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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Germany, France, the UK, Italy, the Netherlands, Canada, and Japan. They are firing on all cylinders with urgency and resolve and action. Yes, that's right. Our allies, who have been reliant on our largesse and mutual defense for decades, they finally announced that they are going to help us. their patron state, the United States, with a very strongly worded letter.
The reality is our allies are doing what they do best. They are saying things. At some point, the question has to be asked, who actually are our allies? Who is actually stepping up to the plate? Who is merely judging from the sidelines? Welcome back to The Ben Shapiro Show.
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Chapter 2: What do America's allies say about the Iranian threat?
Savvy, do we have any early questions?
We do. So a member is asking, could you expand on the role of Iran's assembly of experts in selecting and overseeing the supreme leader? And from a U.S. foreign policy perspective, should Washington treat that body as strategically significant when dealing with the regime?
So the Iranian assembly of experts is basically a group of mullahs who get together and they, quote unquote, appoint the next supreme leader. They haven't really been super important up till now because it's really the Ayatollah who's been running the show. The reality is that, yes, the United States should treat them as strategically important.
We probably should take them out because obviously they are the people in charge of selecting, I don't know, the next non-dead leader because Moshtaba still has not been seen. This would be the gay possible pirate whose leg may have been blown off, maybe in a coma, maybe dead. Ayatollah's son. They actually had to change a fatwa that you're not supposed to allow your children to succeed you.
But yes, I mean, do they have sort of final power? They have some power, but it's kind of like the College of Cardinals. They have power only for like a brief moment in time, and then they don't really have so much power anymore. Okay, back to Harg Island. So my recommendation is that we should seize it. President Trump has been suggesting for a while that this may happen.
We can take out the island. anytime we want. I call it the little oil island that sits there, so totally unprotected. We've taken out everything but the pipes. We left the pipes.
Well, here's the thing. Kharg Island is the location of Iran's oil refineries. 90% of Iranian oil comes through Kharg Island. The Iranians have already shut the Strait of Hormuz in large part. They've already upped the ante in terms of attacks on surrounding gas and oil facilities. So the U.S. doesn't have tremendous downside here. Like what's Iran going to do? Attack more oil facilities?
We ought to seize control of the oil. And then we ought to let American companies keep pumping it. And then we ought to send it to its final destination, China. China would then know that we are in charge of the spigot. Iran's terrorist government would be deprived of their monetary flow. What about the Europeans? Well, if the price of oil rises, they can buy it from us, not the Iranians.
And if they're not going to join us as allies, they can pay our companies for oil. This, by the way, is the sort of thing President Trump might well do. That is because Trump is not bound by the stupidity of Wilsonian neoconservatism. the sort of strange belief that the best way to justify war is if the United States gets nothing out of it.
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Chapter 3: How effective are strongly worded letters from allies?
We're keeping it. We're keeping the ships also.
President Trump was right about Venezuela, and he is right about Iraq, and he is right here too. The truth is, if you go back historically, if the United States and Great Britain had simply maintained American and British ownership of the oil resources in the Middle East that we developed, you know, the oil companies that we built that drew the oil out of the ground in the first place,
None of the terrorist regimes of the Middle East would have been able to turn themselves into serious threats. Not a single Middle Eastern regime found its own oil. Not one. Not a single one pumped it originally or even built their own original infrastructure. The so-called Seven Sisters, these would be the big oil companies, built the entirety of the Middle East oil industry in Iran.
It was the Anglo-Persian company, later British Petroleum, that unearthed the oil. In Saudi Arabia and Iraq, it was Standard Oil of California. now Chevron, and the Texas company, Texaco, which has now become Chevron, and Standard Oil of New Jersey and Standard Oil of New York, now ExxonMobil. In Kuwait, it was Gulf Oil, now Chevron.
In Iraq, Qatar, UAE, it was Royal Dutch Shell, which is now Shell. In the 1970s, all of these countries began moving toward nationalization of resources they did not find or build. That would be Saddam Hussein in Iraq, who is the power behind the throne. Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, the mad colonel.
The Shah in Iran started this process, but it was consolidated by the Ayatollahs in Iran, among others. The United States government, which had, in fact, resisted similar moves successfully in the 1950s, went totally wobbly in the 1970s during the nationalization of oil resources.
The United States had not developed its own domestic production infrastructure well enough, so it could be held hostage. The political class was significantly more interested in spending money domestically than in protecting our oil assets overseas.
So the result was a Middle East dominated by potentates who are independently wealthy and also capable of spreading their terrorism and toxicity both at home and abroad. And it has not gone amazingly well. So here is the question.
Why precisely should we allow the Iranian government to threaten the region with oil we found developed and pumped while they oppress and impoverish their own people at the same exact time? Why not instead seize Kharg Island and force the Iranian government to its knees? If the Europeans don't like it, they could send us a strongly worded letter. See, here's the thing about our erstwhile allies.
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Chapter 4: What is the reality of U.S. military involvement in Iran?
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Yes, a sub is asking, what should we do about America haters in our own country?
I mean, ignore them, argue against them. No one's talking about silencing any of these people. And literally no one. One of my favorite gambits that is used by the grievance party is this idea. We're not allowed to we're not even allowed to talk about Israel. We're not even allowed to talk about you're allowed to talk about all of it.
In fact, many of you are making really good buck off of spewing nonsense on all of this. The answer is that you show that what they're saying is nonsense. That's the actual answer. And that you grow, right?
It's one of the reasons we need our subscribers and we need your help because if you would like to see pro-America messages prevail, then you should support the places that actually promote those. I think that's what we're doing here at Daily Wire. Just another reason for you to become a subscriber. Any more questions? There's having to do one more.
Let's do one more. If Iran is no longer a threat to the Middle East, do you think that Saudi would still be interested in normalized relations with Israel? Or would the elimination of the biggest threat remove the need for both to normalize?
It's a good question. My guess is that normalization would not be on the table, but further economic development between the two parties would be. The Saudis kind of like to play both sides. They are afraid of their own population. And so they are afraid of full normalization with Israel, recognition of Israel and all the rest, because in many of these potentates,
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Chapter 5: What is the significance of Kharg Island in the Iranian oil trade?
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The Trump administration believes that Cuba, the Cuban communist regime, is basically on its last legs. Joining me on the line to discuss is Carlos Antonio Jimenez. He represents the people of Florida's 28th congressional district, encompassing all of Monroe County and the southwest portion of Miami-Dade County. He was elected in 2020. He's the only Cuban-born member of Congress.
Congressman, thanks so much for taking the time.
My pleasure. Thank you, Ben. And also remember that I used to be the mayor of Miami-Dade County, so I know a little thing about municipal government and what Mondami is doing to New York. It's amazing how incompetent he really is. But he's a communist, and he's going to do to New York if he stays in there long enough, what the communists did to Cuba.
The only benefit for Florida is kind of the same as the benefit to Florida that happened thanks to the Castro regime, which is a lot of productive people actually came to Florida. A lot of productive people moving down from New York to Florida right now. So you're looking at what's going on in Cuba. What do you think the timeline is? What does the future look like in Cuba?
They effectively have no economy to speak of. They have no Venezuelan oil to prop them up. You're seeing protests emerge in the streets. What do you think the next steps look like over there?
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