lesson about to ask about you sorry
No, no in Cuba because that's what they're talking about now like
Oh, well, we're you know you've ruby. I was saying that they would even leave people in place or whatever to accomplish
Whatever it is the fuck that they want to do tip for the record
for for better or for worse the Cuban government is
is very ideologically committed. I think more so than Venezuela is, more so than
the other.
They've also been under this position, like Venezuela, the Bolivarian, you know, it's
been like 20 years of the Bolivarian Revolution, or 25 years of the Bolivarian Revolution in
a...
There's a difference. What? The Venezuelan system was implemented through democracy.
It is inherently a revisionist system in and of itself.
It's the most like, just like with Chile, it is a socialist system that transitioned
towards socialism by way of the democratic process.
Cuba had a revolution.
It's true.
And I think that is a genuine, very, very significant difference.
If you achieve your communist system or your socialist system militarily, even if the Cuban
Revolution wasn't initially socialist, it became a socialist revolution, right?
And the reality of the matter is, those systems are infinitely more resilient to outside pressures
then seemingly the communist propaganda that's crazy brother who's broadcast are you watching
it's been years hello like what the fuck this is so funny when people go wait a minute wait a
minute what are you saying right now like that's so funny brother you're surrounded i don't know
if you know this, you are surrounded. Look around. Now, I'm still sympathetic to any attempt.
Make no mistake, but it's impossible not to realize that the revolutionary struggle,
the revolutionary struggle brings about a much more resilient system, even when it's
not socialist in design. The Islamic revolution is a great example of this.
I mean I would also say that like because it's like part of what explains the resiliency at least is
the resilience is that the US has proven in the case of Cuba, in the case of Chile, in the case of
Venezuela that no matter what the structure of your system is they will try to work against it
and it turns out that societies that have a free that have a free and open press that societies
that have like existing permitted multinational investment in present from the United States
for example, present, it was shown that those were opportunities that were really...
Do you see this?
We have an Enver Hoja hater.
Get out of my sight, dude.
Dude in Albania, people have been executed in an open field, you don't even know what
you're talking about.
This is an Enver Hoja hater, dude.
Me and China we have one billion communists in the world. How dare you?
How dare you I
Just like also like the standard of coming like I know that like hold on I gotta I'll be any mention
Albania mentioned it just even even reluctantly but still I just like the level of atrocity
That he chose to you know in like it you know Peter she had a fucking stadium massacre
You know in Albania they got a they have one field
They got one field
Anyway, he keep going sorry
No, I mean the just that like it's the US we use whatever method they can and democratic societies, you know, they give them they they
you know
The thing like the things that we respect and enjoy about such societies
Are exactly the very weaknesses that can be exploited and look by the way we should say that like in the US
I would argue that our system is also explained, you know, we see I mean like
I don't know if you guys have heard much about this Israel lobby
But like there are ways in which like our structure of our the structure of our media and obviously they're like
What you what do you mean? No, what? I?
Was in a coma for the last two and a half years
Or at the last 80 years
But certainly, especially the comatose in the last two and a half.
So I think it's, I mean, that's an example of it. And it's not just them. I mean, you know, there are others, but they're the most successful and accomplished in being able to exploit the many, many tools present in our system that they can use.
Read the last message before they get suspended from the site.
right? Communism is literally Jewish. Oh, I love how he spelled
bureaucracy. Jew is bureaucracy, steal from others and make it a standard. Also, I hope
no new school ever be dropped. If only there was a guy, an Albanian guy that had a solution
for that. If only there was an Albanian guy that had a solution for that. Yeah, that
was his name is and you're over here disrespecting his legacy. Communism is literally Jewish
And Vanhoja was also Jewish.
Communism is literally Jewish bureaucracy.
All right, Dasha Nekrasova.
What do you mean?
She's based now, aren't they?
Aren't they based now?
Dude, no, did you not see?
Oh, wait.
She was anti-Semitic to you right after that.
Yeah, she's, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And what did she say?
Jewish aggression.
Yeah, you're doing Jewish aggression.
That's so funny.
That based on the tenor and tone
of these in-depth, detailed, and constructive
conversations, which will continue throughout the week.
I have instructed the Department of War to postpone any
and all military strikes against Iranian power plants and
energy infrastructure for a five-day period subject to the
success of the ongoing meetings and discussions.
So you do see the President opening the window of this
ultimatum that he had set on Iran that he would strike
power plants in that country if it did not reopen that
very critical Strait of Formus where all those energy
tankers are waiting to go through.
It's causing the price of oil to spike.
Iran had threatened very severe retaliation, not only on energy
strikes, but also on facilities in the Gulf.
Now, some big questions remain, namely,
who the US is talking to.
Because remember, the president had
said that the Iranian leaders that he
thought he could work with had been killed.
Now he says that those conversations are ongoing,
and according to him, very fruitful.
So very significant development,
I think this morning and does lead you to believe that the president has or is at least
searching for something of an off ramp here.
Yeah, absolutely.
And we will see what more we learn about that potential off ramp.
Kevin, really appreciate it.
Thank you, Sarah.
All right.
Joining us now, CNN senior military analyst and the former Supreme Allied Commander of
NATO Admiral James Trevitas.
Thank you so much for being here.
This just came in to us this morning, the president saying, look, we're having
talks and they're going well.
that is that a surprise to you because a lot of people don't realize that often
times even in the midst of war there are always sort of talks going on but there
is the issue of who is leading Iran apparently they know who that is and
they've been talking to them apparently well first and foremost let's all just
say who's Trump talking to Iran says they're not talking to the US is he
talking to himself no one is alive yeah he just keeps yeah I do think that
like the real secret to try like it like I can't believe none of his advisors have
like figured out like why don't they just give him like a phone and be like
listen we set it up so that like you can talk to Iran and talk to Iran yeah and
then it's just like it's just like any other side president at Trump we are
veiling as long as you deescalate
Ghalibov is by no means a moderate within Iran's political world, let alone pro-U.S.,
but America's attempting to place a powerful individual within a still-powerful system in
the same bind that Delcy Rodriguez was in.
I cede to all of America's plans that would be marked for death.
Scoop, the Trump administration is quietly weighing Iran's parliament speaker as a potential
partner and even future leader as it looks for a diplomatic endgame.
And administration official tells me he's a hot option, but says they're still testing
multiple candidates.
I wonder what it's like to be the reporter who writes this story and to wonder if
you're writing out somebody's death notice yeah you know what i mean i'm not
saying that that's their intention yeah also every time they say uh an
individual is like uh every time they say an individual is like
potentially being marked as like the the the party that they'll negotiate with
them they keep coming out and going uh apps are fucking literally not
iran is fighting for humanity the world is either with gaza and against his
colonial terror regime where it stands with the Epstein class and child torturers there's no middle
ground. I mean they did this with Larshani as well who is like was obviously the more pragmatic
individual amongst all of the all of the people that were in control and and Larshani was until
the very last moment posting about how like you know I welcome death and and there's nothing you
can do we're gonna fucking stick it to the Zionist regime over and over again.
I just don't know what the fuck any of this is supposed to be about or what they're supposed to like it's just like so
Oh, so we name a guy, but everybody knows that if we name a guy then everybody's gonna think we're gonna kill him
So then it's like alright, then why did you name the guy if you aren't gonna kill him?
It's all so also every time they kill a guy
There's like eight other guys that are way more hardcore that replace them. Oh, yeah
Well, that's I mean, that's the other truth is just keep electing or appointing people into that position
That are literally like famous for saying Iran needs to get nuclear arms tomorrow. Oh, we sorry the US blew up in a drones in a drone strike
This guy who got a doctorate from the University of Kent and you know can you know like is and loves talking about poetry in public or whatever
And they replaced him with like, you know a guy who in Iran they call doctor death like that's the fucking like that's obviously
and being exaggerating quite a bit, but it's like, that's the tenor of the headlines in
English that we're presented with every time this shit happens.
Alongside military bases, those financial entities that finance the U.S. military vision and legitimate
targets, U.S. Treasury bonds are soaked in Iranian's blood, purchased them, and you
purchase a strike on your headquarters and assets.
We monitor your portfolios.
This is your final notice.
We monitor your portfolios.
This is your final notice.
That's actually, I got to say man, it is like crazy how like we've just been
looking at a bunch of different tweets or whatever.
The only things that are like bars that are stuck in my head are like, oh, it's the Iranians
quoting, or sorry, I guess Iraqi militias quoting the Koran, Iran issuing some pretty
good subtle threat.
Yeah, beast mode, I'm afraid.
Beast mode, I'm afraid.
We're allowed to have some good news for at least one minute.
You are awful.
It's going to be a roller coaster, but I think this is good.
Sorry, you know what? I should have actually said it's good that we keep slaughtering children in Iran at the behest of Israel
It's totally good and it's totally going to work out
Yeah, and America's not eating dick on a daily fucking basis
as it escalates to further and further
spectacular defeats
It's manufactured because there's so we can say that they rejected the deal to legitimize
a big attack to try to gain support.
I just don't see that that's going to work.
Yeah.
Iran is putting fucking belt to ass on a daily basis.
And there are still people, I guess, who don't want to see that there's a shellacking
taking place.
It's fine.
You know, if you could change one thing and one thing only to make the world.
world a better place what would it be and American imperialism like that's that's
it or I mean it and capitalism obviously and the global system of
capitalism
larper what am I larking what it what is the lark would you end capitalism or
religion capitalism it's not even a question
did you have to go to services the kid though
no
really you're exactly right just saying there's
almost always kind of at least back channel conversations i've been hearing
about from several sources
and here's what you want to watch as this rollercoaster you're a fake
socialist capitalist
I'm the larper guy who is larping as a fucking ultra in my chat try hard. Yeah, that ain't that right
Yeah, try hard to fucking
Try hard to engage in capital accumulation bitch instead of fucking posting in here
Where are literally Jared Kushner and Steve Whitcock because they are the ones who are gonna be the
US side of this
Oh, Admiral Jean-Milch from the party, the Iranian Foreign Minister,
Carlisle Group, if I'm not mistaken.
So watch those three. Where are they?
Are they popping up, for example, in a place like Geneva?
Number two, watch the Marines.
The Marines are still kind of chugging along toward the gulf.
The first big Marine force gets there in seven days.
Another one right behind it, two to three weeks later.
later. And then number three all eyes are going to continue to be on the straight of
four moods. Again this is good news but we just heard from our gas guy and he
laid out pretty clearly the straight's gonna have to open before this is gonna
really turn into good news. But bottom line Sarah yeah it's it's always better
to be talk talk talk than bombs away. Tony is now seen in political and global
affairs analyst Barak Ravid this just came in this morning and so I know it's a
fast thing to have to try to figure out what happened here but what what do you
know about Barak a 200 ravide this was this was a bit of a surprise at least
to many who thought that's deadline was fast approaching yes I think it was a
big surprise at least last night I spoke to several news officials that
No, but none of them thought sorry none of them thought that the ceasefire is coming or that there's any
In a capitalist country profiting off of capitalism pretending to be a communist, okay
You're not though
So why are you defending capitalism?
You're broke your broke as fuck
You got no capital. Why are you defending capitalism?
Let's say, let's say, I'm making out like a bandit, okay?
And I'm still saying that there's a better future possible.
What the fuck are you doing?
Show me the deed to the factory, bitch!
Where is the deed to the factory?
You got no capital, you got no bitches, you're in a fucking Twitch chat defending
this system that is dominating your life.
Yeah, broke, not even a gifted sub.
You don't got no subs broke boy.
Anyway, let's continue opening.
And I think that from what I learned in the last few minutes is
that over the weekend, several countries from the region tried
very hard. Close presence.
I would like to have a discussion about how you contradict yourself on a daily basis. Let
me guess, you're going to repeat exactly what the other chatter said, which is that I'm
rich. I'm rich and yet I advocate for the poor to have more, you know, for ordinary
people to live long lives of dignity. Is that, well, we can start with that. Wow. I've
I've never heard that one before, dude.
I know.
Everyone here knows too.
This is not a call out.
You're glazing me.
You love capitalism.
You're just fucking glazing my ass.
When will you understand this
does not have impact anymore?
You keep promoting it over and over again.
It hasn't stopped me.
I'm not trying to glaze you. Why would you hate on someone who's broke? I don't hate
on broke boys. I hate on broke boys. You defend capitalism, a system that they say I benefit
from as I'm engaging in critique. Okay, you're too stupid to understand what I'm saying.
I think, and it's okay.
This is the exact same energy as people being like,
I can't believe you said Nick Fuentes.
I can't believe you made fun of Nick Fuentes
for being gay in Mexican.
No man, I made fun of Nick Fuentes
for being an existing contradiction
because one can be a class trader,
But one can't be a gay Mexican neo-Nazi.
Okay, it doesn't make sense.
That was a stream lag.
Okay, do you donate if you wanna go against capitalism?
The answer is yes, but I don't think that's gonna
change your equation.
Sort of prolong Trump's 48 hour ultimatum to the Iranians
to try and get some sort of diplomacy going.
And those countries spoke to both Iran, Iran's foreign minister, Abbas Ragji, and White House
envoy Steve Whitcoff, to try and get more time.
And I think that at least this initial effort, as we saw, was successful because it managed
to get Trump to say, OK, I'm giving it another five days for diplomacy to see if
we can get something going.
By the way, those talks, as far as I understand, are not just about the Strait of Ramuz.
They're about trying to launch a diplomatic process that ends the war.
Obviously, the Strait of Ramuz is a very big part of it, but it is not just something
that is focused on the Strait of Ramuz.
It's much wider.
Yeah.
I mean, that's huge.
If indeed, they're talking about how to end this war and that those conversations
are actually going on. You mentioned the foreign minister involved in this, so there is someone,
because at some point the President Trump said that he didn't know who to talk to because
so many of the leadership had been killed. It sounds to me like what you're learning
is that the foreign minister is very much involved in this and maybe heading this up.
So does it appear there is a diplomatic path out of this?
Well, it's a big question mark, you know, it just happened 30 minutes ago.
And you know, I think A, President Trump decided to give it more time, I think was a good decision,
but it still doesn't mean that an agreement is around the corner.
And it also doesn't mean that the talks that are ongoing with Iran's foreign minister,
who is, I think, his main quality at the moment is that he's the only one who answers the phone
because many other people are hiding and are not communicating over the phone.
So it doesn't mean that the leadership that is running the show right now,
mainly the commanders of the IRGC, that they are ready for any kind of deal.
the Iranian Foreign Minister, although he's a government official, senior government official,
he does not call the shots. Or at least he's only one part of a much bigger decision-making process.
So I think, you know... Sorry, I'm just fucking cracking up. Look at the photo of the thing on a wall.
It's hurtful. It's hurtful. Of course. It's hurtful.
Listen, even when you are become very famous journalist in America, part of the Azbara,
the Azbara, is that you always be showing the important figures in the state.
Yeah, Trump proved he doesn't work for Israel.
Oh, wow. The last month has definitely done that.
Yeah, no, there's no way.
You got you got like literal fucking defenders of Israel for their entire careers like liberals
inus inus openly coming out and being like maybe a little bit too occupied by the state
of Israel like Democrats like like that's insane but you're over here being like truck
proved he didn't fucking doesn't work for Israel.
Like these days like the pod save guys sound like fucking Walton Meersheimer. I don't know what to tell you. Yeah
It's mad falling. I and I welcome it
God damn that's a long-ass fucking Jesus. Yeah, well, I'm now seeing this
Low when it comes to the ability to get a deal
There's more time on the clock, which is super important because the U.S. strike on Iranian
power plants would trigger a massive Iranian retaliation against power plants all over the
region against desalination, factories against critical infrastructure, which would dramatically
escalate this war.
So the fact that President Trump gave it another five days is a hugely important step
an easily important decision because it means that he understands that you know
what kind of escalation such a strike would would trigger and that he's
willing to try and find a diplomatic offer. This just into us right now Iran is
now denying that they are in talks with Washington. This is just an hour after
President Trump claimed the U.S. has had productive conversations with Tehran
According to Iranian state-affiliated media outlets, Iran accused Trump of trying to lower energy prices and buy time for military plans.
Earlier this morning, Trump said he was putting military strikes on Iran's power plants on hold for at least five days pending the outcome of these talks.
That is what he put on Truth Social.
Joining us now, Democratic Congressman Jake Augincloss of Massachusetts.
Thank you so much. Okay, so we just got this in that Iran is denying that they're having talks with the press or with the
President's people
What do you make of all this because the president has backtracked on a deadline to what he called obliterate power plants in Iran?
If they didn't open the Strait of Hormuz
So very good morning, thanks for having me on the president has backtracked and almost all of the original strategic rationale that he
be ripped out to the American public after the war started.
I'm sure there are back.
Dude, CNN coverage on this has been incredible,
because on the one hand, it's like they literally
have a unit 8,200 agent of the Israeli state.
And then they immediately go to Jake Awken Kloss, who
is one of the most pro-Israel Democrats out there.
It's incredible.
Jake Aunchless.
It's not a single moment is spared here.
No alternative perspectives will be heard.
I mean, it's just funny because at this point,
they are lit.
It's like, you know what this reminds me of actually?
Remember the Never Trump wave in 2016 and 2017?
