Patriot Power Hour #339 - Iran War

M hm. You want statement of purpose? Should I email you? Should I put this on your action item list? You decide your own love love involvement. We are the Proper Broadcasting Network. You are now listening to the Patriot Power Hour, the newest show of the Prepper Broadcasting Network. This live episode. Features the situational awareness you need to practice self reliance and independence. Introducing your hosts, Ben the Breaker of Banksters and Future Dan, the editor of Future danger dot com. Patriot Power Hour. We are live March fifth, twenty twenty six, Episode three thirty nine, Ben the Breaker of Banksters. Yeah, and welcome to our audience. Three hundred and thirty nine. Ben, we have another war in Southwest Asia. Full on epic fury in Iran. Epic fury on Iran. Last week you asked me, what's the one thing that's not on the dashboard that he thought would be or will be next episode? I said, definitely, Iran haven't hit it yet. They've been sir. Then they've been talking and yeah literally yeah, twenty four thirty six hours later, they hit it. So how do we want to approach this. We can get into it now and get into it after the news blitz. Wait, and see like, what's what's a game plan for this topic tonight, because we obviously don't do any pre show planning. Well, that's part of our charm. I'll say, let's just run through some of the basic, high level of what happened, more of the timeline and document in the facts. If you want to do that, then we can talk more of what we think about it after the news blitz. What do you say, Yeah, so you know this Thursday night, last Saturday, the aerial onslaught began, and the naval onslaught began, and by what seven days? Six days? We're going seven day seven of this, we're total total air see domination of Iran and just now striking targets at will. That's pretty much where we're at. And we haven't seen oil spike above one hundred. We haven't seen crazy terrorist attacks in the twenty of the world's capitals. I'm not wanting to see this by any means. I'm glad we're not seeing it. Doesn't mean you shouldn't be very vigilant and ready for any sort of attacks or whatnot. But that's that's some good news. I thought we would see more of that. Some think what happened in Austin, Texas like the day after, could have been related, but there there have not been other incidents, or at least not making as much news about it. You want to get into the Iranian sleeper cell conversation, Yeah, approach the top of it was always skeptical, very very. That's why I brought it up. I thought it'd make for some great radio. Why were we skeptical of what does that mean? Exactly? Because of the type of regime I ran still has seriously degraded, but still has right. So compare it to well, pick a few other wars in your lifetime, and I'll tell you why this is quite different. Iraq ofm Name another that's why it's different. Name another war like the one earlier this year Isuela Nicholas Maduro right, and and and then this one. In those cases, look was what was their culture personalities? Essentially and and very easy to manipulate or collapse. In Saddamusain's case, this is this Mula regime just has a clergy, a giant clergy that just will keep producing and producing, and it self organizes and self organizes. It's it's it's gonna take a lot more to suppress it, right, good point. And then compared to Libya with Gafi right, and then you got a Sad in Libya. In Syria, each of them was a pretty fragile dictatorship, right, But this is not like that. And I think the Cuban regime, by the way that the president was talking about, you know, hinting as you know, things are coming their way, that that you know, that's more institutionalized. So it's a it's a a sort of a spectrum on how much of it is a cult of personality towards how much is it a thoroughly indoctrinated, generationally indoctrinated, highly iological, inbred embedded, you know kind of you know, regime think. And in Iran that's you know, ninety one million people, you know, two or three million of them are certainly that way, and that's that's who's clinging to power tonight. That's a lot. How much bigger is it compared to Iraq, That's what I always want to put it, compared to Iran's much larger geographically, but especially population in Iraq, Right. Yeah, I don't remember what Iraq's current population was, but it's always a little bit smaller something that is also true to say since Saturday, that entire you know kind of conversation about the First Iraq War where or or the you know, the the Second Iraq War, you know, the invasion of Iraq. How it unbalanced this you know Iran Iraq balance that had been in place since since basically the colonial powers left in World War Two. So Iraq and Iran balanced each other. They had a horrendous war right after the Mula regime I told Komani came in. They went immediately to human wave attacks, pulling people out of the cities and throwing bodies into you know, fervant religious human wave attacks. That happened. Yeah, like two million Iranians died in like when was it, late seventies, early eighties. And we were definitely helping. That was the good guy, so to speak. From the US. They were funding just you know, picking the picking the not as bad. That's picking the nut is bad, guys, Like that's that's the code to the Middle East, right, it always comes down to that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well, anything surprise you about epic fury. It was bigger than I expected and it's not done yet, right. That surprised me and probably not in a good way. But Secretary of Ward this morning was briefing live saying that the heavier firepowers on the way in. So I thought it would be what was it June last year when they hit the nuclear bunkers. I thought it would be you know, three four times bigger than that, but only last a few days and be limited to certain bunkers, certain weapons manufacturing. That's it. But they're hitting a lot harder than that, and as you said, they're bringing in heavier munitions. And also there's some ground forces I think for curdis standing, you know, like the Curd type people who knows push al Kaita probably in there too, but they're moving in on the ground. We're probably supporting them, helping them figure out where to go. But that was said yesterday, but I haven't seen any proof of it. Be careful, this is Southwest Asia like and including our information operations, which have you know, probably well designed right now of what to say, when to say it. But then there's things that are you know, factual, like the sinking of a you know, an Iranian warship off the east coast of Sri Lanka. You've seen the footage first first sub sinking of an enemy vessel since World War Two. And that was a hell of explosion. I think looked like like a small nude but just a torpedo. Now, tell, let's get into the munitions a little bit if you want to. I think, you know, on that sinking, you know, we haven't seen anything like that since the Falkland Island War, Britain and Argentina sinking ships, and they. Were well, I don't even want to get into the debate of whether that's a fair target or not. It is you're Oh, if you're at Ward is exactly. If you're at Ward, absolutely is. There's no question. Well, where's it gonna end? Will end by next Patriot Power Hour. It seems like it's escalating in between now and page next Patriot Power Hour. What do you think there? I don't know, I don't know what is it even? I guess I don't know. Man, We're obviously kicking the crap out of them, But where's what's the point in my biggest issue? Right for my one issue? Yeah, I'll say I thought Lindsey. Graham is all about this, and I despise Lindsey Graham all around, and I'm like, why are we teaming up with Lindsey Graham. Now come on, So I'm not that by itself gives me some cod. Just so it's the spectrum of issues out there. So so it is, you know, splinter that. You know, it's hard to be