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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
This is Ben on Breaking News. I'm Ben Mycelis, and this is your Breaking News. Moments before we went live, we learned that the Defense Secretary, Pete Hegsa, has fired Army Chief of Staff General Randy George, forcing him into immediate retirement. That's the posture that they are framing this as, as Donald Trump's disastrous and unlawful war
filled with war crimes, continues to escalate in Iran.
Chapter 2: What recent military actions did Donald Trump take in Iran?
Donald Trump is now blowing up bridges in Iran, what you're observing right there. And for those on audio, what I'm showing on the screen right now It's the B1 bridge on the Karaj northern bypass in western Tehran, one of the biggest bridges that exists in Iran. The biggest bridge, as Donald Trump says. And Trump brags about his war crime. Donald Trump posted on social media.
The biggest bridge in Iran comes tumbling down, never to be used again. Much more to follow. It is time for Iran to make a deal before it is too late and there is nothing left of what still could become a great country, Donald J. Trump. And again, what he's saying in those posts, I mean, that's a war crime, blowing up a bridge like this.
civilian infrastructure it is a per se war crime and it really sickens me to see him posting on social media that he took down the biggest bridge and he's going to be attacking more bridges and uh the response from iran is as follows. You have their foreign minister, Araghchi. He posts, striking civilian structures, including unfinished bridges, will not compel Iranians to surrender.
It only conveys the defeat and moral collapse of an enemy in disarray. Every bridge and building will be built back stronger. We will never recover. What we'll never recover is damage to America's standing. That's what we'll never recover. And when I read something like that, when I see something like that, what pains me is in a war between the United States and Iran,
when I'm seeing the Iranian foreign minister say that. And I try to get everything, as you know, from watching this from multiple perspectives. I mean, what the Iranian foreign minister is saying there is, like, objectively correct. Like, it does not show strength that you're blowing up civilian bridges. That's a war crime. That shows weakness, if anything.
Donald Trump told Time magazine regarding Iran... Why wouldn't they call? We just blew up their three big bridges last night. And he also said, this is what Trump says, they say Trump is not negotiating with Iran. I mean, it's sort of an easy negotiation. And again, just talking about himself, they say Trump is not negotiating. Oh, Trump is negotiating. No, you're not. No, you're not.
I mean, you're engaged in these war crimes. It's pathetic. Donald Trump's chief of staff, Susie Wiles, expressing concern that Trump's aides are giving him a, quote, rose-colored view of how the war was being perceived domestically, telling Trump what he wanted to hear, and urged them to be more forthright with the boss about the political and economic risks. Also the military risks. You know,
They're going on and pretending like we're winning this war, and we're not. We are objectively are not because objectively, the objectives that were set out were regime change, making sure Iran's ballistic missile capabilities were completely destroyed, and then ensuring that Iran can't rebuild any nuclear weapons.
which they never built in the first place but to stop them from enriching uranium to build weapons grade material for nuclear weapons which back in june the trump regime claimed they had totally obliterated all of these facilities and that iran was not capable of rebuilding any of its uh nuclear facilities totally obliterated read the headlines so those were the objectives right and
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of Trump's social media posts about war crimes?
The nationwide average price of a gallon of gasoline has reached $4.08. We saw the WTI crude and Brent crude both increasing dramatically. what else is Donald Trump posting while all of this is taking place? Photos of Davy Crockett, weird behavior.
Davy Crockett, obviously a distant relative of Jasmine Crockett and a very high IQ frontiersman, would be proud of the legacy that began long ago and especially Jasmine's great success as a politician from the great state of Texas, Donald J. Trump. I mean, again, it's just really weird behavior.
Also, I'll show some of the clips from Donald Trump's, and it was probably the worst national address in the history of the United States that took place. But one of Donald Trump's lines was, we're going to blow up Iran back to the Stone Age, or we're going to send them back to the Stone Age. First off, I think I said this on my other podcast, been on Breaking News Live that I did on Tuesday.
I said, Donald Trump sounds like the corny bad guy cartoon character in the shows I used to watch growing up. Like, if you gave me a script of the bad guy in a movie and I saw the things that Donald Trump said, I'd say, ah, that's so corny and so hyperbolic, like real bad guys don't actually talk. I'm gonna blow you back to the Stone Age.
And again, making no distinction either between the Islamic Republic and the Revolutionary Guard Corps and the people of Iran. I mean, Donald Trump, Hegseth and the Trump regime comments about decimating Iran. It's focused on the Iranian people, the whole country. And the Iranian people, of course, have a cultural heritage that dates back over a thousand years.
And Iran has repeated that over and over and again, that we actually have a proud history. You think that we're afraid of a country that's been around for 250 years? We're not going to be broken. And Iran's, whether you want to say it's Iran's propaganda, their messaging, is directed with a purpose.
I want us to understand the tactics, because in war, there's asymmetrical warfare that Iran is deploying right now with its Shahi drones, FPV drones, and ballistic missiles, right? They have a strategy there. And they have a communication strategy that is systematic and is systemic, and it is purposefully driven, and it is planned. right? They have a plan.