Oh my God, yes.
Essentially, so like for those of you
who were like in diapers at that time,
the like there was this, like in 2015 and 2016,
when Trump emerges a candidate,
the American media went over time,
crazy over time to find the Republicans
who stood against Trump.
And you're talking about people who then, as now,
represented 8%.
There is no real constituency
for a liberal Zionist Democratic Party operative
who's saying, oh, the problem is how we're going about this.
It doesn't exist.
There's no real constituency.
This person's position does not represent a real Democrat.
Okay, there are a million polls that show this reality.
This is 13% of the base of the party, 13%.
You might as well put fucking Ben Shapiro up there
as like a lifelong Democrat or something.
It's ridiculous.
Did you see Bernie say Israel committed genocide?
Yeah, Bernie has, my head candid is Bernie saw that Netanyahu, Netanyahu got assassinated
and believed it. So he's like, I can't keep saying Netanyahu's, Netanyahu's genocide.
Now I have to say Israel. It brings me great shame.
It brings me great shame. Now I do think that the like, I mean, his, his statements
have been getting like, per slowly, but progressively like harsher over time.
It's just, I don't care.
He's fuckin' 850 years old.
I just don't give a shit.
I think like every, like, yes,
it's totally valid to criticize him.
It's totally valid to criticize him.
But I think people that just like only laser focus on him
are also like, we are kind of ridiculous.
And like he's, I mean, something that I've been thinking,
so Brandon and I are doing our Israel-U.S.
relationship mini series that comes out in a couple months.
And like one of the things I've been spending
a lot of time doing is just like reading
from like the 40s and 50s and 60s
and the degree to which like entire generations
of Americans who identified with the political left
prior to the six day war,
like we're raised in an environment
of like real ironclad identification with Israel.
Like it's hard to shake and it's some of what you hear.
It's like what I hear out of Bernie's mouth
most of the times he talks on it.
Like you just hear that identity,
like you hear like 80 years.
Like an idea of what Israel was
was formed 80 years ago.
Bernie has the Stalinist position in 1948.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, he's like, you know, it's Israel, he's a socialist.
Or it's going to be the Soviet base.
You know who else's position from 1948?
Who?
Fidel Castro.
No.
Yeah, yeah.
I did not know that.
Somebody, I don't think it was Grandin,
but somebody had pulled this out recently on Twitter.
Oh my God.
I thought it was really impressive,
because it was, but he contextualized it.
Like it's about like how Castro was at that point
a disciple of Eddie Chivas and like they,
and he gave a speech that was like, you know,
like somewhat pro-Israel or something.
The only L he was taking.
Yeah, it was Brandon, okay.
The only L.
Yeah, it's a good thread.
Bro, this is like these guys, unironic.
I mean, this is not, he's not alone in this.
Like I think a lot of people legitimately thought that like,
Because, you know, Bangurians like a socialist and all these guys.
It's a few different things.
The biggest one, though, and this is like the hardest one to wrap heads around because
it like changes.
It just like essentially it's because like why did a bunch of Jews from Europe go to
the Middle East?
Yeah.
It's because after the Holocaust, the governments or the countries from which they came didn't
want them back.
And Western governments, the UK, the United States, Canada, they didn't want to take
them in.
them in before the Holocaust and there was not a whole lot of political appetite for taking them
in after and so there was like a sense of like you know among many other reasons like there was
a sense of oh well this is the historically just thing that we can do and so I think that there is
like you know I without knowing like all of the particularities of how everywhere else around
the world reacted to the Holocaust you know an event that was then being discovered day by day
frankly at that point. I think it is like, you know, like the questions that were live
in the world, you know, like what I'm describing is all of the reasons that the Palestinians
rights to self-determination and to their own land were neglected. Like, you know, that's
all I'm essentially describing there was what was the motive for people to have thought
it was a good idea in the first place. And I think, well, the position of the
USSR is very obvious, like they did, I think to a certain degree, the factors that you
just mentioned were obviously present. They also thought that they could like establish
a base of Soviet influence because these guys were sympathetic, at least they thought
they were sympathetic against Western intervention in the region, right? Because they were like,
oh, these guys are socialists, we armed them, you know, they, maybe their calculation
also considered that like either Pan-Arabic nationalism was not going to pan out or potentially
that they thought that like they had a lot of the Pan-Arabic movements initially did
align with Western forces, right, against the Ottoman Empire. So from their estimation,
they would have been like more, they would have been more receptive to Western influence
as opposed to Israel potentially. But they very quickly found out that that wasn't the
case anyway. And slowly but surely they changed their tune and became anti-Zionist. But same
with MLK. MLK was also-
I mean, but it's generally speaking until the Six Day War, until the Six Day War Israel
was considered a liberal and left-wing cause. It just was. That was the reality. The
Democratic Party and liberals within the Democratic Party, Jewish liberals in the Democratic Party,
were correctly seen as like the most like a stride and an aggressive advocates for Israel.
And the Republican Party and the, you know, like the Republican Party, Eisenhower,
Dulles, they were not considered as good friends of Israel as say Adlai Stevenson would have fun.
So I think that like it's, I mean, that's, that's just how it was at the time. That's how
they saw it. I do think that, I mean, there was obviously like clear eyed anti Zionist
Jews in the, you know, the, the labor bond, the, the, you know, the Jewish bond movement.
But it is so interesting that like a guy who directly experienced like, you know, the
rise of Nazis, Einstein was like very clear eyed in his assessment of what the Zionist
brigades were doing and what it would eventually turn into. And yet so many other people who
were not directly involved in any way shape or form from afar were like, no, this is good.
This will be, this will be a good thing.
I mean, there's, there was essentially like, because also like the, the, the, the, the
JQ, the Jewish question and the idea of like, where should Jews go or whatever and
Zionists, you know, accepting the anti-Semite's premise and adopting, running with the
idea of like, well, there's this place in the Bible, etc. There were a lot of
people who understood that, all right, well, even if we accept that premise, even
if we think that there is a place where Jews should be in the Middle East, the
idea that it should be a Jewish nation state, where Jews have a specific state
character and a political, you know, like a political entity in which they
are able to have privileges with the implication, perhaps being that there
would be one for the Arabs, history unfolded differently, but there were a
number of you know there were people like Einstein or even the first leader of
a Hebrew University in Israel a guy named Judah Magnus. I think that there
is like a you know there were a lot of people a lot of people even people who
would have considered themselves participants in the Zionist project who
made all of those same points and who more you know you know unfortunately you
know co-signed what became a project that they would have had they seen it
evolve to what it you know what it became even within 20 years would
of, you know, we would have started using the language, started making comparisons with
the Nazis at pretty happily. Yeah. Insofar as particularly Zionism was
likely to continue his disalignment with capitalist imperialism. Many early ways of communist
politics kept an undeveloped theory of settler colonialism left to be clarified. I don't
agree with this assessment at all. I think this assessment is, is like utter the Leninist
perspective for a white guy at that time was, I think pretty, pretty open about
anti-colonial settler colonialism in general am i wrong i just think it's
more that he's saying like it's the idea that it was it's an
und i mean it says kept undeveloped i like the only tweak that i would make
is that he's falling but it was it was more than it was just
underdeveloped like for the moment it didn't adapt to the times i mean solid
ended up co-signing the project he's voted for participant partition i think
that it's it's more that like people did not understand
what it what israel was what if leaders wanted to do because also remember
the nakba was a secret plan
we still do not know the details of the details we still do not know
the details of how it was organized, we know some, we know that
there were meetings, mangurian was a part of them, they actively listed the
villages that they wanted to depopulate that
they want like there was like
there was from the moment that it began taking place, Israel also began
telling the line saying, listen, they're running. We didn't kick them out. They ran. So I think that-
That is true. I always forget that we are operating in the aftermath of the discoveries
of the new historians, and also a tremendous amount of work that Palestinians have put into
raising awareness of what the Nakba looked like. I do forget sometimes. It's almost like,
It's a little bit like, as you said, the Holocaust and the full scale of the atrocities
were only being understood at that time because people didn't have a full understanding of
exactly what had taken place.
I mean, consider what the media environment was in that time.
Yeah.
I mean, there's a bunch of different ways to look at it and all of which is not to
like, I want to be clear.
None of this is to say that people made the right decisions, that excuses should
be made for them for not seeing the truth.
It's one of the great tragedies of history that we now have to live with.
But it is, like, if we want to actually understand, like, why it happened.
Why did, you know, why were our faves problematic in this moment, etc.
I mean, these are the conversations you have to have.
What is this?
Oh, no, here we go again, another worldwide Jewish conspiracy theorist.
I'm sure the kids in the Cool Kids Club agree with you.
What?
Bernie Stoll newspaper.
Sorry.
I love this arc.
I love.
This is like to me.
to send the Jews from the Madagascar the a historical understanding here is frightening.
I don't know what he's referencing there because I don't know if he knows this but the Nazis in
addition to wanting to send the Jews to the Madagascar they also killed six million of them.
Yeah maybe news to him I don't know. I don't understand what like maybe he's saying
maybe he's operating with the the the grand mufti theory the Benjamin Nindy out who is the
the famous Holocaust revisionist perspective.
Abel Hitler was not history's biggest anti-Semite.
The Palestinian Grand Mufti was.
It was the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who gave Hitler the idea for the Holocaust.
In fact, Hitler's idea had been to take the Jews and to put them in a carnival, a
circus.
Yeah.
But it was the Mufti who said, no, no, no, you killed him.
Yeah.
No idea. Islam has nothing to do with what I said. No, we're fucking blaming on you, brother.
I think these are ideas that might be a little too complex for you, okay?
Yeah.
Don't worry about it.
Go back to the police, brother.
Brother.
Channel conversation is happening between Iran and the administration right now, but the reason we are hearing Iran flex this way
is because they have a new strategic asset.
When this war began, Israel and the United States had air dominance over Iran.
Now that this war is three weeks old, they still have air dominance, but Iran also now has its own strategic aspect, which is sea denial.
Iran has demonstrated to the world that it can selectively close the Strait of Hormuz to international oil transit, and that is spiraling global markets.
That's what's spiraling?
Understands that while it is operationally under stress from the tempo and the kinetics from Israel and the United States.
Okay, so hold on a pause. We are now seeing what this is.
this. Like it's exactly what we said. There isn't like any actual like diplomatic or anything.
It's also from CBS though. So I don't know. But my point is, but even that is like affirming
this, which is just that it's like, it's all going one way. It's all going one way.
According to CBS, citing a senior Iranian foreign ministry, Iran has received points
from the U.S. and they are being reviewed. It falls a slew of contradictory statements
made by both the U.S. and Iranian officials on the map. I don't think the Iranian
officials are contradicting themselves. No. I don't think they're contradicting
themselves. They're saying like the US is desperate for mediation. We're not. I think
this is CBS doing propaganda at the behest of Trump and Israel. By making it seem like
Iran is more invested in the mediation than they actually are. Trump is 100 that buying
time to try and take the straight is not gonna happen. So stupid. I mean, I don't know. I
just I I'm not making any predictions. But I just don't see that happening. Okay, because
of because of how easy it is to continue dominating it or making it like or or, you know, putting
up a tremendous amount of penalties. It's fucking two miles wide, man is two nautical
miles wide that oil tankers can pass through. It's 21 total miles, but most of it is too shallow.
It's not deep enough. It's not very difficult to close the Shredda Harmoos, especially when you are
Iran. I do love also how it's like, you know, we like there is just at no point it occurred to
them also. It's not just oil that goes through there too. Yeah, like it is like it's not just
like Iran yeah it's not just Iran's oil yeah it's harder chemicals necessary for for I mean it's
it's necessary it's natural gas it's just it's so much it impacts so much of the fucking commerce
it's ridiculous what are the odds
What are the odds of a coup or a civil war in Iran? I mean, there's always some odds,
but it doesn't seem very likely. Yeah, fertilizers, helium.
And the Uriah stuff is the, or Uriah, I don't know how it's pronounced, the fertilizer shit is,
especially jarring. Yeah. Because that's one where we're not maybe gonna see the impact
so immediately. I mean, this is like, I like, it's part of what feels so weird about living in
this time too is that like media, the politics, the diplomacy, it's all like
like everything like happens and stacks up on you like so quickly. I mean you
know even a pandemic in the globalized world that we now live in like you
know begins in China and within a couple months like the whole world shut
down and now like I like it's like with this stuff it's like okay well now
we finally encountered a crisis that's so substantial and so deep that it's
actually gonna like we don't know fully how bad things are gonna get
Like if you read oil analysts, like the ones I follow at least on Twitter and others, like
most of what they're saying isn't like, oh, like, we're, you know, like things are, it's
worse now than ever before, whatever.
Most of what they're saying as I, as I've seen it has been this like reaction of, we
don't know how bad this could get because we've never been here before and the people
in charge don't seem to particularly care about spelling out what the potential
consequences could be.
Yeah.
Um, I will say another clear cut marker that things are not going well is that
like all these fucking Atlantis' shitheads are constantly, they got everything they wanted.
And now that it's unfolding in this spectacular fuck-up, they all keep making it seem like
this is not what we wanted all along.
When I see foundation for defending democracy, try to critique Trump's ambitions, or I'm
like, this is you.
You did that.
This is your thing.
Fucking own it, dude.
Yeah.
What's going on?
with this, like this is what you wanted, it's happening, why are you complaining? I don't
understand. Like John Bolton backpedaling. Well, John Bolton is backpedaling because
John Bolton is backpedaling because he's being prosecuted by Trump.
Well, and also because, no, he's also backpedaling because the MEK is dead in the water. And that's
like, you know, that's true. And there was money. It is wild how much of like,
like diaspora ran politics for years were dictated by MEK. And I think this conflict,
at least at this stage of it right now has totally marginalized them.
Yeah, like MEK used to buy off like fucking like a Howard Dean, right Howard Dean was on
the MEK payroll, you know, like they were all over American politics in all directions.
Yeah, Trump blinked first out of a clear understanding that striking Iran's energy infrastructure
would trigger direct and significant retaliation as for negotiations, messages would clearly
exchange but there's strong reason to doubt that Iran actually conceded the regime is
unlikely to reopen the straight without meaningful concessions from the US.
From Tehran's perspective, this is a notable achievement.
didn't fold, didn't back down, and may have forced Washington to recalibrate as objectives.
For Trump, the goal now appears to have shifted, no longer regime change, but reopening the
strait. Bottom line is the conflict isn't over, it's still unfolding, but a potential
path to de-escalation has emerged. Still, one key question remains. If in five days
Iran hasn't reopened the strait, it's unlikely that threats alone will change
that. Pressure without incentives rarely works.
I mean, there you go. Oh, also, uh, the exchange on morning, Joe, regarding the Iran war, uh,
Joe Scarborough asked the question, is it a good thing that we're degrading Iran's military
infrastructure? Yes or no. And here is the opposition leader, Chuck Schumer. Let's
hear what he had to say about this. Just understand like what the, uh, current, uh,
opposition party is saying about this.
Looks like the fucking kid from recess, dude.
The unpopular war.
I don't know, hold on a second.
You gotta answer my question first.
Is it a good thing that Iran,
I think you'd agree with me,
at the center of terrorism in the world since 1979.
I love that you're from Florida!
You're from Florida!
More terrorism has come out of Florida
than Iran in the last 50 years, I guarantee it.
Also, also, like, this is just,
you're just repeating the, the manga talking points to try and justify this.
Like it's just so stupid. Every fucking supposed liberal, right?
If you want to call Joe Scarborough, that even though he fucking kissed Trump's
ring initially,
he's not a liberal. I mean, he's not, but like these are,
these are billed as like liberal programs.
It's, it's unfucking believable that like all of the outspoken libtards on
television from the political class of the media class are just basically
re-confirming Trump's idiotic talking points that are based on nothing by the way, complete
nothing, and then turning around and trying to make a process critique.
This is not a valuable argument, this is not a reliable argument.
You're literally saying the same shit that you guys said during the Maduro kidnapping.
Oh, he's a tyrant, oh, he's ruthless, oh, he's brutal, but they should have, I don't
know, not fucking kidnapped him.
If he's a brutal, ruthless tyrant and you're agreeing with that, why the fuck would any
average American turn around and go, no, let's not be a pussy about this, actually.
It's great that we fucking kidnapped him.
You're justifying the argument for your opposition and then simultaneously making the most
like wishy-washy middle of the ground bullshit fucking critique that literally does not
reach the salius for any person, any person at all.
Who the fuck would go, oh, Adolf Hitler was, was.
kidnapped. Oh, no. It was the process that was destroyed in this, in this situation. I
hate it. Okay. It's fucking stupid. My clip is higher quality. I mean, it doesn't really
matter. Is this the shorter? So we're going to go with one good that their military infrastructure
is being degraded in the degree that it is. Yes. And it's, it's, you can't because
it's a premature question. What is going to happen in the next several months?
I know I can ask that question.
I said that right.
I mean, if you're a shock tumor and you don't want to,
like, and you're trying to thread the needle
at your threading, that's a pretty good answer,
which is why are you trying to get me to answer a question
of how this is going to go when we're, like, barely into it?
Military side, I can show you my chart,
but I think I better wait.
You have the military side, you have the political side.
I'm simply asking on the military side, is it good?
