Israel says it will respond to Iranian attack (04-15-2024--Hour3)

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[00:00:29] All right, so continuing the discussion here on Iran and Israel, Iran sought mass casualties

[00:00:37] despite the narrative that is now percolating out there that no, it totally didn't want to,

[00:00:43] you know, hurt many Israelis. Didn't want to kill a lot of Jews. That's why,

[00:00:47] you know, it only sent 300 plus of their missiles and drones and stuff.

[00:00:52] They wanted them to be shot down like every single one of them. They wanted that. So

[00:00:57] this way, it would give everybody an off ramp. They could save face. The Jews could shoot it all down.

[00:01:04] And then, that was me. That was me. Sorry. And then, yeah, sorry, I was doing with that.

[00:01:16] I was punching up a phone button. If Iran launches and gets defeated, they send out their video

[00:01:26] that shows the fires and like, look at us. We totally leveled some Israeli cities or something.

[00:01:31] But that's just for domestic consumption. They didn't really want that to happen.

[00:01:35] No, no, no. Now it couldn't be, right? It couldn't be that they are just not good militarily.

[00:01:45] That couldn't be the case, right? It had to been on purpose. Israel has watched Iran

[00:01:53] grow its network of military proxies and partners called the Accents of Resistance

[00:01:59] to virtually encircle the Mediterranean country. The power of these armies has become brutally

[00:02:04] clear in the six months since the Palestinian military group Hamas with Iranian money and arms

[00:02:09] invaded southern Israel and killed 1,200 people. Iranian allies in Yemen, Lebanon, Iraq, Syria

[00:02:17] have sprung to life to back Hamas, often through strikes on Israeli and American targets.

[00:02:24] U.S. defense officials said these militias also took part in Saturday's attack.

[00:02:31] Let's go over to the phones here is Tim. Welcome to the program. Hello, Tim.

[00:02:37] Yes. Yes.

[00:02:38] I'm trying to bring up a little thing that we don't talk about a lot. During the Cold War,

[00:02:45] our government was involved in getting the Shah of Iran into power. Therefore, the fact that

[00:02:54] Iran is not happy with us is not very surprising to me.

[00:03:00] And when did that happen?

[00:03:03] Back in the Cold War.

[00:03:06] So like 60 years ago?

[00:03:07] Years ago.

[00:03:09] Yeah, and they did it because at the time we wanted to get missiles close to Russia and Iran is right

[00:03:16] next to Russia. So they did that to get in there so that it could do that.

[00:03:22] So even if we delivered pallets of money to them and lifted sanctions and removed designations

[00:03:31] of their proxy militias as terrorists, all of that doesn't placate them?

[00:03:38] No, I don't say that. I think what they did was was okay and proper.

[00:03:44] What I'm simply saying is that sometimes we get our fingers into things we shouldn't get our fingers into.

[00:03:51] Oh, yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.

[00:03:56] Okay.

[00:03:56] I mean if I was in their position, I would feel really bad about the fact that somebody

[00:04:01] had manipulated my government.

[00:04:03] Right, but they've been in charge now since the like 50 years.

[00:04:08] Well, and that's the problem with the Islamic fundamentalists.

[00:04:14] They are direct descendants or directly connected with God.

[00:04:20] Whatever they decide to do in their mind is considered God worthy

[00:04:27] or Allah in this case.

[00:04:30] Right. But okay. So wait a minute.

[00:04:32] But you said that essentially that they've got a good reason to be mad at us for all these years,

[00:04:37] 50 years, 60 years, but they've been in control. The thing that like putting the

[00:04:44] Shah in and then having him deposed by the Ayatollah, like they've now been in charge.

[00:04:53] Right? The Mullahs have been running the show now for 50 years or so.

[00:04:58] Like it all worked out for them it seems like.

[00:05:02] Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean they're in a pretty good position from a standpoint of being able to say

[00:05:11] that they've done something. But I guess what I'm saying is there's a problem in this world

[00:05:18] in general in where we have larger companies sometimes putting the squeeze on smaller

[00:05:24] companies to get what they want and there are consequences to doing that.

[00:05:30] Yes. There are always, yeah, it's called blowback in foreign policy, right? Blowback.