against any one person and one hundred for any one person at at any given time. Right, all you gotta do is look at what this forty seven years of regime in Iran brought to that country, and just the it's it's grotesque what that regime has been. It's just a plane, you know, playing on its face, used to release you know, images of its beheadings and cutting hands off and just just like compared to the Taliban, like not not not much different than Taliban. It's how rotten this thing is. And if we're to take the number seriously, thirty thousand protesters killed in January, you know, you know how many of your own people can be killed before somebody's gonna do this to you. I just who's gonna take over though, because they canna be better than the mula's or worse. Probably not better, I don't know, maybe they will be. It's up to even I mean even Trump, and even Lensie Graham says, up the Iranian people gotta be that's gotta be up to you. But I don't think they're gonna freaking do anything because they don't have any culture of freedom. So they're just gonnatorship. If you look at the kind of flow of of highs and lows of American warfare, right, you know, obviously peaking in World War Two, building up to it, winning everything we fought up until World War Two, and then you know, truly kicking ass right and then dipping. We tied in Korea, We we withdrew from Vietnam, and you know, then it swung back on a pretty straight trajectory up until the Iraq War in the Afghanistlan and just slogged along right and then and you know then there was many you know, especially Aeriel, you know, the bombing a Libya all, you know, just a constant presence in western Iraq, eastern Syria to protect the Kurds. Like you know, we've been at some level of you know, endless war, right, you know, and and and now you see this every step of the way since Vietnam, our military are all volunteer force has found a way to always seek how to do it better next time. And if you if you're just you know, not military minded, and your your world frame may be something like looking at a company or a business or or some kind of other kind of government and how you know, you can't expect excellence in it, right, or you appreciate companies that are hyper excellent in some market, right, But you know that it's not the same. We're talking about the US military, and it's really that trajectory since you know, nineteen seventy five fall of Saigon all the way to today, we've had our ebbs and flows. So much was learned in Vietnam that made Iraq and Afghanistan occupations even tenable. And it was we held you know, we held those territories for a long time. Right, So you know this is now the air sea strike. But just like Basi and Herzegovina, and you know in Serbia and and and and you know when we did the air war against Serbia and and there's other instances of this. You don't have decision if you don't have people with rifles on the ground, right, that makes sense. So it's a partial war, it's it's it's an incomplete war. And whether it can be the first air war that moved a ninety one million person nation to overthrow it. You know, theocratic tyranny remains to be seen. I'd like, I'd love to see it happen. I want to see it happen. I just don't want it to drag on for five years and definitely don't want thousands of Americans boots on the ground. So that would be good looking at what the you know, the top people out of the you know, the president, he seth you know, Rubio and Dvance right, those four they don't tend to like say things that get you know, contradicted by one another within a matter of weeks, and right before this happened Vance. It's not gonna be long term, so they already know they're ending this. It's just they're opening the window and giving the shot at some kind of resistance to go up against the you know, the revolutionary guards and and overthrow it. I don't know if it'll happen. I love percentages. I know this would be impossible to say, but what percent of this is actually Iran and what percent is actually Russia? China either a chess move against them or. Oh it tilts heavily in our favor when we start looking at it for like, what do our peers see? Right, So that's that. Part of that. I'm actually like, I'm not gonna say happy about my my all right, at least China Russia's see, we totally kick ass, don't mess around. That's but that's not like making me support the whole thing in of itself. It is a good side effect. Does that make sense? I think the Russian high command is entirely unsurprised at what they're seeing because we effectively brought you know, not offensively, but defensively the same you know, systems to bear to you know, save up Ukraine from getting overrun four years ago. So they they're they're probably seeing things that are surprising them, and it isn't going to lift the Russian high commands morale. But I don't think they're probably more jaded about the whole thing. The Chinese, however, just had an Iranian you know, quasi ally warships sunk right in front of their front door Cambodia where they build naval bases right Silk Road. The whole expansion through Pakistan and even Iran to get ports along the Indian Ocean front. I mean, they securely have Cambodia as a client state, right and so the choice to sink that, you know, Uranian naval target, you know, the submarine could have followed it all the way back to Iran. They dropped it. They dropped it right in front of the Chinese and you hear anything from Beijing and the whole world is watching that. Well, I want to We're gonna talk about more, a lot more about this, but I think we should hit the dashboard so we can fill in some gaps of the factual headlines. But then I talk about some of the other topics as well. What do you say we got some patterns here? You mind on what's like how to look at the heat map tonights because it's a little bit unique. Well a couple of ways. I'll let you talk more about the specific patterning we're seeing tonight in terms of trends call them by column. But the big picture, we got nineteen total active indicators, which is well above average. We got forty two active headlines within those nineteen indicators, and you know, a good portion of them related to what's going on in Iran. But there's a lot of other important information and news going on. What I want to point out is very very diverse, uh sources used here we have, man, we have fifteen plus sources used overall, and the most used source makes up only ten percent of your sources. That's the Gateway Pundit. So Gateway Pundit, Daily Mail, Bright bar MSN, Reuters Express in the UK, those are your most heavily used sources. But there's still only like forty percent of what's on the dashboard today. So it's really a wide swath. Which is good. You're seeing, you know, taking the temperature worldwide. Yeah, and those British papers are a big part of future danger. They still you know, we have the you know, enough of a common culture that you know, they really put news out there that it's presented in ways that there's no American source, so will just come out and say it. So sometimes you you know, you've got to go to those sources. But I think there's a broad range of a you know, just mainstream media versus alternative media, right left media and what call it what you will, it's it's it's we're using sources from everywhere for. Real, definitely, So you want to jump right into the news. Boy, let's do it. So but another pattern before we zero again is the fact that we have a grade one happening now active indicator in UH one each in all the columns, which is pretty unique. I don't think I've ever seen that before. We'll get to the last, we'll go we'll go left to right, top to bottom and just see what what how deep those mean? So it's not a crisis, but it's a unique pattern. So UH powerful pedophiles exposed. The whole Epstein issue just continues. During the Iraq War, Hillary says Epstein mysteriously died. Oversight