Has "Trump learned to speak Persian"? | Hour 2

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They said the strikes are in response to Iran's unwarranted and continued aggression. US forces remained vigilant, lethal and ready. There was a map that was put out. I saw as well, nine different locations of known US air strikes and they were basically all along the coast of the Strait of Hormuz. Iran did respond by flinging a bunch of missiles and drones at Arab countries. They have bombed more Arab countries than Israel has in its entire history. Kuwait's military says that it intercepted twenty four Iranian drones over its airspace in the past forty eight hours. They report limited material damage no casualties. The armed forces said that they remain at full readiness. In Bahrain, the Foreign Minister said thirty six Iranian drones were launched at Bahrain. He mentioned an eleven year old girl was injured and homes and vehicles damaged after debris from intercepted missiles and drones fell over residential neighborhoods. Saudi Arabia condemned the repeated Iranian attacks that targeted not just Bahrain and Kuwait, but also Jordan, saying they violated the sovereignty of neighboring Arab states and increased regional tensions. The Saudi Foreign Ministry urged calm and restraint and called for an immediate halt to military operations and they returned to diplomacy. It welcomed mediation efforts led by Katter between the US and Iran, saying they could help spare the region and its people ay returned to war and restore security and stability. There's also disagreement about whether or not Donald Trump is actually talking to anybody in Iran. Trump says he is, and Iran officially says he is not. I don't know. They both could be lying, one could be lying. I don't know. Like, it's possible that Trump is talking to somebody in Iran and the Iranians don't want everybody to know it. It's possible Trump is just making that up. That's possible too. I don't know. No one does except Trump and the people around him. And if there's any Iranians that are actually talking to him, right John Spencer, a war historian guy, He says it was either he's talking about Pete Hegseth was asked about because Hegseth came out from Sencom yesterday at about four point thirty. He walks out and talks to the press and somebody asks him if this is a war crime because they're you know, they're talking about bombing bridges and power infrastructure, right, And wouldn't this be a war crime, and John Spencer says that's either a disingenuous question or a grossly ignorant one. It's not a war crime to target bridges or power infrastructure, or telecommunications networks or other infrastructure if if they constitute lawful military objectives. The law of armed conflict does not prohibit attacks simply because an object is also used by civilians. The legal question is whether the object makes an effective contribution to military action. In other words, a telecom site located along the Strait of hormones. And if you're going to say, well, if you bomb a telecom site, then that's a war crime. Okay, Well, what if that telecom site is being used to target civilian merchant vessels, that's not a war crime, right the US military? Oh sorry, skip ahead. The legal question is whether it makes an effective contribution to military action, and whether the attack complies with military necessity, distinction, proportionality, and feasible precautions. He goes on to say bridges, electrical infrastructure, telecommunication systems, transportation networks, and other infrastructure have been targeted in many modern wars, including Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, Libya, and others. The US military has long recognized that such infrastructure can constitute lawful military objectives when it contributes to an enemy's military operations or war fighting capacity. That does not mean that every strike against infrastructure is lawful. Each attack has to be assessed based on the facts and the requirements of the law of armed conflict see And this is why there are so many people who are throwing around these accusations that they don't know what they're talking about. To suggest that targeting bridges or electrical infrastructure or telecommunications assets that that is inherently a war crime reflects either a gross misunderstanding of the law of war or an unprofessional misrepresentation of it. Iran International reports US forces disabled a Guinea Bissau flagged oil tanker in the Sea of Oman on Wednesday after it violated a blockade against Iran by trying to transport Iranian oil. Sentcom said a US aircraft fired two health fire missiles into the engine room of the Mt Jalvir after the crew repeatedly failed to comply with US directions. It said. The Jalvir was the third commercial vessel that has been disabled by US forces this week, after the Palau flagged empty Maravex and empty set Beelo Centcom said US forces had disabled nine total noncom in vessels since the blockade has begun, they redirected one hundred and thirty five ships which complied, and they have allowed forty two vessels carrying humanitarian aid to pass through since the blockade began on April thirteenth. Meanwhile, the Turkish president, who has. Plans to become the new Ottoman Empire Caliphate, he compared Benjamin Ato Yahoo to Hitler, saying those who follow in Hitler's footsteps will meet the same fate as other tyrants throughout history. He called Israel under its current government quote a factory of discord whose only raw materials are blood and tears. And he warned that those who attack our region like sharks that have smelled blood, will be held accountable nothing regarding Iran, Guys, I kind of feel like letting Turkey into NATO may have been a mistake. Starting to get the Yeah, starting to starting to get the sense that was a mistake. I quote, there's a journalist out of Israel. His name is Amit