Chapter 1: What military operation is currently happening in Iran?
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Chapter 2: What led to the authorization of Operation Epic Fury?
I can't help but think of that line again. Forgive me, I forget the quote, but sometimes decades go by and nothing happens and then days go by and decades happens. That's every day. You know, I'm reading this morning. I get up early, and I'm doing my Monday morning workout, beating up my legs on Monday for a knee that doesn't work.
And I'm reading Politico playbook, the Bible of the left, of course. But I read it to see what's going on. Unlike lefties, I like to see what both sides are thinking, not just the numbnuts on the left, which is what they do. That's why they live in a freaking bubble. And they brought up a pretty darn good point, I must say. Credit where credit's due. That Donald Trump has cleaned up
Think about this. Stop. Stop what you're doing right now. No, I'm as serious as a freaking heart attack. Please just for a second, no matter what you're doing, because I know sometimes part of the audience, you watch the show like passively tune in, tune out. Just stop what you're doing and listen to this. Although it was in playbook, Politico, this is an amazing point.
In barely a year in office, Donald Trump has cleaned up decades of of unfinished but necessary business, presidents from both parties have failed to. Just focus on the Republican Party just for a moment. Leave the Democrats out just for a second, just for the sake of argument. Folks, let's be clear. I love Ronald Reagan.
You know, not so much a fan of at least the policies of George W. and some others. Obviously, we had some issues with prior presidents prior to that as well, Nixon and others. However, the threat from the Iranians is one of probably 10 or 15 examples of generational problems the Republican Party's had. Issues we've tried to solve. Roe v. Wade, Trump fixes it by his appointees.
Venezuela, Chavez, Maduro, communism in our sphere. I'm not telling you the problem's solved. This is a mission accomplished moment. I'm just telling you, like, Maduro's no more. No more in Venezuela. He's rotting in a U.S. prison. People have talked about cutting government forever. Every Republican president, we're going to cut government. The federal workforce is now down 10%.
I've never seen anything like it. I'm not telling you to love it or hate it, folks. You're all independent beings. We're not freaking automatons in this party. You are perfectly entitled and your opinion is welcome in the chat if you hate everything that happened. But you cannot deny the fact that generations have been threatened. Generations of U.S. citizens, U.S. soldiers, U.S.
law enforcement personnel have been threatened by the Iranians. And now the entire leadership of the Death to America Party is dead. Dead. Dead. Decades have happened in days.
Folks, the history books, when written with clearer eyes, when the TDS, hopefully Trump derangement syndrome, wears off just a little bit, any honest telling of history is going to read that this was the most transformative president in 50 plus years, maybe more. You call it whatever you want, but you know what I just told you is true. Decades of unfinished business. Less than a year.
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Chapter 3: How does President Trump view the Iranian threat?
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I don't want to say the problem of the Iranian Ayatollahs. That problem's been solved because they're dead. However, there are some problems that are ongoing. And I want to be clear. I and I'll get to this a little more later. I am not asking you to blindly trust anybody. Ever. Trust but verify. Wait for results and then judge it. That's all I'm asking. But you may be asking fairly enough.
This is the question I know many people had. Okay, well, why now? Why did President Trump, he is the CIC, Commander-in-Chief, why engage in this? decapitation exercise for the entire upper level hierarchy of the Iranian death to America leadership. Why now? I want to play a Fox clip from when this first broke. It's quick.
And I want you're going to notice here that this was targeted very, very deliberately at specific places in the beginning stages. It'll make sense in a second. But listen to Jennifer Griffin on Fox talk about the specifics of the attack early on. Check this out. I just received a list of some of the early targets that have been attacked inside Iran. Let me read to you from that.
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Chapter 4: What consequences can we expect from the military action in Iran?
First, folks, the persistent lethal plotting against political figures in the United States after Baghdadi, Soleimani and others, the lethal targeted attempts at assassinations in the United States, not just of political figures. I want to be clear about this, but also of Iranian dissidents. There's a case going on right now about this. It's it's an FBI DOJ case, obviously.