Committee post full Clinton depositions where that quote came from. Bill Clinton said he met Epstein through Larry Summer's Ben Truman or I'm sorry. Trump says he doesn't see like seeing Clinton deposed by Congress that was very interesting, while he turned and said he just didn't like it seeing and the ways said it. I think there was some hidden messaging there. Ben Justice Department close to posting tens of thousands of more Epstein documents, and then we have war unconsciousutionally waged, and I'm making the call that's I mean, it's true. Everybody has to be honest with themselves. This is unconstitutional war. We've been doing it since Korea. We you know, war authorizations, this whole concept of and you know the War Powers Act, which in itself no president has ever recognized as constitutional. This is a mess you could be against. Unconstitutional war, foreign war in Iraq, I'd say too. Epic fury, US at tax ran top leadership decimated. We called for its overthrow right at the beginning. Meanwhile, ben special Forces in Ecuador, all right, they're going on commando raids. They're going right after Narcos Green Berets seventh Group. Right, that's happening in South America. So two fronts. Word is that the US advisors in Ecuador aren't on the ground during active combat. That's the story right now, call them too undiscoed number of additional troops to deploy to the Middle East. So part of the psyop, if nothing else, is to you know, start with what you saw on Epic Fury and add to it. Already have a plan to add to it. China maintaining biological weapon labs in America, which probably click into that, and of course an indicator that's in calm too. The Israeli Iranian war starts. Always consider that, you know, something that is highly dangerous, especially if it's snapped out of nowhere, right, which there's a lot of lead up to these attacks, but it's black on red. What's absent in calm too. You know, we have war with Russia starts, we have war with China starts. We have the Korean War restarting, right, we have we have other you know, issues with China, with Taiwan and Japan, real wars, real hot kinetic wars with nuclear powers. But war with Iran starts. It was never in the heat map dashboard because we never deemed it dangerous. Foreign black ops suspected Chinese funded anti war group mobilized against the Iran war. And we got a retired Air Force general who led US military research lab that develops directed energy technology goes missing in New New Mexico. And that was a few days ago, and I've not seen follow ups on all. Right, that's a that's a general retired missing. Doesn't happen often dangerous on the NATO front. US aircraft leave Spain after the government says Basis cannot be used for Iran attacks, present threatens to cease all trade with Spain. And take the NATO bases. Swarm of earthquakes, rocks areas near Nevada military base known for nuclear testing. It's all happened in the same week, and then of course it rates in Islamic terrorists strike home. But this is not Grade one happening now it's topical news. But Santa Lee's immigrants Muslim shot dead after shooting the bar up kills two I think three now, actually there was another fatality. So I don't see I don't see sleeper stills. I didn't think they were here. I didn't think it made sense that they could be here because of the immense amount of maillance. Every electronic device that we live with is under I just never thought that they could be here. Uh. Economic spend fear gauge fixed surges of three months high a few days ago, right after the Iran conflict hit Wall Street, oil price topical news, right, you know all these threats. Iran says straight at hor moves is closed and warns it will attack ships trying to pass. It doesn't have a navy. We put twenty of their ships to the bottom of the sea. Seems like besides a straight missile. Australia horr moves is staying open. Secondary State hinted that, you know, basically, we're gonna open up the strategic reserve anyways to stabilize prices, and Iran attacks target golf energy infrastructure, right, so they went after all the Arab states, and now the Arab States are ready to you know, join the war. So oil prices jump a bit. We'll see where that is next week. But you know, it's within the realm of like a shrug right now. Compared to when Saddamisan invaded Kwait and what happened to gas and oil prices in nineteen ninety one, nineteen ninety, summer ninety this is not behaving the same way. A little bit more dangerous for us though. Recond number of people are tapping into their four O one case savings. That's a straight up one for one indicator economically. It's active now in and of itself, probably nothing. Banks on high alert for cyber attacks as Iran war escalates. Iranian cyber attacks are about as big a threat in my judgment, as as the sleeper cells that don't exist all right. I don't think they can do any of these things, but the banks are saying it and yeah, national gas price average spikes eleven percent overnight. We'll see where that heads call them for natural scientific, human kinds relationship to the planet and the cosmos. That's what it's about. We got rare blood moon total lunar eclipse to loom over North America, Australia, and New Zealand. In fact, that's happened, right, This is older less than a week old, but it's older than that. This blood moon happened. We're still here. Lab grown brains growing more powerful. Ben. That's the eat map dashboard for episode three three nine Patriot Power Hour. Great job on the news blitz. How about this? How about we finish hitting the news blitz related to Iran and then we touch other topics. Since we've already cut through I'd say about two thirds of this, but we've got some really important Iranian. Topics to hit on. I think. Let's go with how about NATO dissolves. It's kind of a roundabout way to Iran. I think US aircraft leaves Spain after government says bases cannot be used for Iranian attacks and the President threatens to seize all trade with Spain and also take the NATO bases you think that will change Spain's mind or will Trump have to enact this. I think Rubio finds time, he'll call somebody and they're gonna shut up. I'll make it happen. There's a lot of money. Spain doesn't do much besides tourism, so they need the tourism and they need the trade with the US. And we'll just not have any aircraft there because it is their country. And if they, you know, prohibit you from landing, you know, we're not gonna like invade, right if we're invading Spain by next week, Believe me, I don't have that heat map indicator. That was never envisioned. The uh irany, the cyber attack, I wasn't worried about that. I was a little more worried about the sleeper cells, where I expected at least a few mall shootings in the past week, and I really hope that won't happen, and it hasn't except for in Austin. That was bad. But that could look like just some low nut who used it as a reason to go do that. That's not something that was planned five years ago with all the types of you know, sleeper cells, and there's thousands of them, and as you said, can't be possible really with all the surveillance. I'm not a fan of the police state, but at least they make it pretty damn hard to get away with that didn't seem much. I mean, we saw with the Vics three months high but practically back to where it was, and gold and silver went up five to ten percent and then backed up a couple percent each and nothing screaming this is World War three of the world's going to end. But I think it's the other direction. I think it might be right taking them out and also set an example to our adversaries China and Russia that we got what they don't have. This is don't even try. You're not even in the marginal. Maybe you've got our one in five chance, it's not even close. And it's packed America, right, world peace through American strength eighties Trump Trump wants to replicate twenty twenties should be, you