Tim Pool

that the trainers in our hostile environment course, which you had to get for insurance purposes, stated that Americans largely are fine in the Middle East if you get kidnapped.

Once they find out you're an American, they'll usually kick you off and dump you somewhere.

Because the American response to a kidnapping is special forces guys in the middle of the night jumping out of a helicopter with night vision goggles and massacring all of the bad guys.

Whereas Germany and Spain are notorious for paying any amount of money.

So if you were German in the Middle East working as a journalist, they're

Happy to see you there.

Now, as to your point, Ian, I think with Iran, we're looking at the macro level of that, which is Iran has been bombing civilians.

Iran has been the best example of this is the Houthi rebels were armed by Iran and they started launching rockets at civilian cargo ships.

That is the we are going to take your civilians hostage and kill them.

And the U.S.

response is you're getting the boot.

We're putting the boot down.

So I do recognize this.

I would say largely.

I believe, who was it, someone mentioned Bill Burr, had a joke where he said, you know, you might say, I don't know if it's the right move to go into Iran and start a war, but no reason.

Really?

No reason, right?

No, really?

Of course there's a reason.

These people are apocalyptic psychopaths.