Tucker Carlson Responds to Israel’s War on Iran
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
So whenever something big happens, particularly something really big like a war that will change world history, the first four questions you have to ask are these. One, why did this happen? Two, what was the point of it? Three, where does it go from here? And four, how do we respond? So let's assess the war in Iran now ongoing in its second day. and try to answer those four questions. First, why did this happen? Now, in this case, there's a really simple answer. This happened because Israel wanted it to happen. This is Israel's war.
Why did Israel initiate a war against Iran?
This is not the United States' war. This war is not being waged on behalf of American national security objectives to make the United States safer or richer. This war is not actually even about weapons of mass destruction, nukes, Kambayo. No, this war is waged. purely because Israel wanted it to be waged. Now, why say that out loud this early in the conflict? Isn't that dispiriting for, say, American troops fighting this war? Yes, it is. And we thought a lot about whether it was wise or decent even to say something like that out loud, and have decided that it is for the following reason. First, because the truth is always the only basis for wise decision-making. When you lie to yourself or you lie to your people, you not only commit, well, a kind of moral crime by lying, but you also tend to hurt yourself.
Hubris is the product of lies, for example. You can get way over your skis if you're not honest with yourself and the people around you about what's happening and why it's happening. But long term, that is also true. In other words, it's important to say why this war is happening because 50 years from now, people may not know. Your grandkids may learn that this war started because the Ayatollah showed up in Miami and started machine gunning people in a shopping mall. And so we responded. There was a kind of Iranian Pearl Harbor. You don't know what the future will believe about the present. You don't know how history will be written. And if you're skeptical of that, if you're asking yourself, well, how could historians, popular historians, how could future culture so misunderstand something so big?
How could people lie about something so obvious, so giant? Well, history is your guide. A lot of the big events we think we understand, including wars from the past and not so distant past, are completely distorted in our memories. In other words, that's not actually what happened at all. And the truth is, if enough people lie about something at a high enough volume, And they do it for long enough, loudly enough, while threatening anyone who refuses to lie about it. Over time, their lies become conventional wisdom. Everyone believes them.
What are the implications of the U.S. involvement in Israel's war?
There is something about repeating a lie over and over and over again that's almost like a spell or an incantation. It's almost a form of witchcraft. it assumes reality, or a version of reality, an ersatz reality, a fake reality, but reality nevertheless. And if you're interested at all in history, going back thousands of years or even more recently, you know that the understandings of certain events that you grew up hearing about probably totally inverted. The opposite is true, but you didn't know that until you dug a little deeper, in some cases a lot deeper, to find out because they have been distorted in the retelling. And because they have been, because a lot of our most basic assumptions are based on untruths, we wind up getting into the same messes again and again.
So it's just important to tell the truth about this now in the early stages of This is, by the way, widely known. This is not a conspiracy theory. Everyone's saying it out loud now because it's true. The United States committed troops to this conflict because the prime minister of Israel, not Israel as a nation, but the guy who runs it, Benjamin Netanyahu, Bibi, demanded it. Seven trips to the White House over the last year. And the point of those trips never varied. The United States needs troops. to commit to regime change in Iran. We need the U.S.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:41
2
Why did Israel initiate a war against Iran?
0:41–3:03
3
What are the implications of the U.S. involvement in Israel's war?
3:03–11:20
4
How does misinformation shape public perception of the conflict?
11:20–17:43
5
What role does history play in understanding current events?
17:43–19:15
6
How do Israeli ambitions influence U.S. foreign policy?
19:15–31:59
7
What are the risks associated with military action in Iran?
31:59–33:59
8
How does the conflict affect American lives abroad?
33:59–1:45:29
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