Regardless of whether we agree with going in or not,
is it good that Iran's military infrastructure
has been seriously left to tell you, Joe?
First, what's going to happen three months from now?
Is it worth it?
What's going to happen?
Will the world economy collapse?
Will something happen even worse?
Will the whole energy infrastructure of the world
go up in smoke?
So you have to, when they do it with our planning,
They do it without understanding. Yeah, that's the problem not that like this this act alone
Didn't do it with the planning. We needed better plans. It's just crazy like no, dude. You can just say
You can just say this is fucking unacceptable
Sad to see Chris Murphy echoing false neo-continuit is about Iran's threats to the US
It's by design at some point we have to wake up to the reality that this is by design
Okay, I think that the entire infrastructure of communication on the Democratic Party is
basically to make it seem like they have this wishy-washy approach to what Donald Trump
was saying, but they secretly fucking love it, okay?
That's it.
Wake up.
It's absolutely controlled opposition with like very few Democrats who genuinely are saying,
no, this is fucking bullshit, okay?
That's it.
Why else do they always find just the right amount of votes to not launch a reasonable
critique like any sort of process critique even, that they claim that they have with
the administration's actions?
Also, there's always enough spoilers in safe seats, mind you, because this is important.
If someone was ideologically committed, right, to the cause, then they would come out
and say, I'm voting against this.
This is my principled stance.
I don't want the war powers act to be called because Donald Trump is doing the right thing.
I love Israel and I want America's soldiers to die for Israel.
But it's never the people that have said that like Godheimer or Moskowitz that legitimately
believe it or even now what's his face Goldman has come out and he's he's uh he's doing
the you mean my you mean my congressman yeah your congressman I'm letting you know I'm
setting making this like I'm going to doorknock for Brad lander I want Dan Goldman out
of my goddamn life. It's un-fucking-believable that Dan Goldman is now like, oh, the settler
terrorism must end. This is unacceptable. I mean, look, the Murphy thing annoys me because I think
the Murphy thing gets into something that I think is a little bit more general, which is like not
about like the specific commitment to the the specific project of Israel in particular,
or the Middle East even, but it is about like a return because Murphy was also the guy who
had that really annoying tweet after the first, after the Trump won, uh, like Venezuela fuck up.
Oh, that lives in my mind.
Yeah, no.
And we tried to do a soft coup in Venezuela,
but Trump fucked it up.
And it's like, OK, pal.
And part of what it gets at is to me
is that there is a kind of political liberal in this country
who really, rather than trying to imagine a better future,
rather than trying to imagine a new future, a different future,
an alternative fucking path, what they want,
what they actually want is to go back.
They want to go back to like, you know,
some time when foreign policy,
the premises of our foreign policy may have been the same,
but the way in which we conducted it
was with something, you know, with more honor or discipline.
And that to me is like where I see like, you know,
not just Murphy, but like you can see
a whole class of Democrats like Russian.
But they don't see that the,
like the ground that they stand on has shifted so much
they think they can harken back to a time when like liberal interventionism was was uh
could masquerade as like a necessary evil or or necessary violent it goes back to like i think of
you go slavia i mean it could be just this idea that there is like a role for american weaponry
to be wielded in the world for good that like in your and in your head it's like la la like
you know alex jones la la la liberal i play i am i am reenacting the fantasy of of 1941 in
my head, you know, without realizing that like, no, you're the baddies now. Like you're
you're the bat. You're on the wrong side of this thing. And our, our, our, our discipline
needs to be a knot trying to blow stuff up.
Yeah. Yes. Talk about more. Talk about, but talk more about how you hate them. I love
this guy's a fucking pervert. He's like, Oh, I'm clipping this. I'm clipping this
so I can post it on all the nastiest, all the nastiest third way. Keep the delusion
going guys. Yeah, we are the delusional ones. 13% of the Democratic Party have a favorable
opinion of Israel, and we are the fucking delusional ones. You're right. Please wake
up to this fucking reality. The third way liberalism is done. Okay. There's no more base. There's
no more base or no more support for neoliberalism in general. You are delusional and you
You probably don't even work for any of these think tanks anyway.
But you have been fed all of these fucking lies, and you think that this is actually somehow
brilliant.
Okay, this is brilliant analysis.
You read a couple of these fucking think tank policy papers and you thought, well, I want
to come across as smarter than everybody else.
So now you still think that Democrats putting this mealy-mouthed, wishy-washy bullshit
as the controlled opposition party is actually, is actually something that people could
put their teeth on, that they actually represent the general attitude of the popular base.
You and people like you are going to lead to a Tucker Carlson Reagan victory margin, okay?
That's the problem.
That's it.
Because someone is going to take advantage of this information vacuum.
If the Liberals don't actually become the anti-Zionist party right now, there is
going to be someone who takes advantage of that.
Oh, it's so scary man. That's the thing that's like really quite astonishing to me is how quickly people on the right have like smelled blood on the water and by the way, it's people on the right who have way more influence. Okay.
Yeah, no, he literally is like an open defender. I knew that this was coming.
I mean, it makes sense.
Who is an axe to grind with protecting Democrats at this stage, except for that guy, but
Yeah
Yeah, pedophilic sex past who's a literally openly fantasizing about going on a paid
Sponsored trip to Israel now. That's your guy
That's your fucking guy, dude
Unbelievable anyway go on
Like their people like Tucker Carlson and whomever like they have way more motion and more influence over their like base and like over
their party as well like over the actual like the machine apparatus like at the RNC Tucker
Carlson matters a lot more and then any of the other Democrats sorry to say this on that
who have like made the similar effort to try and influence the Democrats to a position
you know critical of Israel like the Republicans have been way more successful at influencing
like the broad spectrum of people.
Whereas I think Democrats have largely been influenced by the events as they've
gone on.
And so it's gonna turn into another dynamic where like if there's a partnership between Tucker Carlson and like JD Vance
He can lean into Tucker's bullfides as you can use Tucker like that's the like it's there is it's
I mean it's scary and it's sad because I do think that like the longer you
You know you let things go on like this where like you let them carve out that space and don't do anything for yourself
like you make it like, you will just endlessly replay the 2024 election over and over and
over and over again.
They don't realize that they're gonna lose Democrats to a Republican, okay?
They're gonna lose Democratic voters.
They don't understand.
They think they have like, they think that the base will inevitably react in a partisan
manner and will consistently vote for Democrats because they're so mad at Donald Trump.
All it does, if JD Vance pulls, I'm just imagining different hypothetical scenarios here, right?
JD Vance is noticeably quiet, noticeably absent from the conversation currently, okay?
And he also understands how to communicate with liberals, even though he's a fucking
gross whiny loser.
Let's say JD Vance actually sever his ties with Donald Trump when, when 2028 comes around
and does the thing that Kamala Harris was too afraid to do.
And then JD Vance leans into Tucker Carlson to get this legitimacy, to get this legitimacy
from Tucker Carlson's like populous rhetoric and Tucker Carlson's anti-Zionist rhetoric,
just as Donald Trump was able to effectively present himself as a peaceful dove to Kamala
Harris's like endless militarism, JD Vance can totally dupe enough fucking people
that way.
It was crazy how many people misheard the criticism that they're successfully duping
people as I believe that J.D. Vance and Donald Trump are like anti-war.
Yeah.
Like there was, it's, I mean, this is what I mean about like repeating 2024, it'll just
be the same shit over and over.
I do think the very interesting thing is though, is that we do have more down ballot
litmus tests for this stuff.
Like I think we are seeing in Maine how a version of this plays out, like whatever
one thinks of Plattener or whatever one thinks of what his, you know, how his
agenda will be realized if he is to be elected and what his beliefs may be whatever
The race as it is right now is that this guy is like like he is
By staking out the position that he is in the you know, like most you know most like straightforward aggressive way
We see we are getting a preview of how Democrats might respond to that in the future
Which is to say Janet Mills is going negative crazy early. She's makes she's trying to she's in part laying conditions for a general election
To be much more difficult for him
Um, like I think it's, it's, it's, but who is one again?
Not that I'm not saying that everybody has to get on the platner, on the, the platner
plane, but like they, oh,
Can I just point, point to this?
He said Cuba, China troops, one of the poorest nations in the Western hemisphere paid me
to do propaganda is what this guy thinks.
Like at least with China, China is a fucking, you know, you can have a powerhouse,
but like the, the, to say that like Cuba has any fucking money in the bank.
i want i want i wanted to have a ride after i want to go to be the to be
some of the back to the is the literal state sponsored asm do you know how fast
the american government would apprehend and a rest me at the point of reentry
into the country
if there was any sort of fucking money exchange that took place between me and
the cuban government
are you that fucking delusional
i on ban this guy simply because i wanted to hear how
how idiotic he is
the uh...
I got a bounce. I had a thought. Oh, yeah. The thought was this. To Hasan's point, I've
like, you know, like met Cuban diplomats. I know some. I've like been to the Cuban embassy
and I've been to other embassies in DC. I've like met other diplomats. I've seen how it
works. And when I tell you that like you go to some countries that have, you know, substantially
more poverty than you in Cuba does far more larger proportions of their population.
living cities and are incredibly poor, fine, and Sub-Saharan Africa, so forth.
Okay, you step outside and you're standing in front of their embassy in DC.
And what do you see?
You see Mercedes, you see a limousine, you see a BMW, you see brand new cars.
You go to the Cuban embassy, and a Cuban and a driver from the embassy takes you to
meet a diplomat for coffee at busboys and poets or some shit, and you know what
that car is?
It's a fucking 10-year-old Subaru.
Like these people don't have the fucking money
to do in Israel is what I'm saying.
Like it's not like just-
It's funny because like they'll be like the Castro family
has its tentacles in the Cuban government.
It's like in deeply corrupt system.
And it's like, dude, they have like,
it's like the head of like LGBT initiatives.
Like they don't have this unimaginable and awesome power
that they wheeled with the Castro name
over the current government.
Like I don't know, it's just,
that also strikes me as odd as well.
Pissing me off.
I gotta balance it.
All right.
I'll see you later.
Later, guys.
Yeah, one of the cast was the head of gay, literally.
by the way that that policy is also ironically identical to that policies
also or that line is also identical to the Hamas's billionaires Hamas is
billions of dollars and is is is using its billions to dominate everyday
Palestinian lives like
Anyway
If America did to Israel what is doing the Cuba Israel be worse all 100%
I mean if America did to if America did to Israel what it's been doing in Cuba Israel would not be a fascist state
Anyway, yeah, let's, we're going to do the Tucker Carlson rhetorical jujitsu in a second
because I do think it's, hold on, this is the one, I do think it's important to understand
like how how dominant a right wing anti Zionist can be when talking to liberal Zionists in
general.
Where they're going, where they're going, I don't think it's there.
It's a trick question.
It is.
We answer the question for everybody in America.
The answer, yes.
It's good that the terrorist regime, their military has been and capabilities have
been degraded radically. The question, Mike, though, is political. It's the political question.
What is the political impact? What's the impact in the straits? What's the impact in the region?
Joe, in all due respect, if you ask the American people, if you have the choice of degrading
the military structure in Iran, but having gasoline be $6 a gallon, and our economy
falling into a deep recession where millions lose their job, what do you think of that
You're not listening to me. That's the political side. Oh, it's not political. Okay. It's a concept. It's just like Mika said
I won't you talk about the Yankees because you're not following me. I don't do respect
I just don't agree with you about what you you don't understand me
There's a big difference
I would say that most Americans would say it's a good thing that it's degraded would they agree that we should have gone to
War Mike
I think most Americans look at both so they don't want this war
Okay, they don't want this war but but there there is it's something that I think that should be I think it's something with all
respect, Democrats should be clear about Iran has tried to kill Americans since 1979. Who
thinks, hold on, two things can be true at once. It can be good that Iran's killing machine
has been declared.
By the way, some of y'all sound exactly like this. Okay. Some of y'all sound exactly like
this when you're like, well, two things can be true at once. And you know why Joe's
saying that, right? You know I'm warning Joe saying that shit because you must
justify Trump, right? You want to justify the actions. That's the only reason why you
do this like, oh, two things could be true at once. You just have to remember that.
There is, when when when push comes to shove, okay, when the pedal hits the
metal. People who are still trying to find like a moral center in these sorts of incidents
are just doing the work of fascists, okay? That's it. That's it. And in this case, Joe
obviously is lying. Sometimes people are a little bit more honest about finding this
moral center where there are, of course, just like every other government, there are
criticism you can make, right? There are criticism you can make. But they are completely marginal
or inconsequential and aid the far greater evil when brought up.
Rated. At the same time, the consequences may outweigh the good. They come from that.
I don't disagree with you, you know, the fact that the leader harmony is gone, no one regrets that.
The fact that around...
I don't know. Do you not regret that? You probably should regret that. If you have two working fucking brain cells,
you should be regretting that decision right now, considering that he was the most restrained individual sitting on top of this entire fucking government.
But even on that front, even on that front, you should be saying no, it's actually, Donald
Trump should not have assassinated Ali Haman-e.
It was not a real victory at all.
It has less ability to create military trouble is no one disputes that.
But you have to look, I don't think it's political to be very honest with you.
It's the consequences, the military, the geopolitical, the non-consequences of the
political.
you just said what i was saying that you have political consequences
the economic consequences
again let me ask the question again if you asked the american people
and you had the package together because we don't know how bad it's going to be
but we know it's pretty bad now
i think most of them would have said no we shouldn't have gone to war
most of them have said that
yeah we shouldn't have gone to war
and i'll tell you this if they would have done it right
if they would have involved
Yeah, oh my God. Yeah, there's a there's a right way to do this voted if the Republicans would have voted with us on the war power sector
All these questions would have been asked ahead of time
What instead of Donald Trump's willy-nilly one day? Yes, one day. No, this is our reason that is our reason
So I don't think the question can be taken in just one slice, right? Yeah, why why can't we just murder the
Why can't we murder the Iranian children with a dual tap strike at their school, but legally, okay?
You see, the war efforts I agree with, the assassinations I agree with, it's just that he didn't ask me for my approval and I disagree with that.
What this guy is not funny enough to unbanded do you chuck more because he's a laborer Julia? Okay, dude, okay, buddy
Okay, buddy
the intellectual might of every fucking
The the intellectual might of every fucking sex Pestini fan immediately revealed
Still still running on this route
Talk about do we hate Chuck more because he's a laborer Julia, dude
It really, you nailed it.
Like the implication is that, well,
this is an anti-Semitic community.
Shut the fuck up.
No one fucking believes this shit.
Oh, if you consider that Joe quite literally has
to take this position or his father-in-law's course
will rise up in the dead and rip his cock off,
I had not considered that.
Yeah, when Trump was failing to properly oppose
an official US enemy Russia, Dems didn't hesitate to take action and impeach Trump from the
right.
And when Trump assassins the leader of Iran and drops 8,000 bombs on the capital city,
Dems are quiet because he's actually carrying out longstanding US goals which they support.
Yes.
You don't suck off Nazis like Epstein does, his audience is fucking right with Nazi
supporters of Israel and the other kind.
Yes, I.O.
Nazis and Neo-Nazis.
Nazis. That's why some made no call and leave. Yeah, I was like, no, I get out of here so
I can be anti-Semitic. Yeah. Yeah, repeat, repeat Torres.
Repeat Torres also coming out swinging at the settler terrorism is underway. You have
have argued and I'll put this quote, we need to end this war right now. If the U.S. ends
the war right now, as you're arguing for, could that leave Iran with a more extreme
anti-American regime and even lead to a potentially larger conflict for the next administration?
But the administration has already said their goal is not regime change. They are perfectly
satisfied to leave in charge of Iran, a regime that is going to be worse for American interests
than the previous regime.
What we know is that the minute we stop bombing, this new regime is going to start rebuilding
their missile capacity and their drone capacity.
The estimates are that it will only take them a handful of months to reconstitute
that threat.
So what did we get at the end of this war?
We're going to waste billions of dollars.
We're going to get dozens, if not hundreds of Americans killed.
to start new conflicts in the region and when it's all said and done a more provocative regime is
going to be in charge with the same military capacities this is nonsensical.
There was a league that them leadership quietly wants to try to continue because they were going
to do it anyways in the future despite it being politically unpopular. Yes, this is a win-win,
this is a win-win, this is a win-win for the democrats. They don't get to fucking,
they get to hang the unpopularity of the war on Donald Trump's neck
And it's literally something that they want. It's perfect for them. Democrats love
dealing from a position of no power, for this reason. Because when they have no power,
they can fundraise, they can keep their seats, they can present themselves as opposition party,
even though they're not doing a very good job about it right now. But they also simultaneously
don't have to, they don't have to have the moral failure of like doing this deeply unpopular thing.
I mean, they don't even calculate the morality to be fair. Right?
What do they get out of this? They've gained nothing. Their calculation is they get to
fucking go to war with Iran. That's like, that's what it is. They want it. There are a shit ton
of Democrats by way of the lobby or from their own personal ideological commitments that love
is real and also put Israel first is that simple. But there's also a, a, a, you know, a conflicting
in a conflicting interest that they have here where, you know, they don't want to
lose their fucking seats.
The audience needs to know when you are gay when I'm gay. Got it.
They gain by allowing themselves to be the sense, the sensible moderates. Yes.