know, an echo of the nineteen eighties, mega prosperity, peace through strength. And you know, we entered the eighties with this repugnant regime. Trump's kind of of this mindset. I've had it, I'm solving it and if you want to get the costs right, some numbers teuting a billion dollars a day, which I know it has been a concern of yours when we're bombing places with seemingly with no end, there is a cost. There's other costs. Right, We're running the Social security benefits that almost four billion a day. Department of Health and Human Services, that total budget outlay daily is four point seven billion. Medicare is one and a half to one point seven billion a day. Right, Treasury, Treasury, Why does it Treasury require us to spend three point six something billion per day? So this is running a billion per day, But that's not really a great measure because you know, if you're a sailor and airman, you're pulling your pay whether you're fighting or not, so you know, so it's not complete number. But at some point, you know, certainly we'll add to the deficit. And the Iraq war, in the Afghanistan war for ten years did it. But I think you know this, This is an example of Trump and military leaders really looking at every possible way to learn from the past and not repeat those mistakes. Seems like so far, still quite early in everything. Glad we haven't seen. I guess we saw what six Americans killed so far? Is that right? That's the number I heard LA today. So that's obviously bad, but you know it's not sixty or more. And even that would be like, well, considering all the assets that are put in place, sixty killed in actions relatively small in of itself, like back in the day that and if you you really get close to getting away with that. If you're really sensitive, then just hit the fast forward because this will be over in a minute. But you know, in modern warfare, you're fighting on a loss exchange ratio. If your video gamer, it's called kill death ratio. And six of ours to the number of losses this is tens of thousands. This will be a record setting ratio, it really is. And some of that could be well, I know there was some friendly fire that shot down some of our planes. They didn't there weren't fatalities in that. But how about those rockets coming into Doha or and you know Abu Dhabi, u A. All these rain worse last summer though, Holy cow, actually they they widened it up and attacked more countries, more. Countries, and some of these really nice, uh, you know, skyscrapers getting hit. But it wasn't a total devastation. I was talking been through that Doha airport and some of the video out of that, you know, I know people have been right through there, right, They've used that airport, So that got it. Yeah, I mean, how long do you think the Iranians could have kept up that level of bombardment. It's like like one one hundred of it. Now nothing's coming in. They got them. They got it all exactly. And you said something around that in the group chat, like pretty much, hey, if there's a time to use all your missiles, use your sleeper cells, use whatever you got, like you just had your entire leadership blown up. Of course, now is the time of shit everything off. And they got a couple of hits, killed some people and did this, but it was almost nothing, and now they're totally out right now. Hit Cypress in Turkey trying to broaden the war. It was pathetic. It definitely fell flat on his face. And that just shows with all this intel, right and all you know, US military unmatched. So they hit three thousand targets or whatever in like forty eight hours or less, doesn't matter how dedicated is longest fighter you are. You can't do shit because everything got blown to hell. We got we got some kind of intelligence gathering platform that can see in here, I think almost anywhere by this point. Yeah, And I've always since the start of my radio show, I've always been against that stuff because it's like spying on citizens. But obviously there's good uses of that. It's a technology, it's a tool. But events World War three, when nobody wants to exactly nobody wants to step up to this. That's one thing I always keep them back in my mind is, Hey, I don't know the real facts, and I don't know the permutation butterfly effect of this, for good or bad. I usually assumed the bad, But it could be some good. This might have stopped freaking all types of way more horrible things were happening. Maybe not I do. I'm not trust but verify and I'm not you know, I trust in the military's ability to kick ass. But this actually turning out the right way or better, We'll see ask me five years, ten years, I'll give you my thought. Yeah, have you listened to the whole debate about interceptors, the exotic weapons that you know, are the really high cost weapons, stuff that shoots down the incoming missiles. Have you listened to the whole debates almost like like anti Trump forces, hope we run out, hope it's a problem, go to Drudge report that you know it's gonna run out. It's like like as if they couldn't plan better than to have enough on hand to do what they're trying to do. Right, it's an entirely war of choice right to tack like this, So you know, how do you not know the play called in the players on the field like they want they want that to be a thing. But if they're digging that deep for anything to throw at Trump, then they got nothing. In this military, they're almost left. They're almost left to hope that more Americans die. They like, they almost like they need that, right. You know, some of them aren't thinking that for sure, hopefully not all. But that's nothing compared to some of the stuff they've pulled off in the past. So and then the only other thing we'll get out of them is that it's wag the dog. And there's other things Trump's doing that are a problematic. By the way, tonight, the Secretary of Homeland is out, Christine Nolman is moving to a different position. That was a couple hours ago. So first major cabinet secretary to hit the door. So that's pretty good. Lack of turnover this time. Actually, I was literally thinking the same thing, like, Hey, usually almost any president will have a few turnover in the first twelve to fourteen months. And even better, he's you know, moving into a different job. So it's true. It's not like you're fired, right, that's happening. What's going with the undisclosed number of troops is this? Well, there's of course the game theory of yes, we're never going to end this war, we have unlimited resources and we will never stop, and we're bringing more in. That's a psychological thing. But they're also bringing real stuff in. I guess what's your take on that? And General Kine here expect additional losses and additional resources are being brought to bear. I don't know if that's true. Okay, it might be very valuable for it to not be true. If the Iranian Revolutionary Guards I believe it's true. I think it's good. If the Europeans think it's true, I think it's good. If the Gulf all Arab allies think it's good, then I think it's good. He do you need to do you need to do it or do you need to say you're doing it right? You got to get those all those rich oil countries to police their own neighborhood is hopefully part of Trump So strategy was. It Kari shot down Iranians in air to air combat. Well, we've been selling all types of geared and stuff to all these countries and they finally, you know. They paid a lot, paid a lot to you know, have Western trained air forces. I think those air forces as they shot, at least it's getting attributed to them to right at the beginning of the war, when the Iranian air force could get anything off the ground, I don't think they ever will again. When's the next time that there'll be an Iranian warship? It could be decades. Well, war unconstitutionally waged. Maybe we could leave that as the last part of Iran and hit other topics. We should just vote. We should have voted and said yeah, we're going