Siegel. He does a newsletter called It's Noon in Israel, and he had a very interesting write up this morning, called the US strikes back, talking about the last two days of strikes that have been sent into Iran, one of which targeted an IRGC command and Control center. So he says, it's Thursday, June eleventh, and Donald Trump appears to be changing tack. For the second night in a row, the US military launched what it calls self defense strikes against Iran, strikes that Trump seemed to imply were punishment for Iran taking quote too long to make a deal. In response, Iran retaliated against Jordan, Bahrain, and Kuwait. This is all the same region we targeted, same region where we had struck similar assets on Tuesday. Okay, So just hammering away at assets in the same sort of regions, most of it, as I mentioned, along the coast of the Strait of Hormones. And he goes on to say, and we'll pick it up here in a minute. Two months in and Trump appears to have finally learned to speak Persian. I'll tell you what he means in a moment. You know, Stories are powerful. They help us make sense of things, to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the people of our past while transcending generations. They help us process, the meaning of life and our stories are told through images and videos. Preserve your stories with Creative Video started in nineteen ninety seven and Mint Hill, North Carolina. It was the first company to provide this valuable service, converting images, photos and videos into high quality produced slide shows, videos and albums. 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Violence creates favorable conditions on the ground, allowing diplomats to extract quote, legal, political, and economic achievements at the negotiation table. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araji literally wrote the manual on this bizarre, not bizarre, but bezar as in like a market style negotiation prevalent in the in the bazaars. Remember, like in other parts of the world, people and cultures are different. Okay, I know, like some people may agree with that sentence, but they don't really internalize what that what that means. For example, you. Go someplace, there's a price for something, you pay the price or you don't buy it. Right, in other parts of the world, that price is simply the starting point and then they haggle and like that's like it gets the juices flowing. It's part of the cultures, like they always want to haggle over everything, right, and so this is a bizarre style negotiation. Literally in a book published last year by the Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragasi, and the name of the book is called The Power of Negotiation, It's sort of like the art of the deal if you will, okay. Aragaji advocates for continuous, grueling repetition of demands until the opponent gets numb and surrenders, noting that quote, he who gets tired and bored quickly will lose. It's in his book, Okay. This is how they are approaching the negotiations. Both approaches have been on full display over the past two months. The endless offers and retractions at the negotiating table, paired with the constant pricks of military strikes against regional allies and global shipping. These are designed to drain Trump's patients through a thousand small cuts, worn down by a Ragat Shee's relentless, bizarre style bargaining, Trump looked ready to fold, ignoring his own warning from the Art of the Deal, where he said, quote, the worst thing you can possibly do in a deal is seemed desperate to make it. That's what Trump said in his book. However, there is a distinct possibility that both we and the Iranians misread the board by overlooking another line from the Art of the Deal, where Trump said, quote, I never get too attached to one deal or one approach. I keep a lot of balls in the air. Segal says, hopefully Trump has developed an attachment to this new kinetic approach. In other words, the strikes the military strikes as evidence of its effectiveness. Note that for the second night running, Israel saw no retaliation from Iran. So as the US, Israel's not involved in these latest strikes. It's just America, and Iran has not been shelling Israel. The IRGC has opted instead to strike back against American attacks on nearly every regional base except the one belonging to the US's closest. Ally, their calculus is straightforward, shoot at those who don't shoot back. Today's strikes, he says, suggests Trump may finally be moving again, though towards what nobody can say. As with most such performances, it is we the audience, not the presidential acrobat, whose hearts are in our throats at every tremor the performer himself betrays nothing with Trump, especially that inscrutability may be the whole act. And I get it that people want to know, like I want to know what's going on. I want to know why. I want to know when it's going to end. I want to know. I want to know. I get all of that, I understand. I do too, but I don't know. People have said to me for years, particularly after I take a combative phone call from somebody who's particularly not very bright, and they'll I usually get messages that say, Pede, you have so much patience. You have the patience of job and all of this, And maybe I'm just a more patient person on this kind of stuff. I recognize that these things take time, right, and I am willing to wait. I'm willing to wait and see. And that is, I know, not attractive to modern Americans. We are impatient people. And you can yell at me all you want on the text line. You can complain about how I'm pointing out the realities of the world and the situation, but I am not here to tell you what you want to hear. I'm here to tell you with here to tell you how things are, at least as I see them. Again. You are free to disagree. You're free to disagree. But if you're going to make the argument that we as Americans are a patient