And Donald Trump seems every day to just be kind of winging this thing and saying deranged, contradictory things that's causing a lot of problems and is resulting in a catastrophic situation becoming even worse. And you can see why with Donald Trump's pathological defects, why he's bankrupted so many entities and why so many of his companies
fail to the point of bankruptcy and utter destruction because he's like the gambler in the casino who won't leave until they lose everything. And he keeps doubling down, doubling down, doubling down on stupid, dumb, and evil.
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Chapter 4: How is the Iranian government responding to U.S. military actions?
Our media here in the United States is controlled mostly now by right-wing oligarchs. She's saying it from state regime propaganda media in the United States, which calls itself Fox News. But she's also just factually wrong. The leadership in Iran loves showing their people what Donald Trump's saying.
Donald Trump is cutting the highlight reel of the greatest hits that they can show their people to rally support against the United States and keep people there motivated to never surrender and to fight back. I mean, Trump is literally giving them support. ammunition. I say literally because he is giving them ammunition. Think about it. He's quite literally giving them ammunition.
He's removed the oil sanctions from Iran, allowing them to make $14 billion, right? Trump and MAGA, they always attacked Obama and they lied about it. They're like, you gave him $1.4 billion in cash packed on a plane. There was never cash packed on a plane, but whatever. I'll assume for the sake of argument you did. You just gave Iran...
a short term, a $14 billion influx based on removing sanctions on their oil. They now control the Strait of Hormuz where they can charge $2 to $3 per gallon of oil, $2, $3, $4 million toll. So they use that to literally buy ammunition. That's why I said you've literally given them ammunition.
For they can build more drones, more ballistic missiles, more Shahids to attack the United States and their Arab nation neighbors who have American military interests in them. Donald Trump's removed the sanctions against Russian oil, Russian vessels.
Trump's attacking NATO, which also allows Russia to continue to invade Ukraine and fuel Russia's war against Ukraine, while also allowing Russia to manufacture military supplies, Shahid drones, FPV drones, to then give, usually via the Caspian Sea, So you're giving them ammunition there.
You're also quite literally giving them ammunition in the form of these posts where they can repost them and tell their people, look what he's saying. Look what he's saying. So when Donald Trump posts, the biggest bridge in Iran comes tumbling down, never to be used again, much more to follow. The Iranian social media accounts say the following.
Trump directly admits to targeting civilian positions. International organizations, governments, hasn't the time come to act against this policy? One of the things I note as well is that the Trump regime has been using this guy a lot, Barack Ravid, this Axios reporter, to try to funnel lots of the propaganda goes through Axios.
And this guy, Barack Ravid, who's almost always wrong about everything, he's the guy who will be like, Donald Trump says ceasefire is happening. Donald Trump says this is happening. Donald Trump says this is happening.
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Chapter 5: What are the consequences of Trump's military strategy in the Middle East?
In Iran, Donald Trump and Fox and right-wing propaganda, they've, in a very racist way, I think, they've framed, or ethnocentric, whatever the right term is, they framed Iran as though these are just a bunch of like,
lunatics in caves yelling like Allah Akbar over and over again and they don't know what the hell is going on and these are not smart people like you're very wrong about that you know and and and but that's the stereotype that I think they try to convey to people you know when if you've
learned any basic military history or military tactics, whether you've read Sun Tzu's Art of the War or whoever, you have to know your enemy or just understand the other side if you believe they're your enemy, but you have to understand the dynamics taking place there.
And when you understand the cultural subtleties, the dynamics of Iran, who the former Ayatollah was in terms of his meaning to the Shiite community, the idea of martyrdom within the Shiite population, the sophisticated engineering historically and presently of Iran, Tehran University, and even with a very repressive Islamic Republic regime, first-rate engineering capabilities.
That's why Russia and Iran partnered when Russia needed help churning out drones and churning out missiles, the Shahids and FPVs, in Russia's invasion of Iran, I mean, in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. and the russia iranian relationship is so obvious right now and and donald trump you know either is so ignorant or just so woefully defective or just so utterly
unlearned and evil probably a combination of all of it that he acts like he's like what was it the other day what are they going to shoot us with bb guns bb guns no no no like what do you like that's a disqualifying statement no they're going to shoot they're going to shoot the bases with the shahi drones and fpv drones and ballistic missiles that they still have not bb guns you know what what are you what are you talking about with that right like
There are so many words that he uses that are so utterly disqualifying. I saw, I forget which reporter, we know Donald Trump's polling is record lows, right? I mean, CNN poll, his approval is at like 35%. UMass, Amherst, YouGov poll has him at what, 33%. His net negatives are like record highs, like way worse than even like Biden at Biden's worst. I mean, historically low.
But I saw a reporter basically say, you know, it's interesting to watch the percentage drop of Trump and they try to compare it to Biden. And they were like, well, after Biden. removed the troops from the Afghan military base and soldiers, American soldiers were killed at that Afghan military base.