to war. Why did any think it's just because it's just a cluster. They learned in nineteen fifty that they don't have to it's only a negative for them to have to go stand for a vote in their home district having voted for war because they just won't do it, and they'll let the president break the constitution. It's been that way since Korea. And if no one holds in fact, all the people that are like anti New World Order, and you know I'm anti George HW. Bush, all he did is called him bones, mega, corrupt, all that stuff. Look at the books. Him and his son are the only ones who went to the Congress and got author They made him do something called an authorization of the used to force but the same thing as a declaration of war effectively, and George W did the same thing. He George W. Got the Security Council resolution by the UN Security Council that that is a dead body. Doesn't Trump is completely ignoring it. I would say, based off perjury from Colin Powell and others. But I digress. With the weapons of mass destruction, they people were a lot more scared and they were willing to vote for war back. They still got meetings. They're still you know, sitting around the table. That's true. I give you that, all right, I mean meetings, there's no votes. Tough for me to give Bush a pass, but you got it on that they did it. They were really really afraid of losing power, losing elections, and George H. W. Bush lost anyways, right, so you know they politically back then there were so many people that were voting that remembered Vietnam that they never wanted to step They wanted to go to war, absolutely, but they never wanted to go to war and have somebody say they did it illegally. Trump doesn't care a bit. Obama didn't either, well for sure, for sure. Anything else about this whole situation you. Want to hit on, where do you think it's going? What headlines do you think you'd reasonably expect to be on here next Thursday Night, episode three? Hopefully not US peace keeper force in route? That would be bad. That's interesting. Where would they even fit besides military assets moved? But because again I don't think it's dangerous to US to be fighting in any other countries besides Russia, China and Korean war could bring in China, So that's that goes in there, Taiwan. Other than those places, where where are we gonna lose a war? It's just gonna be roadside bombs and ship for a decade, like you're not gonna actually lose, but you're just gonna you know, it's relative treated and it's just gonna ruin around, and it's gonna waste all the should be working to hold people do account. Here in America, we got a lot of criminals running loose, a bunch of freaking pedophiles too, Like we need to concentrate on them too. But relative to the losses we took in World War Two, it'd be very small amount. Six hundred thousand Americans died in World War two point so far as six have died in Iran. One point is there's a difference between I may not like it and there may be just this malaise that comes over the country if we're in a never ending, bogged down war, which Trump witnessed with a young man, and he saw it in Vietnam, said it was stupid. Then he was always anti Vietnam. You're not gonna do it again, right, But let's just say it even happened. Right, You might feel like you that has bad effects, but on the heat map dashboard in and of itself, that's not dangerous. It would be dangerous if we put your army into a place where it was losing, you know, casualties in active combat head to head with someone like in World War two. Then then yeah, now now you know this is World War two. We gotta make sure we win this, right, you know, fight it like you gotta win it. But our military now always fights it like we gotta win it. And where else would it be dangerous? It make you unhappy? I agree, you can make you unhappy. It would probably be unconstitutional because the damn Congress wouldn't vote for it, but it wouldn't be dangerous. We just use the Iraq two point zero as the basis. It's almost like a passive effect or in overlaying effects. So more PTSD, more strain on healthcare system that we already can't pay for, you know, a trillion plus more in debt, breakdown of society, All those little things add up. If you're in a you know, forever war, you get dragged in until you can't get out. So just can't have that happen again. If it looks like Iraq three point zero, that is abject failure unless it prevented, like nuclear war to kill us all. I'll never know if if the price of that the nuclear war not happening was Iraq three point zero? It's worth it, But I can't say that myself. You know that whole nuclear issue, Ryan Scott, nuclear weapons, they're about to break out. They could do this, they could do that. Is I'm so tired of it. I don't even care. I never even cared, never want to do it anymore. I just I remember being a little kid looking at what they did at our embassy, looking at how they humiliated Jimmy Carter, looking how they you know, attacked Iraq after that, looked at the terrorism they exported my whole life, and looked at what they did their own people, and always thought that, you know, their top five regime to knock off on this planet. If we're gonna go and liberate Europe twice in Japan, then how is their rack around anyway? Or you know, how are we letting the Mula regime in Iran stand anyways? That's kind of been my point of view my whole life is we could always be at war with those guys. Look at look at how they govern. That's true. They were on the access evil and now North Korea is the only one left. But China is not gonna let them get hit like Iran. I don't think, Yeah, I get much more dangerous if you're doing this guy air off on the border of China. Think that's gonna work there. But Iran got hung out to dry and no one came to save their asses. But the Chinese military, wherever you are in that organization, no matter what, they hide from you, at whatever low levels you are, the commanders, the upper level, they know that they don't have what it takes to stop this. No they and there's other countries that they expert weapons to, like what kind of you military sales that they have right now? India want to buy anything they got right like this is this is a you know, puts China, that rotten communist regime in Beijing in its place. And it really squeezes them for oil. But that's the double edged sword. That's the stuff I'm a little worried about. We're talking about World War two. Part of the reason Japan became some militants. They got caught off from their oil and I'm like, screw this, We're taking over the whole Pacific. And there you go. You have a times watching the past week and knows it can't do it. You think about it, Britain and Australia aren't even fighting with us. Imagine in Japan, all right, put four of us out over the western Pacific, and you see what we got. They can't. I'm less convinced that than ever before that they're not even close to what it takes to invade Taiwan. The most they could do is do a missile war and bombard it, just like Iran try did to Israel last summer to a certain point, just bombarded it for a while. That would be extremely dangerous because we're superpowers for nuclear weapons, right, but I don't I don't see them even daring at this point. All right, well solid forty five minutes so far and we've only hit Iran. I think we can still talk about that for a while, but maybe put it to the side unless you go anything else. Put to the side till next week. The other thing I want to say is, as I said before, I do listen to multiple sources of news, and on one of the networks that I do listen to is Bloomberg Radio. And before this show, an hour before this show tonight, Patriot Power Hour, I was listened to as he's in the Army's somebody in the Army Reserve. I'm not gonna name him, but he was like an officer, like a probably a colonel something like that in the in the Army Reserve. But he's also businessman. He's got