Bibi's FlyDubai Narrative - October 1, 2026

SPEAKER_1 (0:00)

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Cenk Uygur (0:03)

Well, hello.

All right, welcome to The Young Turks, Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian with you guys. Well, today is, every day is a giant news day cuz there's war, there's the Middle East, all this stuff that's going on, right?

But today, I'm now over the hump. I'm positive they're on the road to using nukes. So we're going to explain that story in a minute. Doesn't mean that they're definitely going to, but we're on that road now, and that is a very, very, very dark road. So things have taken an even more disastrous turn, including more troops being sent to Iran. The war is going to get bigger. Anthropic keeps claiming that there's two problems with our anthropic. The smaller one is there are threats that their programs are going to kill everyone on Earth. The larger one is the near certain economic crash they're going to cause. I'm going to explain why in this show, you got to listen to that because it shows you exactly when things are going to break down as well, not just why, but when. So we'll explain that a little bit. And then the fly Dubai story, was it an act of terrorism? No, you'll see why a little bit later in this program. So we explain a lot of stuff on this show tonight and call out a lot of BS. So if the war wasn't disastrous enough yet, don't worry, they're sending in 10,000 more ground troops, aircraft carriers, we'll tell you everything they're sending in. But that's the understory. The big story, the shocking story, is yes, they are definitely considering using nukes. It's real, and I'm going to have a prediction on it at the end, but first get the whole story from Ana.

Ana Kasparian (1:53)

Well Cenk, we've been kind of speculating about it based on some of the public statements that President Trump has made about wiping out Iran as a civilization and all of that. But now we have the receipts thanks to journalist Ken Klippenstein who writes over at Substack and he has shown us some internal documents. Some statements from Trump administration officials, officials within the Pentagon that make it clear that they are preparing a nuclear option specifically for Trump in the war against Iran. Now, based on what Ken Klippenstein is saying, he provided the documents he obtained and then provided the documents to his readers, which show that the Pentagon is increasing nuclear options available to the president for purposes of deterring or responding effectively to a nuclear contingency.

So that is literally what was said verbatim in this statement from Elbridge Colby, who's the undersecretary of war. I'm guessing undersecretary of defense is the official title, but the Trump administration likes to rename things to goofy things as if they're children. But nonetheless, guess what? The Senate actually has been briefed on this, had been briefed on this earlier this month. And not a single one of them, including the Democrats, have said a word about it. There's no indication that they've tried to stop the Trump administration from even considering the use of nukes.

So we should take this seriously, especially when Trump threatens nuclear armageddon against Iran, and guess what, he did that again today while speaking to reporters right next to a noisy airplane or helicopter. I don't know why they do this, they do it all the time. How about you guys go to a place where you're not going to hear the aircraft drowning out whatever the president's saying, but nonetheless, here's what he said. Actually, I don't have the video. Let me get you the quote. He says, now I have to make a decision, either Iran signs the deal or it won't exist any longer.

So, in other words, either Iran does what I say they should do, or I'm going to annihilate them.

So, but back to Colby, who was apparently, he's an individual who's been pretty bloodthirsty for a while now, especially when it comes to nuclear capabilities back in 2011, as Ken Klippenstein writes. Colby emphasized the importance of bolstering our nuclear capabilities. He says, quote, the United States should maintain the assured ability to conduct a devastating, effectively annihilating strike against any opponent, even after an attempt by that opponent to disarm the United States through a first strike of its own, Colby said. The forces held back for retaliation, he added, should be able to destroy the attacking country as a functioning society. So, it's not good enough to attempt regime change, on behalf of Israel, of course. It's not good enough to cause instability to a country, on behalf of Israel, of course. In this case, we're having a conversation. I mean, this was in 2011 when he made this statement. But think about it, this is his mindset when it comes to military preparedness and capabilities in regard to what we're dealing with right now. So he would be totally fine with carrying out the most gruesome form of collective punishment, wiping out a civilization, all the children. There's 92 million people in Iran. And these people want us to believe, Cenk, that they started this war because they were so upset at the treatment of the Iranian protesters. Right, right, okay.