people, I'd be curious to hear that argument. And if you're going to make the argument that Americans have not grown a little spoiled I'd be curious to hear that argument as well. But that's my view of the reality of the situation. We are impatient, and we are a little bit sort of ignorant of our own pross disparity. We kind of take it for granted because it's just, you know, where the fish that doesn't know it's wet, Because this is the lifestyle that so many people have. Just grown up in. It's just normal. I will get to some texts in a mere moment, but first a tweet from the Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant. He says the Iranian regime will lose the zero sum game that it's playing. Any damage it inflicts on our allies in the Gulf will be paid for with funds extracted from Iranian accounts. Any tolls paid to the Persian Gulf straight AUTHORITAI, which is what the IRGC set up right so they could collect money from merchant vessels trying to exit the Persian Gulf. He says, any tolls paid will be offset by funds extracted from their accounts. Every attack Iran launches will only deepen the economic and financial consequences Iran faces. All right, let me go back to the text line here, I got a bunch of message messages to do. Tim says, gas is only three sixty nine a gallon near my house in rock Hill, right. You know, keep in mind also that the price of gasoline is different state to state because of state taxes. There are federal taxes as well, and that's why you know a lot of people complaining live in the high tax states, in blue states where gas is taxed far more heavily. And that's why you know, California, like their gas prices were. I think I saw like approaching ten dollars a gallon or some ridiculous number a. Couple of weeks ago. Travis says to the earlier Texter, if what Pete is saying feels like mental gymnastics to you, then you probably need to take your thinker out for more exercise. Tom says, this is Tom in rock Hill. Hey, Pete, but gas is nowhere near a dollar eighty five as Trump states. It was. When Okay, I'm onna I have no doubt that Donald Trump would have said that. I don't know when he said it. I and many others, and I'm not alone in this feel like a carrot was dangled out in front of us for about five minutes, then jerked away from us, thus getting our butts kicked at the pumps and justify it all y'all want, but that is what is going on. My realization is there is always going to be an excuse, Okay. So this is why I have talked about this these reports, about the original plan, which was you hit Iran as we as you know Israel did, and we did in the first days of Operation Epic Fury. The Kurds were then going to roll in from their area up in the north and people would then be able to rise up against the decapitated leadership. Right, we take out a whole bunch of their missile production and drone production, command control facilities. Right, we take out a lot of that stuff in the first few days. And then the idea was that the former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad I went over this yesterday, who had been on the outs with the current. Regime. He had been on the outs with them because he was criticizing it for corruption and basically starving the country of you know, funding for necess infrastructure and whatnot. Right. Remember Achmedenijod was the mayor of Tehran, and remember the reports that due to maladministration and a drought, Tehran was in a severe water shortage, like to the point where they were literally talking about moving the entire capital city. They were discussing this like as a real option. So Akhmedenijod was speaking out against the regime for its corruption, and that put him on the outs with the regime. So even though he was the former president, they basically exiled him to house arrest on the outskirts of the city, and so he was not very happy with them, and so the idea was hatched to make overtures to him. And apparently the reporting is that they did have meetings about this in the months prior, like in person meetings with Ahmadenijad, and he was then going to lead the overthrow of the remnants of the regime after the decapitation strikes, so much like does this sound familiar? By the way, what's her name, Delsi Rodriguez in Venezuela. Right, So it's not a regime change, it's a leadership change. And so is it possible. I mean it is possible because this is the reporting that this was the plan. But then Akmadenijod apparently fled he got cold feet and abandoned it, and that's when the whole plan fell apart. Now maybe he was never a good faith partner. I don't know, but the fact that it fell apart might explain why Trump was at the beginning saying this is only going to last a couple of weeks. And then the straight up four moves gets shut down. And maybe that's why it's like, oh, well, we weren't anticipating that, Yeah, because they never expected the regime to survive when Akmandenajod would take over again. You don't have to believe that. But that reporting is out there, okay, and some of it makes some sense. I don't know if all of it is true. Some of it may be true, none of it may be true. Don't know. But again, like, was it the first casualty in any war is the truth? But any battle plan doesn't survive first contact with the enemy because they get a say too, Tony says, let me see here, this is Yeah, the Libertarian Party called and want their little l back. That's fine, they can have it back. Just a few months ago, you would at least be a little critical of Trump. I just don't hear that anymore. I enjoy your program. Well, Tony B. I have always disagreed with the Capital l Libertarian Party on foreign policy because they are juveniles. Their foreign policy is ridiculously unrealistic. I have always felt that I just don't agree with the Libertarians on foreign policy. So as long as we're talking about foreign policy, yeah, it's going to sound like