company, right, and he's getting asked by the Bloomberg interviewer Joe Matthews about you know, all of this everything we talked about, right, and making fascinating points about cyber space and how cyber space is absolutely thoroughly embedded in everything now and and you know he you know, he was probably had a firm that was trying to hype the Iranian cyber attack angle anyways, but you know, he went into this this military parlance just the type of thing that are you know, are field great officers are trained in the you know, to to to be able to plan and speak about these matters. And you listen and you other parts of the day I listened to Bloomberg Radio. It could be something executive from some company talking, you know, about their earnings and and how those professionals speak and how expert they try to sound to their audience. And this this Army colonel was going off about up that the Bloomberg host is like, whoa, whoa, whoat you gotta talk to us at our level. And I'm sitting here. I'm former military, but I also study military history and pay attention to this, and it all made sense to me. I understood what the colonel was talking about. But it can literally get it. And it goes to the fact that we have a professional military. Iran does not, China does not. Not. For the most part, those are you know, the political loyalty got you to where you are in your chain of command. In ours, it's the greatest example of a meritocracy provided by government, right, It's a giant meritocracy. And it was only last year. Remember you know, eight hundred flag officers, admirals and generals were called back all they were commanders. Only the commanders that had stars were called back to Quantico Marine Corps based Quantico and sat down and said, you know, this is what we expect from you. Less than a year later, you know, right, I think there's some pretty good results. As soon as I saw that assembly, as we used to have in elementary school, go down to the gym for an assembly, I was like, all right, after that happens, that's when we're going to see some military action. Of course we did. I didn't see, as you know, for see this big of an attack on Iran, but I knew a second wave was coming. After last summer. We we did not do our homework, did not have the twenty twenty six predictions up. But we already head of the game calling some of these. I remember you got you know the percentages. Though, No, but I no, the percentages will have to wait to our recap or go back and check out that episode. It was actually January first, twenty twenty six. Yeah, but we put odds on Venezuela, Cuba, Iran. And North Korea, yep, four different regime. What was our percent chance they would have it? It was in the order that I just stated, and and well, no, it was incorrect, incorrect. I put it in the order of the length that the regime has existed, so Venezuela a couple decades, Iran almost five decades, Cubas back to the fifties, and as well as as North Korea. So the longer it's been embedded and a doctrinated and inbred into their society, the harder is to undo. It's kind of the premise I had, but the fall of the Iranian regime this year was less than fifty percent on my part, So I think I'm still there. Then right now tonight, I think I'm about a forty five percent chance that the you know, whatever emerges in Iran is not the Mullah regime the Islamic Republic. If the Islamic Republic falls, there's a new government that renames itself and vows itself to some Western style democracy, still think it's less than chance tonight. All right, Well, as folks know they've been a long time listening to the Patriot Power Hour, we do midyear check in on our predictions and then end of year, but you know, we've been known to check in a little bit earlier, like trying to look under the tree for some Christmas presents a little early, especially when we know we've cashed a prediction or two. But what you're saying still a coin flip or less that it'll cash. That Iran had a regime change this year. It ain't over yet. Yeah, do you think Venzuela qualifies by now? That was the next one out of my mouth. I don't know. I would say you're the expert of this, so I don't know yes or no, because so I think the. Maduer regime fell. The brilliance of it is that they, you know, basically the a rumped amount of officials. Most of the officials just changed their mind and started following, you know, Marco Rubio's directions from Trump. So that's unique. Yeah, but it is not the same or shame that we started with. But then again, it hasn't held an election, right, I heard that the opposition leader Machado's gonna go back. The question to me is, you know, will you see big opposition anti cha Vista, you know, crowds come out, you know, come out into the streets and peacefully demand elections. I think that's coming. Okay, North Korea not expecting the regime change there anytime soon, But we even talked about China. I think, if I recall, I think I think North Korea is gonna get a visit from Trump. He might go there again. I think he's gonna show up after you know what, you know, if there's a clear success in Iran, he's calling. He's knocking on that door in Havana's door next like within months. Didn't you say might be talking about Havana tonight he was he was. Hitting that, you know, there'll be a day very soon where Cuba will be free. What I the bit I caught was he was saying things like, it's gonna be so great to go to Cuba, that you're gonna want to stay there forever, but we don't want you to stay there forever. Yeah. I think he's talking to Alex Rodriguez and the White House actually, and and then he okay, and they said, but there will be some people who love Cuba and want to return to it, but we're gonna we're gonna have a very different Cuba soon, something to that effect. Right at that regime should fall, maybe, you know, decades later than it should have. Just liked the rest of the communist block fell just peacefully one day. Just the morale collapses and people go out on the streets. Let's say, you know, we're gonna we're gonna have a new government. We're gonna vote North Korea. It's different matter. I don't ever see that society doing that. But Trump's gonna go probably you know, shake somebody's hand and force them into some kind of deal, but bombing them. I think now you'll now you'll have China, you know, just on tag they've got to attached to. China will get very belligerent towards US if we get anywhere near, you know, putting forces around North Korea for long. We do do exercises there, but you know, you'll you'll start to get aerial encounters. It'll still start to get hot on right right in China's face. We might be headed there this year, though I don't know. Trump might have that in mind. Well, China obviously supported big time North Korean the Korean War when the chos on A reservoir was a big battle and they pushed all the way down tip, all the way to the very tip, and that was the you know wave attacks, uh you know, five to one, four to one killed to death ratios, and they just kept coming. So point is, China ain't gonna just let North Korea get taken down like that. I would not expect other things geopolitically in that column, although we pretty much hit everything and more. Do have one here China maintaining biological weapon labs? Yeah it does, yes, Yeah, what do we got? Las Vegas arrest. Report detention of or Solomon on January thirty first states that there's a deeper conspiracy between an illegal biological lab in California and a residence. We've seen this before, We've seen we've seen other you know people. They are Chinese systems that have stuff that should be controlled as highly you know, pathogens in fucking storage units and stuff. Right, So, how how do we let this continue? How's it? How is this even true? I believe it's true, but how you know this is? This is the type of thing that you know, Christine no spends two hundred and twenty million dollars on you