This way, this way, the goals are advanced.
Israel's goals are okay, and they don't get to they don't get to have that around their neck
Excuse me in defense expert professor Michael Clark. Where do we begin my goodness that statement?
Um, what did you make of it? Well, it's what Leah you and I said about half an hour before it appeared would probably happen
We were discussing it that he was likely to back down on this or likely to find room to not implement it
because it was such a serious step to take which would spin the war completely out of anyone's control.
It occurs to me also, there may be a technical reason for this.
If you look at what the United States was talking about doing, attacking the whole infrastructure,
there's over 400 power generation plants in Iran, physically a big country, much bigger than Britain,
million people producing about 90 megawatts, 90,000 megawatts of power and so there's a lot of them
and it might well be that the military said when he said prepare this this plan the military might
have said well what effect you're trying to have boss you know we could take out the small ones
wouldn't have a big effect we could take out the big ones have a big effect what do you want
I think a lot of a lot of time must have gone into thinking about what they would actually
do if he carried through on his threats and they only had four or eight hours to do it
So I wouldn't be at all surprised if the military didn't say to him, you know, Mr. President,
we're not sure what target set would have the effect you want to have.
And it'll take us a bit of time to work that out and to actually plan
the sort of attacks that we need on those targets.
It strikes me there might be a technical side behind this as well.
But overwhelmingly, this is Donald Trump thinking finally about the effect that this
would have because the Iranians showed no sign of backing down.
They simply said, well, if you do that, we'll do the same in the Gulf,
and will go for the desalination plants, which will be disastrous, completely disastrous to
Gulf societies, because there they are. By definition, desalination plants are on the coast
and so they're all along the other side of the Gulf, very easy to target from Iran's point of view,
very, very vulnerable and they seem to be prepared to carry that out. And interestingly,
the Iranians are now saying, we didn't have any talks with them. Are the directives
That's what I thought was really interesting, because they're framing this as, you know...
You're an actual decision. You backed off, Mr. President, you're a taco.
Trump always chickens out. That's what they will say. We stood up to you, you backed out.
The Iranians think that they're winning. I mean, they've established conditions.
They've said, we want a closure of all American bases.
We want Gulf money to reconstruct Iranian damage after this war.
There's zero chance that those conditions would ever be accepted.
but the fact that they're naming these conditions tells you that they think they're winning.
They think that they're in a position to establish some terms rather than just wanting the war to stop.
So as misguided as that may be, because ultimately I think this may bring down the Iranian regime,
not now but maybe in six months time or two years time, you know, they may win the war against
America and then lose the war against their own people and the other states in the Gulf
who will have nothing to do with them after this war.
So I think in the long term, Trump's policy might work,
but not now, this way. That's the difference.
Michael, I could talk to you about this for hours now.
We're going to have to leave it there for now.
Thank you so much for your analysis. It's always top draw.
Buried but breathing, a survivor beneath the rubble,
a rescuer holding on to hope.
The reality of airstrikes on Tehran, despite President Trump's talk of potential breakthrough.
They want very much to make a deal. We'd like to make a deal too. We're going to get together
today by probably phone.
News of talks came in a treat social post. The commander-in-chief putting plans to bomb
Iran's power plants on hold.
doing a five-day period we'll see how that goes and if it goes well we're
gonna end up with settling this otherwise we'll just keep bombing our
little hearts out. But there's no sign of any end to this joint combat mission.
US forces continuing to strike Iranian military targets. Israeli forces
blowing up bridges in Lebanon.
But Trump's closest ally is also talking about an opportunity.
Earlier today I spoke with off-brent President Trump.
President Trump believes there's an opportunity to leverage the significant achievements we
have made together with the US military in order to achieve the objectives of the war
through an agreement.
An agreement that will safeguard our vital interests.
At the same time, we continue to carry out strikes both in Iran and in Lebanon.
Donald Trump says they aren't speaking to the new Supreme Leader, much taboo harmony,
and don't know if he's still alive, but to a top person.
Not so says the Speaker of Iran's parliament.
No negotiations have been held with the US, and fake news is used to manipulate the financial
and oil markets and escape the quagmire in which the US and Israel are trapped,
he posted on X.
It's the President's envoy, Steve Whitcoff, who's doing the negotiating, alongside Trump's
son-in-law Jared Kushner. But who'd run the Strait of Hormuz if they strike a deal?
Maybe me. Maybe me. Me and the Ayatollah, whoever the Ayatollah is.
No deal to sign yet. Just a guitar on a visit to Graceland, the home of Elvis Presley.
The president pinning his hopes, perhaps, on a little more, not less conversation.
You never know. These are hard to sign.
David Blevins, Sky News in Washington.
We're seeing the new taco narrative is floated today.
I can almost picture a total withdrawal of the U.S. from the region with Trump claiming we're getting a cut of Iranian fees on Hormuz traffic.
Trump tells reporters of the Shreddha Hormuz can be jointly controlled by me and that I told that we're going to control the Shreddha and Iran's going to pay for it.
We're going to have to get some sense about our public relationship.
We have had very, very strong talks.
We'll see where they live.
We have major points of agreement.
That was almost all points of agreement.
Perhaps that has a bit conveyed.
The communication, as you know, has been going to be significant.
They weren't able to talk to each other.
We've had very strong talks.
Mr. Whitcock and Mr. Krishna had them.
I would say, perfectly, I would say that if they carry through with that, you know, and
that's the problem, that conflict that I think it will end up very, very quickly.
We have very much in mind our partners in the Middle East, in a great relationship
with a lot of them, as you know, a lot of them were surprisingly hit and I was surprised
to see it.
everyone else but we have uh they're very much in mind in the discussions so the discussions
took place yesterday they went into yesterday's evening uh they want very much to make a deal
we'd like to make a deal too we're going to get together today uh by probably because it's very
hard to find a country it's very hard for them to get out again but we'll at some point
We're doing a five-day period to see how that goes.
And if it goes well, we're going to end up with settling this.
Otherwise, we'll just keep bombing our little heart.
Let's be direct to shooting with those guys.
The top person, don't forget.
We've wiped out the leadership phase one, phase two,
and largely phase three.
So we're dealing with the man who I believe
is the most effective and the leader.
You know, it's a little tough. They've wiped out everybody.
They've wiped out all of us.
The top person don't forget.
We've wiped out the leadership phase one, phase two, and largely phase three.
But we're dealing with the man who I believe is the most respected and the leader.
You know, it's a little tough. They've wiped out everybody.
That's a great leader.
No, that's a great leader.
So nobody's ever, nobody heard of the second Supreme Leader.
Are these direct?
Nobody, we have not heard from the Sun.
Everyone said, well, you see a statement there, but we haven't.
We don't know the living.
But the people that seem to be running it,
and they seem that based on really facts,
because things they've said have taken place.
I was going to arrest them again.
I was going to arrest them again.
I don't want him to be killed, okay?
I don't want him to be killed.
Mr. President, you are doing it.
Nobody wants to be dead.
Nobody wants that job right now, you know?
Nobody's exactly looking forward to being
the head of that particular country,
but perhaps we'll be able to solve that problem.
Mr. President, I want to hear from you.
If these talks go well and you reach a ceasefire event, Mr. Rand,
Do you believe Israel would abide by that agreement?
I think Israel will be very happy with what we have.
We just spoke to Israel a little while ago.
I think we'll be very happy.
This will be peace for Israel.
Long term peace.
Guarantee peace.
Because this happens, and I can't guarantee this,
but I think it goes to, my life is a deal.
That's all I do is deal with my whole life.
I think this is something that's going to happen.
And why wouldn't it happen?
So, tomorrow, morning, sometimes, they're done.
We were expecting to blow up their electricity-generating plan
that cost over $10 billion to build,
a very good one.
There was no cash, no money.
And one shot, it's gone.
It's collapsed.
Why would they want that?
So they called.
I didn't call them.
They called.
They want to make a deal.
and we are very willing to make a deal. It's got to be a good deal and it's got to be no more wars, no more nuclear weapons.
They're not going to have nuclear weapons anymore. They're agreeing to that.
Any of that stuff is no deal.
And if you don't find that, sir, any targets...
Do you have any one against the Americans? How are you going against the Americans?
They're easy. If we have a deal with them, we're going down and we'll take it ourselves.
The Iranian capital, Mohammed, denials from the Iranian leaders that they're actually
talking to the US, but Donald Trump's insisting they are.
Yeah, that's the situation, Emran.
The Iranian leaders were very quick to respond to that tweet by Donald Trump, saying that
there is no indirect or direct negotiation going on between the two sides.
But the understanding is that there is mediation.
has never stopped since the beginning of this war, even though that mediation did not amount
to a real rapprochement between the two sides. According to the Iranian side, the Iranians
have a lot of suspicion and lack of trust towards President Trump and the Israelis,
because what happened in June and what happened also in February 28th, when the two sides
were negotiating and whether prospects for peace. And at the same time, those two
countries attacked Iran. So they don't want a repeat of that situation. And whatever comes
from Washington, they take it with a pinch of salt, and they are very clear to the public
the discourse that is being disseminated internally is much, much stronger than what is being
said to the outside world. Internally, the television and the Iranian media are
talking about the Americans backing down, buying time, because they couldn't defeat Iran in
the battlefront, and that Donald Trump is bluffing the Iranians once again, and he's trying to
deceive them, buying time, because they are preparing for stronger strikes. They need time,
probably, to prepare that. And that's why they are doing this, and also they are
are doing to reduce the amount of tension regarding the prices of oil and so on.
So it's just manipulation of time and manipulation of the whole situation for the benefit of
the Americans and the Israelis and in order to strike harder against Iran.
So the Iranians are saying that they have to rely on the only thing of which they are
sure the only thing that is boosting their morale and helping them defeat the enemy
in this world.
on Fox now. Let's go. One of the most ridiculous embargoes of all time. There's only gotten
more deadly as time has gone on. Move over Sophocles. Two words. Useful idiots. Okay.
Useful idiots to the regime. Pinko's, you know, typical. Yeah, he's wearing a 50
$1,500 Cartier sunglasses, okay, while the people cannot eat in Cuba and if they speak out like this guy is they'd be thrown in jail with no
No redress. This is absurd and all these humanitarian radicals Laura are staying at five-star hotels
Cubans are starving and enduring blackouts rather than making those glittery hearts
They should have spent the craft money on maybe feeding these people and shut their mouths
This is not what freedom looks like what Cuba is offering their people
This is suppression and oppression and it's gone on
for for decades and time to remind me and this is for in
call since we're in California reminds me of Gavin Newsom
at the French laundry during covid Nancy Pelosi at the hair
salon during covid the rules never apply to them they eat
cake and they their lobster and the other people Raymond
thank you for going to the airport for us great reporting
thank you all right that's it for us tonight make sure to
follow me on social media. Uh,
Jillian and I do a little back
and forth. You want to see that?
By the way, the hits are going to
keep coming. Um, the hits are
going to keep coming. I know for
a fact beyond the lookout for a
liberal hit pieces to. I think
they want to nip this shit in
the bud before it turns into
another Gaza situation.
where mainstream media completely lost control over the narrative.
And I think that is the unironic reason as to why they're so
actively doing a full spectrum propaganda.
By belittling the stated purpose of the humanitarian aid convoy.
What have they done compared to you another similar in your position Dave advocate for the blockade to continue
You're going to answer for those $1500 card years though. No, the fuck I'm not first of all, I don't think they were that much
much. Secondly, I didn't even buy them myself. I did put the transition lenses in it though.
Also last but not least, it's utterly fucking irrelevant. Like, what, what difference does
to make how expensive my clothing is. Are you fucking stupid? Yeah, what am I supposed
do not wear glasses. Hey, I know you can't see without them, but like are my is my drip
causing Cuba's to suffer? Or is it the blockade?
That's it. Yeah, I'm rich. Also, you have no choice in what kind of hotel you stay in. You
have to stay in a five. Like, that's the other, like literally the only available hotels that
that can receive 600 people.
Like, there are not enough readily available
random houses that people can stay in.
There's 600 people from all around the world
that were coming in.
And the American government restricts where you can stay.
Most people don't know that though,
which is why to them it sounds,
it sounds so insane.
It's one of those things it's like with Israel, right?
When Israel does something so heinous, and people go, there's no way that's real.
That's gotta be anti-Semitic.
And then you're like, oh my god, it is real.
What the fuck?
But what's hilarious about it, what's hilarious about it is,
The situation, like the goal of this, at least from my perspective, is to bring awareness
to what the Cubans were going through, what the Cubans are still going through.
But outside of that, it was to expose.
What's the investigate and potentially bring awareness to and expose the complex nature
of these blockades, the complex nature of like American sanctions and American blockades
and how it is disrupted daily Cuban existence for 60 fucking years at this point.
And a big part of that like weird, a big part of the weird and unnecessary restrictions
is ironically the restrictions on who or where Americans can and can't stay.
Anyway, let's get back to situation monitoring and I'll, I'll cover that stuff again.
They're missiles and they're drones and there is no change in that course of action tonight.
Also, there was a new wave of missiles and drones launched against against Israel and
and the region. So Iran is not talking about negotiations right now, and they think that
it will take time. But there have been phone calls between the foreign minister and his
counterparts in the region and beyond, talking to the South Korean counterpart, also the
Pakistani and the Omanis. So that channel of communication is ongoing, but at the
same time, the narrative here to the internal public is that nothing has changed
So far
Dude you gotta keep spamming this and then I'll give you the fucking itinerary
I'm the 600 people that were on the island with me
You gotta keep spamming it dude
Day 24 of the war has been a day in which things didn't happen and did happen.
The things that didn't happen was the threat by President Trump after midnight tonight to
attack the power centers, the power stations of Iran.
There are 400 or so of them.
These are some of the bigger ones.
The Bashir nuclear power station is not the biggest, but it's the one that everybody
thinks about.
The Iranians said, well, of course, if you do that, then we will attack the
power stations in the Gulf states which would be extremely serious in itself.
Even more than that, and the Iranians have implied this before and they've already
done it at least on one occasion, they said that they would attack the
desalination plants along the Gulf coast. And all of these societies really
depend upon desalinated water, not just for drinking but for all of the
normal functions of their society. No society can live without clean water.
There's only so much you can do with seawater. And all of these
desalination plants by definition or on the coast they're all vulnerable to Iran
very easy to attack that would be a complete another disaster now in theory
that is not going to happen at least for five days so that is something that
today will not go down in history as having created but this is something
that will go down in history the Israelis have actually increased their
attacks on Lebanon and this is important because they've begun to attack the
bridges over the Latini River the five major bridges they've attacked
two of them, three of them, they'll probably attack all of them eventually.
What the Israelis are trying to do is to separate this area south of the Litany River.
Why would they want to do that? Very obviously. By the way, what he's talking about in terms like this
is quite literally a catastrophe of such magnitudes that is comparable to the
but if not a larger number of people that are going to be ethnically cleansed from their homelands.
It's unbelievable that Israel, amidst like the bombing campaigns, still find the opportunity to go and seize Lebanese land, like to go and seize Lebanese territory.
When the war began on the 7th of October 2023 and Hezbollah began to send rockets into northern
Israel, the Israelis had to evacuate 60,000 people from that area from north.
According to a post I just saw on IG Israel and the US just bombed energy plants in Iran.
We'll find out sooner or now if that's real or not.
And they were away from their homes for well over a year.
They didn't get back there until November 2024.
And they don't want to have to do that again.
So what they're doing, instead of actually getting these people out, they're taking control
themselves of this area south of the Latani River.
They're moving in to occupy southern Lebanon, almost certainly.
They did that between 1982 and the year 2000.
They spent 18 years there and it still didn't really solve the problem.
Indeed, it created the problem originally of Hezbollah.
It looks as if they're about to do it again.
It's one example of the fact that the Middle East will not be the same again after
this war, whether it finishes in five days time or in two months time.
If you don't stand me in the shit, read logs please.
Iran's Fars news agency reports that you is okay.
I saw man.
Israeli Sharks targeted energy infrastructure in Isfahan and Qoram Shahr, including a gas
management building, a pressure reduction station and a gas pipeline link to a power
plant.
Demons was reported to the facilities in nearby homes with no casualties recorded.
Yeah, I think they want to draw out, they want to draw out a more militant response from Iran.
They want to cause Iran to escalate in retaliation.
Israel has actively played the role of a spoiler.
Because they have a very different set of goals.
And the American side.
Or let me rephrase that.
It's not necessarily a different set of goals, but it's one that,
I guess you could say it's a different set of goals because America is still fine with like a
fully destabilized Iran, whether they achieve it or not is a totally different story.
It's just that I don't think America is as predisposed as invested in like
like the complete collapse of the Gulf, especially considering what that will do for American
interests in the region and the unlimited money flows that they've gotten from the Gulf thus
far.
You understand?
Israel on the other hand wants a weakened Gulf.
I don't think America wants a week in golf.
The fact is, everybody in the Middle East is having to reassess their politics and their security policy.
And when those reassessments take place, this is going to be quite interesting and important.
The difference between sheer and sunny peoples within the Muslim faith.
There are about 2 billion Muslims in the world.
10% or 15% of them are of the sheer faith, not the sunny faith.