[00:05:37] So yeah, you never know how things are going to work out. You can only try to act in the way that

[00:05:44] you best can that you think will yield the best results and that doesn't mean that bad

[00:05:48] statecraft doesn't happen. It absolutely does. People make terrible decisions all the time

[00:05:53] as leaders of countries. Absolutely. They make bad decisions. They get involved where they

[00:05:59] shouldn't. They try to play both sides, whatever. Like yeah, absolutely. People make all sorts of

[00:06:04] bad decisions. Yeah. Well I hope it comes out all right but I'm not too excited about it.

[00:06:12] I think this might be the beginning of World War III. You are not alone in that thought, Tim.

[00:06:18] You are not alone. I appreciate the call. That is a common refrain and it's a fear

[00:06:24] that I share because you never know like when the, what was it? The Archduke Ferdinand whatever

[00:06:31] was assassinated. Nobody said this is it. This is what's going to start at all.

[00:06:36] Maybe somebody did. I don't know. But yeah, you look back on the events and then yeah,

[00:06:42] hindsight 2020 and all, you can see all of the things leading up to the eruption of the

[00:06:49] global conflict because when everybody is, when everybody is focused on other things and adversaries

[00:06:59] and different theaters of operation than yeah, than other nations that were not involved will

[00:07:04] seek to take advantage because you know their opponent, their enemy can't fight a two front

[00:07:12] war or three front war. That's the concern by the way that Israel's got now is that

[00:07:16] this is now opening up a multi front war but and that gets very bad very quickly because the things

[00:07:24] that Israel has been doing so far and I went over this number the other day, it's essentially a

[00:07:29] one to one combatant noncombatant death toll in Gaza and people and look, I like I don't want

[00:07:37] anybody to die in any of these wars. I'm not a war monger. I don't want that to happen. I

[00:07:42] would prefer peace. I'm a big, you know, political science guy and that is to avoid war. Politics is

[00:07:51] the these are the conversations we have in the debates and disagreements. We do it with our words

[00:07:56] so this way we don't resort to war which is devastating and I don't, I've never liked,

[00:08:02] you know, where people talk about, you know, civil war in America and I've always said like

[00:08:08] you guys talk about this stuff and everybody thinks that oh it's going to affect other people.

[00:08:13] It'll be some other place in America, oh won't affect me or my family like you don't,

[00:08:18] you don't have any idea. No one does. No one has any idea. It's devastation

[00:08:26] and then other countries take advantage and all of that so I want there to be discussions. I

[00:08:31] don't want there to be war. What Israel is looking at now is a point where if they

[00:08:36] don't have, and that's why it was good to see Jordan and the Saudis on the side of Israel because

[00:08:42] that may now limit the expansion into like southern Lebanon where Hezbollah is because if they are,

[00:08:53] you know, if Hezbollah keeps it up Israel's going in there. They're going to start bombing

[00:09:00] things because they're not going to have the ability, they can't do in southern Lebanon

[00:09:05] what they did in Gaza. They can't do in Iran what they did in Gaza, they can't.

[00:09:12] It'd be way too costly there. I mean Israel if they wanted to just completely commit genocide

[00:09:19] they could have done it in about two days in Gaza and they didn't, right? They have the ability,

[00:09:28] they've got the firepower, they've got the nukes, they could do it if they wanted to

[00:09:32] but instead they've been going through in an urban warfare scenario and their one-to-one

[00:09:39] combatant, non-combatant death toll is virtually unprecedented. Usually there are way more civilians

[00:09:46] killed in these types of urban battles. They would not be able to do that in southern Lebanon,

[00:09:54] not that it's really the urban anyway but up there too it's like more like a mountainous and

[00:09:59] rocky and stuff and so you can't really, like Gaza is a beach, right? So the just the soil lends itself

[00:10:08] more easily if you blow up the tunnels, stuff collapses, it's easier to get into them and stuff.

[00:10:13] You can't really do that up in the mountains of Lebanon. So now you're talking carpet bombing,

[00:10:18] constant aerial assault and with Iran I don't know but Israel says it's going to respond

[00:10:24] but for some reason they won't tell us when or how. So weird, come on guys. This piece, gosh this is two.

[00:10:34] This is the second piece I have read over the last, well within the last week I guess,

[00:10:41] from Victor David Hansen. He put this up on Twitter, how did Joe Biden inherit a decades-long

[00:10:50] regional calm and turn it into a precursor to a gargantuan war? Number one, talk loudly and carry a twig.

