Newest War Developments: AI Bombings, Advice to Trump, and the Nuclear Agenda to Reset the World

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In a moment, we're going to speak to former Colonel Douglas Macgregor about what is happening around the world in the wake of the war in Iran that began a little over a week ago, and so much is happening, and it's not exactly clear how it's all connected. All of a sudden, you read that Israel is occupying parts of southern Lebanon, killed a priest last night. Really? What is that? Is that true? You read that there are power outages in Bangladesh. Bangladesh? Yes, Asia is suffering. The world is suffering due to the choke point of Hormuz, the Straits of Hormuz that are closed or semi-closed by Iran and have been since this began, and that's causing massive downstream effects in markets, in manufacturing, in the global economy. How long is that going to last? What's the end game there? And then, of course, the war itself, which is playing out in Iran and Israel and throughout the Arab world, really, primarily in the Gulf States, but not just the Gulf States. What's the damage? Well, the truth is, in a lot of cases, we don't really know, because the censorship of this war on social media, and of course, the big mainstream outlets are censored, always have been, but the promise of social media was you could get unmitigated information, you could get videos live from the scene, and now suddenly you can't. That lasted about 24 hours before the clampdown. And in part, that was by governments, governments of the Gulf States. They don't want physical destruction of their country's broadcast to the world. The government of Israel has clamped down completely. They don't want videos of Tel Aviv or Haifa burning. You can, in fact, in some of these countries, go to jail for posting that stuff online, but it's not just the governments of those countries that are imposing censorship, it's the social media companies here that are imposing censorship on the American people who are paying for all of this. So they can't know. And then there does seem to be a kind of censorship practiced by the US government around casualties and deaths. How many people have died so far in this conflict? How many have been injured? Where and under what circumstances? Now, these are sensitive questions in any conflict, and of course, you don't in any way want to degrade the effectiveness of the US military. You don't want to dispirit the troops whom we are rooting for sincerely, always and everywhere, rooting for Americans in whatever theater, in whatever war, it wasn't of their choosing. In some cases, they are just the people who suffer first and most due to the decisions of politicians. So we're always on their side and you don't want to make things worse for them. On the other hand, Americans do have on a fundamental level, a right to know the effects of this war on their countrymen. If Americans are killed, we have a right to know that. And yet, there's some indication that we really don't. So as you try to figure out what's going on, keep in mind you can't really get the full picture because the clamp down on information. So in the conversation that we're about to have, we're going to go through what we think we know. In some cases, we might be wrong. Just want to be honest about that upfront. Very hard to know what the truth is at this stage, really at any stage, but particularly in the face of this kind of censorship. But we're going to try to be as honest as we possibly can and provide as much information as we possibly can, given the limitations, because this war matters, maybe more than most wars. This war hasn't been settled. Clearly, there are parties who would like to settle it, but no one person is in charge of whether it gets settled. Israel is a partner in this war, probably the first war the United States has ever fought with a true partner with decision making authority. It's very different from going into Afghanistan with a NATO coalition. Norway didn't have veto power over anything, but Israel does. It's complex, very complex, and the Iranians have their own, of course, completely different agendas. It may not be settled anytime soon. We're praying that it is. But more fundamentally, this is a different kind of war.