But most of that 10% or 15% are concentrated across the Middle East.
So these boundaries can be very sharp.
It's not a trivial difference between sheer and sunny Muslims, and they have fought violently in the past.
When you think of it like this, Iran as a block of the leader of the Shia faith and Saudi Arabia is the leader of the Sunni faith and those are
competitive societies in more or less every sense of the word.
It looks pretty dramatic when you look at it as blocks of countries.
But if we think about it in terms of population where people live, it looks a bit different because in Saudi Arabia, the population is much more dispersed.
In Iran, it's much more concentrated.
and the group of sheer peoples in the Middle East
concentrate down towards Yemen, a number of peoples in Turkey,
not many elsewhere.
And that sort of pattern is a pattern that will emerge
as one of the drivers of the new politics of the whole region
that will somehow take shape when this war is at some point over.
Which goes back to the old reality, really,
that war...
The dynamic might shift dramatically in this situation where Chinese interests might supersede what America is willing to do,
especially because China gets all of its energy from the Gulf, including Iran, including but not limited to Iran.
So, I mean, I don't know how China operates.
Especially because they are so unimaginably restrained that it lays on the hard to hard to see what they're doing. There's anything but weak
Stimson center analyst says Iran's impact the missile fired ratio has been rising as the total count lowers
Stimson center expert found Iran's confirmed impacts per projectile fired has been climbing steadily since the first day of the war if Iran is losing
Narratives tracking the wrong numbers. Yes, missile and drone launched
rates are down 90% but hit rate or confirmed impacts per projectile
fire has been climbing steadily since day one. Raw impact counts drop sharply
after February 28th but most of that drop is just fewer launches. That's at
least partly the result of US's rarely strikes destroying launches and stock
piles. The real question of the missiles and drones Iran does fire how
many are getting through. In the opening days of the war Iran fired
more than 500 ballistic missiles and over 2,000 drones. The hit rate was
below 5%. Defense is held. The barrage looked overwhelming. Most of it was stopped. Launch
rates fell 90 plus percent over the following two weeks. Something counterintuitive happened.
The hit rates started climbing. Iran was firing less, but hitting more often. Now, part of
that is also because they started using like uninterceptible hits, like the cluster
munitions that they've been deploying where they unload the 80 sub munitions.
They explode the 80 sub munitions in high altitude.
Those are not interceptable.
The other thing that they did was they successfully took out
Israel's and America's eyes and ears.
Yeah, even the 90% is a deceptive number.
This is also true.
They are down 90% from the day one mag dump,
but they seem to have held steady since then.
That's the other side of the story.
This is also correct.
The first day barrage,
and this is the same thing that happened,
I think in the 12 day war as well,
where they magdump all their old shit
to exhaust the systems
and see whatever goes through.
And they do openly say that by the way.
Yeah, magdump Lamar is funny,
but it's like low key what they're doing.
They did it in the 12 day war as well,
where they just like will literally sell,
you know, we'll, we'll salvo all the old shit, probably probing, pen testing, uh, and analyzing
what the interceptions look like on March 10th, Iran launched 34, 35 drones of the U.A.
89 penetrated air defenses around 25% interception rate. This isn't an accident. It's an operational
pivot. Iran shifted from mass attrition, overwhelming defensible volume to precision
destruction, striking selected targets, where even one hit produces outsized damage.
The energy infrastructure campaign March 18 and 28 shows this perfectly.
Rasslifon, LNG, 17% of Qatar's exports offline, Kuwait's Minna al-Ahma, the refinery hit
two days in a row.
Saudi's Samref refinery struck.
Small salvos, fixed targets, outsized consequences.
The Demona and a Rod strikes on March 21st are the starkest examples.
Small number of missiles fired, two penetrated defenses causing injuries and sparking
an IDF investigation. Netanyahu even called it a very difficult evening. Small salvo,
outsized consequences. Bottom line, a degraded Iran firing fewer, better aimed missiles as
softer targets may be more effective at imposing a civilian in economic costs than
the massive salvos of February 28th. Simple volume was never Iran's comparative advantage.
Disruption was. And on the metric that matters, cost imposed per missile fired,
The ROM may actually getting more effective as the war goes on, not less.
The impact data come from a data set I built by Opus Source Reporting, Acclett, Algezir's
Live Tracker, ISW, Critical Threads, Daily Updates, etc.
Tracking confirmed strike impacts, not launches.
Launch totals come from Sankt Com, Jpost, Algezir, UAE, MOD, the hit rate trend is
directional.
Treat the specific percentages as illustrative, not precise.
So yeah, while the American and Israeli government are looking for a propaganda victory here and
they keep claiming that the Iranian strike capabilities have been degraded, well, they're
doing more damage now.
And at the end of the day, the goal of interceptions are supposed to be to limit the damage, limit
the economic and civilian casualties.
over the Iran and President Trump's new message,
Matt Rivers is in Doha, the capital cutter
with the breaking news.
Good morning, Matt.
Good morning, Michael.
He has some breaking news this morning
with President Trump coming out on social media,
posting to Truth Social,
saying that he has ordered the US military
for a period of five days to stop any and all attacks
against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure.
This, as he says, there is ongoing negotiations
between Iran and the United States
that he says are going well.
And as such, he has ordered this temporary halt to military action.
A very big deal as this entire region remains on edge.
With just hours before time runs out on President Trump's ultimatum to Iran, the president's
sounding optimistic as it appears both sides are getting closer to reaching a deal to stop
the fighting.
Trump, posting on social media this morning based on the tenor and tone of these in-depth,
detailed and constructive conversations which will continue throughout the week, I have
instructed the Department of War to postpone.
and all military strikes against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure for a five
day period.
But the president, making no mention of other operational changes, it comes as Iran's critical
infrastructure is already taking a hit.
In a video posted by Iranian state media, a woman capturing the moment an airstrike
hit the electricity authority headquarters in Tehran last week, killing several engineers
and civilians.
president mocking Trump, saying,
the Strait of Hormuz is open to all
except those who violate our soil.
We firmly confront delirious
threats on the battlefield.
And the Iranian parliament
says their next targets will be
US financial assets.
This as Iran ramps up
its attacks on Israel.
This dramatic video shows an Iranian ballistic
missile slamming into a residential
neighborhood.
Just moments later, a second Iranian
direct strike in a city nearby, both missiles breaching Israel's high-tech multi-layered
air defenses. Our Tom Sufi Burj was there.
You can see the crater where that Iranian missile hit, but look at the force of the
blast blowing away much of these buildings. We're told dozens of people, families were
inside at the time.
And stateside a somber memorial in Florida. Major Cody Cork, one of 13 Americans to
have died in the Iran War, was laid to rest.
once again a very big deal this morning with the US military to stop attacking
energy infrastructure and power plants notably though Robin the president did
not say he would call off all military activity in Iran things remain very
tense in this part of the world yeah he posted that just moments ago your honor
that thank you well here in Beirut what's evident and terrifying for people
is how this war has moved into the heart of the capital and it's hitting
civilians hardest. This is some of what I've seen in the city under attack.
A building in central Beirut, already evacuated, suddenly gives way.
Concrete folding in on itself.
Dust swallowing the streets.
This is now all that's left of it.
Israel says it issued evacuation warnings
and claims it was targeting Hezbollah infrastructure.
Residents say they were unaware.
There are no reported casualties,
but the absence of deaths does not mean people aren't deeply scarred.
This is the heart of the city,
and no one thought the war would come here.
In previous wars, there appeared to be some lines
that the attacks by Israel...
They have to keep doing it, man.
They just, they have to, they just can't, they'll die if they don't like genocide or ethnically cleanse another area, it's just it, do you want Israel to explode?
Literally just one speed dude, no matter what happens, this is what they did with Gaza over and over again.
Constantly, just fucking pummeling, whatever was within reach.
Yeah, designers are ethically cleansing southern Lebanon using genocidal tactics,
deploying Gaza is really journalist reporters openly and yet their silence
from the Western media is true. It's unfuckin' believable.
We're focused in southern Lebanon and in the southern suburbs of Beirut, but this
is central Beirut and this was a residential building. So there's a real
sense in a climate of fear that's developing that nowhere in Beirut is now safe.
Despite the destruction, life continues.
69-year-old Samir Hab has lived in the building just behind the one that collapsed for more
than 20 years.
She says when the evacuation warning came, there was no time to think, only to flee.
What do you think when you see all of this destruction in front of your house?
I believe the New York Times Cuba flotilla hit piece came out.
What the fuck is just me?
left-wing streamer defense Cuba mission. Sompiker helped bring attention delivering humanitarian aid
to Cuba. The group was criticized for staying in an upscale hotel as Cuba faced another blackout.
Sompiker defended himself, tiny cup in hand from Havana. Mr. Piker left-wing political
commentator with millions of online followers. Wait, what the fuck?
Was in Cuba as a part of humanitarian mission to deliver supplies to Cubans
And to demand an end, he said, to US measures that have isolated the island and contributed to its economic collapse.
He managed our mission named New Extra America Convoy, or Our America Convoy, as a part of a larger movement to bring public awareness to Cuba's plight.
Amid fuel shortages caused by a US blockade that have ground life on the island to a halt, the convoys littering thousands of pounds of food, medicine, and solar panels.
The Mr. Prickett's group was traveled to the island by plane, will soon be joined by
activists created more aid by both.
The mission of our rule was stumbled on political landmines.
Cuba's government, which gave the convoy his blessing, has been broadly criticized for
repression, including detaining about 1,000 political prisoners and surveilling his population.
The group was also criticized for doing what normally would be ordinary things such
as staying in a hotel with an electrical generator using motorized vehicles.
including some Cubas on the island were quick to point out that Cuba's running so short on gas
the hospitals have had the ration power and garbage is piled up in the streets.
Mr. Preck another activist stated the Iberostar Marques de la Torre in Havana,
which kept the lights on thanks to a generator when for the second time in a week Cuba was
plunged into darkness in a nationwide blackout. On a choppy life for Mr. Preck,
it defended the decision saying it was the only place that Americans were allowed to stay.
The American government makes it illegal for Americans to say wherever they want when
they're in Cuba, said Mr. Preck, who did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The list of US approved hotels also include lodgings with lower ratings.
Convoy organizers say while some members opt for hotels with capacity for large groups,
other participants say it in smaller lodges, including private homes. Right-wing commentators
and Cuban exiles with the test cubist communist government were quick to attack. The USA-America
convoy includes a broad array of participants from cultural figures, like Mr. Pryker and
activists from the U.S. base group, co-pinked to labor-organized importers from Latin
America and Europe. Guys, they requested a comment while it was live. That's why I was
was trying to type it up.
There's online column names like champion soldiers, the committees to the caveat.
Some Cubans on the island included prominent independent journalists.
Yonah Sanchez also questioned the group's presence.
They say they have come to the island of the Cuban.
This person literally is a fucking dissenter who left the island yesterday,
by the way, and, and is now going to be another mouthpiece.
like anti-cuban government that is like justifying the blockade. It's unbelievable that the New
York, I mean, actually never mind. I take it back. I wasn't about to say it's unbelievable
that the New York times would do this kind of propaganda, but it's the most believable.
What the fuck am I thinking? They say they're common to stand with the Cuban people, but
they need to meet with the man who gave the orders to repress those to the streets
for on July 11th, debating freedom. Ms. Sanchez wrote on X posting a photo of
Cuba president Miguel Diaz-Canel. She used a hashtag to refer to the mass
mass protests in July 11, 2021, the country's largest demonstrations in decades, with problems
of fossil crackdown by government forces involving hundreds of arrests.
Organized said that the president had welcomed members of the delegation in an informal event
at a convention center.
Cuban exiles also pointed out that they themselves would like to deliver aid to fellow citizens
but could not easily do so because American and Cuban travel restrictions as the first
convoy members arrived this weekend distributing aid to meet with Cuban several boats were
making their way towards Cuba from Mexico led by grandma 2.0 named after the yacht
used by Ernesto Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, and other revolutions that reached Cuba in
1956.
The mission includes members of the European Parliament, Christian Smalls, a U.S. labor
leader, a delegation from the Democratic Socialist America, the left wing party that includes
mayors of our Mamdani of New York, Citi and Missikazi Cortez.
Other prominent parties include Jeremy Corbyn, the former leader of Britain's Labor Party,
and Isra Hersey, the daughter or representative of Honomar, Democrat of Minnesota.
The honest hunch is a legitimate journalist who speaks out about the things that the government
does not want them to report on.
She's very brave.
Yes, chatter.
I got it.
You're right.
The fucking Cuban government is actually demonic.
You are not the first, nor will you be the last person that literally fucking agitates
in a moment's notice utilizing liberal ass language without taking into consideration
what the fucking Cuban destabilization initiatives look like.
Hello, we just spent the last fucking month on ironically having this conversation about a far more brutal government
The Iranian government if you think the Cuban government is ruthless
I mean look at what happened in fucking Iran the Iranian government on ironically was far more ruthless and yet still they
Like they they still are in a far worse predicament now
Where American Israel is is carrying out the fucking final solution
Yeah, what a brave journalist fucking siding with the blockade and the American government.
No one, and I mean no one is brave for siding with the United States of America as United
States of America carries out its death and destruction campaign.
Wake the fuck up.
You've been in here for 21 months.
It's unfucking bearable, dude.
You can have journalists that have done fantastic work initially, okay?
You can have people with reasonable gripes against their own government, but in a moment
where the blockade is the main problem utilizing your standpoint epistemology to say, no, actually
the real problem is the Cuban government.
I know she's been reporting for Havana and hiding from the government.
She's no longer in Havana as of today.
I'm pretty sure today or yesterday she flew out of Havana.
if I'm not mistaken.
Maybe I'm mistaken over someone else.
Like how many, I agree the embargo
is the main problem right now.
Oh shit.
So, okay.
Okay.
So, you agree that the embargo
is the main problem right now.
So why are you, why are you defending?
Why are you defending the work of someone
who went to the paper of record
presented herself as a, a, as the principal recipient of, of aid, reporting, like utilizing
the fact that she is currently in Havana to side with the American government over the Cuban one.
Do you not understand how propaganda works? This is my fucking job, man, and I have utterly failed.
This is the same thing that happens any time there's a fucking union protest or a labor union strike people go
Why won't the labor union?
Meet the demands of the bosses when you ask that question
When you when you put yourself when you put the power in the hands of the labor union to end the strike
You just side with the bosses. That's what you're doing and this is the same principle
You look at a situation where on the one hand you got block a blockade and on the other hand you have a victim a
Government that is objectively a victim of this blockade that is trying to do their
They're very best with the limited
scarce resources that they have and you turn around and you say well honestly
I know that the main problem is the blockade, but let's not forget
Why do we have to choose between oh shut the fuck up discourse bot?
I am Cuban. I haven't listened to her recently, so I'm not up to date on what she's doing
right now, but I listened to her own words in Spanish. Yeah, okay. You're Cuban. You've
listened to her words of the past. Listen to her words right now. Listen to the
role that she presents. Okay? Anyone Cuban or not that doesn't recognize that the greater evil here
is being caused by this fucking unjustifiable blockade, I'm sorry to say, is doing the bidding
of the American government. Okay? That's it. And considering that you are also totally aware,
Considering that you're also totally aware that the much more consequential problem at play that's
like starving the island is not the Cuban government, but instead is absolutely the fucking blockade.
Embargo is not a blockade. Yeah, really just oil chooses not to come to the island on its own.
Anyway, Mr. Pryger, whose involvement appeared to bring more attention to the Cuba Convoy,
has also been vocal critical President Trump's foreign policy in the Middle East.
Last year he said he was questioned at the U.S. airport about his views on Gaza, Mr.
Trump.
Mission members are also criticized for appearing in a party where Irish hip-hop group, NICAP,
was part of the group performed.
One of his members faced terrorism charges in England for displaying a Hezbollah flag.
The charges were later dismissed.
Hezbollah is the Lebanon-based militant group that violently opposes Israel.
party goers shout in Spanish, Cuba is blockade. No. Organized said the delegates had not planned
a party. There was no formal program for the visit, but rather join an open air festival
in Havana that was already underway and that kneecap had given an impromptu performance.
This is true by the way. This is literally what happened online. Some critics of the
mission also shared footage of what appears to be participating on a small tour bus
clapping and singing representatives Maria Elvira Salazar Cuban American Republican from
Florida repose the video, excruciating the left. This isn't a spring break chip.
he said. Mr. Adler, a lead convoy organizer blamed Ms. Salazar for championing the blockade
that was directly causing the suffering of the Cuban people adding, we reject this logic
of collective punishment. There's relatively, there's been relatively little public response
to the democracy of the humanitarian crisis in months long, months long U.S. blockade
on Cuba. Representative Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat from New York is among the few who have
spoken out, criticizing the U.S. policy and calling it a part of a new era of
gravity
in a video posted this weekend as price said that he's going to go to cuba to
bring awareness of what my government the united states america's down to the
cuban population one of the most ridiculous embargo of all time
mr preggers emerges an influential figure of the american left after years of
building up a following outside of traditional political media
since mr trev was elected a second term is received greater attention in the
democrats and for major media
viewed as some
uh... someone who might succeed in bringing more young people particularly
young men back in the progressive fold
On the left from his hotel, Mr. Pregor just latest criticisms.