[00:11:01] That's yeah, witness a U.S. president who works a three-day week, struggles to read a teleprompter

[00:11:08] and shouts more conservative Americans than at America's enemies. And I'm just giving you

[00:11:14] some of the highlights here. It's a very lengthy post. He says, number two, you destroy

[00:11:18] hard-won deterrence. Abruptly pull out of Afghanistan, abandon 50 billion dollars in weapons to terrorists,

[00:11:25] abandon a new one billion dollar embassy and an air base and thousands of NATO allies and

[00:11:31] thousands of U.S. contractors and thousands of Afghan allies lose 13 Marines in a horrific

[00:11:36] scramble to get out. Sit passively while a Chinese spy balloon or as I called it the

[00:11:44] spy balloon, traverses the continental U.S., shoot it down only days after escalating public outrage,

[00:11:51] be afraid to call the Chinese out for their Wuhan lab-generated gain of function COVID-19 virus,

[00:11:56] let Chinese diplomats dress down our silent and stunned Secretary of State and

[00:12:00] national security advisor on American soil in Anchorage. Number four, assure Vladimir Putin

[00:12:08] that the U.S. reaction to a preemptive invasion of Ukraine would hinge on whether it was a major

[00:12:13] or minor invasion. Number five, coddle terrorist Iran. Seem eager to resume the Iran deal, lift

[00:12:23] sanctions allow 100 billion in oil profits to flow into Iranian coffers, restore aid to the

[00:12:28] terrorist Palestinian authority and Hamas, ignore Hezbollah's terrorism, remove the

[00:12:33] terrorist designation from the Houthis, mostly ignore over 120 Iranian attacks on American

[00:12:38] installations, transfer suspended funds to Iran at a rate of one billion for each American hostage

[00:12:44] took. Number six, pressure Israel not to destroy Hamas. Also while you're at it try to subvert if

[00:12:55] not overthrow the elected government of Israel. Number seven, run up the U.S. deficit by a

[00:13:00] trillion dollars every 100 days. Number eight, recalibrate the U.S. military by

[00:13:05] substituting DEI criteria for past meritocracy. Number nine, destroy the U.S. border for rank

[00:13:12] political purposes. Cancel all prior border enforcement, abandon construction of the

[00:13:18] border wall, allow in 10 million illegal aliens among them thousands from hostile nations and

[00:13:25] some yes with ties to terrorism. And number 10, lose control of the world's maritime

[00:13:33] commercial corridors. Allow the Chinese to harass allies in the South China Sea and the

[00:13:38] Philippine Sea. Allow the Houthis to shut down the Red Sea. Allow Iran to hijack ships in the

[00:13:44] Straits of the Hormuz or Straits of Hormuz. Witness the Black Sea become off limits to

[00:13:51] maritime traffic. So that's another component to the whole America as an isolationist

[00:14:00] country and no foreign entanglements at all is I would like to know who then protects the

[00:14:09] maritime corridors, right? The shipping channels, the lanes. Who's going to do that? Because if you

[00:14:16] don't have that, right? Then how do you move people and goods all around the world like we

[00:14:23] do right now? It's a Pete tweet from Anna. Pete please repeat whose tweet you are reading

[00:14:29] listing the reasons Biden destroyed our peace. I just tuned in and missed the beginning.

[00:14:34] Very insightful. That is Victor David Hansen. I will, during the break, Anna, I will send you a

[00:14:41] link to the tweet but you can find him on, I don't know his Twitter handle. It may be VD Hansen

[00:14:47] maybe. I read earlier from a piece by Jay Solomon at Summafor

[00:14:54] that Iran sought mass casualties in this strike according to US officials. If you can believe

[00:15:02] them, the sophistication of the Iranian Axis's weapons and tactics have vastly improved.

[00:15:12] Saturday's attack included ballistic and cruise missiles as well as one-way attack

[00:15:17] drones that Iran has mastered building in recent years and it has exported these

[00:15:24] one-way drones to allies globally. Iran and its most powerful, by the way, what do you think

[00:15:30] happens on our southern border or northern border? What do you think happens? Some folks just show

[00:15:38] up and just launch a couple hundred one-way suicide drones into Texas. Do we retaliate against

[00:15:50] somebody somehow? Whatever. I mean the devastation that something like that could, I mean these are

[00:15:56] not expensive things in the grand military scheme of things like this is a very low budget way to

[00:16:03] inflict terrorism. That's the point is to inflict damage, cause chaos and to convince your population

[00:16:12] to force its leadership to take a different policy position.

[00:16:22] Iran and its most powerful regional ally, Hezbollah, have also grown battle-hardened,

[00:16:29] backing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in his war against internal opponents.