know, promotions that you know she denies, she says Trump approved, but now Trump denies it and she's out. Okay, this is the type of thing if you want to talk about morale rot and I'm real this is the next issue for the Democrats is to just cry about homeland security and and how all the corruption there and all the inefficiency and now now you want to talk about sleeper cells? Is there any other? Is there any other you know, non state actors, you know, rogues that were formerly part of state apparatus is under Obama and Biden, but are now non state actors doing things like false flags to make things, you know, cause cause Trump and the Republicans to lose elections. Yeah, that's probably the most scariest thing we talked about all night actually, like almost like a rogue warlord on the underground trying to stir up trouble that's not even official. I still think that the Epstein files, we still got Maxwell who could come and testify. Oh, I think there's a leverage there. There's leverage on somebody. And I think it feels like the President's you know, got the docks, got certain docks that that can you know, when it's time you're talking about wag the dog. It might be literally true. When Trump wants to change the conversation, you know, Pamboni's gonna drop some more docks. All this emat dapper bashboard could be wiped out with the indicators that are hot and switching to totally different conversations next week, real. Quick, looking at some prices, gold is almost exactly where it was this time last week. Same with silver. Bigoin's up a couple grand compared to last week, but still quite low. At about seventy one thousand. It's pretty much right where it was before election twenty twenty four. Okay, so it's at that sixty eight. To seventy two k. So yeah, gold and silver though, did not freak out, and oil oil went from sixty seven bucks to eighty two bucks overnight. But guess what, it's actually dropped six dollars this week. So oil has actually gone down in the last few days, probably because they're like, huh, you know, Iran couldn't hit as much as they thought. Think about a world where all the Arab Gulf states to include Iraq and Iran all peacefully exported oil, like you don't even have to have navies there, and be like. Yeah, I'd be like twenty dollars oil worldwide unlimited, because like that's most of the premium is built into the oil is from taxes and like risk, war risk, terrorist and environment risk too. But yeah, the actual oil itself isn't that bad if people aren't killing each other for it. In fact, if there's peace in the Middle East, you just have oil pipelines, you could just get to the. Mediterranean, right well, natural gas as well, well, they had an awesome pipeline. They spent billions of dollars on it. They blew up the nord Stream because of Ukraine. So another example. Ukraine or buy Ukraine. Russia said it was Ukraine. Ukraine says it was someone that supported them, but it wasn't an official action. I think others in Europe clearly said it was Ukraine too. Some people would think it was the US, you know, helping them. Or who knows non state actors. Yeah, exactly. So again another example where if there's peace in Ukraine Russia, that part would be super cheap. The same Middle East oil would be cheap, economy would be gang busters. So I will say this Trump doesn't want is a economies recovery to eat crap, because that's the quickest way to pretty much ruin everything he's done so far. So he must have had faith that either. A long term this would be good for the economy or be the threat from Iran which is just so bad that just had to do this. I guess. Now, how about this for the last hand gard aid of the night? Maybe or damn near. They haven't even talked about Israel at all. Almost everyone I've talked to, especially the Democrats that are against this, are just like, oh, Israel, Trump's Israel's puppet, you know, blah. What are the Democrats in Congress that come out and say that. I'm not saying like Congress people necessarily, but a lot of I'm not saying, how do people are blaming there coming? This is their excuse, right if they're not hoping for other Americans to die, so they be like, look, Trump got Americans killed, then they're looking for other problems, right. I'm kind of I'm kind of thinking Trump seeing this whole situation, this whole Israeli dynamic, his whole life, he literally wants to want it's all right, let's put an end to it. Let's get rid of this regime and in Iran like like like we take away every single possible threat to Israel. It seriously bring about peace in the Middle East by force. Right, of course you'd have to then thank George W. Bush for taking out Saddam, right, that happened in the previous generation. But if we get rid of the mules this time, there's really, you know, no one else standing in the way that countries can have treaties, build pipelines, have commerce, have peace grow. I think that's like, that's what Trump wants, you know, he wants Gaza to be the place it's rebuilt as a symbol of peace. And prosperity. You know, just just end it all, take away every forever war in that part of the world. I'm skeptical. I'm skeptical. I think warfare is syndemic to that region. Sure that that it's at the end of the day. You might get a better regime in Iran, you can get a better regime for the Iranian people in Iran. There's a chance at that, but permanently change. Like even after you had that, that country would be voting for a government that would be opposing the Sunnis because there's she there'll be opposing Israel just because I think I think that goes on forever. So if you could bring it to a level where everybody's at peace and not constantly fighting each other, that'd be you know, world. History, well, the summon up. I just don't want all these other great things that are being accomplished to get left with the wayside if this goes sideways or starts to turn into a quag buyer like, because there's so many other important initiatives, especially domestically, so don't lose the momentum and other stuff. What about the ice raids with the homeless security secretary going out what do you think they'll do. You think the Democrats are looking at and thinking Nome was fired for the two Americans getting killed in Minnesota, and that they're on there, you know, the administrations on their heels, and that that that that that now they'll be you know, just real restraint on ice. I bet you by the end of this month there's more massive deportation raids, just one more place Trump can pivot to. You can pivot all the attention you can be. He can literally say, Okay, we wanted in Iran, Now we're going to do this and and and the whole issue will be taken off of the table because he's on them. Yeah. And you know that's because he had four years off. Only one of a few US presidents had four years to sit back and and plans. Like you're playing a football game, and you played the first half, and now the lights go out in the stadium, so you get to sit in the locker room for an hour and a half and and and and you know, eat and stretch and plan plan how you're going to finish the game. This is it. This is the second half with an extra long halftime. Oh yeah, And everybody knows that likes football. First half is just to set up for the second half, the second half of the games won or lost, if it's a close game. I mean, this is the real world. You know. I'm not cheerleading Trump. He can make a mistake anywhere along the way and seriously hurt himself and hurt the country. But as of tonight, most of what he's trying to do does seem to be working. I'm close to being isolationist, but I'm not so. I'm not all against this, but I would wonder what if you ask, you know, all the founding fathers took a pull of them, what would be their response. What would they say? I'd say that, you know, on the on the day the Manhattan Project produced the bomb, they get really realistic about you know, how how difficult this