He acknowledged that Havana accommodations represented prosperity.
The comedy, the dichotomy between the hotel and how normal Cubans lived had
definitely he used an unprintable expression, messed them up.
He said, definitely he added.
Well, I love the idea that you can go to Cuba and not be involved in a
music festival is basically a continuous music festival in Havana.
AOC has been against the sanctions and embargo since 2021 just for chatters, full context.
Yeah.
Um, I don't know why this article is framed as though it's about me.
It's crazy that like, it's crazy.
They said they would publish my comments if I sent it in after the article came out though.
The only thing they intend to do with posts like this is divert attention from the suffering
of the island.
Yeah, exactly.
That's precisely what the story is here.
And that was what my comments were going to look like.
I said, deeply cynical people have made it their lives work to sit around the comfort
of their homes and undermine the standard stated purpose of sending humanitarian aid
while bringing it where it's the blockade that has cost tremendous torment to the
Cuban people.
which are some of the bravest, most resilient people I've ever had the honor of meeting.
It framed every collaborative action with the Cuban people from an outright evil framework.
All this advances the Trump administration's goals of engaging in yet another unjustifiable
regime change war.
They're gonna clip your comments keep it short. No, that's it. That's what I'm gonna say
They're not printing that big dog. What do you mean? Of course, they're gonna print that it's it's the New York Times
What are you talking about? They don't
Very clearly you're gonna get a new phase where they'll frame you as a grandstand or hoping to damage your credibility with the left
And normies. No, I don't think so
I have the honor of the frame of a collaborative action with the Cuban people from an outright
evil framework.
All this advance of the Trump administration's goals of engaging in another unjustifiable
full regime change war.
We have
sixty-eight.
No, the home zone.
I think we have fixated this problem with the hopes of ending its unlimited potential.
What the fuck is this? My Apple iPhone is just doing crazy shit. And with the hubs
of ending its unlimited potential through a sequence of bureaucratic.
We've asphyxiated this island with a hose of ending its unlimited potential through a sequence of bureaucratic.
time chat entertain me. Looks like we may not have the best oil security bud. Huge
close black smoke and fire rise on the Valera refinery in Port Arthur, Texas.
Is there the explosion? Okay, let's continue with this and I'll...
She tells me I'm a breaking point. Hold on. This time is worse than before. We
went through a war previously, but it wasn't like this. This is harder. It's
happening next to us. That fear lingers for some year and millions affected by
this war. Abu Allah is among those already displaced by this conflict. His family left
southern Lebanon and they're now in Beirut. But the war has followed them. He recently
witnessed a strike near where they're sheltering. But he's not directing his anger at Hezbollah.
Do you feel like they've dragged Lebanon into this war?
Hezbollah is a thought, it's not a party.
The Shi'a Muslims are all with Hezbollah.
When they say they want to destroy Hezbollah, they're saying they want to destroy a sect.
If this resistance didn't exist, Israel would have taken southern Lebanon a long time ago.
Beirut's southern suburbs, home to hundreds of thousands of civilians, but also Hezbollah,
is now a ghost town.
Over a million people have been displaced
since this war began, more than 1,200 killed.
Now the center of the capital has become part of the battlefield.
Back at the site, as the dust settles,
there are attempts to rebuild.
There is visible ruptures, not just in concrete,
but in the idea that this wall had limits.
I think we need a few songs to kind of remind us why we are here.
Nabi, give us some music please.
Oh my god, this is yet another one of those instances where like they are not doing it
like these guys are the worst fucking enemies, bro
Holy moly is bad
It's ironic because like the New York Times pit piece that we just read is like a soft
hit piece, right? This is supposed to be somewhat of a puff piece. This is supposed to showcase
like the perspective of the, the, uh, the polyvests and, and yet because of the way
that they approached the issue and because of how unjustifiable their position is, especially
in the aftermath of the American and Israeli bombing campaigns, it's virtually impossible
to make their framework look normal and good.
It was shit. There won't be any shark. There won't be any orangy coming back.
In my land, we must accept.
This is the final battle!
I can't believe we can't hold!
This is the final battle!
I can't believe we can't hold!
The US and Israel have launched what Donald Trump calls
major combat operations against Iran.
Iran has confirmed the death of its supreme leader,
Mayatullah Ali Khamenei.
When we are finished, take over your government.
It will be yours to tank.
That is a big ask, of course, one month
after Rafim killed tens of thousands
of protesters in the street.
I'm not coming alone today.
I think it's in a role of closer emotions at the moment.
For 47 years, we've been living under a dictatorship.
And finally, for the first time,
we've had foreign intervention to help rescue
the Iranian people.
So we're still here to fight till the end until the regime is gone
and Reza Pahlavi is our true traditional leader.
The freedom we have in here,
people in Iran, they don't have it.
Even I was struggling to go out with my girlfriend,
dating someone,
listening to music,
you're always in a fear
and afraid of the urge to attack your house.
The truth is that this regime, under NOS violence,
on the last month they massacred over 30,000 orangutans in the world.
So it really needs some stern actions.
They're not going away with our protesting.
We had to beg for a military and kinetic action
as an act of rescue against the regime
that is brutally murdering our people
one by one in their thousands.
So, my heart is in a state of turmoil of joy and despair.
Simultaneously, that's the best way to put it.
Trump! Trump! Thank you! Thank you!
Give it to me! Give it to me! Thank you! Thank you!
Give it to me! Give it to me!
They support the people in Iran now.
Yes.
I'm going to be surprised to see the last black fair.
It's a very great fair.
But I know the ones that are not in the show.
It's difficult because, look, we love the fact that he's the first president who's ever cared about our people.
I'm not happy about the war, but this is the only means that we have.
And when you're not Iranian and you don't understand 47 years of oppression, it's hard.
growing questions following the strike on a girl's elementary school in
southern Iran that Iran's red crescent says left more than 160 dead most of
them children
six US members of the shelter operation at the curing
I'm not taking any side. I'm just sad for the innocent people and children.
Where are you from? The Guardian.
They say we are only targeting the military, which is absolute bollocks.
What they have been hitting from day one, literally day one, was the school.
We're just going to go and rebuild from the graves of those children.
You killed just a thousand people.
You're not getting your numbers right.
You should have been here.
We're willing to negotiate with the US. We did it twice.
Each time, they've decided to bomb us.
We have problems, but that's what us is of.
Not for the US to cause a regime change.
What's this blackmail to you?
This is everything for us.
And there will be other Iranians in London today flying a different flag.
What would your message be for those Iranians?
They should be ashamed of themselves.
They are deeply brainwashed.
You cannot be a patriot.
You cannot love your country if you're calling for the bombing
and the slaughter of your people.
Any orders under attack? What can we do?
You're not marching for the 40,000 marketed by the iraqtulahs by the regime.
And they have just bombed 13 hospitals and four schools.
Who told you that?
Who told you that?
The same people that say the Israelis have been bombing hospitals
that are still standing.
Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye.
Young live the people of Iran.
What would be your message to the Iranians
that are kind of celebrating the Iranians?
To be honest, I was one of them until a few weeks ago,
until the�
See?
I told you.
By the way, here�s what I said.
Deeply cynical people have made it their lives�work to sit around the comfort of their homes and
undermine the state of purpose of sending humanitarian aid while bringing awareness of the blockade
that has caused tremendous torment to the Cuban people, which are some of the bravest,
most resilient people I�ve ever had the honor of meeting.
They framed every collaborative action with the Cuban people from an outright evil
framework.
All this advances the Trump administration�s goals of engaging in yet another unjustifiable
regime change effort.
We have asphyxiated this island with the hopes of ending its unlimited potential to
a sequence of bureaucratic sanctions designed with the sinister purpose of remaining invisible
for plausible deniability and the shift to blame-back to redistributive policies.
My goal was to investigate the hidden ways in which sanctions impact the daily lives
of Cubans beyond the oil blockade that started with secondary sanctions in 2019 and reached
its total blockade status recently.
The things I learned from speaking to doctors, engineers, and ordinary Cubans shocked
me to my core.
I believe the goals of those who choose to belittle the work of the activists
and politicians is to serve as a distraction in an effort to defend our government's responsibility
in the collective punishment Cubans are experiencing.
They are not printing that?
Written by AI?
Bitch, I just wrote it right here in front of you.
It's not an essay.
It's a quote.
they will print it. They are most definitely not printing that. How do you write under
pressure? Sign it, Dr. Jahan. Who not which towards the beginning?
Oh, oh, I got it.
All right, right this instead, Susie.
People who not people wish.
Thank you.
right. Hey, I lost my chance of monetization a few days ago. And I'm encountering a stand
a fan channel problem with the reuse content. Do you think you can send your team my link
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can you write my essay is due on Friday thanks no
It's impossible, we can't shoot 30,000 people in two nights.
Yo, leaders doesn't think that's an important thing.
People are good in a way, so they're good.
I'm tired, too. I'm tired, too.
Yeah, my little little friend.
Yeah, you can see this old picture.
It's for Iranian person.
Fourteen, eight days ago, this Kalim is an old person.
I haven't been to the gank. I can't show for you.
She haven't been to the gank for three years.
Why you Kalim, this is the side. Why you Kalim, this is the side.
I went to back to my country for holiday, we were going to Côtes, they hit a toxic
glass on my nose and they killed my friend in front of me, they head shot.
Do you feel safe even speaking about this?
Actually my friend is not safe, a lot of people here supporting Islamic regime and
some of the people messaged me a week ago.
FTC is making a vid about how Mershawmer is wrong.
Oh no, I hope he doesn't do that.
It's like Mershawmer is probably one of the most vindicated academics.
He has even shifted my position on it.
And I think it's undeniable to say that America doesn't have the
power over Israel is obviously stupid.
But Mershawmer doesn't make that argument anyway.
Right.
Marsh Armour's argument is through a system of unlimited influence peddling, one of the most sophisticated influence peddling operations that America's ever withstood, Israel's been able to design American foreign policy to suit its purpose.
So you've been, you've been threatened?
Yeah.
British police have imposed restrictions on crowds gathering in support of Palestinians
and Iranians.
FDD signifier.
Okay.
Stop.
No, FD signifier is my goat.
Daniel, I quits the event in London was heavily monitored by authorities that have
Guys, the reality of the matter is due to a system of successful repression and also the only outside groups having no real popular momentum, popular mobilization capabilities on the ground, Iran doesn't have a next day after plan at all.
You've got M.N.K. on the one side and Pahlevis on the other side.
And all of the internal forces that could have actually amounted to a significant response
have either been killed or earned in an earned jail, okay?
So there is no next day after.
There is no like pathway, charting a pathway towards like a liberal secular Iran for these
reasons, right?
It's just not, it's not happening.
We clash with the counter protesters, police using the terms to separate the pro-Palestinian
and pro-Russian regime protesters on one side of the river and the counter protesters
on the other.
I don't give a shit who you fucking speak to, you punk.
You're not in Iran now, you can't fucking harass German.
Yesterday Trump said that Iran is beaten, it's destroyed.
Do you feel like he's telling the truth?
I think Iran is getting stronger by the day, not meeting.
Every block comes from Iranian people, make them more strong.
Help me tomorrow.
Just do our job now.
It's all the camera that needs us.
Children, children, children, please.
Trump in the past, two weeks, 15 days to get back,
he said he'd be there nine times.
And what has happened in that hilarious life?
You can see over there, you see how little of them there are.
I mean, I never thought I would see the day where there would be a significant number
of Iranian diaspora that are actively defending Iran. And I know that there are many Iranians
in my community both inside of Iran and certainly outside of Iran that probably feel the same
way as well. Like that's, that's unironically a wild change of events in a very short period
time and it is almost exactly as I predicted it would, which is when America and Israel
show their hand and force a lot of these people to recognize that there was no real interest
in defending the safety and security of Iranians, living in Iran, their relatives, their immediate
relatives and and no no real investment in like bringing about some kind of like
liberal secular democracy or anything like that. Iran is very smart people they
they very quickly picked up what they were putting down right and now what
remains is some of the most insane cynical Zionist supporters of Israel.
for the record, for the record, I've, I've shown you, you want to, you talking about
me bitch, you want to update from the Iranian diaspora in Germany, they're fucking insane,
no, there's something in the German water, I'm not going to get into it, we're not
talking about Germany, okay. But what I will say is this, this reality was shown to those
with eyes to see, including in this community, when we looked at the polling after the 12-day
war, when the 12-day war unfolded, the Iranian diaspora population were majority in disapproval
of the actions
because at the end of the day
at the end of the day
there are a lot of people who who
are so desperate that they truly think that american israel could potentially
help them there's a shit on a propaganda in that direction
but no one wants to see their fucking relatives perish no one wants to see
their
no one wants to see
uh... beautiful cities that have been around for thousands of fucking years
get destroyed, get reduced to rubble. No one wants to see the imagery of black clouds dumping
oil back on top of their fucking immediate relatives with chemical warfare. Who the fuck
would be in favor of that? You have to be an absolute psychopath. I have three cousins
here, all three went there and posted reals and shit. I'm Brian Kilmey in a video game.
I'm Brian Kilmey. The diaspora don't see themselves responsible
the deaths in Minab. They don't see the role they're playing by manufacturing except these
deaths. The Iranian, the deaths where I'm hunted by my responsibility, the death of those kids.
Think about how much closer the level of population influence are between the USA and
Iran compared to like Cuba or Iraq. I don't think that the, wait, what?
I don't think that the American population's overall opinion on Cuba is one born out of
like full knowledge of the events that are unfolding.
For the record, I don't, like I think if Americans, if more and more Americans were aware of
our design in Cuba, they would be very frustrated.
totally endless. I mean, it is totally unnecessary.
I hear you say that the Iranian diaspora don't hold a candle to my fellow Cuban
diasporas. They really celebrate the death of Cuban children. Many do
understand and still celebrate it. Yeah, I mean, I'll be real. I'll keep it a
buck 50 with you. I don't know what the hell happened there. Okay. I think like maybe because
there's like more valid reasons to oppose the Iranian government from the perspective
of people, like, because not everyone is like, there's, there is, there are a lot of people
who haven't just simply been like propagandized into being frustrated with the Iranian government.
There's valid reasons to be angry at it. Obviously it's irrelevant in this point.
Right, it's relevant to this point of time
But like with the cuba situation like you got to be a real fucking die-hard
anti-communist to just like straight up
Also, I mean, it's a longer history, right? There's a much longer history of American intervention in Cuba
Then there is an in Iran like much longer history
Our story with Iran starts in 1953. Our story with Cuba started far before the Cuban revolution.
Right? It's a hundred plus years at this point of direct intervention.
Yeah, it starts with the Spanish War. It starts with the Cuban pseudo-Republic.
The Cuban pseudo-Republic, which never achieved true sovereignty from American intervention
time and time again, the Republicans and the liberals both in Cuba kept demanding American
military intervention.
America came in and gave that military intervention, creating its upper cast of white Cuban society
that dominated the industrial sector,
the casino system that was designed,
that was hyper exploitative.
If you think that Cuba's current tourism sector
exposes the class contradictions,
you have no idea how bad it used to be.
when, uh, when, when Cuba had like child prostitution and unlimited gambling, unlimited casinos,
it was an island or for some of the most, some of the worst Americans, uh, to come in
and used it like a fucking playground. Yeah, gangsterismo.
A lot of them aren't regularly trained and paid by the CIA.
I'm regularly deployed a small amount of the Bay Pigs, may stay on boats or another place
to include my grandfather who was trained by the CIA and was ready to ship off Cuba's reinforcements.
Should the invasion prove successful? Yes. This program is brought to you by Exeter.
Overzealots is the number one dick writer of both Che Guevara and Fidel Castro,
which I respect. It's a respectable position. Okay, these are some of the best people that
have ever been invented. Okay. One other thing I will say about my experiences with the Cuban
population was how much they cherished the revolutionary spirit in every action that they took.
I interviewed the person responsible for the electrification of the photovoltaic
electricity grid. And she had a really interesting perspective where she said,
I'm an academic, I never thought that I would be engaging in this collaborative process with
numerous different sectors of Cuban life that would greatly improve the lives of everyday Cubans.
But every action from the medical brigades, every action from the medical brigades down to
Like every action from the doctors that are working tirelessly to save people's lives.
Down to this physics professor who now is working on electrifying or working on utilizing
solar panels on the Cuban energy grid accelerating this process, this green energy transition
from 5% to 38% in a matter of one year, one of the fastest accelerations anyone's ever seen.
And she was like, you could tell that she was immensely proud of her work,
regardless of how complex it is. And you could tell that she believed that she was carrying on the
revolutionary spirit of resisting against American intervention and saving the
lives of Cubans by doing so. Cubans are some of the best people man, straight up.
As always, source material will be cited in the corner of the screen throughout
the video. Enjoy. In case you were unaware, there exists a small island
nation less than a hundred miles off the coast of the mainland USA with
quite the reputation. A lot is said about this country and the opinions held about it very massively.
If you listen to those sympathetic to the revolutionary history of Cuba,
you'll be told the story of a selfless island nation off the coast of the world's most violent empire that,
despite its struggles, which are almost entirely the result of economic warfare waged against it by the United States,
gives whatever it can to those in need. Whether that be military assistance to those fighting white supremacists in Southern Africa,
offering medical aid to others, or even dramatically improving the quality of life domestically relative to the inequality and torture
overseen on the island by the previous US backed dictatorship, but who cares what this guy thinks?