[00:16:35] Current and former Israeli officials said this weekend that the prospect of a future Iranian

[00:16:40] attack using nuclear or chemical weapons tipped missiles and drones shows the threat

[00:16:46] that Tehran poses to their country's long-term future. So while a counter-strike might not

[00:16:51] happen this month, it will come at some point they said. But Joe Biden is telling them

[00:17:03] chocolate sharing. President Joe Biden and other national security leaders have told

[00:17:08] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to counterattack Iran after Iran launched rockets into

[00:17:14] Israel. Biden told Bibi the US would not support a counterattack saying Israel is defending itself

[00:17:22] from rockets or that it's defensive itself against the rockets, that that was enough.

[00:17:27] Sorry Jews, you just gotta take it. I don't know if Joe would have said something different

[00:17:36] if a bunch of the rockets or drones had gotten through. I do not know that, right?

[00:17:42] The path not taken. It's too bad Israel, UK, US, France, Jordan, Saudi Arabia. It's too bad that

[00:17:53] this coalition was just so darn effective that they literally wiped out virtually every single one

[00:18:01] of these missiles and drones that Iran sent over in a humiliating defeat for the Islamic

[00:18:06] Republic. Apparently the only people that they can really do damage to are like their own students

[00:18:15] that are protesting for freedom. Here's a quote Biden said in a statement, so I don't know if he

[00:18:25] actually said this. This is just what the White House put out. Quote, I told him that Israel

[00:18:33] demonstrated a remarkable capacity to defend against and defeat even unprecedented attacks,

[00:18:40] sending a clear message to its foes that they cannot effectively threaten the security of Israel.

[00:18:48] But then he doesn't say this. This isn't part of the statement. There's a White House senior

[00:18:53] official which is probably like Carinj Jean-Pierre or John Kirby, somebody. A White House senior

[00:19:00] official said that Biden told Bibby, you got a win. You got the win. Take the win. Don't retaliate.

[00:19:12] Take the win. So here's the problem though. And I have no military experience but even I can

[00:19:22] even I can see this, which is Iran gathered intel just like the Chinese spy balloon.

[00:19:30] Not only was it literally gathering intel, right? But the Chinese also gathered intel. They now

[00:19:40] saw how we would react in a situation. They've now tested Israel. They saw how Israel responded.

[00:19:50] That is now information that will be used to inform their next battle plan because if you think

[00:19:56] they're going to stop, I don't know what fantasy land you live in. They've been very clear.

[00:20:06] I mean, their proxy group, the Houthis, their slogan on their flag is like literally

[00:20:14] death to Israel, death to America. They chant this stuff in the streets. They mean it.

[00:20:22] John Kirby, the White House national security spokesman said, quote, this was an incredible

[00:20:26] success really proving Israel's military superiority and just as credit. And by the way,

[00:20:32] I agree. And I think this is an important message that absolutely the White House and

[00:20:37] the Israelis and everybody needs to be hammering this. The problem is that in that part of the

[00:20:43] world, this is another humiliation, which is what now the fourth or fifth at the hands of the

[00:20:52] Israelis. And it makes them angrier and angrier. It makes a lot of people very, very angry that

[00:20:58] they just keep getting their asses kicked. So they're going to make another run at it. Keep

[00:21:04] doing it. Their diplomatic superiority, they have friends in the region that they have around the world.

[00:21:15] They're friends that are willing to help them, he says. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin asked Israeli

[00:21:19] officials to warn the U.S. about any retaliatory attacks. Okay, my advice to the Israelis is

[00:21:27] not to do that. Just probably best not to do that considering that we know that the

[00:21:32] Biden administration told Iran, like, yeah, okay, just keep it within limits. So the U.S.

[00:21:40] was not notified about Israel's attack on the Iranian embassy in Syria, which led to Iran's

[00:21:45] retaliatory attacks on Saturday. Alon Levy, former Israeli government spokesman said that the

[00:21:55] idea that Iran wanted this unprecedented assault to fail or that it was only performative,

[00:22:00] that's the word you're hearing being used today in a lot of foreign policy circles,

[00:22:04] oh, it was just performative. He says that is tinfoil hat levels of conspiracy. Just because they

[00:22:13] failed doesn't mean they weren't trying. It just means they suck. That's all. And

[00:22:21] yeah, they were not as good, but they're going to keep trying.

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[00:23:38] Did you know that King Henry VIII of England set up a tax on beards?

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