The targeting of Iranian dissidents on our soil along with political leaders and folks who were involved in targeted strikes in Iran is unacceptable. We cannot have this. You cannot have President Trump Hook, Pompeo, and others, you cannot have them out there being the persistent targets of an Iranian lethal plotting effort and allow it to happen.
It's going to make it really difficult for the United States government to act if the Iranians are given free reign on our soil. We've already seen this. At some point, this has to stop. You have to tell them, You touch any of our people, there's going to be a 10x death return on what we do to you. Think about like an investment, but an investment in death.
Every death you try or think you're going to try or get, we're going to give you a 10x death return. It is the only way to mitigate this stuff. The persistent assassination plotting and lethal plotting against people in the United States who they just don't like has to stop. As Donald Trump said to ABC News in what may be the quote of the week, they tried to get me, but I got them first.
Second thing, and I'll address this with Commander Kirk Lippold. He was a commander of the USS Cole. Tragic terror attack there back in 2000. Knows a lot about the military. Obviously, we'll address this with him later. This is not new. The Iranians, do you ever see that scene in the movie Some of All Fears? The movie's not that great. It's one of those Jack Ryan movies, whatever.
But we used to put the quote on the radio show all the time, where there's an exchange of attacks by the Russians in the U.S., and the guy's arguing about a first strike. You guys, there's already been a first strike. They already hit us. Folks, there has already been a series of strikes over the course of decades against the United States.
You know I am not a traditional kind of interventionist hawk. I think you know that. I ran for office in Maryland against basically the sustained presence in Iraq. I didn't think it was a great idea. That's on the record. That's documented. I put my name on a ballot and ran on it in a blue state because I did not think that forever wars were the option. But this is not forever.
It's not even a freaking week. We don't have a sustained long-term military presence in Venezuela. Folks, every single thing that was told to us about Donald Trump's interventions, I'll go into this again in a little bit, from the Abraham Accords to the moving of the embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv to getting Maduro every single time. Andrew, am I right? World War III, World War III.
Well, it's not happened yet. So clearly someone's wrong and someone's right because it's already happened. And on the Iranians, there has already been a first strike and a second strike and a third strike. IEDs overseas in war theaters designed by Iranian proxies. The Beirut barracks targeting on U.S. soil of foreign ambassadors. It's already happened.
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Chapter 5: What is the significance of the Iranian leadership being targeted?
However, one of the big reasons is they are an enormous, Venezuela that is, obviously, they are an enormous supplier of petrochemicals and oil and energy. Energy to enemies, they control a good portion of the US's, excuse me, of the world petrochemical supply. They were trying to grab more from other countries in the region as well, water-based assets. So what does President Trump do?
Takes out Maduro and does whatever he can to secure the energy supply in that region first so it doesn't go off to our enemies. See where I'm going with this? Who's one of the major energy suppliers, petrochemicals, oil, to China? Our biggest threat on the globe. Yeah, the Iranians. China's in real trouble now. You think he did that by accident?
Secure hemispheric petrochemical supplies first in Venezuela, then ice out China from Iran's oil as well by deposing the regime? None of this is by accident. This was as much a message to China that you better think twice about causing World War III. I thought about the World War III. He's trying to stop World War III from China jumping the straight in Taiwan by icing out their energy supplies.
Everybody forgetting about that? You don't think China's thinking twice right now? Shit, what do we do now? We need some oil and stuff. Huh? I want to bring up another point. There are, understandably, listen to me, understandably, I'm not here to attack people on our side. That's not my job. On our side, not people faking on our side, like the Doomer class.
They're not on our side at all, never have been. They've got an agenda and I promise it ain't yours. But there are a lot of people I respect. So one of them posts about, you know, trust Trump is not a good idea or something like that. I want to be clear, I'm not asking you to trust anybody. I'm asking you to trust results. We're only a couple of days into this operation.
There have been casualties. There has been death. There's been a more death on their side. Thank the good Lord. The Iranian regime and the hierarchy has been almost entirely decapitated. Where is that going to go? We're going to see. But folks.
Making comparisons to nation building, forever wars, and what's known as the pottery barn theory, which I've cited many times, are not accurate at this stage. We're not there. We have not occupied Iran. The Pottery Barn theory is a Colin Powell generated theory that has dominated, you know, geopolitics and warfare for the last two decades plus.