I mean who even is that? These guys are the ones who know what they're talking about. Cuba is the epicenter,
is the headquarters of evil in the Western Hemisphere. Socialist dictator who murdered all dissidents.
What could you possibly say that's positive about a man like Fidel Castro?
we are sitting in a dangerous predicament.
He actually created a giant gulag and sentenced everybody in the country to stay in it.
Wait, what? No. Within just two years of the revolution, 200,000 Cubans emigrated and over half a million left during its first decade.
And Cuba went on to experience levels of immigration comparable to those of its neighboring countries in the late 20th century.
While Cubans did need exit paperwork and this process was often a bureaucratic mess,
one of the main bottlenecks was often the receiving country, especially the U.S. which restricted legal visas
While rewarding undocumented arrivals, seemingly encouraging the kind of dramatic spectacles
that could be used for propaganda.
And Fidel Castro himself declared the revolution, strictly voluntary, and he even facilitated
periodic mass exoduses, later agreeing to a U.S. proposed airlift when dangerous sea departures
became common.
God damn it, Ben, you make it so hard for me to make a funny little montage when I have
to pause and refute your bullshit.
It's such a buzzkill.
We are on the edge of war and have them for some time.
exiled all all religious figures. No he didn't. A hundred years from now historians are going to look
at the death pastor and say guy this guy was a yeah isn't cuba to america historically like
taiwan is to china always heard the history went really deep no what the fuck no cuba is comprised
entirely of of spanish and and uh african migrants and and slave labor initially
So, fuck, Cuba was never a part of the United States of America.
United States of America basically was a colonial occupant and the indigenous population as well,
which is ironically often forgotten.
Um
But to supersede Lenning and stalling under bautista cubo is one of the richest countries in Latin America
Gross to tell what the genius at evil and right now this they're they're ending those that those their days are numbered
This is a fabrication, Shay never said this. It's attributed to Shay but in reality it's
the result of splicing together a bunch of random shit to form a blurb. He never said
nor wrote. In fact, this Frankenstein of a quote is contradicted by the historical record
and does not represent Chase actions. Yo, if you want to learn what Cuba is actually
like, look at the classified CIA materials. Okay. Not the shit that the CIA was putting
out as propaganda to the public and, and not the, uh, you know, activated American
in Cubans, right, the Miami lobby, but just look at what they were openly saying behind
closed doors. A lot of this information is already declassified, so it's very easy to
find out on your own. So all you need to do, they straight up in their analysis at
the time in the Cuban Revolution, were openly admitting that, one, the revolution did
not have a socialist characteristic, even though it was an agrarian revolution,
national revolution, a social revolution, right? Having said that, initially they were like,
ah, there is not enough evidence here that Fidel Castro is a communist or a socialist at all.
That came after, but it doesn't matter. Che Guevara always was a socialist.
But not only that, but also they very openly looked at some of the punishments
that came after the successful revolution. And the CIA said that in comparison to the mass
executions of torture regime implemented by Batista, that the Cuban revolution was shockingly
bloodless. Okay? Shockingly bloodless. So like whatever they were saying in their,
whatever they were saying in their materials, okay, of propaganda,
was was unironically the exact opposite of what they were saying behind closed doors
for example he never said judicial proof is unnecessary in reality he explicitly warned
his judges to be scrupulous about weighing the evidence in each case so as not to give
the revolution's enemies additional ammunition wrote the foremost biographer on gavara john
Anderson and the judge who gathered evidence and sat on the appellate bench
with Che stated that we gave each case due and fair consideration and we didn't
come to our decisions lightly so again Ben is lying there is no primary source
to substantiate the claim that this quote was said or written by Che it
doesn't exist and Che's actions contradicted are you gonna let me do my
montage now dude Che Guevara worse than Castro obviously wasn't an official
dictator but what he wanted picture Adolf Hitler who's that without the
someone call it charm
He asked the Soviet Union's actually new United States. Jagavera was less charming than Adolf Hitler mass murdering dictator for all my criticisms of Adolf Hitler
He was punctual summary execution again tens of thousands of people murdered were
Cuban Americans from Miami but in all seriousness if you live in the West odds are you've been raised to think the worst about Cuba from stories of an
Evil dictator not really
You know, what's really remarkable about this also is that, one, during the Cuban Revolution,
Americans had a 50-50 split on it, especially a lot of black Americans were very fond of
the Cuban Revolution.
That's number one.
And number two, when we say the West, we often think of just the United States of
America.
For the United States of America, that is the case, right?
Tremendous amounts of propaganda by Cuba.
But for the rest of the world, the United Nations has been demanding the end of this unjustifiable
embargo for quite a while, for multiple decades.
And not only that, but also the rest of the world has normal relations with Cuba.
They just have to constantly dance around American embargoes.
That's it.
is actually the odd man out here in comparison to the rest of the world like countries have
normal diplomatic relations with Cuba. Countries try to engage in commerce of the best of their
ability beyond secondary sanctions in Cuba. You know, repress, put out a hip piece on
you. Yeah, once again, it's very strange. It's all Israel. It is like, I mean, this
This is obviously an Israeli outlet, as you guys know, this is an outlet that is like a
Zionist outlet.
It's very strange that America seemingly has outsourced its entire intelligence community
to the beautiful nation state, the most moral nation of Israel.
Very interesting.
So, seizing power against the wishes of the population and stealing everything for himself
and plunging what was once a rich and prosperous country into ruin, to tales about the supposedly
racist and homophobic revolutionary doctor Che Guevara, who apparently gave up on his
Hippocratic oath and decided to Michael Myers his way across the island for no good reason.
Did you know that Che Guevara, was he the Cuban guy?
Uh, well, he-
Or was that Castro?
Castro was Cuban.
Uh, Che, he was part of the Cuban Revolution.
He wasn't Cuban himself.
Yeah, Che, the revolutionary, he once executed a 12 year old for being too anti-revolutionary.
So he shot it in the face, bro.
Yeah, no, he didn't.
Wow.
Yeah, I heard it was a 10 year old.
People like Hasan.
Dude, 12,000 views in four hours, man.
Come on, come on.
Come on. Come on.
Come on. No motion. Why are you even showing me this bullshit, bro? Come on.
Do that. This is what happens when you get all of your news.
This seems coordinated. Yeah. No, for sure. For sure.
Steven Crowder, Ben Shapiro, Free Press.
Every single. Every single.
Hasbro outlet. Every single one. Very strange.
From either Reddit or ChatGPT.
You've surely heard about the poverty and the economic hardships in Cuba which are supposedly
solely the result of Godless communist economics and not the blockade levied against Cuba by
the United States, one that has been nearly unanimously condemned by the United Nations
with the predictable, consistent exceptions of the Yankees and Israel, though that list
has grown in recent years to include other loyal dogs of US imperialism like Javier
Mele's Argentina.
The point I'm trying to make here is not that Cuba is some perfect paradise, it isn't, it's
far from it and people are suffering.
It's true that I myself fall into the camp of Cuba sympathizers but my-
How many crumbs do you toss at the kids?
This is- this is how- how you- you approach the subject matter?
you just saw a couple tweets on the timeline?
this is why glug exists i know i mean holy fuck
the crumbs are what your dad ate from your mother's pussy after i came inside of it
The goal with this video isn't to sell you the idea that Cuba is a utopia, it's to fill
you in on an alternative perspective that gets relentlessly demonized in the West, to
maybe challenge some of your preconceptions about the...
Not every critical love voice is CIA, then maybe they shouldn't be doing the work for
free.
Ireland, and to show you how the real history of Cuba is one of anti-colonial struggle
against the world's most brutal empires, and then decades of punishment for successfully
throwing off the yoke of imperialism.
If I can't get you to change your mind about the country, at the very least this video
will exist to show you who, exactly, you've been told to despise.
You can decide for yourself whether the aggression toward Cuba is warranted, whether
it deserves the designation in the United States as a so-called state sponsor of
terrorism, or whether the country's economic issues are the result of economic illiteracy,
a cruel and frankly genocidal blockade. In the spirit of full transparency, this video
will start with the Spanish colonization of Cuba, then move into the period when the United
States took over the exploitation before getting into Fidel Castro's revolution and the relentless
sabotage waged against the country by the US. Along the way, I'll be refuting the usual
anti-Cuba tropes as they come up. Before we get started, I want to take a minute to thank
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What is Bro's accent he's Canadian if you couldn't tell?
The infamous colonizer Christopher Columbus came in contact with and reported on the
existence of the beautiful island we now know as Cuba. There wasn't actually Columbus
who launched the conquest of Cuba and if I'm not mistaken I think over those used to be a left-com and it's is his
Unlimited admiration
for the Cuban revolution that might have actually turned him into a
Communist instead. I feel like he's talked about it, right?
Like he used to be a left-com, but then he like loved Che Guevara and Fido Castro so much
It wouldn't be for another 19 years.
They turned him into a...
Maybe a libertarian console for them?
Okay bro, I mean this is correct.
I'm glad that he's going through all this. This is literally the same book that I'm reading currently by the way that
If he let's see if he continues with some of the things that I recognize
but I'm sure he's got many books on Cuba because he like loves Cuba, but
This is literally the the Taino made up the majority of the population by the time of contact with Spanish were skilled
Agriculturalists and very hospitable according to Spanish accounts
It cultivated yucca root, which they baked into cassava bread, grew cotton, tobacco, and lived in houses known as Boheos.
Structures designed so efficiently that Spanish settlers were quick to copy them, and which remain a feature of Cuban architecture today.
In fact, the very name Cuba comes from the Taíno language.
Now, the reason I'm telling you all of this is to weed out the presumptions that many Westerners hold about indigenous societies.
And the book, the book that I'm reading that there, a lot of the information that he's talking
about, which is like just a historic account, but, but summarizes it with like very similar
languages. Yeah. Cuba, a new history by Richard Gott, I think he is Richard Gott.
Yeah, Richard Gott. Oh, he did. He did. He put the source in the bottom. I didn't. Oh,
Oh yeah, it is. Yeah, Cuba, a new history, Richard Gotts Chapter 1. Yeah.
The arrogance of the colonizer is such that replacing a rich indigenous culture with the system of colonial looting and slavery
is somehow branded as an improvement, and in some cases, portrayed as a great favor done to the colonized peoples.
But that isn't true.
In Cuba's case, the immense suffering inflicted on the island is very direct.
They're really good book and very readable.
Very, very readable. I highly recommend it.
To the ills of colonialism and the post-colonial legacy it left behind once the Spanish took over the island
They enacted the incommenda system as historian Greg Brandon explains in his book America America
The income in the system in the car brand is another goes refers to a kind of slavery, but indios and commendados
Over the hills is fucking good weren't considered private property or chattel rather
They were formerly something like wards members of an existing village or community who in exchange for labor were to receive
instruction in Christian doctrine from their overlords, their guardian incommendados.
The encomienda was important.
Now, there are leftists from inside the country now, our, uh, who, uh, we should honestly
consider the socials, Cuba, the oligarchs, sincerity, and the humanitarian flotilla, and
El Pais.
I saw, dude, yes, Carlos Manuel Alvarez, who's an exiled Marxist from Cuba, who
engages perspectives, actually living in Cuba, or else is the cult.
How offensive to say any critical voice is doing the CIA's work.
It is true.
It is true.
You can have reasonable critique against the Cuban government, okay?
I mean, I literally fucking taught, okay, I'm gonna reveal it now.
But one of the things that I said to the foreign vice minister was literally to ask why Cuba
was so resistant to implementing some sort of economic reforms like the opening up
of the economy, like Deng Xiaoping did, okay? And I'm not the first person who has probably
asked him that question. And I'm sure there are plenty, I mean, I talk to Cubans. Like
you're making it seem like I arrived at the conclusion I arrived at without like, you
know, talking to any fucking Cubans about their day-to-day existence. I've also openly
explained to you that there are plenty of young Cubans especially that have completely
checked out of participating in the political structure as a consequence of, as a direct
consequence of feeling of helplessness, that genuinely think, for example, that the government
is lying about the blockade and simply using the blockade as a fucking response mechanism
for their own personal failures.
Was it him?
Yes, I did.
countries. Yeah, this is him. Yes. Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister, Vice Foreign Minister,
Cocio Carlos Fernandez de Cocio. Very smart guy.
Well, what a great trade. One gives you labor and the other indoctrinates you.
Lamau. What?
Fair question, but I think the embargo
clicked that. I mean, ironically enough,
that's precisely what he said as well,
that they are open for, they're open
to reforms and have reform since 2019,
especially. Okay? But
The um
Oh, oh, oh you're responding to the video they engulf me in the system
But it was just one of many coerced labor systems as the indigenous workforce began to deplete due to mistreatment and disease
The Spanish, starting in the 1520s, began bringing over African slaves in large numbers
to fill their roles.
By the late 1700s in response to the sugar boom, huge waves of enslaved Africans were
brought to Cuba to work on sugar plantations.
This sharpened the class contradictions, exacerbated racial stratification, and solidified
Cuba as a racial slave state.
For those who may be unfamiliar, the Spanish imposed brutal racial hierarchies in their
colonies.
It looked roughly like this.
Peninsula's white Spaniards born in Spain were at the top.
Below them were Creoles,
the descendants of Spanish colonizers born in the Americas.
And beneath them were indigenous and African peoples
with three people of color,
which Cuba had a relatively large number of,
placed above enslaved Africans.
While the Spanish originally envisioned their colonies
as a binary system of two legally distinct republics,
the Republic of Spaniards and the Republic of Indians
as they referred to it.
This framework fell apart fairly quickly, especially in Cuba's case where largely due
to the massive decline of the indigenous population, the mass importation of enslaved Africans,
and mixing between all these groups, it devolved into a weird and gross caste system based
on blood and lineage where proximity to blackness placed you lower in the social order.
But the mid to late 1800s, the Creoles, the descendants of the Spanish born in
Cuba, started to sharpen their nationalist movements and aimed to fight off the Spanish
born peninsulars who had monopolized power. Much of this movement was largely concerned
with maintaining the existing social order but just swapping the peninsulars at the top
with the Creoles, the Cuban born elites. Even when the 10 years war for independence began
in 1868, led by plantation owners who wanted to boot up the Spanish, the movement was conflicted
over issues like slavery and maintaining the existing social order. There was, however,
a creole by the name of Jose Marti, who despised the racial stratification and sought to unite
Cubans of all races in one national liberatory struggle for independence. Marti formed the
Cuban re...
Um, the problem is the song that the Cuban government has done both. Yes, they are
very or were for a very long time resistance to any sort of economic reform or change.
Even when it meant that the struggle was elevated. However, you cannot look at that
outside of the context of an ongoing blockade that persists to this day, and has gotten only worse as time has gone on,
because in the absence of said
unjustifiable blockade, the unjustifiable blockade, who knows how Cuba would have fucking developed?
Okay, that's the point.
These guys have never had a moment of relief. It was always siege warfare. Okay?
You will understand, hopefully, how much the American engineering has played a formative
role in every aspect of Cuban existence in very invisible ways.
That was my fucking goal, was to investigate the deep and meaningful ways in which Cuba,
not dissimilar to Israel, by the way, and its design for Palestinian society, has
has been able to control every and limit every aspect of, of existence of this, in this sovereign
state.
Evolutionary Party in 1892, with the goal to unite the fractured independence movements
in the country, and by 1895, the final war for Cuban independence from the Spanish began.
In just three years, the rebels, whom Marti was no longer a part of...
How long has this been on for?
Since the successful revolution in Cuba, it started instantly and never ended, and
has only gotten worse.
the last couple of years in 2019, the secondary sanctions on oil started seriously harming
the oil trade coming into Cuba. But as far as like the worst version of a full blown total
blockade of oil in the island, that's like a couple of months. If you're asking about
the video, it's been 12 minutes as he died early in battle, had so badly beaten the
Spanish that they were on the verge of collapse.
Cuban independence was closer than ever but the rebels failed to consider one very important
thing.
The audacity of the United States.
See, the U.S. had long coveted the island and wanted to take it over from the Spanish.
You can see figures as old as Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams fantasizing about
this.
The U.S. is also notorious for playing dirty and its meddling in 1898 stripped the
hard-earned victory away from the Cuban rebels.
his grand and recounts the story.
White and black Cubans fought side by side with free people of color and former slaves
obtaining the highest military ranks.
Black officers commanded ordinary soldiers of lighter skin, marching through the Cuban
countryside taking over plantations, setting cane fields ablaze and occupying villages
and cities.
In the years after Marty's death, Spain's army had fallen back, disordered and demoralized.
There was little doubt that the insurgents would win.
Then on February 15th, 1898, the gunpowder magazines onboard the USS Maine exploded, killing
most of its crew and sinking the ship, which had been anchored in Havana's harbor.
Remember I talked about...
...Use the explosion, which he blamed on Spain as...
It's not the last time.
It's not the last time America pulled us off, okay?
They did this again, after the revolution as well.
It's a pretext to enter the war, dispatching the U.S. Navy to Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines,
and Cuba.