just got right the old idea of declaring war on other countries when you can, you know, obliterate them within a half hour or an hour, right, you know that, you know you can't vote in Congress and the ICBMs are inbound. Yeah, so that's just the nature of nuclear weapons. It changed the dynamic forever. Doesn't mean we should be doing this without Congress voting. I wish they did. I think we're pretty much done for the night. We got the rare blood moon total lunar eclipse over North America, Australia and New Zealand. That was a actualized level. As HTF but scary if nothing else. I almost wonder if they lined it up on purpose for that. But it's not in the Middle East, that blood blood. Hey, on that note, yeah, you know, on that note, let's let's talk about like, this isn't Quali conspare, It's just wild speculation, right, what happens if there's a massive earthquake in Iran? What what's the first thing you're thinking of? I would have thought it was a nuke test before this last week. Now, No, nukes can't do it like an eight point zero Richter Oh that big of one. Yeah, seriously deadly earthquake and Iran they've had them. It happens there, they could potentially be an earthquake weapon. I'd be thinking, is that right? The first thing on the top of your mind is a weapon? If it happened like in this last seven day period. I think it's reasonable. I think it's reasonable. I would be thinking that for sure. Then, yeah, and talk about secret, how secret that that would be absolutely positively completely denied and not advertised. Someone someone somewhere in China would whisper in an ear and tell somebody to tell somebody that's our weapon. Don't mess around. But we won't hear it because now now we'd be essentially using a weapon that would kill civilians. Right. I don't know if we have earth coke weapons. I'm not sure we should use them if we do. But if I saw a major earthquake and I ran right now, I have to think that right, maybe not by us, maybe by somebody like Russia. Somebody knows how to do it and did it. They got the tsunami torpedoes. That's the declassified. I don't know. I'm talking about something in the crust of the earth that can. Launch a nuke in a fault. Or you think some sort of like energy we. Direct directed energy, something some way to engineer nature in a way to you know, earthquake weapons are you know, one of those far out things that that you know, there's no proof of them. Oh, there's been a lot of money spent trying to If they weren't successful, I'm sure someone thought about it. Yeah, but how do you control it, how do you make sure. It doesn't I don't know if you can control it does things. That you don't expect it to do, because it's so hard to do. Anyways, I don't know that earthquake weapons exposed is on the heat map dashboard, So in case that happens, I hope I'm not, you know, prophetic tonight. I don't want to see an earthquake, and I ran I don't see earthquakes anywhere. We kill a lot of incent people. Earthquake weapon exposed. We've only had one, two, three, four, about ten articles in the last decade and they were all topical, no true proof for obviously demonstration. But you are tracking earthquake weapon exposed. So hey, I didn't know where you're going with that, but that was a great way to cinch that up. Yeah, all right, it's. More if it's over this time next week, I wouldn't be surprised either. Trump declares victory on some condition that he decides that day is the condition that they were you know, you know, achieving, because like another thing he does is every other day he says there's a different cautious BELLI right one day, one one day it was regime changed. The next day it's it's uh, we thought they were going to hit us first. The next day it was we had to do it first because to hit them, because because Israel is going. To during the day, all the guys gathered at the right time. So I'll tell you back in the bushes days when they were going to war, that ship didn't fly. There was there was plenty of people in their own the g O. P. It would be like going out on CNN and be like, no, the President needs to explain we're past those days. The Republicans in Congress are just they're not going to get in his way, and that could get dangerous. You think, you know, they're smart people around the president, right and and and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Caine, seems really confident to me, So you know, I don't I don't see that problem. But we are, we are on the on the verges of being constitutional in many regards under Trump and the Democrat. Democrats know what you're gonna hear from them about it. But if Congress doesn't hold to account, then there's nothing that Supreme Court can't bring an action against them. Obviously, So sou. The President to stop a war. Who's got to assume then. There's no judge that would take that. That doesn't it doesn't work. That doesn't fly that way. So if Congress doesn't do anything, no one really would. Like like a notice. There's no like a you know, federal circuits in California that sued on the first day of epic fury. To spring it to a stop, right, Like, they don't even try that, even though they try other ship that they got no hope. But they really didn't know that. They have no hope of this. I think you'd have to brainwash another generation into some kind of insanity before you know, you start seeing lawsuits to stop war making power. This is very possible in the next ten years. We'll have the transcripts of this show ready. If so, will say we called it. Every president in the future will blind ignore anything like that if they if they've decided to use force, they're not going to stop for that, all right. Anything else to hit on tonight, Yeah, fifth of March. Yeah, it looks a little dangerous on the heat map, But honestly, if this, this is very pivotal, it could go a couple of directions. I think this, you know, a real success in Iraq militarily and overthrow that government with minimal loss of civilian innocent life could really make stuff safer for us. We'll be tracking it every week Patriot Power Hour. I think, hmmm, I believe we got two episodes left this season. Pull up the calendar. What are we what are we dealing with more season? Just a little on air scheduling. We've been grinding this year. We've had almost no misses, and yet you've got breaks you need. We usually all on the equinox, and it will be the solstice in the equinox four times pre will break and it's actually gonna work out. So the our last episode on Planning will be March eighteenth, all right, there'll be season finale. That'll actually be a Wednesday. Next week, and the week after we're live on Patriot Power Hour exactly. Then the week off, the last full week of March will be off. Exactly April April. Yep, that's the plan. But we always reserve the right to come back midweek weekends. If crazy stuff pops off, we'll be ready. Otherwise, you know, hopefully we'll get a little bit of a spring break. But trust me, two or three more black on red indicators, especially ones that stay that way for a long long time. Then then we might have some specials. We might might start getting dangerous. And there's been a lot of great specials on this network already, so it's like, hey, we don't have to get on because we got a whole team here at PBN. But trust we want to get on when we need to. But a lot of good radio this week on the network. Overall, entertainment is secondary priority to I don't. Really get much more entertainment anymore in my life. That's fine. We're not trying to be entertaining by this, right necessarily. Not a little gallows humor, that's about it. Just me informative, right, Putting a total picture of what's dangerous to the USA into one view and talking about it. Over time, especially how it evolves, is interesting. So all right, another great show, three three nine in the book, three forty next week, all Right, check out then next week on Patriot Power per