I'm not very libertarian on that. Is there anything I'm ever critical of Trump on? Again? I feel the need to point this out. I have been highly critical of Donald Trump, but I also recognize, because I live in Realville, that the Republican voters picked him in multiple primaries and then American voters picked him as president. I don't deny that that occurred. I cannot deny that he has some appeal to a large portion of America. Well he did during the campaign. I don't know if he does anymore because his approval numbers are so low. What I don't do is hold him to a different standard. And I know that that's so uncommon now that when I hold him to a standard, one that is built off of a decade of watching him, you know, And I see people that still don't understand. I can't believe Donald Trump said these things, like, how can you not understand that we've been watching him for a decade now. A decade ago, I was out there beating the drum against Donald Trump because I didn't think he was qualified to be president. I didn't think he'd be a good president. I don't agree with all of the stuff he tries to do. A lot of the stuff he says doesn't make sense and then doesn't happen, So like, I look at the stuff that's actually been done, and when it comes to things like immigration, I feel like he's been pretty solid on that. He's been solid on Supreme Court picks. And that was the only reason anybody ever came close to persuading me to vote for Trump was the Supreme Court picks. And in the meantime, the Democrat Party has lost their ever loving minds. So like, that's the reality that I'm living in. Israel just released a video from a drone that they flew into an underground tunnel in southern Lebanon, which is amazing, Like, if if they have, if they have cracked the code, now on how to you know, keep the communication feed going between drones and the operators through you know, mountainous tunnels, like that's a game changer for like these against these tactics that we saw in Gaza, and and we see also from you know, Hesbalah in Lebanon. This is from a five to seven one number out of Virginia. So I have actually lost patients with Iran. I have been patient for forty seven years. I am done being patient. As Grandma used to say, enough is enough, even if it's preaching. John says, inflation dollars gasoline was over five dollars, was five ten a gallon in twenty twenty. Two, We be eight? We be I okay, yes? Uh. And a new reporting that's been coming in over the last fifteen minutes or so is that this is from JC who says that Trump is holding off on bombings tonight. So maybe it worked. I don't know. Uh. This is from nine eight zero number Dale Earnhard Boulevard and Copperfield and Concord, Kannapolis. Murphy's gas is at three forty three, three forty five exce on three fifty five at the brand new dish and three twenty four. Okay, So yeah, so the gas prices are, you know, three point thirty to three fifty sounds like uh. Kevin says, I personally find it beneficial for both myself and those I speak with to occasionally look out into the world and compare my plight to that of others. For example, when someone says how expensive food is, I say, well, at least we can still get food, unlike the millions starving in Sudan. Naturally, I always get such a thankful look and response, and that is sarcasm. Yeah, I mean that's when making assessments, it's always useful to include in that assessment as compared to what right? Jonathan says we should get Tony to weigh in on this. I don't know. I don't know if that's necessary. The good Jeff says, I thought that the number one law of war was simply there are no laws. Isn't that why we say war is? Hell? Am I wrong? Well? I mean you have this Western idea of war fighting implemented after World War II because of the brutality that we saw, right, and so this has been These are developments that have occurred over time. But yeah, what do you do when you're fighting an enemy that does not subscribe to any of those protocols? Dean says, if we can blockade and embargo oil to Iran. Why can't we blockade this endless infiltration of weapons that enables Iran to keep engaging the most powerful military in the world. Seems like we don't want to really defeat anything, just blow up each other's missiles. Right, Well, they're trying to not devastate all of the infrastructure because the idea is that if the regime falls and the Iranian people take over, you want them to be in a position where they are able to recover. David says, make a deal. Why are there any IRGC commanding control centers left standing? Iran at this point shouldn't be actively destroying the resistance. Shouldn't we be actively destroying the resistance potential? Another David says, I'm sick of hearing about war crimes. When did war get reduced to some gentleman's duel between nations? No wonder, no one ever surrenders anymore. Seven oh four says great show as always, Pete. You provide tons of information and perspective on the issues you discuss. If more liberals would listen to your show with an open mind, we'd all be much better off. I don't know about that. I think they'd be angry. And nine eight zero says it's amazing to me that Trump was able to keep his mouth closed about all the ships passing through the strait of hormones, especially as egotistical as he's portrayed to be. Allan says fairly certain that we are past World War eleven according to a congresswoman that I'm sure has the utmost intellect, and Trent says, finally, Glenn Beck is dead set that Trump's biggest fear is the use of a nuke because he believes that once it goes, it will just begin a chain reaction. Yeah. I think that's pretty legitimate fear. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, so if you'd please support them too and tell them you heard it here. You can also become a patron at my Patreon page or go to thepetecleanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.