The United States troops easily took Spain's island colonies and, in Cuba, shunted aside
the rebel army.
A new government, supervised by a military staff that included ex-Confederates like Fitsu
Lee, Robert E. Lee's nephew, imposed a system of racial segregation roughly based on
the model of the post-reconstruction South.
Washington kept Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines, but granted nominal independence
to Cuba.
The United States did insist that the new republic include in its constitution a clause
called the Platt Amendment after Connecticut Senator Orville Platt that granted the United
States the right to intervene in the name.
Remember that the Platt Amendment is the reason why the Cuban Republic by the revolutionaries
is considered a pseudo-republic, okay?
Because how can you have true sovereignty if there is a literal fucking amendment?
constitutional carve out for American military intervention. This is why I'm saying like this is,
this started in the 1900s, like literally 1901 is when, when, when the Cuban Republic was established,
was a pseudo-Republic, was not truly sovereign and over and over again, American military
intervention, whenever like people were rising up, whenever there were racial tensions in the
island because remember the island is also very or was very racist, very white supremacists
as I've talked about extensively. Like there was a racial dynamic, but instead of having
13% of the population be black, imagine if 50% of the population is black with the white upper cast
actively trying to bring in more and more Spanish white people with the express purpose of
keeping the majority of the island white.
Factions affairs at will.
So to summarize, the Cuban War for Independence from Spain
was fought by Cuban rebels of all different backgrounds,
united by a shared goal of long overdue liberation
and equality.
They did all the heavy lifting
and brought the Spanish to the brink of collapse.
The US then used an explosion on one of its ships
as a pretext to declare war on Spain,
took over Cuba and occupied it until 1902,
sidelined and disbanded the multiracial independence army,
Again, did all the work, imposed some white supremacists who installed another system of
racial segregation, and added a constitutional amendment stipulating that the US could intervene
in Cuba, however the fuck it wants, at any time.
Nice.
So at this point the Spanish are out and the new Cuban constitution of 1901 gives
the Yankees the ability to militarily intervene in Cuba whenever they want, control
Cuba's foreign and economic policies and seized land for U.S. naval bases. This neocolonial
control over Cuba allowed for U.S. corporate interests to get extremely rich at the expense
of the vast majority of the island's inhabitants. As Aviva Chomsky puts it in her book on the
matter, Cuban politics remained hostage to the United States, while U.S. companies and
investors took control of the major sectors of Cuba's economy. By 1905, 60 percent
Cuba's rural land was owned by US citizens or companies. US investors also controlled 90%
of Cuba's tobacco trade, the country's iron, copper, and nickel mines, its railroads, and its
electricity and telephone systems. And once again, you do not steal from a poor man. You steal
from the rich to bring up a famous parenti quote when he talks about Africa, but Cuba is
is not a poor country, he was a rich country. It's just been over-exploited and stolen from
over and over again. Things only got worse from there. She goes on to elucidate the state of Cuba
on the eve of the revolution that brought Castro's government to power. One could say
that there were at least two Cubas in the 1950s. One was the 1.5 million who were jobless or
who belonged to the rural poor, including landless workers and campesinos with small
plots, these impoverished Cubans survived mostly on rice, a few beans and sugar water,
creating the naked children, their swollen stomachs testifying to an unbalanced diet
and infection from parasitic worms that sociologist Lowry Nelson found everywhere in rural Cuba
in 1950.
At the other end of the spectrum, the 900,000 or so wealthiest Cubans controlled 43% of
the country's income.
These were the people who had money to spend on frequent shopping jaunts to Miami,
luxurious air-conditioned homes and even mausoleums complete with elevators, air-conditioners
and telephones, to make sure they continue to enjoy a high level of comfort in the afterlife.
In between, another 3.5 million struggled to make ends meet.
What was it that this little guy was saying again?
Under Bautista, Cuba was one of the richest countries in Latin America, and it was on
the upswing.
Alright dude, sure.
Cuba's close integration with the US economy meant that almost everything Cubans bought
was imported from the United States, and the cost of living was as high or higher than
in the United States. But Cuban wages were much lower, and Cubans had none of the social
services and guarantees that U.S. citizens enjoyed.
Cuba was forced into an all too familiar position of dependency, where it would export
its raw materials just to import manufactured goods from the Imperial Corps that cost
more than it made through.
To be fair, this system didn't really change that much either, unfortunately.
These resources were coveted and appropriated by the U.S. vast tracts of Cuban land were
held in reserve by American companies leaving them idle while Cubans remained landless
and hungry.
Now, in order for the U.S. to maintain this dynamic of subjugating the Cuban...
There's literally Puerto Rico right now, yes.
That's why I say the closest analog to what America wants out of Cuba is territorializing
it in the same vein as Puerto Rico.
The majority of the Cuban population for the benefit of a slim portion of Cuban
elites and U.S. companies, it installed a compredor government in Cuba to remain friendly
to U.S. interests.
That's where this man, Fulgencio Batista, comes into the story.
A little context.
In 1933, a nationalist government came into power in Cuba, and among other progressive
things, it abrogated the Platt Amendment.
Remember that thing that gave the U.S. the ability to do whatever it wanted with
Cuba?
Well, this was unacceptable to the Americans who were disgusted at the thought of Cuban's
manufacturing their own destiny, so U.S. officials began conspiring with the Cuban military officer
by the name of Batista. U.S. Ambassador Sumner Wells privately cultivated Batista, suggesting to him
that the very great majority of the commercial and financial interests in Cuba, who were looking
for protection, could only find such protection in himself, and that the United States would
look approvingly on an overthrow of the revolutionary government. Batista took him up on that offer.
He forced the sitting Cuban president to resign, replaced him with a conservative, and in January of 1934, with U.S. support, he began ruling Cuba from behind the scenes as the Army chief of staff.
Some criticism people are just on the hunt, are already in Cuba on holiday. They're in Cuba because the U.S. blockade is intensified and strangling the island. They're making sure the island is on the minds of Americans because as soon as Trump is done with Iran, he's turned into Cuba.
Cuba. Yep. I've written thousands of words. Chris had the type of administrative central
plan that was featured in Cuba after the revolution. Also Bosch car. Fucking lib. Anyway, I think
there were developmental mistakes that combined with the US embargo and were only partially
offset by Soviet sub-season the first decades of the revolution, a time that still saw dignity,
self-termination, great strides and fields of education and healthcare and incredible
international triumphs abroad. For years though, Cuba has pursued the Sino-Vietnamese
reform road and made many of the right economic decisions. This is also true. Yet besides
for the brief Obama opening the U.S. respond by escalating its economic warfare against
Cuba. Even for the reasoned fuel blockade, Washington is trying to prevent Cuba from
trading in even exempted items. Even banks, not headquartered in the U.S. for processing
state-owned companies, payments to international supplies, much less financing development
efforts. That's not just an embargo. Or one country refusing to trade with another.
That's economic terrorism. It's imperialism in a negative form. It is great to see
so many people travel to Cuba to continue to expose it and its impact. It's 100%
correct. He nails the landing there. He sticks the landing. Yeah, the Sino road being the
Torsi awful dude, dude, I don't give a fuck. Okay. Call me a dingus if you want, but yes,
black cat, white cat, as long as it catches a rat, you know, who cares? The problem is
that the reforms are negligible when the island is being on the island is being placed
under this brutal form of economic terrorism, collective punishment, a war crime.
It also, just like the Iranian negotiations, we're not about denuclearizing Iran as we've
seen over and over again, right?
The American intervention in Cuba has nothing to do with forcing the country to open up.
It's bullshit.
It's complete fucking bullshit.
It's utter nonsense.
propping up various civilian presidents to serve as his face as Aviva Chomsky
summarized. Directly or behind the scenes, Batista would remain a power maker
until 1959. From 1934 to 44 and 1952 to 59, Batista was the ultimate authority in
Cuba and that latter reign of his, the one that started in 1952, saw him return
to power by force in a coup and establish a brutal US backed dictatorship, sparking the
Cuban revolution.
This is a CIA document comparing the brutality of Fulgencio Batista's regime with the rule
of Fidel Castro.
It goes on to point out that tens of thousands of individuals were murdered by Batista's
regime, that his forces had killed on a whim and that the anti-Batista forces
in the country had the support of up to 90% of the population by 1958.
And crucially, it goes on to write that,
The large-scale campaigns of murders and terrorism characteristic of the last years of the Batista
regime have not occurred during the Castro regime.
Even JFK commented in a 1960 speech,
Philhensio Batista murdered 20,000 Cubans in seven years, a greater proportion of
the Cuban population than the proportion of Americans who died in both world wars.
The reason I tell you this is to challenge the narrative that many of us are fed about
the Cuban Revolution and to show that the vast majority of the population supported
Che Castro and the rebels and that the true bloodthirsty tyrant in Cuba was the guy that
the Americans propped up.
I mean, Batista's ruthless secret police force, the Bureau for the Repression of Communist
Activities, was straight up funded and advised by the CIA to quickly remind you before
we go any further.
The state of Cuba prior to the revolution was one where the U.S. had essentially transformed
it into a playpen for American companies and elites to get rich at the direct expense of
the majority of Cubans who were exploited by this setup.
As the renowned journalist John Lee Anderson wrote,
By the mid-1950s, Cuba was earning a reputation where weekend Americans came to gamble, drink
and carouse with Havana's many prostitutes.
A notorious character named Schwartzman ran a theater featuring hardcore blue films
and live sex performances, and the American crime syndicates were moving in as well, opening
nightclubs and gambling casinos.
All at a time where the majority of Cubans were suffering immensely.
Now this segment of the video is not going to be me portraying Cuba as some sort of
utopia and acting like everything was smooth sailing the second the rebels took over.
It's going to be an honest assessment of Cuba's conditions, pre-revolution, and
how they improved in the years that followed.
But first, let's rewind a bit and tell the story of how the revolution came to be.
In the wake of Batista's 1952 coup and the subsequent U.S. recognition of his government,
a new generation of young activists became directly radicalized.
They saw not only their hopes of democracy crushed, but also the U.S. support and co-sign
of Batista's tyrannical rule, prioritizing its anti-communist obsession over the well-being
of Cubans.
One of the individuals radicalized during this time was a young lawyer by the name of
Fidel Castro, who, tired of operating strictly through legal means in the face of a dictator
who couldn't care less about rules and laws, began embracing armed struggle as a way to
achieve liberation.
Forgive me if I'm jumping forward a bit here, but it's worth noting that Fidel Castro
was not originally a communist or even all too hostile to the US.
He was an economic nationalist who didn't want to see Cuba ripped off and exploited.
This was fully understood by US officials who noted that Castro was appointing relatively
conservative and even anti-communist figures to his government once he assumed power.
But I'm getting ahead of myself.
On July 26, 1953, so just a year after Batista came to power in a coup, Castro led roughly
160 rebels in an attack on the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba, hoping to ignite a
mass popular uprising.
militarily, it was a mess. The revolt failed and many of the rebels were captured, tortured, and executed. Fidel and his brother Raúl were imprisoned,
but Fidel used the trial as a platform. He delivered his now famous
history-will-absolve-me speech, and he went on to lay out a political platform that would later become the basis of the revolution.
He laid out the five revolutionary laws that the Moncada attackers intended to implement.
Restoration and implementation of the 1940 Constitution. An agrarian reform putting land in the hands
of those who killed it, obligation of employers to share profits with workers, guaranteed markets
for small sugar farmers, and confiscation of all enterprises obtained through fraud and corruption.
All of these revolutionary laws, he emphasized, were based on the Constitution itself, which
restricted large land holdings and provided labor rights."
Rowe Tromsky.
Following a public amnesty campaign, Fidel and his brother were released in May 1955
and formally founded the July 26th movement, named in commemoration of their 1953 Moncada
attack.
They then went into exile in Mexico to regroup and reorganize where they met new revolutionaries
including the legendary Ernesto Che Guevara, and began solidifying the movement.
In November of 1956, 82 rebels crowded onto the Yacht Granma and sailed for Cuba.
Disaster greeted the landing.
Delayed, ambushed and nearly wiped out, a small handful of survivors managed to
retreat into the Sierra Maestra mountain range in southeastern Cuba from there. This is very
similar to, you know, Mao's fucking long march. It's, uh, they, they overcome great odds and they
basically are able to make, uh, they're basically able to, to, uh, convince the locals.
Yeah from 82 to 13 by the way, they get stuck in the fucking swamps.
Straight up, generate a popular revolution.
Evolution expanded on two fronts, the Sierra and the Lano.
The Sierra referred to the war waged by mountain guerrilla fighters while the Lano referred
to the struggle communist where an urban underground initiated strikes carried out sabotage and
engaged in armed resistance against the regime as the rebels waged war from this is also
why I always say this kind of stuff is multifaceted.
You can't have a like a like a singular mindset, okay?
It's just not it is it's it's conducted on every front.
Yeremaistra to begin to gain the trust of the peasantry who had been horrifically neglected
by the Batista regime and suffered from diseases, poverty, illiteracy and landlessness.
The rebels, by treating these people with respect, treating them medically and even
teaching them to read, created a vital and expansive network for intelligence and new
recruits.
In April of 1958, the revolutionary movement engaged in a general strike with the hope
that it would topple the dictator, but it failed.
failure actually emboldened Batista and gave him the confidence to launch a massive offensive
in the hopes that he could finally crush the insurgency. He sent 10,000 troops with tanks and
I don't think the July 20 movement could have won without the urban and rural support. Absolutely.
Air support after the rebels in the Sierra Maestra. America didn't have a revolution chat. No,
it did. They just had a bourgeois revolution, like the French Revolution, right? Like these are
There are still revolutions, you know, but they take on different forms.
The Cuban Revolution was objectively a proletarian revolution.
That's the main difference, right?
Bourgeois revolutions have been taught in school as the acceptable forms of revolution
over and over again, while the proletarian revolutions have always been looked at with
tremendous scrutiny.
Amazingly, despite being hugely outnumbered and utilizing inferior-
My boomer dad has been confused in Avengers Endgame, how am I supposed to explain this
to him?
Weaponry, the rebels, due to their discipline and familiarity with the terrain, defeated
Batista's army.
The Battle of El Gigue in July of 1958, saw an entire army battalion surrender to
the rebels and marked the end of Batista's offensive. In late 1958, rebel forces led by
Cegavara seized Santa Clara and smashed what was left of the regime. Batista fled on January
1, 1959 as the rebels entered Havana to enormous popular support, marking a complete triumph
of the revolution. As Aviva Chomsky writes in regards to the popularity of the revolution,
the Cuban population was overwhelmingly supportive of the new government and its reforms.
The only opposition came from close supporters of Batista and members of his military and
property holders whose properties were threatened.
As U.S. opposition to Castro cemented, his popularity in Cuba remained strong.
U.S. policymakers needed to consider the continued emotional attachment to Fidel Castro
as a national symbol by the bulk of the Cuban people, as well as the continued belief
by virtually all Cubans in the need for social and economic changes embodied to
only in Castro's revolutionary program.
Fidel Castro ruled his people through what?
Through fear.
Did your friend from Miami tell you that?
One million, a sherry-wielding peasant jammed the square
before Cuba's national capital in response to the call
of Fidel Castro for a celebration of the sixth anniversary
of his 26th and July revolutionary movement.
It is perhaps the greatest mass rally ever
staged in the Western Hemisphere,
a telling demonstration of Castro's sway
over the Cuban masses.
Fiddle Castro rules people through what?
Through fear.
With all that said, the story of the Cuban...
It's the funniest thing to say about Fiddle Castro, like, straight up.
Revolution is one of united struggle against a tyrannical despot.
Gorilla fighters stationed themselves in the mountains,
cared for the peasantry by treating them with dignity,
teaching them to read and fight, providing medical aid and awakening class consciousness,
while agents in the cities carried out strikes and sabotage in a coordinated effort to topple the regime.
It's a story of solidarity, revolutionary struggle, and liberation.
The kind of shit you'd expect Americans to find cool given their own history and romanticization of their revolution.
In fact, the Cuban one was way cooler.
It was rooted in social reforms alleviating extreme poverty and fighting imperialism.
The Americans, by contrast, fought the British so that they could keep genocide in the natives to the west of the original 13 colonies.
But that's another story and a crude oversimplification.
I'll admit, but the point is when the topic turns to Cuba, those in the upper echelons
of Western society refuse to show it any grace or charity, even though its history is one
of colonialism, whether Spanish or the US neocolonialism that followed and revolutionary
struggle for liberation.
We've grown so accustomed to pointing at Cuba and mocking it for its relative poverty
for political points that we fail to see that we're laughing at the way it survives
while our country strangle it to paraphrase that Castro quote. So for this segment, I'll
dedicate some time to highlighting all that Cuba has achieved and all the selflessness it shows
to countries in need. I know things are looking as why I said Cuba's been there for every other
country. So now it is our time to be there for Cuba. However, unfortunately, I have a call that
I must take. Hopefully they will add my quote to the New York Times article. By the way,
I'm going to refresh it to see if they actually end up putting that in there. But,
but I'll be back tomorrow, tomorrow.
That's almost time, eight hours I know.
And yeah, what's the video I like to share it is highlighted in the comments in the chat
It's pinned
Um, but yeah go like the video show support to overzeal it sees my go
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