It's the idea that after what happened in Iraq and a number of the failures afterwards, we tried to nation build that if you break it, i.e. Pottery Barn, you own it. In other words, you attack, you own it no matter what happens after. President Trump is testing that. He's testing that now by saying we don't want to own anything. He said it pretty clearly.
Secretary Warhag said just got off the air in an amazing press conference. He did a great job with with Dan Cain. They did an incredible job. And he was very clear. He said, did you hear me when they asked about, well, are we going to be occupying this country for something like that? You know, Iraq war analogies.
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Chapter 6: How does the Iranian military compare to the U.S. military?
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Folks, we already tried a number of approaches with Iranians who just, Iranian leadership, the people are a separate story. I think we've been clear on that in the past and I will be right now. We've tried all of these approaches before. Hat tip, I don't know where we saw this one, but this is, what is it, Wall Street Apes? Wall Street Apes hat tip to you. We got a hat tip.
This is a comparison of what you saw with Kamala Harris and Joe Biden with the weakness approach that just incentivizes further terror strikes and attacks against U.S. citizens and military members, right, versus the Donald Trump approach. That's why I said just give the guys some time. Check this out. What's the message to Iran? Don't. What is your message to Iran in this moment? Don't.
I'm gonna bomb the shit out of them. It's true. I don't care. I don't care. I play that clip for a couple of reasons, as Guy knows well. I actually sent that Donald Trump clip, I'm going to bomb the shit out of him, which is from 2016, separate earlier in the show.
And then I saw that clip, Wall Street Apes had that clip up, and I thought it's even better embedded between this Democrat sandwich of idiots, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden. It's even better because there are people out there now claiming, again, you are fair to have whatever opinion you want on the military strikes in Iran, period. Chime away in the chat.
But you can't deny the fact, because I've heard this often, and I think that clip immediately, I don't think, I know, immediately discredits it. Well, Donald Trump didn't run on this stuff. Folks, that's from 2016. Don't tell me like you were taken by surprise. He ran against forever wars, but he senses a persistent, acute threat against the United States of America.
He's given them, folks, it's 2026. Just by simple math, it's been 10 years since 2016. He's given them 10 years. There was the Biden period in between, I understand. However, it's been 10 years. It's not like the Iranian regime, even they were, there's no way they could have been caught off guard.
I mean, yes, they were probably at the timing of the attack, but there's no way they didn't understand that they were under serious threat from this guy. And they still did this, double-barreled middle finger. I want you to understand that the Iranian regime was giving zero material concessions whatsoever on their nuclear program. Do you understand that?
They said, you can't enrich past this percentage because once you hit that percentage, you can develop a nuclear weapon like that. The Iranians said, go yourself. Also, centrifuges. They wanted centrifuges. Well, we're not going to let you have those centrifuges because they'll help you build a nuclear weapon. We want them anyway.
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Chapter 7: What are the implications of drone warfare in current conflicts?
One, I promised him a year. Crushed it over the year, did what we had to do, came back to my show. They don't care that Jen Psaki's over there at MSNOW. By the way, here's a clip of Jen Psaki when she was the White House press secretary talking about how immediate the Iranian threat is.
Watch MSNOW change their perspective on it now, only because it's Donald Trump who engaged in this military action as the commander in chief. Check this out. rapidly accelerated its nuclear program and reduced cooperation with international inspectors. Their breakout period is down from about a year, which is what we knew it was during the deal, to just a few weeks or less.
Hat tip again, the great Mays Moore on X for pulling that one. What is it? They can't get their message straight. This one's even better. Another Mays clip here. This is Aaron Burnett in a series of three separate clips. If you're listening on Apple and Spotify, it's three separate cuts from three separate times where the Iranians are an imminent threat. They're not an imminent threat.
The nuclear program has been taken care of. They'll never give you the straight story. I absolutely adore the fact that I have an audience that is always skeptical and says, don't trust anybody, trust results. I adore that. Me included. I love that. Blibs? No such thing. A bunch of stupid, Borg-like, automaton-like robots who think with a hive mind, who can't get their freaking story straight.