It's like Donald Trump's war in Iran has done the same thing to Trump as Biden getting out of Afghanistan did to Biden's poll numbers. First off, Trump's polling is worse than that. So just set that aside. But the broader point to make is that every day in this war, Donald Trump, to me, is doing about 10 things that have a bad outcome, let's just say.
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Chapter 6: What criticisms are being directed at Trump's handling of international relations?
I get it as an American. I think he's been a little bit too cozy with Trump publicly, although I understand there's a lot intertwined there. that if that fully ruptures, what happens? So I'm sympathetic, at least, to understanding that. But he's been strong on Ukraine, in my view. We saw Anthony Albanese in Australia address the nation.
We're seeing a lot of countries, Austria no longer allowing US to use airspace. Lots of people are starting to assert themselves as Trump attacks NATO. That's been a theme throughout Donald Trump's life. Always attack NATO, attack NATO. And now saying because NATO didn't help invade, engage in a lawful war that, you know, NATO, America should pull out from NATO after the war.
But Trump's going to keep dragging this thing on and on and on and on. He doesn't know how to get out. He's lost all of his allies, all of America's allies. I don't know if America is a superpower right now. I mean, I think the superpower is its cruelty, but it is a bloviating, it's like a bloviating fraud at this point, a fugazi. Yes, it has these resources. Yes, we have the biggest military.
Yes, we have these things, but in the hands of a maniac. What use is it in the hands of a maniac other than to inflict cruel and unusual war crimes and punishment on the rest of the world? I'll show that quick clip right here of Lara Trump that I was talking about just because I don't want to lose that train of thought. But this is what they're doing on propaganda media today. Let's just play it.
because you want to talk about what the United States of America can do, take a look at this video. Take a look at all the videos he's posted of the bombs dropping, of the explosions, of us targeting something the size of basically a fingernail, our United States military. It is really impressive. It has so much more gravity to it when you see it like this.
And I just think it's so impressive because, again, we have never seen something like this happen. We've never had a president like this willing to do this sort of thing. And and hopefully it's all for the best, you know, for the entire world, the best for our people, the best for the rest of the world.
And just to go back to what you guys were talking about with the allies, this president has talked about how disappointed he is with his with the NATO allies. He also talked last night about the fact that the people who rely on the Strait of Hormuz to get their oil, need to step up. Now's the time. They need it. We don't need it here in the United States of America.
They're going to have to step up and do something about it. I thought his speech last night was really powerful, and I think that he sent a message then. He's sending a message now with this video as well.
I mean, again, if you're Iran, if you're any country in the world and you watch that, the president's Daughter-in-law is going on TV to threaten NATO and to say that, look at the precision with which we bomb bridges. You know who bombs bridges? Terrorists bomb bridges. War criminals bomb bridges like that. Civilian bridges and then boast about it? That's what terrorists do.
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Chapter 7: How is the U.S. economy affected by the war in Iran?
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I just get angry sometimes when I see this stuff. So I took your feedback into consideration. I will share my emotions less. The last Tuesday when I was just so angry about all the lies, so I was like, ah. I'll bring it back down to that voice. We have a lot more show. We'll be right back after our first and only quick break.
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Chapter 8: What are the potential political ramifications of Trump's actions?
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We can't do Medicaid. We can't do Medicare. We can't do daycare. All we can do is war. Now look, for those who haven't seen this, you probably have seen it by now, but you probably think when I give you that setup, come on, he couldn't have actually said those. How could he have actually, he actually said those words? I mean, like, do you remember back in the day when
It would be kind of disqualifying when a politician couldn't spell potato, like with Dan Quayle. Remember, it was over. The guy spelled potato the wrong way. When you've got Donald Trump from the White House as a war escalates in Iran, spiraling out of control. And Donald Trump says, we can't take care of daycare. We're too big. Our money needs to go to the wars. To the war.
Their whole thing was that they were, the whole thing they ran on was no more wars. We're going to make things affordable. That was the lie. That was the fraud. Here's what he said yesterday at the White House. Let's play.
Because the United States can't take care of daycare. That has to be up to a state. We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We have 50 states. We have all these other people. We're fighting wars. We can't take care of daycare. You got to let a state take care of daycare, and they should pay for it, too. They should pay. They have to raise their taxes, but they should pay for it.
And we could lower our taxes a little bit to them to make up. But it's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things. They can do it on a state basis. You can't do it on a federal. We have to take care of one thing, military protection.
We have one thing that we focus on.
military protection you know one of the ironic things if you want to use the word irony is that one of the ways that the trump regime whether it's rubio or hegseth or others have attacked iran we're like can you imagine this in iran they spend all of their money on weapons and the people don't get anything at all all the money is taken away for weapons and war everything with this regime
with this Trump regime is projection and confession. And we now know that Trump has proposed a 2027 budget where there will be $1.5 trillion in military spending. Remember when they were talking about 1 trillion and that was going to be a crazy number. Now they're at 1.5 trillion dollars while cutting domestic programs to support it.
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