You want perspective and you're going to them, you get nothing but bullshit. Check this out. This timeline of Iran being a few weeks away from a nuclear bomb is in direct contradiction to CNN's reporting. According to U.S. intelligence assessments, Iran is three years away from being able to produce a nuclear weapon if they wanted to.
So the facts on Iran getting a nuclear weapon do not bear out the claim at the heart of what has put the world on the verge of world war. Iran's uranium may still be intact and in Iranian control. 408 kilograms of it. Now, enough theoretically, according to experts, to make nine nuclear weapons. Only set back the Iranian nuclear program by months. We got to call it like it is. It's a big deal.
Sources tell CNN there is no US intelligence that Iran is building missiles that could soon hit the United States. That's a really big deal. Folks, it's exhausting, frankly, keeping up with this. And I know it's a persistent theme of my show, finding honest sources and calling out dishonest brokers of bullshit.
However, it's important we do that because I don't want you to mistakenly tune into one of these channels one of these days and think you're getting some objective truth. I've given you the upsides, the downsides. I'm going to give you more in a couple minutes. I have concerns. Look, they're right here in the book. Concerns. legitimate concerns about going forward, what could happen.
And I think the president would be candid about you and tell you we share the same concerns. I know Pete just said the same thing. But if you're going to these people to get any objective truth, I'm telling you this. Having seen classified briefings and sat in them for a year behind the scenes, these people don't know shit. They don't know anything. Zero. They have this...
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Chapter 8: What should we expect in the coming weeks regarding U.S.-Iran relations?
The anti-Trump crowd told you, oh, my gosh, regional instability, World War III, whatever. None of that's happened yet. None of that's happening. So you were wrong up to this point, correct? Think about what happened in the Middle East. We moved the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in Trump 45. Oh my gosh, the threats of World War II, the global apocalypse, nuclear annihilation.
Folks, none of that happened. None of that happened. I think we have a fair timeline now to gauge that. None of that happened either. Trump is crazy. I can't believe he moved the embassy. Even Republican presidents didn't want to do it. Yeah, because a lot of them didn't have the balls. They just didn't. Trump wrapped up their business. And now we are on that four to five year timeline.
We can pretty much say your predictions about that particular incident were freaking wrong. Just be honest. Trump takes out Soleimani, al-Baghdadi, World War III. That didn't happen either. It said, tell me I'm wrong. Did I miss something? Was there a world war I missed? Midnight Hammer. The taking out of the Iranian nuclear enterprise. I thought that was going to result in World War III too.
What happened there? With the Abraham Accords, oh, we can't sign trade agreements with Middle Eastern partners and Israel will be responsible for refereeing that. The United States will be a terror attack. That didn't happen either. Give the man a chance. I'm not asking you, I cannot be clear about this, to trust anybody. I'm asking you to trust results. And when you say A is, when A happens,
Move the embassy, B is going to happen, World War III. And that doesn't happen. Your stated results didn't happen. You were wrong. Folks, a lot of these people don't know shit. They don't. Now, I do have some very serious concerns going forward. And I'm sure that these are shared by people in the law enforcement and military infrastructure of the United States government.
Folks, one of them, we're living in a different world now. It is now very asymmetrically cheap for enemies of the United States via drone warfare. explosives technology to engage in financial asymmetric terror warfare against the United States. I say financial because you can put on a $500 drone explosives that takes $100,000 missiles sometimes to take out.
The technology is getting better, getting better, and we're getting there. But the availability of cheap drone technology is gonna change warfare going forward. And that's why I say to you, give it some time. We're going to see what happens. Look at what happened in the airport in Kuwait. The Iranians just did basically an extinction burst of behavior. This is what they did.
They know they were extinguished. The Iranian leadership is now dead. So they said, basically, screw it. We're just going to go bomb everyone all the time everywhere. You see the aftermath there. Here's another thing that we're, it's just a airport in Kuwait, hat tip, Afaitux Network via X. You can check that out yourself.
What worries me here is when it comes to the purchase of explosives, traditional explosives and explosive precursors, there are well-defined global tripwires. If someone goes in and tries to purchase, you know, a large quantity of explosive precursors, there are a number of very sophisticated programs and tripwires where people will generally notify.
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